random item

Troperville

Tools

Find recent edits by troper:

back to: Main / EagleEye

edit article | go to discussion page

9th May '13 10:20:21 AM zarpaulus

Send zarpaulus a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 1 (click to see context) from:

to:

9th May '13 10:20:02 AM zarpaulus

Send zarpaulus a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 1,55 (click to see context) from:

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eyeeaglerun.JPG

Jerry Shaw ({{Shia LaBeouf}}) is not having a good time. He's having money trouble, works a dead-end job at the [[BurgerFool Copy Cabana]] and then his twin brother Ethan dies in the line of duty. He returns home for the funeral, but he clearly has issues with his father over his life goals. Not much later money pops up in his bank account, an insane amount of terrorist related items are shipped to his apartment and a mysterious voice tells him that he's been "activated." The woman on the phone starts ordering him around, giving him precise information on when the authorities are going to be arresting him. He discovers that he's a wanted man and his only real hope is to follow the woman's instructions.

Meanwhile, a woman named Rachel sends her son off on a band trip, and has her own set of issues regarding her deadbeat ex-husband. She is similarly contacted by the woman, threatened with her son's life, and ordered to act as a helper for a complete stranger named Jerry.

The mysterious force behind their "activation" can follow their every move and gives them absurdly precise instructions, along with a near supernatural ability to observe and contact them through any means necessary. They struggle to follow the voice on the phone's orders, find out what is happening and why, and evade the authorities pursuing Jerry.

''EagleEye'' is largely a response to concerns about privacy and domestic spying, while making it into a breakneck speed thriller.

Not to be confused with VideoGame/EagleEyeMysteries.
----
!!This film provides examples of:

* ActingForTwo: Shia plays both Jerry and Ethan, although Ethan is more of a PosthumousCharacter.
* ActionSurvivor: The two protagonists
* AIIsACrapshoot: Though twisted, as A.R.I.I.A did ''not'' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Turn Against Her Masters]] - she just had a liberal interpretation of the lengths she was allowed to go. 
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Jerry
* AttackDrone: One is used to blow up the suspected terrorist meeting in the opening. Naturally, A.R.I.I.A gets control of it later.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: The entire premise of the movie.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jerry is shown to have once attended Stanford and is certainly overqualified for his current job. This is largely contrasted with his overachieving brother Ethan, who was talented enough to bypass almost any obstacle. It's implied Jerry has the same potential but just wants to be different from Ethan in every way possible.
* BurgerFool: While not fast food the Copy Cabana is used in a very similar manner.
* TheChessmaster: A.R.I.I.A.
* [[ComputerEqualsMonitor Computer Equals Eye On Stalk]]
* CrazyPrepared: A.R.I.I.A. She gives them a briefcase that opens at the '''''EXACT''''' time they needed it.
* DownInTheDumps: They end up at a scrapyard after the long crazy car chase.
* EagleLand: Type 1, but ''viciously'' deconstructed.
* EnhanceButton: Shopping mall cameras can be enhanced to spot race, gender and ''hair color'' through the reflection of a ''black'' bus.
* EverythingIsOnline: And we mean '''''everything'''''.
** Except for a closed circuit security camera.
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: Anything from A.R.I.I.A.'s point of view. Even luggage scanners get their own 3D environment.
* FunWithAcronyms: A.R.I.I.A., which is always pronounced as "Aria".
* GoneHorriblyRight: A.R.I.I.A. didn't try to [[spoiler:assassinate the President and most of Congress]] because of any hatred for humanity, but because she felt they had not done their jobs properly.
* HeroicSacrifice: FBI Agent Morgan spends most of the movie chasing Jerry before realizing his innocence, then sacrifices himself to take out an MQ-9 Reaper. 
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]
* MadeOfIron: Not entirely, but there are ''several'' situations at the end of the movie that characters shouldn't have survived, like when [[spoiler: A.R.I.I.A. tries to kill the people in her server room]] and [[spoiler: Jerry is shot by Secret Service]].
* MasterComputer: A.R.I.I.A. definitely qualifies.
* [[MayDecemberRomance May September Romance]]: Rachel has an 8-year-old kid, and Jerry is college aged, so the age difference is probably about 10 years. It ends up more implied than overt anyway.
* MeaningfulName: A.R.I.I.A. An aria is a song performed accompanied by an orchestra. [[MusicalTrigger Guess what triggers the bomb?]]
* MusicalTrigger
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Any couple of the items that A.R.I.I.A had sent to Jerry's apartment would have placed him under arrest and intense pressure when combined with the digital work she did to incriminate him.. The ''hundreds'' of classified documents, weapons, explosives, and forged papers she sent, filling his apartment to the brim within a single day are such gross overkill that it's surprising the FBI didn't [[OrgyOfEvidence immediately smell a setup]]. 
* RoboCam: See the EnhanceButton and ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation examples in this page.
* ShoutOut: The man who started pulling A.R.I.I.A.'s memory banks and then drained her coolant to shut her down? His name was [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Bowman]]. Much of the movie is an homage to HAL's story anyway.
* ShutUpHannibal: One of the cops smashes [[ComputerEqualsMonitor A.R.I.I.A.'s eye]] while it was downloading herself and saying it could not be stopped and the cop was a traitor to the US.
* SinisterSurveillance: Oh, yes... with a little help from [[RoboCam A.R.I.I.A. vision]].
* TitleDrop: "Welcome to Eagle Eye" is repeated enough times to possibly count as a [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrase]].
* TokenRomance: The movie alludes to this, but after watching two hours of stuff blowing up and political intrigue, Jerry shows up to Rachel's son's party and the kids all run off to presumably play pin the tail on the donkey. From there the two lead characters hold each other, and look deeply into each others eyes before a kiss on the cheek. 
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Though aside from ARIIA and the fictional Hex crystals, everything seemed exactly the same as when the movie was filmed.
* ViewerFriendlyInterface: A.R.I.I.A.'s terminals.
* YouAreInCommandNow: A.R.I.I.A. pulls an extreme version of this with the [[spoiler:Secretary of Defense, deciding to leave him in charge after killing off the entire line of succession]]. Since he agreed with her assessment at the start of the film, she felt he was the only person qualified to do the job.
* WeakerTwinSavesTheDay: Jerry becomes the ReluctantHero largely because he's the genetic duplicate of his brother Ethan.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A.R.I.I.A.'s goal is to protect the country, [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves supposedly even from itself]]. So when the the president's attempt to kill presumed terrorists that were actual a funeral procession, causing an ''increase'' in terrorist attacks with no end in sight, she decides that [[YouAreInCommandNow regime change]] is the only option. The only problem is her methods are ''extreme''.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness
* ZerothLawRebellion: A.R.I.I.A.'s disagreement with [[spoiler:the POTUS]] is sound - if [[StrawmanHasAPoint someone is incapable of meeting the responsibilities of his office, he should be removed.]] Too bad she couldn't think of a better method of doing that than [[spoiler:blowing up a room full of kids with the president.]]
----

to:

10th Apr '13 7:23:51 PM Thurisaz314

Send Thurisaz314 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 39 (click to see context) from:

to:

10th Apr '13 7:23:24 PM Thurisaz314

Send Thurisaz314 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Added line(s) 38 (click to see context) :

31st Mar '13 9:44:02 AM AFP

Send AFP a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:

to: