8 Hidden Messages You Never Noticed In Famous Movies

5. "Show Me The Monkey!" - King Kong (2005)

King Kong 2005
Universal

Here's a hidden message that proves you should never listen to anything that a movie tells you, because it's probably lying, and look at you, sitting there with your popcorn and soft drink, having a "good time" - shame on you!

Inappropriate outbursts aside, the movie is King Kong, Peter Jackson's epic love letter to his favourite movie ever. And the scene in question, which takes liberty with your knowledge of Morse code, by the way, comes at the very beginning, with the ship approaching the elusive Skull Island. A Morse code message is suddenly received, which we are told is putting out a warrant from Carl Denham's (Jack Black) arrest.

Nope. The real message translates to the hilarious "Show me the monkey!", which will only not make sense if you don't know what King Kong is (technically an ape, but whatever). Anyway, this is why we should all brush up on dying languages, like Morse code and, uh, Latin... in case Peter Jackson tries to trick us. Thankfully, Morse code machines don't exist in The Hobbit.

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