10 Movies With Ridiculously Subtle Foreshadowing
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Woah woah woah! Hold the fuck up! Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader??
Joshua Hurd Spoiler....
Brace yourself, I'm going to blow your mind a second time. Bruce Willis was dead the whole time. And Snape kills Dumbledore.
wherethetatosat bruh wtf just ruined the entire book for meh
TheOfficialOMMY eh, book?
+wherethetatosat
Hah, you call that spoilers? I got one that'll blow your socks into orbit. ..... The Titanic, it sinks in the end.
I watched Roger Rabbit again recently with a friend who'd never seen it before and noticed for the first time that when Eddie says that the toon who killed his brother stole "a zillion simoleons" from a bank. Earlier in the film, a character told Eddie that Judge Doom became Judge by spreading "a bunch of simoleons" around Toontown a few years before. Nice job, movie.
Shawn of the Dead had foreshadowing all over the place
good call - the line Ed speaks in the Winchester the night before (Bloody Mary first thing... stagger back to the bar for shots) is so beautifully subtle I missed it even after several watches
And Hot Fuzz, which had even more in fact. Every other line foreshadows the big plot twist or something happening during the big finale.
the cornetto trilogy, in my opinion, is one of the best examples of forwshadowing
I think those might be considered more callbacks rather than foreshadowing.
Gary Smith
I don't think it can be a callback if they happened *before* the event in question
I thought the xman first class, one was obvious
Yeah agreed.
IT WAS HIS PLAN ALL ALONG, YOU SHOVE A coin in that guys brain
Its more obvious when its not "I wanna kill someone with a coin" and more a reference to Shaw making him move a coin in Auschwitz.
AGM_Flatline Don't forget after Shaw murdered Erik's mother in front of him, gave him the coin as a reward for using his powers. Guess what coin it was that went through Shaw's head?
Was pretty obvious in the film, and wasn't subtle at all.
How the fuck is the Jungle Book one subtle? They talk about fire at length, even as a small kid I picked up on the callback.
"There will be blood" has the best foreshadowing. Just read the movie title.
supahtyp lols
supahtyp what about the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford?
that seems more like a spoiler in the title
"There wasn't even any blood!" "There was blood." "There was hardly any blood."
Is the Obi-Wan comment really foreshadowing though? The actual death of him happened already decades before the prequel movies... so it's more like a referential joke for everyone who already knows the end result.
Silly WhatCulture writers.
John West IV i thought this
Heh, seems like someone here can't know a joke when he hears one ^^
julj94 uh... it was an example.
+julj94I I can't blame them. I didn't realize it was a joke until your comment . Guess it was just too subtle.
The 'analysis' in these videos is so far beyond basic, it's like watching a five year old try to do media studies.
The coin in Magneto was because when he was a child, Shaw said 'move the coin'. So he was into irony.
now THAT was a good example of subtle foreshadowing. I didnt feel like the foreshadowing of magneto shooting the coin into the picture of Shaw was all that subtle. So i tip my hat to you sir
Even more ironic, a coin that went straight thru your head would in most cases not kill you. That's why lower caliber guns are popular with the killers in books and movies, enough force to get in, but not enough to get out, so it bounces around and maximizes damage. A similar line of thought explains the potency of the M16, whose smaller caliber bullets (.225) and slower velocity speed results in bullets that tumble inside the body of the target.
A man who controls metals would be into irony.
kudos...
+PtolemyJones To be fair, he moved the coin through his head VERY slowly. I wouldn't even be surprised if he twisted it around while inside.
jurrasic park was also awesome with the forshadowing. probably everyone already knows this one, but here it is: when the main guy and Co are in the helikopter going to the island, he cant tighten his seatbelt, bc he has two females. but he just ties them together: he found a way to make it work. Just like how in jurrasic park there are only females, but nature found away to make it work.
That's brilliant, way to go dude
I remember telling some of my colleagues on a bus ride that. They all got a hoot out of me calling the buckle the lady bit. I then told them to look it up. Silence. Then laughter! Good times.
You just made my day. Thank you.
Huh...I never looked at it that way! Thanks Jurassic Park! Almost 25 years old and you're still kicking?
#cloacascissoring
The Obiwan quote is not fore-shadowing, it's 25-years-after-the-fact-shadowing...
Owen Oulton post shadowing ?
I think that's just called "Shadowing"...
I believe its called a callback.
