Posted on 08/08/2006 6:39:07 AM PDT by Condor 63
ATLANTA - "World Trade Center" is about the last movie you might expect Oliver Stone to make. Not because of the subject matter. What makes Stone's intimate story of what happened to two Port Authority cops and their families on Sept. 11, 2001, different is that it's not at all political. No conspiracy theories. No jabs at the Bush administration.
Instead, "World Trade Center" is heartwarming and reassuring, both a tear-jerker and a crowd-pleaser. A movie that won't make Americans feel better about 9/11 but at least feel good about how the country responded. Stone, who admits many people think of him as a "left-wing loony," calls it a "five-handkerchief film."
His movie has gotten ringing endorsements from the strangest of bedfellows, including conservative pundit Cal Thomas, who calls it, "one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-male, flag-waving, God-bless-America films you will ever see." Stone is both amused and bewildered at the reaction. During a roundtable interview at the Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead, he holds up the front page of The New York Times to illustrate his point. "They're attacking us for having the right wing like it," he says. "Look, the film should be seen by everybody. I'm a dramatist. I'm not running for office.
"I consider myself an independent. I don't vote Democrat because I'm anti-Republican or anything like that. My father raised me Republican. I understand conservatism and I understand liberalism. I think there is a blend to be had in both."
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That's like writing an article with the line, "Clinton, who admits many people think of her as a "Democrat".
I love the last line quoted, the old "there's good and bad in both Democrats and Republicans"--trite, nonpolitical nothingness from a director who desperately needs a hit.
Maybe the film is agood one about individual heroism, but what most reviewers are saying is "Don't worry, Oliver Stone still opposes Bush, he just didn't put it in this movie."
I recently saw a a trailer for the film, and no where did it ever mention Oliver Stone's role in making it, even on the title shot. I guess someone in the Hollywood marketing department has figured out that his name is poisonous for a movie these days.
It's best not to pi$$-off half your customers before you get them in the store..........
Slimes. If it's a good movie, then it's a good movie. NY Slimes can't fathom that everything isn't partisan politics.
By the way, are chicken wings conservative or liberal fare?
Let's see if I understand what is going on here.
Flight 93. Too soon. Crass commercialization and exploitation.
World Trade Center. Great. Best movie of the year. A must see.
Wait, Wait. Oh, I get. Oliver Stone!
A lefty made WTC so now it is embraced.
Something tells me this film is not going to do well. Just a feeling.
You might be right. Interesting that the NYT is attacking it (if they really are.)
I think that's the key here. After the abomination that was ALEXANDER his career is on the rocks and he needs a commercial success. If nothing else, he is a brilliant technician and knows how to make a working movie. So please forgive Oliver his previous lunatic rantings about 9-11 and see his latest film, seems to be the message here.
Maybe, when it comes out on DVD, I will bootleg a copy and watch it. I just don't want any of my money to make it into Stone's pocket. Not in any way, shape, form, or time.
Flight 93 was different and deserving of our attention.
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