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Watchmen (2009) - 15 trivia entries

Directed by Zack Snyder, starring Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson (add more)

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller

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During the opening fight scene, Comedian throws a mug at his attacker, but misses. The mug strikes the numerals on his apartment door, knocking the '1' off. This turns 3001 into "300", the name of the director's previous hit film.

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This is for the trailer rather than for the final film, but worth a look. At 1:33 in the trailer, just after seeing Rorschach slam someone against a wall, we see another fight. Pause it and look at the guy in black - he's holding a walkie-talkie, which in the next shot becomes a gun. This is only trivia, not a mistake, because it's only valid for the trailer. The MPAA don't allow guns to be pointed at the screen in trailers, so Zack Snyder, in a tribute to the infamous gun-editing from E.T., replaced the gun in that one shot with a walkie-talkie.

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If you look closely, one of the movies playing on one of Ozymandias' screens is "The 300 Spartans", which deals with the same subject as director Zach Snyder's previous film, "300".

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When Dan and Hollis hear a TV news report referencing Rorshack, they glance at the screen in time to see grainy black and white 'file footage' of Rorshack walking quickly away and to the right of the camera position, glancing back over his right shoulder momentarily. That footage is intentionally designed to precisely mimic the infamously-disputed film of Bigfoot (known as the Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967).

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In the scene where Ozymandias is observing his TV monitors, one of the screens in the lower left corner is showing Apple's infamous Super Bowl commercial for the 1984 release of the Macintosh computer.

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In the opening credits, after the Comedian is dead and photo shoots are taken from the old vigilantes, the Sally Jupiter retirement party picture resembles Da Vinci's Last Supper (table, hands positions, room columns, mountains in the back).

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When Rorschach is in jail and is being shown the inkblots, he sees one that looks to him like two lovers. At the end of the movie, when he is killed by Dr. Manhattan, the blood stain on the ground is in the exact same shape.

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When the Dr. Manhattan-esque bomb goes off and we see a man's briefcase fly open, look at the combination on the look. It's set to "300", a film also directed by Zack Snyder.

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The plot to force peace by uniting against a common enemy is similar to the Outer Limits episode, "The Architects of Fear." A nod to this is that just after the scenes in Antarctica, you see a TV with the classic Outer Limits opening.

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The war room in which Nixon is planning the first strike on the Soviet Union has a wonderful similarity to the war room in Dr. Strangelove.

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At the meeting of the Watchmen, where the Comedian burns the United States map, check out the Zippo lighter he uses - it's etched with the same image of Silk Spectre that appears on the bomber in the beginning.

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During the scene in which Hollis Mason is beaten up by the gang of knot-tops (Director's Cut DVD), when the Minutemen photo shatters against the bookshelf, a copy of the actual Watchmen book is seen on the shelf.

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Halfway through the film the camera pans a street and passes over a news stand run by an old man with a boy sitting against a fire hydrant reading a comic ("Tales of the Black Freighter", which has been animated and will be released on DVD). There is no time to expand the characters for the film but in the comic they play a larger role and provide the location where Rorschach catches up with the news.

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On the countdown screens at the end of the movie, written below the timers it says "S.Q.U.I.D." A little nod to how the explosion went down in the graphic novel.

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In the scene showing the cogs within the machine built by Dr. Manhattan for Veidt, a gear is shown imprinted with EDY192485, a nod towards Edward (Eddie) Blake, known as 'The Comedian', born in 1924 and died in 1985.

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