Talk:Flightplan

message: I just saw the movie and I must say it was well written but there is a major plot hole (spoiler). Everything was logically explained except her seeing the two arab men in the window at her home and then in the plane. Everyone else ackowledged them being on the plane so what does it mean? Did the director change his mind or forget to edit this out? Did I miss something? I think this is one of those p.c. changes to a movie but I could be wrong.
: I think they never cleared that up, it seems pretty poorly done. --72.136.188.23 04:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Almost definitely, they were red herrings. - Рэдхот 15:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Even as a decoy to the plot, they still should've cleared up the storyline as to why the Arab men were watching her apartment. They could've maybe said they were actually Private Investigator's watching her over her husbands death. I would've bought that. Orichalcon 17:05, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was expecting them to be interpol agents or something. The way they left it was odd, were they the exact same 2 arab men from across the apartment, or did the just resemble them? HpK1029 05:06, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

text: She is no longer working for Elgin when she is flying anyway. And did you see how middle-class her Berlin home looked like anyway? Besides, the whole plot of "little girl dissapearing in flight" wouldn't work in First or Business Class, with so many flight attendants per passenger. -- AirOdyssey (Talk) 02:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: She maybe couldn't or - more probably - wouldn't want to afford business Class (her home was middle-class? Well, it is almost a workable definition of middle class that you could afford Business - but not First - Class if you really wanted to, on the one hand, but you would really feel the amount of money if you did do so on the other). But all the same, if the actual leading designer of a plane sits is known to sit on it in Economy Class, and particularly if he or she does so for the first time on a regular passenger flight, then I'd jolly well expect any decent airline company to upgrame him or her to Business Class on no additional charge. Can anyone seriously imagine charging Rudolf Diesel for a ship-ride (I mean on a ship powered by Diesel engines)?--2001:A61:260C:C01:DC73:EB1:3F74:82EE (talk) 18:54, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot

message: Should the rest of the story be added to the Story section? I'm not sure about Wikipedia policy on this; should the complete ending be revealed? -- RattleMan 03:42, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions to Story? 

message: I added a fact tag next to the claim in the "Trivia" section saying that the airline is named after Alvar Aalto. I understand the name "Aalto" almost always refers to the modernist Finnish architect, but what if the producers simply wanted a name that was neither English or German which expressed altitude? I suggest adding the word "possibly" to that sentence. I'd like your thoughts on this. -- AirOdyssey (Talk) 14:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Alvar Aalto]] 

message: This article is commented by the following block of text.
This article contains a trivia section. Content in this section should be integrated into other appropriate areas of the article or removed, and the trivia section removed.
Is there such a rule in wikipedia? 
What's wrong with having a trivia section? 
Miamidot 18:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Click on Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles. --Mathew5000 19:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Why Not Trivia?]] 

message: The plot is beautiful. Red herrings? It was rather obvious the Arab men were not red herrings. It was an obvious and immediately recognisable political reminder to stop persecuting Arabs unnecessarily. They even had a "Cohen" acting the part of an Arab.
The air marshall and the flight attendant, in cohort with the funeral director, may be allowed to have planned to execute the extortion without Kyle or framing of Kyle. Carson, is subtly portrayed initially as an ambiguous character with whom you wouldn't be surprised if he either turned out to be a good or bad guy. The villains probably could have intended to use Julia as hostage and the casket as explosives carrier. Then comes Kyle, which Carson never expected to be that persistent. A spark (like a light bulb) lights up in Carson's cunning mind. Why not frame Kyle and get away with it free?
Had Kyle been less persistent then expected, she would have not been framed but then losing her daughter. Had Kyle been persistent as expected, she would have lost her life, her reputation and her daughter. No, Kyle is over-persistent like any mother should be. She goes berserk and over the top by her maternal instincts. Our instincts tell us when exercise of respect is no longer valid but listen to that instinct for the need to question authority. Despite impending damage to our reputation, pursue the truth fervently.
Miamidot 19:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Virtue of Questioning Authority 

