8 interesting Easter eggs and details in films (8 photos + 1 video)

Many films contain interesting details and Easter eggs that are not immediately noticeable to the average viewer. It's always interesting to discover them - even if the film has already been watched several times. Let's learn about several little details hidden in famous films.





One scene from Titanic was based on a real photo



James Cameron went to great lengths to make his 1997 film Titanic as historically accurate as possible. This scene in the film is based on an actual photograph taken aboard the Titanic before the sinking. It shows first class passenger Frederick Spedden and his six-year-old son Douglas playing with a top. The photo was taken by priest Francis Brown, who at that moment had already disembarked the ship at a stop in Queenstown, Ireland. Father and son survived the crash, only the boy died three years later - he was hit by a car.

Paul McCartney played in "Pirates of the Caribbean"





Beatles legend Paul McCartney appeared in the 2017 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. There he played the uncle of Captain Jack Sparrow - he recognized him when “uncle” hummed the song “Maggie May”. It's a traditional Liverpool folk song dating back to the 1800s, but The Beatles recorded their version and it ended up on the 1970 album Let It Be.

Astronaut James Lovell appears in Apollo 13



Astronaut James Arthur Lovell appeared in one of the final scenes of the 1995 film Apollo 13, about the failed Apollo 13 lunar mission. There he plays the captain of the rescue ship USS Iwo Jima. Director Ron Howard wanted to make Lovell an admiral, but he refused - he wanted to have a real rank, which he once actually achieved in the Navy. Additionally, Lovell wore his old Navy uniform during filming.

Christian Bale doesn't just read a book in The Big Short



The Short is a 2015 film based on the book and dedicated to the events of the mortgage financial crisis of 2007-2008. In one of the opening scenes of the film, actor Christian Bale (who played the character Michael Barry) reads the book “Descendants of Shannara” by Terrence Dean Brooks. The real-life Michael Burry named his hedge fund Scion Capital after the title of the book, which was his favorite book in his youth.

Arrow Collars in The Great Gatsby



In the film "The Great Gatsby", Daisy repeated more than once that Gatsby was always flawless, as if he had stepped out of an advertisement. Many experts agree that in the original she means an advertisement for the men's clothing company Arrow Collars. Detachable shirt collars were a common men's clothing accessory in the early 1920s, when the novel was written. The Arrow Collars sign also appears in the film.

The "German" soldiers in Saving Private Ryan weren't actually German.

One of the first scenes in the film is after the invasion of Omaha Beach, two soldiers surrender to Union forces. The Allies believe that the soldiers speak German and immediately kill them. But in reality the soldiers were not Germans - they spoke Czech, and if you translate their phrases, they shouted: “Please don't shoot me! I’m not German, I’m Czech, I didn’t kill anyone!’ Another interesting fact is that after the release of the movie Saving Private Ryan, the Department of Veterans Affairs had to increase staffing of the telephone counseling line due to the growing need to support World War II veterans.

The inscription on the board in the movie "Catch Me If You Can"



At the end of the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, the character Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) writes on a blackboard. In the lower left corner is the phrase "Steven + Tom's 4th Project" ("4th project of Steven + Tom"). In fact, this was the fourth film by Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg.

It was not by chance that two German soldiers appeared in the film "1917"



1917 is a 2019 British war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes that tells the story of two soldiers during the First World War. In the film, one of the soldiers, Will Scofield, meets two German soldiers named Baumer and Muller. Interestingly, Baumer and Müller are characters in the 1929 book All Quiet on the Western Front. This book showed the First World War from a German point of view.