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From the BBC website and other news sources:
"Hollywood couple Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are to make a film about the 11 September attacks in New York, focusing on the bravery of a British security officer.
Robbins and Sarandon are to base their film on the bravery of Rick Rescorla, a Cornwall-born war hero, who died in the attacks saving thousands of people.
The film is based on an article by James Stewart in the New Yorker magazine, All The Heroes Are Dead, and is one of three productions about the attacks on the Twin Towers currently in planning
The film will concentrate on the love story between the couple, described as "two fractured people who found each other late in life and enjoyed a storybook romance".
The World Trade Center disaster will provide a cruel finale to the film."
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A love story using the WTC as a backdrop.
They didnt even wait a year.
"Hollywood couple Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are to make a film about the 11 September attacks in New York, focusing on the bravery of a British security officer.
Robbins and Sarandon are to base their film on the bravery of Rick Rescorla, a Cornwall-born war hero, who died in the attacks saving thousands of people.
The film is based on an article by James Stewart in the New Yorker magazine, All The Heroes Are Dead, and is one of three productions about the attacks on the Twin Towers currently in planning
The film will concentrate on the love story between the couple, described as "two fractured people who found each other late in life and enjoyed a storybook romance".
The World Trade Center disaster will provide a cruel finale to the film."
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A love story using the WTC as a backdrop.
They didnt even wait a year.
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I think one of the things wrong about this film is that it's out so soon after the actual events.
I mean, we have all seen war films and stuff about WW2. But because it happened so long ago, before we were all born, we can become detached from events.
However, a LOT of people still have vivid memories of September 11th, it's not even 6 months ago! And those memories will be stirred up again by this film.
I'm not saying that just because WW2 was ages ago it's ok to watch a film about thousands, if not millions, of people dying, but it seems more acceptable - whether that's right or wrong is a different matter.
I mean, we have all seen war films and stuff about WW2. But because it happened so long ago, before we were all born, we can become detached from events.
However, a LOT of people still have vivid memories of September 11th, it's not even 6 months ago! And those memories will be stirred up again by this film.
I'm not saying that just because WW2 was ages ago it's ok to watch a film about thousands, if not millions, of people dying, but it seems more acceptable - whether that's right or wrong is a different matter.
That is the most distasteful thing ever.
Not even a year. I was talking about this to my family a few days ago, and we thought 2015. Not 2002/3.
And you know what? The Daily Mail, although ranting and raving about Tarentino films and GTA, wont say a thing.
Pathetic.
Not even a year. I was talking about this to my family a few days ago, and we thought 2015. Not 2002/3.
And you know what? The Daily Mail, although ranting and raving about Tarentino films and GTA, wont say a thing.
Pathetic.
Ok, it's just me.
You all go watch a touching love story about 3,000 people dying.
Maybe you can eat nachos at the same time!
Cool!
Remember how everyone felt here when we watched that happening and posted here, the shock and fear.
Remember that whilst you sit there and get misty eyed at a movie of Sept 11th.
You all go watch a touching love story about 3,000 people dying.
Maybe you can eat nachos at the same time!
Cool!
Remember how everyone felt here when we watched that happening and posted here, the shock and fear.
Remember that whilst you sit there and get misty eyed at a movie of Sept 11th.
The same way they made films about WWI, WWII, Vietnam etc etc I guess...
MoJoJoJo wrote:
What, you think it's disrespectful to make a film
> showing the bravery of people in the buildings? And the love story worked in
> Titanic and Pearl Harbour, it's become something of a tradition in disaster
> films. Why not use the tried and tested formula again?
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I'm going to be polite on you kid.
There may have been brave people in that situation, but there were 3,000 people that are dead now.
People taken away from their families because they went to work that day.
I'm sure that those families really want to see this turned into entertainment for money.
Titanic and Pearl Harbour were offensive films, you cannot make entertainment out of massive loss of life.
Same with the WTC attacks.
Here's an idea, let's see one from the Taliban point of view.
The bravery of the men that believed enough in their cause to lay down their life.
Let's see the love story of one of the terrorists, kissing his wife goodbye that morning as he heroically stepped aboard that flight, knowing he would never see her again.
Maybe time will allow a distance from the emotions involved, but this is too soon to turn a tragic loss of many, many lives into a goddamn film.
Anyone that pays their money and eats popcorn whilst they watch a film version of 3,000 people dying last September deserves nothing but contempt.
Tell you what Mojojo, I'll give you my Aunt's email address and you can explain to her why you'll go watch a movie about something that killed her husband.
This is worse than Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" a comedy set in a concentration camp.
To take real world events that cause grief and heartbreak to thousands of people and make that entertainment is wrong, on every single level you can think of.
What, you think it's disrespectful to make a film
> showing the bravery of people in the buildings? And the love story worked in
> Titanic and Pearl Harbour, it's become something of a tradition in disaster
> films. Why not use the tried and tested formula again?
--
I'm going to be polite on you kid.
There may have been brave people in that situation, but there were 3,000 people that are dead now.
People taken away from their families because they went to work that day.
I'm sure that those families really want to see this turned into entertainment for money.
Titanic and Pearl Harbour were offensive films, you cannot make entertainment out of massive loss of life.
Same with the WTC attacks.
Here's an idea, let's see one from the Taliban point of view.
The bravery of the men that believed enough in their cause to lay down their life.
Let's see the love story of one of the terrorists, kissing his wife goodbye that morning as he heroically stepped aboard that flight, knowing he would never see her again.
Maybe time will allow a distance from the emotions involved, but this is too soon to turn a tragic loss of many, many lives into a goddamn film.
Anyone that pays their money and eats popcorn whilst they watch a film version of 3,000 people dying last September deserves nothing but contempt.
Tell you what Mojojo, I'll give you my Aunt's email address and you can explain to her why you'll go watch a movie about something that killed her husband.
This is worse than Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" a comedy set in a concentration camp.
To take real world events that cause grief and heartbreak to thousands of people and make that entertainment is wrong, on every single level you can think of.
I kind of thought something like this would happen, it was going to be inevitable. But for it to be Tim Robbins?
Damn, I had higher expectations of him than to do this...
I persoanlly won't be watching it, out of principal. How can they make a film out of the worlds worst terrorist attack, in which 3000 people died?
Damn, I had higher expectations of him than to do this...
I persoanlly won't be watching it, out of principal. How can they make a film out of the worlds worst terrorist attack, in which 3000 people died?
And I thought romance was dead...
That new Arnie film is out here in April about terrorist attacks.
It went to Number One in the US this month.
It went to Number One in the US this month.
A love story using the
> WTC as a backdrop.
They didnt even wait a year.
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What, you think it's disrespectful to make a film showing the bravery of people in the buildings? And the love story worked in Titanic and Pearl Harbour, it's become something of a tradition in disaster films. Why not use the tried and tested formula again?
I'm not condoning it, but a film WAS inevitable, and I'm sure we all knew it would either have
A. Two friends
B. A couple of lovers
Or C. Both - ala Pearl Harbour
> WTC as a backdrop.
They didnt even wait a year.
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What, you think it's disrespectful to make a film showing the bravery of people in the buildings? And the love story worked in Titanic and Pearl Harbour, it's become something of a tradition in disaster films. Why not use the tried and tested formula again?
I'm not condoning it, but a film WAS inevitable, and I'm sure we all knew it would either have
A. Two friends
B. A couple of lovers
Or C. Both - ala Pearl Harbour
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