message: Does anyone else think that this movie might have been paid for by Airbus, at least in part, as propaganda for their A380?  The whole movie felt like a commercial to me.  In almost every scene they are trying to showcase what is possible for the A380.  This is just speculation, but perhaps someone has more concrete evidence to back this up.
:Maybe, but would Airbus want to fund propaganda about a kid getting lost in a huge airplane? -Lapinmies 23:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The movie is very unflattering about the airline industry overall and was even boycotted by a flight attendant association. So I really doubt that it's positive propaganda! Also, the fact that the action happens on a double-decker airliner is not necessarily an A380 promotion but a simple reflection of reality. AirOdyssey (Talk) 13:58, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

text: the catholic church supported the development and research for The Exorcist. Just because the film is unflattering about an unidentified airliner doesn't mean a big company wouldn't help either altruistically or for financial gain. If it was a flattering script I'm sure they would have invited companies to pay to plaster their logo everywhere, a-la Coke & Pepsi,but no there's nothing really here that's a positive for any airliner nor flight service and they are noticeably generic. The extra wide open spaces are obviously for filming convenience and would give a false impression if it was attributed to a specific make and model of plane so it probably was a conscious decision to make generic sets based on real world aircraft interiors.--MRNasher (talk) 13:18, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't seen The Exorcist, but from its plot description on Wikipedia I can see no reason why the Catholic Church should not support it. After all, the statements "demons exist and sometimes possess people", "some priests engage in exorcism and that is a good thing" and also (which is only a suspicion in its relevance to what MRNasher may have meant about this movie) "priests sometimes make mistakes" are all statements the Catholic Church actually does subscribe to.--88.217.180.91 (talk) 19:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movie paid for by Airbus? 

message: It resembles the origin of Richard Benson, the Avenger.
Enda80 (talk) 15:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Resemebles the origin of the Avenger

message: Strange, that such a simple story of missleading accusation has got a bottom of various possible meanings.
She has lost her husband and looses in a flight her daughter.
Who has lost the father? A function, which is most of all a social one.
Loosing her man, she leaves her job and Berlin.
and : "they made him fly!" Criminals, who want to gain money destroy a little family and all virtues constructive people believe in.
How a mother represents herself not being victimzed by terrorists. Rescuing her daughter. A sky_ marshall. who speaks and acts lik a worse medicine. Anybody needs a wing?!--Hum-ri (talk) 15:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Doublemeanings''' 

message: In this piece of Douglas Adams's work, "on a commercial liner flight, Fenchurch disappears, and the ship's crew deny she ever existed...". Perhaps Adams was the first to adapt the concept of The Lady Vanishes for an aeronautical mode of transport, and perhaps Flightplan was inspired by this? zazpot (talk) 21:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Douglas Adams link? 

message: The plot summary does not explain what the villains were trying to gain by killing her husband and then making her child disappear. It would be good if someone could clear that up a little bit. Tad Lincoln (talk) 04:57, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: - the article says "Carson tells the captain that Kyle is a hijacker and is threatening to blow up the aircraft unless the airline transfers $50,000,000 into a bank account." 76.212.15.39 (talk) 05:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation missing from summary 

message: This film has a lot of similarities to the 1938 Hitchcock film "The Lady Vanishes."  This should definitely be mentioned in the article at some point. Ed Sanville (talk) 17:56, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similiarities to The Lady Vanishes 

message: The article stated that the avionics bay used in the movie is from an Alitalia 747-200. This is not correct. To start with the statement has no reference. Upon further inspection the avionics bay of any 747-200 looks NOTHING like what's in the movie. In fact, there is no real avionics bay out there that looks anything like what was in the movie. It's not surprising because the design shown in the movie would be a massive waste of space on an aircraft where they try and squeeze as much space for passengers as possible. I'm going to remove that sentence from the article. If there is any evidence to the contrary the sentence can be returned to the article.Brendan OhUiginn (talk) 21:09, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avionics Bay 

message: Why does this article—like so many others—refer to men by their last names and to women by their first names (in the Plot section, anyway)? Minturn (talk) 20:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names