10 Horror Movie Moments More Important Than You Realised
4. The "Crazy" Norwegian - The Thing
The iconic opening sequence of John Carpenter's sci-fi masterpiece The Thing sees a Norwegian helicopter pilot chasing a sled dog towards the American outpost on Antarctica, where it's greeted by R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) and the rest of the American team.
The pilot shouts something in Norwegian before taking aim at the dog, wounding an American by accident, and then being killed by another in self-defense.
For the audience it's an intriguing yet confusing opening, with viewers likely left to initially conclude that this man has himself been overcome by the parasitic alien lifeform known as The Thing.
Yet anyone who can speak a little Norwegian will know exactly what's up from the outset, because the pilot's translated dialogue reads as such:
"Get the hell away from that thing. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away you idiots!"
Needless to say, if MacReady or any of his men understood what the pilot was saying, it would've been considerably easier for them to deal with the alien entity straight away.