Re: [b] -- Flight 93

["Steve Wilkinson" <Steve.Wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Wasn't there a "TV Movie" about that flight a
>couple of years ago...A film about Flight 93.

Yes, it was called FLIGHT 93.

United 93 is the more recent studio picture.

BEMLi's 2001 predictions as to the content of any future 9/11 fillum
seem rather tame now. Some of this is from memory, as the waybackmachine
is only archiving part of gloriouswhole.org:

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The movie itself will be a big, Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Michael
Bay-directed Pearl Harbour/Armageddon style affair, with the action
coming in 4 soul-destroying waves.

1) The Heavy Drama Bit. George Clooney as the President, deliberating
whether or not to shoot Flight 93 down.

2) The Action-Hero Bit. Bruce Willis on Flight 93 as a the ordinary guy
made good as he manages a supreme act of self-sacrifice, saving the
President's neck by diverting the plane into the ground before it rams
Air Force One. And a crowd of orphan kids. In wheelchairs.

3) The Disaster Movie Bit. Someone Black(tm) as the fire-fighter leading
the survivors from one of the towers to the basement as they escape
through a previously-unknown sewer system. Most of them die, but the dog
that was thought to have died in Act 1 miraculously survives.

4) The Love Interest Bit. Ben Afflek as Bruce Willis' son who is a
stockbroker in the Twin Towers - hard headed and capitalist. He has been
sparring with Green/Anti Globalisation Activist played by Janeane
Garofallo (natch). She's come up to visit him to argue about some nasty
thing or other his company is doing in the third world. Stiller
heroically rescues her as the building collapses (somehow) and she
suddenly has a change of mind and recognises that his go-getting
all-American approach is correct, and she was wrong in giving succor to
the pinko liberal forces that, of course, led to this all happening in
the first place.

One of her friends (played by Sandra Bernhard) asks her to go on a
protest against the Afghan War and Janeane says

"No, Sarah. When push comes to shove, I'm an American first. You and
your friends shoved me down 80 floors the other day. I'm not following
you any further in your trip to hell".

She then stands at the wreck of the twin towers and sings God Bless
America. In a post-modern twist, the whole film-crew join in as well
(rather like in that episode of Moonlighting).

Ben proposes to Janeane.
She accepts.

Not a dry eye in the house. 

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OK THEN.

Steve


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