- Having been a Hollywood scriptwriter for several years,
penning cinematic masterpieces that have yet to see the light of day (normal
for scriptwriters), I often wonder what makes a great movie. Acting? Directing?
Special effects? As a writer, I'm convinced the story and how it develops
character is the most important element.
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- When Hollywood finally makes "911-The Movie,"
will the story ooze patriotic excess, or will it tell the true account
of massive government complicity? Will viewers see the criminal confederacy
of dunces portrayed as a band of incompetents and accessories to a crime,
or will the film focus solely on acts of heroism, of which there were many?
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- Not long ago, Michael Savage accused Hollywood of an
"anti-Christian" bias. "Why hasn't liberal Hollywood made
a movie about 9/11?" he rasped.
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- Four years later, you have to wonder. Are the big Hollywood
producers and directors--Jerry Bruckheimer, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg,
Michael Bay, Ridley Scott--closely inspecting the scripts for just the
right blend of action, suspense and individual acts of heroism, while deleting
altogether the details of complicity between government agencies, the dereliction
of duty between high officials, the suspicious actions of Israeli "allies,"
the curious aspect of building collapses, and the inconvenient aspect of
Muslim hijackers who never appeared on passenger lists?
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- Yes, emphatically.
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- Could Hollywood make a true account of the events of
911? Could anyone in Hollywood, even Mel Gibson, make a movie close to
the truth?
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- Call me cynical, but I very much doubt it. Too many obstacles
in the way. You see, Hollywood would have few qualms of toppling the Trade
Towers again. The film would be an enormous box office success. Indeed,
"911-The Movie" would be the biggest blockbuster to come out
of Hollywood since the Titanic. That movie cost in excess of $200 million
to make and grossed $900 million worldwide.
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- When Hollywood finally makes this movie"only a matter
of time"how much will the American viewer be permitted to see? Will
we see Minnesota FBI agent, Coleen Rowley, a more efficient version of
fictional FBI agent Scully, inform her superiors in Washington of suspicious
flight school students? Will we hear Rowley's remark: "Minnesota agents
became so frustrated by roadblocks erected by terrorism supervisors in
Washington that they began to joke that FBI headquarters was becoming an
unwitting accomplice to Osama bin Laden's efforts to attack the United
States?" Will we see Rowley at all?
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- Not likely.
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- Will we see our president informed of the probability
of attacks from the sky, by Condi Rice at the ranch in Crawford, one month
before it happened? Not likely.
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- Will we see the curious, unexplicable collapse of WTC-7?
Not likely.
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- Will we see a 757 smacking into the Pentagon and disappearing
completely? Not likely.
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- Will we see swarthy hijackers being checked and verified
for pre-boarding, their names and ID cards matched to reservations? Not
likely.
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- Will we see dancing Israelis celebrating in Liberty State
Park; will we see them stopped and arrested by police? Not likely.
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- Will we see swarthy skyjackers planning the horrific
crime? Yes, of course. Will we see them at strip clubs, spouting fanatical
slogans and harassing strippers? Yes, of course. Will we watch them pack
those box cutters with care? Yes, definitely.
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- If Tom Clancy were to write the script--after all Clancy
has already written TWO books about pilots crashing fuel-laden planes into
government buildings and killing the president"and James Cameron were
to direct this blockbuster, it couldn,t fail. Of course, the 19 hijackers
in this movie will be as two-dimensional as those cardboard villains in
Cameron,s, "True Lies," a movie glorifying the destructive power
of smashing a fighter plane into a tall building.
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- Not long after the attack on 9/11, Hollywood scriptwriters
were asked to suggest worst-case scenarios regarding possible future attacks.
Anybody with a little imagination could have predicted the WTC attack well
before it happened. Indeed the whole scenario was predicted in detail in
The
Lone Gunmen's "Pilot" Episode six month's before the towers
allegedly collapsed.
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- Pascal wrote: "diversion amuses us, and leads us
unconsciously to death." The Hollywood movie version of the 911 attack
will avoid all the uncomfortable discrepancies that knowledgeable people
on the Internet know so well. Instead, the three-hour movie would focus
on the firefighters, those heroic but betrayed rescuers. The movie will
focus on those four doomed fellows that fought to regain control of Flight
93. But instead of showing that plane shot out of the sky, according to
witnesses, "911-The Movie" will show the plane exploding in a
fireball on the ground moments after Todd Beamer yells, "Let's roll!"
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- While New Yorkers live in denial of the actual events
of 911, the movie will do nothing to clarify the truth. The actual images
of buildings collapsing, spewing dust clouds toward the viewer, will only
serve to further cloud the truth of what happened that day. This tremendously
profitable but duplicitous movie cannot help but be government propaganda.
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- The truth will set us free, but it's scary as hell sometimes.
Instead, special effects serve in place of moral lessons. And doomed heroes
who sacrifice themselves serve the government interests. No sign of those
NORAD fighter jets but many images of American flags will appear in the
movie.
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- Visually stunning, the movie will garner many Oscar nominations.
With the profitable release of "911-The Movie," the rest of the
world can watch our doomed heroes--Matt Damon or Ben Affleck or George
Clooney--perform heroically. They can relive how America was insidiously
attacked that day; they can acknowledge the justification of all our wars
against "terror" in the Middle East.
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- And the movie will be a great lie. A splendid,
spectacular lie.
- Indeed, I fully expect the movie to garner many
Oscars, win many
- individual awards, but fully obscure the truth.
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- Amateur historian and USAF veteran, Douglas Herman writes
regularly for Rense and is the author of The Guns of Dallas. Contact him at douglasherman7@yahoo.com
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