There are not many movies that portray the president as a tough guy. Apart from this film, I can only think of the president in "Independence Day" who piloted a fighter jet to lead the Air Force to fight against aliens, but that was just a deliberately arranged episode, intended to The crisis facing the planet is imminent, and the president here is more of a symbol. And the movie that uses the president as the male protagonist and defeats the villain with wisdom and courage, I can only think of "Air Force One".
In many American films of personal heroism, the ever-changing identities of the protagonists do not affect our mentality of appreciating the movies, but if the protagonist is the president, it does have a different taste. It is surprising that the US presidential plane in the film can be hijacked so easily. Of course, everyone knows that this is the need for the plot.
The real Air Force One can be called the safest air fortress in the world. The impregnable security measures and the most advanced software and hardware equipment can ensure that the president can complete almost all national affairs in the air. This is like the United States at that time, as the world's only superpower, with thousands of military bases all over the world, and a strong national defense system that makes the American people feel that their country is as unbreakable as Air Force One. And only 4 years after the film was released, the world was shaken when this seemingly invulnerable country was so easily attacked by terrorists on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. All this is almost a repeat of the Pearl Harbor incident sixty years ago in the new century, and Americans who are used to it have never suffered such a huge loss.
What the Pearl Harbor incident and the 9/11 incidents have in common is that the United States has overconfidence in its own power, and believes that no one in the world can challenge its power, but the two fatal blows in two centuries have been severely dealt with This country is a big punch. The story of "Air Force One" also echoes the setbacks encountered by the United States, but there are no tough guys like Harrison Ford in reality, and the crisis facing the country is not as simple as defeating a few bad guys in the film.
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