World Trade Center

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poorfrances said:

It says it's a "true story." I presume then that the Nic Cage character and the other guy die, because no one was rescued from the rubble, were they?

Actually, I read that the story is about 2 survivors.

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poorfrances said:

It says it's a "true story." I presume then that the Nic Cage character and the other guy die, because no one was rescued from the rubble, were they?

If it's from the story I recall from Dateline several years ago, a group of fireman? cops? were on their way out of the building when they heard the rumbling of the building coming down. They were in a stairwell and did their best to take refuge—knowing they were going to die. As luck would have it, the stairwell was unscathed and the group of them survived. Not sure how many though.

I watched the trailer the other day and, at the beginning, was squicked out by Nicolas Cage's dialect and his wooden acting. But then they started showing the interior of how the concourse used to look (I don't know if it was archive footage or if Stone CGI'd it)—and I lost it.

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I saw this yesterday. I thought it was a very good movie. the theater was about 1/2 full, and you could have heard a pin drop. I went to see it mainly because it was about the 2 survivors, and that it would be more optimistic.

Both of the leads were very good, how the 2 men found the strength to survive is a wonder. They were #s 18 and 19, out of the 20 found alive.

My SIL informed me that the character of Kearns, the marine who went to help and was one of the rescuers who found them, was IRL a black man who read about the movie and called Oliver Stone to tell him he had made a slight error.

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A friend of mine just saw this and is telling me I HAVE to see it.

Maybe the trailers have ruined it for me but it just bugs me how self-aware the movie seems. Is that just the trailers or is the movie that way too?

It's particularly the camera shot from the ground up to Nicholas Cage marching into the building with all of his men behind him. Or when he's like "Who will follow me!" and the one guy bravely steps forward and is like "I will!"

I don't know, I mean, yes it's amazing that they did what they did and survived to tell about it but that day was so crazy and I feel like people were just in this rush to get stuff done and no one really stopped to think "My! This is an exceptionally brave and heroic thing I am about to do! I am a brave brave hero!"

And the trailer totally gives me that "We are brave brave heros!" feeling. Which they ARE but I don't think they realized that they were right at that moment.

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NC spent most of the movie buried up to his neck in the rubble. Michael Pena also was covered in concrete and dust. That is the least of it. I do not know how much I should tell, in case others want to see it. I know it has been out for awhile, so it would not be spoiling the movie.

Even going into the concourse they were all scared. No one was thinking about being a hero. But I feel they are just as much heroes, for putting themselves in danger. No one knew that day that the towers were going to come down. They survived, which is what this movie is about.