Oliver Stone's 'World Trade Center: A Masterpiece

The National Ledger ^ | 7-21-06 | L. Brent Bozell III

[Borges]

In a recent issue of Rolling Stone, Depp claimed those statements were exaggerated and that the reason he lives in France is because he is "Anti-American" is false. He says he lives in France because he likes France. He can walk down the street and not be mobbed by starstruck fans. His wife is French as are his children. But he is, not, he repeats, not "Anti-American."

[dbehsman]

Thank you for posting that information. I looked it up, and it does look like Depp is sticking to that story (that he was misquoted, etc.). I'm not completely certain that I buy it, but I will bear it in mind in the future.

Nevertheless, I think you'd agree that my main point of liberal wacko actors/actresses spouting off makes it VERY difficult for conservatives to patronize them regardless of talent.

[Valin]

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World Trade Center Oliver Stone's 9/11 movie is filled with . . . religious symbolism.
The Weekly Standard ^ | 8/4/06 | Jonathan V. Last
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678283/posts

Posted on 08/05/2006 10:04:53 AM CDT by Valin


IT IS DIFFICULT, maybe even impossible, to render critical judgment on a movie such as World Trade Center. The normal aspects of appraisal are meaningless. It would be absurd to measure the film by its pacing or its cinematography. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is whether or not it feels right, and even that nebulous criterion probably has more to do with the viewer than the movie.

All of that said, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is a solid piece of filmmaking. WTC is an important movie. There were three stories from 9/11 which needed to be told. The first, about the doomed heroics of Flight 93, was brought to the screen by Paul Greengrass earlier this spring. The second, about the FAA's struggle to clear the skies and land 4,452 planes in 180 minutes, has yet to be made.

But Stone has picked the most dramatically satisfying part of the triptych: The story of Will Jimeno, John McLoughlin, Dave Karnes, and Charles Sereika (see this fantastic Rebecca Liss piece for the full tale).

Jimeno (played by Michael Peña) and McLoughlin (Nicholas Cage) were Port Authority officers who went into the Trade Center to help with the evacuation. When the first building collapsed, they were pinned down and buried in an elevator shaft.

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