I keep seeing the previews for World Trade Center, and am continually disgusted. I don’t know; it just seems wrong to me. Honestly, for artists/movie producers, it’s cheating. It’s one thing to take an older historical event like WW2 or the Civil
War about which most of us do not have strong emotional feelings, or to take a story most people are unfamiliar with and cause us to feel emotions about that event. That is art – a true accomplishment. But to just play off of the emotions already present in the national conscience surrounding a devastating event like 9-11 to sell your movie seems cheap. The movie won’t have to work to get us to feel – we already do. The wounds are still that deep and permeating. If World Trade Center were to come out in 50 years and cause audiences to cry and feel emotions that they didn’t have before, then it would be an accomplishment.Your thoughts?
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I don't think that it's unprecedented. Many movies came out after WWII--I suppose not as soon as 5 years later, but less than 10 for some of them. Besides that what about the show MASH. One of the greatest TV shows of all time--true artistry in some senses. And even though it's setting was Korea, it was running during the Vietnam war and so they were playing off those emotions.
As far as the images still being seared into our collective minds. I'm not sure about that. I went to NYC in November 2001 and the emotions are still with me. But i'm not sure that's true for many Americans. I know it's not true for those of high school age.
That being said I will not see the movie. It's a tough balance between accepting reality and creating fear for power. That was a pretty loaded statement, but that'll be all for now. Watch out for TS Chris.
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I am repulsed at the thought of watching the horrors of 9/11 happen again. I, personally, knew no one in the towers or on any of those planes. However, when I saw footage of the little kids holding up "Missing" flyers with their parents faces on them, I could not stop crying. And seeing those firemen sacrificing their lives- going back in those towers again and again, defeating death one more time: I have such pride for our heros. How mortifying to see those ashen faces crossing the bridge away from NYC. I felt unsafe, and scared, and I hurt for our country and our world. The silence of the skies for days was unnerving. The wound is still so open and sore. I cannot believe anyone would willingly pay for and support as a form of entertainment something we saw so graphically, emotionally, and painfully only a short while ago. The babies of the fathers that were lost are only 4 years old. It's too soon. I don't know if I will ever be ready to relive that nightmare.
i still think it has a very "wag the dog" feel. somehow george is behind this, trying to help his approval rating.
I agree with you, it is wrong to make a movie or, worse yet, to make money from so much misery. I do not plan on seeing this movie. It is shameful how low people will go to make money.
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