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Starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña, the film is based on the experience of a team of New York City police officers during the September 11 attacks, in which they were trapped inside the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center.
Aug 8, 2006 · “World Trade Center” is about two men who, against all odds, survived the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. It combines fragments of two movies — the one that Stone describes above, and the other that Cal Thomas flips over.
Sep 8, 2021 · A year after Thomas dies in the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oskar finds a key in Thomas’ closet. Oskar sets out to discover what the key had to do with his father. In doing so, he...
Aug 1, 2024 · On Tuesday 11 September 2001 suicide attackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. The attack remains one of the most traumatic...
- Moral Ambiguity
- The Terrorist and The Hero
- Freedom and Victory?
In a time of increasingly complex geopolitical entanglements and moral failings, these films articulate a yearning for unsullied heroism, effective leadership and appropriate responses to crises. The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 initially found widespread support in the US. In October 2001, a poll found that 88% of those in the...
The figure of the terrorist has also evolved in post-9/11 cinema. In the 1980s and 1990s, terrorists that were coded as Muslim or Arabic in films like True Lies existed alongside the Germanic villains of Die Hard or the IRA man found in films like The Devil’s Own and The Crying Game. Yet after 9/11, terrorism is mainly equated with jihadism in Holl...
The attack on the World Trade Center is one of the most significant events of the 21st century. So much so that it is used as a generational marker, distinguishing millennials from Generation Zin terms of whether or not one remembers the event directly. Perhaps it’s appropriate, then, that even the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with its predominantly ...
On the morning of Sept. 11, the real Feinberg learned about the attack in stages: He saw the aftermath of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center on a TV in a common area at the...
Dec 3, 2009 · On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center became the target of a massive terrorist attack that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people. The disaster also radically altered the skyline of...
