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Why Didn't Benjamin Linus Enter the Church?
In the series finale of Lost, why didn't Ben enter the church with the rest of the group? It was clear he had already fulfilled his tasks with Hurley as his "No 2" when Hurley was in charge ...
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Who are Ragnar's sons and wives, and how close is he to them?
How many children does Ragnar from Vikings have and to whom? Does he stay close to his son and wives? How does he get an adopted son?
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Why did Michael Corleone only kill Carlo in the car?
In The Godfather, Michael Corleone meets with Carlo, and tells him that he would be sent to Las Vegas and kicked out of the family for his involvement with another family.
Carlo gets into a car that ...
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Why didn't Tessio reveal Mike's plot to kill Sollozzo and the police officer?
If Tessio was a traitor to the family, why he didn't reveal Michael's plan to kill Sollozzo?
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How come Top Gear (UK) has swearing in season 22?
I've watched Top Gear (UK) for all its 21 seasons. Recently, season 22 started airing and I managed to catch the first episode. What surprised me is that it is rated as TV-MA and they have explicit ...
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What episodes are the other doppelgangers in?
In Season 5 Episode 2, Double Date, of "How I Met Your Mother", they discover a doppelganger of Lily as a stripper. Narrator Ted mentions that it was the third doppelganger, and then shows clips of a ...
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What explains the changes to history other than the oblivion of the Beatles?
In the Yesterday Movie, a miracle somehow consigns the Beatles to oblivion. But it also produces several other changes that are mentioned in the movie without much explanation. Cigarette smoking seems ...
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Was the Council of Elrond aware that destroying the ring would vanquish Sauron?
In Fellowship of the Ring, were those at the Council of Elrond aware that destroying the One Ring would defeat Sauron? I'm guessing that they must have known this because nobody seemed surprised that ...
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Which Inca deities are shown in "Dora and the Lost City of Gold"?
In the movie Dora and the Lost City of Gold, when the kids enter the temple a giant monkey-like deity (made of gold) is shown. Which Inca deity is it?
Here is an image of the poster:
Two deities are ...
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Where was Hotel Scene Shot in "On My Way?"
In the 2013 French film with Catherine Deneuve, there's a part of the film set in a beautiful hotel situated on a lake. Catherine Deneuve's character goes there with her grandson and meets up with ...
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Why Are Some Movies and Television Shows Still Being Cropped (Pan and Scan) To Fill a Television Screen?
Sometimes the aspect ratio of a movie or television show doesn't match the aspect ratio of the television or viewing device. The solution to this is either letterboxing or cropping (pan and scan).
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Who exactly is "she" here?
In The Bourne Legacy (2012), Byer decides to eliminate all Outcome assets. He orders new meds distributed
to the agents. He learns that both Numbers Three and Five are at the same location,
and ...
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What did Captain America and Bucky mean respectively by "enough" during their conversation in Civil War?
In Captain America: Civil War (2016), there's a scene where Rogers, Sam and Bucky speak in what looks like an abandoned factory, after Bucky goes on a rampage due to his brain conditioning and Rogers ...
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Why plan a movie in space instead of using CGI technology (visual effects)?
Recently I heard that NASA confirmed their plan to work with Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX on a film that would be shot in outer space.
I was amazed with Hollywood CGI effects shown in recent ...
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Could a modern movie such as "Gravity" have been constructed/produced/directed by a crew who never went to college? [closed]
To keep this semi-specific, I'm restricting the case study to the film "Gravity"
I'm wondering if the sort of directing, cinematography and special effects you find in that film could have ...
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How did Bob Vaughn's handwriting match with the handwriting in the Zodiac letters?
The crime thriller film Zodiac left too many unanswered questions for us. One of them is the similarity between the handwriting of Bob Vaughn (who used to work with Rick Marshall, one of the Zodiac ...
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What's a blind corporation?
