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Jun. 2nd, 2002 02:36 pmIn today's Strib there was a commentary called Bad year for film to show New York mayhem by David S. Broder.
In it, he's talking about what a terrible thing it was that the movie Spider-Man was released, showing the "destruction of Manhattan from the sky by a jet-equipped madman determined to wreak havoc on a society he thought had scorned him."
He also comments, "As soon as the attacks happened, Columbia withdrew a promotional trailer that showed Spider-Man swinging between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The iconic structure does not appear in the movie, and that bit of self-restraint was apparently enough to salve the consciences at Columbia. But there are long minutes where the demented villain -- a corporate mogul, not a Middle Eastern terrorist -- is flying his jet-powered aerial sled through the canyons of New York office towers, blowing out windows, cracking walls, crashing cornices onto terrorized pedestrians and causing the kind of chaos we saw... all too recently."
Now I don't know about you, but most children, and even most adults, can quite easily tell the difference between a terrorist attack and a comic book villain called the "Green Goblin" dressed in a metal suit, riding something akin to a flying skateboard, for heaven's sake!
Yes, removing the WTC scenes from the movie was enough. At least for those of us who can tell the difference between reality and fiction.
(And may I also note, he doesn't complain about the spy thrillers, shoot-'em-ups, and "reality" military movies out and about these days; any of which are far more terrifying in their realism than any comic book character.)
In it, he's talking about what a terrible thing it was that the movie Spider-Man was released, showing the "destruction of Manhattan from the sky by a jet-equipped madman determined to wreak havoc on a society he thought had scorned him."
He also comments, "As soon as the attacks happened, Columbia withdrew a promotional trailer that showed Spider-Man swinging between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The iconic structure does not appear in the movie, and that bit of self-restraint was apparently enough to salve the consciences at Columbia. But there are long minutes where the demented villain -- a corporate mogul, not a Middle Eastern terrorist -- is flying his jet-powered aerial sled through the canyons of New York office towers, blowing out windows, cracking walls, crashing cornices onto terrorized pedestrians and causing the kind of chaos we saw... all too recently."
Now I don't know about you, but most children, and even most adults, can quite easily tell the difference between a terrorist attack and a comic book villain called the "Green Goblin" dressed in a metal suit, riding something akin to a flying skateboard, for heaven's sake!
Yes, removing the WTC scenes from the movie was enough. At least for those of us who can tell the difference between reality and fiction.
(And may I also note, he doesn't complain about the spy thrillers, shoot-'em-ups, and "reality" military movies out and about these days; any of which are far more terrifying in their realism than any comic book character.)
