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@heebsgames Жыл бұрын
The twist from Fight Club is the best twist I've ever seen in a movie because when you watch it again you see like 500 clues and can't believe that you didn't notice them the first time around.
@cockoffgewgle4993 Жыл бұрын
The ending of Fight Club is a letdown non-ending though.
@lucas.warhero Жыл бұрын
Like the line about cigarette burns that movie projectionists use to switch reels but the rest of us don't notice and then we actually see Tyler flash on the screen for a split second in the movie, so fast that you definitely don't notice it the first time.
@heebsgames Жыл бұрын
@@lucas.warhero the one that blows my mind is near the beginning of the movie, the narrator asks "If you woke up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?" And as he says this the camera pans to Tyler Durden passing by him in the airport. And somehow it just flies over the entire audience's heads.
@cockoffgewgle4993 Жыл бұрын
The first act being really kinetic and entertaining helps conceal the eventual twist. It becomes pretty apparent during the later scene where Tyler is literally feeding the Narrator lines while he's arguing with Marla that something is amiss, though. @@heebsgames
@heebsgames Жыл бұрын
@@cockoffgewgle4993 My first viewing, the scene where I started to realize something was wrong was when Tyler asks him "Why do you think I blew up your apartment?" The narrator meets Tyler for the first time on an airplane home and discovers his home in ruins right after. So the timing didn't line up for Tyler to have been the culprit unless Tyler had known the narrator for longer than that.
@Xune2000 Жыл бұрын
12:40 The only unthinkable thing is expecting a character played by Sean Bean to *_not_* be killed off
@angelmanfredy6 ай бұрын
Hahaha to be fair this was in the middle of the “many deaths of Bean” run. 😂
@James_Bee6 ай бұрын
He lives more than he does. By a large margin, actually. It's just that his most memorable roles usually end in his death.
@zacvancastle.6 ай бұрын
He dying everywhere is the universe trying to correct the fact that his name and surname are not pronounced the same
@philhasnip44864 ай бұрын
@@zacvancastle. in an alternate universe, it's pronounced Seen Born.
@fernandotorres40764 ай бұрын
This trope was actually cemented by Game of Thrones. Before that, the only remarkable death he's remembered by is Boromir. (if memory serves)
@SpasticSpelunker Жыл бұрын
It doesn’t sound very impressive on paper, but The Sixth Sense’s plot twist got me. It’s one of those plot twists where you need to rewatch the movie and you can see the build up to it and things that now make sense. Any plot twist that has the viewer rewatching or re-reading the story is the sign of a good plot twist.
@reubenmanzo2054 Жыл бұрын
If you liked 'The Sixth Sense', then I'd like to recommend 'Fall'.
@savio_Seth Жыл бұрын
Sixth Sense blew my mind
@cheswyneyman548011 ай бұрын
@@reubenmanzo2054What year is that movie Fall release? 2022?
@reubenmanzo205411 ай бұрын
@@cheswyneyman5480 Sounds about right.
@GradKat7 ай бұрын
I really don’t understand how anybody couldn’t spot the Sixth Sense plot twist fairly early on in the movie.
@iech052610 ай бұрын
“Somehow Palpatine has returned” will never cease to make me smirk at the stupidity of how Disney and how they destroyed Star Wars
@jcohasset234 ай бұрын
It is pretty amazing they couldn't come up with some kind of decent explanation for his return. The lack of foreshadowing in TFA and TLJ suggests the story was written into a corner after TLJ and the writers had to half-ass the script but they didn't even look to the Expanded Universe/Legends for inspiration to salvage the last film. In general, the sequel trilogy is a poorly written mess.
@philhasnip44864 ай бұрын
@@jcohasset23 tbf it was in the novels before Disney even came on the scene. They do know it's a problem, and have retroactively foreshadowed this (I know that's a contradiction in terms!) with other shows like The Bad Batch. I still don't like it though.
@JohnDoe-zr8pc4 ай бұрын
Sad part is that it actually was canon, in the EU, but Disney declared the EU non canon, so they didn’t bother to use the actual reasons given as to how he did it.
@robokill3874 ай бұрын
It's not palpatine coming back that in itself is bad writing, although it is lazy and clichéd, it's more HOW it was handled. Like, just dropping it in an exposition dump at the start of the movie with absolutely no foreshadowing whatsoever, and no setup that he was making clones of himself.
@paulcarson7752Ай бұрын
@@JohnDoe-zr8pc I did see that which explain how Sidious was able to come back, so did Maul. But the lack of effort Disney put into explaining how that was possible ruined the whole possiblity of it.
@thegrimsleeper077 ай бұрын
„Everybody's a Skywalker” is the best summary of every Star Wars movie ever.
@diehalbemiete6 ай бұрын
Incidentally, it is NOT. Eps. IV & V, which is all anyone cares about, are 98% free of that.
@KutWrite6 ай бұрын
Haha! They actually are from the planet "Arkansas," where everyone marries a family member.
@shardator6 ай бұрын
SW plays in Alabama
@baronvonkek84676 ай бұрын
You're a Skywalker, he's a Skywalker, she's a Skywalker...I'm a Skywalker! We're all Skywalkers!!
@cassychesser5 ай бұрын
They tried to branch out from that in TLJ but fanboys got pissed off so they went back to fan service and tanked the franchise.
@frozenepsilon5295 Жыл бұрын
im not even a writer but these videos have helped me articulate to my friends and family my opinions on tv shows and movies.
@Redmeteor200 Жыл бұрын
Same
@stylis666 Жыл бұрын
Partners in crime! 😂 I totally love these videos for the exact same reasons. I also almost also completely agree for the same reasons, and of course, don't always have the proper understanding to articulate those opinions. So if I want to be really lazy I just send these videos after saying:" it sucks, here's why [link to video]." 😂 It also helps increase appreciation for certain classics and understanding as to why they hold up in time or not.
@TucoBenedicto Жыл бұрын
I was just joking about something similar with a friend few hours ago: "For some reason I keep watching videos about how to be competent at creative writing and I'm not even planning to write shit".
@zivmontenegro8303 Жыл бұрын
Novelist here and his videos have helped me to narrow down how to become a great storyteller. 😊
@Twig_ccj8 ай бұрын
Me too but I’m learning more about creative writing
@madnessbydesignVria Жыл бұрын
The Sixth Sense, The Prestige, and The Usual suspects all had great twists. The best thing is not only the twist, but when the audience realizes the clues were right in front of them all along... :)
@Mateilenberg Жыл бұрын
The Usual Suspects is extremely well written, yeah. When the detective looks at his wall and items.... And you just go "shiiiiiiit!"
@mjl11 Жыл бұрын
Usual suspects was unimpressive imo. Maybe bc I saw the Key and Peele parody skit first.
@yurenchu Жыл бұрын
The Sixth Sense and The Prestige: Yes! The Usual Suspects: I've always hated that movie. Granted, the twist at the end is very beautifully filmed (the camera alternates between detective Kujan's mug falling in slow-motion while we can read the realization from his face; the flashbacks, and the other character's pace changing in real-time; in fact, it's done better than the finale in Inception), but that is the movie's only positive feature. Then comes our realization: what does the twist actually mean? The bulk of the movie is merely a boring mediocre crime story with no likeable characters, finishing with a tacked-on twist that merely serves for shock value. The whole movie was made merely for the twist, but has no interesting story that stands on its own. What's more, because of the twist, the whole plot becomes a lie, a dream, an "everything wasn't real" movie.
@WeirdVideoGames Жыл бұрын
Sixth Sense's twist was fantastic the first time you see it, but on rewatch it makes very little sense.
@ssssssstssssssss Жыл бұрын
I am not a fan of the Usual Suspects but definitely agree with the other two.
@jasonevans7260 Жыл бұрын
Because so many people remember Norman Bates, they often forget that "Psycho" starts with a whole story starring Marion Crane. It's such a massive break in linear storytelling, especially for its time. It is THE definitive "main character switch" of filmmaking and I'd say it's a better example of exactly the style of the first season of "GoT."
@sarahsander785 Жыл бұрын
Psycho is especially good, because it introduces Marion as a sort of anti-hero as well AND it gives you a big red herring (at least in the Hitchcock movie) with the color of her dress.
@cockoffgewgle4993 Жыл бұрын
This guy only watches fantasy and capeshit. 90% of his examples are from such rubbish.
@ludovico6890 Жыл бұрын
Great example. And it's not only a plot twist, it's also a genre twist: it's start like a crime fiction novel, it turns into borderline horror with the grandfather/grandmother of slashers.
@valentinegonsalves7322 Жыл бұрын
Sticking with Hitchcock, who's stories are full of awesome and well done twists, who can forget the main twist in Vertigo? The twist renders the main hero's guilt as pointless. Turns out he wasn't guilty, he was set up to witness a woman commit suicide, which was actually not the case.
@sandorx4 Жыл бұрын
@@valentinegonsalves7322 No, it doesn't. Scottie is an awful character with lots of things to feel guilty about, if not the Madeleine thing. .
@mboss7733 Жыл бұрын
My favorite plot twist is probably The Prestige. It changes the movie while also adding so much to it.
@James_Bee6 ай бұрын
I still remember the first time I saw that film... I knew he was a twin from the start. I wasn't fooled at all. However, it is still a good film because it isn't about Bales character being a twin, it's about Jackman's obsession leading to his destruction. He gave up EVERYTHING that woman loved for his revenge.
