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Background character in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
In Catching Fire, Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch and Effie are taken to the capitol. While Haymitch gives the Tributes his "forget everything you think you know about the games" speech there is some creepy-looking person standing in the background looking…
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Is Irene Adler alive?
I did not understand a thing from the last minutes of "A Scandal in Belgravia". Are we actually taking a look at Irene about to get killed, and is she hallucinating when she sees Sherlock? Or is Sherlock having a flashback? And if so, why did he…
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What is the significance of Walt Whitman to a broader understanding of Breaking Bad?
Beware: spoilers for Breaking Bad season 5 below.
These are the facts as I understand them:
Leaves of Grass is a compendium of poems by Walt Whitman, an American influenced by Transcendentalism and Romanticism.
One of the many quirky ways that…
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Era of profanity in movie scripts?
The quote "Frankly, my dear I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind was famous largely because of the early use of profanity in the script.
In films from the 90s to the present, many movies are decorated with profanity. Is Gone with the Wind…
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Why does Walt go by Heisenberg?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White chooses to go by Heisenberg. I know that there has to be some significance behind both why Walt chose the name and why the writers chose that name as opposed to any other physicist's. It would make sense for it to have…
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Season 2: What is so important about the bridge?
I'm just about the second season of house of cards and I'm asking myself: What is so important about that bridge Feng wants to be build? He has already so much money and it seems not to be worth for him? What are his advantages if the bridge is…
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What is the sweariest movie ever?
I recently re-watched the Samuel L Jackson vehicle 51st State where he is also surrounded by some very sweary British actors (like Robert Carlyle). So I expected a lot of profanity. Obviously Jackson says "motherfucker" at least once (is this part…
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Why does Frank peel off the labels from bottles and things?
Catch Me If You Can's fictionalized version of Frank W. Abagnale Jr. uses to peel off labels from things. While in certain cases this is part of his check frauds (especially the Pan Am labels), he does this all the time with many everyday objects,…
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What Unit Does the BBC News Countdown Timer Count Down?
BBC News (UK) has a countdown timer in its opener, for example see this video.
On the bottom right, there's a countdown timer which counts the time until the news begin. But I find the timer somehow weird because it seems to count seconds and some…
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Why were Harvey Dent's sins covered up?
Why was it important to hide the sins of Harvey Dent in the movie, The Dark Knight? I mean what could have possibly happened if they hadn't?
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Are the shows Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead in the same universe?
Rewatching The Walking Dead, I noticed a scene where Daryl goes through Merles drugs and in the bag was Walt aka Heisenberg's blue meth.
From my quick google research, pure meth is never blue an inconsistency in Breaking Bad which means any meth…
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How did Jesse know that Walt did this in season 5?
In Breaking Bad Final Season, when Walt meets Jesse with Saul and asks Jesse to leave town, Jesse breaks into tears and says to Walt that why doesn't he tell him straight away what he wants or he will kill him as he killed Mike.
How did Jesse know…
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Is the 10th man rule purely fictional, or is it based in fact?
In World War Z, one of the characters described something called "the tenth man rule."
After several disasters that NO ONE thought could happen, the Council decided that if a vote was unanimous against a possible outcome, one member would act as if…
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Why is "Airplane!" called "Flying High!" in some countries?
According to Wikipedia, the movie Airplane! is called Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines. At the same time, Netflix in Australia calls this movie Airplane! and not Flying High!.
I have looked online for…
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Why did Zod ask for Lois Lane to come on their spaceship?
In Man of Steel (2013), when Zod and his subordinates come to take Superman, they ask for Lois Lane too. But when they take her, they don't ask her anything. They just put her in some kind of prison, from which she escapes with the help of Jor-El. I…
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