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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