{"id":2673,"date":"2018-11-06T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2018-11-10T00:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T00:15:17","slug":"all-the-connections-and-easter-eggs-so-far-in-glass-unbreakable-and-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/all-the-connections-and-easter-eggs-so-far-in-glass-unbreakable-and-split\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Glass,&#8217; &#8216;Unbreakable&#8217; and &#8216;Split&#8217; Have Crazy Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At San Diego Comic-Con 2018, Universal unveiled the first trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/glass\/240900\"><em>Glass<\/em><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>,<\/em> M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s third installment in what some are calling the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eastrail 177 Trilogy<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and fans went wild. Recently a second trailer dropped and now everyone is trying to catch all the little Easter eggs and what this connection might mean for Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and The Horde (James McAvoy). If you haven\u2019t seen Shyamalan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/unbreakable-2000\/24464\"><em>Unbreakable<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2000) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/split\/221332\"><em>Split<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2017), first off, what? Close your computer and go watch them ASAP. Seriously, go now, then come back when you\u2019re ready. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK now, if you still haven\u2019t seen them (and didn\u2019t listen to me, tsk tsk), here\u2019s your spoiler alert, cause we are about to blow your mind. Now, if you\u2019re familiar with Shyamalan\u2019s work, you know he is a master of hiding breadcrumbs everywhere. The type of thing where when you see the big twist, you say \u201cOhhhhh\u201d and realize it was there in front of you all along. After obsessing over both films, and meticulously watching both trailers all weekend, here\u2019s a dive into how <em>Glass<\/em> ties <em>Unbreakable<\/em> and <em>Split<\/em> together and all the Easter eggs so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Shyamalan Hid Colors And Comic Book Easter Eggs All Over<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3UB6ZBPY9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the easiest catches in the trailer is Shyamalan\u2019s use of color. <em>Unbreakable<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">established the use of greens for David Dunn and purples for Elijah Price (Mr. Glass\u2019 real name) and <em>Split<\/em> established yellows for The Horde. In both <em>Glass<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trailers when the studio title comes up, there\u2019s a purple hue in the light and all over the frame. Also, when the frame shows all three in the hospital speaking to Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson), they each are wearing their respective colors. This is a small detail, but it establishes the connection to both <em>Unbreakable<\/em> and <em>Split<\/em>.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0One interesting thing to note is that it looks like Dr. Staple has her own color palette &#8211; pinks. Does this indicate she might be a super as well? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another noteworthy use of color is something we see first established in <em>Unbreakable<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When Elijah talks about how his mom gave him his first limited edition comic book, we see the comic\u2019s cover with a hero, dressed in green, fighting a beast-like character that happens to be in a darker yellow with a purple background. This could very well be representative of Elijah setting the scene for a Dunn vs. The Beast throwdown, a foreshadowing that was 18 years in the making. Considering the two <em>Glass<\/em> trailers have made it seem as if the genius-level mastermind Mr. Glass will use The Beast for his own purposes, it appears as if we&#8217;ll indeed be seeing a physical fight between good and evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2303px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/images.atomtickets.com\/image\/upload\/h_960,q_auto\/v1532390572\/ingestion-images-archive-prod\/archive\/1532390572077_240900_cops_1.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Glass in 'Glass'\" width=\"2293\" height=\"960\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Glass in &#8216;Glass&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of comic books, there\u2019s a quick snap of Elijah looking down at a comic book open to a page where there\u2019s another beast-like character pulling steel bars apart with his face in between them. This is a callback to a scene in <em>Split<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where we first saw just what The Beast was capable of as he pulled two solid steel bars apart like they were taffy while baring his blood-soaked teeth to Casey Cooke (Anya Taylor-Joy).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s also a very cool callback to <em>Split<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">literally <em>on<\/em> McAvoy\u2019s body. When Casey tries to shoot the Beast, she hits him twice. The Beast doesn\u2019t falter, just telling her that won\u2019t kill him. He gets closer, and you can see the injury and the blood from where he was hit. Near the end of the movie, he is shown in front of a mirror, possibly removing shrapnel from his torso as his personalities talk to each other. Later, in the <em>Glass<\/em> trailers, you can clearly see the scars from where Casey shot him in <em>Split<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, another world-building link that ties the continuity of the movies together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The additional cast is a link to both films as well. Besides Casey, who links <em>Glass<\/em> to <em>Split<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Dunn\u2019s son and Elijah\u2019s mom from <em>Unbreakable<\/em> are both seen in the <em>Glass<\/em> trailer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Both wear colors connected to their respective family member, Elijah\u2019s mom in a purple blouse and Dunn\u2019s son in a dark green jacket.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Same Musical Theme Also Ties The Trilogy Together<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s also a musical throughline tying the trilogy together, in particular, one piece of the score is featured in all three films thus far. In <em>Unbreakable<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when Dunn is ready to accept and test his powers, Elijah tells him to \u201cgo where the people are.\u201d As Dunn stands in the middle of the train station, he starts to \u201csee\u201d different people\u2019s lives when he touches them which is as simple as them bumping into him. The background music playing throughout is featured in the soundtrack as \u201cVisions<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&#8221; The same song is playing in the background at the end of <em>Split\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during that final scene where we finally see Dunn sitting at a diner.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It is also featured, though a bit muted, in the first trailer for <em>Glass<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, the biggest connection to the three is how it all began in <em>Unbreakable<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when David was the sole survivor of a train crash. In <em>Split<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is revealed that fifteen years prior, Kevin Wendell Crumb, the true identity of The Horde\/The Beast, was left by his father when his father boarded a train and never came back. Though Shyamalan doesn\u2019t explicitly say that the train was the one David was on, Kevin leaves flowers at the boarding platform of a train station, possibly signifying his father died due to a train, and alluding to the two having had a connection long before either knew what they could do. It would be odd for it to be about any other train, so it&#8217;s a pretty clear connection between the two men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t know about you, but going down this rabbit hole has made me so excited and I am now counting down the days until we get to see <em>Glass<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and all the twists and turns Shyamalan has in store for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>FEATURED<\/h2>\n<hr style=\"color: #000; width: 95%; margin-left: 0;\" \/>\n<!-- The Grid Plugin Version 2.7.4 --><div class=\"tg-error-msg\" data-grid-name=\"Home Featured\">No post was found with your current grid settings.&#xa;You should verify if you have posts inside the current selected post type(s) and if the meta key filter is not too much restrictive.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At San Diego Comic-Con 2018, Universal unveiled the first trailer for Glass, M. 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