I was thinking about the Sandy Hook Promise: Gun violence warning signs video where a stereotypical teen romance story plays out and in the background someone gives off warning signs that they’re going to go on a shooting spree and it’s made me wonder if there are movies that follow a similar setup of building something up in the background just to have it completely overtake the main story line.
Like an average city girl following in love with a prince but you see protests and other signs of civil unrest in the background and the prince gets assassinated at the wedding. Maybe some kind of story that ends in 9/11 or the Cold War turning hot. Some kind of discount M. Night Shyamalan-style twist.
Life is beautiful.
The first half is a romcom about a charming and dorky Jewish Italian man chasing after his “princesa” and starting a family with a little boy.
Then the Nazis arrive.
Hot Fuzz. One of my favourites. The twist is so dumb it’s awesome.
Not a movie, but the webcomic Homestuck is chalk full of this stuff
Cabin in the Woods, definitely
I implore anyone NOT to watch the trailer or read anything about it.
This movie works best when you go about in blind.
It’s one of my all time favorites, it’s so fucking good.
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I really wish they would make a prequel which focuses on the operators, a TV series would be so great.
I feel like a lot of Anime’s have that kind of twist, where all is revealed, with plenty of background clues on first watch.
Mirai Nikki springs to mind
