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  • Story and characters play the largest part of how much a viewer enjoys a movie, but Easter

  • Eggs only add to the fun. Giving viewers something else to watch out for while watching a movie,

  • the best nods or trivia can even warrant mediocre films a second viewing to catch them all.

  • Here are Screen Rant�s 10 Great Easter Eggs in Movies.

  • On Her Majesty�s Secret Service

  • The Bond franchise isn�t known for its continuity, passing from one star actor to the next, but

  • On Her Majesty�s Secret Service is one of the few exceptions. In George Lazenby�s

  • first and only appearance as 007, Bond rescues a femme fatale from evil henchmen in the movie�s

  • opening sequence. When the woman then flees instead of staying with Bond, Lazenby quips

  • thatThis never happened to the other fellow,� making reference to Sean Connery, star of

  • the first five films that Lazenby replaced.

  • The Departed

  • Based on its title, you�d expect plenty of bloodshed in Martin Scorsese�s Boston

  • crime drama. But eagle eyed viewers could actually predict who was going to make it

  • out alive. Throughout the film, the letter �X� is used to foreshadow an upcoming

  • death. The characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson are all hit

  • withthe X� by the end of the film, but Mark Wahlberg�s character never isleaving

  • him alive to bring the film�s story to a close.

  • Pulp Fiction

  • In Quentin Tarantino�s tale of connected short stories, Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace

  • share a memorable chat about Mia�s acting career. Specifically, a TV pilot titled Fox

  • Force Five, starring a team of five badass ladies specializing in different fields. Fast

  • forward to Kill Bill, and Mia�s descriptions fit the film�s Deadly Viper Assassination

  • Squad surprisingly well. Since Kill Bill takes place in Tarantino�s shared universe, it

  • could be Mia Wallacenot actress Uma Thurman - playing The Bride. How�s that for a mind-bender?

  • Fight Club

  • In this famous twist ending, Ed Norton�s Narrator escapes his mundane existence by

  • creating an alternate personality named Tyler Durden, who�s everything he�s not. But

  • the film might also reveal how he came up with Durden�s look to begin with. The movie

  • includes a brief shot of a movie theater marquee advertising Seven Years in Tibet, which also

  • starred actor Brad Pitt. While nobody says it outright, the implication is that the Narrator

  • may have modeled Durden after the actor. Every modern movie fan wishes to live a life like

  • the movie starhe just made it happen.

  • The Social Network

  • Directors are often known to make references to their earlier films, and David Fincher

  • did just that with his tale of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. During the film, Markcheats

  • on his art exam by building a fake Facebook profile to get studentsopinions on various

  • pieces of art. What name does Mark use? None other than Tyler Durden. Apparently, Tyler�s

  • imaginary life is so luxurious that even soon-to-be billionaires wish to be him. Either that,

  • or Zuckerberg is a fan of Fincher�s thriller.

  • Predator 2

  • Shared movie universe are all the rage in Hollywood these days, but Fox beat Marvel

  • and DC to the punch with this cool reference to Alien in Predator 2. On the Predator�s

  • ship, a trophy room decorated with the skulls of the killer�s past game is shown. One

  • of the most prominent is that of a xenomorphthe title villains of the Alien franchise.

  • This nod confirmed that both franchises took place in the same cinematic world, teasing

  • fans with the possibility of a crossover film one day. This Easter egg may be more memorable

  • than some of the Alien/Predator crossovers to come, but it�s still a fun one to watch

  • out for.

  • Toy Story

  • Pixar is known for its at-times adult humor or references, but throughout the Toy Story

  • trilogy, there are numerous references made to one of cinema�s most terrifying films:

  • Stanley Kubrick�s The Shining. The carpet in infamous bully Sid�s house is identical

  • to that of the Overlook Hotel, and everything from license plates to online chat user names

  • in Toy Story 3 feature the number �237,� a nod to the horrifying contents of Room 237

  • in the same hotel. The toys have been put through some terrible situations, so these

  • Easter eggs are either fun nods to Kubrick or subtle foreshadowing for older moviegoers.

  • The Phantom Menace

  • One of the funniest moments in Steven Spielberg�s classic ET: The Extra-terrestrial is when

  • the loveable alien recognizes a young trick-or-treater in a Yoda costume as a sign fromhome.�

  • Director George Lucas returned the favor in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, placing creatures

  • that strongly resemble ET in one of the Republic�s Senate sequences. Only visible for a brief

  • moment, it�s a sign that ET really IS from the galaxy far, far away. We can only imagine

  • what went through his mind watching Elliot show off his Star Wars toy collection, having

  • seen the galactic conflict firsthand.

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  • The alien visitors of Close Encounters wish to make peaceful communication with human

  • beings, and that apparently extends to consuming our pop culture. As the two species communicate

  • via light and sound in the film�s finale, part of the musical medley the alien ship

  • plays is taken from the theme of Jaws, which was also a Steven Spielberg/John Williams

  • collaboration. The movie and score were so popular, it must have extended beyond the

  • stars, which might explain why the aliens were so interested in taking Roy Neary along

  • with them, given his resemblance to Jaws star Richard Dreyfus

  • Fight Club

  • A running theme in Fight Club is its satire on consumerism and how mankind has become

  • overrun by corporations, constantly buying things that they don�t need. As a way of

  • hammering this home, David Fincher decided to include a Starbucks coffee cup in nearly

  • every scene of the finished film, a little in-joke he included for showcasing too much

  • of a good thing. It was commentary on how we as a society purchase the same things without

  • thinking twice and illustrated the monotony of everyday life. Starbucks was even aware

  • of this and read the script, meaning the coffee giant is able to poke some fun at themselves.

  • Sometimes.

  • Those are our favorite movie Easter eggs. Are there any we missed? Let us know in the

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