Posted on 05/18/2006 4:14:20 PM PDT by areafiftyone
May 18, 2006 -- Here is a sneak peek at Oliver Stone's new movie "World Trade Center" - the first big-budget Hollywood film depicting the New York 9/11 attacks - and its harrowing, real-life portrayal of the last two Port Authority cops pulled from the rubble. The movie - the opening 26 minutes of which were screened for police officers last night - focuses on the horror and ensuing bravery of that day.
"It's very emotional to watch, but I think most New Yorkers are ready to see it," said retired NYPD cop Scott Strauss, who worked as a consultant on the movie.
The controversial film recounts the true story of Port Authority Sgt. John McLoughlin and Officer Will Jimeno, who were trapped 30 feet under the charred wreckage of the Twin Towers and eventually rescued.
McLoughlin, who is played by Nicolas Cage, and Jimeno, played by Michael Peña, were among a group of five officers who entered the south tower shortly before it collapsed. The other three officers were killed in the attacks.
Strauss, who rescued Jimeno, said the movie is a first-hand glimpse of the bravery and determination that went on inside the buildings that day.
"Everyone has seen the footage of the planes hitting the buildings, but no one saw what happened inside," Strauss said.
"This movie shows everyone the human element behind the story."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We'll have to see if nutjob Oliver gets his usual wierd digs in.
If the NYPD says it's okay, then it probably is.
That is why I think I am going to see it.
An Oliver Stone movie? I'll need way more information on it before I will go. I find it hard to believe he won't make the good guys look bad.
What is the controversy over? Does dear Oliver have his own twist to this movie.....like this event really never took place. It was all done in a movie film stage in Hong Kong. Or, Terrorism was not the motive for the downing of the WTC, it was the only way that law abiding Islamists could get the world's attention of their plight....World Domination.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Maybe so and I totally agree with you on every single one of his films but I've seen the trailer which was posted on Free Republic yesterday and it looked pretty good and the two officers who were rescued were advising on this film.
The man is driven by hate.
Can't say I blame you. I guess I'll wait until a few Freepers see it and if they think its good then I'll go. :-)
I watched this trailer for the first time on the web yesterday. And then I watched it again and again and again. I showed it to a friend of mine and he watched it again and again and again.
It was powerful.
If I had bought tickets to The Da Vinci Code and was exposed to this trailer for the first time at the theater, I don't think I'd be able to sit for the feature film.
This could be one of the most important films we see. Stone has the talent to do it justice and I pray he has the foresight to leave his crazy politics and conspiracy theories out of the film and concentrate his focus on the evil that occured and the heroes who responded. Stone claimed that this is exactly what he has done and I, for one, will take his word for it and see this film in the theaters.
My friend summed it up the best after watching the trailer. He said, "This film is going to make people angry again."
He is neither willing or able to do this. Every movie he's made has been a slap in the face to logic, reason, and all I hold dear.
Oliver Stone is going to make us weep, screw with our hearts, and them EFFF with our minds.
I do not trust this man after things that I have seen from him.
I recall Stone saying some wierd things. Did a google, found a site called windsofchange.net that had the following (I excerpted it down quite a bit):
His [Stones'] voice grew louder as his ideas took shape. "Michael Eisner decides, 'I can't make a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. - they'll be rioting at the gates of Disneyland!' That's bullshit! But that's what the new world order is." There was a storm of applause. "They control culture, they control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about '*%ck you! &%ck your order-' "
"Excuse me," a fellow-panelist, Christopher Hitchens, said. " 'Revolt'?"
Whatever you want to call it," Stone said.
"It was state-supported mass murder, using civilians as missiles," said Hitchens, a columnist for Vanity Fair and The Nation.
Stone wagged his head and continued. ....."Does anybody make a connection between the 2000 election" - for the Presidency - "and the events of September 11th?" he asked..... He went on to say that the Palestinians who danced at the news of the attack were reacting just as people had responded after the revolutions in France and Russia...." November 2002
Thanks for posting the link to the trailer. It looks like a great movie. True, blue, hero stuff.
I would dearly love to have a copy of that documentary.
They were interviewed on Charlie Rose soon after 9/11 and their film was well worth seeing.
There is no end to the angst surrounding the documenting of that day.
The two firefighters in the movies are said to have done an outstanding job.
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