The YouTube channel WatchMojo has been entertaining me for years now, but it can also be hugely educational. This video of the Top 10 Uses of Foreshadowing in film provides some excellent examples of set ups and pay offs. Foreshadowing is a powerful story-telling technique but not always easy to get right, too subtle and it may go unnoticed, too obvious and it ruins any mystique.
The Usual Suspects, Shaun of the Dead and Jurassic Park are some of my personal favourites. Whereas The Dark Knight's "you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" always felt too heavy-handed to me, considering we all knew Harvey Dent was going to became Two Face.
