...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Air Force One

827 statements
163 feature instances
74 referencing feature instances

Air Force One	type	TVTItem
Air Force One	label	Air Force One
Air Force One	page	AirForceOne
Air Force One	comment	Air Force One is a 1997 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Harrison Ford.The United States has just deposed Ivan Radek, the dictator of Kazakhstan. US President James Marshall (Ford) is returning to the United States on the titular aircraft after a conference in Moscow. Little does he know that Radek loyalists have snuck on the plane by disguising themselves as journalists. Shortly after takeoff, the terrorists hijack the plane with the goal of securing Radek's release. Unfortunately for them, Marshall has no intention of surrendering to the hijackers.The cast includes Glenn Close as Vice President Kathryn Bennett, Wendy Crewson as First Lady Grace Marshall, Liesel Matthews as First Daughter Alice Marshall, Gary Oldman as Egor Korshunov and JÃ¼rgen Prochnow as General Ivan Radek.
Air Force One	fetched	2024-02-24T06:29:53Z
Air Force One	parsed	2024-02-24T06:29:53Z
Air Force One	processingComment	Dropped link to IndianaJones: Not a Feature - ITEM
Air Force One	processingComment	Dropped link to LeaveNoManBehind: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Air Force One	processingUnknown	LeaveNoManBehind
Air Force One	isPartOf	DBTropes
Air Force One	sameAs	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Air_Force_One_(film)
Air Force One / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Air Force One / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Gibbs blows his cover when it's only him, Marshall and Caldwell left on the plane and only one can be saved.
Air Force One / int_1235f055	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_1235f055	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_1235f055
Air Force One / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Air Force One / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Russian president is clearly a Boris Yeltsin expy, being depicted as a well-intentioned but weak man who struggles to control all the different factions of post-Soviet Russia. Walter Dean, the Secretary of Defense, bears several similarities to Ronald Reagan's initial Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, who was accused of trying to usurp control of the government from vice-president George H. W. Bush after Reagan was seriously injured in an assassination attempt three months into his presidency.
Air Force One / int_1282bf4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_1282bf4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_1282bf4f
Air Force One / int_12c2aad	type	Armed Altruism
Air Force One / int_12c2aad	comment	Armed Altruism: When James Marshall frees the staff from a locked room aboard the airplane, the first thing he does is give his gun to the Secret Service man, which makes tremendous sense, regardless of his President Action abilities.
Air Force One / int_12c2aad	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_12c2aad	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_12c2aad
Air Force One / int_17bc68ed	type	Covert Emergency Call
Air Force One / int_17bc68ed	comment	Covert Emergency Call: The President is already in the process of calling the White House when he is captured. With the phone in his pocket, he tells his captor that the plane would automatically dodge any incoming missiles - which the Vice President correctly identifies as "an order from your Commander-in-Chief" to fire at the plane.
Air Force One / int_17bc68ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_17bc68ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_17bc68ed
Air Force One / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Air Force One / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Egor Korshunov takes it very personally when Marshall kills Krasin. General Radek is this, too.
Air Force One / int_19d06ef7	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_19d06ef7	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_19d06ef7
Air Force One / int_1bf0adc6	type	Did You Think I Can't Feel?
Air Force One / int_1bf0adc6	comment	Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Korshunov shoves this in Alice's face when she implies he kills without remorse.
Air Force One / int_1bf0adc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_1bf0adc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_1bf0adc6
Air Force One / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Air Force One / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: The Secret Service detail sacrifices themselves to get the President to the escape pod, only for Marshall to render their deaths pointless by staying on the plane.
Air Force One / int_1dacdb4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_1dacdb4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_1dacdb4f
Air Force One / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Air Force One / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Don't threaten President Marshall's staff. His loved ones. Or his baseball glove!
Air Force One / int_1dfd19f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_1dfd19f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_1dfd19f9
Air Force One / int_2196347f	type	Action Politician
Air Force One / int_2196347f	comment	Action Politician: After the titular aircraft gets taken over by terrorists, President Marshall, a combat veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, forgoes a chance to escape in order to personally fight back.
Air Force One / int_2196347f	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_2196347f	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_2196347f
Air Force One / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Air Force One / int_21e5b9c7	comment	A MiG pilot celebrates shooting down one of the American fighters, failing to realize he had another one on his tail.
Air Force One / int_21e5b9c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_21e5b9c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_21e5b9c7
Air Force One / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Air Force One / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The satellite cellphone. During Marshall's fight with Boris, one of them smashes a refrigerator door and damages a carton of milk. The carton of milk gives Marshall the idea for forcing the plane to land by initiating a fuel dump.
Air Force One / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_22cf536c
Air Force One / int_23a0a0d0	type	Dragon Their Feet
Air Force One / int_23a0a0d0	comment	Dragon Their Feet: At the end of the film, the terrorists have been dispatched and a mid-air zipline transfer is about to take the remaining passengers to the rescue plane, Liberty 2-4. However, the traitor Agent Gibbs pulls a gun and demands that he be rescued over Major Caldwell and President Marshall.
Air Force One / int_23a0a0d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_23a0a0d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_23a0a0d0
Air Force One / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Air Force One / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: On both sides of the line. Korshunov and his comrades love for Mother Russia and Marshall and his entire cabinet for the USA. Neither side takes it lightly. Hell, the entire appeal of the movie itself can be summed up as "watch President Harrison Ford kick all kinds of terrorist ass in the name of America." The only way you could make this more patriotic would be if Marshall had a bald eagle sidekick and went out for burgers with Captain America afterwards while discussing the football game he was watching before things went to hell.
Air Force One / int_23be181a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_23be181a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_23be181a
Air Force One / int_26a924fb	type	Multitasked Conversation
Air Force One / int_26a924fb	comment	Multitasked Conversation: President Marshall finally gets through to the White House phone line, but is cornered by one of the terrorists. He hides the phone in his pocket, and in what appears to be idle conversation with the terrorist, instructs the Vice-President to order that Air Force One be fired upon, allowing him to take his captor by surprise.
Air Force One / int_26a924fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_26a924fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_26a924fb
Air Force One / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
Air Force One / int_286eaf85	comment	Also subverted by Korshunov, actually taking the time to explain himself, not because he snaps, but because he seems to want to justify his patriotic motives to the President's daughter (who happened to just witness the execution of the National Security Advisor). Gary Oldman plays this to the hilt, and at least for that one scene Korshunov becomes somewhat sympathetic.
Air Force One / int_286eaf85	featureApplicability	-0.3
Air Force One / int_286eaf85	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_286eaf85
Air Force One / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Air Force One / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: If you speak Russian (or are one), you are guaranteed to have a few snickers from the rather trippy Russian spoken in the movie. Not to mention the colorful Russian expletives...
Air Force One / int_294ed981	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_294ed981	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_294ed981
Air Force One / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Air Force One / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Korshunov, like many other villains portrayed by Gary Oldman. General Radek has one too.
Air Force One / int_2bfb1856	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_2bfb1856	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_2bfb1856
Air Force One / int_2c0bbca0	type	Noose Catch
Air Force One / int_2c0bbca0	comment	Noose Catch: The climactic fight ends with the baddie shoved off the plane by the President, with a cargo strap wrapped around his neck.
Air Force One / int_2c0bbca0	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_2c0bbca0	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_2c0bbca0
Air Force One / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Air Force One / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Underneath the generically evil facade, Korshunov is actually regretful of his actions to some extent and realizes what he is doing is unforgivable, but he still continues because he genuinely believes what he is doing is completely necessary.
