Stoned-eyed View
Oliver Stone recently announced that sometime in 2006, he is set to begin filming his vision of what happened on 9/11.
I have liked Mr. Stone's movies. Any Given Sunday, The People vs. Larry Flynt, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, and Platoon...all great films.
But I don't believe that Mr. Stone is the correct choice for this subject matter. His politics will bleed from every scene of the movie.
I can see this being a "Bad American" portrayal.
We in the United States don't need to see a "B A" steeped movie about 9/11. In fact, I would say that we don't need to see any movie about 9/11 for a good ten years or so. Its too fresh. Its too raw. We're still too close to those events for them to have any perspective and I don't think that Oliver Stone is the right person to be trying to spin that perspective.
It's not history yet. When you think about it, doesn't it feel like it could have been yesterday or last week.
If we lost our innocence as a nation with the close of World War 2 and the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, we began the emergence from our national adolescence in those smoke clouds billowing over New York City.
In time, history and historians will put the 9/11 attacks in context. It will be done by professionals who look at all the data. And they may not agree with one another about it. But the last thing we need is Oliver Stone playing conspiracy-monger on this subject.
It wouldn't surprise me if we see an announcement soon by a filmmaker taking on the story of this American tragedy as well, but from an opposing political view.
I think that the politicization of 9/11 by W, the Dems, or Hollywood is wrong.
Plainly and simply wrong.
I have liked Mr. Stone's movies. Any Given Sunday, The People vs. Larry Flynt, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, and Platoon...all great films.
But I don't believe that Mr. Stone is the correct choice for this subject matter. His politics will bleed from every scene of the movie.
I can see this being a "Bad American" portrayal.
We in the United States don't need to see a "B A" steeped movie about 9/11. In fact, I would say that we don't need to see any movie about 9/11 for a good ten years or so. Its too fresh. Its too raw. We're still too close to those events for them to have any perspective and I don't think that Oliver Stone is the right person to be trying to spin that perspective.
It's not history yet. When you think about it, doesn't it feel like it could have been yesterday or last week.
If we lost our innocence as a nation with the close of World War 2 and the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, we began the emergence from our national adolescence in those smoke clouds billowing over New York City.
In time, history and historians will put the 9/11 attacks in context. It will be done by professionals who look at all the data. And they may not agree with one another about it. But the last thing we need is Oliver Stone playing conspiracy-monger on this subject.
It wouldn't surprise me if we see an announcement soon by a filmmaker taking on the story of this American tragedy as well, but from an opposing political view.
I think that the politicization of 9/11 by W, the Dems, or Hollywood is wrong.
Plainly and simply wrong.
posted by Mark "Puff" Anderson | 2:26 PM
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