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00:00 Hello everyone, Josh here and we're delighted to say that today's video is sponsored by
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00:06 The beauty of cinema, as with all art, is how differently we can all interpret it, bringing
00:10 our own distinct experiences to the table which colour how we view a particular movie.
00:16 Healthy debate about a film is of course a wonderful thing, though there are also cases
00:21 where a large subset of viewers simply get the wrong end of the stick, a stick that's
00:26 not as ambiguous or up for debate as initially thought.
00:30 So with that in mind, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 10 Recent Movie Scenes Everyone
00:35 Misunderstood.
00:36 10.
00:37 The ending doesn't set up a sequel - The Matrix Resurrections
00:41 The Matrix Resurrections concludes with Trinity discovering her own one-like abilities and
00:45 paying a visit to the villainous Analyst along with Neil.
00:49 They inform the Analyst that, as the Matrix Ultimate Power Couple, they're going to rebuild
00:54 it in their own image, and then promptly fly off into the sky together.
00:58 The End.
00:59 Now many viewers quite understandably assumed that the ending was sequel bait intended to
01:03 launch a new trilogy of Matrix films, even if that couldn't actually be further from
01:08 the truth.
01:09 While doing press for the film, director Lana Wachowski was adamant that this will be her
01:14 final Matrix film.
01:16 And the movie itself not so subtly implies that she only came back in the first place
01:20 to make it because Warner Bros was going to reboot it without her otherwise.
01:24 This was Lana's last big blockbuster swing by the looks of it, and certainly where The
01:29 Matrix is concerned.
01:30 And given that actors Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves have made their loyalty to the
01:34 Wachowskis clear, it's extremely difficult to believe that they'd return without the
01:38 sisters being involved.
01:39 Though it's at least easy to understand why some did feel like Resurrections' ending
01:44 was teeing up more movies with Trinity and Neil, the best you can probably hope for is
01:49 a reboot sometime in the future.
01:51 But hey, at least The Matrix Rebooted is already the perfect title.
01:55 9.
01:56 Diana Didn't Really Eat Pearls - Spencer
01:59 It's fair to say that audiences generally expect biopics to be rooted in a majority
02:03 of truth.
02:04 Though as most of us know, it's extremely common for Hollywood to embellish what really
02:08 happened for dramatic purposes.
02:10 Yet Pablo Lorraine's recent Princess Diana biopic, Spencer, unfolded as a far more surreal,
02:16 film-like, even nightmarish piece of work, attempting to get viewers into Diana's fractured
02:21 anxiety riddled mindset through an array of increasingly unsettling sequences.
02:27 By far the most memorable moment in the film though occurs at a Christmas Eve dinner, where
02:31 Diana destroys a pearl necklace given to her by her husband Charles, and then eats the
02:36 pearls in her pea soup.
02:38 Because Spencer was marketed as a more conventional, straightforward biopic, many audience members
02:43 evidently took the scene at absolute face value and just assumed that it was actually
02:47 based on a real life incident.
02:50 Yet this was entirely fabricated for the purposes of the film, intended to symbolise both Diana's
02:55 increasing feelings of suffocation at having to abide by, even metaphorically swallowed
03:00 down, royal traditions, and more literally by the eating disorder that she suffered with
03:05 throughout her life.
03:07 But because the trailers rather sneakily painted the movie as a more typical biopic rather
03:11 than an experimental mood piece, some audiences went home thinking that Diana really did gulp
03:16 down some pearls in her soup.
03:18 8.
03:19 It Doesn't Prove That Thanos Was Right - Eternals
03:22 Eternals is by far the most divisive MCU movie yet, and prompted many fans to note that it
03:27 seemed to be tactically supporting Thanos' decision to wipe out half of all life in the
03:32 universe in Avengers Infinity War.
03:34 That's because midway through the movie it's revealed that the Earth's population
03:38 has now reached a large enough number to provide sufficient energy for the celestial Tiamat
03:42 to burst forth from the Earth's core, in turn destroying it.
03:46 The implication then is that by snapping half the universe for five years, Thanos inadvertently
03:51 delayed Tiamat's emergence, halving the amount of energy on the planet and therefore
03:56 keeping it at bay.
03:58 Many quickly jumped on this and began flying the whole "Thanos was right" banner once
04:02 again, even if that's a rather superficial, if not outright disingenuous reading of the
04:08 movie.
04:09 First and foremost, of course, Thanos buying the world five years of time was an accident
04:14 by-product of his genocide, which any way you slice it doesn't make his actions inherently
04:19 correct and certainly not from a moral perspective.
04:22 But even if Thanos' snap had never been undone, it would've been a mere matter of
04:26 decades before humanity's population did return to the necessary levels to facilitate
04:31 the celestial's birth anyway.
