'Single Plane' Theory

[jd]

Jesus, there's a revenge of the nerds re-make?

And rich, exactly...  it's like re-making the birdcage, except the gay
men are straight, it takes place in africa, and it's about a coffee
shop instead of a nightclub...

On 8/11/06, Matthew Ryan <matthew.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to take this opportunity the express my outrage at the Revenge of
> the Nerds remake currently in production. Thank you.
>
>
>
> On 8/10/06, 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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