+Charles Damon Considering that it was a quote from a prequel, I would agree.
its called dramatic irony, something we the audience know but not the character. (who ever thought grade 10 drama would be useful...)
In the prestige he uses two canaries at the start and the kid asks what about the brother... Which is the twist at the end
Mr Crabbs best movie ever. it had a twist to a twist.
at the bignining your made to think batman kills wolverine THEN TWIST wolverine was alive TWIST wolverine was making clones through science fiction THEN FINAL TWIST batman had a brother.
also the clones that died can also be seen as wolverines brothers.
this movie blew my mind.
Noe Camarena still don't understand why Alfred betrayed master Wayne
Mr Crabbs it was a clone, not a brother...
Yeah...we get it...A-list actors have all played super heroes at some point. And Chris Nolan likes to re-use actors for several of his movies
@Jayson Roberts No it wasn't. Bale had no access to or knowledge about the machine. The point was that they were 2 twins that had dedicated their lives to the art. (Just like the old oriental man)
Hot Fuzz - the grand finale of the film is basically a gigantic compilation of every fantastical action setpiece described by Danny in his conversations with Nicholas.
Jurassic Park - Dr Grant's lecture to the kid about raptors is exactly how Warden Muldoon meets his end.
Obi-Wan's line was NOT foreshadowing. It was a tongue in cheek joke for long-time fans.
Also, that First Class one isn't remotely subtle.
Foreshadowing after the fact. It's postshadowing!
CommanderCorner m j
CommanderCorner long time fans of what?
Tony Flamingo Seriously? Did "Obi-Wan" not give it away?
Another bit of foreshadowing in who framed roger rabbit that revealed judge Doon was a toon was when he executed the cartoon shoe he put gloves on before putting it in the dip and when a barrel of dip got knocked over he jumped out of the way
William Morgan Wow you know I never noticed that. Good observations man!
Yeah me neither. Need to watch the film again.
Also, Judge Doom's cape billows in the wind... even when indoors.
Williaml
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My sister pointed out that since it's paint remover, he would wear them anyway.
The World's End: Simon Pegg's opening narration foreshadows every plot beat in the film.
Edgar Wright always makes extremely tight well-crafted movies.
I think they did something like this in Shaun of the Dead as well. Nick Frost foreshadows everything in the pub scene after Shaun is dumped.
Emyr Williams Yep. His plan for the day spells everything out that will happen. The more subtle bit is that he mentions getting a bloody mary. Later, the female zombie in the garden is covered in blood, and her name tag indicates she is named Mary.
Omar Harris
Omar Harris
The entire trilogy is full of these moments, and they're all brilliant and hilarious.
"He even ends up with a blood splatter on his shirt where he gets shot later on in the movie."
The goes on the show the tow clips proving the blood splatter and shot are in two different places...
The Edgar Wright cornetto movies are BONKERS about foreshadowing. They are subtle foreshadowing masterclasses, you could make an entire episode of this JUST on the foreshadowing in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End! Edgar Wright REALLY loves having fun with this, it makes watching his movies a second time a very different experience.
Probably the worst of these is in The World's End, where the entire movie is summed up to you in the first 10 minutes, without you knowing, and where the name of every pub they visit is a joke about the actual events that will occur in them throughout the movie.
That is so damn true and most people never notice any of it at all!
I loved that about those movies - they're fun house mirrors when you compare the two halves together. Shaun of the Dead doing that morning trip to the shop just beautifully.
I've seen Shaun of the Dead and Worlds End didn't notice foreshadowing in either, then again I am extremely unobservant
With a lot of foreshadowing, you are never really meant to notice it on your first watch, its more like "new jokes" for you to notice on a second watch, when you still remember the events that occur later in the movie. With Edgar Wright especially!
Hot Fuzz. Almost every single piece of dialogue is brought up again up some point
and Shawn of the dead. Shawn's plan for the night out fits the plot
Narp?
We were knee-deep in crusty jugglers.
Rhigull03 "But you've allllllways been here"
But I wouldn't really call their foreshadowing subtle. (Amazing and hilarious, yes, but not subtle)
Magneto wants to use the coin because at the beginning when he is younger and at the nazi camp Kevin bacon wants him to use his powers to move the coin. Bacon even goes so far as to shoot and kill magnetos mom to get him emotional charged to move the coin. It was more about the irony of it rather than foreshadowing
Foreshadowing in Star Wars was different for me. You see Luke dress in light clothes in A New Hope, then grey in Empire Strikes Back and black in Jedi. It was misleading foreshadowing, hinting that Luke would turn to the dark side, which he doesn't. Maybe you should do one on movies that gave subtle hints as to what is to come, only to have the opposite be true. There must be other movies that pulled the same trick to keep people guessing.
