10 Recent Movie Scenes Everyone Misunderstood
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00:00Hello everyone, Josh here and we're delighted to say that today's video is sponsored by
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00:06The beauty of cinema, as with all art, is how differently we can all interpret it, bringing
00:10our own distinct experiences to the table which colour how we view a particular movie.
00:16Healthy debate about a film is of course a wonderful thing, though there are also cases
00:21where a large subset of viewers simply get the wrong end of the stick.
00:25A stick that's not as ambiguous or up for debate as initially thought.
00:30So with that in mind, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 10 Recent Movie Scenes Everyone
00:35Misunderstood.
00:3610.
00:37The ending doesn't set up a sequel.
00:39The Matrix Resurrections.
00:41The Matrix Resurrections concludes with Trinity discovering her own one-like abilities and
00:46paying a visit to the villainous Analyst along with Neil.
00:49They inform the Analyst that, as the Matrix ultimate power couple, they're going to
00:53rebuild it in their own image, and then promptly fly off into the sky together.
00:58The End.
00:59Now many viewers quite understandably assumed that the ending was sequel bait intended to
01:03launch a new trilogy of Matrix films, even if that couldn't actually be further from
01:09the truth.
01:10While doing press for the film, director Lana Wachowski was adamant that this will be her
01:14final Matrix film.
01:16And the movie itself not-so-subtly implies that she only came back in the first place
01:20to make it, because Warner Bros was going to reboot it without her otherwise.
01:25This was Lana's last big blockbuster swing by the looks of it, and certainly where the
01:29Matrix is concerned.
01:31And given that actors Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves have made their loyalty to the
01:34Wachowskis clear, it's extremely difficult to believe they'd return without the sisters
01:39being involved.
01:40Though it's at least easy to understand why some did feel like Resurrections' ending
01:44was teeing up more movies with Trinity and Neil, the best you can probably hope for is
01:49a reboot sometime in the future.
01:51But hey, at least The Matrix Rebooted is already the perfect title.
01:559.
01:56Diana Didn't Really Eat Pearls – Spencer
01:59It's fair to say that audiences generally expect biopics to be rooted in a majority
02:03of truth.
02:04Though, as most of us know, it's extremely common for Hollywood to embellish what really
02:08happened for dramatic purposes.
02:10Yet Pablo Lorraine's recent Princess Diana biopic, Spencer, unfolded as a far more surreal,
02:16dreamlike, even nightmarish piece of work, attempting to get viewers into Diana's fractured
02:22anxiety riddled mindset through an array of increasingly unsettling sequences.
02:27By far the most memorable moment in the film occurs at a Christmas Eve dinner, where Diana
02:32destroys a pearl necklace given to her by her husband Charles, and then eats the pearls
02:37in her pea soup.
02:38Because Spencer was marketed as a more conventional, straightforward biopic, many audience members
02:43evidently took the scene at absolute face value, and just assumed that it was actually
02:48based on a real life incident.
02:50Yet this was entirely fabricated for the purposes of the film, intended to symbolise both Diana's
02:56increasing feelings of suffocation at having to abide by, even metaphorically swallowed
03:01down, royal traditions, and more literally by the eating disorder that she suffered with
03:06throughout her life.
03:07But because the trailers rather sneakily painted the movie as a more typical biopic rather
03:11than an experimental mood piece, some audiences went home thinking that Diana really did gulp
03:16down some pearls in her soup.
03:19It Doesn't Prove That Thanos Was Right – Eternals
03:22Eternals is by far the most divisive MCU movie yet, and prompted many fans to note that it
03:27seemed to be tactically supporting Thanos' decision to wipe out half of all life in the
03:32universe in Avengers Infinity War.
03:35That's because midway through the movie, it's revealed that the Earth's population
03:38has now reached a large enough number to provide sufficient energy for the celestial
03:42Tiamut to burst forth from the Earth's core, in turn destroying it.
03:47The implication, then, is that by snapping half the universe for five years, Thanos inadvertently
03:52delayed Tiamut's emergence, halving the amount of energy on the planet and therefore
03:56keeping it at bay.
03:58Many quickly jumped on this and began flying the whole Thanos Was Right banner once again,
04:04if that's a rather superficial, if not outright disingenuous reading of the movie.
04:09First and foremost, of course, Thanos buying the world five years of time was an accident
04:14by-product of his genocide, which any way you slice it doesn't make his actions inherently
04:19correct and certainly not from a moral perspective.
04:22But even if Thanos' snap had never been undone, it would've been a mere matter of
04:26decades before humanity's population did return to the necessary levels to facilitate
04:31the celestial's birth anyway.
