Watching Cage and Connery in 'The Rock' - all the more enjoyable since it's a "James Bond" movie...
... maybe.
Always did enjoy it, but the fan theory that it's actually a James Bond movie makes it more fun...
The theory
Sean Connery’s convict "John Mason" is actually an older version of Connery-era 007, caught spying in the United States in the mid 60e, and locked up in Alcatraz on espionage charges.
The evidence.
FBI director Womack introduces Mason as man who was locked up 33 years ago (which would have been the peak of Connery’s Bond career), is British intelligence-trained, and a professional escape artist: “He’s a British national, incarcerated on Alcatraz in 1962… escaped in ’63,” growls Womack. “This man has no identity, not in the United States or Great Britain. He does not exist. Understand?”
This timeframe matches up with Connery first donning the Bond tuxedo for ‘Dr. No’ in 1962, but 'The Rock' implies that he was captured again soon after his Alcatraz escape. Later, when Womack is pressed to give up who their mysterious man is, he reveals Mason was a British operative who stole secret government files from influential FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, but was captured at the Canadian border.
“Of course the British claimed they’d never heard of him. And we held him without trial, until he gave up the microfilm. But he never did,” admits the FBI boss.
“This man knows our most intimate secrets from the last half-century," he adds. "The alien landing at Roswell, the truth about the JFK assassination. Mason’s angry. He’s lethal. He’s a trained killer. And he is the only hope that we have got.”
Mason himself, played by a then 65-year-old Connery, even boasts to Nicolas Cage’s character: “I was trained by the best… British Intelligence.”
And, in a throwaway gag, the script parodies Connery’s infamous ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ one-liner, when he replies to Cage’s introduction “I’m Stanley Goodspeed”, with a cheeky “but of course you are…”
More...
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/is-sean-connery-actually-james-bond-in-the-rock-123235738.html
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Maybe that pilot is the one that joined the CIA to become John Reese in Person of Interest.
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