Would've worked if Anakin wore the same colors as Luke because he did go evil, of course everyone knew he would since it's a prequel but whatever
Well I mean it does kind of work. From what I hear Luke does end up turning to the darkside. Perhaps the main villian in epi 9?
TheDisneylover23 that one is because the original script had luke turn evil in no.6 but Lucas went the other way in the end, negating the foreshadowing already shown
If I remember right, it was only the outside of his clothes that were black in Return of the Jedi. When you see the underside, it's white.
White/grey, but you are right. It was just a thought I had at the time. I was 6 when Star Wars came out.
Looper isn't foreshadowing. You're just describing the plot as it goes. It's not foreshadowing when it basically tells us that the kid is the rainmaker.
Shaun of the Dead had crazy foreshadowing! When Ed's telling Shaun their pub-outing plans for the next day, he outlines the entire plot of the movie.
... Which is why it's literally the opposite of subtle, dumbass.
?? No offence, but subtle means hard to notice. You wouldn't have spotted that foreshadowing right away. The names of pubs refer to events coming up, and things like that.
... "No offense" but subtle means NOT absurdly and INTENTIONALLY blatantly obvious.
It was a joke that everyone who watches it twice, or even *thinks* about the movie notices. That's why it's so famous.
Fair enough. I just thought it took a few viewings to notice, plus very clever.
Metebelis3 it wasn't obvious at all. You're right mate.
In X-Men Origins Wolverine, Stryker tells Wade at the beginning "If you didn't have that mouth Wade, you'd be the perfect soldier" and we all know where that went.
Reservoir Dogs' opening restaurant scene > The Usual Suspects. That's some grade A foreshadowing that you completely missed.
Gravitynaut I love that.
wait..what was foreshadowed in the opening scene? all i remember was the like a virgin is about a big dick conversation and that mr pink doesn't like to tip? is it because at the end mr pink tries to get away with the diamonds so the whole tip thing showed that he was greedy?
rondre molo when one of the guys returns to the table and asks who didn't tip, Mr. Orange (The rat) rats out Mr. pink for not tipping. He was a rat from the very start of the film.
Also there is bottles with different color liquids (orange, white and pink) on a shelf and the orange one is separated from the others showing he’s not with them and is the rat
I just noticed the foreshadow in Star Wars 2, where Obi Wan asks Jango Fett how well the clone army will work. Jango has a strong hatred for Jedi and he responded in a very low key aggressive tone, "They'll get the job done, I assure you". In episode 3 the clones turn on the Jedi and kill the majority of them
TankBusta yo I never noticed that
That's actually pretty legit. Moreso than most in this video.
Another piece of foreshadowing in "The Usual Suspects" is the name of Spacey's character. "Söze" means "word" in Turkish, and it is very close in pronunciation with "sözel" which literally means "verbal". Also, "Kaiser" means "king" in German, a word very similar with Verbal's last name Kint. It hints strongly that Verbal Kint = Kaiser Söze.
Actually Kaiser means Emperor in german.
Like how Vader is German for Father
That's Vater, with a "t."
Koenig is King in German. I think at root Caesar is head.
Thought the looper one was super obvious. I mean isn't what you've described as foreshadowing basically just the plot?
Grim Reaper Yeah. I thought that was supposed to be obvious to everyone. Like a big reveal.
Yeah, caught that one first view.
Looper is a great example of linear time travel.
KaZ Neosis Meh, there are actually a lot of contradictions. If you watch the YMS review it highlights a few. Great film anyway.
I don't remember there being posters in Cid's room depicting The Rainmaker's future henchmen.
I thought that 4-shadowing in "Usual suspects" will be the bit with golden watch. At the beginning of the movie Keyser Soze is shown in dark, with his golden watch being the only visible thing. And later Kevin Spacey is shown having such watch on him.
Wasn't it the golden lighter?
Bof
I think its worth mentioning as well from lion king that part when scar says to simba when simba asks if he will like the surprise, and scar replies with, "it's to die for."
buts thats obvious and direct foreshadowing which simon said they were ignoring since this video was about subtle foreshadowing.