@harperrush6196 Жыл бұрын
I disagree with your opinion on Training Day’s plot twist. Through doing the good deed of saving the girl in the Alley, Jake saved himself. I think that the plot twist is done well because of the way it represents the difference between him and Alonzo. Jake is saved because of his good morals and beliefs, Alonzo isn’t saved because of the hate people had towards him due to his cold-heartedness and manipulation. I can forgive the situation seeming unlikely because that’s exactly the point. Even though it seems like there’s no real direct reward for Jake if he intervenes (which is probably why Alonzo doesn’t want to) Jake still does the right thing and saves the girl. And through some kind of karma or higher power or sheer luck, it does pay off, Alonzo’s money and manipulation is trumped by Jake’s sympathy and will to do the right thing. The plot twist and it’s improbable nature are both an integral piece to the theme of the movie: Doing the right thing will always pay off in the end, no matter how unlikely it may seem
@achillessays6 ай бұрын
yeah, i had the same thought, but it also still feels contrived. i keep thinking there has to be a way to present that as less contrived, because you're absolutely right about the future payoff of just being a good person being the point. i think the wallet wasn't the right prop to connect these things.
@rellyWrotethat6 ай бұрын
clean set up and pay off I never saw a problem with it but I will say coincidences that are that unlikely are more believable in comedies than in crime dramas
@achillessays6 ай бұрын
@@rellyWrotethat that's what it is. it's harder to buy astronomical fortune than misfortune or absurdity. comedy usually plays to the latter two.
@fallenhero3130 Жыл бұрын
I have to defend TRAINING DAY, and I'm glad to see that others are too. Yes, it is very coincidental that Smiley, the gang member, would happen to be that girl's cousin, but the movie is making a statement about karma and the nature of justice. Jake did a good deed near the start of the film and showed heroism that Alonzo would have ignored, and sure enough, that good deed is what came back to save him later. Jake can show empathy while Alonzo can't, and that's what makes him a hero.
@josiftrajkoski163 Жыл бұрын
Maybe that's the meaning of the snail joke...
@GravediggerKing Жыл бұрын
I agree, and I feel like you can do 1 of those 1 in a million shots, something like that happened to me before. I cut day camp, never have before, my first time doing it. My mother, who never, absolutely never comes a certain way on the road, on that day, on that 10 minute window came down that street, when she was supposed to be at work. Odd random coincidences do happen, and technically speaking it wasn't out of the realm of possibilities in my mind. That gangster dude probably had a lot of cousins, and if he's a criminal he's probably got a lot of cousins or people on the streets he knows that he may have done that for. If it happened twice I would have raged, but seeing that it was set up, it didn't feel wrong to me.
@jimmyjohn272 Жыл бұрын
To add on to that. The only thing Alonzo couldn’t control about his plan ended up being the good deed that Jake did.
@chessbwler2480 Жыл бұрын
I agree..I almost saw it as being biblical..like a higher power protected him after his good deed…like good deeds over evil deeds…the reason why he was there in the first place
@chessbwler2480 Жыл бұрын
Like a miracle!
@archmagusofevil Жыл бұрын
The Training Day example where you mentioned the twist came about from an overwhelming improbable event reminds me of the quote "the difference between fiction and real life is that fiction must make sense". Lest we forget about that time an assassin botched his job and hid out in a restaurant only for his target to decide to unwind from a failed assassination attempt in the same exact restaurant. The assassin then successfully kills his target and a chain of alliance makes this spiral into WWI.
@treygarcia3642 Жыл бұрын
They showed this in kingsman and it’s pretty well crafted. Shows him fail and then shows him in the restaurant as franz Ferdinand gets stopped on his alternate route. It’s pretty cinematic imo
@barret-xiii Жыл бұрын
I thought WWI happened because a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.
@WeirdVideoGames Жыл бұрын
It wasn't a restaurant. Gavrilo Princip went to a deli and bought a sandwich and sat out on a bench to eat. Ferdinand's driver made a wrong turn and drove past Princip while he was eating. It's not as staggeringly unlikely as you make it seem. Princip wasn't so much hiding out as eating out in the open. There were a bunch of assassins who all tried to kill Ferdinand so no one was actually looking for Princip. And Ferdinand didn't pop inside for a bite to eat. He just had made a wrong turn and was turning around to go back. It's certainly weird that he just happened to drive by Princip, but again, Princip wasn't the only one trying to kill him. He just happened to drive by one of the ten or so people who were after him.
@malvoliosf Жыл бұрын
@@WeirdVideoGames Princip, as his name suggests, was one of two principal conspirators, with Danilo Ilić, and he wasn’t eating a sandwich. He was looking to get a second shot at Ferdinand. He did get lucky, but it wasn’t random.
@WeirdVideoGames Жыл бұрын
@@malvoliosfI see. I looked it up and the sandwich thing was a myth. I must have read about it before it was debunked. There were six assassins, but yes, Princip was one of the main conspirators.
@anticitizenokapi4634 Жыл бұрын
Palpatines return in Rise of Skywalker is like if Hitler was somehow releaved to be alive and in a robot body in the Arctic with ten thousand nuclear tipped U boats and zombie cyborg Nazi troops and announces himself like a WWE announcer. And gives a 24 hour timelimit to surrender or every nation gets nuked.
@anticitizenokapi4634 Жыл бұрын
"We decoded the Intel from Argentina, and it confirms the worst, somehow Hitler returned." Would love to see that made into an actual movie to satirzie bad Hollywood writing.
@Neon-qq5vq Жыл бұрын
Heard that one before
@themadoneplays7842 Жыл бұрын
Well, that did kind of happen in a very silly sci-fi channel movie, also: Wolfenstein.
@Dembilaja Жыл бұрын
Zombies would be more believable. However having generations of living, breathing people living, and maintaining these ships under ice of decades, that's a different story.
@Eagle3302PL Жыл бұрын
@@anticitizenokapi4634iron sky, is a movie
@StephanieClapp-ju4dc8 ай бұрын
A Beautiful Mind had one of the most amazing plot twists I’ve ever seen✨
@ArchTeryx004 ай бұрын
The only problem is that it's a twist that was VERY well known if you knew anything about its main character, John Nash. It's HARD to put a twist into a biopic of a famous person, even one somewhat less known like Nash.
@hkgcgsdhjgd3 ай бұрын
@@ArchTeryx00 The twist worked for me because I was a teenager when that movie came out, and had never heard of John Nash before.
@ArchTeryx003 ай бұрын
@@hkgcgsdhjgd Well, to be fair, also because the nature of paranoid schizophrenia and how Nash really experienced it. (It primarily involves auditory, not visual hallucinations, so the entire imaginary world his rapidly breaking brain came up with wasn't at all like what the real John Nash experienced).
@jakehobrath77213 ай бұрын
Right after John gets taken to the hospital for the first time, when he’s awoken by the doctor… right as I see who I think is the Russian spy, my mom comes in the room and blurts out “Oh ain’t that the movie about the schizophrenic guy?”
@MeanBob8666 ай бұрын
Good Twist 4 should've kept the Pixar theme and been Monsters Inc. I will never forget being completely blindsided that this obviously evil looking spider monster was actually the big bad, that's how good the movie was at convincing me he was harmless.
@ArchTeryx004 ай бұрын
I think it's because he was what you'd call a Well Intentioned Extremist. He didn't just care about making money, he cared about the future of the Monster World. His gambit was a desperation play meant to save the world, at the cost of any moral center he might have had. Randall was blatantly a villain from the start, but the fact that he was just the "dragon" (sidekick) to the Big Bad was a huge twist. Waternoose was also technically an *antivillain* - his intentions were good (save the world) but his method was fatally misguided. The tragic irony was that Waternoose's plan was *never necessary.* That was the *real* twist, hinted at through the movie (and telegraphed a bit clumsily) - the solution had been staring the entire Monster World in the face the whole time, and *nobody got it but Sullivan.* Because he'd done the unthinkable and made friends with one of his victims, going against the completely false narrative that kids were deadly toxic. In yet another twist, a side character revealed the narrative's falseness at the end when she turned out to be an undercover agent, who *also* was trying to protect both worlds. A hidden hero.
@mayfield07079613 ай бұрын
Same with the assistant mayor in Zootopia
@MeanBob8663 ай бұрын
@@mayfield0707961 Yes but the difference is that she looked overtly harmless
@28starwarsfan Жыл бұрын
I always loved the killer reveal(s) in the original Scream film. The whole story was about guessing who the villain was and basically everyone was suspected and dismissed at least once.
@proudoyster778 Жыл бұрын
That was an insane reveal!
@JhadeSagrav10 ай бұрын
"I'm feeling WOOZY, man!" my brother and i quote this bit to each other frequently. 😂😂😂
@jamesoakes48428 ай бұрын
The best part was that they tried to be SUPER obvious about it on purpose, because Scream was intentionally being meta with the reveal. They knew the easiest way to make the audience think it wasn't him was to make it look very much like it was.
@avijatsinharoy89445 ай бұрын
Especially with Billy Loomis's reveal.He seemed really suspicious from the beginning,and then he got "framed".Even after that he seems very suspicious and is suddenly killed . Really sets up the reveal and when you re watch the movie, everything seems to make sense
@wfchannel4673 Жыл бұрын
one thing i've always liked about the fight club twist is that when he's visiting the support groups he mentions he never uses his real name, which should immediately draw attention to the fact that we as the audience do not know his real name but instead of making us ask the question of what is it, it instead seemingly suggests to us that his name is unimportant even though it isn't.
@cockoffgewgle4993 Жыл бұрын
It also doesn't make sense that he changes his name for every different support group, that would get confusing af for him. He'd either just use one false name or use his real name.
@erakfishfishfish Жыл бұрын
I have mixed feelings about Fight Club’s twist. It’s well crafted, and the way the movie handles the twist after the reveal is really well done, but the multiple personality twist in any movie just seems so hackneyed to me. (One of my favorite movies is Adaptation, and I love how that movie makes fun of multiple personality twists.)
@noone6512 Жыл бұрын
Also the fact we never hear narrator's real name until the plot twist
@wfchannel4673 Жыл бұрын
@@erakfishfishfish i love fight club's twist. i'm not a huge fan of the movie. i don't think it handles its themes particularly well.
