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2004-04-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve 2004-04-15 10:25:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As I pointed out on my site, there was a movie about the 1993 WTC attack: Path to Paradise. HBO movie, available on VHS. Pretty good for a TV movie; starts with Kahane's assassination and runs to the arrest of Yussef. There's a prescient "we'll be back to knock it down" moment at the end.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-15 10:43:39 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-15 10:43:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 DC 9-11: Time of Crisis was a Showtime movie of the events. It was all from the President and his staff's point of view, came off more as a documentary than an actual movie, but it was pretty good which is probably why the left that noticed it, villify it.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-15 11:19:59 AM|| 2004-04-15 11:19:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Im sure there will be one... starring Leonardo DeCapuchino and Kate Winslett. Of course Celine Dion will sing the theme.

"Don't you give up, you are going to die an old woman, in a warm bed, surrounded by your children, crapping in a plactic bag.", "Oh Jack, Im soo cold."

Posted by JackAssFestival 2004-04-15 11:50:16 AM|| 2004-04-15 11:50:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Let me tell y'all a story.
I'm a budding screenwriter - haven't sold anything yet, but getting closer every day. Had an dea couple of months back for a screenplay called Thunder Run - about the charge into Baghdad. Figured it had EVERYTHING. Typed up a synopsis - straight from the actual AAR, which is on-line - and sent it to my agent, who was 110% in favor of it.
A couple weeks later this is the call I get: Forget it. Nobody wants to do a WoT movie right now because they are basically terrified that they will make a movie about a US victory and there will be some kind of horrible reversal that will leave them with an unreleasable film. If I want to write a Rambo-like fantasy, they'll look at that - but forget anything realistic.
BTW, kiss anything about 9/11 goodbye as well - the studios are convinced that the Three Thousand Families will insist on final approval of the script and story, and there is no way they'll be able to say no without looking bad.
The bottom line seems to be that there is no actual bias against such a movie because of the subject, but rather the imponderables that could knock it out of the game.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-15 1:06:44 PM|| 2004-04-15 1:06:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I've always thought there should be two. #1 is about the WTC, from ten minutes before the first crash to the second collapse. Tell the whole event in real time, no musical score, no stock footage. Include Rick Rescorla, the red bandanna man, the Naudet brothers.

#2 is Flight 93. 'Nuff said.

Mr. Kozlowski, feel free to pick these up and run with 'em.

Posted by Mike 2004-04-15 3:00:17 PM|| 2004-04-15 3:00:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Mike K. Kick ass and take names latter. I wish you great success. Clear headed good vs bad. Take that and run. For every PC bread and butter piece of blather write ten anti PC truth bombs.

Quality writers! Like fine brandy. Some time their will be a grown-up rich enough to put together a studio thats unafraid to make entertainment that isn't afraid!!!! Like Mel Gibson!!!!!!

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-16 12:07:43 AM|| 2004-04-16 12:07:43 AM|| Front Page Top

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