Significant Anagram/Film
Examples of Significant Anagrams in Film include:
- In The Matrix:
- Neo is the One.
- Additionally there are several anagrams in the score:
- "Bow Whisk Orchestra" and "Switch or Break Show" - "Wachowski Brothers"
- "Threat Mix" and "Exit Mr. Hat" - "The Matrix"
- Sneakers:
- The main plot involves a company called Setec Astronomy, which makes a box capable of decrypting all the encryption codes used in the United States. As the main characters discover, Setec Astronomy is an anagram of "too many secrets."
- In the opening credits, the names of the production companies and principal cast and crew first appear as anagrams before rearranging themselves into the correct spellings.
- Bruce Sterling has pointed out that the title itself is an anagram for NSA REEKS.
- In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal gives two false clues by using significant anagrams.
- American Beauty's main character is Lester Burnham - "Humbert learns."
- Irma Vep is an anagram of Vampire.
- Ray Walston's character in the 1999 My Favorite Martian film is called Armitan, and he later reveals that he, too, is a Martian.
- How many movies have a vampire named Alucard? Enough for them to have their own page.
- Although that, while technically an anagram, is a Sdrawkcab Name.
- Back to Significant Anagram