Obi-Wan saying "you'll be the death of me" = Not subtle. Kevin Bacon getting a coin through the head before he gets a coin through the head = Subtle. I don't get it.
Besides, that wasn't really meant to be clever foreshadowing as much as it was meant to just be a reference to the first movie.
Right. Foreshadowing occurs between author/creator and audience -- it's not about the timeline of the fictional world. It's an allusion to something the audience hasn't seen happen yet. So a reference to something the audience already knows about isn't foreshadowing.
Not a movie, but Bioshock Infinite took foreshadowing to some absolutely insane lengths
Betta66 that video game is kinda fucked. You give your daughter to yourself (different reality of yourself) but regret it and attempts to take her back but fail, become an alcoholic, get help by two people who are the same person technically (different realities of same person), get your daughter in a tower, kill your alternate self (you can argue that's murder/ suicide), then have your daughter kill you so your alternate self doesn't take her.
Matt Way When you put it like that, you make it sound like "Limbo"
what about shawn of the dead straight up explaining the whole plot at the start? maybe im just dumb, but i didnt catch it the first time :P
0:30 He's reading "Wicked" upside down!
The coin thing was very obvious. He got the coin from the guy as a kid. Carried it as an adult and practiced using it as a weapon. This doesn't belong on the same list as the others which are only clear in hindsight.
The 'usual suspects' is a reference to a line in Casablanca. What it refers to is the local lowlifes who will be rounded up, even though they are innocent, because no one in power wants things looked at too closely.
WTF does 'suspects' who are 'usual' mean, anyway?
The 'usual' kind of 'suspect' implies that they're stereotypical, career criminals who are familiar to police. 'Usual' is, ironically, an unusual word.
My favourite use of foreshadowing is in The Worlds End: the entire prologue is repeated in the rest of the film. listen to what Simon Pegg says, off the top of my head he dmsays something like one of his mates passes out and they leave him at the 5th pub or something, that same mate is abducted after the 5th pub, and so on. The whole film is a repetition of past events. Watch them side by side and you'd understand
The song at the beginning of Frozen gives the whole plot.
Most of these examples are not foreshadowing. They are plot beats and references.
Foreshadowing is a reference to a event later in the story or plot, could be subtle or obvious.
If it's stated outright it's not foreshadowing though.
Podimann untrue as a lot of times someone can blurt out the twist and no one even the adunce will cear. like if a drunk person dose it there just dumb and drunk.
EyeOfCrazy
Well alright, if said by a character that isn't given credibility and that generally would be assumed to have no knowledge of what could happen later, it can still be foreshadowing.
If it's said by a narrator or a character that can be assumed to have knowledge of what might happen, it isn't.
Star Wars 7:
During the interigation Kylo says "i see your Island" and at the ending of the film: Look there, she found Luke on an Island !
The oranges in the Godfather,
The X's in The Departed
Not only the oranges - the wedding scene gives us the whole picture of relations between the characters.
Can't believe you guys didn't mention the "coppertop" line from the first Matrix movie...
Kevin Spacey must like mystery movies a lot
One of my favorites is in Jurassic Park. On the helicopter ride to the island near the beginning, Dr. Grant is attempting to strap in, but the only buckles he can find are both the end that gets buckled into - the female end, if you will. Instead of continuing his search, he simply ties the two female ends in a knot across his lap. This mirrors what happens later, when the all-female dino population utilizes their frog genes to swap sexes and reproduce. Dr. Grant, like life, finds a way.
The Obi-Wan quote is a joke, and a freaking hilarious one at that.
I'd it was taken down due to copyright or something, sucks how a few seconds can force a channel to remove an entire vid
Sean Fitzgerald nope, it was because they confused Kevin Spacey and Kevin Bacon in the First Class bit.
Fair, my bad
Erik aka Trash I thought that was Kevin Bacon 😬
Reservoir dogs, the undercover cop is first to grass on who didn't tip
Frequency, when John visits the killer's father before and after he changes the timeline. It explains why the kill count goes from 3 to 10 after John saves his own father.
"Looks like the word evil threw up on him" I actually LOLed at that
What's really interesting about Who Framed Roger Rabbit is knowing that Judge Doom may have lost the battle (and his life) but he won the war. Streetcars are extinct, freeways are everywhere, and there isn't a Toon in sight anymore (maybe they all emigrated to Japan and South Korea?).
My favourite piece of foreshadowing (subtle or not) is in The Shawshank Redemption. When Red and Andy are talking about life outside of prison, sitting in the shadow of the prison wall, Red tries to give Andy some perspective by saying, "C'mon Andy, these are just some shitty pipe dreams."