@cockoffgewgle4993 Жыл бұрын
Fight Club is one of my favourite films but I don't really care about the twist. To an extent, I don't like it because it undermines the film as a whole, the friendship between Jack/Tyler, everything they've done together, and so on. The film works perfectly well without the twist. @@erakfishfishfish
@WilliamReginaldLucas Жыл бұрын
My favourite plot twist might be the revelation at the end of Memento. *SPOILERS AHEAD* Leanord, the film's lead, has anterograde amnesia and is searching for his dead wife's killer. The film has a non-linear narrative and opens on a photo of a dead body, making the viewer think that the person he killed was his wife's killer and the film will show the events leading up to it. However, in the final scene, we discover that he's ALREADY killed his wife's killer, but due to his amnesia, he wasn't content in just experiencing the moment once, so he intentionally adjusts his own evidence to make his search for someone else. This is a very surface level explanation but the execution of this plot twist is brilliantly done.
@tentativaX Жыл бұрын
I think I get where you're coming from, but I strongly disagree that we, the audience, "discover" Lenny has already (SPOILERS) killed his wife's killer. I mean, sure, Teddy says he did...but as soon as he said it, I didn't believe him. Why on earth should I believe Teddy if the movie strongly implies that he lies constantly? At the end of the day, the audience has virtually zero proof that Lenny already killed who he was trying to kill. All we have is Teddy's word, nothing else. And, again, Teddy is a liar. Thus, for me, we know close to nothing regarding Lenny's personal history in the end. Not saying that I don't like Memento. I enjoyed quite a bit. But for me, it's a pretty inconclusive movie. Just my 2 cents, I guess. Edit: a spoiler warning
@WilliamReginaldLucas Жыл бұрын
@@tentativaX that’s fair enough, good points, I guess if you see a twist coming it does affect how you interpret it
@Corn_Pone_Flicks Жыл бұрын
@@tentativaX At the same time, he also has no reason to lie, since Leonard won't remember it anyway. That scene seemed to me to be the film being honest with us, even if we can never be sure.
@j-rey- Жыл бұрын
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I still think he could have reasons to lie. Teddy likes using Leonard for his own ends, and knows that Leonard writes down everything, and takes picture evidence, so that he will be able to learn about it later. If Teddy really was telling the truth, he risks Leonard writing it down. Not necessarily that it would be a bad thing, nor that Teddy wasn't actually telling the truth, but the argument that "he'll forget anyway" doesn't actually hold water, because he can write it down and learn again later.
@yurenchu Жыл бұрын
@@j-rey- I don't think Teddy was lying, but I also think it doesn't matter anyway; the point of the story (as far as I remember; but I watched Memento quite a long time ago) was that Leonard was lying to himself! He was so obsessive in "avenging" his wife's death and gratifying himself by killing, over and over again... He's pretty much the same tragic guy as the protagonist in The Prestige (2006). If you haven't watched that movie (or even if you have), watch it again, and then notice in the cast list during the closing titles someone credited with the character name "Leonard"...
@TheQuilava96 Жыл бұрын
The plot twist in Hoodwinked is still to this day my favorite, simply because all you have to do is pay attention the story of what everyone's alibi is and the culprit is someone you kind of push to the side. It has such good storytelling.
@DAsObiQuiet8 ай бұрын
LOL I like the plot twist in Hoodwinked because even though it's completely predictable, I loved it anyways. :)
@bosoerjadi2838 Жыл бұрын
The final plot twist in Ender's Game was awesome. It was a bit clumsely done in the film, but in the book it was set up brilliantly. It changed everything, turning the entire series of books that followed into a completely unexpected deeper and darker direction, re developments of characters and plotwise. Total Recall 1990 was packed with well-executed plot twists, too many to list. And the final plot twist, the planting of the plausible possibility that Quaid was in fact still at Rekall, dreaming the dream exactly as he had ordered, is haunting. What I also like is a slow-motion plot twist, as in the Dune series. When the protagonist family, with each new book, gradually turns into being recognised in hindsight by the readers as (the) horrible villains, merely at war with far less sympathetic villains and mostly themselves.
@causal_internetuser7 ай бұрын
Finally someone mentions Ender's Game! Must gut-wreching and cruel plot twist I've ever read!
@renobutters6 ай бұрын
Ender had an interesting twist (I only read the book), but I thought it was more interesting as a plot device for the second book, where the hero, appalled at what happened, changed forever and became an apostle for nonviolence. No wonder both books won a Hugo award. I think the first book is only great if read as a prologue to the second one :)
@KToll57845 ай бұрын
@@renobuttersthen it turns out that Ender was actually duped by the Formics. They were technically lying about their intentions for Earth, but from their perspective, whatever they currently think is the literal truth. So their survival tactic (contacting Ender) became the “truth” to both sides of the conflict (Ender is eventually reviled as a mass murderer)
@renobutters5 ай бұрын
@@KToll5784 wait, I'm not sure I understand... Is that a twist à la Dune? Which book does it happen in?
@KToll57845 ай бұрын
@@renobutters later on in the series, once Ender is dealing directly with the new Queen. She literally can’t conceive of herself lying, she just thinks something and that’s the “truth”
@ellennewth6305 Жыл бұрын
I love the plot twist in Dickens' "Great Expectations" when the protagonist (Pip) discovers his secret benefactor is not Miss Havisham (the wealthy spinster he works for) but a coarse convict named Magwich. When this twist is revealed, Pip refuses to accept any more of Magwich's blood money. As if that weren't bad enough, Magwich also turns out to be the father of Pip's first crush, Estella. While Pip thinks she has a noble background, she is actually from the lowest level of society. A big deal in the 1850s.
@schwarzerritter5724 Жыл бұрын
And then Pip moved to South Park.
@Vidar936 ай бұрын
I absolutely hated great expectations the first time I read it at like 14. I was too young to really fully understand the dialogue and time period. But since rereading it a few times it has become one of my favorites of his work and probably in my top 10 novels in general.
@OzymandiasWasRight6 ай бұрын
Great Expectations is my favorite book. I read it every couple years or so. Its one of the best twists of any story and such a good reminder about the assumptions we make in life. Especially over things we WANT to believe.
@heybobbackwardsisbob Жыл бұрын
I always like twists like the end of Usual Suspects which make you rethink or recontextualize the entire movie you just watched.
@robertdullnig3625 Жыл бұрын
Eh. not as big a fan of that one. I like it when you can go back and figure out what "really" happened (like in Fight Club, especially the book), whereas in Usual Suspects it could all just be made up.
@RebelWisdom Жыл бұрын
@@robertdullnig3625 - exactly. The whole of Usual Suspects is fabricated, but it actually subverts the whole 'plot twist' idea, I bet that the vast majority of viewers watch it and think "Aha! He's Keyser Soze, everything makes sense now", but it doesn't - it actually completely invalidates everything you just watched.
@eli513 Жыл бұрын
I also love the movie for how Spacey delivered the twist. It's a great moment. But I think the twist in Primal Fear is better. It's my second favorite after Fight Club.
@flipperwhale7276 Жыл бұрын
Spoiler warning, but I don't think it invalidates anything. I always interpreted the story as being generally true, but with names and specifics placed to taunt the detective. If literally everything was made up it would feel pointless, but I think the complete recontextualization is absolutely believable and very interesting @@RebelWisdom
@RebelWisdom Жыл бұрын
@@flipperwhale7276 to be honest I can barely remember the plot now, but I remember at the time realising that no part of it made sense. then I read an interview with the director where he basically admitted the entire film was a wind up. the exact quote was something like - he couldn't believe they got away with it and thought people would lynch them for wasting their time. so I'm pretty confident on this reading.
@dafonearth Жыл бұрын
My favorite plot twist is from a video game, Knights of the Old Republic. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone but the plot twist is a revelation of your (character’s) identity. And that’s why I never saw it coming and it was so brilliant. I never in a million years would have questioned my own identity. Love your channel!
@irethkkat Жыл бұрын
Yes! I came here to name the same twist! To this day I haven't seen a.better twist.
@Maddolis Жыл бұрын
Oh yes, brilliant twist!
@intergalactic92 Жыл бұрын
Best part is when it flashes back to all the seemingly innocent conversations with other characters which actually foreshadowed the whole thing. "The force can do incredible things even [redacted]" (if you know, you know.)
@Maddolis Жыл бұрын
@@intergalactic92 Plus it'll influence the dialogue on whatever your final planet is - I enjoyed keeping Korriban for last for this reason, but I'm sure it'd be great on any planet.
@nickdemeropolis7077 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic game. Fantastic twist.
@wmcneill2610 ай бұрын
The plot twist in Saw is my personal favorite. When the twist reveals itself, the hair on my arms literally stood up and I had goosebumps.
@nerdyengineer79435 ай бұрын
The OG Saw was the best of them all. And damn straight, that was a good one!
@Stormy55333 ай бұрын
Saw was low budget and was aimed to be a B-movie. The twist at the end, mixed with creepy dialog, upscaling music, images flashing past, and the audience was blow away. Saw sequels were demanded. Other horror movies tried to beat the Saw bar. Paranormal Activity was even more low budget and scarier. However, the cultural impact of Saw was more profound. 7 main Saw movies, then Jigsaw and Spiral.
@Icerope-km9lu6 ай бұрын
The Wreck-It Ralph villain reveal scene gives me goosebumps every single time, it is INSANELY cool
@brianat44566 ай бұрын
I did like that reveal
@cassychesser5 ай бұрын
It's a great movie and I love it, but it was also insanely obvious. I don't hold that against it though -- it's a kid's movie. Same with Incredibles.
