Oliver Stone's New 9/11 Movie to be Niche Marketed to Fundie Christians

[NJCher]

The name of the movie is "World Trade Center."

Read it and blech. :puke:

Paramount, trying to generate word-of-mouth, has screened World Trade Center not only for fire and police departments around the country, but also for church groups. A special marketing company - the same used to sell Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ - was hired to target fundamentalist Christians.

Events in the film - as seen by Jimeno, who had a vision of Christ while lying pinned in the rubble, and by a Marine veteran who was instrumental in the two men's recovery - have decidedly spiritual overtones.

And one of the principal rescuers, played by Michael Shannon, surveying the devastation, is quoted as saying, "We're going to need some good men out there to avenge this."

To be fair, this is a strategy made up by Paramount's marketing department. Stone himself says: "The fact is," he says, "that when you mention 9/11 , it's lost its true meaning. Because it's become a political event, involving revenge, war, death, fear, more death, and constitutional breakdowns."

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/weekend/15198098.htm




Cher

[H2O Man]

1. Good. n/t

[acmejack]

2. Opportunism of the first order.

[Paladin]

3. I Want To Go See This Movie, But I Admit I Have Problems......

...with right-wing skidmarks like Cal Thomas and Brent Bozell wetting themselves with enthusiasm over it. Oliver Stone's comments about conservative co-option of 9/11 are on the money....

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. I knew I wasn't the target market

I've seen the teaser and didn't feel teased in the least bit.

[rudeboy666]

5. 'Fundie Christians' being exposed to this 9-11 film. What an outrage!