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Does Bane's voice change in this scene because of plot?
There's a part in The Dark Knight Rises that's stumped me, where it sounds like Bane's voice is suddenly and significantly changed -- beyond his normal post-production mask-speak. It sticks out so ...
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Is Lady Stoneheart's absence from the show explained?
Lady Stoneheart does not appear in the show, despite being in the recent novels of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Have the writers or the producers of the show explained this choice?
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Did Rapunzel's hair get the power back?
At the end of Tangled,
This causes Rapunzel's hair to turn... short and brown, losing the magic power that it had possessed earlier.
Is the magical hair gone forever, or does it regain the power if ...
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Isn't the Quicksilver from Avengers 2 the same as the Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past?
According to the X-Men series he is a mutant. But in the Avengers 2 he is depicted as having received his powers through a Hydra experiment.
There are talks in the X-Men about how he is the son of ...
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Why did Hawkeye become immune to mind control effects?
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, there is a scene in which Scarlet Witch manipulates the Avenger's to reveal their worst nightmares, but when it comes to mind controlling Hawkeye, he seems to be immune. ...
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In Oceans Eleven are the con names real?
In the 2001 version of Oceans Eleven and the subsequent films, Twelve and Thirteen, a lot of references are made to cons with names.
For example:
Aretha Franklin
Looky Lou
Bundle of joy
Lost in ...
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Why did Will Smith use his actual name in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
Was there any particular reason why Will Smith used his own name for his character in the TV series, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
Maybe he wanted to get his name out there as an actor but still seems ...
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The A. G. R. A. flash drive
Sherlock, season 4, episode 1 (The Six Thatchers):
Why would anyone take something that important with him to the action in the first place? Why wasn't the data password protected or encrypted so it ...
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What powers a lightsaber?
Jedi use lightsabers, some use them a lot! However you never see a lighsaber being plugged in, on charge or running out of battery.
What powers a lightsaber and does it run indefinitely?
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Why is Sheldon Cooper so bad at driving?
Sheldon Cooper is always shown as struggling when it comes to driving, so is there any particular reason behind that; being one the greatest minds, driving would never have been so difficult. Is there ...
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There Will Be Blood title significance
I just saw the movie There Will Be Blood (2007). When I had first seen the title of the movie I had assumed the movie to be a violent one with a lot of killing and hatred. But the story is completely ...
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How do the "Baby White Walkers" become old (bearded) White Walkers? [closed]
In season 4 we see that Craster's last son is taken by a White Walker and eventually laid on a sort of ice altar, the Night King then touches the baby with his finger and shortly after the eyes turn ...
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Significance of the painting in Mallory's office
In Skyfall, while Bond first meets Q in a museum they are watching the painting of a ship dragged by another ship and Q remarks:
Always makes me feel a little melancholy. A grand old warship being ...
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What was the inspiration for the names "Vandelay Industries" and "Art Vandelay"?
In Seinfeld's episode The Boyfriend, Part 1, when George is at an unemployment office he lies that he gave his last interview at Vandelay Industries for the position of a latex salesman.
George made ...
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Who is Starlight supposed to be a reference to?
In the Amazon Prime show; The Boys, it's very obvious who a few of the super heroes are representative of. Homelander is representative of Superman, Queen Maeve represent Wonder Woman, The Deep ...
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Why only 48 Stars?
At the beginning of Daredevil S2E7 - Semper Fidelis, why are there 48 stars on the US flag behind Frank Castle as he enters the courtroom? Is this something which is specific to New York? Or is this ...
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Why don’t Bruce Banner’s pants rip open when he turns into the Hulk?
Why don’t Bruce Banner’s pants rip open when he turns into the Hulk?
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Physiological changes in Klingons between Star Trek TOS and Star Trek TNG
I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, thus I always took it for granted that Klingons look like this:
Now I'm watching Star Trek: The Original Series for the first time (thank you, ...
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Can the dead cross the Wall? [duplicate]
At one point Benjen Stark states that
The Wall is not just ice and stone. Ancient spells were carved into its foundations. Strong magic to protect men from what
lies beyond. And while it stands, ...
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Help me understand the interaction between Marcus and John Wick
Marcus was given the contract to kill John Wick. Then the next thing we know that he was helping John Wick. Question is why? Did I miss anything?
They must have been communicating, otherwise Marcus ...
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Was Matt Damon’s role in Thor: Ragnarok purely due to his role in Dogma?
In one of the beginning scenes in Thor: Ragnarok we see a play portraying the actions of the previous movies. The actors are Sam Neill, Luke Hemsworth, and Matt Damon (uncredited).
The casting of ...
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Why did Lovett invite Rose aboard his search boat in Titanic?
The opening to Titanic shows Rose "Dawson" watching a TV news report of Brock Lovett's ship searching the Titanic wreckage. She then makes a phone call to Lovett during which a private conversation ...
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Did Susan actually have a daughter?
In Nocturnal Animals, Susan is shown calling her daughter after reading an excerpt from her ex-husband's novel.
Mama?
Is that you? Is everything OK?
Yes, everything is fine.
I just ...
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Did Hugh Jackman really tattoo his own finger with a pen in The Fountain?
In The Fountain, there is a scene where Tommy (Hugh Jackman) uses a fountain pen to tattoo his finger with black ink.
The scene shows a close-up of the pen piercing the skin and blood coming out, and ...
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What is the purpose or meaning behind the hot rod in the Iron Man series?
In several scenes in both Iron Man 1 and 2, there are several scenes with references to hot rods throughout both movies.