04:33And this is all without getting into the fact that while you would kill potentially billions
04:38of people with the birth of a new celestial, on a cosmic scale, this is nothing compared
04:43to instantly eradicating 50% of living things in the entire universe.
04:497. No Big Deal – Spider-Man No Way Home
04:52Spider-Man No Way Home is full of references and easter eggs to previous web-head movies.
04:57However, there is one joke in there that's a little bit more loaded than the rest, and
05:01will go over the heads of all but the most online of movie fans.
05:05Following the Sony email hack back in 2014, the company's plans for the Spider-Man character
05:11in the Amazing Spider-Man universe were revealed, including notes from executives on how to
05:16make the hero more current with the kids.
05:19And as you can imagine, their ideas of hip are exactly what you'd expect from a bunch
05:24of middle-aged businessmen.
05:26One groan-worthy note suggested giving Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man a catchphrase, that
05:32being, no big deal.
05:34The email went, quote, Millennials will often port NBD on their social media, as in, no
05:39big deal, also known as the humble brag, wondering if Spidey could get in on that somewhere,
05:45end quote.
05:46Now this could be referenced in a strange scene in No Way Home, as some fans and outlets
05:50picked up on at the time.
05:51The scene in question is where Garfield's Peter 3 boasts that he can cure the lizard
05:55as he's done it once already.
05:57No big deal, he says.
05:58No big deal.
05:59Now, of course, this could just be a throwaway thing, but it's such a strange beat and
06:04weirdly lingered on that it's probably more likely a reference to this infamous executive
06:10Yes, it's actually just much funnier if you do it in a shirt and a funny voice.
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07:596. Gurney isn't killed in the Harkonnen Attack Dune
08:02Now you'd admittedly know this one if you'd read Frank Herbert's source material, which
08:07by the way I absolutely have not, so spoilers here I guess for Dune 2, but in the first
08:12part of Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation, Paul Atreides' mentor Gurney Halleck just
08:17sort of disappears during the Harkonnens' climactic attack on House Atreides.
08:23Amid the carnage, we see Gurney running into battle with his fellow soldiers and then that's
08:27it.
08:28Given that he's never seen again, many unfamiliar with Herbert's novel seem to just assume
08:32that the character perished in battle and wouldn't be seen again.
08:36Thankfully, that's not the case though.
08:39Without going into too much detail for those who haven't read the book or seen any of
08:42the prior adaptations, Gurney is still alive and will indeed be appearing in Dune Part 2.
08:48It is admittedly a bit of an abrupt end for the character, but conventional movie wisdom
08:53anyway says that nobody is really dead unless you see them die, so it shouldn't be that
08:57surprising that he's still alive and kicking somewhere.
09:01The ending doesn't set up Bryan's return, F9.
09:04Nobody really expects to be confused by a Fast and Furious movie of all things, but
09:08the recent F9 did in fact leave audiences heatedly debating the precise meaning of its
09:13final scene.
09:15After Cipher has been foiled yet again and the family reunites for their traditional
09:18post-carnage barbecue, Dom and company turn their heads to see Bryan O'Connor's iconic
09:23blue Nissan Skyline pulling into the driveway.
09:27This immediately prompted speculation among the fanbase, with many believing that this
09:31ending implied that Bryan would be making a return to the franchise in the upcoming
09:36two-part finale using similar VFX-driven techniques as were employed in Furious 7 following Paul
09:42Walker's tragic death.
09:44But that's absolutely not what F9's ending was getting at, like at all.
09:48It's simply a sweet reminder that Bryan still exists in this world and is living the
09:52good life as a committed father away from the danger of the family's globe-trotting
09:57shenanigans.
09:58Given that Bryan has been quite sensibly kept in the background of the last two movies,
10:02it doesn't seem likely that we'll end up with an unnecessary digital Paul Walker
10:05rocking up for the 10th and 11th films.
10:084.
10:09Leda is Alive at the End – The Lost Daughter
10:12Maggie Gyllenhaal's superb psychological drama The Lost Daughter ends with the troubled
10:16protagonist Leda being stabbed by young mother Nina and driving her car off the road, then
10:22heading down to the beach where she takes a phone call from her daughters.
10:25It's a seemingly ambiguous ending that has prompted audience members to debate whether
10:30Leda was in fact alive at the end or not.
10:33Those who believe she died from the stab wounds cite the fact that her daughters even mention
10:37her being dead on the phone.
10:39And the film ends with Leda miraculously discovering an orange in her hands which she then peels
10:44in a snake-like motif, as she did for her children in their youth.
10:48While the source novel also plays Leda's fate as ambiguous, in this adaption she is
10:53100% alive, as was confirmed by director Gyllenhaal in an interview with the Washington Post earlier
10:59this year.
11:00There she said, quote, If Leda dies, we're punishing her.
