Hey reddit, what's your favorite fan theory about a movie or book?

guy-enigmatico · 6 months

That the guide to Newspeak at the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four being written in past tense is an indication that the Party eventually fell from power.

lttmfnt · 6 months

Jurassic Park is all about butts and butt touching. I think I counted over 20 time people touch someones butt(including dino butts) and close up shots of peoples butts. And Samuel L. Jackson says "hold onto your butts" while smoking a butt.
Also the word ass is in the title JurASSic Park.

Saleos · 6 months

That R2D2 is the secret leader of the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars.

Bandersnatch12 · 6 months

Sex and the City is the prequel to Golden Girls.

SpruceWayne · 6 months

I've always liked the fight club/ferris bueller theory that Ferris is actually just a figment of Cameron's imagination.

CFThomas1 · 6 months

It has been suggested that Hamlet is reluctant to kill Claudius because of a subconscious suspicion that Claudius is his biological father. It is not stated in "Hamlet" if Gertrude is involved with Claudius during her marriage to King Hamlet; however, considering the haste with which she accedes to Claudius' proposal, as well as the ease with which Claudius murders King Hamlet, it is not unreasonable to suppose that Gertrude either assists him in the murder of King Hamlet or was romantically involved with him prior to the play's events. If she did, indeed, engage in an affair with Claudius, it is entirely possible that Hamlet may have been fathered by Claudius rather than King Hamlet; if so, Hamlet's reluctance to kill Claudius could be recognized as the product of a fear of committing patricide, as Oedipus did.

I should note that this is merely speculative; there is little evidence in the text to corroborate this suspicion, and I myself do not question Hamlet's legitimacy. Nevertheless, it is a rather fascinating surmise.

I am also aware that "Hamlet" is a play rather than a movie or a book (though it has been adapted into film on several occasions); however, to confine discussion to a move or a book seems to me severe. This thread should consider any creative work rather than simply movies and books.

mynameisjerry · 6 months

Zion is a part of the Matrix.

wideeyelove · 6 months

Bella got hit by that car in the first movie and in her coma she has a long erotic dream about some kid from her high school.

mukhul · 6 months

I always liked the 007 theory, that James Bond is a codename that is passed from agent to agent. Explains a lot in my mind and makes it more fun to think of all the Bond movies a sort of a serialized movie franchise. Also helps to rectify the crazy difference between how different actors portray Bond.

selfabortion · 6 months

Alcoholism is what transforms Dr. Jekkyl into Mr. Hyde.

AbstergoSupplier · 6 months

Nice try cracked

mihello · 6 months

that the aliens in Signs are peaceful. in the film you never see an alien commit a malicious act, it is just assumed they are (is it actually harming the boy at the end or helping him fight his asthma with some weird space inhaler? and he doesn't fight back against Joaquin Phoenix when he has the bat) all we know about the aliens is being told to us by the media or rumours so it can't be confirmed. The alien that was locked in the pantry would have been scared being stuck on another planet which would explain the odd behaviour. and why would they invade earth when there weakness is water? could they have run out of supplies and earth is a last resort?

Colempe · 6 months

In Star Wars, Darth Sidious himself was the apprentice who killed Darth Plagueis, who foresaw this treachery, and used his power to create life to forge a posthumous avenger, Anakin. However, revenge on Sideous was not his ultimate goal, and he knew his plan would not save his own life. Plagueis is a martyr. His ultimate goal was to destroy the overly institutionalized Jedi, eliminate the counterproductive power struggle with the hording Sith, and to reboot a pure study of the living force, eventually leaving it in the hands of his grandson, a Dark/Light feeling Force master, Luke. So the true underlying story arc of the entire series is barely hinted at, the brilliant tactical scheme of Darth Plagueis the Wise.

thisfreakinguy · 6 months

If anyone is a fan of Buffy, there's an episode where one of the demons make her go crazy and 'wake up' in a world where her mom is still alive and Buffy is in an insane asylum. All of her friends, her powers, and the demons are all just figments of her imagination and she has a super-hero complex. They do a really good job making you say 'Fuck... has this been what's been happening all along?'

lestrangesque · 6 months

Peter pan is all about abortion. The "lost boys" that will never grow up. Living in NEVERland. Oh and the antagonist is a man named Captain Hook. Need I say more?

Aesthete · 6 months

A Goofy Movie is a sequel to Forrest Gump.

