Posted on 05/22/2006 7:19:10 PM PDT by RDTF
CANNES, France - Oliver Stone presented a 25-minute preview at the Cannes Film Festival of his upcoming “World Trade Center,” promising an agonizing portrait of courage, camaraderie and perseverance.
Stone, who introduced the footage that was shown Sunday night before a 20th anniversary screening of his Vietnam saga “Platoon,” said that war film and his Sept. 11 drama both deal with working-class heroes, not superhuman deeds.
“It seems like the Vietnam War, Watergate, Iraq, all these things get built up, 9/11, into mythologies,” Stone told The Associated Press. “This is about what it was like at ground zero.”
“World Trade Center,” scheduled for U.S. release in August, is based on the true story of New York Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena). They were among the last survivors pulled from the rubble of the twin towers after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Oliver Stone's perceptions of ground zero were permanently obliterated when he dropped acid. He couldn't find, let alone portray, his own @ss with both hands.
One has to admit Stone's record of verisimilitude isn't exactly strong. Perhaps this one will be different, but given his nature I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see Bush personally pushing a detonator button.
I see it has the maggie Gyllenhaal witch in it. Enough said fo rme.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469641/
Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicolas Cage .... John McLoughlin
Michael Pena .... Will Jimeno (as Michael Peña)
Jay Hernandez .... Dominick Pezzulo
Armando Riesco .... Antonio Rodrigues
Jon Bernthal .... Christopher Amoroso
Maria Bello .... Donna McLoughlin
Maggie Gyllenhaal .... Allison Jimeno
Donna Murphy .... Judy Jonas
Patti D'Arbanville .... Lynne
Brad William Henke .... Jerry
Lucia Brawley .... Karen
Wass M. Stevens .... Pat McLoughlin (as Wass Stevens)
Michael Shannon .... Dave Karnes
No complaints allowed: it's FICTION, people!
Is it just me or has every movie with Nick Cage been totally strange and/or nonsensical? e.g. 8MM, Bring out your Dead, that Angel movie w/ Meg Ryan, etc.
maybe he'll explore a theory of a TNT detonation in a grassy knoll
//sarcasm//
Yep, but as bad as JFK was, SALVADOR was worse. It was Stone's drugged-out freak Leftist version of the situation in El Salvador. It was all lies of course.
That was odd, too.
If I were from one of the families of the individuals portrayed I would be barfing at the prospect of the likes of Oliver Stone, Maggie Gyllenhall, et al bringing their hate-America ranting anywhere near the memories of my loved one(s). Indeed, simply as an American who saw the towers burning from my office elsewhere in Manhattan, and who lost friends there that day, it nauseates me to have the Hollyweirdos taking hold of the story. I hope that Stone will confine himself to facts of good people confronting a grave crisis, but if he does produce respectable and honest work it will be just about a first for him!!
Oliver Stone is a(n) (attention) whore.
raising Arizona was a h00t
WON'T SEE IT. No money to any of em.
I'm sure it will be another big lefty film with all kinds of crazy theories and wild speculations all to an ending about how rotten America is...
I've disliked most of his others, though I did enjoy one deadpan moment in the otherwise awful The Rock, when Connery shoots an air conditioner or something which crushes a bad guy, and Cage looks at the result and says (paraphrase) "OK, that's about the most horrible thing I've ever seen" in that deadpan way.
He seems easily bored (as am I...by his movies! [rimshot]) and chooses odd roles, then does boring action movies to keep his box office cred.
One normal role I was surprised to enjoy him in was the variation on It's A Wonderful Life called The Family Man.
Salvador was good! A portrait of a Left wing journalist as a total jerk.
It was a fantasy. Absurdly entertaning at that.
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