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Ever left a movie with a burning question that was never answered? This video dives into famous film mysteries, from Scrat's acorn in 'Ice Age' to the Tank Gang's fate in 'Finding Nemo', that were finally solved years after their release.
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00:00Have you ever sat through a movie and whether having enjoyed it or not,
00:03found yourself unable to shake the feeling that there was something, well, missing?
00:08Have you ever then also thought about that question for years?
00:11If the answer to the above questions is a big ol' yes, then you are not alone, my friends.
00:16So with that said, I am Gareth, I'm Jules, thisiswhatcoach.com,
00:19and here are movie answers given years later.
00:22Will Scrat ever eat the acorn? Ice Age.
00:26Now the question is, is that will Scrat ever eat that damn acorn?
00:30Since the very first Ice Age film in 2002,
00:33we've observed this saber-toothed squirrel's single-minded pursuit of his precious acorn,
00:37which has resulted in the object of his obsession escaping his grasp again and again.
00:42But fans who've been watching Scrat with great interest over the last 20 years finally got their wish,
00:48though it was certainly in bittersweet fashion.
00:51With Ice Age creators Blue Sky Studios having been shut down by Disney,
00:54the studio's animators teamed up to give both Scrat and the series an effecting final farewell.
01:00Blue Sky recently released an unlisted video on YouTube simply called The End,
01:04which showed Scrat embracing his beloved acorn once more,
01:08looking around and waiting for chaos to ensue,
01:10and then gladly devouring the acorn when nothing stopped him.
01:13Scrat then seems to consider what emptiness his future might hold with the acorn finally consumed
01:18before bouncing off the screen to seek adventure elsewhere.
01:21Considering that Scrat is effectively the franchise's mascot
01:24and has proven to be consistently entertaining even as the Ice Age sequels became increasingly dire,
01:29it was unexpectedly affecting to see his quest finally fulfilled.
01:33What Happened to the Fish in the Bags? Finding Nemo
01:36One of the very best Pixar movies ever made is Finding Nemo,
01:41a story that made audiences care about just about every single character that splashed onto the screen.
01:47Aside from the obvious feelings towards Marlin, Dory, and Nemo himself,
01:51viewers also connected with the fish the latter found while placed in a fish tank in Sydney.
01:56Not only did they help Nemo escape and get back to the ocean,
01:59they were finally able to break free of their tank themselves.
02:03You'll love to see it.
02:04Finding Nemo then ended with the seven fish bobbing about on the ocean,
02:08stuck in their plastic bags, unsure of what to do next.
02:12And no one knew the fate of Gil and Co. until it was revealed 13 years later.
02:17Finding Dory had a post-credit scene that amazingly showed these fish arriving at the Marine Life Institute in California,
02:24still concealed within their bags.
02:26Their outlook seemed bleak at the end of Finding Nemo,
02:29but fans were eventually rewarded with a hilarious and deeply unexpected answer at the very end of the sequel.
02:36What Happens to Peter After Gwen's Death?
02:38The Amazing Spider-Man 2
02:40The Amazing Spider-Man franchise was widely expected to be a trilogy in the very least,
02:45but after the second film underwhelmed critically and commercially,
02:48Sony pumped the brakes on a threequel.
02:50And so, Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker was left in an unfortunate limbo of sorts,
02:55grieving his late girlfriend Gwen Stacy while heading back out into New York City to fight crime.
03:00Yet almost a decade removed from his last adventure, what would Peter be up to now?
03:04Well, in addition to an unfathomably popular fan service exercise,
03:08Spider-Man's No Way Home's multiverse mechanics allowed Marvel Studios to finally give fans a semblance of closure on Garfield's
03:15Part 3.
03:16Rather than simply paper over Peter 3's grief and present him as his typically heroic, sarcastic Spider-Man,
03:22the film surprisingly lingers on the fact that he's failed to properly move on from Gwen's death,
03:27stewing in his misery in a way that impacts both his personal life and his heroism.
03:32Peter 3 is driven by anger and depression when we first see him again,
03:36though over the course of the film regains a sense of hope by helping the other Spider-Men resolve the
03:40multiverse anomaly,
03:42and catching a falling MJ as well, of course.
