World Now Safe For 9-11 In Movies
Today's release of War of the Worlds, which inserts images that recall the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks into perhaps the most commercial movie of the summer, signals that it's now officially safe for Hollywood to start invoking the tragedy without inspiring outrage or protests from those still coping with psychic wounds. In fact, it's now so safe that even the director of The Fast and the Furious is now free to tie 9-11 into his new movie about a robot plane that gains a mind of its own when struck by lightning. From the LAT:
Rob Cohen, the director of July 29's "Stealth," says his film wouldn't even exist had it not been for the Sept. 11 attacks. "There is a fear now that there is an invisible enemy that is all over the place," the director said. "And we have to come up with a technological answer to this new reality."
Oh, now we see—Stealth is about the invisible spectre of terrorism in the post-9-11 age, and wasn't merely the third, half-jokey thing on some writer's pitch list: "Hey, it's Top Gun meets Short Circuit, but instead of an adorable robot getting hit by lightning, it's going to be a plane with the capability to nuke the world. Also, Jamie Foxx instead of Steve Guttenberg."
