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August 09, 2006
Stone unturned: Oliver S. on WTC
A few words about iconography and how historical events are best observed once they're over in my interview with Oliver Stone over at MCN. We talked a few weeks before World Trade Center's decidedly diverse opening day reviews. Why such a confined story following just a few characters? "[T]here was a script and once I came aboard, I, I, promised and delivered that I would shoot the parameters of this script. We would try to improve things inside the script, but this was the script. It was twenty-four hours, and the script was written. The style of the film was a subjective style, we would follow these five people. So we’re inside, John [McLoughlin] and Will [Jimeno]. Neither John or Will saw the planes hit, ergo Will felt a brief shadow on the wall at 42nd Street there [in an early scene in the movie]. You have to follow those [events]. They saw the buildings fall from within and the wives only saw the television [coverage], and presumably saw the building fall, and I wanted to explain what the fall inside looked like from the outside. It wasn’t necessary to show the plane, which is an incredible shot, true, but it’s like the Zapruder film, y’know, it just wasn’t necessary, to the, we know, it’s said repeatedly that the plane has struck the building." [More at the link, of course.]
Posted by Ray Pride at August 9, 2006 08:35 PM
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