'World Trade Center' Anti-Oliver Stone Film

Jerel 2022-04-21 09:02:44

"World Trade Center" is said to be the first American commercial film to face the 9/11 incident that claims to be shot. In addition, the reason why New Yorkers will have a greater psychological reaction is that the director of this film is Oliver Stone. He is a typical conspiracy theorist, bold in words and deeds, and extremely sensitive to political issues. A few months after the 9/11 incident, he publicly stated that he would combine the perspectives of the United States and Arabs to make a film reflecting terrorism . So it's not uncommon to think of "World Trade Center" as a straightforward, poignantly satirical work akin to Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."



However, when people actually see "World Trade Center", it is a completely different scene. After the terrorist attack, two New York police officers went to rescue and rescue in chaos and were buried in the rubble. The next story becomes very simple. Nicholas plays the policeman and his partner, who can't move, depend on each other, encourage each other, and he spends most of the film's body language like Denzel Washington in "The Human Bones". . On the other hand, the two police wives, after learning that their husbands entered the building and whose life and death are now unknown, expressed pain, anxiety, and a glimmer of hope. This interweaving story structure of charging warriors and tearful relatives is easily reminiscent of Mel Gibson's We Were Warriors. The most criticized part of this Vietnam War movie is that Hollywood filmmakers seem to have begun to forget the political absurdity of the Vietnam War and indulge in the inseparable family affection. Ironically, Oliver Stone's Vietnam War trilogy was most often compared to We Were Soldiers.



Every one of Stone's films before can cause huge repercussions and controversy, but this time "World Trade Center" is a surprise. And I believe that there is a difference between the two kinds of surprises. 911 did change so many things, and the filmmakers were no exception. If "World Trade Center" does not explain the time and place of the incident, it is just an ordinary disaster film. Hollywood has produced too many such films, and the only difference is that the protagonist in "World" is in For most of the film, he is incapacitated.



I really can't understand Oliver Stone. Is it like Zhang Yimou, who visited the class in Beijing, learned to subtract his own movies, or just like Nate Sharmalan, he started to play with the audience's guesses, and turned his back. Xiang thinking, hey, these guesses above are in line with Stone's favorite skepticism before. At the end of this article, I have to repeat the words of the great director himself. He said that "Assassination of Kennedy" was filmed 30 years after the incident, "Field Platoon" was 15 years, and "Nixon" was 20 years. Shot after. If there is no misunderstanding of the meaning of this paragraph, his 9/11 movie will have the following paragraphs, and it is finally a ray of hope for the future in addition to disappointment with "The World".

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World Trade Center quotes

  • Scott Strauss: Chuck. Paddy. Just get out of here. This whole damn thing could come down on us. There's no sense in all of us getting killed.

    Chuck Sereika: You gonna pry up that slab and get him out of here yourself? I've been in and out of rehab for years. Finally figured out the only thing I've been ever good at is helping people. We're doing this together.

    Paddy McGee: I Ain't leaving.

    Will Jimeno: I don't mean to break up the moment, but were all getting out of here together.

  • Will Jimeno: This guy. He's gonna die if you don't get him out soon. And the only thing in the way is my leg. I want you to cut it off. Just cut if off. I can live without a leg.

    Scott Strauss: I'm not cutting your leg off. I can't. You're coming out in one piece, you hear me?

    Will Jimeno: You gotta... Look it's my leg. Just juice me up and cut it off. If he dies, I die. That's just the way it is.

    Scott Strauss: Look Will, your partner must be 20 feet deeper. Probably more compacted than you. Even if I cut your leg off, he's not gonna get out of there for hours. I'm sorry, man. Now, let me do my work.