It's too soon, say tearful audiences at Sept 11 film trailer

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:45 pm

It's too soon, say tearful audiences at Sept 11 film trailer

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles

(Filed: 04/04/2006)

A trailer for the first big screen dramatisation of the September 11 terrorist attacks has prompted angry and emotional responses from American audiences and been pulled from at least one cinema.

Scenes from United 93, a real-time version of events on the hijacked plane which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew tackled the terrorists, were met by cries of "too soon" when the trailer was shown in Hollywood.

In New York, cinema-goers burst into tears and covered their eyes, leading the AMC Loews theatre on the Upper West Side to take the unusual step of pulling the trailer.

Kevin Adjodha, the cinema manager, told Newsweek: "One lady was crying. She was saying we shouldn't have [played the trailer]. That this was wrong Ã¢â‚¬¦ I don't think people are ready for this."

The Ã‚£8.6 million feature by British film-maker Paul Greengrass, the director of the Bourne Supremacy and Bloody Sunday, is seen as a critical test of whether America is ready to see films about the deadliest attacks on US soil. It comes before Oliver Stone's World Trade Centre, due out in August and starring Nicolas Cage, which focuses on two New York Port Authority officers who become trapped under the rubble of the Twin Towers.

Although a cable television film of the attacks, Flight 93, drew 5.9 million viewers in January, it remains to be seen whether Hollywood dramatisations will attract cinema audiences.

Universal, which is releasing United 93, is treading carefully, opening the film at this month's Tribeca film festival, which was founded by Robert De Niro in 2002 to help revitalise Lower Manhattan after September 11.

Relatives of the 40 passengers on the plane are expected to attend. All agreed to the project before it went to production and many see it as a fitting tribute. But the trailer, which shows passengers screaming as al-Qa'eda members hijack the plane, is proving too much for some.

Aida Sotelo, 47, who was close to the World Trade Centre on Sept 11, told the New York Daily News: "It's still hurtful to see. And it will always be too early for me."

Ã‚© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2006.

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:33 pm

Good Grief! Whatever happened to ethics and good taste?

Some people don't care who they stomp on, so long as they can 'make a buck'! :-5

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:54 pm

I myself am still affected whenever the event comes up in conversation. God knows, but I can only imagine what it is like at 'home'.

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:01 pm

i'm kind of surprised they waited this long...blood suckers.

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:26 pm

I am absolutely against Hollywood making blood money off of our fellow Americans lives.And wish there was a better way too keep this fresh in our minds.But we as a people get placid or numb too what has been too us.We need too keep this event in our minds every day until revenge is ours.On the week of the 11th,I sat out side my work on break at dusk and for two days straight the wind blew in a N/E direction and Carried the smoke and ashes of Americans over my head.If you knew me well enough you would know what that meant too me.And now i sense a passiveness about finding bin ladin and the whole thing.Less we let our guard down?I don't think so.There is no way too document this on film with out upsetting someone.One good thing is that they chose the story of common folk becoming heroes and taking a chance at there fate,It is truly American too go down swinging with all you got.

Never forget those who lost there lives that day and the ones who died trying too save them.We can best honer them uniting and fighting too keep there memory alive.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:38 pm

I saw this movie trailor last weekend when I went to the movies. The families of the victims are interviewed in the trailor. The ones interviewed where in agreement that the story of what happened on Flight 93 needed to be told.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:54 pm

Sheryl wrote: I saw this movie trailor last weekend when I went to the movies. The families of the victims are interviewed in the trailor. The ones interviewed where in agreement that the story of what happened on Flight 93 needed to be told.

This has already been done regarding the flight redirected to the White House. I watched the movie of it just a few weeks ago. It was sensitively done.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:16 pm

OpenMind wrote: This has already been done regarding the flight redirected to the White House. I watched the movie of it just a few weeks ago. It was sensitively done.

So are you saying Hollywood shouldn't be making the movie United 93. From what I saw, the families wanted it made.

I also found this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/movie ... 0f&ei=5087

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:57 am

Sheryl wrote: So are you saying Hollywood shouldn't be making the movie United 93. From what I saw, the families wanted it made.

I also found this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/movie ... 0f&ei=5087

As you say, Sheryl, it is the opinions of the bereaved families that matter most here. If anyone doesn't want to see the film, they don't need to go.

What I watched on TV was a great tribute to the passengers on the plane.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:15 am

OpenMind wrote: As you say, Sheryl, it is the opinions of the bereaved families that matter most here. If anyone doesn't want to see the film, they don't need to go.

What I watched on TV was a great tribute to the passengers on the plane.

Ohh ok OpenMind, I must have misunderstood you. I thought you were stating it didn't need to be made.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:38 am

Sheryl wrote: Ohh ok OpenMind, I must have misunderstood you. I thought you were stating it didn't need to be made.

No, the article I posted already states that the relatives were in agreement. I just wondered how other FG members felt about it.

SweetDarlin · Post by **SweetDarlin** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:10 am

Wow! I know they do this with all disasters. Big money in Hollywood. But... just reading about the trailer made me tear up. I'm notgoing to go to movies for a while... I don't want to see it. It will be too soon for a long, long time. At least until The bulk of the population (20-30 yr olds) were too young to remember it so vividly.

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:41 pm

JAB wrote: I heard on the news this morning driving in to work that a number of of theaters are starting to pull the trailers for this movie because of the complaints they were getting. It's going to be hard for the movie makers to get the word out otherwise.

Wonder who owns these theaters?That would interesting too find out.