Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Nicolas Cage , Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal , Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff , Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon
Genre: Drama
Length: 129 minutes Production
: USA 2006
Plot: A ticking of a clock marking the time. Everything moves in New York, working, smiling, lives. Suddenly a dull sound, mute. Start the hell. JJ Mc Loughlin (Nicholas Cage), head of port police officers, entered the towers to save the thousands of people trapped in the World Trade Center. The unforgiving minute run. Unexpected, a terrifying roar shakes them. The first tower collapses. After several minutes the second. Mc Loughlin and Jimeno are trapped agent under the rubble, with no way out. This is the true story of their September 11, 2001. "God bless America." Yes, "God bless the United States." This is Oliver Stone's vision of that terrible day, indelible in the minds of all Americans. On 11 September was, in fact the only "act of war" perpetrated on U.S. soil. The film, based on the stories of two policemen who survived, told the human and universal than people injured (the iconic aerial photograph of Manhattan, with smoking, such as blood, which comes from the towers) and represents the darkness of the rubble of the Twin Towers, as if it were in the jungles of Vietnam, which Stone has experienced first hand. Nicholas Cage is not very far by those soldiers who, to defend their country, they were getting into something greater than themselves. The terrible moments in the darkness, the dirt on the faces, the rubble, are opposed to the celestial brightness of the faces of families waiting (Maria Bello in the film Mc Loughlin's wife, has for the first time blue eyes) and memories that go quickly before the eyes of the characters, to tell us not to go to hell you must have a guardian angel. This parallel system, sometimes mannered, reduces the emotional impact, which is still very strong for the effective interpretation of Nicholas Cage and Michael Peña.World Trade Center is the manifestation of what has been for a people that day, American, which attaches great importance to the values \u200b\u200bof friendship, love and family. And Oliver Stone is, even before being a filmmaker, a U.S. citizen.
Scorcucchi Francesca (Il Mattino)
will be a work of collective passion, a deep meditation on what happened that day, full of compassion. American will be the exploration of heroism and humanity of the world in the face of tragedy. " Oliver Stone's comments on his latest film, whose production began a few days ago in New York, one of the most anticipated films and feared the recent history of Hollywood: the film Sept. 11, whose output was announced on July 11 and August 11 which will be released next year. The number eleven occurs with alarming paroxysm. This is just a combination? Certainly it's no coincidence the decision to release the film a month before the fifth anniversary of the most painful tragedy in American history. "The film would never be able to leave on the day of the anniversary to avoid giving the impression of wanting to exploit the event," he told 'Variety' Wayne Lewellen, head of Paramount studios, which will produce the film. The delicacy of the subject meant that the first shooting was preceded by months of meetings with the New York community and the families the victims. Scenes the collapse of the towers will also turn away from New York, in large warehouses at Paramount in Los Angeles. The real images of that day will pass only in television sets, placed against the background of some scenes. Managers have promised utmost respect and attention on a subject so delicate. "It will not be in style" Titanic "or" Towering Inferno, '"said executive producer Michael Shamberg, but relatives of the hundreds of victims are not entirely certain of the goodness of the initiative. "I hope you will use a certain effect, although I do not know how they will avoid offending the sensibilities of those who, like me, were directly affected," said the New York Times' Lee Ielpo, who lost his son in the attack firefighter. The film will star Oscar winner Nicolas Cage, does not have a title. What is known is that it tells the story of two police officers, John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, who were pulled alive from the rubble last of the World Trade Center. Cage will play Sgt McLoughlin of the Port Authority, who spent 24 hours with Mr Jimeno before being saved. Then they cried to the miracle of miracles, and now John and William are told by the director who best knew how to paint the other crucial moments in recent American history, the director of "Platoon," "Born on July 4" and "JFK." "Maybe someone will suffer but it was time that tell the story of people who were at the World Trade Center the day of the attack - said the real Sergeant