10 Greatest Unspoken Movie Plot Points
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I also love that when Marlon tells Truman, "If everyone is in on it, I'd have to be in on it too," he looks directly up at the moon when he says, "if everyone--" ... in other words, he looks directly up to the observation room where "everyone" is monitoring him at this very moment.
How about the third eagle in "The Return of the King"? He glances down at the rock Frodo and Sam were lying on before flying away... because he was there for Gollum.
No way, I didn't realize that. I'm gonna have to do a re watch to confirm, lol, it's the only way to be sure...
No, now I gotta read that chapter again...
F*ck that's brilliant.
Very unlikely
Wasn't this confirmed in the book too?
Not a movie, but one of my favorite unspoken plots is Abed delivering a baby in an episode of "Community". The summoning of Beetlejuice is also a classic.
It's not unspoken and literally plays out on screen
@@mikescott8903 It happens on screen, but it's still unspoken. Just like the Gremlin's time travel thing. Just something happening off in the background.
@@djsosonut that would be something happening without your knowledge but it's seen very easily. Not hidden
@@mikescott8903 Your definition of what is considered hidden doesn't apply to this list then. Since by your definition the entries for Gremlins, Seven, Adams Family Values, A Quiet Place, and possibly a few more shouldn't even be on this list.
@@mikescott8903 It's all in the background, jackass. No one says a word about it. That's what "unspoken" means.
In Ground Hog Day when Phil was in the ER waiting room and the nurse tells him about the old man’s death in the background you see a boy and his mother. The boy has a broken leg, later he’s the boy that never thanks Phil for catching him when he falls out of the tree.
In Clue, if you watch it more than once then you know the identity of “Mr. Boddy” and his attempted escape and plan to have Wadsworth killed to save himself takes on a different meaning. Even the way Wadsworth says, “You, too, Mr. Boddy” seems more sarcastic and sinister.
The James Bond one was repeated in Spectre with "Woman with a fan" by Clemente Modigliani. The painting was stolen in 2010 and appears in the movie.
One of my favourite unspoken plot points, albeit a minor one, is the name of the mall in Back to the Future. In the first parking lot scene when Doc and Marty meet there, it's called "Twin Pines Mall", and Doc talks about the guy who used to own the land having an obsession with pine trees. When Marty goes back in time to 1955 at that same spot, it's implied that the owner of the barn he crashes into is the guy Doc talked about. While trying to escape in the Delorean, Marty runs over one of a pair of smallish pine trees, and the owner yells "My pine! Why you..!" while firing his shotgun. When Marty returns to 1985 at the end of the movie, the mall is now called "Lone Pine Mall"...
Always liked that one too!
Having watched a bazillion times BTTF I've known that since always
BTTF3 has a similar one. Marty says his name is Clint Eastwood, then in the end the canyon is renamed Eastwood Gorge.
@@gutsdozer
Before that it was named Clayton Gorge, named after the deceased teacher Clara Clayton, which was saved from her demise by Doc and Marty.
That's a good one. I think there are a lot of background details in the trilogy that aren't focused on.
A funny/scary one is that in the Biff-controlled timeline, Nixon is president for a third term.
One of my favorite unspoken movie plot points is in Die Hard, after they try to get the code Takagi and fail, Karl and Theo exchange money. They had a bet on whether they would be able to get the code from him. It's never spoken about, only seen. Really cool
When Takagi is being reticent while being questioned by Hans, Theo says to Karl, "I told you!" and Karl replies, "It's not over yet."
And you can see Hans reacting to their interaction with an almost eye roll.
That happens in tons of movies. That is not what a sub plot is. Sub plot answers questions like "why is he like that" "where was she" etc. A bet is not a sub plot just as whispering is done to be discreet.
@@GokulOnFire At least you don't have to look up the meaning of the word pedantic!
