Tastless, irrelevant, important, or good?

[Takk]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12351665,00.html

US MAKE FIRST 9/11 FILM

Hollywood is for the first time recreating the events surrounding the deadly terror strikes on New York and Washington to mark the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The TV film, being made by Showtime Networks Inc, will depict the attacks from the viewpoint of events at the White House following the strikes.


Titled "DC 9/11," the movie starts on the morning of the attacks and follows US President George W Bush's dramatic journey back to

Washington immediately after hijacked jets ploughed into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

The docudrama will also follow his first historic visit to Ground Zero, the site of the fallen twin towers in New York, as the world reeled from the impact of the attacks.

"Based on real life accounts, the film will interweave actual footage from these haunting events," a Showtime source said

The movie will star Timothy Bottoms as Bush, Scott Alan Smith as White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, Lawrence Pressman as Vice President Dick Cheney and Penny Johnson Jerald as National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

They are making a film about 9/11.

I guess this was always expected, i'm in two minds about this myself. I for one, wish that we could go a few days without the subject being brought up in an irrelvant way.

[Pimpf]

I don't really see why they need to dramatize it anyway, the footage is dramatic enough as it is. What are they going to do, weave a love story into it? A fireman rushes into the Twin Towers to save his lover, rescuing her just in the nick of time as they finally collapse, before they go on to live happily ever after?

[maradona]

I dont think an American TV movie has ever been good, so i dont see why this will be any different.

[Perdita]

This isn't strictly the first 9/11 film, what about that series of nine eleven-minute shorts that went out a few months back, as responses to the event? That I see as a much more productive and sensitive response to the whole thing. Did anyone see them?

[Terminal Young Thing]

Originally posted by Perdita
This isn't strictly the first 9/11 film, what about that series of nine eleven-minute shorts that went out a few months back, as responses to the event? That I see as a much more productive and sensitive response to the whole thing. Did anyone see them?

No, but from what I've heard about them, I agree.

[billy]

and you just know most of it will be pro-usa propaganda and lies.

[amaranth]

Originally posted by billy
and you just know most of it will be pro-usa propaganda and lies.

Very true...

I don't really have anything important to say, but America as normally full of shit, this will probably be no different.

[Tim]

Originally posted by Pimpf
I don't really see why they need to dramatize it anyway, the footage is dramatic enough as it is.

Agreed, no dramatisation can match the look on the firefighter's faces as people threw themselves out of windows in that 9/11 documentary.

[Joe]

Oh God that was awful. :( I can see this whole idea becoming sickly to watch, a glorified masking of events such as this can surely be suitable for the purpose (as Billy said) of pro U.S. propaganda. It was hard enough watching it unfold over the afternoon and following days it happened, without a corporate mock-up of it.

[Irishpunktom]

for the wonderful pages of the indo..

According to one version of history, President George Bush was so slow to react to the momentous attacks of 11 September 2001 that he continued reading to a group of primary school children in Florida even after being informed of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Centre.

Then, after making an anodyne remark about finding "the folks who committed this act", he was whisked off in Air Force One, first to Shreveport, Louisiana and thence to an underground bunker in Nebraska, where he was hastily coached in the art of responding to the crisis in an appropriately presidential manner.

That, however, is not the George Bush who emerges from a new television docudrama due to air on cable in time for the second anniversary of the attacks this September.

In this version, the President is all swagger and seize-the-moment bravado. "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me," he says. "I'll be at home. Waiting for the bastard." "But Mr President ..." stammers his Secret Service chief. "Try 'Commander-in-Chief'," Mr Bush corrects him, "whose present command is, 'Take the President home!'"



** Full Tale Here ** (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=417712)

[Void]

Sounds like a stupid idea. It won't be as entertaining second time around anyway.

[Joe]

Gah - how I hate that kind of thing. Lets build up Bush's ego some more, then start chanting 'USA, USA, USA'

:rolleyes:

[manic cow]

I knew this was going to happen sooner or later... I just didn't think it would be this soon. I imagine it'll be similar to the tv movie sky kept showing about the attack on the wtc in 93(?), that one had george clooney in it, and had the obvious corny pro-america theme and that. How they're gonna turn this new one into anything positive though is beyond me. Thousands of people lost their lives, and Bush still hasn't finished off the terror group responsible for it, despite his big 'War On Terror'. So I think making anything other than a documentary at the moment is a bit tasteless, and I really don't see what they hope to achieve with this.

[Alexkid]

Originally posted by Methadone Pretty

The movie will star Timothy Bottoms as Bush [/B]

Im sure George would have prefered John Wayne to play him.

"naaah we's gonna GET those guys in the cave... I want 'em dead of alive. Now we know theyre either in Afghanistan, somewhere else or dead" :cool:

[relic]

So, we're now expected to sit back whilst the last shreds of dignity of the dead are plundered to try to get Bush legitimitately elected. It would be interesting to see which companies are getting in on the ad breaks on this TV movie.

relic

[Lollipop Gestapo]

I think it is completely tasteless and grossly insensitive to the famillies of the victims. I know that they don't have to watch it, but to know that the tragedy is being turned into a film for mass entertainment would just be sickening. And as people have already said it would be filled with American propaganda. Wasn't Hollywood told that the government wanted it to make films reflecting American heroism to get people more patriotic and behind the government? It is all so cynical. To make a profit out of such a tragedy is just horrible.

[nic]

it wouldnt be long before they made a film about 911,they make films about everyother murder and disaster.
they all think they are living in a hollwood movie,george bush always quotes from them,even when it was happening live i couldnt belive some of the things people were saying,like it was a film,this was real people dying
the americans always make out they are the heros,watch any film about the second world war and you would think they were the only ones there.
they will have the sad music,the people ringing home to their loved ones,the children at home crying for mum and dad.
why cant they just leave it,and i dont agree with them building on the site again..