There's another part in the Usual Suspects where Verbal Kint says "I did...I did kill Keaton..." but because Agent Kujan is shouting over him, it becomes foreshadowed
Well considering that magneto's coin was the coin that he was given by the main antagonist right after the death of his mother. So yeah the coin kind of makes sense. He had to move the coin in order to save his mother. But it's the coin that will later kill the man responsible. I don't think that's very ridiculous.
Don't forget the subtle foreshadowing of having Mel Gibson play a Scott. If you don't get the joke, go watch mock the week.
4:00 what you say? Lol
I'm sorry. But, I feel there were a few on this list that deserved to be on it, less than basically any of the Cornetto trilogy films(Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and At World's End). Every time you watch any of those, you see how much they put little hints of future outcomes in their dialogue or the background.
This reminds me of a what culture wrestling video but about movies... of wait.
Why'd you take the vid down the first time?
Advait Namboothiri they confused Kevin Spacey and Kevin Bacon.
They actually got rid of that bit. I thought it was intentional...
As there was another "mistake" I thought it was just a joke. I can't remember what the other one was though, and I can't find it so I guess they took it out too.
Erik aka Trash or was that foreshadowing of the foreshadowing of the #1 video?
Welp, these videos are produced by morons, so it's entirely unsurprising.
mejoff Right, I suppose you could do better?
In the film "The Departed" a shitton of characters die. The thing is, all the important characters that get X-ed off, were previously shown with an X, hidden in the background.
Jungle book and X men weren't subtle. I picked that up first viewing
A cloverleaf on/off ramp system is very effective. It allows most thru-traffic to remain traveling at full speed while those changing to a different road can travel at moderately high speed and effectively join traffic going in a different direction.
Simon!!!!!!! Yes
In "This is the End" Seth and Franco's ideas for "Pineapple Express II Blood Red" all slowly unfold throughout the film.
shawn of the dead! the list of drinks he does symbolizes the zombies they run into
Not even slightly subtle, dumbass.
The World's End had a MASSIVE amount of foreshadowing. When Gary King described the original Golden Mile, everything that happened at each of the pubs was mirrored at the same pubs throughout the film. This includes the bit when they sat on the hillside, thinking that it was the dawn of a new world; it was the same hillside where they sat at the end of the film, realising that it really was the dawning of a new world.
Also, each of the pub names is foreshadowing of what happens in there. For example, at The Trusty Servant, they meet up with collaborators, and at The Two Headed Dog, they have a run-in with twins.
Another bit of foreshadowing was regarding the number of musketeers - five, in case they lose two, so that they can still be known as the three musketeers.
Shaun of the dead has a brilliant piece of foreshadowing at the beginning when Nick Frost's character discusses his plan for the evening.
I totally love this pics popping up for each and every word 😂. It’s very entertaining.
Every movie I watch these days foreshadows the events. Anything from a subtle one liner to a really blatent action. I've noticed all of these by the end of watching the films.
Pretty much the entire first half of Shaun of the Dead
One of the very first lines of Interstellar has Murph telling Cooper "I thought you were my ghost". I think there's more but that's the one that popped out when I rewatched it.
We have cloverleaf intersections in the UK too. There are several in my town.
My personal favorite instance of subtle foreshadowing is from Shutter Island. At the very beginning when Teddy and Chuck arrive at Shutter Island, the warden asks them to hand over their firearms. Chuck has some trouble getting his gun out of the holster. He struggles with this because he's not used to handling guns because he's not a U.S. Marshal, but actually Dr. Sheehan.
I'm digging all this Simon content!
Primer should have been in there
"You're talking about making a bigger one." and at the end he's making a building sized box.
With all the forshadowing I caught in The Usual Suspects I actually missed that one. Actuall I didn't catch any the first time around but there are 6 hard to miss hints upon second viewing. Brilliant.
Don’t forget the time in the Omen 2 where Damien has a hockey match themed cake that gets cut down the middle, then later on during an actual hockey game the ice splits down the middle and a man falls into the water and dies.
The editor of this video is a genius 😂😂
In Demolition Man, when John Spartan captures Simon Phoenix and asks where the bus is, Simon says "You know, I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached". And that's how he died, being frozen and Spartan kicking his head off.