@@GokulOnFire not sure if sub plot and plot point is the same thing, but I see your point. More like an unspoken movie moment that’s never explained
My absolute favorite one of these is from Pulp Fiction. On their first meeting Butch wants to beat the crap out of Vincent Vega until Vega is called over to Marsellus Wallace's table. Vincent walks off grinning because Butch can't do a thing to him as he's protected, specifically when Marsellus shouts something about Vincent "being his long time friend" or something similar. Cut to several scenes later and Vincent is complaining about how some asshole keyed his car and he wishes he could've gotten a hold of the guy that did it, how he would've absolutely smashed him.
Quentin confirmed decades later in a radio interview that it was in fact Butch that keyed the car.
Lol I never picked that up. That's great.
Butch in _Pulp Fiction_ is, imo, just as interesting of a case of casting against type as Vincent is, even if that became more plain the longer Willis's career continued. It's hard to imagine the average "Bruce Willis character" keying a car, if you catch my drift.
Don't want to sound like a know it al,l but that's what I like about Quentin Tarantino films, something little like him mentioning his keyed car could be nothing or come up later. People hate watching movies that make you think with me. Cause I have to say "Bruce Willis keyed his car" and everyone is confused. Half want me to explain how I got that from people talking in a bar while forgetting the earlier talk with the drug dealer, other half don't care and would rather be watching Die Hard and not getting all the subtle things in that movie. Hate when people don't notice all the stuff on the side, usually better than the actual story. Some story tellers are amazing. Like Pulp Fiction the main plot doesn't even matter to some. Do you really care about the briefcase? Don't even really care what was in it. When the MacGuffin is truly irrelevant that's usually a good story.
Lol "being his long time friend" nice switcheroo
I just don't get how. That scene takes place after the diner scene and they had to take a cab to the diner.
A profound unspoken plot point occurs in Harold and Maude - when the camera lingers on Maude's arm - showing a number tattooed on her inner forearm - revealing that she is a Holocaust survivor. I think this is a fascinating frame to her free wheeling spirit.
I remember that as the quintessential moment of realization that her "joie de vivre" is a tribute to those who didn't survive, not just a personality trait. If it weren't for one particular family member who was the only member of his family to survive and become my children's great grandfather, they wouldn't be here. So that's an important point to me personally, as well as to the film.
I was thinking of that exact moment - so subtle, if you blink you miss it. I love that movie
On the stolen Goya painting: Often these stolen masterpieces end up as leverage for a lighter sentence for big criminals. They don't end up being sold. They end up being hidden until they get caught. Nothing lowers a sentence better like a stolen and lost Van Gogh.
Damn big plays
The so-called gentleman criminal's version of "plea me down and I'll tell you where the bodies are buried"
Decades later, they made a movie about that very art heist.
Edgar Wright also silently included silent points and two throwaway lines that says Scott Pilgrim also dated Kim (the drummer) and Julie (Aubrey Plaza) before the movie began.
What's the line with Julie? Afaik even the author confirmed that nothing ever happened between Julie and Scott.
Scott’s prior relationship with Kim is very evident, but I didn’t pick up on hints he dated Julie.
In Seven, Somerset told Doe (unknowingly) that Tracy was pregnant. Doe was posing as a reporter who paid Somerset for info.
I love the one in gremlinss of the time machine, for me it's funny because we don't have the confirmation that time travel actualy happened, he could have desintegrated himself, or simply exploded
Sid in toystory 2/3 when he's a happy bin man - the implication is that he knows toys are sentient but has reached true peace with this knowledge
I didn't even realize Sid came back.
I felt bad for Sid, he was the only kid that actually played with his toys and Andy's toys resented him for it and punished him. Such a shame.
@@rossbrown6029 Sid mutilated his own toys and his sisters dolls. The toys had every right to resent him lmao
@@abortedphoenix you say mutilated, I say played. He used his toys for his amusement, which is their entire purpose. Andy's toys were just jealous.
@@rossbrown6029 LOL WHAT? He was quite literally setting toys on fire, ripping and reattaching their appendages, and about to blow up buzz with a rocket. I work with children, and that is not playing. Its destructive behavior that is indicative of quite a few things. Have a nice day.
