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[Tsakara]

[TROUT]What?

[cecil_and_kain]

For every smart person, there are three stupid ones. It's about a monster.
Not terrorists.

[OliMango]

I'd trout you, but I don't feel like doing what you should have done in the first place: Search.

[guerra001]

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[Headman]

[cecil_and_kain]

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[overfiction]

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[guerra001]

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[cecil_and_kain]

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[Roe]

(not sure what thread to post in)

I recommend reading the Official Production notes for the movie.

The movie is indeed based off and tied into the tragedy that is 9/11, and other events. The director/producers say, however, they don't try to exploit it and are sensitive to it.

The production notes spend a good amount of space talking about it.

Quote:

While the filmmakers wanted to create as much of that excitement and realism as possible for the audience's enjoyment, they were also extremely conscientious about the implications of these sequences. "In a lot of ways," says Reeves, "the monster is kind of a metaphor for our times and the kind of terror we all face. So it was important to find a way to approach those feelings without diminishing or exploiting them, and to do so in a way that wouldn't be disrespectful."

The film carefully avoids crossing the line from realistic scares to all-too-painful reminders of recent events – through a unique point-of-view experience, humor, and Reeves' reconnection of the audience with the characters throughout the film. The visual effects teams even took care that the collapsing buildings in the film were older-looking structures that did not evoke the style of the structures that were attacked six years earlier.

Stirring up uncomfortable feelings is not entirely without purpose for a monster movie, Abrams notes. It's a standard of the genre. "'Godzilla' came out in 1954 in the shadow of the bomb being dropped in Japan. Culturally, you had people living with this terror they had experienced – but in the guise of something absurd and preposterous. My guess is that it enabled people in Japan to have a catharsis."

"To me, that's one of the most potentially impactful aspects of this movie," he continues. "It takes so many images that are so familiar, that are potentially horrifyingly scary, and puts them in a context that is ludicrous and laughable, so that people can experience catharsis in a way that doesn't feel like they're going through therapy. People have a hunger to experience that, and to process the terror we all live with in a way that doesn't feel like you're getting a social studies lesson. And at the end of the day, whether or not that's something they're aware of, this movie allows them to have that release. And for younger kids," he says, "you just have one heck of a great monster movie."



link: http://www.jjabrams.net/showthread.php?t=190


edit: added the last paragraph to the quote, I copied wrong the first time. There is more to the reading, this piece just seemed most relevant.

[guerra001]

[OliMango]

Holy crap guys. When someone trouts the thread, (he even posted a damn link) you go to the thread that already talks about this, and talk about it.

[guerra001]

[OliMango]

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