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Home Alone fans mindblown after making realisation about black and white movie Kevin watches during film

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Published 17:09 24 Dec 2024 GMT

Home Alone fans mindblown after making realisation about black and white movie Kevin watches during film

Fans are mindblown after realising something about the black and white movie

Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin

Home Alone fans are losing it after they have made a realisation about the movie within the movie within the Christmas classic.

It is hard enough to find new things to talk about for any film nowadays with the prevalence of social media, but even harder than that is finding something new to say about one of the most talked about films of all time.

As such, when someone finds something new to say about Home Alone, fans were always going to lose it.

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Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone (20th Century Studios)
Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone (20th Century Studios)

One such fan took to TikTok to share some facts about the film, and they really range in interest.

‘Fuller is actually Macauley’s younger brother’ is a sentence that should be offensive to any Succession fans, and Joe Pesci avoiding Macauley on set to appear meaner is a very well-known story nowadays.

Alas, one slide blew fans away, as they revealed the black and white movie in the film isn’t even real.

Angels with Filthy Souls is the name of the black and white movie that Kevin watches in the film and eventually uses to scare off both a pizza guy looking for payment and the Wet Bandits.

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Here’s a reminder of the scene in case you forgot:

The iconic ‘keep the change you filthy animal’ unfortunately isn’t from some gruff 60s or 70s gangster film, it is an actual fact entirely made up for Home Alone.

One fan commented: “It broke my heart when I found out the gangster movie wasn’t real.

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“I thought it was some classic movie from the black and white era.”

Another commented: “IT’S NOT A REAL MOVIE???”

A third said: “I’m actually disappointed that the movie Kevin put on isn’t real”.

A screen grab from the fake film in Home Alone (20th Century Studios)
A screen grab from the fake film in Home Alone (20th Century Studios)

Seth Rogen even tweeted: “My entire childhood, I thought the old timey movie that Kevin watches in Home Alone (Angels With Filthy Souls) was actually an old movie.”

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Christopher Columbus, the film’s director who went on to helm the first Harry Potter film, said in an interview with Business Insider that he believes that the lighting contributes to why people think it’s a real film.

He said: “Home Alone' is one of the last films shot with an old carbon-arc lighting system that was popular back in the 1940s through 1960s for Technicolor films.

“We also shot the 'Angels with Filthy Souls' scene the same way.

“That richness of black and white made it look like a movie from that era and I think that's why some people think it's a real movie”.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Columbus even revealed that they shot the entire set of scenes for the fake gangster film in just one day.

Featured Image Credit: Warner Bros

Topics: Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, TikTok, Film, Seth Rogen, TV and Film

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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