Rip_Steakface · 6 months

That the events in Disneys "Aladdin" take place in a future Arab nation where the word Arabia has been bastardised to Agrabah. This is how The Genie can impersonate modern comedians after bieng locked in the lamp for so long, the flying carpets and talking parrots are leftovers of a world of superscience.

This is the screencap where I first found the idea. Also fixed some typos.

Optimash_Prime · 6 months

The events in the movie "Event Horizon" brings about Warhammer 40k

teamjacobomg · 6 months

I may be posting this in the twilight of this thread and it may never get noticed, but oh well...

The movie "The Notebook" is really about a creepy older man who swindles older women with Alzheimer's into sleeping with him by convincing them that this notebook contains their memories. The family members are actors that he has hired to complete the illusion.

Spiel88 · 6 months

My own theory about The Thing:

In the bowels of the station, the remaining characters find what seems to be a partly assembled spaceship, but it quickly becomes an afterthought to them. The alien has been merely trying to leave the planet it crash-landed on the entire time. After being frozen for several years, the alien is scared and confused about where it is and what has happened. Everything it did in the film were acts of self-defense and survival.

ItsTubbyTime · 6 months

I am absolutely convinced that George is the new super villain in the Harry Potter universe. Instead of the tyrannical and organized evil of Lord Voltemort and the Death Eaters, George is a chaotic evil, al la Joker. He and Fred were already as close to anarchists as the story could allow without making them villains, they were arguably magical geniuses (can you think of any other characters that were actually inventing new magics as they did?), and he lost half of himself in a war to protect a status quo that he despised in the first place. I can’t see how he’d turn out any differently.

Ghostwoods · 6 months

The sickening truth about the horror that is Animal Crossing.

I know it's a game and not a movie, but honestly, if you want a twisted fan theory, you want this one. Glorious stuff.

jewunit · 6 months

Donny actually died in 'Nam and Walter was unable to truly cope with it. The Dude knows this and for the most part just ignores it.

rocketkielbasa · 6 months

More than half of these fan theories are just taking the plot and putting it in the main characters imagination. You could literally do that for anything.

Canbot · 6 months

An oldie but fucking convincing.

ckingdom · 6 months

After working his entire life to save money in the cruel, cold world of Victorian England, Scrooge had a massive aneurysm in his sleep, resulting in three vivid dreams and permanent, personality altering brain damage that forced him to give away his life savings. He died a sick, old pauper.

hannahalexia · 6 months

I like the idea that all Quentin Tarantino films take place in an alternate universe where hyper violence is acceptable because of the violent way Hitler was murdered in Inglorious Basterds.

GeyserShitdick · 6 months

It's "Derkins," not "Jenkins."

Girlshatebrian · 6 months

After the Phantom Menace or Attack of the clones came out there was a great theory on the Star Wars mythos that Obiwan from Phantom menace would actually turn into Darth Vader and Anakin would pretend to be Obi Wan. And there was a full page of citations based on how the Droids reacted to certain characters and the power of the force.

If anyone has it saved somewhere PLEASE post it in a reply. I'd love to read it again. It really sang true to me, and I was stoked to see how the trilogy would shape up. Oh, how jaded I have become.

minus000 · 6 months

Hogwarts doesn't exist. The entire world of wizardry is a figment of Harry's imagination to help him cope through living with his abusive Uncle's family.

53504 · 6 months

After the credits in the collectors edition DVD:

Voldemort dies. The camera focuses on Harry's face. He blinks. The camera turns around slowly, as the illusion fades away. Harry's uncle lies dead on the kitchen floor, a pool of blood slowly forming around him. Harry drops the knife when his Aunt screams. "You're a wizard Harry", he mumbles to himself, over and over, as the blood reaches his bare feet, the warmth oddly comforting. Sirens in the distance. Cut to black.