Whether it be the screen savers on the computers, Tony constantly working on ...
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Did Keller get found in the end?
In the movie Prisoners, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) gets caught by Ms. Jones and he gets placed in her dungeon beneath the car in her backyard.
At the end though, when Detective Loki (Jake ...
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How did DJ know this?
In Star Wars: The Last Jedi the character DJ makes a deal with the First Order. He tells them the location of some resistance transports, so they can be shot down.
How does he know about these ...
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Why doesn't Joey move back to the bigger apartment in Friends?
In the very popular TV Series Friends, the character Joey Tribbiani moves out from his small apartment (where he lived with Chandler) to a very big and expensive place when he gets a role in the soap ...
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Why do criminals always leave the front door ajar so cops can easily detect something is wrong?
Why does it seem like in every cop based TV drama (CSI, Law and Order, etc.) that whenever something bad has happened that the front door is always left open or slightly ajar? Do criminals not ...
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Why does the T-800 Terminator model talk with an accent?
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The out-of-universe explanation is obvious: English is not Arnold Schwarzenegger's first language.
But given James Cameron's reputation as a perfectionist I wonder if he ever gave an in-...
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How is a hanging scene filmed?
Needless to say that there are a lot of movies that contain a scene where a person is hanged, or commits suicide by hanging.
How are such scenes produced? How to both ensure the safety of the actor ...
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Where was the Scottish Skyfall scene filmed?
I know Scotland very well and have several theories of my own but can anyone tell me where this iconic shot was taken?
Ideally I'm after as accurate a location as possible as I'm fairly sure I can ...
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Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid?
Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid?
From the Wikipedia article for Prometheus*:
Above a waterfall, a humanoid alien consumes a dark liquid, and a hovering ...
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What is the significance of the "Argo fuck yourself" phrase?
What was the significance of the phrase 'Argo fuck yourself'? It is first uttered by Siegel (Arkin) when asked by a reporter at the reading of the fake movie, as to what Argo meant.
It is later ...
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How does Superman accelerate when he flies in Man of Steel?
As per the storyline of Man of Steel, it is said that Superman is able to fly because of earth's low gravity. But how is he able to control the speed at which he flies? How can he hover or accelerate ...
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Why are English, Russian and Japanese cultures emphasized in the Blade Runner 2049 world?
In Blade Runner 2049 I can see symbols/letters of English, Russian and Japanese (sorry for the simplification but I've just seen Cyrillic and Japanese looking glyphs). I can hear those languages in ...
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Does Professor X have any responsibility for the state of the world?
Throughout the course of Logan, it's obvious that Professor Xavier is having issues controlling his powers, and at the end of the movie, just before
he claims to "remember" what he did and expresses ...
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Which Wolverine Existed During the Time Gap?
* Minor Spoilers *
During X-Men: Days of Future Past it is explained that the actions Wolverine takes in the past will not come into effect until he wakes up. So when he wakes up in the present the ...
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Why does Walt use tracer bullets for his machine gun?
As it can be clearly seen in the first and the last episodes of the fifth season of Breaking Bad, the ammo boxes in Walt's car say that there are tracer bullets in them. Why is that? It wasn't ...
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Why is "Based on a True Story" used?
I have had little to no interest in a movie that claims it is "Based On a True Story" since Fargo. It's well known that it was a lie that Fargo was based on a true story. There are many movies though ...
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What is the significance of Murphy's law?
What is significance of Murphy's law in the film Interstellar. What is the message behind it and how is it related to the plot?
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In No Country for Old Men, who does Anton Chigurh work for (Why did he kill them?)
I just re-watched No Country for Old Men, and while it is implied that Chigurh is hired to find the money and kill whoever stole it, it is unclear who hired him. He kills the two men in the beginning ...
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Status of all the major houses and kingdoms at the end of Game of Thrones
We see the end of Game of Thrones now but I want to know the status of all the major houses and kingdoms in the end.
We know Sansa is ruling the north as a free kingdom, Yara Greyjoy is ruling the ...
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What was the first movie to feature a person seated on a toilet?
Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock has a scene where a person is flushing a toilet. This fact provided some shock effect, since toilets were virtually never seen in American cinema in the 1960s.
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In the Star Wars franchise what causes the Sith to always have red light sabres?
I understand visually that this is a great way to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys, but what in the vast Star Wars lore causes the Sith to almost exclusively use red light sabres?
I am ...
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How was the voice acting done for Grand Moff Tarkin
In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Disney/Lucasfilm had chosen to CGI the character of Grand Moff Tarkin. However the voice acting done for Tarkin sounded a lot like the original actor Peter Cushing. ...
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How is the term "God" meant in the DC universe?
In Wonder Woman movie, the term "God" is used for Zeus & Ares.
But in the Batman V Superman movie, someone writes "False God" on the statue of Superman.
So kindly let me know what does the ...
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What was the “It Could Be” running joke on House MD?
On House, MD, there was a running gag were for every case, someone would suggest that it could be a specific disease but it never was (I can’t remember if it ever turned out to be the case).
I knew ...
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Why didn't the fellowship use eagles to travel into Mordor?
Inspired by this parody, why didn't Frodo and the fellowship use eagles to travel (even part of the way) into Mordor?
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Why is Doc Brown in a hurry in the end of Back to the Future part 1?
Doc Brown has got a time machine, why is he in a hurry in the end of Back to the Future part 1? Why doesn't he just give a parenting lesson to Marty?
A little more context:
At the very end of part ...