Filmstalker: World Trade Center trailer

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center movie, the film about the last two Port Authority Policemen to be rescued from the Twin Towers, has a trailer and it's online.

There are some startling images, not so much of their content but of how it makes you think of events that day from a different angle than we witnessed them. For example that brief clip we see of Nicolas Cage standing in the foyer suddenly seeing wreckage fall in the street, then everyone running as the building begins to collapse is quite chilling.

The trailer can be seen over at Apple Trailers [QT:S:M:L].

I think it shows great promise, although the subtitles are a bit cheesy and aren't really needed, the trailer says it all. There's also a moment where Cage asks for help to evacuate the Tower and only a few men step forward, the rest standing there not looking to help. I wonder if this was a real moment and how that portrays those who stood there.

What the most interesting thing for me about this film, and that of any of the other films of that day, is what the difference in feeling after a viewing might be between a US audience and a European one.

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I'm not sure what to say about this trailer. I saw 'United 93', and enjoyed it, even though I knew I was going to have a hard time seeing it, but, it didn't really focus on what was happening in Manhattan, and, that made it a little easier for me. I'm not saying what happened with flight 93 that day was any less tragic then what happened in Manhattan, I just, I don't know, this is hard for me to write. What happened in Manhattan just, affected me much more personally. I was in Tower 2 the night before, just 12 hours before it wasn't there anymore, and the next day I watched it come down with my own eyes. I'm not sure I'm ready for this one.

Posted by: xpgeek | May 17, 2006 11:30 AM

Well, as the things are working in this world, it´s very difficult to predict how audiences will react at this movie. The reviews on United 93 I have read are mostly american, and very good, emphasizing on the feelings involved. Here, in the old Europe, I can say the will focus on a polytical analysis and a childish analysis of such a complex society as the american is.

World Trade Center will affect american audiences in a very different way it will to european ones, that is almost certain. But I don´t care. I am not from this world, and can see things with the proper distance LOLOL.

Posted by: Peter | May 17, 2006 3:15 PM

Hey xpgeek, {{{HUGSSSSS}}}

Wow. I was crying after watching the trailer, and again a hollow in my heart, would love to see the film, it prolly wont be a good idea to see it alone, for I need to sob on somebody else's shirt.

Posted by: Simone | May 17, 2006 7:45 PM