PrimeX · 6 months

This is for a video game but instead of the Zelda games taking place generations after each other its actually all the same events being retold and slightly changing with each retelling through the years.

mrmightymyth · 6 months

In Spirited Away, "No Face" represents White Americans. Pale face, black soul. All the money in the world and an insatiable appetite. Regurgitating "garbage" in defense. If you take even one coin, you're stuck, hypnotized, "enslaved". An allusion to child and general sweatshop labor. And when you present it something it cannot buy, it goes crazy and wages war (destruction) killing many in its wake. I'm sure the dumpling represents something and the innocent form it becomes after it regurgitates all the trash and the placid, hopeless, sheeplike nature it assumes, but I'm just not sure what.

hahahabutts · 6 months

Before Portal 2 came out, there was a fan theory that the ending of the original Portal, in which you blow up the computer controlling the facility and begin to float upwards and eventually out of the complex you've been trapped in for the entire game, was explained by the complex actually being an upside-down flying sky castle whose anti-gravity generators were destroyed when you blow up the main computer.

lordmycal · 6 months

That Neo became the One because of the cookie that the Oracle gave him to eat. He eats the cookie, then hours later he's killing agents.

waitingtoexpatriate · 6 months

Road House: Dalton is stuck in an infinite loop of having to repeat the same misery over and over again as he travels from town to town. He becomes a bouncer, falls in love, and has to take down the local big-time bad guy. At some point, his love will die tragically and he will move on to the next place.

If you watch it twice, back to back, you'll notice how when he's talking about his past, he could just as easily be talking about events that will take place later on in the movie. And yes, there was weed involved in this epiphany.

Mostan · 6 months

I heard this one a while back but the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio ends up in the sea at the end of Titanic and wakes up on a beach on the start of Inception makes me feel likes it a movie within a movie....

AlphaCygni · 6 months

Not a movie, but it was a book first: Dexter.

Although I've not read the books, I like to interpret Dexter's relationship with his father on the show to be one that the father accidentally cultivated. In other words, Harry was so obsessed with the darkness in humanity, that he created Dexter to be the perfect serial killer. I think that, without Harry, Dexter could've grown up to be a normal adult, although he probably would've needed years of therapy.

zyberion · 6 months

I always saw all the Pixar movies, sans the Cars series, to be part of one contiguous universe. Toy Story, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., and Up all happen around the same time in their respective settings. The little easter eggs in every movie? Just hammering the point down.

Notice how Pizza Planet, BuynLarge, and Dinoco are ever present companies in several of these movies. Pizza Planet trucks are in just about every Pixar movie. BuynLarge batteries power Buzz Lightyear. Dinoco is the gas station in Toy Story. So what about The Incredibles and WALL-E?

The Incredibles was a popular comic book series in the Pixarverse and the movie we saw was the modern origin-reboot to the series. This explains the slightly over-the-top modeling for the characters in that movie compared with other Pixar films. We even see Linguini briefly with Incredibles' boxer.

A bit darker, perhaps, is WALL-E's connection. WALL-E is obviously set in the distant future where the benign BnL conglomerate has essentially bought out the planet. The call backs and easter eggs in this movie (a lot of toys from Toy Story 1&2 are in WALL-E's home) confirm that this is the same Pixar Earth. Though, this redditor wants to believe Hamm and Rex survived the ecological apocalypse.

Many of the human characters may have even interacted with each other to some extent. If you look carefully at Andy's corkboard he seemed to have known Carl and Ellie Fredricksen well enough to be on postcard terms, (perhaps he worked at the zoo part-time?) This next one is a bit of a stretch but some say Boo attends the same daycare shown in Toy Story 3.

This leaves Cars and its sequel. I don't really have a theory connecting these two movies with the rest of the Pixarverse, my best guess would be Cars is a series akin to Thomas the Tank Engine in the Pixarverse. Their isn't really any actual easter egg connections with the Cars series. The characters themselves just appear as their inanimate selves. Although, this would be a funny reason why the series is such a black sheep to Pixar fans.

SoapyMallet · 6 months

Pokemon takes place in post-war Kanto

greg4734 · 6 months

Cracked.com's theory about why the Star Wars stormtroopers shoot accurately enough to hit critical points on a jawa ship and to kill rebel soldiers, but miss completely when they run into Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca. It's a really good read.

EDIT: tl;dr: Stormtroopers are easily defeated by the main characters because of the psychology of the situation -- it's much easier to shoot at and kill a faceless robot than someone just like you whom you can look in the eye.

ApolloBrowncoat · 6 months

It's not from a movie, but I have a theory that in How I Met Your Mother, Ted's daughter is adopted; her biological mother is Robin, who is now dead.

necromundus · 6 months

I have a theory that the character Frank in "It's always sunny in Philidelphia" has a degenerative mental condition and is setting up Charlie to be his care-giver. Consider the following:

When Frank was introduced to the show he was wealthy, well-spoken, well-groomed, and intelligent. As the show progresses he becomes more and more filthy and idiotic.

