BLOGGING THE VIEW: 10 (movie) Easter eggs you’re going to want to find!

While many little ones are getting ready to hunt for Easter eggs on Sunday, adults can do a little Easter egg hunting of their own – in films!

Easter eggs are little inside jokes and references cunningly concealed in movies, which are either placed there for fun or as a hint to plot or motivation.

If you’ve got some time on your hands and feel like rewatching some classics, look out for these awesome Easter Eggs.

1. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Easter egg: Easter eggs!
Considered one of the first films to incorporate Easter eggs, the cast and crew of the Rocky Horror Picture Show apparently had an actual Easter egg hunt on set before production started. The result was that some of the Easter eggs were still visible in certain movie scenes, such as under chairs and on railings.

2. Ready Player One (2018)

Easter egg: Movie References
Director Steven Spielberg is renowned for using Easter eggs in his films, and one of his latest ones is Ready Player One which is jam-packed with references to various movies, including The Shining, Back to The Future, and Iron Giant. The storyline of the film is also about finding a golden Easter egg – another great reference.

3. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Easter eggs: Star Wars
Directors George Lucas (of Star Wars fame) and Steven Spielberg have collaborated on a number of projects, but it’s in this Indiana Jones film that we witness an Easter egg crossover. When Jones lifts the Ark of the Covenant from its crate, it’s adorned in hieroglyphics, among them the iconic Star Wars characters, C3PO and R2-D2.

4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (1977)

Easter egg: The THX-Factor
Back to George Lucas! His first sci-fi movie as a student was called THX 1138 and this is actually referenced in Star Wars as Chewie’s cell number when he was pretending to be a prisoner. It’s also the licence plate number in American Graffiti, another of Lucas’ pre-Star Wars movies.

5. Fight Club (1999)

Easter egg: Starbucks
The moral of fight club is effectively fighting consumerism, and what better representation of this than Starbucks? That’s why director David Fincher included a Starbucks coffee cup in every scene of Fight Club, being held, on desks, or sprawled on the floor.

6. Back to the Future (1985)

Easter egg: Twin Pines Mall
The cult Back to the Future films have so many great layers every time you watch them, and this weekend is a good time to look out for the Twin Pines Easter Egg. It’s Marty’s careless driving that takes out one of the trees in Twin Pines Mall at the start of the movie, which shifts the name change from Twin Pines Mall to Lone Pine Mall.

7. The Godfather (1972)

Easter egg: Oranges
Another iconic film trilogy, The Godfather, has some of the most iconic Easter eggs in film history. Director Francis Ford Coppola uses oranges in scenes as a way to foreshadow death, so when you see oranges, expect someone to die!

8. The Departed (2006)

Easter egg: X Marks the Spot
Another director that loves a bit of Easter egg use in his films is Martin Scorsese. In his classic film The Departed, he emulated Ford Coppola’s use of oranges by using the letter X to foreshadow death. The X could be the crossing of beams, the design on a carpet, or the actual letter.

9. Twister (1996)

Easter egg: The Wizard of Oz
Considering The Wizard of Oz was one of the most famous tornado films of all time, it’s no surprise that Twister incorporated some reference to this. You can look out for reference to the famous pup Toto in a flashback to Helen Hunt’s younger self, as well as the Judy Garland film playing on the TV at Aunt Meg’s house when the tornado hits.

10. Disney Films

Easter eggs: Disney characters
Finally, if you’re looking for some child-friendly films this weekend, Disney loves a great Easter egg. In Moana, you can look out for Aladdin’s magic carpet, in Tangled they stop in at Elsa’s coronation from Frozen, Hercules wears a fur resembling Scar… they are endless!