When ever you see interviews with people, just after the planes had hit the twin towers, you'll always here the sentance "it was like something out of a movie"....of course it did. As human beings, we are lucky enough not to have to witness such destuction outside of a cinema. Such violent images are what we expect to see in a hollwood blockbuster.....and in a total lack of disrespect and taste, it would seem that those haunting images of 9/11 will be re-created and manipulated into a movie.
We all knew that it eventuallyhappen, it just seems a little too soon for such a film to come out. But then again, it would seem, of late, that the film industry has no morals, nothing is sacred. And, as far as I am conserned, anybody that would even consider taking on such a project, should have balls the size of the moon. Well balls dont get much bigger than them of Oliver stone.
Yep paramount pictures have teamed up with the man who brought us Platoon and JFK, to create a movie version of the terrible events that happened on 9/11.
The film, a dramatic motion picture based on the true story of the rescue of two Port Authority police officers from the collapsed World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, will be produced by Double Feature Films’ Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher and former InterMedia Films chairman Moritz Borman. Debra Hill will also be credited, posthumously, as a producer. Andrea Berloff wrote the original screenplay. The film will be distributed by Paramount Pictures and star NICOLAS CAGE .
It is always wrong to make money from the suffering of others, but I suppose, sometimes stories go untold, untill they make it on the big screen. Like Schindler's List, but as I said earlier.....I feel that its too early for this film.
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9/11 the movie
I fail to see why this that much different than movies about Viet Nam, WWII and so on. It's a story worth telling.
I think the problem is that this is still so fresh in all our minds, that it may be torturous to watch. Time is a good insulator of emotion and I don't think that there is enough insulation for the general public at this point..
I think the problem is that this is still so fresh in all our minds, that it may be torturous to watch. Time is a good insulator of emotion and I don't think that there is enough insulation for the general public at this point..-"Splat"
Thats exactly how I feel about the whole thing.........now is a terrible time to make the film, with fighting still going on....bin laden still out there somewhere and with the recent bombings in london.....bad bad bad
i think it's a bad time to make the film, but only from a business point of view. the acts of courage on the part of the rescuers that day, not to mention some of the human stories, like the last person they pulled out, 5 days or so after the towers fell, and what her boyfriend had been doing in those 5 days...
there's lots of stories worth telling. there are life affirming stories... bravery in the face of terror isn't a bad message right now.
i just don't think people would see the need to go see a film about those events when there's enough reminders on TV these days.
i honestly think that the events in london are the reason for WOTW failing to hold onto the top slot and F4 coming in and cleaning up. people wanted something fun.
look at it this way, Science Fiction had only started to deal with the issues. drama usually tails sci-fi by a few years. i don't think a 9/11 film by definition would be tasteless. i can think of many positive ways to tell that story, that would reinvigorate people still facing terror... but i just don't think you could force them to the cinema.
there's lots of stories worth telling. there are life affirming stories... bravery in the face of terror isn't a bad message right now.
i just don't think people would see the need to go see a film about those events when there's enough reminders on TV these days.
i honestly think that the events in london are the reason for WOTW failing to hold onto the top slot and F4 coming in and cleaning up. people wanted something fun.
look at it this way, Science Fiction had only started to deal with the issues. drama usually tails sci-fi by a few years. i don't think a 9/11 film by definition would be tasteless. i can think of many positive ways to tell that story, that would reinvigorate people still facing terror... but i just don't think you could force them to the cinema.
I think the problem is that this is still so fresh in all our minds, that it may be torturous to watch. Time is a good insulator of emotion and I don't think that there is enough insulation for the general public at this point..-"Splat"
Apocalypse Now came out four years after Vietnam 'ended'.
Personally I dont mind this being made. Outside of re-enforcing political beliefs 9/11 did not effect me in the slightest way. Yes it was a terrible terrible event but so is custer bombing villages halfway across the world.
Does Apocolype Nows release make it right? Yes horrible things happen all over the world, but do you think that the people that experienced those events, want to see it on the big screen? I may not have been at the locations where the attacks occured, but I still have those images seared into my recent memories and I, for one, am not so sure that I want to relive something that still holds so much personal emotion. I'm sure that many people may feel the same way.
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It's a difficult decision to make.
If a filmmaker wants to do it, then they should be allowed to make it. It's gonna happen some day regardless.
On the other hand, if we got some narrow-minded uber-patriotic Michael Bay "Pearl Habor' like bullshit, it would be an insult to every person who died as a result of all this. This is still fresh in our minds. The second the towers fell, the only thing I kept thinking was: "Now people are gonna exploit this thing." We're still feeling the residual effects of that, so I don't know if now is a good time.
If a filmmaker wants to do it, then they should be allowed to make it. It's gonna happen some day regardless.
