Goddamnit! Every Fuckin' Film I watch!

[amicus]

The Twin Towers, 9/11, are used as a backdrop. Just tuned through 'Hackers', one I watch now and then, again....but there seem to be hundreds...and each time I have an 'emotional' reaction.

Politics aside...and I do not choose to view those towers and emote as I do, but, do you? Also?


amicus...

 

[sweetnpetite]

The Twin Towers, 9/11, are used as a backdrop. Just tuned through 'Hackers', one I watch now and then, again....but there seem to be hundreds...and each time I have an 'emotional' reaction.

Politics aside...and I do not choose to view those towers and emote as I do, but, do you? Also?


amicus...

sometimes it's sad. othertimes I won't notice.

Try watching foreign films.

 

[Liar]

The Twin Towers, 9/11, are used as a backdrop. Just tuned through 'Hackers', one I watch now and then, again....but there seem to be hundreds...and each time I have an 'emotional' reaction.

Politics aside...and I do not choose to view those towers and emote as I do, but, do you? Also?


amicus...

Until 01, it was the quintessential New York shot. Almost impossible to avoid if any part of the story took place there. It tends to trigger some nostalgia nerve in me when i see it, like I want to return to earlier, less complicated days. (As if there truly was such a thing.)

 

[Toilette]

Yeah... And I experience similar feelings about New Orleans, where over 3000 are still 'out there'...

 

[oggbashan]

I understand Amicus' feelings.

The twin towers were used to establish that a scene was set in New York in many films, just as Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament do for London, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, the strip for Las Vegas and so on.

My parents had the same feelings about pre-war films of London. So much of London that they knew as children and young adults has gone for ever, blown away by Hitler's bombs. Seeing London as it was brought back bitter memories.

Og

 

[Guest]

totally empathetic.
i know just what you mean, though, it saddens me more than angers at this point. just as others have said, any film that was done pre- 9/11 in new york had the towers in the sky line. reminds me of the many times i looked out from the top of those buildings and how that will never be again.
every time i drove through NY, that was the 'point'. i would say to the kids... see? those are the twin towers and thats the empire state building. the landscape has changed drastically.
has anyone seen progress of the new building? is it really coming into fruition or stalled in perpetuity?

 

[AppleBiter]

Until 01, it was the quintessential New York shot. Almost impossible to avoid if any part of the story took place there. It tends to trigger some nostalgia nerve in me when i see it, like I want to return to earlier, less complicated days. (As if there truly was such a thing.)

I feel the exact same way.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Remember how Spiderman (can't remember which, 1 or 2?) was being released some short time after 9/11? There was a scene that they shot of spiderman swinging between the towers using his webs that they cut... but they showed it on some show before it was released, and I remember actually feeling physically *pained* when I saw it... it was just this 3 second clip and my reaction was visceral...

I feel ya, Ami...

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I can't say that I get all emotional in a way other than being pissed off that so little has actually been accomplished against those who caused the 9-11 event.

I have a pre-9-11 New York tourism book with many photographs of the city from that time. The twin towers are prominent in a number of the photos in the book.

Oddly enough I also have a similar book for New Orleans ...

With everything that's happened to those two cities, these books have become very interesting and emotion-stirring keepsakes.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

The NY skyline shot was stock footage. Anything from mainstream TV and Film to adult films used it.

Oddly, the newer version, where you don't see the towers, ives me the same feelings. I just know something is missing and that brings back the memories.

 

[Norajane]

I can't say that I get all emotional in a way other than being pissed off that so little has actually been accomplished against those who caused the 9-11 event.

I have a pre-9-11 New York tourism book with many photographs of the city from that time. The twin towers are prominent in a number of the photos in the book.

Oddly enough I also have a similar book for New Orleans ...

With everything that's happened to those two cities, these books have become very interesting and emotion-stirring keepsakes.

Um, what other city tourism books do you have, so I know to stay away from there?

 

[Norajane]

The NY skyline shot was stock footage. Anything from mainstream TV and Film to adult films used it.

