20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jackie Brown

13. The Cocaine Inn

Neon signs are a very fun way for filmmakers to hide messages in plain sight, by having their gaffer rig up a neon sign to omit certain letters in the signage to spell out a cheeky secret message.

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In Jackie Brown's case, Tarantino hid one in plain sight when Ordell and Louis (Robert De Niro) head to a bar named the The Cockatoo Inn for a drink.

An exterior establishing shot shows the sign with the word "too" de-illuminated, leaving behind "Cocka" and "Inn." And gee, what does cocka + inn sound like? That's right, cocaine, which of course plays a major role in the movie's plot.

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