@Stormy55333 ай бұрын
Syndrome was more obvious and not much of a twist, but a solid villain for what he is and what he represents. Wreck-It-Ralph's villain was briefly mentioned twice and seen once in a flashback, but the clues were there from the racing game type and "Salmon" colored castle. The reveal of him as a villain wasn't the twist, but his identity revealed during the roster race was well done. His manipulation story worked wonders, and I could feel Ralph's convicted feelings as he crushed the car to pieces.
@thedadamer Жыл бұрын
Honestly most Twilight Zone episodes have great twists. The one where apparently aliens are invading an old lady’s house and it turns out she is the alien also the one where this girl is wrapped in bandages the whole episode and when then unwrap her and she looks normal and everyone else around her looks scary are some of the greatest episodes.
@derekhandson351 Жыл бұрын
3 words: To Serve Man
@thedadamer Жыл бұрын
@@derekhandson351 💯
@j.d.5296 ай бұрын
Yes twilight zone! Excellent lesson on keeping your twists short and sweet too. One of my favorites was the episode with the couple stuck in an empty town riding a train that kept returning to the same station…
@Isthisjoebiden6 ай бұрын
It's my favorite show, I fall asleep to it frequently
@RudolfKlusal Жыл бұрын
About a favourite plot twist -- Hot Fuzz. I love how they portrait Timothy Daltons character as an "obvious villain" but overcome the expectations totally later 🙂
@jasoncampbell4203 Жыл бұрын
Yarp!
@joelmole3157 Жыл бұрын
Whilst also confirming that he is the villain, just not the only one and for completely different reasons.
@murphm2010 Жыл бұрын
I also love this twist because of the comedic aspect to it. Everything builds up to this intricate reason, but nope, they just want to win the best town award.
@RudolfKlusal Жыл бұрын
Exactly 😀@@murphm2010
@medealkemyАй бұрын
T H E G R E A T E R G O O D !
@orarinnsnorrason4614 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite is from The Usual Suspects. The reveal is masterfully built up, you suspect all of the guys in the line-up, at various points in the movie. So well done.
@ivanptrov8779 Жыл бұрын
The first and second twists in Predestination are some if the most mind-blowing for me.
@zehrazahoor78555 ай бұрын
Memento had all these twist and executed each one of them immaculately
@DennGreenIII Жыл бұрын
Surprised to see that Saw wasn't on here. Probably the best twist ending I've ever seen, and what makes it so great is that the reveal is right in front of your face the entire movie, and none of us suspected a thing. Also, I think the training day twist was okay. It wasn't the best twist of all time, but it was perfectly serviceable, inoffensive, and undeserving of being a bad example.
@drewidlifestyle78836 ай бұрын
It’s a great twist for sure until you realize he had to lay perfectly still and not have literally any movement or natural processes happen. And definitely no coughing for nine hours
@chicofoxo6 ай бұрын
According to this video, the twist in Saw is a little late, and it doesn't really impact the plot of the story or characters. It does feel a little cheap.
@James_Bee6 ай бұрын
I believe one of the sequels explains that he used a drug on himself that helped him to keep up appearances of a dead dude. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and saying NOW that it was no big deal? That just makes you sound pretentious.
@thefuturist88645 ай бұрын
I’ll admit I was shocked by the twist in Saw, but as the days went by I wondered why *anyone* would have even guessed that the body on the floor wasn’t dead, let alone that it was the villain. There’s almost no clues in the film, and no reason why someone perceptive enough would work it out first time around. Saw didn’t need a twist; its premise was interesting enough (‘killer’ who doesn’t kill his victims but rather gives them the option to choose life or death).
@DennGreenIII5 ай бұрын
@thefuturist8864 there doesn't need to be clues for it to be a good twist. The fact that the person responsible for their situation was literally just a few feet from them and alive was a twist no one saw coming. That's what makes it good, it was nearly unpredictable.
@YouWinILose Жыл бұрын
Fantastic plot twist in The Others with Nicole Kidman. It's foreshadowed the entire movie and reframes the whole story, as well as our understanding of the characters.
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Yep, I never saw it coming
@lekopta Жыл бұрын
Weirdly enough, I would count this as a "Bad" twist as I spotted it pretty early on. Goes to show you might not fool everybody and you need to make the story entertaining enough without relying on the twist.
@desertsuede4 Жыл бұрын
@@lekoptaBy any chance, did you know the movie was supposed to have a twist? I saw it when it opened and had no idea there was a twist component to it, so it worked great on me. I'd imagine if I had known there was a twist to the story, I might have been looking for it and found it earlier.
@sheshotjfk8375 Жыл бұрын
I just watched this movie the other night for the first time. Heard the ending was a shocker so I was excited to see it. I was quite certain the ending couldn't possibly be that she was actually dead and THEY were in fact the ghosts because it seemed so blatantly obvious to me that was the case. I mean, impenetrable fog surrounding the place, could you make it more obvious? I actually thought they were purposely making it look like that was the case so they could shock me at the end with something else. Boy was I disappointed when that was literally the ending. LOL
@YouWinILose Жыл бұрын
@@sheshotjfk8375 A) Telling someone there's a plot twist primes them to find the twist. Ideally you go in without that prior knowledge. B) Can't please everyone but The Others certainly pleased most people. Brains are all different. C) I'm sure it was more effective in 2001 when the narrative tropes had been less well-used.
@trentparks7047 Жыл бұрын
For Evelyn deaver, her name is essentially evil endeavor. So it was pretty much told from the first introduction.
@aardvarkscanfly Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but that's not obvious to most audiences
@trentparks7047 Жыл бұрын
@@aardvarkscanfly that’s what made it clever on the second watch.
@fox2569 Жыл бұрын
Incredibles 2 is still mid.
@sagasvensson8920 Жыл бұрын
It's a movie for children, clearly it would be the person with "Evil" in their name
@peterrealar2.067 Жыл бұрын
The person who made that twist was a moron.
@KarmakarV5 ай бұрын
With all the Movies discussed here, I haven't seen a plot twist as heart-wrenching as The Mist.
@HeatherHolt4 ай бұрын
Love The Mist. The end is so messed up and I love they went there. It’s so dark. And makes you think was the religious zealot lady right about the “sacrifice.”
@GarrettPetersen9 ай бұрын
Prince Hans in Frozen is a terrible twist villain, not because it's too obvious, but because it's not obvious at all. He does nothing villainous until the final 8 minutes of the movie, when he suddenly becomes a completely different character. It would have been better without that twist.
@cryptocolorado631 Жыл бұрын
My favorite twist would've been the reveal of Darth JarJar, but Lucas got cold feet after fan backlash to jarjar in E1
@ParadoxPerson02 Жыл бұрын
“Meesa Darth Jar Jar”
@intergalactic92 Жыл бұрын
No one actually believes that. And it stopped being funny in the Noughties.
@Conserpov Жыл бұрын
@@intergalactic92 I literally actually believe that.
@DAsObiQuiet8 ай бұрын
It would have been a TON better than what we got.
@paulberry5750 Жыл бұрын
I really hate stories that subvert expectations without ever meeting them.
@michaeljordan5630 Жыл бұрын
Yeah no. I can't tell you how many time this happens in today's movies and shows. It the whole "You think you know but you Don't thing." It lead your audience up with a pay off that you didnt set up and must go back to explain.
@LendriMujina Жыл бұрын
"It subverts your expectations!" "WHAT expectations?!"
@BoredTAK5000 Жыл бұрын
*looks at Ryan Johnson*
@paulberry5750 Жыл бұрын
@@LendriMujina If I go to an Italian Restaurant I've patronized for twenty plus years. The food is so consistently good that the waiter brings you whatever the special of the day is. Imagine my horror when he brings me Tilapia & raw broccoli. Marvel's decline at the box office can be traced to bait & switch tactics as well as crappy CGI.
@matthewpatrick7263 Жыл бұрын
@@LendriMujinaUsually the explanation that gets subverted is "expecting a good movie."
@julie393 Жыл бұрын
I loved Westworld season 1 twist, the way they made it look like everything was happening at the same moment in time but it was actually years appart was awesome. Didn't see it coming.
@OrangeHand Жыл бұрын
Seems everyone else figured out the twist immediately.
@bgeardigital Жыл бұрын
That was a great twist but the problem with Westworld is that they felt the twists had to keep coming in the later seasons. The follow up twists were lame and forced.
@tokyworld Жыл бұрын
Anyone who says that they figured out that young william and the man in fucking black werethe same person. Theyre just lying
@condealexandervonhasslerra5527 Жыл бұрын
Sesión 1 its as perfect as it can be done
@LucasWiman5 ай бұрын
Also the twist where Bernard says "Doesn't look like anything to me."
@GregTurismo Жыл бұрын
Fight club is my favorite especially because everything the two of them do together feels normal, and only until later do you notice while one is talking to other people, the second is just watching and listening like a normal person. It’s brilliant and believable.
@HeatherHolt4 ай бұрын
I love when dude pulls the car around, and he says “after you, Mr Durden.” And Tyler looks at the narrator and says, “After you.” I think that’s my favorite part when I watched back where I’m like OMG HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS lol
@superj-man137 Жыл бұрын
6th Sense is one of my favorites. Just like Fight Club, I was completely surprised by the ending, and then watching it again, I see all of the clues that went into it. One of the best in my opinion.
@TH3F4LC0Nx Жыл бұрын
It's ironic that Richard Matheson's I Am Legend has what's maybe the greatest plot twist of all time, yet Hollywood repeatedly squanders it.
@pitchforker3304 Жыл бұрын
A movie faithful to the book would be amazing.
@cancelmenowDoItNoBalls Жыл бұрын
Mind giving context?