Oddly, the newer version, where you don't see the towers, ives me the same feelings. I just know something is missing and that brings back the memories.

The shots where the towers aren't there are what get me, too. It's disturbing.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Agreed on both their presence and their absence.

I have a DVD that I am waiting to watch some day. It's called "The Tenth Kingdom," a DVD of a miniseries about people moving between this world's New York and a high fantasy kingdom. The opening to the DVD includes a sequence of modern New York blossoming quite beautifully into a fantasy world. I think the towers are in it. I find that idea, at least as I remember it, moving. One of these days I will watch it again.

Shanglan

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Um, what other city tourism books do you have, so I know to stay away from there?

hehe ... I also have one for Atlanta, but I'll have to check to see what others I have.

 

[Boota]

I don't remember the title of the movie, it was a Michael Douglas movie, and it was shot in NYC pre-9-11. However, according to the film it was set in October 2001. There's a scene where he's driving down the road and you can see the towers in the background. I didn't have an emotional reaction, but it struck me as very strange to see them.

 

[Weepingguitar]

Agreed on both their presence and their absence.

I have a DVD that I am waiting to watch some day. It's called "The Tenth Kingdom," a DVD of a miniseries about people moving between this world's New York and a high fantasy kingdom.

Shanglan

I love 10th Kingdom. (I get major wobbly knees for Wolf) Strangely enough I watched it just last week when my hard drive crashed and I was computerless. I don't think too often about 9/11 when I'm watching movies, but that opening sequence did get to me. I think the Towers in that actually change into a castle. It's a beautiful moment.

 

[ScribeOfErised]

The NY skyline shot was stock footage. Anything from mainstream TV and Film to adult films used it.

Oddly, the newer version, where you don't see the towers, ives me the same feelings. I just know something is missing and that brings back the memories.

It's like a missing tooth. There's a hole the size of the grand canyon where it used to be, and you're always sticking your tongue into it by accident or something and hurting it while it's still healing. But this one's gonna take a long time to heal.

I went to college in NYC, and I was there for the first time since summer of '01 right before Christmas. First time I've ever requested an aisle seat in my life.

 

[BlackShanglan]

(I get major wobbly knees for Wolf) .

Mmm yes. Delicious little beast-man, isn't he?

 

[Weepingguitar]

Mmm yes. Delicious little beast-man, isn't he?

Lol, definately. "I don't know whether I want to marry her...or eat her!" "Stroke *with* the fur!"

 

[Tugari]

Remember the Empire State Building

I understand Amicus' feelings.

The twin towers were used to establish that a scene was set in New York in many films, just as Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament do for London, the Eiffel Tower for Paris, the strip for Las Vegas and so on.

My parents had the same feelings about pre-war films of London. So much of London that they knew as children and young adults has gone for ever, blown away by Hitler's bombs. Seeing London as it was brought back bitter memories.

Og

I remember New York before the twin towers and the trademark then, was the Empire State Building. I guess it is again. It's always been my personal favorite image of New York City (all King Kong inuendoe's aside, of course)

 

[sweetnpetite]

Is it easier now after all this time has passed?

 

[amicus]

No. It is not.



ami

 

[OhMissScarlett]

It's odd that this thread got bumped, I was just watching Bright Lights, Big City last week and there was a twin towers shot. Is it possible to feel overcome with nostalgia, and like you're going to vomit at the same time???

 

[Handley_Page]

Study the new skyline.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

Just reading this thread brings a tear to my eye, again. Those who were there that day don't want to talk about it any more. They look the other way. The city is not the same. The people aren't the same. It was a horrible, horrible day.

I know the SciFi people over in Seacaucus pulled all of the movies with pics of it in it around the time that it happened. I don't know if they are still doing it. It's in a lot of movies and tv shows, too. The movie people are more sensitive to it than you realize. They might think that people have "forgotten" about it by now. Send them an email to let them know that you haven't forgotten and don't want to see it any more. Then, send an email to the advertisers. Then, you can thank a firefighter, a cop, and a soldier for all their help. Then, you can stop buying pistacios, rugs, and heroin.