1Brave Logo Easter Egg
In "Brave" (2012), you can spot Merida and her mother hidden in the movie's logo, located at the top left of the letters B and E.
2. Each of the Joker's goons has a codename during the bank robbery scene in "The Dark Knight" (2008), with the majority of them being references to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The Joker's codename is never spoken on screen, but if you have the captions on, you'll discover it's "Bozo."
3. In "The Truman Show" (1998), the couple at the table are Daryl Davis and Robert Davis, the founders of Seaside, the town where the movie was filmed. They agreed to grant filming permission in return for a cameo.
4. In "RoboCop" (1987), director Paul Verhoeven makes a cameo appearance as a manic dancer. He was actually trying to inspire the extras to dance and didn't know he was being filmed.
5. Rick Baker, a renowned SFX artist who worked on all three "MIB" movies, plays the alien with an exposed brain in "Men in Black 3" (2012).
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6Tom Cruise's Coin Trick
During the vault scene in "Mission: Impossible" (1996), Tom Cruise kept hitting his head when attempting to hover inches off the floor, so he placed English pound coins in his shoes to maintain his balance.
7. In "Titanic" (1997), there is a scene depicting a boy playing with a spinning top on deck. This is actually a recreation of a real photo taken onboard the ship on April 11th, 1912, by Francis Browne. It shows 1st Class passenger Frederic Spedden and his 6-year-old son Douglas, both of whom survived the sinking.
8. In "The Big Short" (2015), there's a shot of a man standing near the front door talking on the phone. It's the real Michael Burry (portrayed by Christian Bale in the film), the investor who predicted the 2008 housing market crash.
9. In "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" (2019), you can spot Velma from Scooby-Doo in the crowd. When asked why the other members of the gang weren't included, the director explained, "In a post-apocalyptic world, Velma would have been the only one to have survived. The other kids wouldn't have made it."
10. In "Don't Look Up" (2021), just as Kate is telling her boyfriend that "a comet bigger than the one that destroyed the dinosaurs is headed directly at Earth," right at that moment, a guy wearing a dinosaur outfit can be seen in the background.
11C-3PO Actor's Cameo
Anthony Daniels, the actor who portrayed C-3PO, makes a cameo appearance in the club scene of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" (2002).
12. In "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013), you can see the special Oscar that Walt Disney won for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
13. In "The Birdcage" (1996), Robin Williams' slip and fall during the "shrimp" scene was not planned. Williams genuinely fell, and he, Hank Azaria, and Dan Futterman were holding back laughter.
14. In "Spaceballs" (1987), Dark Helmet is drinking from a Styrofoam cup because crew members would leave them around the set. So, Mel Brooks decided to incorporate them into the film's universe.
15. The horses of the Nazgul in "The Lord of the Rings" (2001) have the Eye of Sauron on their chest riding gear.
16Edge of Tomorrow Marching Scene
In "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014), when Rita (Emily Blunt) is first seen marching out of the hangar, a random soldier approaches and exclaims, "Bloody hell! It's the Full Metal..." but she shoves him down before he can finish saying "bit*h." That soldier is played by Blunt's real-life younger brother, Sebastian.
17. In 'The Wrestler' (2008), they didn't shut down the deli counter while filming Randy working there. Those are real customers, and everything Mickey Rourke does is improvised.
18. In 'Dazed and Confused' (1993), when Matthew McConaughey said, "Hey, watch the leather, man!" and started laughing, he was genuinely high.
19. In 'Django Unchained' (2012), one of Django's outfits is based on an outfit that Michael Landon wore in the TV Western Bonanza.
20. In 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1996), Esmerelda's purple and red costume references the Whore of Babylon from the Bible. From Revelations 17: "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls."
211917 Unscripted Trench Incident
In Nolan's '1917' (2019), while Schofield is running along a trench, another soldier runs into him, causing him to trip. This was unscripted: an extra accidentally ran into George MacKay during a particular take, but MacKay recovered and kept running.
22. The mountain fortress from 'Conan the Destroyer' (1984) was a physical model fitted to the contours of the real mountain on set.
23. In 'Hobbs and Shaw' (2019), Brixton's (Idris Elba's) exoskeleton displays force and velocity when Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) punches him, while it displays trajectory and velocity when Shaw (Jason Statham) attacks. This illustrates that Rock's threat is more about absolute power, while Jason's is more about technique.
24. In 'Home Alone' (1990), when the McAllisters are trying to remember what they forgot at home, the dad says he forgot to close the garage. He genuinely did forget to close the garage.
25. In 'Ratatouille' (2007), Git, the jacked rat, has a tag on his ear reading A113. Not only is this a frequently used Pixar Easter egg, but it also implies that Git was a lab rat, explaining his large size. A113 was the classroom number for many of the original Pixar artists at Cal Arts. It appears in numerous movies and twice in 'Ratatouille.'