Air Force One / int_2dc0d2bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_2dc0d2bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_2dc0d2bf
Air Force One / int_33449d14	type	Face Death with Despair
Air Force One / int_33449d14	comment	Face Death with Despair: Gibbs spends his last seconds on Earth before he dies when Air Force Once crashes on his knees and wailing.
Air Force One / int_33449d14	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_33449d14	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_33449d14
Air Force One / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Air Force One / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Within the first 20 minutes of the movie, it seems the President has safely ejected from Air Force One, and Air Force One itself is about to land safely at the Rammstein AB in Germany, this can't be it, right? Also happens with General Radek as he's leaving prison; as he makes grandiose victory poses to his fellow prisoners, the call comes in that the terrorists who "negotiated" for his release were neutralized and the prison guards shoot him dead in full view of everyone present as he tries to flee.
Air Force One / int_33fa230b	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_33fa230b	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_33fa230b
Air Force One / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Air Force One / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: The terrorists don't realize that it's the President kicking ass, believing that it's a Secret Service agent who's holding out. Justified since Marshall was a former officer in the United States Air Force.
Air Force One / int_3441859b	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_3441859b	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_3441859b
Air Force One / int_353f2b06	type	"Die Hard" on an X
Air Force One / int_353f2b06	comment	"Die Hard" on an X: Die Hard On A Plane; in this case Air Force One, and the President Of The United States as the McClane instead of one of the hostages.
Air Force One / int_353f2b06	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_353f2b06	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_353f2b06
Air Force One / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Air Force One / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: "Goddamn" also gets used a lot.
Air Force One / int_35a858b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_35a858b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_35a858b3
Air Force One / int_35f4f6	type	Karmic Butt-Monkey
Air Force One / int_35f4f6	comment	Karmic Butt-Monkey: Igor Nevsky, among the terrorists. He gets yelled at for failing to capture the President during the initial hijacking, gets captured by Marshall while guarding the hostages, and finally gets blown out of the plane by Sergei-with no parachute.
Air Force One / int_35f4f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_35f4f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_35f4f6
Air Force One / int_368c1306	type	The Men First
Air Force One / int_368c1306	comment	The Men First: When Liberty 2-4 arrives to evacuate the passengers on Air Force One, President Marshall insists that his family and the wounded be taken off before him. This leaves him and The Mole as the last two people on the plane.
Air Force One / int_368c1306	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_368c1306	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_368c1306
Air Force One / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Air Force One / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The features on the plane in the film (the escape pod and the parachute ramp), are not on the real planes that transport the US President but can be explained by this.
Air Force One / int_36e63b81	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_36e63b81	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_36e63b81
Air Force One / int_373273af	type	Throwing Out the Script
Air Force One / int_373273af	comment	Throwing Out the Script: At the beginning of the movie, Marshall ditches his previously written self-congratulatory speech about the successful capture of a Kazakh dictator by Russian and American special forces in favor of a frank confession on how his capture was too little too late since said dictator's regime had killed hundreds of thousands of innocents and the United States did nothing besides token trade sanctions until their own national security was threatened. He then vows that the United States will launch a new policy against terrorism unbounded by self-interest.
Air Force One / int_373273af	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_373273af	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_373273af
Air Force One / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
Air Force One / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: President James Marshall reportedly earned the Medal of Honor flying combat rescue missions in The Vietnam War.
Air Force One / int_37cee864	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_37cee864	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_37cee864
Air Force One / int_38a1e0eb	type	Foreign Cuss Word
Air Force One / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: Korshunov shouts something in Russian after Nevsky reports he was unable to capture Marshall in the initial attack, which gets bowlderised into a Big "NO!" in TV broadcasts.
Air Force One / int_38a1e0eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_38a1e0eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_38a1e0eb
Air Force One / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Air Force One / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: During the initial takeover, one of the secret service agents gets his lights knocked out by Nevsky when he gets hit in the head with the butt of a submachine gun.
Air Force One / int_3c111ce6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_3c111ce6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_3c111ce6
Air Force One / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
Air Force One / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: General Radek's heinous crimes are never revealed to the audience.
Air Force One / int_401089da	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_401089da	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_401089da
Air Force One / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Air Force One / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: President Marshall and his entire family are safe, and everyone rejoices when the nightmare is over, but dozens of innocent lives were lost, and the US government is certainly going to have its hands full trying to figure out how one of its own agents was able to engineer the entire crisis; that's to say nothing of Kazakhstan, where there's sure to be major repercussions in response to what the loyalists of the former dictatorship had tried to pull. MiGs firing on Air Force One is an outright act of war (attempted assassination of a head of state of another nation is not something undertaken lightly, or out of revenge, for precisely this reason), and needless to say Kazakhstan's troubles aren't over.
Air Force One / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_40cc0c7e
Air Force One / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Air Force One / int_4127eb1	comment	Alice hits back with a non-violent Shut Up, Hannibal!: "You ARE a monster...and my father is a great man. You are NOTHING like my father."
Air Force One / int_4127eb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4127eb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4127eb1
Air Force One / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Air Force One / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Melanie Mitchell's execution happens off-screen, sparing the audience the full view of what happens. The entire execution was filmed, but Wolfgang Peterson decided it was "too intense" to use and had it play out over the intercom instead.
Air Force One / int_49f20c6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_49f20c6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_49f20c6a
Air Force One / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Air Force One / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: James Marshall.
Air Force One / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4a852458
Air Force One / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Air Force One / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Played With. When Korshunov executes the National Security Adviser, we see a fairly neat hole in his forehead, but with the implication that most of the back of his skull was blown out. Quite a few of the hostages get covered in blood from it, even when standing several feet away.
Air Force One / int_4ab9c868	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4ab9c868	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4ab9c868
Air Force One / int_4c70bdae	type	Terrorists Without a Cause
Air Force One / int_4c70bdae	comment	Terrorists Without a Cause: The motivations for Special Agent Gibbs' betrayal of the President and in doing so his nation to Korshunov is never addressed, nor his prior history in aiding the terrorists in boarding the plane.
Air Force One / int_4c70bdae	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4c70bdae	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4c70bdae
Air Force One / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Air Force One / int_4d044580	comment	Korshunov makes this case to the president's daughter at the end of his subverted Motive Rant:
Air Force One / int_4d044580	featureApplicability	-0.3
Air Force One / int_4d044580	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4d044580
Air Force One / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Air Force One / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After it's established that President Marshall wasn't in the Escape Pod, the scene cuts back to the baggage deck with the two dead Secret Service agents in front of the escape pod bay... and Marshall emerges from a nook just behind the door.
Air Force One / int_4e7f703c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4e7f703c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4e7f703c
Air Force One / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
Air Force One / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: Said by Vice President Bennett after President Marshall has ordered the escorting jets to fire on Air Force One.
Air Force One / int_4e8b83a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4e8b83a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4e8b83a
Air Force One / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Air Force One / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: After killing lead terrorist Egor Korshunov, retaking the plane, and fending off MiGs in a dogfight, Agent Gibbs tries one final attempt to kill the protagonists during the movie's ending escape sequence.
Air Force One / int_4f828b45	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4f828b45	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4f828b45
Air Force One / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Air Force One / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Korshunov.