04:33 And this is all without getting into the fact that while you would kill potentially billions
04:37 of people with the birth of a new celestial, on a cosmic scale this is nothing compared
04:43 to instantly eradicating 50% of living things in the entire universe.
04:49 7.
04:50 No big deal - Spider-Man No Way Home
04:52 Spider-Man No Way Home is full of references and easter eggs to previous web-head movies.
04:57 However there is one joke in there that's a little bit more loaded than the rest, and
05:01 will go over the heads of all but the most online of movie fans.
05:05 Following the Sony email hack back in 2014, the company's plans for the Spider-Man character
05:10 in the Amazing Spider-Man universe were revealed, including notes from executives on how to
05:15 make the hero more current with the kids.
05:19 And as you can imagine, their ideas of hip are exactly what you'd expect from a bunch
05:24 of middle-aged businessmen.
05:26 One groan-worthy note suggested giving Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man a catchphrase, that
05:31 being "No big deal".
05:33 The email went "Millennials will often port NBD on their social media" as in "No big
05:39 deal" also known as the humblebrag wondering if Spidey could get in on that somewhere.
05:46 This could be referenced in a strange scene in No Way Home as some fans and outlets picked
05:50 up on at the time.
05:51 The scene in question is where Garfield's Peter 3 boasts that he can cure the lizard
05:55 as he's done it once already.
05:57 "No big deal" he says.
05:58 No big deal.
05:59 Now of course this could just be a throwaway thing, but it's such a strange beat and
06:03 weirdly lingered on that it's probably more likely a reference to this infamous executive
06:08 note.
06:09 It's actually just much funnier if you do it in a shirt and a funny voice.
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07:58 Number 6 - Gurney isn't killed in the Harkonnen Attack Dune
08:02 Now you'd admittedly know this one if you'd read Frank Herbert's source material, which
08:07 by the way I absolutely have not, so spoilers here I guess for Dune 2, but in the first
08:12 part of Dune Adaptation, Paul Atreides' mentor Gurney Halleck just sort of disappears
08:18 during the Harkonnens' climactic attack on House Atreides.
08:23 Amid the carnage we see Gurney running into battle with his fellow soldiers and then that's
08:27 it.
08:28 Now that he's never seen again, many unfamiliar with Herbert's novel seem to just assume
08:32 that the character perished in battle and wouldn't be seen again.
08:36 Thankfully that's not the case though.
08:38 Without going into too much detail for those who haven't read the book or seen any of
08:42 the prior adaptations, Gurney is still alive and will indeed be appearing in Dune Part
08:47 2.
08:48 It is admittedly a bit of an abrupt end for the character, but conventional movie wisdom
08:52 anyway says that nobody is really dead unless you see them die, so it shouldn't be that
08:56 surprising that he's still alive and kicking somewhere.
09:00 The ending doesn't set up Bryan's return, F9.
09:04 Nobody really expects to be confused by a Fast and Furious movie of all things, but
09:08 the recent F9 did in fact leave audiences heatedly debating the precise meaning of its
09:13 final scene.
09:14 After Cipher has been foiled yet again and the family reunites for their traditional
09:18 post-carnage barbecue, Dom and company turn their heads to see Bryan O'Connor's iconic
09:23 blue Nissan Skyline pulling into the driveway.
09:27 This immediately prompted speculation among the fanbase, with many believing that this
09:31 ending implied that Bryan would be making a return to the franchise in the upcoming
09:35 two-part finale using similar VFX-driven techniques as were employed in Furious 7 following Paul
09:42 Walker's tragic death.
09:44 But that's absolutely not what F9's ending was getting at, like at all.
09:48 It's simply a sweet reminder that Bryan still exists in this world and is living the
09:52 good life as a committed father away from the danger of the family's globe-trotting
09:56 shenanigans.
09:57 Given that Bryan has been quite sensibly kept in the background of the last two movies,
10:02 it doesn't seem likely that we'll end up with an unnecessary digital Paul Walker
10:05 rocking up for the 10th and 11th films.
10:08 4.
10:09 Leda is Alive at the End - The Lost Daughter
10:12 Maggie Gyllenhaal's superb psychological drama The Lost Daughter ends with the troubled
10:16 protagonist Leda being stabbed by young mother Nina and driving her car off the road, then
10:22 heading down to the beach where she takes a phone call from her daughters.
10:26 It's a seemingly ambiguous ending that has prompted audience members to debate whether
10:30 Leda was in fact alive at the end or not.
10:33 Those who believe she died from the stab wounds cite the fact that her daughters even mention
10:37 her being dead on the phone.
10:39 And the film ends with Leda miraculously discovering an orange in her hands which she then peels
10:43 in a snake-like motif as she did for her children in their youth.
10:48 While the source novel also plays Leda's fate as ambiguous, in this adaption she is
10:53 100% alive, as was confirmed by director Gyllenhaal in an interview with the Washington Post earlier
10:59 this year.