03:44While some fans are hoping for more MCU adventures starring Peter 3,
03:48this is probably best thought of as a neat little epilogue which gave both fans and Garfield himself closure on
03:54the character.
03:55Who Was The Gimp? Pulp Fiction
03:57As a writer, director, and an all-around storyteller, Quentin Tarantino is as meticulous as they come.
04:04There are tiny details hidden throughout his entire back catalogue,
04:08some so well hidden that they didn't even make it to the final cut.
04:11Each and every character is crafted with care and attention,
04:15even the ones that don't really seem that way to begin with.
04:18Take for example The Gimp in Pulp Fiction,
04:21the man dressed in a leather suit who is told by Maynard to stop Bruce Willis' butt from escaping his
04:26captivity.
04:27Virtually no information was given about the character during the movie itself,
04:30but you just knew there had to be a backstory in there somewhere.
04:33This was something that Tarantino finally explored during an interview with Empire in 2020,
04:3826 years later.
04:40The Gimp was a hitchhiker that Maynard had picked up seven years prior to the events of the movie,
04:45who he and his brother essentially trained to be the perfect victim-slash-henchman.
04:50When asked about what happened to the character after Butch ultimately escaped,
04:53the director confirmed that in his mind he hung himself.
04:56Surely one of the bleakest characters Tarantino has ever written then.
05:00Lovely.
05:00Why does Emmett carry a bag full of eggs?
05:04Twilight
05:04So back in 2020, some 12 years after the release of the original Twilight,
05:09a clip from the movie went viral on TikTok when one user pointed out that the vampire Emmett
05:13could be seen carrying a Ziploc bag of hard-boiled eggs around the cafeteria because, what reasons?
05:19Well, the actor Kellen Lutz clearly got a kick out of the mystery and summarily refused to elaborate more.
05:25So it fell to Twilight director Catherine Hardwick to finally spill the beans,
05:29and she did so in a frankly hilarious interview with Insider.
05:32She revealed that Lutz was simply carrying the eggs around on set,
05:35and she decided to incorporate them into the scene.
05:37I saw Kellen carrying a bag of, like, one dozen hard-boiled eggs,
05:40and I'm like, what the hell is going on?
05:42You're not going to eat, like, a dozen eggs, are you?
05:44I've never seen anybody carry around a Ziploc bag of one dozen eggs and going to eat them all day
05:49long.
05:49I was just laughing so hard.
05:51I'm like, okay, you have to eat those eggs.
05:53You have to carry that in that scene because it was just so outrageous.
05:56So that was it, really.
05:57Just a super quirky detail that the real actor was doing.
06:00Hardwick then added that Kellen was likely carrying around the eggs
06:03to supplement his protein intake given the intense regime that he was on to play the hunky vampire.
06:08Even so, what a wild ride.
06:10What was the star child about?
06:122001 A Space Odyssey.
06:14Never one to adhere to or conform to the rules of filmmaking.
06:18An attitude that has allowed him to produce some of the most influential movies of an entire generation.
06:22Stanley Kubrick's finest and strangest hour may have come with 2001 A Space Odyssey.
06:29As far as not following the norms goes, the 1968 picture was way ahead of its time in a number
06:34of different aspects,
06:36including that ending.
06:38After investigating a mysterious monolith that was orbiting Jupiter,
06:42Dr. David Bowman was sucked into a vortex of some kind,
06:45and almost reborn as a fetus floating in space.
06:48Absolutely no explanation or context was given.
06:52While Kubrick had previously gone on record as not wanting to confirm exactly what the final scenes meant,
06:57footage of an interview for an ultimately unproduced documentary that was discovered in 2020
07:02shows the director doing exactly that.
07:05An actual real explanation as to what happened at the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
07:09When Bowman is pulled into the vortex,
07:12the idea was that he had been abducted by god-like creatures without form for study.
07:17They put him in a room that didn't follow the rules of time.
07:20And so when he flies through his lifetime seeing himself as an old man,
07:24this is really happening to him while outside the natural laws of the universe.
07:28Finally, upon the completion of their studies,
07:31the gods saw him reborn as a Superman of sorts and sent him back to Earth.
07:35Though Kubrick stopped short of explaining what happened when he returned home,
07:38this definitely gives more context than ever to one of the most ambiguous movie endings of all time.
07:44So cheers, Stan!
07:45Where did Luke Skywalker's severed hand go?