McLoughlin - That tragedy prompted the Americans and people around the world to work together to help those who needed help '. Jennifer Brown, was responsible for rebuilding Ground Zero in Los Angeles, is sure that "As soon as people realize that what we want to do is just tell a particular story, that the officers McLoughlin and Jimeno, then we will support." Stone's film was the first starting with the shooting, but will not be the first to appear on the big screen. Flight 93, directed by Paul Greengrass, the director of Bloody Sunday (the film that told a different dramatic story, the one on the 1972 Irish protest that ended with a massacre by British troops) is set for release in April or perhaps May, tells "Variety" at the Cannes Film Festival. The project, in fact, does not require long lead time, only forty-day shoot to tell in real time, ninety minutes, what happened on the fourth plane hijacked that fateful morning in 2001, that crashed in a Pennsylvania field after an act of courage on the part of passengers. The film begins as the story of the hijacking to proceed with the discovery by some passengers through the phone, that other planes had been hijacked that morning and were launched against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The news did take passengers to the heroic decision to sacrifice their lives and bring down the plane before it could reach Washington. The script of Flight 93, which currently sees only the young actress cast in the Canadian Meghan Heffern, will be partly improvised and Greengrass provides for the use of cameras in hand to give the film a more realistic cut. "I think sometimes - says the director - looking as clearly and objectively as possible to a single event, you can find in its folds something very precious, something much bigger than the event itself: the DNA of our times '.
Lietta Tornabuoni (La Stampa)
The tragedy of 11 September 2001, the air attack on the Twin Towers in New York and killed over 3,000 people, Oliver Stone has done with World Thade Center (out of competition) a film without terrorism, no plots, without emphasis, without politics (there is a moment that Bush made his telediscorso the nation but no one notices, is like an ashtray). A patriotic film and not the presidential or government, inspired by the American myths of heroism: individualism, altruism, defending his family. In the film the attack seems like a natural disaster, an earthquake. No hero is taking up or bursts, no flag waving. Pinned by the weight of the debris falls on them, two men can do only what is allowed to remain alive in our time por: keep awake, to resist. If there is a film to which World Trade Center in some way resembles, it's The Red Badge of Courage by John Huston, based on the novel by Stephen Crane. The film is then archetypal as an illustration by Norman Rockwell. And 'the dawn rose in New York, in homes ringing the alarm, the men of the port police get up to go to work, the city is empty, quiet and bright. Later came the news, the cops Bard in a hurry with helmets, backpacks, bottles, seen from the window of the bus survivors, the wounded, smoke, fog and dust. On the spot, they hear the roar of other collapses. Not all volunteers are proposed to save the hit. Indeed, few people follow the sergeant. Still, up to two (Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena) are victims of aftershocks, landslides, fire, rubble paralyzed, they can only talk to each other in the dark, suffering from thirst and lack of air, hope to be saved. Their images alternate with those of households waiting for them trying not to give in to despair. One of the buried thinks she sees the ghost of Jesus women (blonde, brown, black and white) will save abbracciano.Li, with many difficulties. Authority makes a speech: "This incident has highlighted that there are men ready to help other people only because it is a good thing. " The dramatic instinct of Oliver Stone calibrates the time very well, his skill as a director makes the initial part of the film very effective. Sometimes exaggerated, you know. Invent a character symbolic too: a young marine, tall and strong in uniform walking alone in the rubble with the authority of a saint, feels the calls of buried alive, it directs the recovery and walks away, goes to Iraq, where even "Men are smart." But the discouragement of the director for the dead and the living sounds sincere, not offensive: the controversy of some combination of blacks who had accused Oliver Stone had used a white actor instead of black seems to fall. The quality of players we can say little, except insofar as the acceptance of real estate play in the dark is not even that, a quality.
And now it's up to me: Apart from the criticism of Stephen and the scene of the "water vision" to me this film is not sorry, of course, very good Nicolas Cage.
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