15 Devilishly Clever Movie Secrets You Probably Missed

Who knew Burton's Batman included a homage to its creator?

Bob Kane Batman
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Directing a movie places an insurmountable amount of power and influence in the hands of one man (or woman). Enabled by unlimited artistic license, directors are often tempted to inject their films with an endless barrage of in-jokes, references, or "Easter eggs" - many of which most casual viewers will never notice at first glance.

Some of the more famous Easter eggs and references are fairly well known - fake brands such as Red Apple cigarettes in the filmography of Quentin Tarantino and Slusho in the filmography of J.J. Abrams; Alfred Hitchcock's cameos in almost all of his own films; the hidden frames of Tyler Durden spread throughout Fight Club, and so on.

This list features 15 of the more obscure and impressively hidden secrets and Easter eggs directors have hidden in well-known movies that are very easy to miss and overlook if astute viewers are not familiar with the film's source material, the director's canon, or simply if they blinked for a fraction of a second....

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Oren Soffer is currently a Junior majoring in Film/Television production at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has been harboring and fostering a love and passion for cinema since early childhood. Though he mainly focuses on making movies these days, he still enjoys writing about them as well.