@LendriMujina Жыл бұрын
@@cancelmenowDoItNoBalls The setting is a post-apocalypse where a disease has spread, turning everyone into vampires. The main character - "The Last Man On Earth", as the story is also known as - is struggling to survive, slaying vampires in hopes that somebody else is safe. The twist is, the vampires are still fully sapient. Instead of a hero who's the last hope for humankind, the main character is someone they see as a cold-blooded serial killer who needs to be stopped. One of the titles is "I Am Legend" is because he is the monster of _their_ legends. How Hollywood fumbles it is by still portraying the vampires as in the wrong even post-reveal, with the main character doing a "heroic" last stand. Which is *not* how the original story ended.
@cancelmenowDoItNoBalls Жыл бұрын
@@LendriMujina That is a really good plot twist
@Conserpov Жыл бұрын
@@LendriMujina The story depends on the reader's imagination and subverting assumptions made from unreliable narration, can't easily visualize it on screen.
@MacDaddyMike Жыл бұрын
Something I've always considered with regards to writing plot twists is what I like to call "The Fundamental Assumption". This is something your audience is led to believe throughout the story and is often reiterated by other characters in order to disguise a future plot twist. It's something that should be established very early and that your audience should never be given any cause to question, even though it is an incorrect assumption to make. For example, the fundamental assumption of Scream (1996) is that there is only one killer. We're never shown the possibility of there being others until the end of the movie, and the whole cast always refers to the killer as a singular entity. The fundamental assumption of Planet of the Apes (1968) is that the setting is a far away planet. A common fundamental assumption is that characters are who they say they are, as we take their identities as certainties in the story and usually assume that narration is reliable. Another common fundamental assumption is that events are presented linearly. Time jumps are a good way to establish a fundamental assumption as well, such as in The Sixth Sense (1999) where we jump ahead after seeing the main character shot and dying only to see him walking around and living his life down the road. We assume that he survived the gun shot and it changed him somehow, but the passage of time leads us to not question how the original event played out. Another iteration of this is in Lucky Number Slevin (2006), where we get both a time jump and an identity assumption working in tandem. In general I think it's helpful to identify what is the fundamental assumption that you need your audience to believe in order to lend impact to your twists, and what are ways that you can introduce or inform this assumption throughout your story. It's also useful to identify this so that you can avoid any inferences that may undermine this. I hope this is helpful to someone!
@j.munday7913 Жыл бұрын
I think it'll be helpful to me. I'm writing a story and the twist is that one of the main characters is the victim of an overpowered amnesia spell that makes her forgotten by everyone. Any media, memories or anything tied to her are wiped clean. I think my instinct to reiterate that there were only 4 members of her family, and not 5, is correct. :3 I'm still in the rough draft phase but I think this will help a lot. Thanks :)
@blueflare384811 ай бұрын
So like misdirection? The audience is led to believe one thing, when really it’s the other.
@dariusporter358 Жыл бұрын
My favorite plot twist is- spoiler alert for Attack on Titan Reiner and Bertholt being the armored and colossal titans respectively. It’s set up perfectly and it makes a second rewatch of the show even better though to be fair all the twist in the show do. I still remember when it was revealed how stupid I felt for not realizing earlier when they showed all the evidence.
@spyros219 Жыл бұрын
Or even better [Spoilers for Season 4], the plot twist from "Memories of the Future". Before this, we view Eren as an innocent product of his father's actions and after that, we know that he inflicted all this to himself.
@joaoassumpcao3347 Жыл бұрын
AoT is a masterclass in plot twists, but I still think the basement and the season 4 one mentioned above are better than the warrior plot twist, simply because it recontextualizes EVERYTHING. That's why aot is possibly one of the most rewatchable shows I've ever seen
@jtmassecure448810 ай бұрын
A bad plot twist in anime is Aizen being the reason on the attack on soul society it was so obvious it was him it wasn’t funny.
@akmonra9 ай бұрын
I also love the way it's revealed. no dramatic music, no building up tension. everything feels normal, and then they reveal it out-of-the-blue. I remember squinting at the subtitles and hitting pause to make sure I didn't somehow misread it.
@DAsObiQuiet8 ай бұрын
@@jtmassecure4488 Disagree. I binge-watched Bleach up until the 124th episode (even the Bount arc... I've tried to wipe that from my mind) but even Kubo himself didn't know who the bad guy was until he was able to talk about who would actually work with his editor. Something he was very lucky to do. I don't think he realized how lucky because when he tried to do the same thing in the next seasons, it failed. :/ But that first one was excellent. *shrug*
@beakt Жыл бұрын
I loved how you ripped Star Wars Ep. 9 to shreds, but on Training Day, I think something that has unbelievable odds is satisfying to many movie goers. We all fantasize about an against-all-odds rescue. It also has a bit of karma in it, as we all hope that good deeds we've done will somehow be rewarded. This also included the hope-for-mankind trope, where these evil, irredeemable, murderous gangsters are taken by our hero's care of the sweet girl cousin safe in her bed on the phone and thus show mercy.
@GnarledStaff6 ай бұрын
Whats clever is how the author puts one bad/mediocre example in each video just to increase engagement. I’m onto you, Brandon.
@heavymetalsalsa9003 Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate these videos. I'm an aspiring writer and your advice has really helped me deal with my writers block. To answer your question, my favorite movie twist is The Sixth Sense. I know its predictable in hindsight, but I'll always remember my first viewing as a kid and how caught off guard I was.
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Thanks! And unfortunately I had that one spoiled on me, so I never got to experience it for what is was
@JohnWelsh-oz3jz Жыл бұрын
I agree. Another plot twist I enjoyed (also from an M. Night Shyamalan movie) was Mr. Glass in Unbreakable.
@ericbaysinger314 Жыл бұрын
When I've had writer's block, it's always been resolved by undoing what I've written back to the point that a character made a decision. I give the character a new decision and then the plot works out much better.
@tattoodude8946 Жыл бұрын
@@WriterBrandonMcNulty That sucks. I hate when I know the twist. I recently watched Orphan with my wife, and I knew the twist from a KZbin video. It really made the movie flat.
@stratocruising Жыл бұрын
Watching the movie a second time, knowing the twist, it was fair. We had chances to see it coming, just misinterpreted what we were being shown.
@alecsvideos4355 Жыл бұрын
I am going to have to respectfully disagree about Training Day. I love the twist, and I don't think your criticism is entirely fair. 1) it's not deus ex machina, because Jake's actions early in the film save him later. 2) it's not "like the powerball," since Alonzo knew this girl had gang connections, so it makes sense that he has a working relationship with the gangsters in question. 3) it's thematic. Jake acts heroically despite Alonzo telling him not to, because Jake is moral and Alonzo is corrupt. Similar to people of his neighborhood turning on him at the end, this scene is another example of Jake's corruption coming to bite him in the ass.
@AppleJackSix Жыл бұрын
I agree. Even though it’s incredibly unlikely, it supports the theme that it is worth doing good even if it’s not high profile or a big fish, directly contradicts the villain’s point of view, and is a payoff for the hero sticking to his morals. It’s basically required for the movie to feel like it had justice and appeal to the audience instead of a portrayal of corruption and how good cops get killed either in the street or by bad cops. It also supports the first-day-on-the-job lesson that living and dying can be just luck. Plus, the hero’s ingenuity and courage are demonstrated right afterwards when he goes to confront the bad guy directly in his own neighborhood. And the whole neighborhood just lets it play out as a punishment for how bad the villain is. So yes it’s insanely unlikely but fits in to the story of the movie.
@cockoffgewgle4993 Жыл бұрын
I agree. I can see how it would annoy some and look lame on paper. But it absolutely works in the context of the film and scene. And re: the criticism of it being better that the "hero" saves themselves. No. That isn't the character of Jake in this film, he's innocent, naive and being led on a string by Alonso for the whole film. His standard "heroism" comes later when he confronts Alonzo. And, as you say, it's his morality which saves him, so it's thematically relevant. And it's not like the film is hyper-realistic in general, it's rather over the top.
@johnnhoj6749 Жыл бұрын
Generally, I'd hesitate to rely on theme as a "get out of jail card". The audience is sitting watching a story unfold before them in the instant, considerations of theme or any deeper meaning come later. That "later" might be milliseconds, it might be hours or, worse, it might be never. Most people in the audience aren't going to try to rationalize implausibilities outside the mechanics of the basic storytelling - especially if they are frustrated by an incident which is virtually impossible within the logic of the world of the story. Theme is something which is hopefully embedded in the story but it's unspoken and doesn't usually rise to the surface unless it's consciously considered. Most people don't consciously consider the themes of a film they are watching. If a writer has to try to justify what appears to be a story fault by pointing to something which most of the audience are never going to consider then they can't complain when they receive criticism. N.B. I haven't seen Training Day, so this is a general point, not a criticism of this particular film.
@Conserpov Жыл бұрын
This twist belongs in a fable style story, not in an action thriller. Something Christianity-themed or like _Bulletproof Monk._
@tragedician Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the Training Day twist for the reasons you listed. I'll add that it wasn't an unbelievable coincidence IMO. Courtesy of the law of large numbers, coincidences like that happen. In a large city like LA, millions of people interact daily; that frequency inevitably leads to unexpected outcomes. History is replete with examples of "unbelievable" coincidences. Take the incident in which Union soldiers happened upon a copy of Lee's battle plan for Antietam that had been lost in a farm field by Confederate soldiers. Anyone (or no one) could have found the plans but Union soldiers found them. It led to a turning point in the war and President Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Or another from the same era not all that different from Training Day: Just a couple years before John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln, Edwin Booth saved Robert Lincoln's life by rescuing Robert from being hit by a moving train after he fell off the platform onto the tracks. Edwin Booth was John Booth's brother and Robert Lincoln was President Lincoln's son.
