Crazy Hidden Details in Recent Movie Posters

One detail that no one noticed: Quentin Tarantino himself seems to be in the poster. Just below Margot Robbie's face is a camera and a director, who sure looks a lot like Tarantino. It's hard to say for sure, but for all we know he's telling the camera operator to zoom in on Robbie's bare feet.

It's possible that Tarantino had a small role that was cut from the finished film, or he just Waldo-ed a tiny version of himself in there for the hell of it.

We had no way of knowing that "Bran the Broken" (yikes) would end up becoming king back when the show first started, but an early poster may have actually hinted at where things were going. The poster featured Sean Bean, who was the star of Game of Thrones if you'll recall, as Ned Stark. He sits on the Iron Throne and next to him sits ... a raven.

What does it mean? It could just be because ravens are basically Westerosian e-mail. Or because whoever designed the poster was a football fan from Baltimore. Then again, the ultimate victor of the titular game was Bran, AKA the Three-Eyed-Raven. So just maybe the show's creators were giving us a subtle clue as to where things were headed. If only they could have warned us, too!

And the lights at the bottom are actually Morse Code, spelling out "S.O.S."-- which is either a clever way to foreshadow the actions of Geun-se (a.k.a. Basement Guy) or the artist was attacked while designing this poster and this was his plea for help.

But it is very subtly communicating the story's penchant for evil twins. The handles of the scissors represent two identical heads facing back to back in opposite directions, which just so happened to be what we saw on the earliest teaser poster.

Looking at the two posters side-by-side, the faces in the teaser basically fill-in the negative space in the final poster.

These kind of brain shenanigans makes us want to double-check if the preponderance of bunny rabbits were some kind of subliminal advertising for Energizer batteries.

But the good folks at Pixar simply love hiding references to their past work in movies, and Toy Story 4 is no exception. In the background there's a painting hanging on the wall featuring dogs playing poker -- upon closer inspection it turns out that it actually depicts Charles Muntz, the villain from Up, playing cards with his canine minions.

The painting can be seen in the movie itself, although we wouldn't blame you if you turned Up off after ten minutes to devote your evening to crying and have no idea what we're talking about.

Cruising was directed by William Friedkin, a hero of the Safdie Brothers who made Uncut Gems. And the movie's full of references to other Friedkin pictures; like the opening scene, which is weirdly similar to the opening of The Exorcist. Both feature archeological digs in a distant country.

Even the fact that it co-stars an NBA player (Kevin Garnett) could be a reference to Friedkin's Blue Chips which starred Shaquille O'Neal in one of his rare, non-Genie roles.

The ending (SPOILERS) mirrors the bummer conclusion of Friedkin's similarly stressful masterpiece Sorcerer. The protagonists of both films are surprisingly victorious: Howard after his bet pays off, and Jackie after not blowing himself up in a transport truck full of nitroglycerin. But their happiness is short-lived, thanks to a goon with a gold chain necklace.

While Jackie's death isn't shown on screen, Uncut Gems zooms into the psychedelic butthole universe beyond Howard's gunshot wound, perhaps in a callback to the majority of Sandler's 1990s oeuvre.

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Top Image: Sony Pictures