This list has been understandably quiet about Tuesday's carnage, but I
just wondered if people had some reactions relevant to our topic.  I
think of such things as that common comment, "It looked like something
out of a movie!" or "It looked like special effects!"  Even Philip
Noyce, who directed several of the Tom Clancy movies with Harrison
Ford and who was near the World Trade Center, remarked that the crash
looked "unrealistic."

There are other ramifications, dealing with film marketing.  For
example, the trailer for the forthcoming SPIDER-MAN movie that featured
a giant web slung between the two towers, has been pulled.

And of course there are all the implications of how "terrorists" and
terrorism, not to mention Muslims and Arabs in general, are and will be
depicted.

Thoughts?

Don Larsson


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Donald F. Larsson
English Department, AH 230
Minnesota State University
Mankato, MN  56001

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