eli5 What is foreshadowing?
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Secretly spoiling the story by adding a little detail in before the revelation.
Here are two examples from famous films
Spoilers for fight club
>! Throughout the film, Tyler Durden flashes on screen for a single frame. You usually don’t notice this first time viewing. This spoils that Tyler is actually a hallucination of the protagonist and it his him doing the actions of Tyler!<
Spoilers for World War Z
>! The zombies throughout the film seems to arbitrarily not target certain people, and the film tries to emphasise this. A clever viewer can piece together that all the people they avoid are very sick already. At the end of the film, the protagonist puts together the pieces and gives everyone a mild sickness and the word is saved. This one is much more on the nose than in fight club!<
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