Frank gave a huge portion of his wealth to Charlie "to keep it secret from his ex-wife".

Frank and Charlie got a same-sex marriage and live together.

rda_Highlander · 6 months

Ok, and now please tell theories that don't include the words "Dream" or "coma"

[deleted] · 6 months

You have never seen any movies; they were all just coma fantasies.

Limond · 6 months

The Matrix: The people aren't used for power but are used for memory instead.

Schtunk · 6 months

Jenny infected Forrest Gump with HIV that one time they had sex. Forrest Jr. is infected too as he's the child of a HIV-patient (Jenny only mentions him being intelligent, not healthy). After the death of Forrest Jr, Forrest Senior moves to Philadelphia to become a gay lawyer.

Jingy_ · 6 months

The world that "Car's" takes place in is the evolutionary prequel to the Transformers home world.

shaman_of_the_bull · 6 months

Labyrinth is an anti-abortion film.

The movie is about a 15-year old (15 because the statistics on teenage pregnancy are measured from the age 15-19) girl named Sarah Williams, forced to babysit her 'brother' Toby. First, she is named 'Sara' because that's Hebrew for Princess, indicating how special and precious she is. Williams stems from Will (desire, will) and helm (or protection) significating her (not yet realised) desire to protect her 'little brother'. Toby means 'The Lord is Good', underlining the divine importance of this small child (and every baby it stands for).

(Note: in the film, Toby is her brother, but this is simply because making the baby actually Sarah's child would be much too controversial).

Expressing frustration with the young child, Sarah screams: "I wish the goblins would come and take you away. Right now!". Her prayers are quickly answered in the form of the seductive Jareth (note that the names Sarah and Toby obviously come from the Holy Bible, while Jareth doesn't.), who flies into her room in the shape of an owl (a creature that in African (and in other) folklore is seen as a harbinger of death). Jareth in this film is a representation of the evil, God-less liberal manipulator with his gang of abortionists (the Goblins). Jareth is played by David Bowie, a popstar known for his androgynous appearance, which in this narrative is an indication of the liberal's deranged sense of sexuality. This is further expressed trough the impossible to ignore bulge in his tight, tight pants.

Jareth sadistically challenges young Sarah to travel trough his disturbing, confusing land in order to get her baby back. In her fight against the 'goblins' she is aided by: Hoggle (a goblin that has switched sides from Jareth's team to the pro-life Sarah), Ludo (a big beast not under the control of Jareth) and Sir Didymus (a small but brave knight). These three forces represent different groups of people. Hoggle: all the liberals that realise the need to switch to the conservative side. Ludo: the large group of working-class people that seem to be lost in the land of the liberals. Didymus: the older group of upper-class people that can't find the honour they hold high in the morals of the liberals. These are the three groups that the right-wing realise must take up action with them in order to stop the liberal, God-less Jareth.

After different trials, Sarah is poisoned by a magic peach and hallucinates being at a fancy (elitist) party, where Jareth tries to seduce her. The fact that he's making moves towards a fifteen-year old as well as his attempts to distract her from her baby with the decadence of the ball are signs of his lack of morals. She manages to break out off the dream, back into the filthy lands of Jareth. Eventually she takes up arms against his army and wins. Thereby she gets her baby back, realizing that considering abortion was a big, big mistake.

I have no sources. I just wrote it myself. Mainly because it's fun but also to show that with a little imagination a rich movie can be made to represent anything (which is not a bad thing). Now, I'll be off, I have to figure out why Jumanji is a re-telling of the life of Jesus Christ.

G59 · 6 months

The Land Before Time. All the baby dinosaurs are actually dead, and are spirits searching for heaven from the place they died to join the rest of the dinosaur spirits.

basiamille · 6 months

Back To The Future.

Knowing a functional time machine is on its way back to him, Doc Brown spends the intervening 30 years building what LOOKS like a functional time machine, including making the deal with the Libyan nationalists for the stolen plutonium.

But to keep this Marty (son of successful George) from going back in time from the LONE Pine Mall and potentially undoing everything that the ORIGINAL Marty accomplished, Doc rigs the DeLorean to make a very convincing light show, but not go anywhere. He disintegrates Marty.

