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19 Movie Scenes That Were So Smart, I Can't Believe Someone Thought Of Them

Toy Story waited 15 YEARS to make a single callback reference.

We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which movie moment was so clever, they couldn't believe someone actually thought of it. Here are the genius results.

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1. In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, when they illustrated Miles' first real flight as Spider-Man by making it look as if he was falling to his death, but then the camera flipped angles and you realized he was actually soaring through the sky.

An upside-down camera angle that makes it look like Spider-Man is flying through the sky

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2. In Call Me by Your Name, when Elio's gestures kept mirroring the statues that Oliver studied. Oliver looked at them as works of art, so having Elio mimic those images suggested that he was a work of art in Oliver's eyes.

A side-by-side of Elio crying in the car with his hand on his head, compared to a statue from the movie that's making the same gesture

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3. In Parasite, when water was constantly used as a way to represent class warfare in society, especially between the Kim and Park families.

Yeon-kyo talking about how the rain was a blessing, vs. clips of how the rain destroyed the Kim family's home

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4. In The Shawshank Redemption, when the different camera angles signified how Brooks still felt like a prisoner when he was released from jail, but Red was a free man.

Brooks leaving the prison but the camera faces him/the gate, vs. Red leaving prison and the camera faces an open area

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5. In La La Land, when they teased a happy ending with that dreamy montage, but then it cut back to reality, and Mia was with a different guy.

Mia sitting with Sebastian before the montage, then Mia sitting with her actual husband when it cuts to reality

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6. In Get Out, when Chris saw Georgina fixing her bangs in the reflection of the window, she was actually making sure her lobotomy scar wasn't showing. That's the same reason Walter was never shown without a hat on.

Georgina fixing her hair in the window, and Walter running at Chris with his hat on

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7. In Saw, when Jigsaw was actually in the room the whole time, and he cleverly revealed himself to be one of the "dead" victims.

Jigsaw waking up and taking off his mask, revealing he's not actually a victim

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8. In Toy Story 3, when the aliens used "the claw" to save everyone from being incinerated in the fire, which was a genius callback to the first movie.

Side-by-side of the toy aliens using the claw in the first movie vs. in the third movie

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9. In Crazy Rich Asians, when there was sooooo much symbolism throughout that game of mahjong between Rachel and Eleanor, right down to where they sat and which tiles they picked up.

Rachel folding the winning hand against Eleanor in mahjong

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10. In The Usual Suspects, when Kujan realized that every single word out of Verbal's mouth was a perfectly orchestrated lie, and Verbal was actually Keyser Söze.

Kujan looking for Verbal outside of the police station, but he's disappeared

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11. In Forrest Gump, when Jenny was a child and prayed to God that she could become a bird and "fly far, far away" from her father, and at the end of the movie, a bird's feather appeared next to Forrest's shoe as he sent their son off to school.

Forrest and Jenny praying together, then Forrest outside Jenny's grave, then a feather by Forrest's shoe

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12. In Parasite, when Da-song's ghost encounter was quickly dismissed as fiction, but then you learn about the man secretly living in the basement, and you realize the "ghost" is real.

Dao-song eating cake next to the fridge and seeing a head pop out next to the staircase

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13. In The Sixth Sense, when Malcolm (and the viewer) realized that he'd actually been dead the whole time, and everything starts to make sense.

Malcolm seeing his wedding ring on the floor and realizing it's not on his hand anymore, then a flashback to Cole saying that he see's people who don't know they're dead yet

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14. In Jojo Rabbit, when Jojo was chasing a butterfly and suddenly discovered that his mother had been hanged in the town square, and he tried to tie her shoe but couldn't.

JoJo noticing his mother's shoes, then her lifeless body, as it hangs in the town square

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15. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, Harry, Ron, and Hermione fought the same creatures during the Battle of Hogwarts that they fought throughout the series, in the order that they appeared.

Side-by-sides of Harry, Ron, and Hermione fighting trolls, then spiders

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16. In Baby Driver, when the title sequence was perfectly choreographed, and every single movement by the actors matched the song that was playing in the background.

Baby ordering his coffee to the tune of the song

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17. In Memento, when Leonard found out the truth about his wife and her killer, and Teddy was just using his bad memory to help find other murderers.

Leonard injecting insulin in his wife's thigh

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18. In Now You See Me 2, when they pulled off the hidden-card trick, and every single movement got more elaborate and visually stunning.

The Four Horsemen successfully hiding the card from the guards

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19. And in Midsommar, when Dani's gray outfits throughout the movie slowly started to get more colorful, ending in a full-on rainbow flower costume, which represented how much she'd blossomed and matured.

Dani in all gray-colored clothes throughout the movie, then slowly transitioning into more colorful outfits

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