Air Force One / int_4f84cdef	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_4f84cdef	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_4f84cdef
Air Force One / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Air Force One / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: At the climax of the battle with the Big Bad: A MiG pilot celebrates shooting down one of the American fighters, failing to realize he had another one on his tail.
Air Force One / int_508d91a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_508d91a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_508d91a2
Air Force One / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Air Force One / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: A case of one being delivered by the villain. After executing National Security Adviser Doherty Korshunov tells the Vice President;
Air Force One / int_51640e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_51640e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_51640e80
Air Force One / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Air Force One / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Korshunov is shown lamenting the death of one his henchmen, saying that they served together in Afghanistan.
Air Force One / int_52b36340	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_52b36340	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_52b36340
Air Force One / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Air Force One / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Downplayed as she only has one instance of it, but Grace Marshall isn't completely helpless in the climax. It takes some big balls to twist around and push a SIG Sauer P226 pistol away from your own head. Nonetheless, she isn't a combatant like her husband.
Air Force One / int_53407671	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_53407671	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_53407671
Air Force One / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
Air Force One / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Alice says this to Korshunov.
Air Force One / int_53c47260	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_53c47260	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_53c47260
Air Force One / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Air Force One / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The Secret Service detail are quickly wiped out when the terrorists launch a sudden attack (under the cover of a smoke grenade and fire) by grabbing the plane's weapons and body armor. However, the Secret Service do succeed in holding back the terrorists long enough to get the President to the escape pod in the belly of the plane, thus succeeding at their primary objective. Radek's Kazakh guards at the beginning of the film, as most are easily gunned down by the special forces extraction squad, and only one manages to actually score a hit on the commandos. Justified in this case as the SEAL team in question would have likely rehearsed the mission for weeks, or months before actually carrying out the mission. Something that they do in Real Life.
Air Force One / int_558245a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_558245a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_558245a7
Air Force One / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Air Force One / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: Naturally, there's No Time to Think, and so President Marshall cuts all the wires except for the Red, White, and Blue. The novelization explains it away as Marshall noticing that there is a patriotic in-joke in the design (the wires that are vital have the colors of the flag) from being told to cut one of the cables with other colors before the call cut off and going for it... with a lot of finger-crossing, of course.
Air Force One / int_55f92df9	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_55f92df9	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_55f92df9
Air Force One / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Air Force One / int_56515a39	comment	The case that this is a callback to the government of Soviet Kazakhstan doesn't pass scrutiny either—the Russian ethnic minority before 1991 represented under half the population, but by that time period, government posts in education, economics and the bureaucracy overwhelmingly went to ethnic Kazakhs, as a matter of national policy (even if they could only claim a plurality of the population at the time). For example, the shock and outrage over the removal of Prime Minister Dinmukhamed Konayev, an ethnic Kazakh by Mikhail Gorbachev who replaced him with Gennady Kolbin (an ethnic Russian who'd never even lived in Kazakhstan before his appointment), led to the historic Jeltoqsan Riots.
Air Force One / int_56515a39	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_56515a39	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_56515a39
Air Force One / int_574c0dd2	type	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
Air Force One / int_574c0dd2	comment	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing: President Marshall tries to stall Korshunov as he cuts his hands free using a shard from a broken drinking glass.
Air Force One / int_574c0dd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_574c0dd2	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_574c0dd2
Air Force One / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
Air Force One / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire: When Marshall calls the White House with a satellite phone, the operator completely disbelieves that it's him and Marshall asks her to trace the call, as is standard procedure for prank calls. Cut to the operator working on her computer and saying:
Air Force One / int_57c004fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_57c004fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_57c004fc
Air Force One / int_5aab58a6	type	Mistaken for Prank Call
Air Force One / int_5aab58a6	comment	Mistaken for Prank Call: The White House Switchboard Operator assumes the man calling her and claiming to be the President is a prank caller messing with her. Marshall tells her to run a trace on the call's location to prove that he really is the President calling from Air Force One.
Air Force One / int_5aab58a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_5aab58a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_5aab58a6
Air Force One / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Air Force One / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Halo Flight leader apologies to the president for not protecting AF 1 better. Even though he was ordered to do so, his earlier firing on them caused AF 1 to run out of flares before the last missile. Halo 2's sacrifice saved them, but the damage prevented landing (and he [Halo Leader] lost a man).
Air Force One / int_5ad80bf8	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_5ad80bf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_5ad80bf8
Air Force One / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Air Force One / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Suffered both by the bad guys and good guys when the hostages are caught jumping off the plane. Played with when Korshunov, whose neck gets broken, floats safely thanks to his parachute.
Air Force One / int_5bdcc85a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_5bdcc85a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_5bdcc85a
Air Force One / int_5e7642df	type	State Visit
Air Force One / int_5e7642df	comment	State Visit: It begins with President Marshall in Moscow commemorating a joint US-Russian operation that captured Khazakstan dictator General Radek. This sets the stage for Radek's followers to hijack Air Force One in an attempt to secure his release.
Air Force One / int_5e7642df	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_5e7642df	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_5e7642df
Air Force One / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Air Force One / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Korshunov's plan is nearly derailed before it gets off the ground by Air Force One's pilots who try and very nearly succeed in landing it in a Ramstein Airbase. This is before Marshall, his target ironically, gets around to thwarting it.
Air Force One / int_60194b82	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_60194b82	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_60194b82
Air Force One / int_608b84cc	type	25th Amendment
Air Force One / int_608b84cc	comment	25th Amendment: Fairly early in the movie, when it's discovered that the President is still on Air Force One, the Cabinet quickly drafts a letter stating the intent to invoke this, as the President is compromised. The Vice President, however, refuses to sign it, considering it an affront to the situation on the plane. At the end of the film, she tears it up. However, the document in the folder to invoke the 25th amendment is actually just the text of the 25th amendment. Section 1 is listed accurately; however, Section 2 of the document is actually Section 4 of the amendment. Also, if this was an actual document invoking the 25th amendment, it would need to be signed by a majority of the cabinet.
Air Force One / int_608b84cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_608b84cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_608b84cc
Air Force One / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Air Force One / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Korshunov. Korshun is Russian for kite, as in "bird of prey".
Air Force One / int_60fa92ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_60fa92ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_60fa92ac
Air Force One / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Air Force One / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: National Security Advisor Doherty is a quintessential Defiant Captive who loves to rub it in the villains' faces that their plans have gone to shit, which leads to Korshunov executing him to show he means business.
Air Force One / int_61996785	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_61996785	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_61996785
Air Force One / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Air Force One / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Major Caldwell, played by William H. Macy.
Air Force One / int_619985d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_619985d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_619985d7
Air Force One / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Air Force One / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: And your daughter. And your chief of staff. And your national security adviser. And your classified papers. And your baseball glove!
Air Force One / int_6201e8b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6201e8b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6201e8b0
Air Force One / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Air Force One / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: After the plane is hijacked, the President gets his hands on a mobile phone and uses it to call the White House. After telling the receptionist who he is, she responds with, "And I'm the First Lady".
Air Force One / int_62b65869	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_62b65869	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_62b65869
Air Force One / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
Air Force One / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Korshunov is shown to have a close bond with most of his crew, sharing hugs as they head home after hijacking the plane and screaming in anguish as some are killed.
Air Force One / int_63b12059	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_63b12059	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_63b12059
Air Force One / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Air Force One / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Korshunov notes that he has parents and children, but Russia will always be his great love.