11:00 There she said "If Leda dies, we're punishing her.
11:03 It's not a punitive movie.
11:05 It's not what we're doing.
11:06 To me, this is a woman who is a hero even though she is someone who has caused probably
11:11 irreparable damage to both herself and her children."
11:14 Now that's a pretty definitive statement.
11:18 Still though the ending might be, it's not intended to be the character's dying dream,
11:21 she's still very much in the land of the living when the closing credits roll.
11:26 Yes, Peter Killed Phil - The Power of the Dog
11:30 Jane Campion's masterful western drama The Power of the Dog is absolutely a film that
11:35 rewards audiences who pay attention, right up to an ending that seems to heavily imply
11:39 that Rancher Phil was secretly killed by his sister-in-law Rose's son Peter.
11:44 Phil swiftly succumbs to illness at the film's end, and though the doctor believes he died
11:49 of anthrax, his brother George is left shocked given that Phil's meticulousness meant that
11:54 he always avoided handling diseased cattle.
11:57 Yet earlier in the film, Peter gave Phil an animal hide with which to create a lasso,
12:02 without informing him that it came from a dead animal, and in the final scene we see
12:06 Peter handling the same lasso with a pair of gloves.
12:09 Furthermore, in the final scene, Peter smiles at his newly sober mother as she happily embraces
12:14 George, seemingly relieved that the disruptive force that is Phil is now out of their lives.
12:20 Though this ending seems relatively self-evident on paper, a quick Google search of the film
12:24 reveals many viewers were left unsure about the precise meaning of its ending, and whether
12:29 or not Peter did indeed kill Phil.
12:32 And yeah, while this might seem obvious to some, Campion's film does move in a subtler
12:36 rhythm than most casual viewers may be expecting from a Benedict Cumberbatch western.
12:41 But to clarify, Peter absolutely did kill Phil, and the original ending even hammered
12:46 this point home by lingering on the definition of anthrax in Peter's medical textbook.
12:50 2.
12:51 Batman Injects Himself With Adrenaline, Not Venom - The Batman
12:55 During the Batman's climax inside Gotham Square Garden, the Caped Crusader finds himself
13:00 injured by one of the Riddler's followers, and in order to stop himself from passing
13:03 out when Catwoman is attacked, injects himself with a mysterious green liquid.
13:08 Now many fans were quick to insist that Batman in this scene had actually injected himself
13:13 with Venom, the green super steroid which has traditionally given Bane his enhanced
13:18 strength in the comics.
13:19 Hell, I even wondered this myself, considering just how weird the scene is in the final flick.
13:25 However, it seems we're looking too hard here for this to be some kind of interconnected
13:29 comic book Easter egg.
13:31 The drug that Bruce consumed is clearly not as strong as Venom traditionally is, and while
13:36 it's theoretically possible that this is a weaker proto-version of the steroid, it's
13:40 far more likely that it was simply supposed to be an adrenaline compound of some sort.
13:45 Not everything is a wink-wink nod to the source material, even if director Matt Reeves could
13:50 have admittedly avoided this confusion altogether by simply making the liquid any colour but
13:55 green.
13:56 1.
13:57 Vic Is Obsessed With Snails Because The Author Is - Deep Water
14:01 The new Ben Affleck and Anna DeArmas starring erotic thriller Deep Water is truly one of
14:06 the strangest and most mystifying films of the past year, and has left most viewers questioning
14:11 what the hell was going on with all those damn snails.
14:15 Protagonist Vic Van Allen, beyond being a violently jealous psychopath, has a bizarre
14:19 fascination with snails, keeping dozens of pet snails in a series of tanks in a specifically
14:24 designed room.
14:26 Despite an early implication that the snails might be used as poison later on in the film,
14:31 they're ultimately a complete red herring, and seem to be a mere character flourish to
14:36 assure the audience that Vic is a bit of an oddball.
14:40 Viewers might also simply assume that the snails are supposed to possess some kind of
14:43 purely symbolic quality as well, as at one point Vic does note that "a snail will climb
14:49 a 12-foot wall to find its mate", paralleling Vic's own possessiveness of his wife Melinda.
14:54 But there's actually an altogether different explanation for the snails' presence in
14:58 the film, that being that Patricia Highsmith, who wrote the novel on which the film is based,
15:03 was absolutely obsessed with snails in real life.
15:06 During her life, Highsmith bred around 300 snails in the garden of her home, and even
15:11 once famously attended a London cocktail party with a handbag full of 100 snails as her companions.
15:21 She also published the story "The Snail Watcher", focused on a snail-obsessed man,
15:25 and so the presence of snails in the film are rather a peculiar homage to the author's
15:30 own snail mania.
15:32 So that's our list, want to know what you guys think down in the comments below, what
15:35 did you think about these movie scenes, and are there any misunderstood ones I missed
15:39 off here?
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