The world end literally tells you the events of the movie in the prologue disguised as a memory
Jurassic park one. The seatbelt. That bit of foreshadowing still gives me goosebumps because of how clever it is
I thought for sure you were going to mention the part in Total Recall when Arnold's character is getting prepped for the simulation and one of the doctors says "That's weird. Blue skies in Mars."
Magneto is true role-model if I have ever seen one!! Make your dreams a reality!!
Snakes on a Plane's foreshadowing is so good that if you critically analyze the title you don't even need to see the movie.
In the first Harry Potter film ... when Ron sees Snape in the audience at the Quidditch match muttering the counter curse. At the corner of the screen you can see Quirrell staring at Harry and muttering too .
"The Worlds End" is *full* of foreshadowing, I can't believe it doesn't make it into this list.
There are 5 members of Gary Kings "gang", and during a discussion on the way to Newtonhaven, Gary calls them the "5 musketeers". Someone else points out that there were only 3 musketeers, and Gary claims that 5 would be a much better number because 2 could die and there would still be 3 left. Later on, 2 members of his "gang" are killed and there are three left.
Also the names of the 12 pubs all have some foreshadowing of what happens in them, for example, when they get to "The Hole In the Wall", Steven literally drives a car through the wall.
And then there's "Shaun of the Dead", where the events of the zombie apocalypse the next day are basically summed up in a 2 minute drunken conversation between Ed and Shaun near the start of the movie.
The world's end, had my favorite foreshadowing, everything that happens the first time, is exactly what happens the second
Literally the next scene with Simba in it is naturally lit. They don't wait until he's king again.
The Usual Suspects has another one: when he hands the crew folders with their info, the folders are handed out in the order the characters die.
The Departed is crazy with foreshadowing. One example, just before anyone dies, there is always an 'X' somewhere visible in the shot
In Office Space, Milton tells Peter in his normal rambling that if they take his stapler again he's gonna burn down Initech. Which he does
I love foreshadowing. Too bad I'm to stupid to make up my own...
Try threeshadowing, its less complicated
Ed's speech in Shaun of the Dead...
1) A Bloody Mary first up - The zombie with 'Mary' on her nametag
2) A bite at the King's Head - Shaun's stepdad being bitten
3) A Couple at the little princess - David, Di, and Liz all in the same flat
4) Stagger back here... - They all pretend to be zombies on the way to the Winchester
5)... And bang! Back at the bar for shots - Using the winchester rifle to shoot zombies.
X-Men first class has another nice bit of foreshadowing (though not so subtle): Darwin says to Havok not long before he dies (while they're playing pinball): "Aw, you're killin' me, man!"
cant forget the golden lighter that was given to Verbal Kint when he exited the lockup, and that it is the same one seen lighting the barge fire.
Shaun of the Dead. The bar conversation between our two main cast foreshadowed every horrible event that happened in the rest of the movie.
The Prestige had one of favorite foreshadowing moments in it.
*Spoilers Below*
Early on in the movie, one of the magicians does a trick that causes a bid in a cage to vanish and then reappear. A boy watching them asks through his tears, "Where did his brother go?" With a revelation shortly after shows that a bid had to die in order for the trick to work. This have foreshadowing on many levels, revealing early on how both rival magicians perform their biggest tricks and how they escape death. It was really clever and deserved a spot on this list.
The Departed: You can see every improtant character who dies in front of an "X" (if it is a shadow or a fenece or something else) at some point during the movie. God i love it!
In the movie 1408, when John Cusack calls the front desk for a maintenance man to fix his thermostat he says, "This room is on fire." Which is foreshadowing the room burning down at the end.
Just recognised a foreshadowing in Memento a few days ago. You see Leonard in stead of Sammy Jankins in the mental hospital after a doctor passes the screen for just about a tenth of a second.
You wanna talk subtle Foreshadowing, check out Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. Shaun pretty much tells you the entire movie right at the opening, while in Hot Fuzz the culprits behind the mystery of the movie area litterally spelled out to you almost immediately when Nicholas Angel arrives.
That's not just subtle foreshadowing, it's practically invisible.
I know there was something like this in "Shaun of the Dead" too, but the pubs in "The World's End" foreshadow events throughout the movie:
1. The First Post
2. The Old Familiar
3. The Famous Cock
4. The Cross Hands
5. The Good Companions
6. The Trusty Servant
7. The Two Headed Dog
8. The Mermaid
9. The Beehive
10. The King’s Head
11. The Hole in the Wall
12. The World’s End