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April 03, 2006
Flight 93: the movie
All entries on United 93 here.
The movie about Flight 93 will premier at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25th. It will open nationwide April 28th.
Joining the filmmakers and Festival founders at the premiere will be family members who lost loved ones aboard the United Airlines Flight 93, as well as other 9/11 groups and family organizations and first responders whose lives were forever altered on that day.. . . .“The events of 9/11 had a massive effect on me, like everyone, and I wanted to use my position as a filmmaker to contribute something so they are not casually forgotten,” stated [director Paul] Greengrass. “United 93 tells one story of that morning and I hope that by showing the film at Tribeca, whose roots and inspiration grew in response to the devastation of 9/11, we will be reminded of the courage of all those on board and also the thousands of men and women who confronted similarly unimaginable scenarios in New York and Washington. By honoring the families who lost those they loved, I hope we can ensure that their sacrifice is remembered and hopefully seek wisdom in the future.”
There's an interactive site with a trailer and a message board. (All manner of conspiracy trolls are already swarming the message board; it's a cesspool in there.) There is a graphic of the flight route whose milestones migrate to the right side of the screen and become a clickable timeline.
All the families whose relatives were killed on that flight gave consent for the filming. The director's statement is about as far from Munich-style equivocation as you can get. He points out that because Flight 93 was delayed for 45 minutes, the passengers and crew got to hear about the attack on the World Trade Center during their own hijacking.
As a result, the forty passengers and crew on board Flight 93 were the first to inhabit our new and terrifying post 9-11 world.The terrible dilemma those passengers faced is the same we have been struggling with ever since. Do we sit passively and hope this all turns out okay? Or do we fight back and strike at them before they strike at us? And what will be the consequences if we do?
Let's roll.
Judith | 04/03/06 at 12:58 PM | Categories: NYC
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Comments
Great, a whole movie based on an exploited tragedy with millions of loopholes and a phantom plane that leaves no wreckage.
interesting | April 15, 2006 02:41 AM
I don't know where you got the idea there was no wreckage from the plane - you can see photos of it here.
Judith Weiss | April 15, 2006 02:56 AM
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