In Swordfish the DEA is investigating a terrorist (Travolta) who's known to be a big deal. Here they're looking into a house that was recently leased to a blind corporation, as this guy on the left ...
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How should we interpret the ending of "Palm Springs"?
The wonderful (and well-received) 2020 Hulu movie Palm Springs ends on an ambiguous note, especially when you consider the mid-credits scene that follows.
So how should it be interpreted?
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Why and how did Valentine disappear?
Clouds of Sils Maria
Spoiler ahead:
The story is about Maria Enders, she is now middle aged and a director wants to revived her character that she did 20 years ago. This time director wants to cast ...
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What was Agent Smith in "The Matrix" referring to while torturing Morpheus?
[...] Wachowski believers hold it’s possible to offer sweeping social criticism at such a massive scale. “Because of the iconography of V For Vendetta,” says Kuplowsky, citing the Wachowski-written ...
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Why did the original Star Trek change the Enterprise captain?
In the original pilot for Star Trek that aired in 1965, there is mostly different crew for the USS Enterprise which includes the captain being Christopher Pike. When NBC rejected the original pilot ...
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What questions is French referring to?
In The Departed (2006), Fitzy and Delahunt are playing "who's cop & whose not" in front of the bar.
Billy is sitting in the bar and there are a group of men sitting near him.
Frank comes ...
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How did Smurfette know her origins in "The Smurfs" (2011) and then, suddenly, she learns Gargamel is her creator in "The Smurfs 2" (2013)?
I'm going to focus on the following question: how did Smurfette know her origins in The Smurfs (2011) and then, suddenly, she learns Gargamel is her creator in The Smurfs 2?
Unfortunately, most of the ...
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How did Sherlock fake his death? [duplicate]
To be honest, I am quite bit confused about the "faked death" scene of Sherlock himself in the BBC series Sherlock.
The beginning of Season 3, Episode 1 shows that he escaped with the help ...
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First use of super-slow zoom in horror films to create tension
Here I'm not talking specifically about a "dolly zoom", first introduced by cinematographer Irmin Roberts in Hitchcock's Vertigo, but about the agonizingly slow zoom that you see not ...
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What are the family relationships in "Satan’s Slaves"?
In Satan’s Slaves (2017), I am confused by the family relationships, specifically between the eldest male, a young adult female, and the dying woman.
Here is a photo of the eldest male (left) and the ...
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Was the success of Rupert Pupkin real in King of Comedy?
In the final scene of Martin Scorsese's 'King of Comedy' a news report suggests that Rupert Pupkin (played by Robert De Niro), after coming out of prison, becomes a sensation and releases his much ...
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Who is the healing mutant in first Egyptian scene of X-Men: Apocalypse
In X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). Who is the mutant (with instant healing power) in the first scene in Egypt, where En Sabah Nur's (Apocalypse) consciousness is being transferred to.
Does this character ...
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What was Dease's main angst?
In the movie Velvet Buzzsaw, we are shown that Dease's paintings have the power to kill people. But not all of the characters are killed. What is the reason someone is marked for death?
(I've already ...
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Has a movie based on a novel ever had its own new novelisation?
Inspired by a discussion to an answer on this question, has a movie which was explicitly adapted from a novel (regardless of how faithful the adaptation was) received an official novelisation based ...
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What does "two-plus-SO to splash" mean?
In The Bourne Legacy (2012), Byer decides to eliminate all Outcome assets. He orders new meds distributed to the agents. He learns that both Numbers Three and Five are at the same location, and ...
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Why is "Chopsticks" named so?
I have seen the movie Chopsticks on Netflix. It has been released on 31st May 2019. How this title is relevant to this movie? I know the characters eat food by using chopsticks. But, why is this movie ...
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Why was Anakin Skywalker taken to the Grand Medical Facility on planet Coruscant?
Mustafar is a mining colony on the Outer Rim and Coruscant is the heart of the galaxy. Could the emperor not find a DD-13 medical assistant and 2-1B surgical droids anywhere else closer to Mustafar? ...
