Conspiracy Theory (film)
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- This article is about a movie. For conspiracy theories in general, see Conspiracy theory.
But even Alice can't fathom the depths of this conspiracy.
In the film, some of the other conspiracy theories believed by Jerry seem to come true. For example, Jerry believes that NASA is trying to kill the President with a shuttle-mounted seismic weapon. Later in the movie, an earthquake occurs in a region of the world the President is visiting, and he narrowly escapes.
Controversy over opening
Mel Gibson is rumored to be a bit of a conspiracy buff. In 1981, he starred in The Road Warrior, which made him a star in the United States. In this film, there is a reference to the Seven Sisters conspiracy, which states that before OPEC gained control of oil production and pricing, that the world's seven largest oil companies were actually in cahoots to monopolize the industry — in essence, it was one company under seven different names.
At the beginning of Conspiracy Theory, Jerry Fletcher is espousing a number of his theories to a succession of passengers. On the DVD's audio commentary track, director Richard Donner revealed that these scenes were ad-libbed by Gibson to extras acting as passengers because they wanted realistic reactions from them. It was widely speculated that these were, in fact, Gibson's personal views. However, his rant about fluoride in the water has, over the years, been increasingly echoed by doctors and scientists as a health risk, particularly to children. [link] However, Fletcher's assertion that it's used to control people and weaken their wills has yet to be proven as anything more than a true conspiracy theory.
Arguably, the most controversial comments Gibson made was when he tells two nuns that the Vatican is a "festering scab that needs to be lifted". In reality, Mel Gibson is a devout traditionalist Catholic who, like his father, Hutton Gibson, are critical of the modern Roman Catholic Church and belong to a small sect that operates independent of Vatican influence which denounces many of the new rules implemented during the Second Vatican Council.
Trivia
- The role of Alice Sutton was initially offered to Jodie Foster who starred in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver with another Taxi driver political assasin Robert Deniro.
- Jerry runs into a theatre showing Ladyhawke (1985), also directed by Richard Donner who also directed all four Lethal Weapon films.
- Mark David Chapman, the assassin of ex-Beatle John Lennon, had a paperback book, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in his possession when the police arrived and found him standing "very calmly" where he had been. In the movie, Jerry's programming drives him to buy the book whenever he can, and this allows Dr Jonas to track him.
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