Everything After - A 9.11 Youth Circle - hollywood vs. rememberence

I wouldn't see that movie and I think that there should be an appropaite amount of time before any such movie is made. I think if people want to make a movie in 60 years, that's better than a movie in the near future, but I am opposed to the telemovie (by CBS) about the crash in Pennsylvania, because it seems like it is too soon and we shouldn't hurt each other so directly for $. A lot of people were angry when Pearl Harbor came out because of how they remembered Dec. 7th 1941 and those people thought it was inappropraite to make a movie of such an awful event. True, a movie can help memorialize and give meaning to a horrible event, but that is not always the case in Hollywood, whose main goal is to make $.
It's also a matter of perspective. Many Japanese-Americans were angry at Pearl Harbor because it depicted Japanese badly (i don't know much about that, i haven't seen the movie, but i read about this issue). what happens if a movie is made that shows people in a less than-perfect-light? People again will get angry, which isn't necassarily bad (we shouldn't avoid confrentation) but it doesn't seem right or neciassary to depict someone living's loved one in a bad manner for box office recipts.
Overall, I don't see why anyone would want to see a movie about 9/11, so why make one, but i think there are bigger fish to fry.

I saw Pearl Harbor, and I felt it was done well. One has to remember that Hollywood will always stretch the truth in order to create a dramatic mood that will bring people to the theatres. When The Perfect Storm (George Clooney played the leading role) was made, the family of those depicted in the film was deeply offended on the way Clooney's character did not portray that of the real person. Hollywood will always change certain facts; that's why the nonfictional movies have that disclaimer "BASED on a true story". But getting back to the point, I think I would see a 9/11 movie, especially if the director tries to make it as historically accurate as possible, and in good taste. I think movies allow for those who are detached from the event at the time to have that intimate feeling of understanding how horrible that day really was, if you know what i mean.

Honestly, I don't think it would be a good idea, nor would I go see it, as there is no way to truly portray the horror of that day without cheapening it and making it romaniticised. Let us review newsreel footage, documentaries that were created (like that one on CBS about the firefighters) and word of mouth stories. Hollywood would try to put a plot to the day, when we all know there was none. Better to leave it as it was: senseless and a once ever event. To try to put a romance in there would be diabolical, if you asked me.

I don't think a movie would be all that bad. You make it sound like Hollywood is all bad people. I agree that for the most part it would be for the money, but I think a movie could be made. For instance, Pearl Harbor, I am too young to have been there and although it was a terrible part of our history. Myself along with others do not read the books, documentaries, or other news footage. Instead I watched the movie, although it may not have been 100% accurate it did a nice job of portraying the general truth. I think it is important for the generations to come that a movie is made about September 11th. Right now it may sound a little ridiculous, but I think for the benefit of all it should be done. I would go see the movie. I think that there would be wrong ways to do a movie, but if done properly could turn out to be a part of our history. Hey you can't please everybody, but a lesson can be taught by a movie and through the tragedies that occoured.

I think that a movie can be made but in many many yrs rite now or in the near future is far too soon people are not over what has happened. There are many who are still healing from what has happened and to make a movie out of the events that has taken place would make the whole event real for them. I believe that movies create the real picture there are lots of fiction in it but some of the feelings that the people are going through aren't. In my opinion its just to soon we still arent' over everything that has happened.

But here's the problem: At that point, Sep 11th will be only a memory to us and a historical date for the kids to remember. Most of the people I know who saw Pearl Harbor (I refuse to see it on philosophical grounds) thought that it wasn't very good as a historical movie. Several of them said it had nothing really to do with Pearl Harbor - it was all about the mayhem.

With our own generation so desensitised to violence, how much more so will our children be? What levels will they have to leap to to keep our children's attention? You know what they'll do? They'll *have* to add in historically inaccurate things just to keep the audience watching. THAT's why they shouldn't make a movie.