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February 21, 2006
Stone, 9/11 and carry on doing what you love
in Bangkok, the Beeb's Neil Smith listens in as Oliver Stone explains his "austere" World Trade Center: "Speaking at the Bangkok International Film Festival, Stone called the feature a "24-hour document" in the lives of two New York Port Authority officers who became trapped under the rubble... "It's an investigation into how they survived - how they mentally made it under those terrible conditions... [It's] a very austere, technical attempt to be realistic about what happened - to show it as it really was"... When asked whether the world in general and America in particular was ready for a drama about the 9/11 attacks, the director was dismissive. "I would hate that to be the main question about the movie, though I sense that is what's going to happen... I'm not in the business of knowing whether America is ready. You just hope it will be... I'm not the only director who has had to deal with rejection, failure and defeat... But either you get a gun, load it and shoot yourself in the head, or you carry on doing what you love."
Posted by pride at February 21, 2006 02:10 PM
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