Prematurely revealing the natives as cannibals in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Movie captions should never reveal information prematurely. In this example, the captions give away a key plot detail before the narrative is ready to do so.

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If movie characters could read closed captions, they’d glimpse the future

Caption readers sometimes know what’s happening before the characters themselves. In this way, captions tell the future.

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