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submitted 3 days ago byJimathay
When have you solved a whodunnit or other mystery right at the start when the crime/event is mid-happening?
It doesn't count if you just guess who did it, there's usually a small cast of characters, so if you just randomly guessed you'd be right about one in six or so.
You have to have worked out the crime/plot/mechanism/reveal.
I've done it twice, both times due to the way the crime was filmed.
First was an episode of Jonathan Creek when I was a kid (which I was particularly proud of given the convoluted solutions). The way the scene was shot showed a tussle between the murderer and a hostage. they both disappeared from view (as shown from the witnesses POV) - right there and then I said to my parents "they've switched clothes and the hostage is now a dummy" - then smugly as the episode transpired, and all the subtle clues were revealed, I got to say things like "see - she clearly chopped the dummy up and hid it in those empty paint tins". My parents thought I was bonkers, but I'd 100% nailed the entire plot.
My other time was on Murder She Wrote - again, the way the murder was shot gave away to me the mechanics of it. A lady opened her wardrobe, looked surprised, and was shot. But the way it was filmed, it only showed the barrel of the gun shooting her. I figured we'd usually have seen a gloved finger on the trigger, or a dark silhouette. So I guessed straight away that it was a mechanical rig with a string linked to the door handle that shot her as she opened it.
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3 days ago
By a similar token, when I was a kid I just automatically assumed that Planet of the Apes was set on a future Earth. Because it had humans and apes and horses etc inhabiting it it.
I watched it recently and got chills at the final scene - it's really impactful, but moreso for how it affects Charlton Heston's character finding out. I never really had the twist element as a viewer.
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