11:04It's not a punitive movie.
11:05It's not what we're doing.
11:07To me, this is a woman who is a hero even though she is someone who has caused probably
11:11irreparable damage to both herself and her children."
11:14End quote.
11:15Now that's a pretty definitive statement.
11:18Still though the ending might be, it's not intended to be the character's dying
11:21dream.
11:22She's still very much in the land of the living when the closing credits roll.
11:26Number 3.
11:27Yes, Peter Killed Phil – The Power of the Dog
11:30Jane Campion's masterful western drama The Power of the Dog is absolutely a film that
11:35rewards audiences who pay attention, right up to an ending that seems to heavily imply
11:39that rancher Phil was secretly killed by his sister-in-law Rose's son, Peter.
11:44Phil swiftly succumbs to illness at the film's end, and though the doctor believes that he
11:48died of anthrax, his brother George is left shocked given that Phil's meticulousness
11:54meant that he always avoided handling diseased cattle.
11:57Yet earlier in the film, Peter gave Phil an animal hide with which to create a lasso without
12:02informing him that it came from a dead animal, and in the final scene we see Peter handling
12:07the same lasso with a pair of gloves.
12:09Furthermore, in the final scene, Peter smiles at his newly sober mother as she happily embraces
12:14George, seemingly relieved that the disruptive force that is Phil is now out of their lives.
12:20Though this ending seems relatively self-evident on paper, a quick Google search of the film
12:24reveals many viewers were left unsure about the precise meaning of its ending, and whether
12:29or not Peter did indeed kill Phil.
12:32And yeah, while this might seem obvious to some, Campion's film does move in a subtler
12:36rhythm than most casual viewers may be expecting from a Benedict Cumberbatch western.
12:41To clarify, Peter absolutely did kill Phil, and the original ending even hammered this
12:46point home by lingering on the definition of anthrax in Peter's medical textbook.
12:512.
12:52Batman Injects Himself With Adrenaline, Not Venom.
12:55The Batman.
12:56During the Batman's climax inside Gotham Square Garden, the Caped Crusader finds himself
13:00injured by one of the Riddler's followers, and in order to stop himself from passing
13:04out when Catwoman is attacked, injects himself with a mysterious green liquid.
13:09Now many fans were quick to insist that Batman in this scene had actually injected himself
13:13with Venom, the green super-steroid which has traditionally given Bane his enhanced
13:18strength in the comics.
13:19Hell, I even wondered this myself, considering just how weird the scene is in the final flick.
13:25However, it seems that we're looking too hard here for this to be some kind of interconnected
13:29comic book easter egg.
13:31The drug that Bruce consumed is clearly not as strong as Venom traditionally is, and while
13:36it's theoretically possible that this is a weaker proto-version of the steroid, it's
13:41far more likely that it was simply supposed to be an adrenaline compound of some sort.
13:45Not everything is a wink-wink nod to the source material, even if director Matt Reeves could
13:50have admittedly avoided this confusion altogether by simply making the liquid any colour but
13:56green.
13:571.
13:58Vic Is Obsessed With Snails Because The Author Is.
14:01Deep Water.
14:02The new Ben Affleck and Anna DeArmas-starring erotic thriller Deep Water is truly one of
14:06the strangest and most mystifying films of the past year, and has left most viewers questioning
14:11what the hell was going on with all those damn snails.
14:15Protagonist Vic Van Allen, beyond being a violently jealous psychopath, has a bizarre
14:19fascination with snails, keeping dozens of pet snails in a series of tanks in a specifically
14:25designed room.
14:26Despite an early implication that the snails might be used as poison later on in the film,
14:32they're ultimately a complete red herring, and seem to be a mere character flourish to
14:36assure the audience that Vic is a bit of an oddball.
14:40Viewers might also simply assume that the snails are supposed to possess some kind of
14:43purely symbolic quality as well, as at one point Vic does note that quote, a snail will
14:48climb a 12-foot wall to find its mate, paralleling Vic's own possessiveness of his wife Melinda.
14:54But there's actually an altogether different explanation for the snails' presence in
14:58the film.
14:59That being that Patricia Highsmith, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, was
15:03absolutely obsessed with snails in real life.
15:06During her life, Highsmith bred around 300 snails in the garden of her home, and even
15:11once famously attended a London cocktail party with a handbag full of 100 snails as her companions.
15:21She also published the story The Snail Watcher, focused on a snail-obsessed man, and saw the
15:25presence of snails in the film as a rather peculiar homage to the author's own snail
15:31mania.
15:32So, that's our list.
15:33I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below.
15:35What did you think about these movie scenes, and are there any misunderstood ones I missed
15:39off here?
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15:50you soon.