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Best Narrative Feature | 2006 | Robert
The scene where Thorne makes a television appearance in jail is based on a true event. Jeremiah Denton was a prisoner during the Vietnam War and appeared in a television interview in 1966. He spoke that he was being treated well, but passed on the message "Torture" by blinking Morse code.
Thorne's decision to abolish scientists (physicians, professors), resembles the Khmer Rouge regime (Cambodia, 1975-1979).
The prison in which Thorne is thrown has a special cell, which we only know by number, where prisoners face their worst nightmare. This is a reference to George Orwell's masterpiece "1984", a novel about a man living in a totalitarian world where the rulers have the power to change every record of the past in order to control everything, even memories.
The movie contains several references to many real life revolutions and dictators: women wearing veils covering them from head to toe after the revolution (Iran), calling each other "citizen" (France); the gray uniform Thorne wears that resembles Stalin's (Russia) and Mao Zedong's (China); the First Lady's ludicrous wardrobe just like Ferdinand Marcos' wife (Phillipines) or dictatorial power being inherited from father to son (Haiti). Also, Thorne's beard looks similar to Marx's, and the "re-education" camp maybe a reference to Russian gulags.
In one part of the movie, Thorne notes how Maximilian II's father tried to kill the unborn Maximilian II when he heard a prophecy that his son would destroy the empire. This is a reference to the legend of Troy, where Paris was fated to bring ruin to the city, which he ultimately did.
"Joe: How far does a man have to go to be thought so dangerous that he needs to be locked away, physically separated from the rest of the world, behind stone walls and iron bars? Clearly, it is a last resort."
"First Sergeant: If I catch you bull shitting with the prisoners again, especially that prisoner, I'll beat you like a red-headed stepchild, and skull-fuck your corpse."
