This upcoming movie about Flight 93 from 9-11? I keep seeing previews for it and I am torn betweeen understanding and feeling like Hollywood is just trying to cash in on our still seemingly raw emotions.
I can still, at certain times, think and feel what 9-11 was like to me. The questions. The terror. The rage. All of it.
Are these the feelings that Hollywood wants to prey upon, or am I just jumping the gun here?
do tell........
Monday, April 17, 2006
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I feel a more interesting question night be where you were on that day. It is one of those flash bulb moments, I remember every detail. I don’t feel like a movie will make my memory any more real, in fact I feel that a representation of those events might just mud up those memories none of us can forget. But every body likes their history served in different ways, so I don’t condemn it I just have no interest in seeing it, yawn.
I’m an Unemployed Sweetheart, Ambrose
Yeah, I am right along the lines with you and I feel the same way. I am suprized I didnt mention that. It is one of those events where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing and you'll never forget it.
I was working as a painter at the time and the guy I was w orking with went on and on all day abotu how cool all of it was and it took every ounce of my being to avoid going off on him so I didnt get fired that day, but I still got a few good comments in. Man, he was such an asshole. I wonder where he is......
I was working as a Sales, Conference Services Manager at a hotel, and we actually had an FAA meeting in house that day(they cut there meeting short). the phone didn't ring everyone was watching tv.
I for one think we can do with out a dramatiztion of events that are already pretty godamn fucked. From what I have heard ( I watch mabye 1 hour of tv a month) it sounds like a propaganda machine to "remind" us why we are in a war in Iraq. Or its Hollywood proving once again it will sell their soles to get into our pockets.
I will NOT be seeing this movie. not a real big deal I have only seen like one non kid movie in the theater in the last 8 years.
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Agreed, Scott. And Pete, I think you might be on to something with the propaganda angle.
I was driving to work, which at the time was less than 15 minutes from home. About halfway there (around 9:00 Chicago time -- I was running late), I realized I had the car radio turned off, so I turned it on. Nothing unusual for the first couple minutes, then breaking news about a plane crash in Pennsylvania. Then they mentioned a plane (or two?) that had crashed into the WTC, and another that crashed into the Pentagon. That moment I thought: We're under attack!
A moment before, it was a beautiful morning. The air was clear, not a cloud in the sky. The previous week I had a terrible sinus infection with a high fever. I was finishing my course of antibiotics and was just starting to feel well.
My office is under an approach to Palwaukee Airport, and one thing I remember from that week was the absence of airplanes flying overhead.
the lack of planes was a bit erie. like half of the Chicago area we live under the approach of one airport or another.
Also the unidentified package alerts were a bit freaky.
September 11th was a very busy morning for me; I had got up extra early (4am) to finish a presentation I was due to give at around 10am. Our friend S had called while I was listening to Gorillaz to tell us of the first plane. I let P sleep; it was not worth getting her up for a tragic but still by appearance only accidental event. So I casually watched TV and worked on my presentation, and then the second plane hit. I now had the dilemma of how to wake P with out scaring the shit out of her. Ah sweetie you need to get up now, we’re under attack, why don’t you come see it on TV! With in moments my soon to be wife P was having a fit because we did not know where her dad was. She explained that he was traveling to New York that week but she did not know his itinerary. By this time I needed to leave for work, but there was no way I was leaving till we located him. Some how P’s dad with a nearly dead cell phone managed to sneak a call out of Manhattan, to P’s mom saying he was ok. (His story is very memorable, he saw all of it happen from a bus heading towards the TWC, the second plane hit shortly before the bus was to enter a tunnel and the passengers nearly mutinied. Sadly P’s dad lost a friend on that day. His friend was one of the many who did not make it out of the WTC on that morning. Coincidentally P’s dad had lunch with this same friend just the day before). Before either building fell I left P in tears and rode my bicycle down town to my place of employment. When I reach the office I found that no one was working so after watching the second building fall while watching the 13” TV in the conference room, I went home. If the day had not been so tarnished by such horrible events I think that ride from downtown to the apartment P and I shared, was likely one of the most peaceful, relaxing and fastest rides I ever experienced in the city. Elston Ave was even more desolate than Sunday morning. It was truly a surreal experience.
Thats a really interesting story Scott, thanks!
All right, I'll try to be brief. I was sleeping in and the phone rang. This total geek and goofball of a cameraman was returning a call and I needed to book him. I didn't want him to know I was still sleeping on a weekday at 9am, so when he asked if I'd heard the news about a plane crashing into the WTC I figured he just had on some weird AM news station, as is his way, and a tiny cessna had a freak accident. I told him I hadn't listened to the news yet that day. So I proceeded to negotiate his rate down for this upcoming shoot because I didn't have much money for it. Then I went into the bedroom and turned on CNN as the second plane hit. I woke Melissa up and we were of course astonished. I remembered thinking that America would never be the same again. The plane hit the Pentagon then Shanksville. That was freaky. I didn't realize that Shanksville was western PA so I had no idea how far it was from Philly.
Melissa and I have a bunch of friends who work downtown right next to the WTC and we were really freaked out. Many of them lost friends. One would have died, but he was taking his fiance to LaGuardia. The other ran from the dust cloud.
A couple of days later I called the cameraman about the job and offered to let him renegotiate the rate. I had no idea we were under such distress.
Another freaky thing. Melissa and I were married on 9/2/01. My relatives from LA had gone from our wedding to visit friends in Boston. They were on the Boston to LA flight 24 hours prior. They were one day off from tragedy.
Lastly, a guy I worked with at one TV studio did a bunch of travelling. He was going to LA with his wife for a vacation. They may have been connecting somewhere more exotic. Doesn't matter. They were flying out of DC, I believe. Anyhow, early morning 9/11 they were having coffee with people on a direct flight that later ended up in the Pentagon. He argued all morning with his wife to switch their flight from a one stop to that non stop. She wouldn't agree, and he got really pissed with her. He travelled so much he only preferred non stops, but she didn't want to be stuck on a plane that long or something. Had he won the argument he wouldn't have made it at all.
Those are my 9/11 stories. I'm sure we all have more. I do remember participating in the candle light vigil on the porch the next day. I never saw so many of my neighbors out at the same time. I do remember feeling particularly patriotic at that moment. I knew our world was forever altered, but I didn't know the direction the American response was going to go.
Guantanamo and Iraq are downright horrifying injust responses to a great injustice. On reflecting now, it's hard to believe how far I have swung back to frustration with our government after those days and weeks of unity. I was really ready to give GWB the benefit of the doubt. Four and a half years later and I'm less patriotic and just more scared about our situation. Not comforting. And yes Tippy, I'm a good little democrat, but this anger has been earned, not cast by party line.
this anger does not come from a party affiliation, I am a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, republican who feels that the people who are pulling dubya's strings are making him into a bit of a fascist, or at the very least an expansionist. I wonder what kind of president his brother will make? I supported the guy through alot of his early shenaningans, but the last few years have been tough. and now we are threatening to Nuke Iran.
Like we don't have enough muslims hating us.
I was at school, teaching (my very 1st year)-talk about a teachable but very scary moment.
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