'Single Plane' Theory

[jd]

*ahem*

apologies for off-topic ranting spurned by an onion article.

On 8/11/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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