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Whether we’re talking about online communities that uncover fascinating movie details or pages that post humorous fake film facts, people on the Internet just can't seem to get enough of the not-so-obvious references about their favorite motion pictures. Or at least love to hear silly jokes about them.

For our entertainment, there’s a Twitter account called "Movie Details" that is "dedicated to the obscure details and Easter eggs found in movies." Powered by more than 111K followers, this page is full of hidden gems and strange facts you probably never noticed.

From Back to the Future to Django Unchained, here are some of the most puzzling discoveries movie investigators have found. Continue scrolling and upvote the most surprising ones!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All right, that's cool. By the way, all Tarantino's movies are supposed to be connected in their own alternative universe.

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Trying to spot hidden movie details that the creators left for the audience might take a lot of patience and some unexpected luck. Good thing that there are movie-lovers who re-watch the films again and again, just to provide us with a shortcut to the most interesting facts about them. 

Let’s show our appreciation for those gifted people who have an exceptionally sharp eye for details. Created in 2017, this Twitter account doesn't stop surprising us with interesting Easter eggs and tiny hints and messages that they carefully select and bring to our attention. At times, such findings can really change your perception of the whole movie. 

Let’s talk about the term "Easter egg". We know that they can be found in movies, TV shows, and video games. But what exactly are they? Well, to put it simply, they are the hidden jokes and references that the creators sneak into their commercially released products. You can think of them as messages to their eagle-eyed fans. 

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Natalie Portman couldn't be there to film the scene so the director brought in some doubles and asked Chris to chose one for the scene, he asked instead for his wife to do it as she was right there.

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Ron Cerabona wrote in Canberra Times that the term seems to be coined from the computer-game world when Atari employee Warren Robinett hid his name in one place in the game that would only be revealed to someone who triggered it. "The idea spread and hearing about "Easter eggs" can certainly encourage repeat playing (and movie viewing) although in the Internet age, they're usually easy to find online." It also draws a parallel with the Easter egg hunt that we’re all familiar with.

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It appears that the film director Alfred Hitchcock used them perhaps more than most. He made cameos in 39 of his films which might be one of the oldest and longest-running series of Easter eggs in films of all time. "Later in his career, he tended to appear early so the audience looking out for him would then focus on the film," he wrote. 

Interestingly, there’s one study that says that synchronized blinking stops viewers from missing the action. It seems that while we are watching a movie, we subconsciously time our blinks so that we wouldn’t miss anything important. Tamani Nakano, the co-author of the study, told NewScientist that the flow of visual information to the brain is halted by up to 450 milliseconds with every blink, and we lose up to 6 seconds of information every minute.

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The researchers did an experiment, where volunteers watched a silent comedy with a strong story, a movie with no narrative, and listened to an audiobook. They found that some of the time, individuals will blink in unison while watching the same film: “We all commonly find implicit breaks for blinking while viewing a video story,” Nakano said. “The blinks may form one external manifestation of that, which may provide a window into understanding what people are thinking when they watch a movie.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a lovely anecdote, but a macabre sudden ending to the sentence.

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Although we might blink at the same time while watching a film, we can definitely overlook some interesting details that others notice. People tend to miss even the most obvious errors, like that in one scene a glass is full, and in the next scene, it isn’t. Inside Science explained, that such moments are called "continuity errors" because they break the audience's attention and the illusion of realism. 

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG, and I actually thought about that watching the movie, because she looked so professional and collected.

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Any good film should try to immerse the audience in the story and make them believe in it. If such mistakes (whether they’re intentional or not) are noticed by the viewer, it makes them confused and not so focused on the story itself. Norman Hollyn, a professor of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said that the editor’s job "is to make sure that any breaks in continuity are invisible enough that they do not disturb the audience’s involvement in the story."

Still, many people miss continuity errors in the films. "There is evidence that people are blind to lots of film edits," Joseph Magliano, a research psychologist at Northern Illinois University, told Inside Science. "People's attention is focused on making sense of the things that they are experiencing but in rare circumstances, they will notice errors."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sarabi doesn't count? She never turned against the protagonists.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And Princess Aurora's mother, the queen... plus her fairy godmothers... (Sleeping Beauty)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And wouldn't Mrs Jumbo in Dumbo, have technically been pregnant even though they went with the "delivery by stork" imagery.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mulan's mother was not killed or vilified. But that makes me think we are talking about certain types of story lines. Because I also think of Repunzels' mother

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I call BS. Lady and the Tramp had a pregnant woman (Mrs Darling). She also doesn't die.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh it’s this again. Mothers who aren’t killed off or villainized in Disney films - Dumbo’s mom, Aurora’s mom, Mrs. Darling from Peter Pan, Lady’s owner, Lady herself, Perdita, Duchess from Aristocats, Mowgli’s adoptive wolf-mom, Sarabi, Mrs. Potts, Hercules’ two moms (Hera and Alcmene), Mulan’s Mom, Mulan’s grandmother, Tarzan’s adoptive gorilla-mom, and this post didn’t specify ANIMATED film so also Mrs. Banks from Mary Poppins, the mom from any version of The Parent Trap or Freaky Friday, that stupid dinosaur movie has an adoptive lemur-mom, and there’s a number of Disney films where the mother is just straight-up not even addressed - like in Alice in Wonderland we have her sister but there’s no way to interpret their mother as being alive, dead, a villain, or a good person.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can’t say “one of the first” when she’s got dozens of predecessors.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If one thing the internet has done right... show us that there are a lot of talented people elsewhere in the world. A movie like parasite would not be known in countries like Eswatini without the internet

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This makes you feel even more appreciation for the cinema fans who keep on coming up with new surprises about our favorite motion pictures. And don’t think that we forgot how much you enjoy learning about hidden movie details. If you went through this post and still feel the need to know even more facts, check out our previous posts here, here and here.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And in the background isn't that the ramp where Homer tried to jump the canyon on a skateboard in place of Bart?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the only person everyone noticed because no one actually knew who he was... we all assumed it's him, but didn't know for sure as we left the cinema

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm just amazed at the detailed personnel profile they went to the trouble of creating for her, considering these things usually flash up for a second, and no-one reads them!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, bad guys use an Android phone? That makes me a villain, then... MWAAAAHAHAHA!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The chosen one played by Keanu Reeves in the movie The Matrix (1999) was also seen in John Wick (2014) as an retired hitman

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kenneth Branagh, not being a pretentious devotee of "method", also did not require an intensive three month training period in a time reversed state to achieve this. Instead he used the two rarely seen techniques called "acting" and "learning your lines".

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