Why No 9/11 Movie?

[Blacktiger2005]

After a decade you would think that Hollywood would have put together an epic definitive movie on 9/11, an event that changed this country forever. Yet I have not seen any attempt to develop such a movie on the scale of what movie's use to be like that we do not see anymore. Is it because in this era of political correctness Hollywood is afraid of the muslim backlash of such a movie? Or is it because it's political in that the left and right would use such a movie to further their own causes? I think a 9/11 movie would give us a look into the lives before the tragedy and after. This is bigger than any event in my lifetime. This is my Pearl Harbor. At least liberal Hollywood made that event (Pearl Harbor) into a love story movie to be accepted I guess.

 

[lippy]

After a decade you would think that Hollywood would have put together an epic definitive movie on 9/11, an event that changed this country forever. Yet I have not seen any attempt to develop such a movie on the scale of what movie's use to be like that we do not see anymore. Is it because in this era of political correctness Hollywood is afraid of the muslim backlash of such a movie? Or is it because it's political in that the left and right would use such a movie to further their own causes? I think a 9/11 movie would give us a look into the lives before the tragedy and after. This is bigger than any event in my lifetime. This is my Pearl Harbor. At least liberal Hollywood made that event (Pearl Harbor) into a love story movie to be accepted I guess.

i have seen a couple of made for television movies...documentaries...the major new programs have had tributes over the last week...20/20...dateline...etc...i think there was a dateline special last night but it ended up not being aired due to the tennis matches running late

 

[Sin Mari]

I think a hollywood movie would cheapen it. The documentaries are better suited to telling this story. IMO.

 

[Iggy]

umm Oliver Stone made World Trade Center in 2006. It did fairly well at the box office.

 

[Morning Star]

World Trade Center, Rudy, United 93...all those movies pertaining to the event took shape. But please don't milk or sensationalize an event like this. It only destroys its significance and importance.

 

[archangel]

After a decade you would think that Hollywood would have put together an epic definitive movie on 9/11, an event that changed this country forever. Yet I have not seen any attempt to develop such a movie on the scale of what movie's use to be like that we do not see anymore. Is it because in this era of political correctness Hollywood is afraid of the muslim backlash of such a movie? Or is it because it's political in that the left and right would use such a movie to further their own causes? I think a 9/11 movie would give us a look into the lives before the tragedy and after. This is bigger than any event in my lifetime. This is my Pearl Harbor. At least liberal Hollywood made that event (Pearl Harbor) into a love story movie to be accepted I guess.

I wish they would make a movie about how americans lost their freedom after 9/11.

We can call it the ....

or a documentary

 

[dafty pukk]

I think a 9/11 movie would give us a look into the lives before the tragedy and after.

Watch the documentaries and read the personal accounts from the survivors.

In my opinion that would be preferable to seeing a bunch of botoxed female skeletons and their toupee wearing leading man pretend to have been there.

This is bigger than any event in my lifetime. This is my Pearl Harbor. At least liberal Hollywood made that event (Pearl Harbor) into a love story movie to be accepted I guess.

You saw Pearl Harbor?

Do we really need Hollywood, which can't even remake a good movie, to visually define 9/11 for us?

Pass on a FOX/MIRAMAX/SONY 9-11.
I personally don't want or need it.

- Daft

 

[Bliss]

I wish they would make a movie about how americans lost their freedom after 9/11.

We can call it the ....

THIS ^^^

and.....

Watch the documentaries and read the personal accounts from the survivors.

In my opinion that would be preferable to seeing a bunch of botoxed female skeletons and their toupee wearing leading man pretend to have been there.


Do we really need Hollywood, which can't even remake a good movie, to visually define 9/11 for us?

Pass on a FOX/MIRAMAX/SONY 9-11.
I personally don't want or need it.

- Daft

THIS! ^^^

 

[saintaugusta]

After a decade you would think that Hollywood would have put together an epic definitive movie on 9/11, an event that changed this country forever. Yet I have not seen any attempt to develop such a movie on the scale of what movie's use to be like that we do not see anymore. Is it because in this era of political correctness Hollywood is afraid of the muslim backlash of such a movie? Or is it because it's political in that the left and right would use such a movie to further their own causes? I think a 9/11 movie would give us a look into the lives before the tragedy and after. This is bigger than any event in my lifetime. This is my Pearl Harbor. At least liberal Hollywood made that event (Pearl Harbor) into a love story movie to be accepted I guess.

What do you mean by "Muslim backlash" exactly? That's what I really want to know...

 

[JamalSpunky]

What do you mean by "Muslim backlash" exactly? That's what I really want to know...

He's an idiotic neo-con if he thinks offending Muslims or some other form of political correctness is why Hollywood hasn't done many 9-11 films (has he not seen all the movies with Islamic villains?). Or maybe he just watches too much FOX News.

From waht I know about movie history while there were countless WW2 films made during and immediately after The Great War, there weren't many made about Pearl Harbor specifically for a long time. The same goes for another tragic event, the assassination of JFK. That death and Pearl Harbor, like 9-11, were/are a very traumatic moment in American history and even Hollywood knew to show restraint (aka show respect to the victims) by not trying to make a quick buck off them. But as more distance in time is put between us and the events of ten years ago, you will see more films 9-11. Epic films as well as smaller, more personal films (like the "25th Hour"). Greater distance also means you are less likely to offend those who were there and those who lost loved ones. For goodness sakes Hollywood may just be getting around to doing a MLK major motion picture

 

[Soulthinker]

There were a few films about Pearl Harbor filmed years apart. I was surprised the newspapers,tv,radio,and newsreels did not report on the 10th Anniversary on Dec 7,1951.