That Marty was probably a spoiled prick, anyway.

potterarchy · 6 months

There was a theory going around awhile back (I think this was pre-sixth book) that Remus Lupin and James Potter had secretly switched bodies before Voldemort came to murder James and Lily, which is why Lupin seems so "fatherly" to Harry during the series (and why there seemed to be a kind of a Lupin/Lily scene in the "Prisoner of Azkaban" film). Completely wild, but I liked it anyway. Harry Potter fans are ~~insane~~ great.

Sniper1154 · 6 months

"The Rugrats Theory The Rugrats really were a figment of Angelica's Imagination.

Chucky died a long time ago along with this mother, that's why Chaz is a nervous wreck all the time.

Tommy was a stillborn, that's why Stu is constantly in the basement making toys for the son who never had a chance to live.

The DeVilles had an abortion, Angelica couldn't figure whether it would be a boy or a girl thus creating the twins

As for "All Grown Up" Angelica was a bipolar schizophrenic who, as a teenager became addicted to various Narcotics, bringing her back to her childhood and thus her creations she obsessed over, because of time lapse between the present and the last time she interacted with her creations, she made them older, Angelica was constantally taking hits of acid, so she would never have to live without her creations who were her only company, in a judgemental world

Angelica's mom actually died of a heroine overdose, Angelica was schizophrenic/bipolar because she was a crack baby, additionaly Drew in his depression married a gold digging whore, that Angelica idolized because she fooled herself into thinking it was her real mom, but always had a concept of her mom, Cynthia, and took a barbie doll, and made it after her mom's image, wearing an unwashed oranged dress, and having jacked up hair, which is why she was so attached to it, later in life she followed in her mom footsteps w/ drugs and everything, dieing of overdose at age 13 when All Grown Up! was "canceled"

The only rugrat not to be fictional however, was unborn Tommy's brother Dil, however Angelica didnt know the differace between Dil and her creations, Dil didnt follow her commands, after endless crying and a refusal to disapear like the others did when angelica was angry with them, she hit him. And she hit him, screaming a screaching tune, Stu ran in and pulled his neice off of his only child, but it was too late, he had a brain hemerage, which resulted in a deformation, as he grew up his damage only became more evident, by the time he was 9 in All Grown Up! He lived as an outcast, being ridiculed for his weirdness, and retardation, the immense guilt over this is what led to her drug use and is what led Angelica to un-create the rugrats breifly, until her expericance w/ hallucinogenics.

On a trip to Paris to find love, Chaz married a hooker named Kira (He was actually going to marry a differant hooker, but she just wanted him for his money), who had a daughter named Kimi that was torn from her because she was a cocaine addict (Angelica imagined her from Kira's stories), he lost his mind after the death of his wife and was in denial that she was ever prostitue, upon return to America, Chaz and Kira married and she got her greencard, it was actually a really happy/romantic story, Kira continually stuggled with addiction, but was relatively happy w/ her life, and Chaz

Suzie was actually Angelica's only friend, who entertained the thought of Angelica's creations, for her, She later became a phycologist and teamed up w/ Nickelodeon to make the Rugrats! When Angelica died of drug overdose, she helped arrange her funeral, Angelica's death was sad, because of her addiction, she was expelled from society, which lead to a break with reality, and her eventual death, she spent the last days of her life in the back of the school cafeteria, imagining friends around her, and playing with the lives of her creations."

Space_Ninja · 6 months

That the events in the Star Wars prequels never happened and are not part of Star Wars canon. The movies were in fact written and directed by a giant asshole in a George Lucas costume. I think this one is true and I refuse to believe otherwise.

skawesome · 6 months

The Endor Holocaust. Basically, blowing up the Death Star II at the end of Return of the Jedi would have triggered a mass extinction event on Endor.

ramblerandgambler · 6 months

That the briefcase in Pulp Fiction contains Marcellus Wallace's soul.

fragglet · 6 months

In "Star Trek: Generations", Picard never leaves the Nexus. The Enterprise is destroyed and everyone else on board is killed. The TNG movies document Picard's fantasy life living within the Nexus:

Generations - Picard imagines that he can go back, defeat Soran and change what happened, saving the people that died under his command.
First Contact - Picard confronts the Borg, who abducted and tortured him years ago. In his fantasy, he defeats them, getting revenge for what they did to him, and possibly healing some of his emotional scars.
Insurrection - Picard imagines that he can become young and fall in love again. Remember that in Generations, Picard's brother and nephew were killed in a fire, making him the last Picard. He rebels against Starfleet, a reflection of his anger against the job that prevented him having a family of his own.
Nemesis - Picard confronts a clone of himself, allowing him psychologically to face his shadow. Shinzon represents everything Picard considers bad in himself, and remember: he is subconsciously coming to terms with his responsibility for the death of his crew. This is accepted at the end of the film with the death of Data.

fragglet · 6 months

"Devil's Advocate" is an unofficial fourth Godfather film.

