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I am having a lot of trouble conceiving of the fact that the WTC towers are simply gone. They don’t exist any more. I can’t wrap my mind around that idea. I’ve only been to NYC once in my life, in 1979, so I wasn’t used to seeing them every day; but I still can’t deal with the thought.
I was thinking last night of how ubiquitous the towers are in our cultural representations of NYC, especially in entertainment. Perhaps even more than the Empire State Building, thoughts of the Manhattan skyline seem to be dominated by the towers. So many movies that take place in NYC contains a helicopter shot flying in over the southern end of Manhattan, so the WTC is one of the first things you see.
What will these movies and TV shows look like to us in the future? Think about the remake of “King Kong,” the tidal wave scene in “Deep Impact,” and other movies where they plan an important role. I couldn’t help thinking that we may never again see the “Simpsons” episode, “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson,” where the towers play such an important comedic role.
It just is too strange for me to think aboutclearly.
I rented “The Matrix” last night to get away from the news coverage. Mrs K got to drool over Keanau, I got to drool over Carrie-Ann Moss. Everybody’s happy. A very short scene showed the destroyed New York skyline of the “real world”. There were the World Trade Center towers, half knocked down. Kinda creepy.
IIRC, in the movie A.I., the characters of David and Gigolo Joe travel to Manhattan. They pass by a submerged Statute of Liberty (only the torch is sticking out above the waterline), and in the background, the partially submerged twin towers of the World Trade Center can be seen.
Even if the show hadn’t been cancelled, I’m sure we will never, ever see a rerun of the premiere episode of The X Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen. If you missed it, the premise involved a plot to seize control of a commercial passenger jet and crash it into the World Trade Center. This is one coincidence that really, truly freaks me out.
As a correction, the NY Mets logo does not have the WTC on it, since it predates the building. A list of buildings is given on the NY Mets History timeline (on their website) for November 16, 1961.
I have to admit, I had one of those “stupid-things-flashing-through-your head-in-a-momment-of-tragedy” things when I first heard the news. As the rest of my brain scrambled to absorb the full impact, the quicker, more efficent pop-culture section thought: “what will they do about the Spiderman movie?”
(For those that missed it, the KEY image in the trailer is of a giant spider web between the two towers, with a heliocopter caught up in it.)
“Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego” features an animated tableau of the NYC skyline including the towers. The episode I watched this morning (not having watched the show in years) included a film shot of the twin towers in one of the geography lesson vignettes.
Not to mention the openings of the Late Show with David Letterman and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart prominently feature NYC and the WTC. I think the WTC are even in the background on Dave’s set.
In the movie, Godspell, the song, “It’s All For The Best,” is performed on top of one of the WTC towers. IIRC, in the movie version of The Wiz, there’s a scene set in the WTC as well.
There is a scene in The Wiz. The WTC is The Emerald City.
Driving home on Tuesday and listening to the news reports on the radio about the towers collapsing, I (oddly, considering the situation) thought of The Wiz and also the remake of King Kong–I suppose because I saw these movies as a child and one or the other was the first time I remember seeing the WTC.
Sony Pictures has pulled the trailer and teaser posters for the new Spider-Man movie because the towers appear in them. I think they’ll edit the final film to omit the towers.
I watched this one again, having forgotten about it until now. Someone has taken radio control of a jet and intends on crashing it into one of the towers. In fact it heads approximately towards the area where the second tower was hit. At the last second, the pilots regain control and miss the tower, only scraping an antenna. A pity life couldn’t imitate art this time.
What exactly is the point of recutting or digitally editing completed films to remove images of the WTC? Other than, of course, allowing filmmakers to score phony sensitivity points? Are we going to have a new TV rating box or something, “WTC–warning, the following movie may contain images of the World Trade Center”?
Well Gee Otto, I don’t know, maybe to- well, perhaps it might- it would be possible- WE WON’T NEED TO BE REMINDED OF IT EVERY TIME WE GO TO THE CINERAMA TO ESCAPE FROM THE EVENTS OF OUR DAILY LIVES! There’s a time for stepping back and being aware. That time is now, that time is for until we are ready as a country. These are movies and tv shows about to be released in a month or two when wounds are just begining to heal for some people.
If it involved just regular people, we would call it tact.
Should hollywood be above or beyond tact?