12/24/2022 0 Comments White house down movies![]() In 1996’s Air Force One, it’s Xander Berkeley in collusion with Russian extremists who masterminds the takeover of the Presidential plane. In White House Down, it’s James Woods as the retiring agent motivated by his son’s death. In Olympus Has Fallen, it’s Dylan McDermott as an ex-agent who is in cahoots with the Koreans. Inevitably, it’s a disgruntled member of the Secret Service. An inside jobĮven with all these grand security measures in place (and the likely dozens of others that the public doesn’t know about), all of these Presidential attack movies require a mole to make things work. Additionally, at the White House, rigorous screenings are conducted for anything coming in, including any food for any purpose. Visitors aren’t even allowed to bring an apple into the Capitol, and hand lotion is strictly forbidden from being brought into the House and Senate chambers. However, security for workers and deliveries to this building is rather tight. In White House Down, a bomb is smuggled by a faux janitor into the Capitol. Additionally, the bomber seen in Olympus Has Fallen wouldn’t have made it into the country due to the FAA regulations and vetting procedures on unidentified aircraft. The White House is now protected by NASAMS defense systems, which have a range of 15 to 25 kilometers and are capable of delivering their payload with a head-on collision. While planes have been used to attack Washington before, most notably on 9/11 but also in 1994 when a man flew a Cessna into the bedrooms of the White House, that vulnerability has been addressed. In White House Down, an explosion at the Capitol Building serves as a distraction as a crew allegedly fixing the projector in the movie theater brings out their guns and takes the White House from the inside. After shooting all the snipers on the White House roof, the bomber paves the way for Korean extremists to blow through the iron gate and use modified garbage trucks as tanks with Gatling guns to take out most of the Secret Service on the lawn. ![]() ![]() Fighter jets attempt to intercept the bomber, but they are blown from the sky. In Olympus Has Fallen, a bomber flies in from Chesapeake Bay and proceeds to shoot up downtown Washington D.C. An elaborate missile system protects the 1800 square kilometers of restricted air space.īut Hollywood always makes it through. Dozens of Secret Service agents are assigned to the Presidential residence with enough firepower to take over a small country. It is protected by physical barricades in the form of a massive iron fence and concrete walls. Abrams’ office where he’s storing the draft of Star Wars: Episode VII, the White House is arguably the most secure building in the country. The Answer: Anything’s possible, but probably not. This got us thinking: Could terrorists really take over the White House as they did in these movies? Now, Hollywood is already prepping a sequel, recently announced as London Has Fallen (which makes little sense, but I suppose 10 Downing Street Has Fallen just doesn’t have the same ring to it). While White House Down (which had a decent run at the international box office) was a bit of a flop here in the states, Olympus Has Fallen was seen as a springtime hit. After all, this happened not once ( as seen in Olympus Has Fallen), but twice (as seen by fewer people in White House Down) at the multiplex. If there’s anything that people can take from the films of 2013 – aside from the potential danger of living in big cities prone to being crushed by aliens, supervillains, the undead, and whatnot - it’s that it’s hella easy to storm the White House and take the President hostage.
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