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And as politicians, journalists, and social media customers proceed to try to make sense of the tragedy, some weird theories have unfold with alarming pace.
The most recent hypothesis entails some shocking connections between Kirk’s dying and a largely forgotten 1998 thriller starring Nicolas Cage.
Nicolas Cage seems within the 1998 movie ‘Snake Eyes.’ (YouTube)
Obscure Nicolas Cage movie turns into trending matter due to Kirk conspiracy theorists
Set throughout a single evening, Snake Eyes sees Cage enjoying a police detective who attends a Las Vegas boxing match that includes a heavyweight champion named Lincoln Tyler.
The principle storyline entails the assassination of a protection secretary named Charles Kirkland, who’s shot within the neck.
The person who was arrested for Kirk’s homicide is called Tyler Robinson, and far is being manufactured from the similarities between the names of the Snake Eyes character and the real-life tragedy that unfolded on September 10.
The mugshot of suspected Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson. (FBI)
The movie has additionally change into the supply of various simply disporovable rumors, together with the declare that it additionally takes place on September 10.
However on social media as of late, intriguing lies unfold rather more quickly than boring truths.
So together with the identify coincidences, the misinformation concerning the date has been packaged into various weird arguments, with some customers claiming Snake Eyes “predicted” Kirk’s homicide, and others insisting that the movie is proof of some huge conspiracy.
X customers flock to ‘Snake Eyes’ conspiracy theories
“The fight in the film occurs on SEPTEMBER 10th, the same exact day as Charlie Kirk’s death! The film was shot on location at the TRUMP Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. TRUMP was a close ally of KIRK,” one X person wrote this week, including:
Charlie Kirk speaks on the opening of the Turning Level Motion convention on July 15, 2023 in West Palm Seaside, Florida. Former President Donald Trump was scheduled to talk on the occasion held within the Palm Seaside County Conference Heart. (Photograph by Joe Raedle/Getty Photos)
“The character, Gilbert Powell, in flim was literally based on Donald Trump, according to IMDB.”
“There are NO COINCIDENCES,” one other account chimed in, including:
“The 1998 Film ‘Snake Eyes’ with actor Nicholas Cage, the politician CHARLES KIRKLAND is shot within the neck. Within the film, the taking pictures occurs on SEPTEMBER tenth.
“Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck, in real life on September 10th. You just can’t make this stuff up.”
Nicely, apparently you may make these items up, because the movie explicitly takes place on September 19.
Fortunately, many individuals identified of their replies that the connections described in these tweets (the connections which can be factually correct, anyway) are the very definition of coincidences.
We perceive the need to make sense of a seemingly mindless tragedy.
However for essentially the most half, conspirators aren’t within the behavior of planting clues in motion pictures to reveal crimes they intend to commit 27 years later.
