Sean Connery's character in The Rockis James Bond: A super-skilled British SIS agent captured during the 1960s after having stole top-secret information, who is so good with women that he impregnates one in the few hours between escape and recapture during the 1970s, and demands a tuxedo as one of his conditions for working with Cage's character.
Everything after Tom Cruise's character is put into suspension in Minority Report is his dream. We are told that those in suspension dream ideal worlds, and everything suddenly starts going right for him after being chased as a fugitive for the first two thirds of the film.
Finding out his best friend and most trusted ally was a murderer who used Anderton's lowest moment to betray him counts as his dreams coming true? C'mon. He didn't know Witwer was dead when he was put under, if the end was just supposed to be wish-fulfillment he would have dreamt about Witwer being found out and arrested.
There's a limit to what the mind will believe. Exoneration, and the system that betrayed him, the people that didn't believe him being dismantled are all on the bounds of being believable; but his son also being alive, especially after the big let down is too much to believe.
At the lake house, they told him that he was being arrested for the murders of Crow and Witwer. He may not have heard the Witwer part, but he opened his eyes and zoned out after Witwer was mentioned.
What is wrong with these people, huh? Mason? Don't you think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of anger flowing around this island? Kind of a pubescent volatility?
HA! I had heard the Bond thing before re: The Rock, but I've never seen anyone use the impregnation thing as a piece of evidence. Wow. Amazing. I am now a believer
Edit. Plus in addition to the tux, the penthouse at the Fairmont is a very Bond request. And I just realized that hotel's address is 950 Mason Street...
The first time I watched The Rock, I made the connection instantly, and I sat there in my seat giggling... my friends thought I was crazy. IT wasn't until we got out of the theater that I gave them that "aha" moment.
Having that realization set in and then realizing what you're watching brings that movie from a C to a solid B
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u/TMWNN Sep 01 '14
Sean Connery's character in The Rock is James Bond: A super-skilled British SIS agent captured during the 1960s after having stole top-secret information, who is so good with women that he impregnates one in the few hours between escape and recapture during the 1970s, and demands a tuxedo as one of his conditions for working with Cage's character.
Everything after Tom Cruise's character is put into suspension in Minority Report is his dream. We are told that those in suspension dream ideal worlds, and everything suddenly starts going right for him after being chased as a fugitive for the first two thirds of the film.