World Trade Center - trailer

[grady]

The trailer is up for this new Oliver Stone film over at Apple.

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Later this week or sometime next week a twenty minute reel of the film is being shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

After viewing this trailer, I have no interest in what look likes a cliched riddled film. That along with the many other topics already brought up and discussed by many of us in the thread for Flight 93.

This trailer also this made me wonder about Oliver Stone's career as of late in relation to quote I've come across before by multiple film directors. I wish I knew where the quote originated from, but it's late and I'm getting sleepy and I don't have the patience to filter through google search results or put on Martin Scorsese's A Personal Journey Through American Cinema, skipping around trying to find the quote.

The quote goes something like this: You make on for them, then you make one for yourself.

My mind wants to say Scorsese said this at some point while discussing the way films were made back in the hayday of the studio era pre and post WW2. That doesn't mean that this type of mentality and business practice doesn't still apply today. If anyone else knows more about the quote and it's origin, please feel free to correct me.

But my reason for bringing up the quote was to make an obvious point about Oliver Stone and his career. Prior to Alexander he hadn't film since Any Given Sunday, released in 1999. in the time between those two films he was with the documentary films(s) about Fidel Castro Comandante and Looking for Fidel, and another documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict, Persona Non Grata.

While Any Given Sunday was probably economically mixed to good in the studio's eyes, Alexander bombed hard and fast. Oliver is in need of a boost and what better way to do it than direct one of the first studio films about the events and people of 09.11.01. When Oliver Stone was announced as director of WTC I was disappointed. I was hoping that he would make a film about terrorism and the issues that have come up in the years since then that would be the opposite of everything this new film World Trade Center seems to be. (I was thinking of something in the vein of Syriana or Traffic that would show the various sides and complex relationships of countries, religion, violence, etc etc.)