07:48The Empire Strikes Back
07:49The Empire Strikes Back ends with Luke Skywalker having his hand cut off by Darth Vader,
07:54losing not only his hand, but his precious lightsaber in the process.
07:58For 35 years, the whereabouts of Luke's saber was unknown,
08:01though that mystery was cleared up in The Force Awakens when it was found to be in the custody of
08:06Maz Kanata.
08:06But if Luke's lightsaber was recovered, his hand must have been there too, right?
08:10So what the hell happened to it?
08:12Well, that hasn't ever been answered in the movies,
08:14but the recent Star Wars Darth Vader comic book finally revealed the truth in its 11th issue,
08:19which was released last April some 41 years after Luke's hand was chopped off and dropped
08:24through Cloud City Sky to parts unknown.
08:27The issue, set shortly after Empire, features a scene where Darth Vader visits Palpatine,
08:32and as he walks through Palpatine's lab that we saw in The Rise of Skywalker,
08:36he chances upon a severed hand floating in what's presumably a Bacta tank.
08:40While this hand could theoretically belong to anyone,
08:43this just feels too pointed a reference to be anything but Luke's.
08:46The wider implications of this are admittedly mind-boggling,
08:50with many fans speculating that Luke's DNA could have been used to create Snoke of all people,
08:54but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
08:56How was alien technology affected by human technology?
08:59Independence Day
09:00Ever since Independence Day released back in 1996,
09:04there has been one huge question mark hanging over a certain scene in particular.
09:08Some call it a plot hole, while others call it bad writing.
09:12But what everyone can seemingly agree on is that it didn't quite make sense.
09:16The film is about an alien invasion that ultimately Jeff Goldblum's David Levinson
09:20is able to thwart from his computer.
09:22He essentially beamed a virus up to the aliens that stopped them in their tracks.
09:26The question that plagued audiences for years, though, was how exactly was that possible?
09:31How could a computer virus from the technology in our world
09:34possibly outmatch or even corrupt that of the invading aliens?
09:38The answer came from a Reddit AMA session with the movie's writer and producer,
09:42Dean Devlin, back in 2014.
09:44Levinson discovered that the aliens were using binary code,
09:48something that could easily be reverse-engineered by changing the ones to zeros and the zeros to ones.
09:53With alien invasions, it's too easy to assume that the extraterrestrials
09:57have a much more sophisticated technology system than the people of Earth.
10:01But in this case, it was a simple binary code, exactly the same as is understood here.
10:06What colour is Drax?
10:08Guardians of the Galaxy.
10:10Now, this might sound ridiculous and self-evident, but seriously,
10:13ever since the release of the original Guardians of the Galaxy back in 2014,
10:16fans have wondered what Drax the Destroyer's skin colour actually is.
10:20Some think that he's green as in the comics, others grey, some blue,
10:23and there's never really been an actual legit consensus on the fact.
10:27That is, until James Gunn himself chimed in.
10:30Last year, a despairing fan tweeted at Gunn that he and his girlfriend were locked in an
10:34unending dispute about Drax's skin colour, to which Gunn mercifully offered the final word,
10:39saying,
10:40He is grey, but like most grey things, he can take on a blue or green tint under some lights,
10:44but he's definitely grey.
10:46Gunn elaborated that he decided against giving Drax comic-accurate green skin,
10:51because Gamora was already green, and green makeup is also the hardest to make resemble real skin.
10:56So there it is, though Drax has basically looked like five different colours
10:59amidst the MCU's various elaborate lighting setups, his skin is absolutely, positively grey.
11:05How could Han Solo make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs?
11:08Star Wars Episode 4, A New Hope
11:10A big part of Han Solo's appeal as a character was the mystery that surrounded him.
11:15His background was never truly explored, and he was like this enigma,
11:19a rogue element that helped the Rebel Alliance and grew into one of the galaxy's biggest heroes.
11:24Solo, A Star Wars Story, did rob some of this intrigue from him,
11:28in particular with the mind-numbing explanation of where he got his surname,
11:32but there was at least one thing the movie managed to do right.
11:35After years of pondering one line of dialogue from Episode 4,
11:39the question of doing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs was finally answered.