Lewis is probably the most interesting side character in the Truman Show. He joined production as a kid. Can a kid really make a fully informed decision about whether to be in a show like that? In a way he's almost as much of a victim as Truman is
He's basically lived the same life. When he's not on the set, he's hugely famous and constantly watched anyway. I'm sure that would mess with anyone's sense of reality pretty hard.
Excellent video. What about the end of the first back to the future. Doc Brown didnt really come back to help Marty and Jennifer's kids, he needed a way to teach Marty about being called chicken to avoid the accident caused by Doc. He realized that since he invented the time machine Marty was able to get in the accident with the Rolls Royce. If Marty had not gone back and changed history he wouldn't have had the truck. Since in the original time line the family car was wrecked he had no way to get in the accident in the first place, so Doc realized that he ruined Marty's career as a rock star. That's also why Doc says the infernal machine has caused nothing but trouble.
Jules, your affirmations actually did help me get through a rough patch that has recently ended. On top of just enjoying the hell out of your videos.
Thank you.
I'll second that. In dark days I've failed to stay in my own corner, to fight the good fight.
Jules words always rang true and bright when Id lost my way. Much love.
It always makes me almost tear up
Gomez's mother also insisted on him smoking cigars early in his own youth too...in the first 'Adams Family.'
I love videos like this that give movies deeper meanings. One that no one usually talks about is from the Star Wars prequels. If you pay close attention to the dialogue, Palpatine all but says he's Anakin's father via Force conception through Midichlorians. Even Anakin's own mother can't explain her miraculous pregnancy. There are lots of rumors and theories that the prequels had re-writes to appease fans who didn't like the midichlorian thing. Not that the sequels cleared up much of anything, but the recent movies still left Anakin's origin a mystery that could easily be explained with this single unspoken plot.
I completely agree with you, you talk about the scene where he also tells Anakin that good and evil are only points of view. The detail that leaves that moment out of this list is that it is completely spoken dialogue.
@@aztarot I dunno if it's spoken. I got into this with a SW buddy of mine, and he thought I was absolutely bonkers. He absolutely thought Shmi Skywalker met some stranger and had a one-night stand from her dialogue. I was like, "HOW did you miss the 'Anakin is Space Jesus' subplot?" And Palpatine never outright says he was that mysterious man Shmi met. I felt like the only person in the world who wanted the sequels to explain midichlorians, gray (neutral) force users that weren't Jedi or Sith, and maybe even the reveal of how midichlorians could've made it possible to CLONE JEDI/SITH and eventually enhance or inject midichlorians... Just so much potential I liked about that plot, which ultimately feels like it somehow got scrapped in hindsight. I know Disney wanted to distance itself from the slavery thing, but Star Wars DID have slaves at one point; and what we're suggesting happened to Shmi is no less than rape of someone else's slave. They've sanitized the galaxy far, far away, so I doubt we'll ever get to see any of this ever entirely explained. In the books for the sequels, Palpatine had some secret wife BS... So if it was ever spoken, Disney's retcon made it all unspoken.
Can't believe I just learnt something about Shaun of the Dead that I had missed so far! Great job putting these together!
This was a pleasure to watch. The Gremlins one got me good lol. I am going to say that the Alcoholic friend in Truman Show was pretty apparent to me at least. However I feel pretty disappointed in myself that I never noticed the rope burn mark on Aldo's neck. Great video!!
People aren't watching the time machine, they are watching Spielberg's cameo in the forefront.
The poop joke in “The Spy who shagged me” wasn’t just an attempt at gross out humor, it was a crucial plot point.
What?
@@FBCGodfather the mystery of where Dr. Evil’s secret hideout was solved by analyzing Fatbastard’s stool.
@@yurdp ok. Where did that come from?
I didnt see it in the video......
@@FBCGodfather at the end of the video, they always say “did we miss any that you may know of?” That’s where that’s coming from.
