Despicable Me 2

Earlier this week, I watched Despicable Me 2 (for only the second time), and I noticed a brief visual allusion.  Early in the movie, there are some scenes of Gru's lab, and one of them shows a group of minions sitting on a beam and eating lunch:

This seems to be based on the photograph known as Lunch atop a Skyscraper:

According to this article (which is also my source for the above image), the photograph was taken on 20 September 1932.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - S4E15 - "Deception"

In my latest re-watch of The Clone Wars, I've reached the episode arc in season four where Obi-Wan Kenobi goes undercover as the bounty hunter Rako Hardeen.  I noticed some metaphorical significance in the staging of a particular scene in "Deception."

After Moralo Eval, Cad Bane, and Rako Hardeen have escaped from prison, they steal a police speeder to get to the docks to steal a ship and leave Coruscant.  Moralo Eval and Cad Bane take the front seats, leaving the back seat for Rako Hardeen:

Since this is a police speeder and the back seat is where criminals are detained, there are bars in the interior and on the canopy.  Visually, this represents Kenobi's situation.  His goal is to investigate a kidnapping threat against Chancellor Palpatine that Eval is allegedly involved with, and for the moment, he simply has to go along with Eval's plans in order to discover more information.  In the same way that he experiences this temporary lack of agency, he's confined in the prisoner's seat of the police speeder.