20 Lines From Movies People Only Understood Later

It’s easy to forget, here in the ham-fisted blockbuster days, that screenwriters can be pretty clever. After all, most of them didn’t get into screenwriting to specify exactly how this superhero should wink into the camera — they’re artists. We may not even realize just how smart they are until way later because their sharpest lines cut right over the tops of our heads. Maybe it’s a dirty joke you’re too young to understand, a plot twist that doesn’t reveal its true intentions until further viewings, or just a really good pun.

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For Redditor RedHeadRedeemed, for example, it was “the beginning of the movie Dragonheart where Prince Einon says, ‘The peasants are revolting!’ and his guard, Brok, says, ‘They’ve always been revolting, Prince… but now they’re rebelling!’” they explained to r/Movies. “I always thought that was an odd bit of dialogue because ‘revolting’ and ‘rebelling’ mean the same thing. … It only just now hit me that the guard was referring to the other definition of ‘revolting,’ as in ‘disgusting.’ How in all the years I have seen this movie did I not realize this??”

They then asked, “What, for you guys, was a line of dialogue you didn’t understand or fully get until watching a movie later or at an older age?” and their fellow Redditors were more than happy to clear up all kinds of previous cinematic misunderstandings.