6:52 in an ironic twist, "Ken Adams" is the go-to alias of Joey Tribbiani in Friends.
How is that ironic?
@@pointysidedown The irony is that SantomPh doesn't know the meaning of the word ironic.
The red dress in Schindler's list. Great list. Always love watching one from Jules
What story did that tell? I don't remember
@Garrison Whaley-Sharp Schindler sees a little girl in a red coat and something about it makes him see the brutality of what's happening.
Later on, he sees the same child in a red coat on a heap of bodies being wheeled to a mass grave.
I completely agree with you. Watching her through the story really hammers it home that no one was spared.
Vincent Vega's life being controlled by the toilet in Pulp Fiction.
did he ever finish that book?
Vega was an opioid addict, so he always constipated...
@@bendovermen9425yeah, he's not a smart one. That's a problem easily managed.
Thank you for pointing out the Addams Family Values hangover cure! I always felt weird knowing that 🤕
I noticed it, but thought that was just Addams Baby Formula, since it was a whole week after the wedding.
@@lordsergal8783 Good point 👌
Jules, these things you say at the end of the videos are so powerful, always catches me off guard, and always are what I needed to hear. Little things with giant impact, thank you so much.
Plus you displayed Steven Spielberg's cameo in "Gremlins." (Rolling by in the wheel chair.)
As always thank you so very much for the video.
And Happy Holidays.
That is some seriously observant details! Thanks for a fun video and especially for covering the Searchers - one of the greatest films ever.
In the convention scene in Gremlins you also see Speilberg go by the camera riding little buggy.
Terrific list! You are a gem as always Jules!
I love The Searchers. Not being a fan of the genre, it's the only western I can watch. The ending now made all the more heartbreaking by the idea that Debbie is, in fact, Ethan's daughter.
Glenn, have you tried Lonesome Dove? I know lots of friends that aren't into westerns but love that mini series and installments. I highly recommend it especially if you enjoy the Searchers.
I cannot STAND John Wayne Westerns, they are devoid of any grit or realism. Want to watch a really good, gritty, and realistic Western; watch any featuring Clint Eastwood. Eastwood himself couldn't stand John Wayne Westerns for the same reason
@@justinnelson9787 The Eastwood westerns Rock!!!!!
Although I do like John Wayne too lol
@@edwardbloecher4563 I just can never get over how romanticized his westerns were.
Another good one is that in the watchmen film universe Thomas and Martha and Wayne don’t die… It’s a blink and you’ll miss it moment but you see a superhero foiling the mugging in the opening
Jules' little spiel at the end of his vids are always so wholesome. Keep it up mate!
Enjoyed it as always. You’re the best Jules
I love the little pep talk you give at the end. makes my day every time
wow! i've actually never noticed anything brought up in this video. super cool, would love to see a part two!!!
Always love Jules videos so much!! Thanks for the kindness 🥰
Lt. Aldo's neck is an homage to Clint Eastwood in HANG 'EM HIGH
Another blink and you'll miss it thing from Addams Family Values: During the scene when Wednesday and Pugsley are first at Camp Chippewa, they both try to kill themselves. Wednesday drinks from a bottle labeled "Poison" and Pugsley can be seen in the background putting his head in a noose.
Thank you Jules. I think the main reason I watch whatculture is the anticipation of Jules' encouraging words at the end of the video.
Pretty good one Jules! Would love more like this! Happiest Holidays!
Thank you for another great video! And your kind words are always a lift to the spirits! Happy New Year!
Well, that was the sweetest send off I've ever heard in a video! Thank you!
I always thought John Doe found out about Tracy's pregnancy, when he cut her open. This picture haunted me most.
Thanks for this brilliant list. It is thoughtful, fascinating and intelligent. Please make more like this.
Julez your the best, i dont think i need to hear anything you say at the end, but it always makes me feel better. And maybe "we" think we dont need to hear it, but in reality we do. Thank you and keep them coming.
