Mind-Blowing Movie Plot Twists That Nobody Saw Coming

Arrival

Renowned linguist Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is recruited by the U.S. government to decipher an alien language after a dozen of their aircraft land on earth. Throughout the film, Banks is suffering from what appears to be vivid flashbacks of her young daughter's life and death, but what we eventually learn is that Banks is seeing her future with fellow scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner); the hetapods' language is that of nonlinear time, and they have come to Earth in order to share the language with humans and prevent widespread disaster.

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The More You Know

  • In the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, no two female characters ever speak to each other.
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • The cigarette smoked by Sigourney Weaver in Avatar is completely CGI.
  • For 'Deadpool' (2016) Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it.
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