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00:00 Georgina, this is Chris, this is Rosa's boyfriend.
00:02 Hi.
00:03 Hello.
00:05 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we'll be looking at moments in movies that clued you into the big
00:11 twist before it got there, but you might not have caught. So, spoilers ahead.
00:15 But she's harmless.
00:16 She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.
00:21 Number 10. Doritos - 21 Jump Street
00:28 This one is super easy to miss. You don't really expect this level of subtlety in a raunchy comedy.
00:34 When Janko and Schmidt are forced to take the very drug they are trying to get off the market,
00:39 Janko makes an offhand comment about it tasting like Cool Ranch.
00:43 Barbecue Cool Ranch?
00:45 Have fun.
00:46 Moments later, they run into Mr. Walters, who just happens to be eating Cool Ranch Doritos.
00:53 Whoa, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:54 You got a pass for running around the hallways like a couple of ding-a-lings?
00:58 He's also seen eating Doritos in the scene when Schmidt and Janko fight on stage.
01:02 This might seem like just a coincidence until it's revealed that Walters is in fact the
01:07 drug supplier they were looking for all along. And guess what? He's still eating Cool Ranch Doritos.
01:13 Beautiful brand. And his brother. Wow, you look great.
01:17 You're the supplier? You're a teacher.
01:19 And I was stuck on a teacher's salary, bro. I barely paid my alimony.
01:22 Number 9. Memory Flash - Memento
01:25 It's a completely different part of the brain from the short-term memory.
01:28 So I have the doctors test Sammy's response to conditioning.
01:31 Just pick up any three objects.
01:33 That's a test?
01:35 There are several similarities between Leonard and Sammy Jankus.
01:39 They both have the same memory disorder.
01:41 They met due to Leonard's job as an insurance investigator.
01:45 They both have wives who died.
01:46 But there are two more specific clues to catch before the big twist reveal that Sammy is
01:52 actually Leonard.
01:53 First, whenever Leonard tells Sammy's story, we see it in black and white.
01:57 It wasn't the money that got to her. I never said that Sammy was faking.
02:02 Listen, I have an idea, Sammy. Sammy, I have an idea.
02:04 I want you to do it for me.
02:05 Just that his problem was mental, not physical.
02:07 I want you to have a pen.
02:08 This color device is used by director Christopher Nolan
02:11 to show us sequences that happened in Leonard's past.
02:15 Even more obviously, during one of Leonard's retellings,
02:18 he actually visualizes himself as Sammy in a quick flash.
02:22 His memory was trying to remind him.
02:24 You tell everybody about Sammy. Everybody will listen.
02:27 Remember Sammy Jankus? Remember Sammy Jankus?
02:29 Great story gets better every time you tell it.
02:33 Number 8. Medium Close-Up.
02:35 7. This one is interesting.
02:38 You'd never notice it unless you already knew the ending of the movie.
02:41 This guy paid me 500 bucks to bring it out here, man.
02:44 He said he wanted it here at exactly 7 o'clock.
02:47 Put it down.
02:49 An eagle-eyed film buff might think it was peculiar to almost always use the same kind of shot
02:54 to frame an actor throughout the movie.
02:56 But what they're doing is actually genius.
02:58 Without getting into the gory details,
03:01 at the end of the movie, Mills and Somerset find Tracy's head in a box.
03:05 It didn't work out.
03:06 So I took a souvenir.
03:10 Her pretty head.
03:14 This is an incredibly shocking reveal.
03:17 But when you go back, you can see a hint of her fate.
03:20 Whenever Tracy is on camera, you can see her in a lot of medium close-up shots.
03:25 This means that you can only see her head and shoulders.
03:28 Clever, right?
03:29 You tell me, you tell me.
03:31 That's not true. That's not true.
03:32 Become vengeance, dude.
03:33 Nah, she's alright. You tell me.
03:35 Become wrath.
03:38 Tell me she's alright!
03:39 Number 7. Subliminal Messaging.
03:42 Fight Club.
03:43 There is a joke in this movie when the narrator tells us about
03:47 how Tyler Durden leaves his own subliminal messages in movies.
03:50 So when the snooty cat and the courageous dog with the celebrity voices
03:54 meet for the first time in Reel 3,
03:56 that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film.
03:59 But the true humor of this is that Durden himself is a subliminal message.
04:04 Many times throughout the movie,
04:06 we see flashes of Tyler from the narrator's point of view.
04:09 I'm in pain.
04:11 You wanna see pain?
04:12 Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights,
04:15 see the guys with testicular cancer.
04:17 That's pain.
04:18 This hints to the fact that Durden is a figment of the narrator's imagination.
04:24 When it's revealed in the end that the two are, in fact, one and the same,
04:28 the flashes of Durden suddenly make sense.
04:31 Because...
04:32 Say it.
04:35 Because we're the same person.
04:39 That's right.
04:41 Number six.
04:43 Seatbelt - Jurassic Park
04:45 This one has been a long-held fan theory.
04:48 When Ellie Sadler and Alan Grant are on their way to the park,
04:51 Grant struggles to get his seatbelt on.
04:53 - But you need that piece over here.
04:56 That piece will have landed by the time you get it right.
04:59 He ends up tying two female ends together since he can't find the male end to properly connect it.
05:04 Fans believe that this is an early reference to all-female dinosaurs mating.
05:08 - You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed?