Also in Truman show, the sips his friend takes from the can are close up stage sips. It’s rare to see this angle in film because it can expose that the actor isn’t drinking to avoid coughing or missing a cue, with the idea that he’s a struggling alcoholic you could argue that the close up shots are fully intentional.
Yes, I do like it when part of a story can be left unspoken, yet the meaning is obvious.
E. E. "Doc" Smith wrote the "Lensman" books, a series of novels of the sort my parents always referred to affectionately as "shoot-'em-ups", about members of the Lensmen, a multispecies police force which was very obviously the inspiration for the Green Lantern Corps. The earliest were squeaky-clean tales without the slightest hint of sex, much less anything the least bit lurid or kinky, but in the last book, *_Children of the Lens,_* it becomes obvious that the son and four daughters of Lensmen Kimball Kinnison and Lensman Virginia Samms were destined to marry incestuously and become parents of the next stage of human evolution.
Damn! I don’t think I ever noticed the Time Machine and it’s departure lol.
Spiker and Sponge killed James' father in James and the Giant Peach. It's more apparent in the book
Have a great day too Jules!
very enlightening! thanks for this video
I needed to hear I am a “massive ledge” today! Great video!
I would totally die in a horrific death in a quiet place. Friggin love a bag of chips
Leon: (rip) (crunch) (Monster attacks) AHHHHHHHHHHHH! .....(totally worth it).
Holy hell!!!!
I cant tell u how many times ive watched grimlins!!!! Never saw that!!!
Trying to eat popcorn during the Quiet Place was the worst experience of my movie snacking career.
The first time I saw A Quiet Place, I didn't realize there was supposed to be subtitles, so I watched without. I know a bit of ASL, so it was refreshing to see. Later I saw the movie with the subtitles and it made more sense. :P
The Gremlins time machine did not go unnoticed when I was a kid. That was one of my mom's favorite movies, we had the VHS and watched it probably once a month, so that machine in the background sent the whole family cackling.
that was the only one that was totally unmissable to me as a child, mainly because I have watched the time machine 3 times by the time I saw gremlins... and I'm sure it was purely just a joke thrown in as they were at an inventors convention. It wasnt actually confirming time travel in the gremlins universe, it was simply a callback reference to the film, funny though
Some of these are very interesting.
I think some of them that include deleted scenes are a bit weird. They're not "unspoken" as so much as they didn't happen.
As a huge HG Wells fan and lover of The Time Machine, I noticed that scene in Gremlins the first time I saw it. That's the only one I got on the first watch, though.
I have to say I don’t think I caught a single one of those. Brilliant catches!
Wow #1 surprised me! Definitely makes me love that movie even more too.
That was a great video.. very engrossing and everything new. Totally surprised about Shaun of the dead... one of my favourite movies... Loved the Cornetto trilogy.
In the deleted scenes, Shaun's ex Liz addresses the whole DJ thing a lot more. It's genuinely funny but it's understandable why it was cut for time and pacing.
Jules: It doesn't seem terribly likely that the MCU would explore Thor's effect on religion much further.
Gorr the God-Butcher: And I took that personally!
Great video, thznks!
taxi driver is about a man suffering from extreme ptsd from his stint in Vietnam
There was a whole subplot cut out of Se7en that develops Somerset more. In the beginning, he looks at a house away from the city that he plans to buy after he retires, and he carries a swatch of wallpaper in his pocket to remind him of what he has to look forward to. In the end, he throws it away and decides to stay, because he's still got work to do.
Wow. That was a really nice send off. Thanks! 😊
Very clever stuff, sometimes these lists are like "wtf" but this one was spot on
Food list Jules. Please feel free to hang out another or so because there are many more in movies & TV. For the record I never noticed the Gremlins one but I loved it. So perfect
This was a great list.
Great ending message!
I’m sorry Whatculture but I listen mostly to whatever Jules is involved in. His love of the source material is awesome but what is more awesome is his affirmations made at the end.
As someone who deals daily with anxiety and depression it truly does make a difference.
No matter how many words are spoken.
