20 Brilliantly Obscure Comic Book Movie Easter Eggs You Didn't Notice
20. The Walkie Talkie Steven Spielberg Nod (Watchmen Trailer)
The Watchmen trailer included a very weird nod to the fact that, in modern edits of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg replaced the guns in policeman's hands with walkie talkies in the scene in which E.T. and Elliott take to the skies on a bicycle. Watchmen director Zack Snyder explains:
It was a total Spielberg reference. Because I was like, Well, it worked for Spielberg, so we should do that. Just put a walkie-talkie in his hand! The editors were like, But then you cut to a real gun! but Im like, No one will ever see that; theyll think he had a gun in the other shot, so its fine.
The walkie talkie/gun was only pointing at the audience for less than a second, but the Motion Picture Association of America still managed to spot it, which is quite remarkable.
