# Eeeeeevil conspiracies in movies

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeeevil-conspiracies-in-movies/339379 "2006-01-10T21:15:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeeevil-conspiracies-in-movies/339379/41 "2006-01-12T00:40:26Z")

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> [@Max Torque](#):
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> So, it’s all about selling newspapers? Wouldn’t just hiring better writers, and more of them, be easier?

Actually, there was a bit more to _Tomorrow’s_ conspiracy than that—

He’d stolen a nuke from the British ship he’d sunk, after making both sides think the other one had attacked them. Afterwards, during the U.K./Chinese naval confrontation that followed, he was going to launch it at Beijing from a stealth ship, again making it look like it was a British commander who’d done it, which would decapitate the Chinese leadership…and giving his accomplice, a Chinese general who’d then be next-in-line to take over, the opportunity to seize power. In exchange, after the “war” was quickly ended, Carver’s company would get exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next century.

Which, I guess, just boils down to selling a _hell of a lot_ of newspapers. 😃

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**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeeevil-conspiracies-in-movies/339379/42 "2006-01-12T00:55:56Z")

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> [@Otto](#):
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> Why, I’m watching one right now! _Sneakers_, in which eeeevil and crazy Ben Kingsley wants to use a code-breaking box to wipe out all records of private ownership in order to bring about a worldwide classless utopia. Yeah, that’ll work.

One has only to read slashdot to realise just how many people today think it _would_ work. Elimination of property (especially property of software or music) ==\> utopia. Scary, isn’t it?

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