Great video- I’ve seen Shaun of the dead loads of times and never noticed that 😎
Gremlins was always one of my favorite movies growing up and I've never noticed that time machine bit.
Nice catch with the Duke’s portrait.
A similar subplot in The Searchers is also used in Priest where Lucy is Priest's daughter.
Whatever Jules takes about, I'm going to like it. In 10 seconds I'm clicking the LIKE button.
It could starts with, "let me talk to you about tissue paper..." and I will like it.
Really loved this list and really love Jules 🥰
THAT gremlins shot was amazing
I feel like a lot of these are more of references and fun nods than plot points but still, very entertaining none the less!
Was thinking the same thing. A plot line should show up multiple times and evolve during the course of the story. Still very entertaining video though.
......more of these!!!!
My favorite is the first timeline in Source Code is an alternate reality, not the original one. This can be found because the bomb on the train was supposed to be detonated when passing the other passenger train but doesn't, and instead blows up near a tanker train. This is shown to us when the bad guy Frost is interacted with in one of the Source Codes and he admits that his timing was interrupted because of the interaction and then detonates the bomb.
How about in Back to the Future when the “Twin Pines Mall” at the beginning becomes “The Lone Pine Mall” at the end after Marty runs over one of the pine trees in 1955?
Well, that would actually be a silent plot point, so it could not be in the list of jokes, fan theories, deleted scenes or character flavor that was this video
@@aquelegabriel dude, shut up. It’s 2022…the year of being an asshole is behind us.
@@jpatrick1967 I just don't like to be lied to, man.
Low key character development, nice. Perfectly synched.
Loved that
Great vid as always, thanks Jules!!
That ending got me right in the feels
Marlon could have quit the show. He had options. And I never really got the feeling he felt that guilty. He was the worst of the worst, because he was SUPPOSED to be Truman's best friend.
Betrayal.
This is the most 1-dimensional take. You should really put more thought into things before you comment.
I was hoping to see Back to the Future mentioned here. An unspoken subplot is that George is left-handed. He was forced to learn to use his right hand by parents and/or teachers, which was actually a thing that happened back then because some people thought left-handedness was evil. In the original 1985 he's still a lefty operating as a righty, that's why he's so awkward. Then Marty interfered in 1955 and caused George to confront Biff. He tried, weakly, to punch Biff with his right hand, which was immediately disabled, forcing him to flatten Biff with a left hook. That's why he looks at his (left) hand the way he does before he asks Lorraine if she's alright. From that moment on he started using his left hand again, and that's a big part of why things got better for him, because he was finally being himself.
Louis being an alcoholic in the Truman show could also just be part of the script of Truman's life. They need excuses for all the actors to have long vacations from the show and also most if not all the characters have some sort of flaw. This helps deceive Truman. Also they want Truman to drink because it'll keep him thinking less, more fearful, and overall less likely to figure it out and escape.
So while I think Louis being a drunk might be because of guilt I think it's much more likely that in such a controlled environment that wouldn't be allowed unless controlled for and on purpose.
I always thought Aldo survived a lynching for bootlegging moonshine, I actually thought that was mentioned in the movie. Who knows where my mind came up with that.
Same first idea here also, but just by coincidence not for real connection. The scar bears similarity to the scar bootlegger Forrest / Tom Hardy gets in the Lawless.
Nice list. I like that it wasn't all modern movies.
Thank you.
number 1 blew my mind!
number 3 reminds of the old joke about them
Cap: Personally knows 2 deities, still a christian
Iron-man: Personally knows 2 deities, still an atheist
In the first one, you'll also notice Steven Spielberg driving by on a weird machine in the foreground.
You’re awesome !
Not sure if exactly a plot point…
In Nerve, during the scene where Sid is dared to and attempts walking across a ladder between apartment buildings…it is stated that she has to record herself completing the dare or it doesn’t count, right? Well, toward the beginning of the movie, when Sid moons the school population during a pep rally…someone else recorded her completing the dare and she moved to her next round. 🤷♀️