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Question about Jim and Claire's relationship
In the first Mission: Impossible movie, towards the end, Jim Phelps kills his wife, Claire. Up until then, we know that they were working together on framing Ethan. So why does he go ahead and kill ...
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Lost: Can People Use Stadiums for Exercise?
In Lost seasons 1 and 2, Jack Shepherd (and later Desmond) are seen running the steps in a stadium.
One could assume this is either a university or local city stadium of some sort. Usually those are ...
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What is the .onion URL at the end of Unfriended: Dark Web?
The first half of the end credits to Unfriended: Dark Web is made to look "hacker-y" by adding the movie credits as comments to some source code. A cursory glance through the code gave me ...
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Why are there so many superhero movies made in recent decades?
This question is mostly concerned with live-action theatrical films.
Here’s lists of Marvel and DC Comics films. I’ve made a graph of yearly distribution since 1966 (first Batman):
As we can see, ...
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When did John Cleese do this special on extremism?
John Cleese has done this timeless special on Extremism:
The message fits today, but the clothes look about 40 years old.
My question is: When did John Cleese do this ...
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Whom did Grace see instead of her daughter?
In The Others (2001), when Grace entered the room where Anne was playing wearing a wedding dress, she saw an old lady's hand and face behind the veil of the dress. Whom did she see? Was it that old ...
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Why was the 4K release of "Toy Story" upscaled instead of re-rendered?
According to this article, the 4K release of Toy Story has been upscaled from the original resolution it has been rendered at. They also cropped the video instead of letter-boxing it.
If it were shot ...
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Why is Carl "a disgrace" to the military academy in Season 10?
In season 9 of the US version of Shameless, Carl decided to join a military academy. He was doing pretty well - with a typical Gallagher charisma he manages to get respect from the fellow students and ...
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How did Benjamin know the events?
The story in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was narrated by Benjamin himself. When accidentally Daisy was hit by a car, Benjamin explained, in detail, a series of events that caused a little ...
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Were the survivors the originals or their tethered counterparts?
Ok, so while it is clearly explained in Jordan Peele's Us (2019) that Adelaide got switched with her tethered counterpart as a child, what about her children? Were they weird just because they were ...
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How does Andy Dufresne reattach the poster to the wall in Shawshank Redemption?
During his escape, after he crawls into his tunnel that he spent 19 years chiseling away at, Andy Dufresne puts his poster of Racquel Welch back up, thereby covering the hole.. How did he do that?
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What was the significance of the subplot involving Pavel in Chernobyl?
In HBO mini-series Chernobyl there is a subplot that spans 2(?) episodes involving a young draftee Pavel, played by Barry Keoghan.
I'd say he's quite a famous actor but in the series he's just ...
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Who was Angel Eyes trying to shoot first?
During the finale of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly it was clear that Blondie was always going to shoot Angel Eyes, given his prior knowledge that Tuco's gun was unloaded. It was also clear that Tuco ...
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What is the color palette/technique that has become so popular in TV shows?
I noticed that many recent TV shows have a color grading technique with bright candy-colors that pop out. For example, all of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, some of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (e.g. &...
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Why would Viggo call and tell John that he killed Marcus?
I understand why Viggo killed Marcus, he screwed him over. But why would Viggo then call John Wick and rub it in that he killed his friend and the man that just saved his life?
The whole first half ...
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Why does David Foster Wallace say to David Lispky, "I got 20 years to get you back."
In the movie The End of the Tour a scene shows David Foster Wallace and David Lipsky walk into a radio station and are greeted by a girl.
Girl from the radio station: Right this way. We record ...
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Filming techniques for Doctor Who during 4th Doctor run
Does anyone have information on filming techniques during the Doctor Who TV series, or know where such information can be found?
I'm particularly interested in the 4th Doctor era, 1974 - 1981.
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