Air Force One / int_63d861f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_63d861f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_63d861f8
Air Force One / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Air Force One / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Perhaps inadvertently done by a secret service agent as the melee begins - when Alice opens the door of the suite to find out what's going on, one of the guards ends up in front of her, likely saving her and her mother's life. The pilots, who firmly decide to land the plane despite having guns to their heads and get shot for their trouble when they get the plane on the ground. Unfortunately, the terrorists had their own pilot. Although he survives, Lloyd Shepard dives in front of the President to take the bullet. Towards the end, when a MiG tries to shoot down Air Force One, one of the fighter planes flies into its path (even managing to look like someone Taking the Bullet). Discussed when Marshall, Major Caldwell and Agent Gibbs argue over who will be rescued from the plane as it's crashing. Marshall insists on taking everyone, but the parajumper says he can only take one more. Luckily Gibbs happens to be The Mole, kills Caldwell, who wanted the President to leave them, and suffers his Karmic Death.
Air Force One / int_6439de78	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6439de78	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6439de78
Air Force One / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
Air Force One / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: National Security Advisor Jack Doherty discusses this trope while being held hostage. "The Vice President in this case is like the Queen of England. You can't even buy airline tickets without talking to someone like me."
Air Force One / int_6aa5bcb8	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6aa5bcb8	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6aa5bcb8
Air Force One / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Air Force One / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: There's a mole on board.
Air Force One / int_6b2b3b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6b2b3b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6b2b3b59
Air Force One / int_6de63fe4	type	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy
Air Force One / int_6de63fe4	comment	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: Even the poster says "Harrison Ford is the President of the United States." The character's name is James Marshall, but you won't remember that. It doesn't help that the character isn't addressed as "Marshall" that often in the film. He's either addressed as "Sir", "Mr. President", or referred to as "the President".
Air Force One / int_6de63fe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6de63fe4	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6de63fe4
Air Force One / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Air Force One / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: When Major Caldwell claims he can't fly a plane, he is obviously lying because his uniform has Command Wings. To rate those wings, Caldwell would have had to be a military pilot for 15 years and logged at least 3,000 flight hours. Even if he wasn't rated for a multi-engine aircraft like AF1, he would have definitely been more qualified to fly the aircraft than Marshall, whose experience is limited to helicopters and small single-engine aircraft from a period dating to the Vietnam War. Members of the Russian Army are prohibited from wearing beards, and only salute with a hand when wearing hats. Radek is a rogue general, though, and presumably the regular rules of the Russian military don't apply to him or his men. On International flights, the pilots of Air Force One wear civilian clothing, not military or pilot uniforms. The F-15s launched from Ramstein, Germany have "EG" tail markings, which means they are from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Aircraft assigned to Ramstein have tail markings "RS." Also, Ramstein does not have fighter aircraft. The nearest US fighter bases in Europe are in Spangdahlem, Germany; Aviano, Italy; or Incirlik, Turkey. Ramstein AB is also referred to as "Ramstein Air Force Base; only installations within the United States are designated Air Force Base. On the canopy of the F-15 whose pilot informs the President of the damage to Air Force One, his rank is shown as "LTC", an Army abbreviation for the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. As the Air Force were the only branch of the armed forces to use F-15s, it should read "Lt Col". The Secret Service agents would likely have used SIG-Sauer P228 or P229 pistols instead of the P226 used throughout the film.
Air Force One / int_6eb4e408	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6eb4e408	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6eb4e408
Air Force One / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
Air Force One / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Shut Up, Kirk!: Korshunov delivers one to the First Lady after he killed the Press Secretary.
Air Force One / int_6eeba1cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_6eeba1cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_6eeba1cb
Air Force One / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Air Force One / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: After being cornered by a terrorist aboard Air Force One, the president starts boasting about the plane's defensive capabilities. Unbeknownst to said terrorist, he's also using a sat-phone hidden in his back pocket to tell the plane's escorts to invoke said defenses.
Air Force One / int_71152dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_71152dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_71152dd
Air Force One / int_77ee199	type	Villain Killer
Air Force One / int_77ee199	comment	Villain Killer: President James Marshall as played by Harrison Ford proves why he earned a Medal of Honor as he outsmarts and eventually kills most of the terrorists that overtook his plane.
Air Force One / int_77ee199	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_77ee199	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_77ee199
Air Force One / int_79eb1e2e	type	Neutral Female
Air Force One / int_79eb1e2e	comment	Neutral Female: Grace Marshall in the climactic fight between James and Korshunov and with good reason as her hands were bound and she's not a trained shooter. She grabs a gun after getting Korshunov's gun away from her head and points it at them, but is understandably too scared to shoot for fear of hitting her husband. Ultimately, she never has to fire the gun.
Air Force One / int_79eb1e2e	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_79eb1e2e	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_79eb1e2e
Air Force One / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Air Force One / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Type 1 flavor. The US President is adored in Moscow, appoints himself a one-man crusader against terrorism, and kicks ass on his own plane. In other countries this overbearing Americana is considered a bizarre point in the film's favor - part of the attraction, as it were. U-S-A! U-S-A!
Air Force One / int_7a265daa	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7a265daa	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7a265daa
Air Force One / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
Air Force One / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal
Air Force One / int_7b4cb802	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7b4cb802	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7b4cb802
Air Force One / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Air Force One / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Gibbs uses a Beretta 92FS equipped with a silencer to kill the agents guarding the armory, with other people a few yards away.
Air Force One / int_7d53bc0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7d53bc0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7d53bc0b
Air Force One / int_7e226b8a	type	Orbital Shot
Air Force One / int_7e226b8a	comment	Orbital Shot: Used when the White House staff celebrates after the plane has been retaken.
Air Force One / int_7e226b8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7e226b8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7e226b8a
Air Force One / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Air Force One / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Not only are these guys bullying the greatest world superpower, Marshall is clearly a dragon himself. It doesn't end well for them.
Air Force One / int_7eb73553	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7eb73553	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7eb73553
Air Force One / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
Air Force One / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: During his fight with Krasin, Marshall hits him with a stool.
Air Force One / int_7f9b12a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7f9b12a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7f9b12a6
Air Force One / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Air Force One / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Halo Flight Leader personally fires on Air Force One, under orders, to cause the automatic defense system to shake-up the plane to give Marshall the opportunity to take out his captor. Unfortunately, because of this, the defense system fails later when the MiGs fire on the plane.
Air Force One / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_7fbb2a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_7fbb2a3
Air Force One / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Air Force One / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From Korshunov: In response to the last one, a member of the cabinet grumbles, "Dammit! Nobody does this to the United States! The president will get his glove back and play catch with this guy's balls!"
Air Force One / int_808cbaeb	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_808cbaeb	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_808cbaeb
Air Force One / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Air Force One / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: As usual, Gary Oldman is this.
Air Force One / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_823c6e3e
Air Force One / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Air Force One / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: The Vice President refuses to invoke the 25th Amendment despite the rest of the Cabinet urging her to do so, as the President is very clearly compromised and unable to properly execute the duties of his office. The issue is that the Vice President then acts as the Commander in Chief anyway, giving orders to military assets, which is illegal as she insisted that the President was still in command. In addition, invoking the 25th Amendment is played as though it means the Vice President will become President automatically. In reality, the Vice President becomes Acting-President unless and until the President is either confirmed dead (in which the Vice President does become President) or declares that he is fit to serve, making the transfer of power temporary in all but the worst situations. The Vice President's reluctance to invoke the Amendment is therefore a highly principled gaffe, and would looked upon poorly by Congress after the situation is resolved. If she refused to invoke the 25th Amendment, then her role as Vice President has no military standing whatsoever. The Vice President is not in the military chain of command, and can't order a service member to so much as sharpen a pencil. In actuality, during such a situation the Secretary of Defense would give orders to the military until such time as the President returns or the Vice President assumes the Presidency.