On the other hand, if we got some narrow-minded uber-patriotic Michael Bay "Pearl Habor' like bullshit, it would be an insult to every person who died as a result of all this. This is still fresh in our minds. The second the towers fell, the only thing I kept thinking was: "Now people are gonna exploit this thing." We're still feeling the residual effects of that, so I don't know if now is a good time.
No, cause I have no interest in seeing a 9/11 movie. The documentaries about it will be, and probably are gonna be more interesting. Which I've seen countless documentaries about it as it is. So I really could care less about a movie.
As for documentaries on the subject, "9/11" is really great and very moving.
I think the problem is that this is still so fresh in all our minds, that it may be torturous to watch. Time is a good insulator of emotion and I don't think that there is enough insulation for the general public at this point..-"Splat"
Thats exactly how I feel about the whole thing.........now is a terrible time to make the film, with fighting still going on....bin laden still out there somewhere and with the recent bombings in london.....bad bad bad-"PaleRider"
I think people should be more up in arms about how our current government decides that whenever they need support for something they know that normally we wouldn't support, they throw up 9/11 again and say that's the reason we're doing whatever it is they want done. I'm sick of hearing about it.
As for documentaries on the subject, "9/11" is really great and very moving.-"Splat"
Saw that on TV awhile back and I completely agree. It's probably the best docu on what happened that day out there, since you are right in the middle of it.
If a 911 movie looked well-made, interesting and was done by people that did work I've liked in the past, sure I'd see it.
It's a difficult decision to make.
If a filmmaker wants to do it, then they should be allowed to make it. It's gonna happen some day regardless.
On the other hand, if we got some narrow-minded uber-patriotic Michael Bay "Pearl Habor' like bullshit, it would be an insult to every person who died as a result of all this. This is still fresh in our minds. The second the towers fell, the only thing I kept thinking was: "Now people are gonna exploit this thing." We're still feeling the residual effects of that, so I don't know if now is a good time.-"Sirand"
As opposed to who, Oliver Stone? Mr Paranoid Conspiracy Theory himself? What angle do you all think its going to be? That the Jews all left the buildings right before the plane hit? That it was all a plot by Karl Rove and Halliburton? Pearl Harbor was a pile of flop and it had nothing to do with Patriotism...it was just a bad movie. I think this movie is not a good idea right now, but having Stone behind the camera raises instant red flags...the man wouldn't know balanced storytelling if it hit him over the head with a 2X4...
Personaly I'm sick of hearing about 9/11.
Tragedies happen eveyday, people need to find some balance when it comes to this sort of thing.
Tragedies happen eveyday, people need to find some balance when it comes to this sort of thing.
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As opposed to who, Oliver Stone? Mr Paranoid Conspiracy Theory himself? What angle do you all think its going to be? That the Jews all left the buildings right before the plane hit? That it was all a plot by Karl Rove and Halliburton? Pearl Harbor was a pile of flop and it had nothing to do with Patriotism...it was just a bad movie. I think this movie is not a good idea right now, but having Stone behind the camera raises instant red flags...the man wouldn't know balanced storytelling if it hit him over the head with a 2X4... -"The B&W; Horror"
Stone is VERY hit-and-miss, but if he were at the top of his game, I think he could make an interesting film...not about conspiracies, but about the tragic events that took place that day and how the government and media later exploited it. That kind of stuff is his bread n' butter.
Still, I think some more time should pass. I don't mind all this stuff being reflected in modern day cinema, but they should wait before dramatizing the actual events.
Stone is VERY hit-and-miss, but if he were at the top of his game, I think he could make an interesting film...not about conspiracies, but about the tragic events that took place that day and how the government and media later exploited it. That kind of stuff is his bread n' butter.
Still, I think some more time should pass. I don't mind all this stuff being reflected in modern day cinema, but they should wait before dramatizing the actual events.
Apocalypse Now came out four years after Vietnam 'ended'.
Actually, Apocalyse Now is based on the 1902 Joseph Conrad classic, Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse Now came out four years after Vietnam 'ended'.Actually, Apocalyse Now is based on the 1902 Joseph Conrad classic, Heart of Darkness.
Very true. But the movie actually is set during the Vietnam War. Films like Coming Home, Deer Hunter, etc were not based on the classic 1902 Conrad novella and were still set in, or about, the Vietnam War. And came out within 5 years or so of the war's end.
I would have to say "maybe". If it was done correctly and seriously, I would probably see it. I think that it is healthy for people to create things that come from real life, especially tragic or horrifying things. It is a good way to try to deal with it and figure out where we stand on certain things. In some cases I would think it could desensitize us to the extreme horror of the actual event, but in this case, I hardly think it is possible. We have been so inundated with stuff about this, it is no wonder people are "sick" of hearing about this, an atrocity of the size our country has not known in hundreds of years.