@jameskingsbery3644 Жыл бұрын
The Training Day twist isn't the best ever, but I think you don't give it enough credit. Training Day is a movie about two fundamentally different approaches to life. Alonzo Harris has the approach that the world is there to serve him, whereas Jake Hoyt's approach is that he's there to serve others. There are actually two different twists: the one you showed, in which Hoyt is let go by a stranger because of his earlier behavior, and Harris's later betrayal by people he considered to be friends (or at least loyal to him in some sense) due to his earlier behavior. The twist you discuss here is foreshadowed by Alonzo telling him earlier that he was wasting his time preventing drug addicts from raping the young girl, which the audience is meant to revile at, and so it feels good to see Jake rewarded for his earlier courage. Yeah, there are probably better ways it could be executed. It is a bit convenient. They could have revealed it in a different way than checking his pockets before shooting him. But thematically, it fits with the plot.
@garretchristensen Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I almost don't call it deus ex machina because it's more like karma. Sure, the odds are absurdly low, but Jake did something good and was rewarded for it. If this is bad writing, the end of Toy Story 3 has to be bad writing as well. Instead, I think it's a heartwarming morality tale.
@outsidelookinginprod Жыл бұрын
@@garretchristensen I simply cannot consider it Deus Ex Machina BECAUSE the writer set up that wallet and then paid it off with this reveal. Which is GOOD writing. To call it a bad twist because of how unlikely it is does not give it enough credit. Deus Ex Machina is a plot device where a character is saved by something that came out of nowhere, where the writer's hand visibly reaches into the story to help their character. This writer established that Jake saved this girl, that he had this wallet in his possession, and saving this girl actually saved him. Set up and pay off. Good writing.
@chrisgregg2092 Жыл бұрын
Thematically it works, but it's not completely unreasonable that the criminals they encounter at the beginning of the movie are somehow connected to those at the end. Not the best, but it doesn't break the movie for me.
@christianburk9898 Жыл бұрын
It also works in an in-world sense. While Alonzo is cunning and ruthless, he's also shown to be short sighted and underestimates others. Killing Jake was likely one of those "I'll figure it out" sorta things and what the girl said to those 2 junkies probably stuck in his mind and gave him the idea to use those guys in the first place. He never considered that Smiley or his 2 friends would be the gangbanger she mentioned or that Jake would have held on to the wallet or even had it because what are the odds right? Plus, he only knows loyalty through intimidation and bribery. The fact that Smiley would let Jake go over family is something he wouldn't even consider (the way he tries to use his son in the apartment fight shows this).
@THEBLACKBELT Жыл бұрын
Also notice how Alonzo asks the girl where her cousins are from to confirm, because she said it moments earlier. Alonzo could have set Jake up to be killed by anyone, anywhere with all his connections. But he decided to go to THAT neighborhood. Not saying he knew exactly who her cousins were. But a sociopath like Alonzo would definitely get a kick out of it. Not a coincidence because it was on purpose. The wallet was a setup and payoff to the good nature of Jake.
@greatdemonlord0066 ай бұрын
You make a lot of accurate points about writing in films. I don’t have any favorite plot twist but one which impressed me for a while recently was the man in black reveal in Westworld. And also was kinda shocked by the true nature of the villains of films like Coco and Primal Fear.
@SagnikBakshi0325 Жыл бұрын
The Fight Club = What a narration. What a movie. The Prestige = What a fiction. What a magic.
@DougNarinasNarinas Жыл бұрын
One of my favorites is the True plot twist in Shutter Island. It is smaller in scale in comparison to the first, but the implications are insane and you end up feeling worse for the main character's fate. Finally, thank you for your content Brandon, I love it, have a great day.
@bluecannibaleyes Жыл бұрын
I just read that book recently and maybe I’m stupid, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I must have missed something. The last couple pages of that book were really confusing to me, so I probably did. I really liked the plot twist that I did understand in Shutter Island, though.
@armandbiro2954 Жыл бұрын
@@bluecannibaleyesI've only seen the movie but the plot twists are * MAJOR SPOILER ALERT, IF SOMEONE HASN'T SEEN IT GO WATCH IT NOW* 1) That Teddy is actually Andrew Laeddis and he's just a patient at that establishment. 2) His wife, Dolores, wasn't killed in a fire by a certain Andrew Laeddis. She actually burned down their apartment intentionally and they moved to the lakehouse where she killed their children (acts that earlier were attributed to Rachel Solando who doesn't exist). Teddy (who's actually Andrew) then killed his wife and he constructed the whole investigator thing because he can't deal with the guilt and trauma.
@fonsspeek51 Жыл бұрын
When i went to see it, a friend of mine said: "I wonder what you will think of the twist" so I knew something was up. And so when I watched it, it was pretty clear to me what was going on. It kinda ruined the movie for me
@sonicsnake44 Жыл бұрын
The problem for me with Shutter Island is they spend too much time throwing so many red herrings out there that by the time they get to the truth I am bored and the twist is far less interesting than the red herrings were.
@nathanberrigan9839 Жыл бұрын
@@armandbiro2954 There's also the twist after the relapse that he is faking it because he WANTS to be lobotomized so he can forget everything.
@samanthas6073 Жыл бұрын
Fight Club is my pick for movies, For tv shows, Black Mirror the episode Shut Up and Dance. I will never get over how SHOCKED I was at the very end when it was revealed what Kenny was trying to hide. Absolutely gutting.
@Randomperson-zt3il Жыл бұрын
Loch Henry’s twist was also mental… which one was Shut Up and Dance again (Idm for spoilers)
@richielavey1565 Жыл бұрын
I love arrival and the plot twist that the flashbacks are actually flash forwards.
@AubreyLavigne Жыл бұрын
Arrival is my favorite movie for this reason. It subverts the Kuleshov Effect by inverting the typical association that you would assume because two scenes are connected by following one another
@theravyneffect3610 Жыл бұрын
Been meaning to watch this for two weeks since it came out. Other than a few examples mentioned here (Fight Club blew my mind, such a pity most people don't understand that film), another of my all time favourites (it was one of the first 18 movies I saw in the cinema, so that's probably also why it has a spot in my psyche) is Lucky Number Slevin. When the twist happens it makes you look back over the whole movie and realise that there were clues, and that it actually makes WAY more sense with the twist in place than it did before when you didn't know what the twist was.
@remkoburger65958 ай бұрын
Thanks Brandon, for this and your other videos. You helped me a lot with my own writing, and for that I'm very grateful.
@WriterBrandonMcNulty8 ай бұрын
Happy to help! Thanks for the kind words
@ParadoxPerson02 Жыл бұрын
I think my favorite twists come from a show called “Dark” on Netflix. It’s a show about time travel, and it forms a very confusing “knot” of events happening to cause others to happen, and so on and so forth, but so many times throughout it, we’re shown what caused certain events, and those branches become the twists themselves. Also, certain reveals of characters identities can completely change how everything is looked at. My favorite twist (I’m going to be vague to avoid spoilers), is when the main character time travels to try and stop the event shown at the very start of the show, only to reveal the true cause of it.
@danime4288 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it is a great series with so many incredible good plottwists. Like it is the mother and grandmother of plottwists at the same time 😉
@EH23831 Жыл бұрын
Great show- but confusing as hell! 😩
@ParadoxPerson02 Жыл бұрын
@@DexterMorgan-mh4vy Honestly, I want to see some behind the scenes footage of the writers room where they tried to connect all of those dots. I had to consult the charts on Wikipedia after each episode to understand what was going on. XD
@BellydancerMaliha Жыл бұрын
That show was a masterwork. I also went online to look up the family trees to make sure I understood everything (“wait…he really IS his own father?!?!”) and I can only hope that my plots and their twists come off even half so well constructed.
@ParadoxPerson02 Жыл бұрын
@@BellydancerMaliha Are you writing a time travel story?
@samssalman Жыл бұрын
One of the best twists are in OldBoy. The final twist is so powerful and at the end of the movie but it comes after several other twists. It's unexpected and very surprising but actually makes sense from all the info we have had before.
@pawacoteng Жыл бұрын
The Handmaiden also had a series of twists that were carefully hidden in a very, ahem, hot setup.
@ichbindurstig7 ай бұрын
Same here
@HeatherHolt4 ай бұрын
Oh god the Oldboy twist effed me up. Gah, what a gut punch. And the tongue.
@Mister-Red Жыл бұрын
0:02 I didn't know you made jokes on your channel 😂
@sagasvensson8920 Жыл бұрын
Fight Club, The Sixth Sense and Primal Fear. Also, King Candy's real identity from Wreck-it Ralph is underrated, that is an awesome twist for a children movie
@theapavlou30309 ай бұрын
Primal fear is a hugely underrated film! Ed Norton is such a brilliant actor
@gasparsigma Жыл бұрын
The "it was all a dream" deserved an honorable mention
@EmmanuelGoldstein3 Жыл бұрын
My favorite is The Sixth Sense. For one thing, it was so well stealth foreshadowed that on rewatching you can't believe you didn't see it coming. When it came out, this is what the buzz on it was about, the fact that it had this amazing plot twist. And it also completely reversed all of the relationships. But perhaps most of all, because although it was a complete sucker-punch surprise, it felt organic, and pieces held together better with the twist than without it. It felt like exactly the thing that would naturally have happened given the situation that the movie had set up. The twist resolved tension rather than created it.
@loganroy33817 ай бұрын
When I originally watched it, I could just feel throughout the movie that something was fundamentally wrong with it, but couldn't quite put my finger on why. When the reveal came, everything suddenly made sense.
@thearchivist2506 ай бұрын
Also, The Sixth Sense can only work as a film. If it was a TV show, the internet would figure out the twist by episode two.
@philhasnip44864 ай бұрын
My first watching, when he's shot, a medical student near the front of the cinema shouted out "oh come on, no-one could survive that!" and threw her hands up in disgust. I think everyone saw the twist coming pretty early on in that showing!
