Seth Rogen Blew the Internet’s Mindhole Wide Open With This ‘Home Alone’ Fact
Did you know that the gangster movie Kevin watches in Home Alone isn’t actually a real movie, it’s something that was filmed specifically as a play-within-a-play to go with the plot of the film. Seth Rogen didn’t find that out until he was an adult, and judging by the reactions to his tweet, a lot of people on Twitter didn’t find out until yesterday.
My entire childhood, I thought the old timey movie that Kevin watches in Home Alone (Angels With Filthy Souls) was actually an old movie.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) December 25, 2018
Yes, that short clip is all that exists of Angels with Filthy Souls, but a lot of people thought it was a scene from a real gangland film.
— Cam Robinson (@Hockey_Robinson) December 26, 2018
— SHERRI HILL (@SherriHill) December 26, 2018
I googled it yesterday and found out it was a made up movie for the movie. Shocked me to my very core. #homealone
— Ross Ivey (@bossivery) December 26, 2018
Wait wait wait… what?? Wow! I literally searched for 2 hours on Vudu, Amazon, and EBAY the other night trying to find it 😂. F**k.
— Brandon (@FantasmicEars) December 25, 2018
Look at all those dummies not knowing that a movie ostensibly made in the 1930s was fake. I assumed everyone had an encyclopedic knowledge of every film ever made.
There is an actual James Cagney gangster film titled Angels With Dirty Faces. I always assumed Angels with Filthy Souls was a parody homage.
— Micah Kellner (@MicahZKellner) December 26, 2018
Yeah, like this guy.
Okay, that guy is me. I mean, not literally, that’s not my Twitter account, but that is absolutely me at every party. I mean, it was, I don’t get invited to parties anymore.
Wait, it’s not?! What?
— Heather Griffin (@HeatherGiles77) December 26, 2018
IT WASN’T?!
— Quémese (@quemesepod) December 26, 2018
Even Captain America was just finding this out.
There’s lots of things you probably don’t know about Christmas movies. Like, did you know the little girl Liam Neeson’s stepson likes in Love Actually was Marceline the Vampire Queen on Adventure Time? Or that the kid from A Christmas Story plays an elf in Elf? And Jack Frost was actually made because Michael Keaton was $50,000 in debt to the Russian mafia because he made a large bet that The Undertaker would lose to Sid Vicious at Wrestlemania 13 after spending all his movie star money hiring Neal Adams to travel around the country and draw his face into old issues of Batman. People don’t know that one but it’s the only logical explanation.