After his death at the end of Part III, Michael Corleone is possessed by the devil and resurrected. His experience with crime and business while alive give him the perfect personality that the devil needs to run his empire on Earth.

The four part series is a tragedy, documenting Michael's life and descent into evil, from being the one "innocent" member of his family, to Mafia boss and fraticidal murderer, and finally the wordly incarnation of evil itself. Part III documents his last desperate and ultimately futile attempts to redeem himself before his death and transformation into the prince of darkness himself.

qubie · 6 months

I like the Tarantino Code/Tarantino's Mind. Def worth a watch.

Contains spoilers if I remember correctly, but it's a few years old.

Edit: You can skip to 03:43 if you want

kassieplx · 6 months

This is about a TV show, but I think it's pretty plausible.

According to wikipedia, Chuckie Finster from the Rugrats is 2 years old. Chuckie only seems to know 1 English word (No).

Also according to wikipedia, a child may be autistic if he has 1) not learned a single word by 1.5 years old and 2) is not saying two word phrases by age 2.

Chuckie Finster may be autistic.

gravehunterzero · 6 months

I have several movie/book theories

American John McClain kicking pseudo-German ass in a Japanese plaza, what is more American than that? What you may not know is that Die Hard is almost a perfect allegory for World War Two. First you have the set up of a Pseudo German (British Actor Alan Rickman playing a German character) using his charm and wiles to use real Germans (the two German brothers) to take over something that wasn't theirs (Nakatomi Plaza) And just like Hitler, Alan Rickman said he was one thing when he was another. Hitler said he was not going to take the Rhineland but totally did, while Alan Rickman said he was a terrorist when all he really was is a thief. Shit goes down and John McCain finally springs into help when something of his almost gets ruined (his ex-wife, or wife that he hadn't seen in a while, she doesn't matter) He launches an offensive against the lone German dude and totally wrecks his shit but very close to losing his shit as well. This is very clearly Operation Overlord, you may know it as the opening scene from almost every Medal of Honor game or “D-Day”, fun fact D-Day literally means Day-Day. It gives John McClain the MP5 submachine gun that he will use to kick pseudo-German ass for the rest of the film. The two bumbling FBI agents in the film are representative of the British and Soviets from the current American perspective of the war. Americans think they did everything in WW2 while the Brits practically rolled out the red carpet for the SS. The LAPD are a representative of Canada in WW2, again from an American perspective. We Americans think, for the most part that Canada had nothing more than a cheerleader role, let alone that they had a major role in Operation Overlord and almost every other operation in the war, but I digress. You see, Alan Rickman was just biding his time to reach his ultimate goal, bearer bonds. While Hitler just wanted the world. The whole thing about the hostages was really about the Jews. Hitler said it was just temporary as did Alan Rickman. But what they mean by temporary is that it won't last long and it ends in death. When McClain's feet gets all cut up do to the glass, this is an allegory to Operation Market Garden, the first major fuck up by the Americans. We thought that Holland at the time was being held by “Old men and Hitler Youth” and it was straight to Berlin. But we were wrong, dead wrong. Holland was held by the hardest of hardcore solders, the SS Panzer Corps and they found immense joy sending the 101rst and 82nd Airborne packing. And towards the end of the film when Alan Rickman is so desperate that he goes after McClain himself and poses as a scared American? Battle of the Bulge. As you know, Hitler dies as does Alan Rickman, but you may not notice is the nerdy black guy that is doing all the work on the locks actually lives and gets arrested. This is an allegory to the Nazi Scientists being sent to various Allied countries and being used for their own research. America gets the girl (Freedom) and they drive off into the distance to Christmas music, allegory to the fact the solders in the European front are told they will be home by Christmas, and they think all is well with the world.....but they are wrong.

