10 Creepy Movie Moments Everyone Missed

Admittedly, this is a relatively well-circulated cinematic factoid at this point, but it's also fair to say that very few people actually noticed it of their own accord.

In Francis Ford Coppola's epic crime masterpiece The Godfather, oranges appear to frequently foreshadow death.

For instance, before studio head Jack Woltz (John Marley) ends up with a horse's head in his bed, a bowl of oranges are visible on the table (pictured above), an orange is also seen in a fruit bowl when the Five Families meet before they're all wiped out by Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) at film's end, and of course, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) dies of a heart attack while eating an orange in his garden.

Who said fruit was good for you, anyway?

On the film's DVD commentary, Coppola confirmed that the symbolism wasn't intentional at first, but they leaned into it for the sequels.

He said, "It started out as an accident...but once we realized we had used oranges so frequently in the first movie, we used them purposefully in the others."

And so, Michael ultimately dies at the end of The Godfather Part III with an orange slipping out of his hand, placing a disturbing capper on one of the most infamously eerie symbolic images in movie history.