History HarsherInHindsight / Film

** [[TheDarkKnightSaga "I think you and I are destined to do this forever."]]

* In ''{{Inception}}'', Pete Postlethwaite has two scenes as Maurice Fischer, a tycoon character who spends his entire screen time in a hospital bed, and eventually dies. Postlethwaite died six months after the movie's theater release, and almost a month after it was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

** This troper has a similar problem with ''Film/RosemarysBaby''. What felt like a film that dealt implicitly and (to my mind) thoughtfully with the issues of spousal rape and forced impregnation is a little harder to peg down once you're familiar with Polanski's history.

* ''Cars'' isn't immune-when Lightning McQueen calls Doc Hudson out for not revealing himself as Hudson Hornet, he responds by showing that the racing league gave up on him after a crash. Doc muses, "I had a lot left in me, I just never got a chance to show it." His voice actor, Paul Newman died in 2008, two years after the film's release.
* Alice Hardy being stalked by serial killers in the first two ''FridayTheThirteenth'' movies is especially hard to watch when you know that in real life the actress Adrienne King had a traumatic experience with a stalker after the first film was released and was forced to quit acting because of it.

** This troper has a similar problem with ''RosemarysBaby''. What felt like a film that dealt implicitly and (to my mind) thoughtfully with the issues of spousal rape and forced impregnation is a little harder to peg down once you're familiar with Polanski's history.

* In ''BackToTheFuture 2'', a copy of ''USA Today'' has this in the top right hand corner: "Washington prepares for Queen Diana's visit". Granted, she would not have been Queen, but ow.

** Another Polanski example is {{Chinatown}}. Noah Cross [[spoiler:raped his daughter]] and gives [[hottip:this line: :''Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of ANYTHING.'']] when confronted.
** This troper has a similar problem with ''Rosemary's Baby''. What felt like a film that dealt implicitly and (to my mind) thoughtfully with the issues of spousal rape and forced impregnation is a little harder to peg down once you're familiar with Polanski's history.

* ''EscapeFromNewYork'' begins with terrorists hijacking an airplane and flying it into a building in Manhattan near the World Trade Center; later, Snake Plissken lands a glider on the WTC's roof.
** Later, in ''EscapeFromLA'', Snake meets a woman who reveals that she was persecuted and ultimately rejected from society for being a Muslim. Sadly, TruthInTelevision for many Muslims today.

** But probably the worst of all is ''Jaws: The Revenge'', where her character's father is almost responsible for her death, due to neglecting to warn his family that a shark is in the area.

* ''PimpernelSmith'', a 1941 updating of ''TheScarletPimpernel'', ends soberly, with its AdventurerArchaeologist hero facing execution by the Nazis for helping refugees to escape. From a shadow, Leslie Howard delivers the final speech as Smith, before vanishing into the darkness, baffling his captors forever:

* The russian film ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' became rather famous because in the movie, an incident creates an enclosed Zone which is forbidden for most humans to enter. (And entering the zone has a reputation of being lethally dangerous) Years later, the Chernobyl Accident created a similar Zone and some terms of the movie were even directly used for some aspects of this zone. For example, the illegal entering of this zone is sometimes called "Chernobyl Stalking" as a reference to this movie. The [[VideoGame/{{Stalker}} the video game of the same name]] is also partly inspired by the similarities between this movie and the real world incident.

* Apparently ''{{Hereafter}}'' just started playing in Japanese cinemas. The movie features the Boxing Day tsunami wiping out everything, and on the 11th of March 2011 a 8.9 earthquake triggered a tsunami that wiped out the town of Sendai in Japan. The movie's producers eventually decided to donate the film's box office money to tsunami relief.

* The russian film ''Film/{{Stalker}}'' became rather famous because in the movie, an incident creates an enclosed Zone which is forbidden for most humans to enter. (And entering the zone has a reputation of being lethally dangerous) Years later, the Chernobyl Accident created a similar Zone and some terms of the movie were even directly used for some aspects of this zone. For example, the illegal entering of this zone is sometimes called "Chernobyl Stalking" as a reference to this movie. The [[{{Stalker}} the video game of the same name]] is also partly inspired by the similarities between this movie and the real world incident.

* The beginning of ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' had Red Skull's forces attacking Tonsberg, Norway, and was implied to have had the town decimated after acquiring the Tesseract. This movie aired the same day as the Oslo bombings in Norway.

* The movie {{Equilibrium}} revolves around a resistance in the fictional country of 'Libria'. Does the name remind you of anything?

* In the movie ''{{Film/Jack}}'', the title character, a ten year old boy who ages 4 times too fast (played by RobinWilliams) suffers an angina attack. Robin Williams recently had heart surgery to replace an aortic valve, which isn't the same thing, but the sight of him clutching his chest in pain is pretty cringe-worthy.

*** According to the recently (2011) declassified Russian documents, Raoul Wallenberg had been detained by NKVD and then killed on Stalin's (or possibly Beria's) orders because he knew about atrocities committed by USSR during the war.

* One of the DVD promotional posters for the 2009 horror movie ''Deadline'' depicts lead actress BrittanyMurphy [[http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20091223/293.Murphy.Brittany.cm.122309.jpg laying dead in a bathtub]] with her hand over the edge. In light of Murphy's recent death (in which she was found laying dead in her shower), the posters were hastily recalled.

* A recent example of this trope was experienced by the guy who played Michael Oher in the film ''TheBlindSide''. He was at risk of being evicted from his home at the time, and in the film, his character's grandmother [[EnforcedMethodActing has been evicted from her home]].

