911 - The Movie
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By Douglas Herman
10-24-5
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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.
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?
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.
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?
Yes, emphatically.
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.
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?
Not likely.
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.
Will we see the curious, unexplicable collapse of WTC-7? Not
likely.
Will we see a 757 smacking into the Pentagon and disappearing
completely? Not likely.
Will we see swarthy hijackers being checked and verified for
pre-boarding, their names and ID cards matched to reservations?
Not likely.
Will we see dancing Israelis celebrating in Liberty State Park;
will we see them stopped and arrested by police? Not likely.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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