Air Force One / int_8391b1c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_8391b1c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_8391b1c7
Air Force One / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
Air Force One / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: The pilots are executed by the terrorists early on for refusing to cooperate.
Air Force One / int_8494bcb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_8494bcb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_8494bcb3
Air Force One / int_8707260c	type	Misguided Missile
Air Force One / int_8707260c	comment	Misguided Missile: One of Halo Flight's pilots throws his plane in the path of a missile aimed at Air Force One.
Air Force One / int_8707260c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_8707260c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_8707260c
Air Force One / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Air Force One / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Major General Greely, who explains President Marshall's military background to the US command (and the viewers) and how Marshall could be the man who could take on the terrorists.
Air Force One / int_8cb844c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_8cb844c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_8cb844c6
Air Force One / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Air Force One / int_90c018ac	comment	Radek's Kazakh guards at the beginning of the film, as most are easily gunned down by the special forces extraction squad, and only one manages to actually score a hit on the commandos. Justified in this case as the SEAL team in question would have likely rehearsed the mission for weeks, or months before actually carrying out the mission. Something that they do in Real Life.
Air Force One / int_90c018ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_90c018ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_90c018ac
Air Force One / int_90ce783a	type	Slipped the Ropes
Air Force One / int_90ce783a	comment	Slipped the Ropes: Marshall does this with the aid of a shard of glass.
Air Force One / int_90ce783a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_90ce783a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_90ce783a
Air Force One / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Air Force One / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The Mole, Agent Gibbs is ultimately left to die aboard the very aircraft he allowed to be hijacked. Korshunov smugly disposes of all the plane's parachutes in front of Marshall so only he escapes alive. A livid Marshall sends him out of the plane, choked to death by a strap with the aid of Korshunov's parachute.
Air Force One / int_90d44f44	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_90d44f44	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_90d44f44
Air Force One / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Air Force One / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Both pilots refuse to take Air Force One back into the air even at gunpoint and are killed.
Air Force One / int_966da803	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_966da803	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_966da803
Air Force One / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Air Force One / int_970c790a	comment	At the climax of the battle with the Big Bad:
Air Force One / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_970c790a
Air Force One / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Air Force One / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Korshunov makes this case to the president's daughter at the end of his subverted Motive Rant: Alice hits back with a non-violent Shut Up, Hannibal!: "You ARE a monster...and my father is a great man. You are NOTHING like my father." Korshunov also responds to First Lady Marshall arguing with him about war:
Air Force One / int_984ef9ef	featureApplicability	-0.3
Air Force One / int_984ef9ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_984ef9ef
Air Force One / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Air Force One / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: The Central Theme.
Air Force One / int_9a3b7208	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_9a3b7208	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_9a3b7208
Air Force One / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Air Force One / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: General Radek. The film's antagonists are his subordinates trying to get him released from prison, but Radek himself doesn't act as a direct antagonist in any way and dies without directly interacting with any of the main cast.
Air Force One / int_9b06e314	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_9b06e314	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_9b06e314
Air Force One / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Air Force One / int_9b54d536	comment	Retroactively, Oldman is basically playing an Evil Counterpart to his later more heroic character Viktor Reznov.
Air Force One / int_9b54d536	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_9b54d536	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_9b54d536
Air Force One / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Air Force One / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: One of the F-15's protecting Air Force One intercepts a missile headed for the titular plane, sacrificing himself and saving everyone on it. In a subversion the shrapnel still damages the tail, making the plane unable to continue flying; but this is still less damage than the missile itself would have caused. Played straight with Lloyd Shephard, Marshall's Chief of Staff. As the melee begins and Alice opens the door of the suite to find out what's going on, one of the guards ends up in front of her, likely saving her and her mother's life.
Air Force One / int_9ce6492a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_9ce6492a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_9ce6492a
Air Force One / int_9d473705	type	Official Presidential Transport
Air Force One / int_9d473705	comment	Official Presidential Transport: The titular aircraft is the setting for much of the film, its hijacking being the core plot issue.
Air Force One / int_9d473705	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_9d473705	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_9d473705
Air Force One / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
Air Force One / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: Glenn Close as the Vice President. Harrison Ford as the President. Kinda goes without saying.
Air Force One / int_9fbe06a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_9fbe06a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_9fbe06a5
Air Force One / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Air Force One / int_a1b141f4	comment	Accomplished rather realistically by the President, who is understandably unsettled after doing it, considering it is probably the first time he has killed with his bare hands.
Air Force One / int_a1b141f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_a1b141f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_a1b141f4
Air Force One / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Air Force One / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Petrov and his colleagues after Radek dies.
Air Force One / int_a5cfe2ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_a5cfe2ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_a5cfe2ac
Air Force One / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Air Force One / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Radek's Kazakh troops cannot hit at all except one of the commandos in the intro, let alone only two of the six Russian prison guards when Radek was released and killed.
Air Force One / int_a796d2a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_a796d2a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_a796d2a6
Air Force One / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
Air Force One / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: Agent Gibbs, the traitor assisting the terrorists, appears to be the lead agent onboard since he's shown handing out paperwork to other agents and Shepard directly confronts him over the actions of the "lone agent" (really President Marshall).
Air Force One / int_a9f2e259	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_a9f2e259	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_a9f2e259
Air Force One / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Air Force One / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Audiences can find out early on who The Mole is, if they pay attention. It takes The Hero and his men until the final 10 minutes to figure it out, and people die during The Reveal.
Air Force One / int_ab5eea65	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ab5eea65	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ab5eea65
Air Force One / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Air Force One / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Korshunov mocks Vice-President Bennett's gender.
Air Force One / int_abc28948	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_abc28948	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_abc28948
Air Force One / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
Air Force One / int_abdf1659	comment	Bodyguarding a Badass: President Marshall proves to be far more formidable then the Secret Service agents assigned to guard him. After the terrorists quickly slaughter his guards, Marshall almost singlehandedly kills them all.
Air Force One / int_abdf1659	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_abdf1659	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_abdf1659
Air Force One / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Air Force One / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Korshunov would have won if he would have just parachuted off the plane instead of taunting President Marshall, which allowed the First Lady to knock the gun out of his hands and give Marshall the window to kill him. Also Radek after being released. He chooses to smugly walk towards the chopper instead of running to it and getting the hell out of dodge. By the time he does run towards the chopper?? Marshall has already called to stop the release, which makes Radek a prisoner trying to escape and the Russian guards shoot to kill and succeed.
Air Force One / int_ac6ea68c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ac6ea68c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ac6ea68c
Air Force One / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Air Force One / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Marshall's ability to speak Russian. It's also mentioned at one point in the movie that he fought in The Vietnam War as a pilot.
Air Force One / int_acecb17d	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_acecb17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_acecb17d
Air Force One / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Air Force One / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: At the end of the film, Air Force One is losing height and is about to crash. President Marshall insists on taking everyone with him even though the pararescue man says he can only take one more. Caldwell insists that the President should be the one to leave. Gibbs winds up solving that problem by killing Caldwell so that Marshall only has to save himself.
