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White House Down
2013 · Film · 131 min
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
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It's sort of ruined those movies where the president becomes an action hero though - 'Air Force one', 'White House Down' ....
To be fair, hollywood productions hardly ever touch the whitehouse or policies playing out and showing effects, to the point where it almost seems like the lack of coverage is perhaps even intentional imho. I did a very quick internet search on "movies about the white house" just because I was drawing such a blank and I only get White House Down, Olympus has fallen, and Independence day as the main search results.
First of all, that sounds like a great plot for one of those mindless-yet-entertaining summer movies. Something like "White House Down" on a road trip. With trucks.
Second, how comes that all these federal agencies in the US demand "law enforcement experience"? Are you supposed to do a stint as some local Sheriff's deputy somewhere or go into a local police school (if that's a thing) first? Isn't that awfully inefficient? Shouldn't the federal government (as well as state governments) try to get the youngest, fittest, and brightest recruits?
Yes, American Sniper, White House Down, 24 (TV Series), just to name a few. The 3 you list are barely even patriotic.
The same chance of getting two movies with the same premise (Armageddon and Deep Impact, White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen)
This made me remember the code from Vivek Ramachandran being used in the movie White House Down and him writing a blog post about it including the quirks in the code[0]
[0]: http://hackoftheday.securitytube.net/2013/04/my-code-made-it-to-hollywood-movie.html
Hollywood has a lot of stories like this, for recent example this year saw two movies about the White House being taken over by terrorist, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down.
Ironic, since doing something analogous with scenes from this White House Down movie in a few years will probably get us a DMCA takedown.