Random Action Movie Fan Theories That Change Everything (15 items)

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  (#12) The President Staged The Hijacking In 'Air Force One'

  The visionary Redditor /u/aerostotle has a pretty fascinating theory about Air Force One, namely that President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) staged the hijacking for political gain. The (long) theory is broken down into seven points, abbreviated here:

  1. Both the president's National Security Advisor and Chief of Staff died early in the movie, and they both had disagreed with him on his "no negotiating with terrorists" policy. This is not an accident.
  2. Marshall actually did negotiate in the end, but the government covered that up.
  3. Marshall's heroics all but guarantee him a victory in the next election.
  4. The power hungry Secretary of Defense reacted poorly to the situation, allowing Marshall to fire him, eliminating a potential political threat.
  5. Marshall didn't like the Air Force One staff because his pilot laughed at his desire to go to Barbados and a flight attendant prematurely told him a football score, so he didn't mind endangering them.
  6. Gibbs (Xander Berkeley) proves his lack of character when he turns on Marshall in the end, but it was this weakness of character that convinced Marshall to include Gibbs in the scheme from the beginning, which he did.
  7. The terrorists were Russian because Marshall spoke Russian, which allowed him to communicate with them without others understanding.
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  (#9) Harry And Helen From 'True Lies' Had A Shotgun Wedding

  Redditor /u/indyK1ng thinks there's something fishy about the marriage of Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) in True Lies. Harry is a spy, which he doesn't reveal to his wife until he's given truth serum; he tells her he's been lying to her for 17 years. The villain, Juno (Tia Carrere) corroborates this, though she pegs Harry's deceit at 15 years.

  indyK1ng believes this discrepancy can be explained by Juno's knowledge of their marriage, which he presumes is 15 years old. They also have a 14-year-old daughter. Thus, concludes indyK1ng, Helen was most likely pregnant when they got married, given the tight timeline, and further speculates their marriage might not be as happy as it appears, or at least didn't start that way.

   
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  (#4) James Bond Is A Codename

  There are actually quite a few variations of the theory that James Bond is just a codename, but as this former Redditor points out, that theory died down somewhat when we saw the gravestones of Mr. and Mrs. Bond in Skyfall. However, the theory lives on, and this particular one explains it by guessing 007 is brainwashed:

  "The suggestions of this reality are all there, with one standing above all the others: the relationship between Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem’s character), M (Judi Dench), and James Bond. Silva is a former MI6 agent who worked under M, before taking up the occupation of cyber-terrorist. Throughout the film, he repeatedly attempts to bond with 007, including referring to both himself and Bond as rats, held and tortured by M.

  "And this next part of my theory is a credit to Bardem’s acting, as it’s something I cannot capture through simple plot synopsis and analysis. There is an element to Bardem’s acting that not only ensnares you, but in which it appears that he has a secret he isn’t sharing. His grin, his eyes, his body language, and the way he lingers on certain words as he speaks."

  Basically, Silva's behavior is evidence of a formerly brainwashed spy who was driven insane by the manipulation, but has also evolved enough to recognize the tampering with his mind. Some Bonds have memories of their predecessors while others don't because some are more thoroughly brainwashed than others.
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  (#2) 'The Bourne Legacy' Is Hawkeye's Origin Story

  Redditor /u/learethak essentially asks the question, "How can Jeremy Renner be in the MCU and a Bourne movie?" The answer, apparently, is that he plays the same character in both:

  "How was Hawkeye able keep up with the Avengers and have such proficiency in a variety of weapons. Simple... Hawkeye is an escaped Treadstone agent.

  "Treadstone was yet another shadowy government agency with a super soldier program... testing yet another attempt to recreate the Super Soldier Program that produced Captain America. While it was not as successful as the serum used on the Captain, nonetheless Hawkeye/Aaron Cross was improved human with exceptional hand-eye coordination, stamina, cold weather resistance, etc.

  "We also know that SHIELD has a history of recruiting people with exceptional talents but dubious pasts and giving them a chance to do "good." Whom better then a former assassin?

  "This also further also helps explain why Natasha was able to break him free from Loki's grip is he already had experience shaking off programming/mind control from fighting off the Treadstone conditioning years earlier."
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  (#15) 'Die Hard' And Pixar Movies Exist In The Same Universe

  The "Pixar Theory" (that all Pixar movies exist in the same universe) has essentially been confirmed to be true by Disney, so Max Knoblauch's notion that all the Pixar movies also share a universe with Die Hard at least starts from a somewhat sound base. Then it gets a little less reasonable. Here's the breakdown:

  • John McClane references pizza in the first Die Hard movie, a supposed allusion to the Pizza Planet truck first shown in Toy Story, which subsequently showed up in all other Pixar movies. (Also, the Pizza Planet truck could be in any traffic sequence in the Die Hard franchise, just obscured by other vehicles on the road.)
  • Toy Story 3 features a train with a number 95 on it, the same year (1995) that the third Die Hard movie was released which also had a train sequence.
  • Up and A Good Day to Die Hard have similar plots if you explain them very superficially.
  • The ubiquitous chase scenes throughout the Die Hard franchise explain the future world of Cars, because cars.
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  (#3) Johnny Utah Of 'Point Break' Became John Wick

  Redditor /u/itsbt offers a pretty lengthy theory connecting Keanu Reeves's characters from Point Break and John Wick, suggesting Johnny Utah could no longer be a man of the law after Point Break, so he turned to the criminal underground and became John Wick. Here's an abbreviated version of the theory:

  • Both characters are highly trained with weapons and have a similar fighting style
  • Both characters drive a classic Mustang (one a '69, the other a '70)
  • Both have the same taste in women: "short haired, fair-skinned brunettes"
  • Both John Wick and Point Break are connected to the universe of the video game Payday, so the two movies are connected through the transitive property.

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