Nine Of The Most Believable Film Fan Conspiracy Theories

In this article you will find (sort of) spoilers for Aladdin, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Inception, James Bond, Minority Report, most Pixar films, Pulp Fiction, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

The general rule with film fan theories is that, whilst sort of fun to read, you should generally disregard them as rubbish.

These nine theories, on the other hand, you shouldn’t disregard them… they’re good. So good, in fact, that I wrote them out shorter and in one list sort of for you but mainly so I could look up fan theories in the office and make it look like I’m working…

1. Aladdin is set in the future

Disney

When the genie is released from his lamp, he tell Aladdin that his clothes are “so third century” but the genie has been trapped in the lamp for 10,000 years, so how would he know what the third century is like? Also, further along in the film, Genie impersonates the likes of Jack Nicholson and Groucho Marx - people who shouldn’t have existed then.

2. Doc Brown is suicidal in Back to the Future

Universal Pictures

The combination of being a, mostly, terrible inventor, having a teenager as a best friend, and having Libyans after him led Doc to become suicidal. He steers the time machine straight at him and Marty after all and doesn’t let Marty run off…

3. Ferris Bueller never existed

Paramount Pictures

This one upsets me more than it should.

Ferris has every quality that Cameron doesn’t and they are essentially the opposites of each other. Cameron, in his depressed and loser-ish state, invented Ferris as the perfect person (at least in his eyes). This would explain why he does everything Ferris tells him to and, when Ferris gets away with it, he’s always the one to feel the consequences.

4. Cobb’s real totem is his wedding ring in Inception

Warner Bros.

In the film, everyone knows not to mess with someone else’s totem so it makes no sense that Cobb’s totem would be that of his dead wife’s. Further more, when in the real world, Cobb doesn’t wear his wedding ring and can be seen feeling for it but, during the dreams, he’s wearing it.

At the end when he sees his kids, Cobb isn’t wearing a wedding ring. Eh?

5. James Bond is just a code name

MGM

James Bond isn’t the name of one particular agent but, instead, the name given to an agent once they take over the previous Bond’s role following retirement/death.

This would explain how Bond stays roughly the same age though the 54 years of being on screen where as those around him continue to age - think of Judy Dench starting as M in Goldeneye with Piers Brosnan and finishing in Skyfall with Daniel Craig.

6. The majority of the Minority Report film is all a dream

20th Century Fox

Tom Cruise’s character is locked away in the jail where your body is shut down but your brain remains “free to dream”. We assume that this is just for a short time but it could be for the remainder of the film. The end supports this when we see the psychics living in some idealistic cabin that looks out of place.

7. All of the Pixar movies are connected

Pixar

The powers seen in the Incredibles is an extension of the magic seen in Brave. Meanwhile, the sentient cars from Cars populate a wasteland Earth that was abandoned in Wall-E. Similarly, mutants (Monsters) roam the earth as seen in Monsters Inc and the doors used the find children are also time portals - similar to the ones the witch uses in Brave.

8. Marcellus Wallace is in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.

Miramax Films

At the beginning of the film, we see Vincent and Jules retrieving Marcellus Wallace’s soul for their boss. Because the hitmen were doing “god’s work”, god himself intervened when they were being shot at with bullets seemingly passing through them. Furthermore, the combination code for the case is 666.

9. The secret ingredient that makes Willy Wonka’s chocolate so good is children.

Paramount Pictures

None of the children are seen again after disappearing. The pipe that Augustus Gloop is sucked into is far bigger than it needs to be if all it’s doing is moving liquid chocolate. Violet basically becomes a blueberry and Mike TV is shrunk down to bitesize… literally.

In the book, there is a third ticket winner who dies when her and her father fall into a powder grinder. Later on in the book, the mother (and wife) accuses Wonka of killing them intentionally to which he says “Of course. That’s part of the recipe”… should have probably opened with that bit.

What do you think? Got any more? Let us know in the comments!