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* ProfoundByPopSong: When Jerry (a troubled DerangedTaxiDriver with a head full of bad wiring) tries telling Alice he loves her, he ends up awkwardly quoting lyrics from "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by Music/ThePolice. Alice lampshades it immediately.
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* LostInACrowd: Jerry tries it - with varied success - few times throughout the movie. And when it ''doesn't'' work, he instead incites the crowd to panic, providing distraction anyway.
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* ProductionThrowback: When Jerry is attempting to pull LostInACrowd in a cinema, the barely visible film on the screen is ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}''. The title is not mentioned anywhere, but it was directed by Creator/RichardDonner.
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If you were looking for real-life conspiracy theories, see [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories this page]].
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: The FBI help Jerry and Alice, whereas the CIA, and Dr. Jonas, is after them.
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* YouKilledMyFather: In the stables, Jerry remembers this is where Alice's father died. Although he wasn't the killer, Alice jumps to conclusions and assaults him.
-->'''Alice:''' Did he see you coming, Jerry? Huh? ''[pushes him down, attacks him]'' Did he beg for his life? You put a gun to his head and you shot him, didn't you? Didn't you? He died in the dirt, like an animal! Jerry, you killed my father! Answer me! I have to know!
-->'''Alice:''' Did he see you coming, Jerry? Huh? ''[pushes him down, attacks him]'' Did he beg for his life? You put a gun to his head and you shot him, didn't you? Didn't you? He died in the dirt, like an animal! Jerry, you killed my father! Answer me! I have to know!
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* ToopBrokenToBreak: Discussed: after Dr. Jonas captures Jerry and (falsely) tells him Alice is dead, a despondent Jerry mutters, "Then you can't hurt me anymore." Jonas's smirking response: "I'll be the judge of that."
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* ToopBrokenToBreak: TooBrokenToBreak: Discussed: after Dr. Jonas captures Jerry and (falsely) tells him Alice is dead, a despondent Jerry mutters, "Then you can't hurt me anymore." Jonas's smirking response: "I'll be the judge of that."
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* DerangedTaxiDriver: Jerry Fletcher is a paranoid New York cab driver who rants and raves about conspiracies to any passenger who will listen (and anyone who won't). His home is basically a survivalist's bunker, even armed with a self-destruct system. Turns out he has a good reason for his erratic behavior; he may have been an MK Ultra subject, brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin, and is fighting his programming
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* ChekhovsGun: At one point, Jerry uses a TapOnTheHead to try and knock out a government agent, and has to do it again because he realizes the agent is faking unconsciousness. Later in the movie, after Alice hits an agent on the head and leaves him behind, he immediately gets up and follows her.
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* ChekhovsGun: At one point, Jerry uses a TapOnTheHead to try and knock out a government agent, and has to do it again because he realizes the agent is faking unconsciousness. Later in the movie, after Alice hits an the same agent on the head and leaves him behind, he immediately gets up and follows her.
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** Jerry apologizes to a policeman he must knock out when escaping from the
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* PistolWhipping: Jerry uses a pistol to knock out a government agent.
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* OvertOperative: For all that Jonas's forces are meant to be a covert unit, they are blindingly obvious while in motion. Even their "stealth" helicopters are readily visible as men rappel into the streets.
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If you were looking for real-life conspiracy theories, see [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories this page]].
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The subscribers to Jerry's conspiracy theory newsletter all die suddenly from heart attacks. He unsurprisingly says they were drugged by the CIA to make it look this way.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The subscribers to Jerry's conspiracy theory newsletter all die suddenly from heart attacks. He unsurprisingly says they were drugged by the CIA to make it look this way. Jerry himself later nearly suffers this in the hospital, but switches his chart with the patient sharing his room, who soon dies from a sudden heart attack.
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* ArcWords: More like an Arc Song Lyrics, but yeah; "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
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* ArcWords: More like an Arc Song Lyrics, but yeah; "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
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* CloudCuckooLander: Jerry, part in thanks to the brainwashing he suffered and the gravy for the brain.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Jerry, in part in thanks to the brainwashing he suffered and the gravy for the brain.
* GunmanWithThreeNames: Jerry discusses this at one point, mentioning John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, wondering at what significance it has.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The subscribers to Jerry's conspiracy theory newsletter all die suddenly from heart attacks. He unsurprisingly says they were drugged by the CIA to make it look this way.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Jerry is super paranoid. [[spoiler: Given that he escaped a brainwashing facility and was a Manchurian Agent proves he's right.]]
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* TrustPassword: Alice believes Jerry when he says [[spoiler: he didn't kill her father and in-fact fought his brain-washing and be-friended him. How does she know that? "He made great coffee."]]
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* TrustPassword: Alice believes Jerry when he says [[spoiler: he didn't kill her father and in-fact fought his brain-washing brainwashing and be-friended befriended him. How does she know that? "He made great coffee."]]
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* PlayingAgainstType: Good-natured, avuncular Creator/PatrickStewart plays the BigBad.
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* TrustPassword: Alice believes Jerry when he says [[spoiler: he didn't kill her father and in-fact fought his brain-washing and be-friended him. How does she know that? "He made great coffee."]]
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-->'''Jonas:''' That all ended when John Hinkley shot Ronald Reagan (beat) Oh, that wasn't us.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: The Government keeps track of several of their manchurian agents by using their compulsion to buy "The Catcher in the Rye".
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* {{CIA BlackHelicopter: Jerry claims to hear them buzzing over the city, and they're observed overhead at the end of the film.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: Dr. Jonas, the guy in charge of the brainwashing unit, worked for the Government.
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* MadScientist:Dr Dr. Jonas. Including brainwashing, creating Manchurian candidates, agents, and use of psychedelic drugs.
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''Conspiracy Theory'' is a 1997 American action/paranoid thriller film directed by Richard Donner, starring Creator/MelGibson and Creator/JuliaRoberts. The original screenplay by Brian Helgeland centers on an eccentric taxi driver who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiracies.
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''Conspiracy Theory'' is a 1997 American action/paranoid thriller film directed by Richard Donner, Creator/RichardDonner, starring Creator/MelGibson Creator/MelGibson, Creator/JuliaRoberts and Creator/JuliaRoberts.Creator/PatrickStewart. The original screenplay by Brian Helgeland centers on an eccentric taxi driver who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiracies.