TL;DR: Die Hard is America's involvment in WW2

mdaugherty1221 · 6 months

My personal favorite states that the show Ed Edd n Eddy is a sort of purgatory for children that died before there time. Each child lived and died in the culdesac at different times. Rolf comes from the late 19th century, Johnny 2X4 is from the early 20th century (the neighborhood was undeveloped and he had to make friends with a piece of wood), eddy lived during the great depression and scammed to survive, Sarah and Ed were children of a deceased WWII veteran. In order to deal with his death, Sarah became authoritative and Ed began to drown himself in comics and horror movies. Naz was a flower child in the 60s. Edd was the child of two hotshot business executives who were never around. Kevin was a 90s biker/skater who tried to be a rebel. Jimmy was a terminally ill kid from the 2000s. The kanker sisters are demons from hell sent to torture the souls of the undead that are trapped in purgatory. Another theory i found interesting was that Plank was alive and sentient in the entire series

llamaiguana · 6 months

Shutter Island. Teddy is actually sane. There's a great video on Vimeo describing it really well but I can't find it for the life of me. Can someone help me out?

Hurm · 6 months

The first thing I thought of was this: How the Matrix should have happened. i saved this, but don't remember the author, so my apologies.

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In the end of the first one, Neo "jumps" into Agent Smith blowing him up from within. A completely unnecessary move. This in turn creates a virus. And this created much of the plot for the next two movies. Not that there is much plot in between the action sequences. That's just lazy writing.

Here's how it should have gone down:

2nd movie:

They're on their ship, the atmosphere is joyous, yet there's a feeling of "what now?". Neo goes to see the Oracle. She tells him that there's nothing he can really do. Neo asks what his role is. She says he is "The One". "The one? What's the point of being the one if I can't help?". "The one brings hope, Neo". "Bullshit". And he leaves. Turn's around at the door. "What if I shut it off?". Silence. "You could do that". "How? Tell me how!". "But why Neo? What will you do with millions of humans waking up? Are you going to save a few? And let the rest of humanity die?"

Neo, Trinity and Morpheus are contemplating their options. Neo still wants to wake everyone up. Morpheus doesn't think they're ready, and doesn't see a way. Agrees with the Oracle. Trinity is afraid of what the machines can do in the real world if they start mass waking people. They decide to head to Zion, as they can not take matters into their own hands.

In the city, they talk to the senators and tell them about Neo’s powers. The senators want to keep him as a strategic advantage. Neo insists that everyone in the Matrix should at least know. Others don't see the point, as no one will believe him. They're afraid of what the machines will do. Morpheus is doubtful and warns him. Neo says, "What's the point? What's the point of all this if they never even find out? They have the right to know. This ends now."

They decide to do it. The Senate knows of the coming attack, and is desperate. They hope this might create a distraction. They have not told anyone. The audience doesn’t know either. One hint is dropped: Senator 1: “This is madness! What good will it do?”. Senator 2: “Neo, do you believe they are ready?”, Neo: “Yes”. Senator 2: Then I vote yes. We have nothing to loose. The other senators understand what this means and agree.

Their plan, to infiltrate a news organization and broadcast the truth.

The rest of this movie plays out in the matrix. Part action as they fight Agents and stronger updated Agents. They manage to broadcast the truth. People react with disbelief. Neo wants to go out of the news room, presumably desperate to convince people. An agents waits outside with a white flag.

The agent asks Neo to come with him, and talk, there is something he must know before he continues. Neo goes to the architect (inside the core of the matrix - access is through a set of keys). The architect tells him the story of the matrix. He explains that there are deleted programs, refusing to let go, willing to do anything to survive, and that the Oracle is one of them. He then opens the bowl-like lid of a fine dining silver plate and reveals her head. "Yet, Neo, even the deleted will be found. And even that which doesn't exist can die". He covers the head again. "What have you accomplished? ... nothing". He tells him that the Matrix is regularly restarted, once every few generations, and asks him if Morpheus told him that. Then asks him; "Do you know what the matrix is?", and answers, "What did Morpheus tell you? That you are batteries? Ludicrous. We have towers extending above the clouds. The Matrix is not what you think it is". "Then what is it?". "Neo, whatever it was. It is no more". He is told that humanity has been unplugged. The risk is too great. They are all dead. He says he knows about Zion, but that he will let whoever is left in the real world live as they pose no threat.

Neo returns to the ship, and hears that Zion is about to be attacked in less than 7 hours. He plugs in to find the Matrix empty of people.

3rd movie:

They're on their way to Zion. Word has travelled and Neo is received as a deity by the people of Zion. Neo hates this and refuses to leave the ship. Trinity stays with him. News of the mass deaths has been received but only the senate and generals know.

