'Single Plane' Theory

[jd]

Every night at 7:30 and 11:30 I watch the Simpsons, and during the
commercial breaks lately they show off some Fox news bit about
interviewing Nick Cage and Oliver Stone...  VB (what kind of name is
that for a serious reporter, anyways?) says something like "how do you
feel about making a film that George Bush likes?"  and Nick Cage says
"Ah come on, we aren't trying to be political here" - now, Fox is
notorious for its rampant cuttings and clippings, but if those two
quotes are anywhere near the same section of film, here's a hint:
Nick Cage, you fucking made a film about an event that has been
nothing BUT politicized since it happend, and if you think your film
isn't political (Stone, too), then you are a goddamn ass clown.

Further evidence for ass-clown-ism: the remake of The Wicker Man,
starring Nicky Cage, except instead of Scotland it's Maine, instead of
being a virgin he's allergic to bees, apparently real magic is
involved, the original director is pissed the hell off (though he is
trying to make a sequel, Cowboys for Christ), and you act like a coma
victim who's been shot up with too much morphine.  I want to take a
collection to re-make The Godfather, but with Jack Black as Michael
and Burt Reynolds as Don Corleone, because maybe by doing so people
will leave the classics the fuck alone.

On 8/10/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> New Oliver Stone 9/11 Film Introduces 'Single Plane'
> Theory
>
> August 8, 2006 | Issue 42•32
>
> NEW YORK—Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone
> said Monday that his new film World Trade Center
> unveils "compelling and controversial" new evidence
> that a single plane was responsible for all four
> collisions in New York, Washington, D.C., and
> Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
>
> "Get ready to go through the looking glass here,
> people," Stone told reporters at a Manhattan press
> conference before an advance screening of the movie,
> which premieres Wednesday. "The film you are about to
> see is going to blow the lid off the 9/11 Commission's
> official report and expose a conspiracy that reaches
> the highest levels of government."
>
> World Trade Center, which stars Nicolas Cage as a
> dedicated Port Authority officer who stumbles on
> secret evidence amid the rubble and carnage of the
> terrorist attack, tells a story quite different from
> what Stone called "the official government line" about
> the event. According to the film, at 8:46 a.m., a lone
> commercial airliner flew diagonally through the North
> Tower of the World Trade Center, maintained in a
> circular holding pattern for approximately 17 minutes,
> then struck the South Tower before heading to the
> Pentagon.
>
> After its collision with the center of American
> military operations, the so-called "magic plane"—which
> variously and ingeniously identified itself to
> air-traffic controllers as "American Airlines Flight
> 11," "United Airlines Flight 175," "American Airlines
> Flight 77" and "United Airlines Flight 93"—took to the
> skies once again, landing at a top-secret "black-ops"
> Air Force base in West Virginia, where it was reloaded
> with a group of clones from another shadowy government
> program that Stone described as "shocking."
>
> Stone, who said he did not have time to explore the
> clone angle in the three-and-a-half-hour film, plans
> to do so in the sequel, September 12.
>
> In a gripping sequence, undercover agents transmit
> pre-recorded cell-phone messages intended to fool
> loved ones and relatives with a false cover story as
> the aircraft heads to its final, prearranged crash
> site in the fields of southwestern Pennsylvania.
>
> Viewers of the advance screening agreed that the most
> striking and pivotal scene was Cage's character's
> discovery of security-camera footage that affirmed the
> single-plane theory. Showing his skeptical but
> supportive wife the footage frame by frame, Cage
> notices that the so-called "first" plane, which,
> according to official, whitewashed reports, detonated
> upon impact with the North Tower in the initial
> collision, actually banks "back and to the left,
> circling for about 17 minutes, and then diving into
> the other tower." He repeats the phrase over and over
> in increasing intensity, toggling back and forth
> between individual frames while the music swells and
> the emotional drama rises to a fever pitch.
>
> "After seeing that sequence, there's no way anyone can
> ever deny again that there was only one plane in the
> airspace over the eastern seaboard that morning,"
> Stone said.
>
> "I am the most important filmmaker working today," he
> added.
>
> Early public reaction to the film has been skeptical.
> Many 9/11 conspiracy theorists claim Stone is
> presenting an exploitative, far-fetched, and
> manipulative Hollywood version of the pain and
> suffering—including eye strain and carpal tunnel
> syndrome—they have undergone during their countless
> hours on the Internet in the tragedy's aftermath.
>
> Despite the controversy, Stone stands by his film.
> "This is a story that needs to be told, in a reality
> that only I can bring to the big screen," Stone said.
> "I realize it will be hard to accept for those unable
> to confront the truth, but I can't hide my head in the
> sand like some goddamn ostrich. To sin by silence when
> we should protest makes cowards out of men."
>
> http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Oliver-Stone's-Jump-Map-R_0.jpg
>
> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51367
>
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