Ted747 From Australia, joined Jul 2003, 195 posts, RR: 2 Posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 960 times:
Just wondered what peoples thoughts were regarding to the possibility of a movie/mini series being made about the events of 911. I know they did make a telemovie on the events of the previous bombing of the WTC and the documentary by a French film maker called 911.
Do you think this will happen or public backlash will prevent it being made.
KLM11 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 182 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 945 times:
It wouldnt supprise me if they did.....maybe somthing like Titanic, the Movie??? I hope hollywood does somthing about it. It would probably be one of the most profitable movies ever made. I bet that the minute 9/11 occoured, they began pondering ideas, e.t.c.
S12PPL From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 879 times:
This is NOT a political comment thread, Jwenting...so lets keep it on topic, huh?
Now, to get back on topic. Yes, I do think there will be a 9/11 movie. It's a matter of time, and wether it's tastefully done. No one will respond well poorly done movie, such as a romance movie, or a action hero movie. That's what will make it tough to do.
UA777222 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3348 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 877 times:
I don't think it would be a "big hit" seeing how almost every network possible stopped all of their regular planned seasons and some how managed to tie in their characters and 9/11. I don't think it's that it's not important as much as it is why would anyone what to have to relive what they did on that tragic, mildly worm Tuesday in September. We all know what happened. We all know how many died, suffered, and are still damaged. Why does some "movie maker" (the real thinker who came up with such a plot) need to make money off of a story we are all so familiar with.
I think movies like Fahrenheit 9/11 are pushing it but it doesn't focus on the actual event of 9/11. Like hour one, hour two, hour three. NO ONE CARES ANY MORE! I think most if not all people are aware of what happened and would rather have it be just left alone. When I say no one cares it just that it wouldn't be some big shocker to us. It's like being told the end of the movie before you go to see it.
Again may all of those lost in the 9/11 attacks and those still being lost in Iraq due to the events of 9/11 (I'm not even going to get into it about how stupid our president is b/c every time I do I seem to get deleted) rest in peace.
WhiteHatter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 865 times:
It probably will happen, but not at the moment as the scars are a little too fresh.
The TV miniseries may well appear one day. But at the moment it would be unfortunate (the best word I can think of) if it did. Too much emotion for it to be now.
Arcano From Chile, joined Mar 2004, 2397 posts, RR: 26 Reply 5, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 843 times:
There is something different about 9-11:
Let me start with the example of Titanic: why was it a success? because we wanted to imagine what that people felt there; how that ship would look ñlike when sinking, how could be the iceberg.
Earthquake: we wanted to know how would look those buildings falling due to an earthquake, or the village destroyed after the collapse of the dam.
Armageddon: We wanted to know how would look a big asteroid approaching to Earth; imagine how would it be destroyed.
Day after tomorrow: what would happen of another glacier age would come? How would Liberty Statue look frozen?
BUT! We don't need to imagine how would look/feel if the WTC collapse after a terrorist attack: WE ALREADY WATCHED AND MOURNED IT!.
Why to pay for watching an imaginary scenario of what already happened and was well recorded?
We've seen thousand of different shots of 9.11, taken from different angles. In this case, we don't need the movies to show us how would it look or how did it look, because in this particular case we know!
Titanic, Earthquake, Armageddon, etc... We have to use our imagination, then we have the movie
9.11: we don't. We are even so tired of the same image again.
A movie of 9.11 should be based on stories, on drama, not in special effects as the examples posted.
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VS346 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 339 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 839 times:
Good point Arcano. I think the only successful 9/11 movie would center around maybe the heroics of one person, or maybe the shattered lives of one particular family, not the events in general. As we say in the journalism business, Personalise the story.
Cheers,
VS346
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Jcded From Switzerland, joined Jan 2004, 211 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 751 times:
I agree with Arcano
Personally I think that if a movie will be made in will be at least 20 years down the road, the time for it to settle in the back of our heads, also there will be more knowledge known hopefully by then and it will not be as politically packed as it would eb today. Anything done today would be tactless.
Matt D From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 51 Reply 8, posted (8 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 601 times:
I think the only successful 9/11 movie would center around maybe the heroics of one person, or maybe the shattered lives of one particular family
BINGO!!!!
Which is why you know that those sneaky bastards in Hollywierd will figure out a way to work a f**k scene into a movie based upon crashing airplanes and falling towers, a la Titanic.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29352 posts, RR: 62 Reply 9, posted (8 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 575 times:
I think the only successful 9/11 movie would center around maybe the heroics of one person, or maybe the shattered lives of one particular family
BINGO!!!!
Which is why you know that those sneaky bastards in Hollywierd will figure out a way to work a f**k scene into a movie based upon crashing airplanes and falling towers, a la Titanic.
Naw, never stopped any of those 70's disaster flicks like "The Towering Inferno", "The Posideon Adventure" or the Airport serials from filling a plane or building or ship up with celebrities that book on Hollywood squares.
Actually thinking about it, this year it has been 25 years since Airport 79 "The Concorde" came out.
Maybe it is time to make an 25 year return of the Airport Series.
George Kennedy could come out of retirement as a retired A&P/pilot who singlehandledly sabotages a hijacked plane he is flying on thatthe hijackers intend to crash into..say the White House, forcing it to go down in a cornfield saving live on the ground but sacrificing his own....
I think Joe Patroni would have wanted to go out that way.
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
AvObserver From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 2430 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (8 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 541 times:
It will be done someday but not for at least a few more years, as is said above. it's still too fresh in the public mind. Remember how the Vietnam War was avoided as a movie subject for a number of years after it ended in 1973, until 1978's "The Deer Hunter" and 1979's "Apocalypse Now". God forbid it should be done like a cheesy 1970's disaster film; it must be done right with the proper somber tone and reverence to pay the proper respects to the tragedy. Perhaps a good working or even final title for such a film that would truly do justice to the horrific events of that day might be "Never Forget".
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