Some things that VH1s Best Week Ever decided to share with us about their theroies behind “Cloverfield”.
1. If you wait til the end of the credits, you hear someone from the military reportedly yell “It’s still alive“, but if you wait even longer after the credits, you’ll see outtakes from “A Bug’s Life,” followed by scenes from the next “Matrix” movie. If you continue waiting, the movie will start again, and the monster will still be alive.
2. “Cloverfield” is an anagram for “Fidel C. Lover“, possibly implying that the monster was created by Cuba and may or may not have had a romantic relationship with Castro. It also translates to “Rove, Dic Fell“, meaning the monster may have represented the government’s revenge after Dick Cheney and Karl Rove left the White House (plus Rob is now a Vice President - HINT!). “Fire Del Clo” could refer to Del Close, the father of modern longform improv, meaning that the entire event was actually SCRIPTED. I won’t even get into the implications of what “Love Red Clif” means.
3. When the characters are in the military medical tent, you can clearly see Phil Leotardo’s cousin and the three gang members who were hired to kill Tony Soprano in Season One in the background. So I think he dies at the end.
4. During the going-away party, we distinctly hear songs by Spoon, Of Montreal, Scissors For Lefty, and Architecture In Helsinki, among others. This means that most likely, these characters actually live in Brooklyn, meaning the monster was somehow making them hallucinate Manhattan buildings the whole time. Or was the whole thing a hallucination??? Probably.
5. The entire movie takes place on an island and was released in theaters just one week before the season premiere of “Lost”, which is also produced by J.J. Abrams and also involves an island filled with multiple unexplained monsters. This may imply that J.J. Abrams is a producer of movies and television who loves to put random, unexplained monsters onto islands and have a bunch of people talk about it.
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