10 Classic Movie Details You Never Noticed
You'll kick yourself for missing these awesome classic movie details.
One of the great joys of revisiting a movie you love is discovering new details you never noticed before, especially if it took you a few dozen viewings to spot the details in question.
And sometimes it falls to great communities like /r/MovieDetails to bring these little-known flourishes to the forefront, where they might well go viral and ensure that everyone now views the movie in a different light.
These 10 movies, then, are all unassailable classics of their respective genres no matter how old they might be, and each boasts at least one particular detail that audiences are still surprised to learn for themselves.
From subtle foreshadowing of future events to incredible hints of a big twist, and cute Easter eggs you'll kick yourself for missing, you almost certainly never clocked these terrific nods and references without someone telling you first.
Some will ensure you never quite watch the movie the same way again, while others are mere fun blink-and-you'll-miss-em' moments you'll probably want to point out to anyone who will listen.
No matter how old these movies get, they're still finding ways to surprise us...
10. Ash Isn't Drinking Milk - Alien
The Director's Cut of Ridley Scott's Alien features a scene you've possibly seen a whole bunch of times and never given a second thought.
Shortly after a facehugger-wearing Kane (John Hurt) is brought back onboard the Nostromo, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) pays a visit to Ash (Ian Holm) in the ship's lab, where she confronts him about flouting quarantine procedure.
After she walks off, we fleetingly see Ash take a swig of a white liquid that one would very reasonably assume to be milk.
However, given that we later learn that Ash is actually an android seemingly powered by a milky white liquid, it appears that he's actually consuming some of that liquid for self-maintenance purposes.
While we as viewers have no frame of reference for this on an initial viewing, it certainly tracks on subsequent watches.
And if you weren't convinced yet, Scott even confirmed as much in an interview, referring to what Ash drinks as "liquid with which it feeds its circuits."