@imoshyumosh3629 Жыл бұрын
I just rewatched T2 and amazed how many false leads there was to make the T1K look like the good guy with Arnold faked to be the villain, until it is revealed at the corridor shootout.
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Yep, I was very fortunate that I went into the movie blind when I first saw it. Such a "WOW!" moment when it happened.
@ramonacosta2647 Жыл бұрын
To be honest I thought it was obvious. Arnold wasn't killing people but the "cop" was.
@matthewpatrick7263 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, the trailer had already spoiled it for many people. I can only imagine how upset everybody who made the movie was with the person who made the trailer.
@Mandella5 Жыл бұрын
Same. I went in without even seeing a trailer and was totally surprised. I thought the "twist" was that the savior from the future this time was going to be an amoral badass (and probably learn to care from having to take care of young Conner). I still remember the fun shock of the switch. Not so lucky with Sixth Sense where the trailer totally spoiled the movie. Which is why I still have an aversion to trailers.@@WriterBrandonMcNulty
@Corn_Pone_Flicks Жыл бұрын
Yes, that twist probably works better for people seeing it today, since anyone who saw any trailers when it was released knew it well in advance. Same with The Sixth Sense...while everyone knows the famous twist at the end, as written it contains two, the first being the line "I see dead people," which was of course also in every trailer.
@criticalbil16 ай бұрын
Another entertaining and insightful video. I've always liked this description of a good twist or good ending: it should feel both surprising _and_ inevitable.
@rionhoel87408 ай бұрын
My favorite plot twist comes from Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Prestige’. The reveal of the twin brothers was so clever
@Nate_M_PCMR Жыл бұрын
No matter how convenient Training Day's plot twist is, I still love that movie to the death😂
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Denzel is AMAZING in it. Absolutely hypnotic performance
@pawacoteng Жыл бұрын
As a brilliant character study, I think we can forgive a bit of the lame plot contrivances.
@robertperner7196 Жыл бұрын
Since I always wished I could have experienced Psycho "blind", I highly appreciate the Red Wedding twist. After it was over, I was wondering if this how the original audience of Psycho felt.
@donj2222 Жыл бұрын
Psycho was the very first movie that did not allow entrance after it had started. What this meant was that lines would form outside movie theaters and people would see the lines and want to see it also. It was brilliant marketing by Hitchcock. Also, the twist in the middle of the movie just was not done at that time, so it came as an extreme shock.
@Munchkinesisk7 ай бұрын
That thought reminded me of reading the original Jekyll & Hyde: In all later renditions I have seen, it is shown from the beginning what is going on. But in the book... it is only revealed entirely in a letter at the very end. Up until then, it is all seeing people wondering about this Hyde person and what is going with him. So I wondered also, how that impacted the very first readers who did not have "Jekyll and Hyde" ingrained as a saying that everybody knew the basics of.
@loganroy33817 ай бұрын
Probably not the same, sitting through like half an hour and getting invested in a character is very different from spending hours and hours of tv over several years with them.
@jayess8714 Жыл бұрын
The twist in Crazy Stupid Love is probably one of the best twists in romcom history.
@Isthisjoebiden6 ай бұрын
Agreed!
@nerdyengineer79435 ай бұрын
Naw. I was blown away by it. But before the scene was over I started asking, "Wait... they've been dating this whole time and he doesn't know her surname?" It is implausible.
@SirCruxr6 ай бұрын
Finally someone’s talking about the craziness with the original Star Wars plots
@bexdor7 ай бұрын
The best plot twists are those that recontextualize what came before. The types that make you want to immediately rewatch or reread the story, and spot all the clues that you missed the first time, because in retrospect it's so obvious that you're surprised you missed it. All the better if the story toes the line between something feeling off, but not quite off enough to draw too much attention to it; this results in a sense of relief as suddenly things that you didn't even realize had been bothering you up until that point just click, and it all finally feels right. A great example is Sixth Sense. The whole time, nobody says a word to the main character other than the boy who, we learn early on, can see dead people. It's subtle, and there's almost always a good reason they wouldn't be speaking to him, so you brush it off; yet it still just doesn't feel quite right. When you get the twist, it all clicks into place and you get the payoff for the tension that you may not have even realized you'd been feeling.
@ivanzovko3523 Жыл бұрын
A great twist movie is The Prestige because they were able to drop hints so well into the movie that you didn’t notice until afterwards. It all made sense but it wasn’t obvious.
@Isthisjoebiden6 ай бұрын
Yes, soooo true. I'm a twin and didn't even get it. The part where the wife says, "This looks worse than a few days ago" just blew my mind later
@JonathanGilmer Жыл бұрын
I still absolutely love the revelation in The Sixth Sense. It's set up so perfectly in my opionion!
@ellennewth6305 Жыл бұрын
One additional plot twist is in the classic "Sunset Boulevard." From the beginning we know a man has died in a pool. We quickly learn Norma Desmond is delusional, but don't realize she's dangerous till she shoots Joe Gillis, the man she thinks she loves. Then there's "Soylent Green." That one blew my mind! ("Soylent Green is people!") And don't forget the final moments of "Easy Rider."
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Loved Sunset Blvd. I need to rewatch it again sometime so I can discuss Norma in a future video
@ridleyformk1244 Жыл бұрын
18:45: I don't know, but the Fight club example sounds very creative and clever.
@davidmonroy7550 Жыл бұрын
Hey Brandon just wanted to let you know how helpful these videos have been to me. I’m currently in the planning stages with the characters and world building of my book series. It’s the first one i’ve ever written and all your videos have helped me so much I’ve been binging them. I think I have a really good idea and i’m taking my time with it. I will definitely be buying copies of your books with how much your vids have benefited me
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you're finding them helpful. Best of luck with your book series--and remember to stay persistent! Also, thanks for checking out my books. Please leave reviews when you finish--reviews are a big help
@volegreene Жыл бұрын
I especially admire a good ending plot twist. They are so hard to pull off but can re-frame the whole story retrospectively - so, the Keyser Söze reveal at the end of The Usual Suspects. Oh, and gotta love Spike's slow-burn transformation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after the chip in his head makes him unable to attach non-demons.
@medealkemyАй бұрын
Ah yes, also Angel losing his soul in the middle of Season 2 got me seriously hooked to BTVS.
@reubenmanzo2054 Жыл бұрын
I think my favourite plot twist is from Return of the Jedi. Death Star Operational. It practically undermines the entire premise of the Rebel attack.
@EnglishDreadnought Жыл бұрын
Most definitely an underappreciated moment.
@jacevicki Жыл бұрын
Also I love the little details with it. The Imperial fleet was hiding in wait, not guarding. They were jamming the shield sensors, which is only something you would bother doing if the shield was working and you wanted your opponent to think it wasn't. The twist was the Empire trying to bait the rebel fleet into having their snubfighters all crash into the shields, but Lando saw through the tactic. It was such a good twist because it played out with both sides acting in a clever way.
@EnglishDreadnought Жыл бұрын
@@jacevicki Yes, but the destruction of the Rebel Fleet is almost a sideshow. The true prize is a new apprentice. The whole thing was really set up as a honey pot for Luke, and he fell right into it.
@KohuGaly Жыл бұрын
"It's a trap!"
@reaganmonkey8 Жыл бұрын
But I have heard people say that the Emperor could’ve given decoy coordinates that would’ve led them to a ambush without giving them the opportunity to destroy the Death Star.
@ChuckJansenII Жыл бұрын
Great explanation of of plot twists with excellent examples of god and bad. Yeah that movie we aren't supposed to talk about has one of the best plot twists in history. One of my favorite twists was Spider-Man: Homecoming. Peter Parker knows what Big Bird looks like. But Big Bird doesn't know who Spider-Man is. When Pete goes to meet Liz for the Homecoming date at home, Toomes opens the door. Wow. The villain Spider-Man is trying to take down is his dates father. Everything from that point is so well written and acted. Liz is clueless as is her Mom. At this point Toomes has no idea that Pedro is Spider-Man. The ride to the dance and the slow reveal to Toomes becomes a slow burn to Peter as he recognizes that Liz's father is figuring out that he is Spider-Man. The confrontation challenges Peter to either let Toomes go or do the right thing and try and take him down. The impact is felt and it makes Peter determined to still do the right thing. Perhaps the biggest impact is on Liz. Well. That's a heck of a way to cause a break up. If you were to see any weaknesses in that scene I'd think it would make a good video.
@nicholemoore24486 ай бұрын
I love the vast majority of all the many plot twists in The Hunger Games, but especially the one last one in Mockingjay. It only sorta surprised me, but I love how it showed that everyone was still in "the arena" and the only way to get out is to take down the one's propping it up.
@leetaylor15202 Жыл бұрын
The Usual Suspects is an obvious example of a well-executed twist, but it also benefits from having been released at a time when audiences weren't conditioned to expect a twist.
@TheCaptainmaim Жыл бұрын
I don't know how we got a discussion of plot twists without talking about Kaiser Soze or seeing dead people. Both were about the biggest/best twist reveals I've ever seen at the movies.
@nealjroberts4050 Жыл бұрын
I alas figured out the twist when i realised Kaiser Soeze meant Emperor or Master of the Word in Turkish...
@RCon25 Жыл бұрын
My two favorite plot twists are from 'Fight Club' as you mentioned here, and from 'Sixth Sense' with such a rug-pulling plot twist, the likes of which M. Night Shyamalan hasn't been able to re-create ever since.
@Hiro2k Жыл бұрын
The grass did it!
