21 Tiny Movie Details That I Only Found Out Existed This Week

    Pixar made fun of themselves in Toy Story 4 for accidentally deleting their own movie.

    Tessa Fahey
    by Tessa Fahey

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. There's graffiti that says "Ditko" in Spider-Man: No Way Home to honor comic book artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

    2. Most of the costumes in the Harry Potter series were changed at some point, especially in Prisoner of Azkaban, but Snape's never did because it already fit the character perfectly.

    3. A license plate in Toy Story 4 that says "RMRF97" is actually a tribute to the computer command that someone accidentally used during the production of Toy Story 2 which deleted almost all of the work that had been done on the movie.

    Luckily, supervising technical director, Galyn Susman, had been working from home to spend time with her new baby, which meant that she had the only surviving backup on her personal computer.

    4. The credits of Mr. Popper's Penguins read, "No penguins were harmed in the making of this film. Jim Carrey, on the other hand, was bitten mercilessly. But he had it coming."

    5. Garrett Morris, the first person to play a live-action Ant-Man makes a cameo in the Ant-Man movie — he played him in a Saturday Night Live skit.

    6. The name of Wilbur's school in Meet the Robinsons is Joyce Williams, which is the reverse of William Joyce, who is the author of the book that the movie is based on.

    7. The walls of psychiatrist Lilith Ritter's office in Nightmare Alley are designed like Rorschach inkblot tests, which come from psychological theory.

    8. Mother Gothel kisses Rapunzel's hair in Tangled, making it clear who she's really saying "I love you" to.

    9. In the David Mirkin–directed Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, Ramon watches an episode of The Simpsons that was also directed by David Mirkin.

    10. While the beginning of Back to the Future Part II is supposed to be the same scene as the ending of Back to the Future, it actually had to be mostly reshot because they'd recast Jennifer.

    11. There's graffiti of Billy the Puppet in The Invisible Man because the director also wrote Saw.

    12. A stolen painting in Skyfall is a copy of a real painting, Woman With a Fan by Amedeo Modigliani, that was actually stolen in 2010 and never recovered.

    13. The author of the book Up in the Air appears briefly in the movie.

    14. Richard Donner was unable to direct The Lost Boys because he had already committed to Lethal Weapon, but he still put a hopeful sign saying "Lost Boys, this year's hit" into Lethal Weapon.

    15. In order to get detailed close-ups of the one ring in Lord of the Rings, they used multiple models of different sizes and the power of perspective.

    16. Martin Scorsese needed a shot of an airplane's fasten seatbelt sign for The Wolf of Wall Street, so the visual effect supervisor took a video using his phone of the sign on his flight.

    17. In a scene in Gangs of New York, you can see the cleaver that Bill threw at Monk bounce off his back while a second cleaver is embedded in his back.

    This is only a fun detail if you enjoy catching Martin Scorsese's mistakes.

    18. The Spy Who Shagged Me reuses rocket launch footage from Apollo 13.

    19. Exactly 30 minutes before the end of Fargo, Carl says, "30 minutes, Jerry, we wrap this thing up."

    20. Forrest is such a successful table tennis player in Forrest Gump because he never blinks, which he only does because he was told "to keep [his] eye on the ball."

    21. And finally, Kevin's plane ticket was actually thrown away by accident in Home Alone.