Air Force One / int_acf33d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_acf33d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_acf33d00
Air Force One / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Air Force One / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Vladamir Krasin (the first terrorist killed) has this reaction when he realizes he's fighting President Marshall. The White House secretary when she hears Marshall being held at gunpoint onboard the plane whispers "Oh my god" before presumably running to take the phone to the command. Gibbs right before Air Force One crashes with him still onboard.
Air Force One / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ad1db87c
Air Force One / int_ad8df7ab	type	Don't Celebrate Just Yet
Air Force One / int_ad8df7ab	comment	Don't Celebrate Just Yet: The bad guys are dead, the plane has been secured, and the evil General has been killed before he could return to power. A flight of MiGs has launched from one of the bases loyal to the bad guys, and proceeds to intercept and attack Air Force One. Evidently, nobody told the Kazakh pilot not to celebrate his victory while the battle still rages, especially when outnumbered 2 to 1. One of the American pilots gets in a Pre-Mortem One-Liner as he lines up on the enemy's six and swats him.
Air Force One / int_ad8df7ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ad8df7ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ad8df7ab
Air Force One / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Air Force One / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Korshunov, sometimes.
Air Force One / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ae3d6438
Air Force One / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Air Force One / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Terrorist Sergei apparently doesn't know what explosive decompression is. To get through a locked door he jams a fire extinguisher in the handle and shoots it. On a plane. This results in at least five people (including a restrained terrorist) getting sucked out of the plane (although we see three people have chutes safely opened). And the President almost fell out. Unfortunately, Sergei isn't one of them. This also leads to the explosion of the tanker plane that was refuelling Air Force One at the time, and could easily have killed EVERYONE if not for the pilot's quick thinking.
Air Force One / int_affd30b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_affd30b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_affd30b0
Air Force One / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Air Force One / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Alice complained that James didn't take her to see the refugee camp, expressing her desire to see some real gritty shit up close...
Air Force One / int_b06bbf4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_b06bbf4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_b06bbf4b
Air Force One / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Air Force One / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Kurshonov seems to view President Marshall as something of an oppressive dictator. Never mind the fact that the general he's trying to get released from prison is an actual oppressive dictator (though with the right politics for him apparently, and that makes it fine).
Air Force One / int_b42b7e7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_b42b7e7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_b42b7e7b
Air Force One / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Air Force One / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Mig-29 pilots loyal to Radek decide to attack Air Force One for no explained reason besides hate for the USA and didn't expect any consequences.
Air Force One / int_b58b4e3c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_b58b4e3c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_b58b4e3c
Air Force One / int_ba75d291	type	StepThreeProfit
Air Force One / int_ba75d291	comment	Step Three: Profit: What exactly did the villains plan to do if their plan succeeded? Retribution against them and any nation even suspected of helping them would have been dire, easily to the point of total nuclear war. That may be their aim, though.
Air Force One / int_ba75d291	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ba75d291	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ba75d291
Air Force One / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Air Force One / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Give yourself up and provide the terrorists with the bargaining chip they need or let your Deputy Press Secretary, begging for her life, be killed? Let the US President, the First Family and several other VIP's die or release the genocidal general? Let your wife and daughter die or order the release of said general?
Air Force One / int_babc974	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_babc974	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_babc974
Air Force One / int_bb656150	type	Hostage MacGuffin
Air Force One / int_bb656150	comment	Hostage MacGuffin: The villain uses the President's daughter to force the President to do his dirty work. And later tries to use his wife. Fortunately, Harrison Ford is the president.
Air Force One / int_bb656150	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_bb656150	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_bb656150
Air Force One / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Air Force One / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Done in brilliant Gary Oldman fashion when Korshunov holds Marshall at gunpoint.
Air Force One / int_bc00493f	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_bc00493f	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_bc00493f
Air Force One / int_bd335148	type	Actor IS the Title Character
Air Force One / int_bd335148	comment	Actor IS the Title Character: Harrison Ford is the President of the United States, it's the Tag Line and the first thing you see on the poster, above the title.
Air Force One / int_bd335148	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_bd335148	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_bd335148
Air Force One / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Air Force One / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell. Boris Bazylev, the terrorist played by Andrew Divoff.
Air Force One / int_be009bbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_be009bbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_be009bbc
Air Force One / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Air Force One / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": The co-pilot of Air Force One does this as his Last Words when Korshunov tries to force him to take the plane back into the air. That earns him a bullet.
Air Force One / int_c2cedc1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c2cedc1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c2cedc1c
Air Force One / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Air Force One / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Accomplished rather realistically by the President, who is understandably unsettled after doing it, considering it is probably the first time he has killed with his bare hands. Also the fate of Korshunov, courtesy of his parachute strap getting caught on his neck when Marshall kicks him off the plane.
Air Force One / int_c2fc1ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c2fc1ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c2fc1ae
Air Force One / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Air Force One / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: "Forgive me, I lied." is Korshunov's response when First Lady Marshall pointed out he promised to let them go if the President cooperated.
Air Force One / int_c3245c20	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c3245c20	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c3245c20
Air Force One / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Air Force One / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Gibbs kills two of his own agents this way when he catches them unawares, but he wisely uses body shots on the third who had time to react and started moving. Korshunov executes Doherty this way.
Air Force One / int_c3585f4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c3585f4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c3585f4a
Air Force One / int_c3d95be6	type	You Said You Would Let Them Go
Air Force One / int_c3d95be6	comment	You Said You Would Let Them Go: From the First Lady to Korshunov, who promised to release his hostages if the President cooperated.
Air Force One / int_c3d95be6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c3d95be6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c3d95be6
Air Force One / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Air Force One / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And Glenn Close".
Air Force One / int_c40c8b74	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c40c8b74	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c40c8b74
Air Force One / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Air Force One / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: By Max Allan Collins. An audiobook was released alongside it, read by Edward Herrmann.
Air Force One / int_c54d550d	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c54d550d	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c54d550d
Air Force One / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Air Force One / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Air Force One is hijacked, the Secret Service hustles the President to an escape pod in the cargo bay.
Air Force One / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c75df49a
Air Force One / int_c7eaae49	type	Renegade Russian
Air Force One / int_c7eaae49	comment	Renegade Russian: The Russian terrorists are opposed to the Russian government and, apparently, want to re-create the USSR.
Air Force One / int_c7eaae49	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_c7eaae49	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_c7eaae49
Air Force One / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Air Force One / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In the original script, the parajumper who gets shot by Gibbs manages to kill him before dying. Also counts as a Mutual Kill.
Air Force One / int_caf89e54	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_caf89e54	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_caf89e54
Air Force One / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Air Force One / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: "Aren't there any Asian people in Central Asia?" Radek's post-Soviet Kazakhstan does feature a Russian minority, but the majority of people in Kazakhstan are Turkic rather than Slavic, highly distinct from Russians in appearance (more similar to East Asians). The case that this is a callback to the government of Soviet Kazakhstan doesn't pass scrutiny either—the Russian ethnic minority before 1991 represented under half the population, but by that time period, government posts in education, economics and the bureaucracy overwhelmingly went to ethnic Kazakhs, as a matter of national policy (even if they could only claim a plurality of the population at the time). For example, the shock and outrage over the removal of Prime Minister Dinmukhamed Konayev, an ethnic Kazakh by Mikhail Gorbachev who replaced him with Gennady Kolbin (an ethnic Russian who'd never even lived in Kazakhstan before his appointment), led to the historic Jeltoqsan Riots.