05:14 - No, I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.
05:18 However, Sam Neill disagrees.
05:21 He believes this moment is just to show how terrible his character is with any kind of technology.
05:26 Well, whether or not it was intentional, it's still a pretty cool clue.
05:30 - Some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex
05:34 from male to female in a single-sex environment.
05:37 - Malcolm was right.
05:40 Number 5.
05:42 Jill's Phone - Scream 4
05:44 In any Scream movie, you can look back and find the subtle clues that reveal the killer, or killers.
05:50 - Is this Trevor?
05:52 - Do I sound like a Trevor to you?
05:54 Think of me as your director.
05:56 You're in my movie.
05:57 You got a fun part, so don't blow it.
05:59 In this case, there is a huge clue that happens early on right after the first killings.
06:04 In the scene in the classroom where all the students get the alert that two of their classmates
06:08 were killed the night before, there is only one person who doesn't respond.
06:13 While everyone's phones are going off, Jill doesn't react.
06:16 - Somebody want a share?
06:17 - Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper were murdered last night.
06:20 - What?
06:20 - Jenny and Marnie?
06:21 - What?
06:22 - Stabbed them.
06:24 She doesn't need to check her phone.
06:25 Jill is arguably one of the smartest ghostface killers in the franchise.
06:30 But if any of her classmates had caught this mistake, she might have been foiled early on.
06:35 - I shouldn't have killed all those people, Trev.
06:37 Gone and put it on video even.
06:39 But it means a lot that you did it for me.
06:42 Number four, The Kitchen, Get Out.
06:45 This is a really amusing one.
06:46 While Dean is giving Chris a tour of the Armitage house,
06:49 he tells Chris stories about his mom and dad.
06:52 - That's pretty eclectic.
06:54 I'm a traveler and I can't help it.
06:57 I keep bringing souvenirs back.
07:01 He offhandedly mentions that his mom loved the kitchen,
07:05 so they keep a little piece of her in there.
07:07 Just as he says this, they enter the kitchen and we see Georgina standing there.
07:12 - That's the basement.
07:13 We had to seal it up, put some black mold down there.
07:16 My mother loved her kitchen, so we keep a piece of her in here.
07:20 Of course, later we find out that Georgina is actually Dean's mom's consciousness
07:26 inside the housekeeper's body.
07:28 Looking back on that moment, it's actually kind of funny.
07:32 Such a clever way to hint at the massive reveal in the end.
07:35 - Why don't you go lay down?
07:36 Just get some rest.
07:37 - Yes, I think I will.
07:44 Number three, The Birds, Psycho.
07:47 The scene with Norman Bates talking to Marion about his mother
07:50 with all those stuffed birds behind him was already pretty creepy,
07:54 even before you know the twist at the end.
07:56 - We all go a little mad sometimes.
07:58 Haven't you?
08:02 - Yes.
08:06 - But what makes it even creepier is when you understand the meaning
08:10 behind all those stuffed birds.
08:12 As it turns out, Mrs. Bates has been dead the whole time,
08:16 and Norman has been holding onto her body just like, you guessed it,
08:19 a taxidermied animal.
08:21 [SCREAMING]
08:23 On a first watch of the movie, you might have thought all the birds
08:31 just seemed kind of weird, or maybe just an obsession of Alfred Hitchcock's.
08:36 But on a second watch, you can see that they actually serve a specific purpose.
08:41 - So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind.
08:45 He stole her corpse.
08:50 Number 2, The Bird, The Prestige
08:53 Birds have an important role in this movie as well.
08:55 Back when Borden was just an apprentice, he participated in a trick where the magician
09:00 makes a bird disappear by crushing its cage and then making it reappear.
09:04 - He killed it!
09:06 He killed it!
09:09 But the trick is that there are actually two identical birds used to make the illusion work.
09:16 When Borden tries to comfort a little boy who is upset by the trick by showing him that the
09:20 bird is actually okay, the boy asks where his brother is.
09:23 - See? He's alright. He's fine. Look at him.
09:27 - But where's his brother?
09:29 - He's a sharp lead.
09:34 This may seem like a simple device to get Borden to meet Sarah,
09:38 but in hindsight, this is an obvious hint that Borden is actually a twin,
09:42 and that's how he makes his own magic trick happen.
09:46 - Were you the one who went into the box or the one who came back out?
09:50 - We took turns.
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10:09 Number 1, Malcolm Only Interacts With Cole
10:15 The Sixth Sense
10:16 - Are you a good doctor?
10:17 - Well, I used to be.
10:22 It might seem hard to believe there's such an obvious clue to one of the biggest cinematic
10:28 reveals in history, but when you watch this movie a second time, you kind of wonder how
10:32 you missed it the first time around. It's really sort of two twists in one. First,
10:37 we learn that Cole sees dead people, and second, we learn that Malcolm himself is dead.
10:43 - They don't know they're dead.
10:49 - How often do you see them?
10:50 - All the time.
10:54 While there are several little hints along the way, the main one is that Malcolm never
10:59 interacts with anyone but Cole. If you noticed this,
11:02 you might have caught that Malcolm was a ghost the whole time.
11:04 - I think I can go now.
11:11 - Just needed to do a couple things.
11:13 Did we miss any details that revealed big plot twists? Let us know in the comments.
11:19 - Whatever, man. I don't care about anything.
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