 

[Blacktiger2005]

What do you mean by "Muslim backlash" exactly? That's what I really want to know...

Muslim backlash as to what happen to Dutch Filmaker Theo Van Gogh who was in the process of making a movie on the treatment of women by Islam. He had his throat cut by a muslim who objected to his criticism of Islam's treatment of women. This same threat to kill anyone who criticized Islam was played out by several media concerns in this country from Letterman to NBC News in their coverage of Honor Killings. Do anybody on this site stay up on the news without playing to their emotions?

http://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/jihadpages/women.htm

 

[Soulthinker]

Letterman kept on doing the joke inspite of the threat. The two men who produced South Park and the Mormon broadway play had a episode of South Park censored because of those conserns:Mohammad dressed like a bear.

 

[JordanC]

Muslim backlash as to what happen to Dutch Filmaker Theo Van Gogh who was in the process of making a movie on the treatment of women by Islam. He had his throat cut by a muslim who objected to his criticism of Islam's treatment of women. This same threat to kill anyone who criticized Islam was played out by several media concerns in this country from Letterman to NBC News in their coverage of Honor Killings. Do anybody on this site stay up on the news without playing to their emotions?

http://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/jihadpages/women.htm

Another....Salmon Rushdie/Satanic Verses. They issued a Fatwa on him.

 

[saintaugusta]

Well, the Muslims I know would never engage in such practices. They are peace-loving individuals who are just like you and me. The media sensationalizes these threats, just as they sensationalize violence in the African-American community.

 

[JamalSpunky]

Muslim backlash as to what happen to Dutch Filmaker Theo Van Gogh who was in the process of making a movie on the treatment of women by Islam. He had his throat cut by a muslim who objected to his criticism of Islam's treatment of women. This same threat to kill anyone who criticized Islam was played out by several media concerns in this country from Letterman to NBC News in their coverage of Honor Killings. Do anybody on this site stay up on the news without playing to their emotions?

http://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/jihadpages/women.htm

First of all it goes "does anybody", not "do anybody". If you want to try taking a shot at people's overall grasp of news regarding bloodthirsty Muslims, have a firm grasp on the English language first.

Yes, I know all about these events. I followed the news closely of Van Gogh’s murder when it first broke. And of course there are crazy, zealot Muslims out there. No one is saying otherwise. However that’s not the point. You keep going around acting as if Hollywood is scared to tackle 9-11 more in movies because of fear of offending Muslims. My point is that Hollywood already uses Muslims as the mustache-twirling baddies in TV and film. Whether it is on the small screen such as “24’ or on the big screen with “300”, “True Lies”, “Body of Lies”, “Black Hawk Down”, “The Kingdom”, Hollywood has increasingly given us Muslim as villains.

However doing a slew of 9/11 films would have been dumb because it is one of the most traumatic events in American history. Hollywood did not sensationalize Pearl Harbor, the John Kennedy Assassination or the Challenger explosion either and none of those events involved Muslims. You are therefore reaching, IMO, by placing blame for the lack of 9-11 films on Hollywood’s sensitivity towards those of the Islamic faith. It was simply too soon to go down that road.

And if we want to be real America isn’t truly ready about such a movie unless it focuses on the 9-11 heroes who rush into the burning towers or the people who fought back on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. Americans can’t seem to handle stories about the other victims. Hell, this country quickly banned pictures of folks jumping to their deaths or moving out to the window ledges of the towers to escape the smoke. America never talks about the citizens who died on the other planes on which the passengers did not fight back. The great documentary “The Falling Man” has still not been released in the USA (although you can see it on YouTube). Our countrymen seem unable to handle that stuff at this point and time. So why rush it?

 

[Blacktiger2005]

Well, the Muslims I know would never engage in such practices. They are peace-loving individuals who are just like you and me. The media sensationalizes these threats, just as they sensationalize violence in the African-American community.

Ms. Saintaugusta, I agree with you. It would be wrong to pigeonhold groups of people. God knows we peoples of african descent have been labled as being all the same. I have been told that when I was twelve years old that "you people are all the same" from a white mechanic when I questioned him. Politics and the people who play the game like whipping boys to cast blame. This countries policies overseas in how it dealt with muslim nations for decades has caused much of the problems we see today. No hard feeling Ms. Saintaugusta.

 

[saintaugusta]

None back at you, Blacktiger... we're all just people trying to make it the world today - even some of the extremists have feelings and perspectives that we would understand if we could ever see the world from their eyes. Some of them may have had very difficult and painful childhoods, or may have been brainwashed from an early age, as is the way with most extreme forms of religion ...

by the way did you know that Theo Van Gogh was the great grand-nephew of Vincent Van Gogh, the artist? My guess is he was named after Vincent's beloved brother Theo, who bought ALL of Vincent's work (Vincent never sold a single work in his life except to his brother, who bought his work to help Vincent survive and was the only one who truly understood him)... I guess passion and creativity ran in the family... interesting. A terrible shame that free speech got him killed, but I honestly think this is a rare occurrence.

I don't think the South Park episodes should have been censored either - chickenshit on the part of the media, afraid of the demon THEY created!!