The 9-11 Research companion to the film World Trade Center
by Jim Hoffman
 http://www.911research.wtc7.net/reviews/world_trade_center/index.html
The film World Trade Center set to debut on August 9, 2006, relates the true story of two of the last survivors rescued from Ground Zero, John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno.
The film is being produced by Paramount Pictures, and directed by Oliver Stone, recipient of three Academy Awards. Like many of Stone's previous films, World Trade Center takes as its subject traumatic events in recent history. But this film's approach is decidedly different from Stone's most controversial film, JFK.
JFK introduced a generation to evidence that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was not the work of a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, but involved a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the US government. Stone does this by recounting the struggle of District Attorney Jim Garrison to win a conviction of suspects in that conspiracy.
Unlike JFK, World Trade Center does not directly address the many challenges to the official story of the attack. However, like JFK, it may have a profound effect on the public's understanding of the film's subject by depicting events that have been ignored by the mainstream media, such as sounds of explosions as the Towers came down, molten metal in the rubble pile, and the precipitous collapse of WTC 7 at 5:20 in the afternoon.
World Trade Center follows McLoughlin (played by Nicholas Cage) and Jimeno (played by Michael Pena), and their families, on the day of the attack. The two men, who had never met eachother, are in other parts of the city as the attack begins. Neither see the plane crashes, and World Trade Center doesn't show them, keeping the movie focused on events that the men and their families witnessed.
|
homepage:
For the evening of Friday August 11th, we are organizing a "haunting" of Portland openings of Oliver Stone's Hollywood soap opera extravaganza WORLD TRADE CENTER.
...
As I understand it, the Oliver Stone soap opera opens in "major cities" on Wed Aug 9th, but in a 'berg' like Portland Oregon, not until Fri Aug 11th. Last I checked (yesterday), it was unclear what screens in Portland would carry that opening.
Please add comment if you have more solid info on Portland opening.
Come, collude with us
C-SPAN 9-11: video rerun and dissection by local experts Laughing Horse 7pm Wed Aug 2nd
503 287 3473
7pm Wed Aug 2nd at Laughing Horse Books - 12 NE 10th Ave, just off E Burnside