Air Force One / int_ce0b2b21	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ce0b2b21	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ce0b2b21
Air Force One / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Air Force One / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: An airplane is not a car, and a control yoke is not a steering wheel, however much it looks more like one than a side-stick: when Korshunov shoots the co-pilot, he slumps against the yoke as he dies, which causes Air Force One to careen about the Ramstein AB runway, then onto the apron and flight line. Moving the yoke like this wouldn't have that effect on a large aircraft (like a 747) on the ground; pilots have to manually steer the nose wheel with a separate tiller, which is usually to the side and slightly behind their seats, and in any case is very difficult to move even deliberately - slumping or brushing against it wouldn't cause it to budge. It's possible that the dying co-pilot was pushing on the rudder pedals as well as the yoke; in addition to controlling the rudder, the pedals are also linked to the nosewheel-steering mechanism. This would still be pretty unlikely, though - the few real-life cases of pilot incapacitation resulting in rudder-pedal inputs have essentially all involved seizures, which are much more likely to make the pilot's legs and feet push on something than simply dying is. As Air Force One swerves about Ramstein AB and goes to take off again the terrorists do nothing about the flaps (set at 30 degrees for landing). The increased drag caused by the flaps at this setting wouldn't allow the aircraft to take off in such a short distance.note The plane would still be able to take off - being able to lift off and climb away at at least a specified minimum climb angle with the flaps in their full landing position is a certification requirement for transport-category aircraft, in case the flaps jam and can't be raised during a go-around. However, AF1 would have taken considerably longer to lift off in this state than is shown in the film, and the climbout would have had to have been considerably shallower. When the President opens the panel to short the wires to dump fuel, the wires are all different colors. All aircraft use white wires with printed numbers and letters to identify the circuit. The Air Force One pilot on the ground says that there is no automatic landing capability on the aircraft. All 747s have the capability to land on autopilot. Later model 747s and every 757, 767 and 777 also have semi-auto takeoff. Air Force One does not have an escape pod. The in-flight refueling hardware on the real Air Force One makes a bulge visible below the cockpit window. The Boeing 747 used in the film lacks this bulge. Further, on all KC-10s there is a Boom Operator who flies the boom and monitors and has full control of the fuel that the tanker is receiving or giving at all times. The Boom Operator would have raised the boom as soon as AF1 broke away and cut off the fuel supply long before the fuel could ignite. Further, there is fire suppression equipment for exactly this reason. One scene featured some F-15s switching on their afterburners. This caused these fighter jets to instantly jump from subsonic speeds to Mach 2, like Han Solo turning on the hyperdrive. Real afterburners simply provide a greater thrust force, allowing the aircraft to smoothly accelerate through the transonic rangenote the speed range around the speed of sound, where - due to shock-wave effects - drag is considerably greater than at lower or higher airspeeds until it attains a supersonic airspeed — they don't cause Newton's 2nd Law of Motion to be temporarily suspended. However, this could be attributed to just being a camera trick to make the audience 'believe' that the aircraft were accelerating rapidly. Also, the F-15's engines are built around providing a lot of thrust when the pilot wants it, so while it isn't realistic for the aircraft to jump like they did, it can be attributed to the F-15's real life acceleration as well as a cheap CGI camera trick. Also regarding the Eagles, they repeatedly get missile locks with the Sparrow and AMRAAM radar-homing missiles at ranges far too close for the missile to guide properly. This doesn't apply to the enemy Mig-29 Fulcrums, because they were firing infra-red homing AA-8 "Aphid" and AA-10 "Alamo-B" missiles at AF1. They were just about at the known minimum distance for those missiles.
Air Force One / int_ce1c73e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ce1c73e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ce1c73e2
Air Force One / int_cf496044	type	Smoke Out
Air Force One / int_cf496044	comment	Smoke Out: A minor example when Gibbs uses a smoke grenade to signal Korshunov and his men that the armory is open.
Air Force One / int_cf496044	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_cf496044	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_cf496044
Air Force One / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Air Force One / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: President Marshall calls the White House on a satellite phone and says he's the President of the United States with predictable results. Fortunately for him, one of those predictable results is the security procedure that everyone who calls the White House has a phone trace run on them - which leads to considerable surprise when they realize that it actually is the President calling.
Air Force One / int_cf92fea8	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_cf92fea8	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_cf92fea8
Air Force One / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Air Force One / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Korshunov admits he is a monster by even his own standards, but that his own life and morality are nothing in comparison to his ideals. Becomes a Discussed Trope when Alice tells him that her father is a great man and Korshunov is nothing like him. Korshunov points out that just because her father kills people in a suit with a smart bomb, it doesn't make him less of a murderer than he is.
Air Force One / int_d001c42c	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d001c42c	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d001c42c
Air Force One / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Air Force One / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Working fax on board, someone who knows how to use it, and Jerry Goldsmith scoring to boot!
Air Force One / int_d148b019	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d148b019	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d148b019
Air Force One / int_d1d670cc	type	Cut the Juice
Air Force One / int_d1d670cc	comment	Cut the Juice: One of the paratroopers who raids General Radek's mansion in the opening cuts the power by pulling a switch.
Air Force One / int_d1d670cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d1d670cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d1d670cc
Air Force One / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Air Force One / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Special Agent Gibbs.
Air Force One / int_d49f90ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d49f90ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d49f90ea
Air Force One / int_d4f3a682	type	The Operators Must Be Crazy
Air Force One / int_d4f3a682	comment	The Operators Must Be Crazy: President Marshall finds a satellite phone and attempts to get through to the Vice President, but is thwarted by the White House switchboard operator who refuses to believe the caller is actually who he says he is, until they get a trace on his phone and put him through...just as he is discovered by one of the hijackers.
Air Force One / int_d4f3a682	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d4f3a682	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d4f3a682
Air Force One / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Air Force One / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Pretty much everyone working for Radek, all of whom try to use Appeal to Worse Problems to make the Americans seem similar, but all of them served a brutal dictator that killed hundreds of thousands of people and hurt even more, and decide to try and get said leader released from prison by attacking another head of state's airplane and murdering a number of unarmed people aboard.
Air Force One / int_d52d28b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d52d28b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d52d28b6
Air Force One / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Air Force One / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the dogfight with the MIGs, half the squadron breaks off the attack when the other is killed.
Air Force One / int_d9cf40fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d9cf40fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d9cf40fa
Air Force One / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Air Force One / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Obviously, President Harrison Ford is the Cavalry for much of the movie, not to mention the half-dozen USAF F-15s that come burning in, splashing two MiGs immediately. The second gets just enough time for the pilot to have an Oh, Crap! moment. The soldiers on the ground at Ramstein AB as well, though they couldn't get to the plane in time. The terrorists know this, remarking that they'd be no match for them.
Air Force One / int_d9e9ad7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_d9e9ad7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_d9e9ad7e
Air Force One / int_ddc6244b	type	Emergency Refuelling
Air Force One / int_ddc6244b	comment	Emergency Refuelling: A tanker (KC-10 model) sent out to the title aircraft to try and save the people on board from the terrorists (as the plane is running low on fuel). What the terrorist don't know is the President had sent the order via fax machine to use the tanker to get both planes down to a safe altitude where the hostages can parachute out. Things get hairy when a terrorist inadvertently causes the title plane to lurch up, damage the KC-10's refueling boom, which leads to a fire, which causes the KC-10 to explode.
