Pre-Production Unit: Pre-Production - New Easter Eggs

With the reworking for the 4th draft there are new Easter eggs and secrets.

Chapter titles

The first letter of each chapter spells our FALSE when rearranged.

The chapters themselves are anagrams of references and secrets related to the film:

Chapter 1: S - Sound Lie - Delusion
Chapter 2: F - Flared Owls - False world
Chapter 3: A - Aiding Me - Imagined
Chapter 4: E - Early Exit - Ex Reality
Chapter 5: L - Lieafstalk - It’s all fake

Magnets

The fridge magnets Easter eggs have stayed the same but are less frequent.

Playing Cards

At the start of the film, Sean, Zoe and Perry are playing 21's. The cards they are holding are each in themselves, foreshadows and reveal the whole plot.

Sean: king and clubs. hints that he killed someone

Perry: 1, 3 and two tens = a, c and t. Spells ACT.

Zoe: 4, 5, 1, 4 and 9 = DEADI. Can be rearranged to spell I DEAD.

Scrolling News Headlines

During the news report a scrolling news reel at the bottom of the screen reads:

'Sales of Respidoral have risen in the last quarter...'

Respidoral is a drug used to help with Delusional Disorder: the condition that Archie suffers from that creates the false world.

Text On Screen

The text that regularly appears on screen gives clues to the truth. For example on page 9 it reads:

'‘SAFE’ and ‘SORRY’ APPEAR. ‘SORRY’ seems to LINGER and switches to ‘I’M’ for a couple of FRAMES.'

This is to hint at Archie saying sorry personally. He is apologising for what he has done.

Single Frame Splices

There are a couple of moments where a single frame is spliced into the shot. One example is the drunk Snorricam scene when Sean is replaced by Archie for one frame. This is to hint at the fact they are the same person and Archie is living through everything we are seeing.

Fight Club DVD

Fight Club and Grit are similar in their base plots despite the film not being inspiration. A copy of Fight Club is hidden in the stack of DVDs that we see later on in the film in the background.

Le Suicide

Le Suicide is a painting created by Edouard Manet and depicts a man lying on a bed in what appears to be a suicide. Zoe comes out in the first scene holding a painting she has made that is very similar to the work. This a foreshadow towards the final scene where we see Archie's dead body against the sofa.

Unreal Pizza Company

The pizza boxes that are delivered to the house in the first scene will have a unique company logo on them. 

'The Unreal Pizza Co.'
'So Good It's Unreal'

Nicht Echt Beer

The beer that Sean drinks will also be a unique company:

'Nicht Echt: Diesis Ist Nicht in Echt'

This is German for:

'Not Real: This Is Not Real'

The label will also have two men on it with one arm around each other: these men will be Sean and Archie.