So I saw the little article about X's in The Departed to forecast doom. Which got me to thinking about the apples that appear throughout Election that represent, what was it, sin?

Are there other movies that use symbols like this consistently in a movie?

the entire movie of Alien 3, with the alien being a metaphor for the AIDS virus. an unknown individual (ripley) brings an outside virus (alien) to a colony of men and they begin to get wiped out. don't know if it's true, but it is plausible.

White horse = death in TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, and the attendant TV show.

Weren't oranges an omen for an eventual death in The Godfather movies?

Sunsets in the SW saga always indicate something major about to happen.

Luke watching the sunset in ANH, right before C3PO takes off, and Luke is swept into a bigger world.

Luke is lost at night on Hoth when he sees Ben's vision

I can't think of ROTJ

TPM - Anakin is rejected for training very late in the evening.

AOTC, Anakin takes off for the Tusken's in the evening

I can't think of the others right now, but it's a pretty good indicator of something about a major shift in somebody's life/lives.

Magnolia - 8:2 though I'm not sure what they represent other than Exodus 8:2

And this is a sunset how exactly?

Well, it's not precise, but it's getting very late in the day.



Although, I just thought of another one from TESB; the very end when Luke is hanging off the weather vane and the Falcon picks him up, all the sky shots are shown as a very late afternoon, early evening look.

Ummm...ok.

Any movie where the good guy meets up with the bad guy at the end usually forshadows the bad guys death.