Air Force One / int_ddc6244b	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ddc6244b	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ddc6244b
Air Force One / int_e234ddbf	type	Escape Pod
Air Force One / int_e234ddbf	comment	Escape Pod: The film's version of Air Force One is equipped with one which the Secret Service drag the President to after the hijacking begins. The pod launches, but Marshall didn't get in. As mentioned elsewhere, the real Air Force One does not have this feature.
Air Force One / int_e234ddbf	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_e234ddbf	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_e234ddbf
Air Force One / int_e3585b3d	type	No Party Given
Air Force One / int_e3585b3d	comment	No Party Given: It barely matters, but Marshall is not given a party affiliation in the movie. The novelization averts this by explicitly stating that he's a moderate Republican.
Air Force One / int_e3585b3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_e3585b3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_e3585b3d
Air Force One / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Air Force One / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Ford is seriously channeling the Indiana Jones personality in this movie. Retroactively, Oldman is basically playing an Evil Counterpart to his later more heroic character Viktor Reznov.
Air Force One / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_e5421161
Air Force One / int_e66e9bfb	type	New Era Speech
Air Force One / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: Marshall's speech in Moscow when his character is introduced when he explains America's new hardline stance on terrorism.
Air Force One / int_e66e9bfb	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_e66e9bfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_e66e9bfb
Air Force One / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Air Force One / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: When Liberty 2-4 retrieved President Marshall safely on board, they changed their call sign to Air Force One. (Which is how it works in reality too; Federal Law says any US Air Force aircraft carrying the President automatically becomes Air Force One).note For the curious, when one of the two VC-25 planes used as Air Force One are flying non-presidental missions, they are referred to as SAM (Special Air Mission). This is so the military never needs to wonder "which" Air Force One has the President; only the one the President is on will have the "Air Force One" callsign
Air Force One / int_e6a901a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_e6a901a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_e6a901a3
Air Force One / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Air Force One / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Agent Gibbs.
Air Force One / int_e70127	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_e70127	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_e70127
Air Force One / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Air Force One / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The escorting F-15 fighters, which returned after being called off earlier just in time to save Air Force One from being shot down by MiG-29s. Especially Halo Two, who "took a bullet" for the President.
Air Force One / int_eb81c601	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_eb81c601	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_eb81c601
Air Force One / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Air Force One / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: After AF1 is hijacked, it's mentioned that Moscow police found the bodies of the news crew that Korshunov and his men posed as to infiltrate the plane.
Air Force One / int_ece27800	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ece27800	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ece27800
Air Force One / int_f13a02c1	type	Dead Foot Leadfoot
Air Force One / int_f13a02c1	comment	It's possible that the dying co-pilot was pushing on the rudder pedals as well as the yoke; in addition to controlling the rudder, the pedals are also linked to the nosewheel-steering mechanism. This would still be pretty unlikely, though - the few real-life cases of pilot incapacitation resulting in rudder-pedal inputs have essentially all involved seizures, which are much more likely to make the pilot's legs and feet push on something than simply dying is.
Air Force One / int_f13a02c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_f13a02c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_f13a02c1
Air Force One / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Air Force One / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Subverted by Chief of Staff Shepard, who, after spending the entire film disagreeing with everything Marshall does, takes a bullet for him. However, he manages to survive and is rescued.
Air Force One / int_f1492605	featureApplicability	-0.3
Air Force One / int_f1492605	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_f1492605
Air Force One / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Air Force One / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: To make a point about how willing he is to go through with his plan, Korshunov puts his gun to the First Lady's head. Later on, he personally shoots Melanie Mitchell when Marshall doesn't surrender.
Air Force One / int_f42f96fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_f42f96fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_f42f96fa
Air Force One / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Air Force One / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Korshunov and his team, all former Soviet soldiers and patriots who hate what The New Russia has become since the fall of the Soviet Union. Possibly Radek's Kazakhstan, in-universe: it's portrayed as a post-Soviet dictatorship hanging on to its nuclear arsenal, ethnically cleansing its population, and with a hostile relationship to the democratic government in Moscow; also, its leader commands Korshunov and his men's loyalty.
Air Force One / int_f9c17447	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_f9c17447	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_f9c17447
Air Force One / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Air Force One / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Air Force One crashing into the sea should have resulted in the fuselage shattering upon impact.
Air Force One / int_fc225bec	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_fc225bec	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_fc225bec
Air Force One / int_fd3680e7	type	WhyWereBummedCommunismFell
Air Force One / int_fd3680e7	comment	Why We're Bummed Communism Fell: While having the President finally at his mercy, Korshunov lays into him about how bad Russia has become since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and how the President helped create it with forcing "Americanization" on his people and the results it has created for the Russian and other former Soviet peoples.
Air Force One / int_fd3680e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_fd3680e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_fd3680e7
Air Force One / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Air Force One / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Korshunov gets a moment during his explanation to Alice about his actions.
Air Force One / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ff7f34c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ff7f34c5
Air Force One / int_ffe1bbf8	type	Defiant Captive
Air Force One / int_ffe1bbf8	comment	Defiant Captive: National Security Advisor Jack Doherty refuses to take any shit from Korshunov after being taken captive and informs him that their plan is going to blow up in their face. Korshunov later executes him to prove he means business.
Air Force One / int_ffe1bbf8	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_ffe1bbf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_ffe1bbf8
Air Force One / int_name	type	ItemName
Air Force One / int_name	comment
Air Force One / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Air Force One / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Air Force One	hasFeature	Air Force One / int_name
Air Force One / int_name	itemName	Air Force One

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Air Force One	hasFeature	A-Team Firing / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Action Genre / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Action Politician / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Actor IS the Title Character / int_428a472b
AirForceOne	seeAlso	Air Force One
AmericanPoliticalSystem	seeAlso	Air Force One
Air Force One	hasFeature	And I'm the Queen of Sheba / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	And Mission Control Rejoiced / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Armed Altruism / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Author Filibuster / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Black Helicopter / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Bodyguard Betrayal / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Bodyguarding a Badass / int_428a472b
ChasingLiberty	seeAlso	Air Force One
Air Force One	hasFeature	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Covert Emergency Call / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	"Die Hard" on an X / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Dragon Their Feet / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	EMP / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Emergency Refuelling / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Epic Rocking / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Escape Pod / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Face Death with Despair / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Fanfare / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Get Out! / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Hollywood Action Hero / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Hostage MacGuffin / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	I Have You Now, My Pretty / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Kill and Replace / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Misguided Missile / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Missing the Good Stuff / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Mistaken for an Imposter / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prank Call / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Monochrome Casting / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	More Expendable Than You / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Multitasked Conversation / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	No Time to Think / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Noose Catch / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	#1 Dime / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Official Presidential Transport / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Patriotic Fervor / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Phone-Trace Race / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Post-Climax Confrontation / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Post-Final Boss / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Power Hair / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Pushy Gun-Toting Villain / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Real Award, Fictional Character / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Renegade Russian / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Searching the Stalls / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Senseless Sacrifice / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Sink the Lifeboats / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Slipped the Ropes / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Spoiler / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	State Visit / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Tear Up the Contract / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Terrorists Without a Cause / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	That's an Order! / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	The Butcher / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	The Operators Must Be Crazy / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	There Are No Global Consequences / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Throwing Out the Script / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Vehicle Title / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Vice President Who? / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Villain Killer / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	You Monster! / int_428a472b
Air Force One	hasFeature	Your Princess Is in Another Castle! / int_428a472b

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.