11:43As part of boasting to Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi about how great the Millennium Falcon was,
11:48he proudly claimed that the ship made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
11:53However, with a parsec being a unit of measurement rather than a unit of time,
11:58a huge question mark hung over this conversation for almost 40 years.
12:02When escaping the mines of Kessel after triggering a whole uprising,
12:06a young Solo had to navigate the famous route that was full of obstacles and people trying to kill him.
12:11And the boast actually comes from the fact that, thanks to some genius piloting and shortcuts,
12:16he was able to escape Kessel in the most direct route possible,
12:20whereas most others would have had to travel much further around to avoid everything safely.
12:24Impressive stuff!
12:25Who Won The Third Fight Between Rocky And Apollo?
12:29Rocky III
12:29So way back in 1982, Rocky III ended with Rocky and Apollo Creed having a third and final match
12:35to settle things once and for all, though the movie ingeniously ends as the fight begins
12:40without revealing the outcome.
12:41So, who ended up winning?
12:43Well, the answer was finally revealed an entire 33 years later in Creed
12:47when Apollo's son Adonis asked Rocky about the mythical fight,
12:50and Rocky reveals that Apollo was indeed the victor.
12:53Now, we have to consider the possibility that Rocky was simply showing a little humility
12:57and telling Adonis an orphan, for God's sake, what he probably needed to hear at that point.
13:01But from everything the movie tells us, Apollo was far and away the better boxer of the two,
13:06with Rocky only barely prevailing in Rocky II,
13:08so it's incredibly easy to take what Rocky tells Adonis as truthful.
13:12What Happened to the Embryos Jurassic Park?
13:15Long before Louis Dodgson tried to take over the world with his genetically enhanced locus
13:19in Jurassic World Dominion, the character set in motion the entire series of events of Jurassic
13:25Park way back in 1993.
13:27Thanks to his attempts at industrial espionage, multiple people were killed and John Hammond's
13:32dream of a dinosaur theme park was put on ice for a few decades.
13:35Dodgson paid Dennis Nedry to procure him embryos of 15 species from the island.
13:40He gave him a fake shaving foam can to transport them back, but they never actually left the island.
13:46When Nedry was attacked by the Dilophosaurus, the embryos fell out of his pocket and were
13:51never spoken of in the films again.
13:53Taking into account just how valuable these were, and how much money Dodgson was willing
13:57to pay for them, was another effort made to recoup them and bring them to the mainland.
14:01In 2022, Louis Dodgson stepped foot on Isla Nubar for the first time in Jurassic World Camp
14:07Cretaceous, and in a wildly unlikely moment actually put his foot on the exact place where
14:13the can fell.
14:14What are the chances, eh?
14:15It had lay there on move for 29 years, until he picked it up and put it in his backpack
14:20as
14:20something of a memento.
14:22How nice.
14:23What was up with all the Coast Guards?
14:25Scooby-Doo
14:262002's James Gunn penned Scooby-Doo movie may not be as urgently plotted as most, and
14:31by that I mean all of the movies on this list, but that doesn't mean that fans haven't
14:35been agonising for years to learn what was up with those damn Coast Guards.
14:38During the movie, Mary Jane calls Spooky Island's Coast Guard to report the ancient demons running
14:43riot, only for the guard who answers the phone to hang up and start laughing maniacally about
14:47the whole situation.
14:49Were they just some asshole guards who didn't take their job seriously?
14:52Were they paid off to ignore the situation?
14:53Or was there something more nefarious at play?
14:56Well, the scene's nebulous truth was finally revealed in an interview with the film's editor,
15:00who said that the two Coast Guards were indeed possessed by the demons as many fans had suspected,
15:05hence their bizarre reaction to the mayhem unfolding on Spooky Island.
15:09How do the three seashells work, Demolition Man?
15:12Some unanswered questions can plague audiences for years because they have left a huge gap
15:17in the story or in logic, or because depending on the answer, the film can be looked at from
15:22very different perspectives.
15:23Other times, the answers to these questions will have just about no impact on anything
15:27related to the narrative, but are just as sought after.
15:31There can be details that go completely unexplained, and sometimes it feels as though there simply
15:36can't be an answer that makes any kind of sense.
15:39Take, for example, the three seashells in Demolition Man.
15:42Does it affect the story that it's never explained how these have replaced toilet paper in the year 2032?
15:48Not in the slightest.
