10 Incredible Movie Easter Eggs That Went Totally Over Your Head

3. X Marks The Spot To Imply Death Or Impending Doom Throughout The Departed

Remember how in Howard Hawks' original 1932 version of Scarface the director included a bunch of Xs in lots of the scenes to imply that a character was going to end up die? Well, Martin Scorsese was apparently inspired by this little trope when he came around to making his own Oscar-winning crime masterpiece in The Departed: Scorsese opted to use an "X" as his own motif for implying that certain character wouldn't be so lucky.

Check out the images above, all of which were inserted into the movie by Scorsese and his production team. As you can see, there's a visible X moments before Leonardo DiCaprio is unexpectedly killed in the movie, and the same goes for Matt Damon, who's walking an X-ridden carpet moments before his death. Oh, and that's Martin Sheen falling to his doom there, with an X next to him in the window.

The Xs aren't limited to these shots, either: there are dozens of them scattered throughout the movie. Your mind is blown, right? Take a minute.