NEW YORK – From the first shattering moment, movies were wrapped up in Sept. 11.
The images of planes flying into the World Trade Center and the twin towers crumbling, to be replayed time after time in high-definition on television, were strikingly movielike. With no other frame of reference, many, for a moment, thought they were seeing a Hollywood blockbuster. Robert Altman would later claim that committing such an atrocity would be unthinkable, “unless they’d seen it in a movie.”
Speculation soon followed on how and when Hollywood would take up the story of that day. In the 10 years since, 9/11 is nowhere and everywhere, rarely depicted straightforwardly and yet a constant thought.
It took five years before the subject was tackled, and even then, Hollywood did so gingerly. Oliver Stone, usually a filmmaker of bravado, tracked a humble police officer (Nicolas Cage) amid the chaos in his 2006 film “World Trade Center.” The documentary-style “United 93″ (2006), too, was a specific tale of courage.
There were others, such as “Reign Over Me” (2007) and “Remember Me” (2010) that told personal stories around the tragedy, and documentaries such as Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ (2004). And perhaps the most lasting cinematic reaction to 9/11
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