From: Cracked ~ 6 Insane Fan Theories That Actually Make Great Movies Better
These movie discussions are great because a well placed observation can instantly change a movie you may have seen a million times before or even one you might not have liked at all but by looking at it differently you can now see it as being something much more interesting.
Sorta like how I started considering Top Gun one of my favorite big gay Tom Cruise movies. Maybe I should re-post that review sometime where I have fun explaining my sick take of that movie as a gay flick. Tom is not even in to Charlie till she started wearing all the men’s clothing.
So here are the movies they listed and the theories the fans have come up with to explain what you are actually watching. I will add in one of my favorite reinterpretations for discussion because as I said I love this stuff.
The theory…
What if this whole movie actually takes place in Cameron’s mind?
WOW! I have got to see this movie again.
This idea that Cameron dreamed this whole story up explains the hard to take over the top moments like the parade breaking out into an MTV video for Ferris and it also explains why the real emotional growth in the film centers on Cameron and his coming to terms with his father and Ferris just basically does whatever he wants.
From Russia With Love
For Your Eyes Only
The theory…
What if the name James Bond (Not just 007) is a code name?
This is an old joke used by David Niven in his comic take off on James Bond in the original Casino Royale.
Now commenters of the article criticized this theory because Ian Fleming was writing in his books about one guy called James Bond and Roger Moore placed flowers at the grave of his dead wife that one movie thus referencing her death in that George Lazenby’s movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
I say both those James Bond movies represented the beginning of the bad James Bond times when the directors stopped reading the books altogether and did what they wanted too anyway.
So who the hell cares?
Roger Moore treated James Bond like a slapstick routine for years and that was the Bond I grew up with and hated and never understood why people even bothered watching them. Then I watched Sean Connery’s take on James Bond and I got it. Referencing anything by Roger Moore as James Bond like it was sacred canon is like referencing that Star Trek cartoon like it was unalterable canon. HUH?
The theory…
What if the little brother actually died flying off that cliff?
THAT was one freaking hell-a-creepy kids movie. The abusive father wanting his kids to call him “King” and the hard working but supposedly loving mother who ignored all of the crap going down. All with this adult Waltons like voice over.
CREEPY! In a bad bad bad way.
The voice over narration gave this idea it’s basis with the whole “Now do you understand what I mean about history being in the mind of the teller?”… Yes, Yes, I do creepy voice over! The kid died from parental abuse and negligence… FUN KIDS MOVIE!
The theory…
What if Zion is actually just another part of The Matrix?
That might actually have made up for my utter disappointment at how the overall story arc started to fall apart quickly by the end of the second installment. The whole SUPER NEO flying thing left a bad taste. This interpretation was sorta hinted at by The Architect and even The Oracle had a go at it…
BUT! The directors obviously decided to go in a different direction. No layers, no box within a box to tie up the loose ends. Too bad!
I still say the first movie is one of the big four in my personal sci-fi pantheon. Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and The Matrix. Just is!
The theory…
What if Chewbacca, C3PO and R2-D2 were Rebel agents from the beginning?
Oh, who the hell cares? This is to account for George Lucas using these cute mascot like characters in the last three movies for their continued action figure potential. I personally just fix this whole issue by stating I do not watch any Star Wars movies but the “first three” (The ones he made in that order.) and then only the unaltered versions without any digital “enhancing” or fake CGI garbage added later by that piece of shit, money grubbing, hack of a turd ball. I still remember that Star Wars Christmas Special on TV. I knew then what was going to happen.
The theory…
What if the second part of both these movies took place in the main characters head after they get wired into the machines?
Um… this is Philip K. Dick we are talking about here who wrote the original stories so it would not fall outside his exploration of “what is reality” to suggest either of these movies were simply extensions of the main characters wishful thinking or their final flights of fancy that ended up being what we were seeing.
Remember at the beginning of the cheese fest that is Total Recall where the technician does make a joke about Mars having a blue sky? Which is how the movie ended right? So it could be…
The theory…
What if Deckard is himself a Replicant?
Since we are running through the fields of Philip K. Dick let’s hit the BIG ONE. I so buy this interpretation by the way despite whatever the director says his intentions were. The actors had to wear special contacts to get that deliberate glow in their eyes and there is Harrison Ford doing the whole “eye glow thing” in his apartment after being in that big gun fight on the street below where Rachael saves his ass. So Deckard was obviously created to track and hunt down other Replicants on Earth and is only now starting to kinda figure out what is going on.
I honestly do not think Philip K. Dick would have any issues with this particular interpretation of this movie either.
What is human?
That is definitely in the broad brush strokes that he liked to use that is for sure. It also helps make the film even more complex and moving so there is no loss here in the original “meaning” of the movie by seeing the film in this way.
Oh, if you want to complete your Philip K. Dick movie watching experience be sure to pick these last few up for a whole intense PKD movie marathon fun time.
Screamers
A Scanner Darkly
Paycheck
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Chris wrote,
For me, the director’s cut of Blade Runner didn’t leave any doubt that Deckard was a Replicant.
Link | July 18th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Angelia Sparrow wrote,
My interpretation of Star Wars is that Obi-Wan LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH. Vader is not Luke’s father, he is Leia’s father. Obi-Wan is Luke’s father. (don’t get me started on twins with a 2 year age difference, we’ll be here all night) R2′s memory was never flushed and he was always an operative. Chewbacca knows more than he tells. C3P0, like most protocol droids, has a quasi-personality that is too high-strung for undercover work.
Link | July 19th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
HAH! Which is why I stay in the safe uncluttered original three Star Wars flicks and leave the others to more hardier folks who can put up with that poorly thought out muck.
Link | July 19th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Chris you should see Blade Runner on my new TV. It is so huge!
That blu-ray edition is also the best ever.
Link | July 19th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Chris wrote,
LOL, TP! I bet! I do remember seeing the original Blade Runner in the theater when I was a teen…
I saw the Matrix and Matrix II at an IMAX Theater. Wow! While the Matrix II wasn’t good, the vehicular chase and the rave were AWESOME in IMAX.
Link | July 19th, 2010 at 5:48 pm