# Cool/interesting little touches you notice in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174 "2010-07-10T00:52:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/141 "2011-01-09T11:56:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In _The Aviator_, the colors were manipulated in post-production to mimic the color film stock that would have been in use in Hollywood at the time, and it changes as the film moves to different eras. Amazing! As though I needed another excuse to see the movie again. Little Howard likes citrus. Good eyes! ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/142 "2011-01-10T15:16:02Z")
_Children of Men_ has been mentioned already in this thread, but I saw it again this weekend and I keep on seeing little touches that I missed in prior viewings. This time, it was the suicide pill advert fairly close to the start of the film, on Theo’s TV. Not only that, it was on a TV station that doesn’t exist, but the graphics of its ident looked close enough to the BBC that it suggested that it has been taken over and rebranded. The government would be the most likely candidate for a takeover of the BBC, which means that the suicide pills were sanctioned by the government. A small thing when you consider that they’re rounding up immigrants, but a good indicator of how bleak things are even for non-fugees. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/143 "2011-01-10T21:28:13Z")
_Kill Bill, vol. 1_ The Bride is wearing the bright yellow motorcycle outfit on her way to the showdown with Oren Ishi’i. She pulls up at a stop light, seeing a woman in the car next to her. The woman’s cell phone rings, her phone playing the first bar or two from _Auld Lang Syne_… “Of auld acquaintance be forgot…” The Bride has a flashback to that same woman at the Wedding Party massacre, talking on the same phone, realizing that the woman is Sophie Fatale. My interpretation of this scene is that the Bride did not remember Sophie being at the massacre _until_ she heard the ringtone… causing her to remember an “auld acquaintance be forgot”. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/144 "2011-01-10T21:56:43Z")
In Peter Jackson’s **King Kong** , there is a scene in the ship’s hold where various animals are caged. One cage is labeled “Sumatran Rat Monkey”. In Jackson’s zombie movie, **Dead Alive** , the zombie menace is started by a bite from a Sumatran Rat Monkey. Also in that movie, when discussing who will be the star of the movie that Jack Black is filming, they say, “Well, Faye is already doing a film for Universal”, or something similar, referring to Faye Wray who starred in the original **King Kong**. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/145 "2011-01-17T20:50:48Z")
I’ve stated it before, but in the BTTF trilogy, just before THE storm, the beat cop walks up to Doc Brown and asks if he has a permit. Doc Brown’s expression and movements show that the ‘permit’ is more like a ‘bribe’. 😛 And you see it twice in two movies, from different angles. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/146 "2011-01-17T20:54:25Z")
I like how in that restaurant scene in the Godfather when they speak Italian it is not subtitled like other times there is Italian in the movie because what they are saying is not important. Also there is a deleted scene on the Back to the Future DVD that shows the scene where Doc bribes the cop ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/147 "2011-01-17T21:54:11Z")
In the new Tron movie, (not really a spoiler, it’s in the beginning of the film, and before the plot kicks in), when Sam Flynn wants to hack into the Encom servers, he can’t do it from his home computer, or from a payphone or whatever. He has to sneak _into_ the building and get to the servers in order to access them. Because it actually makes sense that it shouldn’t be easy for him to get in from his home computer. EDIT: Oh, and it’s easy to miss, but Sam’s on a first name basis with the impound lot attendant. I wonder how often he has dealings with the police? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/148 "2011-01-17T23:03:18Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > EDIT: Oh, and it’s easy to miss, but Sam’s on a first name basis with the impound lot attendant. I wonder how often he has dealings with the police? 😃 I laughed at that. (After frowning at his riding style, having just come from my MSF class) His poking around on the computer at Flynn’s Arcade was also first approximation correct for a Un\*x. (I say that because it was an OLD Unix _like_ OS and I may be completely off-base if it were trying to emulate Solaris or something) He got a process list, and who was logged in and the like. It would also make some kind of sense that the Tron-land was fairly limited if it were just hosted on the computers local to the Arcade. ---
**Author:** ![ecseas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ecseas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecseas)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/150 "2011-01-19T07:15:54Z")
In the start of the rocky horror picture show, the transvestites are at the wedding. IIRC, Riff Raff and Magenta are circled in the wedding photo. In a episode of Community, you’ll see the indian boy and a pregnant lady interacting a few times. eventually she has the baby, but i can’t remember if it’s in the background or not. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/151 "2011-01-19T17:19:23Z")
> [@Smitty](#): > > In Peter Jackson’s **King Kong** , there is a scene in the ship’s hold where various animals are caged. One cage is labeled “Sumatran Rat Monkey”. In Jackson’s zombie movie, **Dead Alive** , the zombie menace is started by a bite from a Sumatran Rat Monkey. > > Also in that movie, when discussing who will be the star of the movie that Jack Black is filming, they say, “Well, Faye is already doing a film for Universal”, or something similar, referring to Faye Wray who starred in the original **King Kong**. Don’t forget, one of the few cases that Sherlock Holmes could never solve involved a Giant Sumatran Rat. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/152 "2011-01-20T01:04:30Z")
Buckaroo Banzai has about a million of these, of course. My favorite is in the bar, the band is cranking, it’s really LOUD. And suddenly Buckaroo stops the band, and asks the audience “is someone not having a good time? Is someone…crying?” Obviously, you would need incredible hearing to hear Penny crying softly in the audience. Then he starts to talk to her, and asks her her name, and she replies “Penny”. He then begins referring to her as “Peggy”. I LMAO every time… ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/153 "2011-01-20T02:05:09Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > I laughed at that. (After frowning at his riding style, having just come from my MSF class) > > His poking around on the computer at Flynn’s Arcade was also first approximation correct for a Un\*x. (I say that because it was an OLD Unix _like_ OS and I may be completely off-base if it were trying to emulate Solaris or something) > > He got a process list, and who was logged in and the like. > > It would also make some kind of sense that the Tron-land was fairly limited if it were just hosted on the computers local to the Arcade. I noticed that. he also used /bin/xxx for commands rather than xxx. When you are logged in as root that is the convention to avoid executing stuff that you didn’t mean to. He also used the “history” command to see what commands were last executed. Nice touches. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/154 "2011-01-21T04:47:58Z")
Spoiler for The Uninvited: I realized this in hindsight: that when Anna is released from the mental hospital her dad gives her a copy of his recently published book and the dedication addresses “Anna and Alex.” As Alex is the older sister, people customarily would tend to list to list her first (as older relatives and friends do with me and my sibling.) The fact that their father listed Anna’s name first, though Alex is the older sister, foreshadows the big revelation at the end of the movie. End spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174/155 "2011-01-21T18:51:47Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > The thing is, Brits like me got really, really confused by what she said in class. She called someone a ‘twot’. No-one in the UK would pronounce the word that way. Yes they would. https://www.youtube.com/embed/m7HBlabEtDA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-interesting-little-touches-you-notice-in-movies/546174.md?page=7)