it sounds as though the fact that Stone is directing, being a known liberal, is what is really bothering many of you. Am I right?
I don't believe that political party or view has anything to do with this. As said in several of my posts in this thread : No one, including these widows is denying that a movie should be made and no one, more than these widows want their husbands to be honored and the world to know what true heros that they were.
But these widows want the truth to be told, and they want their husbands stories to be told the way things really happened, and only wanted a say on how they are going to be portrayed. They weren't ever looking to stop this movie, they just asked the consultants on this movie along with Mr. Stone to allow them, the wives, to give their input on how their husbands would be portrayed in the movie, that's all. And these consultants along with Mr. Stone flat out denied them.
If anyone else was involved in this project, would you feel differently?
Again, for the reasons given by these two widows, I don't think it matters to them who does this movie. The truth is all they really want told.
A&E showed two movies on 9/11 - one about the last hour of Flight 11 and another about Flight 93 earlier this year. I watched both, even though the content was difficult and extremely emotional. I don't remember any uproar on these boards or in the media about those movies.
That's because these two movies were done truthfully and with respect to the families involved as to make sure that the true story was told.
To trash the Stone movie before it has even come out is silly.
To you maybe, and maybe to me also. At first these two woman weren't even allowed to see the script. Now finally these two widows somehow were able to see some of the content about their husbands written in the original script and they obviously are objecting to the way that Stone & co. are going to portray their husbands. And again, Stone KNOWING that these two widows asked for the truth about their husbands to be told, decided to basically say to them " too bad " and is going to disreagerd their input and decided to portray them
his way. With this being the case I don't think that these two widows are being "silly." here.
But if there are those who are protesting this film solely on the basis that a liberal like Stone made it, I don't understand that rationale.
I agree with that in general. But that is not the case here as to why these two widows are protesting his film.
Would that mean the same people would find the movie acceptable if, instead of Stone, a neo-Con was the director? What if, God forbid, Hannity or Limbaugh started making films - would it be ok if they made a 9/11 film?
I f a neo-con, Hannity or Limbaugh were the one(s) making this film and REFUSED to allow these two widows to give their husband's stories to them, then NO, it would not be ok for them to make this film either.
All it comes down to here is that the two widows who lost their husbands, do not feel, according to what was written in the script, that Stone is telling the true story about their husbands. And quite frankly, I don't understand for the life of me why many of you here, not all, but many, still cannot comprehend the fact that these two widows are not PRE-Judging Stone's film without knowing the content. They KNOW the content and the KNOW that what is going to be shown is NOT factual as far as the portrayal of their own husbands.
Jimeno disputed Pezzulo's account, saying she told him she did not like the movie but would not go public if the account was truthful. Obviously Mrs. Pezzulo and Mrs. Amoroso do not feel, by what they've been shown and may have been told, that the portrayal of their husbands, in STONE'S movie, is not a truthful account.
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