What’s a small detail in a movie that most people wouldn’t notice, but that you know about and are willing to share?
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In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace return home with the trophy from the dance competition at Jack Rabbit Slims, suggesting they won. However, later in the movie you can barely hear in a news announcement on TV that a trophy has been stolen from a local dance competition, suggesting instead that Mia and Vincent lost and stole the trophy.

BlakeSiefken
In the first Terminator movie, “fuck you, asshole” appears near the bottom of the list of possible responses because it’s the same line that Bill Paxton says to him at the start of the film. The Terminator is a learning computer; the more interaction he has with humans, the more he learns. He learned the line from Bill Paxton’s character and added it to his list.

gurk_the_magnificent
Lots of people probably know about this one, but my favorite is Back to the Future. The mall starts as “Twin Pine Mall”, but Marty runs over a tree when he initially goes back to 1955, and when he returns to 1985 the mall is “Lone Pine Mall”.

Bourbone
This is a small music one.
We’re all familiar with the “dah dum” of the jaws theme.
Well, Williams used it masterfully to fully scare you in the last act in a way you don’t expect.
Throughout the movie, the jaws theme never lies.
When you hear it, the shark is there. When you DONT hear it, like when the main guy is overreacting about the kid on the beach day, the shark isn’t there.
Williams gets you to subconsciously trust that shark theme by proving that it works in every case.
This makes it scary AF, when in the final scene on the Orca, the shark appears out of nowhere without the music warning you first. It just comes up and chomps the boat.
Williams spent ~2 hours setting up that moment perfectly.

my_simple-review
In Goodfellas, when Ray Liotta is applying for witness protection, the prosecutor who is speaking with him is Ed McDonald, who was the real federal prosecutor in Henry Hill’s court case.

ImaginaryNemesis
The final scene with Ray Liotta in witness protection is a great wardrobe joke if you’ve been paying attention.
Through the whole movie, clothes are used to show people’s status. The members of the mob are generally shown in darker earth tones, and the ‘normies’ are in bright colors.
There’s a gag around the start where mobsters have stolen a truck of clothes and they all look out of place trying on brightly colored sweaters.
You can track Karen’s descent into crime from the changes in the color of her clothes.
Having Henry open the door at the end in a poorly fitting pastel blue bath robe is hilarious.

Pizzazzinator
The naked people at the end of Hereditary were all the same people at Annie’s support group, so it was a long con to get to Paimon.

TLMoss
In Finding Nemo, in the fish tank in the Dentist’s office, the fish use proper dental terminology when they discuss the procedures.

RadLibRaphaelWarnock
In Baby Driver, there is a scene towards the end where the protagonist steals an old lady’s car. He turns the radio to 97.1, where “Radar Love” by Golden Earring starts playing. The film takes place in Atlanta, and there is only one radio station in the city that would play music like that – 97.1 The River.
A cool little detail in a movie full of them.

ridd666
I shared it in another thread, but in the movie Frailty, when the father kills Demons, there is blood on the demon, but never shown on the dad or sons, or the weapons.
But when he kills an innocent, in this see the sheriff gets killed, the blood is everywhere. On the weapon, the dad, his hands, the kids clothes and even his face.
A small but awesome detail.