While gone, Morpheus is talking with the senators about the impending attack on Zion and the end of the matrix. They have sent all of their ships out to scout and to try and save as many humans as possible and are expecting them back soon. The ships had been ordered to avoid confrontation, and therefore have only managed to save a very few. They were stationed in the perimeter, too late to do anything except watch as humans were being slaughtered by the machines.

In the ship, inside of Zion, Neo is struggling with doubt and self loathing, he no longer believes in his abilities, and in fact without the Matrix, he has none. "I have killed them. I killed them all. Trinity.. I... I thought I was a Saviour... [silence] ... This is all because of me".

Morpheus and the senate are contemplating their options. They have close to no power in the real world. The attack is 3 hours away. The ships are still not back. They decide to not tell anyone. Morpheus says, "Let's throw a party". A Senator: "That's outrageous! They must know what's about to happen. We owe them the truth!". "The truth, Senator? These men and women have a few hours left. Let them enjoy it. They will learn about the machines soon enough". They start an impromptu celebration of their "inevitable victory" with music, drinks and dancing. Less than 2 hours till the attack and the first ships are coming in. The population is at a much lower deck dancing. The idea is to put up a last desperate and hopeless defence by the ships at the uppermost deck.

Neo tells Trinity what happened with the architect. He tells her that not everything is as it seams. She asks him why the Matrix is still there.

Neo: "What do you mean?" Trinity: "If they are all dead. Why is the Matrix still turned on?" [silence] Neo: "There must be a way to hack into the source and disable it" Trinity: "Why Neo?" Neo: "The keys" Trinity: "Neo what are you talking about?" Neo: "I need the keys" Trinity: "They are all dead Neo!! Neo Look at me, please" Neo: "Trinity, listen to me, I have to go back in" Trinity: "Why!!" Neo: "I know what it is" Trinity: "What?" Neo: I know what the matrix is. It's them. They're one. The real them. It's the neural network" Trinity: "Neo?" Neo: "I have to go Trinity. I must find the keys" Trinity: "I'm coming with you!" Neo: "N-" Trinity: "Try and stop me!"

Neo and Trinity jack in. His plan is to find the "deleted" programs who are living in hiding in the Matrix. A noir plot ensues, with their first clue being the Oracles apartment. There they find a box of matches by the oven with a strange code (Neo can see codes) with an address written on it. There, in the basement of a nightclub, they find a thriving community of programs. Apparently, only one of many illegal gathering spots. At the same time, Morpheus comes back and sees them jacked in. He goes after them, knowing where they are from information on the ships matrix monitors. The plot thickens as they are fooled by a program to do his bidding, almost killed several times, and eventually wise up and set the program up and get from him the location of a woman who while active had access to the source. They fight a small army, meet up with Morpheus, find the woman, she helps them out (“Why are you helping us?”. “Because they took something from me”) until finally they come upon the trail of the key maker. Once the key maker is found, they take the keys they need with them and find their way into the core.

Zion is attacked. The war starts.

Inside of the core, a labyrinth made out of beautiful rooms with several doors in them, they need to find the one door which leads to the source code. Neo plans on rewriting it to loop to make it crash. The Matrix throws what it has at them. Lots of fighting in the rooms.

Neo leaves the others to go find the room. Trinity and Morpheus are both wounded and exhausted but still fighting. In Zion, almost all ships are down, people are dying by the dozen. Neo finds the room. Light. Bright light. Matrix halts, only Neo can move. The machines fall to the ground of Zion. Trinity wakes up on the ship, spitting blood. Morpheus is dead. She looks on out the window – people are cheering. She looks at the screen, and there he is, in all green numbers and letters, looking back at her. He knows there’s no way out for him. She knows what she has to do. With tears running down her face, she holds him in her arms, and unplugs him.

The End

At some point they ask the woman who is helping them navigate the world of the deleted programs in search of the key maker; "Why did you need us?". She answers; "To find the solution". At that point they're interrupted and never return to the subject. This leaves the answer open, but suggest that the human brain was used for its creative abilities. The problem could possibly have been how to solve the energy crises, for instance through the development of a new type of engine. The final killing of humanity could indicate that the solution had been reached or it could mean that the machines thought a mass awakening was imminent and not worth the risk.

The DeVilles had an abortion, Angelica couldn't figure whether it would be a boy or a girl thus creating the twins

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