| | |A city-weary Los Angeles construction worker and his family settle for a more idyllic life in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, never to return. Two sequels followed in 1978 and 1979. | | |A city-weary Los Angeles construction worker and his family settle for a more idyllic life in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, never to return. Two sequels followed in 1978 and 1979. |
| − | |The strong and courageous U.S. President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), a military veteran, takes an uncompromising stance against Russian terrorists who hijack his airplane. The major themes include family, authority, respect for the military, and sacrifice for the greater good.
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| | |Anti-cloning film, but also pro-feminism as well. | | |Anti-cloning film, but also pro-feminism as well. |
| | + | |On the one hand, the strong and courageous U.S. President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), a military veteran, takes an uncompromising stance against Russian terrorists who hijack his airplane. The major themes include family, authority, respect for the military, and sacrifice for the greater good. On the other hand, however, the script-writer for the film has admitted that he made the film largely to promote then-president [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>https://www.salon.com/july97/entertainment/movieair970725.html<br />"But Bill Clinton is the first president to spawn movies that feature fictional presidents functioning as his stand-ins, movies made by directors fighting to define, and redefine, his image.....Air Force One" is a fantasy of what it might take for President Clinton to become all things to all people. The movie's Clinton stand-in, President James Marshall (Harrison Ford, appropriately displaying the facial mobility of Mount Rushmore), is a leader who defies his timid advisors in his efforts to set policies against injustice and tyranny and is willing to take on Congress to enforce those policies. But this is a fantasy designed to silence Clinton's conservative critics, so not only is Jim Marshall a dedicated family man, but he's a Vietnam War hero to boot. There's a combo you can't beat, a guy who knows how to kill a Commie and keep his pecker in his pocket."</ref> |