World Trade Center (Full Screen Edition)
by Oliver Stone
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Actor: Connor Paolo, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Michael Peņa, Nicolas CageDirector: Oliver Stone
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Producer: Chantal Feghali
Producer: Debra Hill
Writer: Allison Jimeno
Writer: Andrea Berloff
Writer: Donna McLoughlin
Writer: John McLoughlin
Writer: William Jimeno
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
Published: 2006-12-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-12
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of World Trade Center (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: What 9/11 was like up close and personal for two rescuers who survived
Summary: 5 Stars
While I fully recognize Oliver Stone's great talents in making films, I avoid his films because I cannot forgive him for "JFK" and its countless lies that have confused millions about the Kennedy assassination. However, when my daughter rented this film I thought I would take a look and see what he did with it. It is magnificent.
This is the story of the two officers who were pulled from under the rubble of the Trade Center the day after the buildings fell on them as they were heading to rescue work through the concourse. John McLoughlin (Nicholas Cage) was the officer in charge of the team and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena) was the rookie. They, with several others, were pulled off their normal duty and sent to the WTC to help get people out of the buildings. McLoughlin had a great deal of experience with the buildings because he had worked there before. Jimeno volunteered to go with him because, as the new guy, he figured he wanted to stay with the guy with the most experience. The scene as they head into the tower is quite powerful and shows us how dangerous and heroic it was to simply walk or run towards the building.
They had just gathered more equipment and were heading towards rescuing some people stuck in the elevators when WTC 2 fell. They didn't know the second tower had even been hit, but they happened to be in a good place and McLoughlin had the presence of mind to tell his team to run towards a stronger part of the building.
I have to admit that I had when I heard two officers had been pulled out of the rubble of the concourse, I had envisioned them being largely OK and simply trapped. No. They were pancaked in the rubble. In the commentary (which I strongly urge you to listen to), Jimeno and the rescuers say it was ten times more constricted than shown in the movie with smoke and dust that made it even more claustrophobic. However, if they had tried to depict it as it was, there could be no movie, because you couldn't see anything. Still, the sets help us understand the horrible conditions these men were in.
While the story of these men is well known, I don't want to go over the whole story, because no matter what you think you know, it is unlikely that you know the story completely enough to no be shocked at what they went through. There was a third officer who survived the initial collapse and who did his level best to try and get Jimeno out, but no one could do it without special power equipment.
The depiction of what their families went through is also portrayed beautifully. We get to see up close what it was like for those who waited without knowing, the misinformation that got back to them, and what it was like when they first got the full scope of the truth.
Another interesting character is Dave Karnes, who felt called to go down to ground zero to look for survivors. In the commentary, Jimeno points out that he and no one knew that Karnes was African American until after the film was made and that he felt badly about it. Even so, Michael Shannon portrays him very well.
There is a lot to this story that you will want to know. And it is very moving.
I hope Stone doesn't do the paranoid conspiracist version of 9/11 I heard is preparing to make, but at least that movie would be more in character for him. This film is beautifully done and shows his artistic powers without his very odd view of the world.
Jimeno says that the film does make a few changes to reality because they were making a PG 13 film and that Stone had to compress 24 hours into 2. Still, others have complained that this or that rescuer or act was not depicted in the film. Truly, not everyone who should be recognized could be recognized in this or any film. Still, we are grateful to every one of them. As you watch with the commentary, Jimeno and the other rescuers point out the real people (including Jimeno and McLaughlin) who were given cameos in the movie. A very nice touch.
Strongly recommended.
Description of World Trade Center (Full Screen Edition)
"World Trade Center is a film about heroism and the best in all of us," raves Good Morning America?s Joel Siegel. Academy Award winner, Nicolas Cage stars in the unforgettable true story of the courageous rescue and survival of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble on September 11, 2001 after they volunteered to go in and help. Academy Award winning director, Oliver Stone reveals an intimate look at the events of the day as seen through the eyes of the survivors, their families and their rescuersRegardless of whether it was "too early" in 2006 to dramatize the events of September 11th, 2001, World Trade Center succeeds as a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of those who served at "ground zero" in the wake of terrorist attacks on the WTC's twin towers in New York City. Removed from the politics of war and terrorism (yet still, like all films, inherently political in expressing its point of view), Oliver Stone's potent drama focuses on the nightmarish ordeal, and subsequent rescue, of Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peņa), who were buried deeply within the rubble of the WTC after the twin towers collapsed. Granted, it's only the film's historical context that distinguishes it from any other dramatic rescue story, but in focusing on the goodness of humanity in response to the evil of terrorists who remain unnamed and off-screen, Stone and first-time screenwriter Andrea Berloff create an emotional context as powerful as anything Stone has directed since Platoon. Even as he resorts to some questionable tactics typically lacking in subtlety, Stone refrains from much of the blunt-force filmmaking that has made him a critical punching bag, rising to this challenging occasion with a heartfelt and deeply American portrait of unity ? personal, familial, and national. Flaws and all, World Trade Center serves an honorable purpose, reminding us all that for those fleeting days in September 2001, America showed its best face to a sympathetic world. --Jeff Shannon
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