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13:03 - Revisionism in Movies Post-Attacks
http://www.i-mockery.com/visionary/revision.asp
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This whole article is very good reading, but I certainly hope the first observation it makes is not true-- that Peter Jackson is under pressure to rename the second LotR movie from The Two Towers to avoid reminding people of the World Trade Center.
A quick glance through TheOneRing.net turns up no such rumors, but that's not definitive by any stretch.
I don't think it'll happen in any case. Jackson is from New Zealand, which means he won't have the same emotional connection to the WTC that we do. When he hears phrases like "Twin Towers", he probably thinks of the Petronas Towers before the WTC. (Actually he probably thinks of Isengard and Barad-dûr, and probably did before he ever took on this project.)
And he won't be getting this kind of pressure as time goes on, either. I would guess that later in the year, we won't be seeing this kind of insane desire to cover up the past. I predict that starting in about two or three years, the movie execs will have noticed a change in the air, and we'll suddenly get all kinds of movies about terrorism, New York, and terrorism in New York-- and watch, they'll spend millions of dollars to set them pre-2001 and digitally ADD the World Trade Center towers back in. You just watch.
Right after the attacks, a friend and I noted that we'll probably never see the Simpsons episode "
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" again, and that the guy selling Khlau Kalash in the plaza between the towers was now gone. No more crab juice for Homer. Only Mountain Dew.
But I suspect we'll be seeing that episode again soon. Maybe not this month or next, but by the end of the year. I hope it comes sooner rather than later, and same with the terrorism movies and the WTC imagery.
Because we need to get people desensitized so their delicate sensibilities won't be offended when The Two Towers comes out for Christmas.
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