\u201cTHE HOLOCAUST IS ABOUT six million people who get killed,\u201d Stanley Kubrick reportedly said to screenwriter Frederic Raphael in the late 90s. \u201cSchindler\u2019s List was about 600 people who don\u2019t.\u201d Assuming the quote is right, Kubrick\u2019s speaking about the Holocaust in the present tense and about a movie made half a century later in the past tense suggests something about his priorities.<\/p>\n
They probably aren\u2019t the priorities of Oliver Stone, whose ruthlessly circumscribed World Trade Center isn\u2019t about the 2,749 citizens of 87 countries who got killed in the 9\/11 assault on the Twin Towers and who are mentioned only in a title when the movie\u2019s over. It\u2019s about two citizens of one of those countries who survived, John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, both real-life Port Authority policemen. The story of what they experienced is gripping and inspiring, but however true it is to their lives\u2014it\u2019s hard to imagine any two men on the planet could be as conventional as the filmmakers make these heroes\u2014the way it\u2019s told restricts what the movie can say about the larger tragedy. \u2026 \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At The Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum weighs in on World Trade Center: \u201cTHE HOLOCAUST IS ABOUT six million people who get killed,\u201d Stanley Kubrick reportedly said to screenwriter Frederic Raphael in the late 90s. \u201cSchindler\u2019s List was about 600 people who don\u2019t.\u201d Assuming the quote is right, Kubrick\u2019s speaking about the Holocaust in the present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1165,1981],"class_list":["post-18992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-jonathan-rosenbaum","tag-world-trade-center"],"yoast_head":"\n
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