@IridescentFalcon72 Жыл бұрын
You know someone's gotta say it, Spiderverse and the identity of the Prowler as Uncle Aaron is a fantastic use of a plot twist. Two leyers of twist too, because first Miles finds out, then Aaron himself gets his own personal plot twist when he realizes his nephew is Spiderman
@johannesseyfried7933 Жыл бұрын
It was especially surprising for me, because I expected him to be Hobie Brown like in the old Animated Series and the comics. Of course, I completely forgot that this is a world where *Miles* is Spiderman, not Peter. Of course the Prowler would be a different person here!
@roguebarbarian9133 Жыл бұрын
It wasn’t much of a plot twist to me, because Uncle Aaron is the Prowler in the Ultimate comics, where Miles originates from. Also, it just feels like an “of course” plot twist. “Of course the cool uncle is secretly evil! What other role could he possibly fill in the story?” I’m not denying the sadness of it, but as an audience member, it was a tad predictable.
@Mojj2099 Жыл бұрын
Also that miles himself is an anomaly and the spider glitching in the first film
@bossman0116 Жыл бұрын
@@roguebarbarian9133 caught me off guard tbh, but the again I was a 12 year old who didn't know shit about Miles and that he exists till the movie.
@tiffanypersaud3518 Жыл бұрын
That was so gut wrenching, both of their reveals.
@denverintranslation Жыл бұрын
This was a great breakdown for a couple reasons: 1. Fantastic analysis. Hard to argue with anything you laid out. 2. It was great listening to a cinematography critique narrated by Owen Wilson.
@brownell.landrum Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Arrival. A favorite. Btw love your videos! You could do a whole series on plot twists alone. 😊 I have a list of dozens of different kinds.
@ethanboyd2981 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite plot twists comes from the Netflix show The Haunting of Hill House. It still gives me the creeps every time I think about the revelation of who is the "broken neck lady".
@meerkatnip892 Жыл бұрын
Somewhat agree, still remember how they visualized/shot it with her "dropping" through the different moments we've seen
@jonathanechevers6265 Жыл бұрын
100% agree. Hill house, and basically everything Mike Flanagan has done, was brilliant!
@loco_logic Жыл бұрын
That's the example I was gonna give. Very unique and disturbing concept for how a "haunting" is supposed to work.
@Hiro2k Жыл бұрын
@@loco_logic it's so tragic, imagine briefly going back in time to warn yourself but you are unable to and by fucking it up you predestine yourself into the trap.
@mrtruman4339 Жыл бұрын
That show is amazing.
@bryanbigham3761 Жыл бұрын
Two other movies with incredible plot twists that blew my mind at the time were The Others and The Sixth Sense. I feel like the twist in The Sixth Sense literally made M. Night's career, and he's been trying to recapture the same kind of impact it had ever since.
@fonsspeek51 Жыл бұрын
I loved the twist in the sixth sense. Totally did not see that coming, but the twist in Split had an ever bigger impact (on me at least).
@Isthisjoebiden6 ай бұрын
The Others. I watched that movie so much as a kid❤
@James_Bee6 ай бұрын
Signs. I'm glad people are starting to realize that the aliens aren't aliens and all these years later people are finally realizing it.
@gFunc1 Жыл бұрын
The Prestige has a great plot twist! The reveal in the end has all to do with the name of the film. Clever and well executed
@yurenchu Жыл бұрын
The Prestige had _three_ plot twists!
@miguelpereira9859 Жыл бұрын
My favourite Nolan movie!
@johnnyrico7079 ай бұрын
I've seen that movie, but what was the plot twist? I don't remember. That he had a twin? I kind of saw that coming
@yurenchu8 ай бұрын
@@johnnyrico707 Warning: Spoilers for The Prestige (2006). The twists at the end were: 1. Alfred Borden and Bernard Fallon were actually twins, who swapped roles at each performance of The Transported Man; (I too saw this twist coming; but the reveal was beautifully presented, parallelling Angier's performance of his trick on stage, with Freddie Borden at his execution falling through the trapdoor, cut to the rolling red ball and Alfred Borden revealing himself to Angier.) 2. Robert Angier is actually Lord Caldlow; (That reveal was also nicely done, with Angier/Caldlow visiting Borden in prison, all dressed up and his hair gelled into two points at the sides, a subtle reference to a "Mephisto" character.) 3. Angier has been killing his duplicates (or, in essence, _himself_ ) each night at the final version of his show (The Real Transported Man). (This was the ugly shock that doesn't come into full realization until the final frame of the movie.)
@johnnyrico7078 ай бұрын
@@yurenchu wow. I'm going to have to watch it again! Very cool insights. Thank you!!
@ZM408 ай бұрын
It’s not often mentioned because it doesn’t really have much impact on the film story it’s revealed in but the twist of the dead guy on the floor in SAW being the mastermind literally blew me away. It was a similar impact to the Tyler Durden reveal for me when I first saw Fight Club.
@3TAKTER Жыл бұрын
Westworld season 1. I wish I could delete any memory of this and watch it again. That reveal at the end. Persons you thought would eventually fight each other are actually the same, everything is told in separate timelines. Many mini twists. Love it.
@James_Bee6 ай бұрын
It was so disappointing for me as it was really obvious to me. So many people loved the ending to season 1 and it absolutely ruined it for me when it's revealed Ford was orchestrating everything. People seem to forget that line. There was never any sentience.
@WifeWantsAWizard Жыл бұрын
Certainly "Sometimes they don't even know they're dead." ranks at the top of my list, but my favorite twist of all time was when Sgt. Schultz successfully impersonates a general in Paris to trick the Gestapo into leaving them all alone.
@PatMcAnn Жыл бұрын
lol
@CheeseMonkey18 Жыл бұрын
The Sixth Sense had an excellent plot twist that made you reconsider all of the events of the movie, and it was subtle and well done. Too bad Shyamalan has been chasing that high since because he often throws in dumb, unearned twists in everything now.
@steveo554 Жыл бұрын
Some of my favorite twists come from The Twilight Zone: The Eye of the Beholder and A Nice Place to Visit specifically. The way that they're executed and built up are so brilliant and they really make you think. Also love the Usual Suspects, though I admit the realization seemed a bit weak since the stories referenced were minimal and didn't pertain to the actual plot.
@j-rey- Жыл бұрын
Also the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man." I still get shivers. But "The Eye of the Beholder" is my favorite.
@sheshotjfk8375 Жыл бұрын
@@j-rey- Was going to mention "To Serve Man". That one always stuck with me.
@sylviatamieanan4088 Жыл бұрын
I know every TTZ fan is crazy about The Eye of the Beholder, but After Hours and the Lateness of the hour are my favorites. Those plot twits not only change the whole story, but the way we view ourselves as humans. The Invaders is another in my Top 5 list.
@steveo554 Жыл бұрын
@@sylviatamieanan4088 The same could also be said about The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. Realizing that *censored*
@DavidSharpe-e1b6 ай бұрын
The twist in Arrival is my favorite. Not only does the twist allow them to understand and overcome the problem the plot has presented all along, but the twist is also the mechanism through which the defining philosophical question of the movie is asked.
@olandoblen57913 ай бұрын
The name Evelyn Deavor is already a pun on Evil Endeavor, which also reveals her as a villain.
@GauravSingh-ku5xy Жыл бұрын
These videos are not just informational but also quite entertaining. I really like the videos where you explain the concepts with bad and good movie examples. Good work man.
@WriterBrandonMcNulty Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@MREmusique Жыл бұрын
For #4, the best "hidden villain" has to be Burke in Aliens. Choosing the most "good guy" actor on TV for the role was a stroke of genius.
@NukeMarine Жыл бұрын
Aliens was my first experience with Paul Reiser and I hated Burke so much I found it really difficult to like any character he played in later shows and movies.
@rickdesper Жыл бұрын
Except Aliens came out in 1986, long before Mad About You, or even My Two Days. At the time we only knew Paul Reiser as Axel Rose's partner in Detroit who covered for him while he went to Beverly Hills.
@Ishkur23 Жыл бұрын
Nah, he was a total corporate weasel. No one trusted him right from the start, not the marines, not the audience, and definitely not Ripley. And the reveal of how involved he was in the fate of the colonists just cemented his sleazebag nature (in fact if anything the Company sent him specifically to get rid of him. He was liable and culpable in everything that happened).
@marqc.9904 Жыл бұрын
@@rickdesperAxel Foley. Axel Rose is the lead singer for Guns n Roses. Now I actually forgot Reiser was even in Beverly Hills Cop, so nice little bit of trivia.
@robertdullnig3625 Жыл бұрын
The twist in the original is much better.
@NuurbEnur Жыл бұрын
I have always loved the twist of Shutter Island. Did not see it coming at all.
@jessejohnson96473 ай бұрын
I liked the plot twist in Training Day as unlikely as it was. Maybe it broke the rules but I didn’t feel cheated at all. And it happened at one of the most significant points and it made Jake’s heroic action of saving the girl even more significant.
@christianfortner10 ай бұрын
I can’t tell you how many expert plot twists are in Attack on Titan. Just when you think you’ve seen the craziest one, something even crazier happens - yet it still makes perfect sense.
@premium_chicken_nuggy Жыл бұрын
Oldboy (not the crappy Spike Lee remake) has the best plot twist in anything I’ve ever seen. Not only does it change our perception of Oh-Dae-Su and his relationships with the people closest to him, but it works because almost EVERY single character is an unreliable narrator in one way or another. Which leads to that ICONIC double twist. One of the best pieces of foreign media I’ve seen, and easily one of my favorite films.
@TristanCleveland Жыл бұрын
What was the double twist? I've seen it but I can't remember what you're referring to.
@premium_chicken_nuggy Жыл бұрын
@@TristanCleveland keep it secret, keep it safe. ;)
@pawacoteng Жыл бұрын
I shouted out the Handmaiden in another comment. Maybe a bit too indulgent in some of the more salacious scenes, but due to the themes of the movie prehaps it was some meta commentary. But that aside, the twists were earned and satisfying.