# Your Biggest Surprise in a Movie \[Open Spoilers\]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604 "2008-04-16T16:34:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/121 "2008-04-22T03:45:41Z")

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Wait Until Dark. It was the first movie I saw where an apparently dead villain resurrects himself and grabs the heroine. Audrey Hepburn. Alan Arkin plays the heavy.

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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/122 "2008-04-22T03:51:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated]  
I read your post and thought, “I see what he did there…” but then Mad Maxx posted in agreement, and now I am not sure you were kidding. So I will ask…You were just kidding, right? I always thought the director had purposefully set the scene up for us to anticipate it happening, as sort of an in joke for folks that get a kick out of Samuel’s speeches.  
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I can’t speak for the first two to post about this movie, but wife and I both about shit our drawers when it happened. Neither of us saw it coming…

Joe

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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/123 "2008-04-22T04:29:28Z")

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[QUOTE=wheresgeorge04]  
I can’t speak for the first two to post about this movie, but wife and I both about shit our drawers when it happened. Neither of us saw it coming…

Joe  
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Well, speaking as a woman who\* never, ever, ever \* guesses a twist before it happens, I will count this as the only time I saw something coming before it happened. I honestly thought it was an in-joke by the director for fans of Samuel’s speeches.

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