"Do we need the first feature film to tackle 9/11 to do so through US flag-waving masquerading as a globally relevant human drama?"
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Slowly Going Bald
"Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party, and you're gonna say it sucks, and we're all gonna leave and we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's someone who's more important she should be talking to, and it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack."
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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6 Comments:
I thought cinematically 9/11 was all summed up with the end of Spider-Man 1 wheny Spidey did his thang and wound up posing next to the American flag. I guess I was wrong.
By 
, at
11:27 AM, July 13, 2005
"Now Bangkok's pouring rain, and I'm going blind again and I haven't seen my girl for 15,000 miles."
...thought I'd contribute to your current blog title...
By 
Sarah, at
5:59 PM, July 13, 2005
I'm very proud that you could contribute the next verse. I'll probably change the title soon, as usual, but I first I have to say good job. You know your Roger Clyne.
By Dan Carlson, at
8:24 AM, July 14, 2005
Was that Clinton starting a random war for no reason? Just curious because my liberal team lead is screaming that all Conservatives are Satan worshipping war mongers that hate outsiders.
I just think that depends on the outsiders :o)
good stuff
By Master Baron Von Tuckenstein the First Esquire, at
9:44 AM, July 18, 2005
The first feature film to tackle 9/11 came out a year ago. It was called Fahrenheit 9/11, and it was anything but flag-waving. It may have been called a documentary by some, but it was more akin to a feature film.
Hollywood's goal is entertainment, not historical accuracy. It's no secret that their main goal is to turn a profit, and of course the easiest way to do that is to give the audience a movie they can identify with and feel good about.
It's true that some people get their facts and history from movies, but that's the fault of the people, not filmmakers.
So why not give Americans a flag-waving movie about 9/11? A lot of things happened there that we should be proud of.
By Cody, at
10:31 AM, July 18, 2005
By "feature" they mean a fictional, typical film, not a handheld video polemic. So I stand by the use of their word.
There were things that happened there that we should be proud of, but only when viewed as isolated cases. Our history with the Middle East up to that point is an interesting one, and immediately following the attacks we became a nation obsessed with racial profiling and sacrificing personal freedoms in the interest of national defense. So maybe the first feature to tackle 9/11 should take the whole "We'll put a boot in the ass of the foreigners, man" view of things.
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