* ''VForVendetta'': The scene where the first open act of rebellion by the citizens of Britain against the Norsefire Regime (and in the case of the graphic novel, the first step towards total anarchy in Britain) was when the people killed a Norsefire officer in retribution for killing a little girl for spraypainting V onto a Norsefire propaganda poster. This becomes significantly harsher when it comes to light the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots current riots within London]] over a police shooting.

* ''VForVendetta'': The scene where the first open act of rebellion by the citizens of Britain against the Norsefire Regime (and in the case of the graphic novel, the first step towards total anarchy in Britain) was when the people killed a Norsefire officer in retribution for killing a little girl for spraypainting V onto a Norsefire propaganda poster. This becomes significantly harsher when it comes to light the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots current riots within London]] over a police officer somehow shooting someone in a demonstration.

* The film ''{{Bamboozled}}'' depicts a world where blackface is brought into the modern age and is generally accepted by white audiences. Eight years later, ''SaturdayNightLive'', despite controversy and criticism, cast Fred Armisen (who is German, Japanese, and Venezuelan) as BarackObama (who is half-black and half-white). What's worse is that Jordan Peele (from ''MADtv'' and ''Key and Peele'') and Donald Glover (from ''Community'') originally auditioned to be BarackObama. And to add insult to injury, the newest black cast member the show has -- Jay Pharoah -- has Barack Obama as one of his many popular impressions as seen on his YouTube videos, and Lorne Michaels chose ''not'' to switch Armisen out in favor of Pharoah.

* Now that it has been announced that NataliePortman is pregnant with her first child, the trailer for the film ''The Other Woman'' which she made just before becoming pregnant becomes startlingly unsettling. In the story, Portman plays a newlywed whose baby dies days after delivery. Everyone wants Portman to have a smooth pregnancy and it's still early days, but one must imagine that Portman must have fresh memories of playing a new mother whose baby has died, and it must've crossed her mind when she discovered she was pregnant.
** And of course, there's [[RevengeOfTheSith the movie where]] Portman plays a character who [[DeathByChildbirth dies in childbirth]].

* ''Wrong is Right'' seemed like an over-the-top political satire about the links between war, government, and the media in 1982. Now the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IUbBdcDEo0 number of coincidences]] with events in Iraq is staggering. At least for some viewers; YourMileageMayVary.

* While definitely a case of YourMilageMayVary, in ''DemolitionMan'', while looking up the parole hearings, the name listed before Simon Phoenix is Peterson, Scott. The writers maintain that it was complete coincidence.

** An Example of YourMileageMayVary. Some people have said that they can't see the 9/11 similarities in it.

** To be fair that was the intention- ''In The Loop'' is a comedy but it's also a ''very'' angry film, based on a RealLife bunch of {{Dirty Coward}}s and written by a team of British writers who were ashamed of their own government's involvement in the war. I guess YourMileageMayVary.

** In ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'', one of the cops makes an offhand reference to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and how inconvenient it was. Yeah...

* ''BatmanAndRobin'' just got a lot harder to watch now that Michael Gough has died of old age and illness, it used to be the one decent part, but now watching all those bed-ridden, dying Alfred scenes is really too much.

* The 2011 remake of ''{{Arthur}}'' had RussellBrand playing a funny alcoholic (just like Dudley Moore in the original). Three and a half months later, his friend AmyWinehouse died trying to kick an alcohol addiction. Brand (who himself was a drug, alcohol, and sex addict back when he was only famous in England) is now trying to get Hollywood to help celebrities fight their addictions.

* [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/die%20hard/jnuggz/die_hard_.jpg?o=1 This]] ''Film/DieHard'' poster. WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd even comments on it.

* Alice Hardy being stalked by serial killers in the first two ''FridayTheThirteenth'' movies is especially hard to watch when you know that in real life the actress Adrienne King had a traumatic experience with a stalker after the first film was released and was forced to quit acting because of it.

* In {{Tron}}, [[TheDragon Sark]] starts EvilGloating during the final one-on-one battle with the title character, laughing off his efforts with ''"You should have joined me. We'd have made a great team!"'' Now, try watching that after you've seen [[TronLegacy the sequel]] knowing that "Rinzler" served the same function for Clu 2.0 as Sark did for Master Control.
** Oh, hell - ''the entire first movie'' falls here after you see the sequel. The cheerful smartass of a protagonist ends up a broken, ruined man trapped by his own creation, which makes his comment about Clu 1.0 being the "toughtest" Program ever made a FunnyAneurysmMoment. He's widowed by 35, drives himself half-insane, is ForcedToWatch while the Iso "miracle" is hunted down and destroyed, and fights a HopelessWar for the equivalent of ''centuries.'' And no matter [[TronLegacy which]] [[{{Tron20}} timeline]] you use, Alan is left to fight alone, powerless and friendless against a crooked executive board, reduced to almost a joke by them. Legacy is somewhat more merciful to him, but not by much.

* ''Cars'' isn't immune-when Lightning McQueen calls Doc Hudson out for not revealing himself as Hudson Hornet, he responds by showing that the racing league gave up on him after a crash. Doc muses, "I had a lot left in me, I just never got a chance to show it." His voice actor, Paul Newman died in 2008, two years after the film's release.

* In ''TheRightStuff'', the lines "You know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.", as well as "No bucks, no Buck Rogers.", are much harder-hitting now that NASA is at a standstill after the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.

* The scenes of GraceKelly's character driving recklessly in order to freak out Cary Grant in Hitchcock's ''ToCatchAThief'' take on a different feel once one realizes that they were filmed in the same vicinity as the site of Grace's fatal 1982 car accident.