Film & Animation

10 Foreshadowing Moments You Missed In Your Favorite TV Series

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There was once a time where television was seen as highly inferior to movies, but now with excellent writing, compelling stories and some of the bigge stars around working on the small screen, TV has matched movies in terms of quality content. With an ultimately longer run time and space to have fully fleshed character arc and plot pacing, TV can be more inventive and compelling than some movies out there and shows like Succession, Breaking Bad and (some of) Game of Thrones is up there with the best content of all time. One of the ways they provide quality content is through the use of foreshadowing.Foreshadowing is a plot device in which a writer or filmmaker gives an advance hint of what is to happen later on in the story, with the term being a play on the concept of a shadow appearing before an object and it has been used in fiction for centuries. Some of the best TV shows around like to use foreshadowing as an effective plot method, so we thought we would go back and take a look at some of the best instances of foreshadowing in some of the biggest and best shows around that you might have missed.... Read More | Share it now!

10 MCU Scenes That Were Almost Impossible To Make

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Making movies is hard. Any movie. Anywhere from dozens to hundreds of people show up early and leave late moving tons of gear building up sets and lights and often tearing them down in the same day. All that and in a major feature film more often than not they’re not even shooting a whole page for the day. And that’s just just for a movie where people talk to each other about their feelings. Action movies complicate things exponentially. Now you have a team of stunt coordinators choreographing the stunts with their own apparatus that need to be built up and torn down. Then you have the actors that want to do their own stunts, so now you have a team of people trying to digest their life of training into enough of an understandable bite so that the star understands enough not to end up visiting the medic and shutting down the production. Add in the superhero special effects element and now you’re shooting around a set that’s only half there with actors interacting with things that are also not there. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is all of those things and provides a special set of challenges, and not always what you’d expect. Whether it’s creating a crazy world of pure fantasy or if it’s just an actor trying to do too much or out of their comfort zone, building a shared universe has its challenges as well. What do you think would be the hardest hurdle to overcome making a superhero movie? Let us know in the comments and be sure to like and subscribe for the latest videos in your inbox.... Read More | Share it now!