from Mateo

World Trade Center movie 2006

I was really angry when I saw the advertisement of this movie back in the day because I thought that Oliver Stone was just taking advantage of the World trade center events in order to make a movie, which I thought was a complete disrespect to families involved in this event and also to society in general. The simple idea of someone making money based on a real tragedy was just something that wasn't reasonable to me. However, I was making assumptions that where not all true. Despite the fact that Oliver, in fact, was taking advantage of this tragedy in order to make a movie, he wasn't really making a "millions of dollars" action movie that portrayed this catastrophe in a recreational way, but rather he was portraying the braveness of those fireman that where involved and how their courage and determination was worth remembering. To conclude, I was making a false accusation, and even though I didn't thought the movie was great, it's a good thing to know that the pourposes of this movie were human rather than money minded. 

Director Oliver Stone once again offers a powerful and provocative story based on real-life events in this drama. Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Michael Pea) were two officers assigned to New York City's Port Authority who were working their beats on a quiet day in early fall when they received an emergency call. The day was September 11, 2001, and McLoughlin and Jimeno were among the policemen who attempted to evacuate the World Trade Center towers after they were struck by airliners piloted by terrorists. Both McLoughlin and Jimeno were inside the fifth building of the World Trade Center when the towers fell, and were two of the last people found alive amidst the wreckage. As McLoughlin and Jimeno struggled to hold on to their lives as rescuers sifted through the rubble, their spouses -- Donna McLoughlin (Maria Bello) and Allison Jimeno (Maggie Gyllenhaal) -- clung to the desperate hope that their husbands would survive and be found. As the McLoughlin and Jimeno families waited for word on the fate of the two men, they watched as a city and a nation came together with strength and compassion in the face of a tragedy. World Trade Center was based on the true story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, both of whom cooperated with producers in the making of this film. Producer Debra Hill died during production -- hence the posthumous credit. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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