15:49Have audiences been dying for an answer since it released in 1993, though?
15:54Absolutely.
15:55This was ultimately given by Sylvester Stallone himself in 2006,
15:59who explained the new system in the same way it was explained to him by the movie's writer.
16:03It is grim, but two of the shells are used like chopsticks to gently pull, while the third is then
16:08used to scrape what's left.
16:10Maybe some questions are better left than answered, eh?
16:13Who was Falcon talking to?
16:15Ant-Man.
16:16So Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie, makes a brief cameo appearance in Ant-Man, briefly battling
16:21Scott Lang when the pint-sized hero tries to break into the Avengers' HQ.
16:25During the scene, we can hear Falcon talking to an inaudible voice through his radio, telling
16:29somebody on the other end, it's really important to me that Cap never finds out about this.
16:34Given that we never hear that person on the other end, fans have spent years after the
16:37film's 2015 release speculating on who it might be.
16:41Now, while Falcon could have conceivably been talking to any random employee of the facility
16:44or perhaps a non-superhero like Maria Hill, Ant-Man director Peyton Reed finally put fans
16:49out of their misery in 2020 by revealing that Falcon was speaking to none other than Black
16:54Widow.
16:55When a fan asked Reed about this moment on Twitter, he snappily replied,
16:58Great question, he's talking to Natasha.
17:00The lesson here is that sometimes a burning years-old movie question can be categorically
17:04answered by just firing a quick tweet at the director.
17:07How did John McClane know Hans Gruber was a bad guy?
17:10Die Hard.
17:11As far as action movie heroes go, there aren't many better than Bruce Willis' John McClane.
17:16He was brave, he never gave up, he saved the lives of scores of people, and based on
17:21one scene from Die Hard, you'd be forgiven for thinking he was psychic.
17:24After terrorizing Hans Gruber's group of terrorists from above, McClane actually came face to face
17:30with Alan Rittman's character.
17:31Though since they had never seen each other, paired with Gruber's convincing American accent
17:36and cover story as Bill Clay, the cop from New York had no reason to suspect who he really
17:41was.
17:41When John gave Bill a gun, the German identified himself as he tried to shoot the thorn in his
17:46side.
17:47However, it turns out that John knew exactly who Hans was and had given him an empty gun.
17:52But how did he know?
17:53There was no real indication given as to what exactly alerted McClane to the fact that he
17:57was being deceived.
17:59The answer wasn't given until almost 30 years later, when screenwriter Steven E. D'Souza
18:04confirmed in an interview that a key scene that would have explained everything was left
18:08on the cutting room floor.
18:10Basically, as John killed more and more of Gruber's men, he noticed that they all wore
18:14identical watches.
18:16When he saw that same watch on Hans' wrist, he knew that he was a terrorist.
18:19Though the context of this was lost in the movie's final cut.
18:23Does the Truce Last?
18:25The Matrix Revolutions
18:27Now, the third Matrix film ended on a rather weird cliffhanger ending, which really asked
18:31more questions than it answered.
18:33Beyond Neo's ambiguous fate, a truce is forged between Zion and the machines after Neo agrees
18:38to destroy Agent Smith.
18:40Yet, the film makes it explicitly clear that this is a deeply uneasy truce, and so the original
18:45trilogy wraps up on a not entirely hopeful note, whereby war between the humans and the
18:50machines could soon enough kick off again following Smith's demise.
18:53But the question is, did it?
18:55Well, it took a damn 18 years, but we finally got our answer in The Matrix Resurrections.
18:59When Neo visits Niobe in the new human underground city, she reveals that the truce did in fact
19:04last for many years, and that the architect kept his promises to let anyone who wished to
19:09be unplugged from The Matrix do so.
19:11The problem, however, is that when enough people became unplugged, The Matrix began to
19:15suffer power outages, which ironically caused the machines to start turning on one another
19:19and eventually break out into civil war.
19:22Further unexpectedly, the situation somewhat eased relations between humans and the machines,
19:26as some machines decided to switch sides and join humanity, with bugs revealing that
19:31the Sentinels preferred to be called Synthians.
19:33So while there's certainly continuing machine conflict in Resurrections, Neo's trip to the
19:38Machine City in Revolutions had a major irreversible effect on how the machines viewed humankind.