What If: Micheal Bay did a 9/11 movie?
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Chris Oakley
Banned
Hard to say, although early reviews for his new Benghazi flick might give us a clue.
It might be another reason to hate Michael Bay depending of when it is made and open to the public. Even nowadays a number of jokes by comedians get the "too soon" treatment.
redlightning
Banned
It would be similar in plot structure to Pearl Harbor.
Two friends grow up in a rural town together and become lifelong friends while playing with Super Soakers. Maybe it's Philadelphia. They grew up together and join the New York fire department. One falls in love with a nurse. He gets trapped in a fire and is presumed dead. Best friend falls in love with his girlfriend and sleeps with her. First friend returns from the dead, they brawl the night before the attack, and get drunk. During the attacks, the next day they successfully rescue tons of people and punch out a surviving hijacker in the Twin Towers. They find out the girlfriend is pregnant with one of the kids. Both barely survive the collapse. Both join the military as firefighters and fight at the Battle of Tora Bora. One gets shot down and crashes. Second friend dies after learning he would be a father. First friend returns and raises the unborn child playing with Super Soakers back on the family farm.
Two friends grow up in a rural town together and become lifelong friends while playing with Super Soakers. Maybe it's Philadelphia. They grew up together and join the New York fire department. One falls in love with a nurse. He gets trapped in a fire and is presumed dead. Best friend falls in love with his girlfriend and sleeps with her. First friend returns from the dead, they brawl the night before the attack, and get drunk. During the attacks, the next day they successfully rescue tons of people and punch out a surviving hijacker in the Twin Towers. They find out the girlfriend is pregnant with one of the kids. Both barely survive the collapse. Both join the military as firefighters and fight at the Battle of Tora Bora. One gets shot down and crashes. Second friend dies after learning he would be a father. First friend returns and raises the unborn child playing with Super Soakers back on the family farm.
Damn... that actually does sound like something Micheal Bay would right... Thank god he has'int done a 9/11 movie. Yet.
shiftygiant
Gone Fishin'
How horrifically Bad and Insulting would it be?
Or would it somehow by some miracle actually be good?
Movie would be divided between a NYC Firefighter on the ground, probably the Rock or Ed Harris as seasoned firefightes who are going to be retiring in a few days, and an 'everyman' on one of the planes, maybe Mark Walberg as a divorced father trying to get back with his no longer estranged family in SanFran on Flight 93. Throw in a subplot involving George Bush.
For the first half an hour, the movie will focus on the Everyman and Firefighter going about their morning. Everyman will have just caught Flight 93 and will think he's lucky, whilst Firefighter will be joking around with his crew who are celebrating his time in the service. We'll see the Terrorists board the plane, and some planning moments. The next fifteen-minutes to half hour will show the hijacking in detail, which will probably be largely accurate knowing Bay. Suddenly Around the midpoint, we see the planes hit the twin tower, although somewhat obscured and shakey. Again, this will be accurate, if Bay will do one thing, it's that he'll make the sequence of events and imagery as accurate as possible, however will alter and move stuff to fit in with a narrative. Firefighter is called out and the second plane hits. Big quite moment as the Firefighter and audience get the first proper look of what's happening as dust blasts through the streets. Cut back to everyman- he and his fellow passengers realize something is wrong. Then they hear the bomb announcement.
Cut back to firefighter. Site is in chaos. Him and his fellow crew rush into the lobby. Events from here will play out as they do in most movies regarding the firefighters. We see them evacuate, and we hear the bodies falling. Then Firefigher realizes someone has been left up in the tower, and he goes to get them. Tower collapses as he and this person evacuate.
Cut back to Everyman. Passenger revolt, overpower the hijackers and all that. With the plane going down, Everyman calls his family and breaks down as he tells them how much he loves them. Plane crashes.
During this, we see what George Bush is doing, and we follow him doing what he did on the day.
Cut back to the towers. The firefighter and the persons in tower are alive, however trapped under rubble. Scene is hellscape. Firefigher realized that neither he or the person can escape, so he sacrifices himself. Person runs to the crew, who are exploring the ruins. Survivor leads them to the site, where they pull the Firefighers body out of the rubble.
Film concludes on poignant and sentimental moments as Bush delivers his speech from the site, moments that capture the emotion and impact of the attack.
Basically that's what I think in detail Bay would do. Factors of when and how he does it are to be considered, of course, and the overall quality would be focused on the execution, which I think Bay could pull off if he makes it post-2011.
I'm sure Megan Fox or some expy of her would wander through the movie, in slo-mo and improbably dressed.
Is it really awful that I actually rather like the two ideas that've been posted so far? I mean, apart from the casting. The Rock and Mark Wahlberg in a 9/11 movie would have the piss ripped out of it. I'm just glad no-one mentioned a slow motion scene of a plane hitting the tower
If any movie should be made about what was going on in the towers on that day they should really just made a movie about the book 102 minutes since it have all the drama you need.
As for dramatic movies about that day, we have two movies about United 93 and one with the trapped officers under the rubble with Nic Cage. We also have the tv-series Third Watch about how the aftermath was handled.
Do we need a Bay movie? I think Spielberg would be a better choice.
We can have a couple in love, the man is working at the Windows of the world and the woman(or a man, it is possible to have a gay couple now) is working as a firefighter and rushes into the building that was hit first and gets the call to evacuate from the police but refuses to evacuate
As for dramatic movies about that day, we have two movies about United 93 and one with the trapped officers under the rubble with Nic Cage. We also have the tv-series Third Watch about how the aftermath was handled.
Do we need a Bay movie? I think Spielberg would be a better choice.
We can have a couple in love, the man is working at the Windows of the world and the woman(or a man, it is possible to have a gay couple now) is working as a firefighter and rushes into the building that was hit first and gets the call to evacuate from the police but refuses to evacuate
An Oklahoman
Banned
We'd probably get a POV shot of the plane diving into the towers, a la the drooping bomb POV from Pearl Harbour.
I'd watch that if it wasn;t 3 hours long and avoided the punching out one of the hijackers part, unless part of the back story is that terr'ists also planted charges in the building.
Don't forget the fighter pilot near DC, who has to scramble with the rest of his squadron. This plot line never really goes anywhere or contributes anything, but provides an excuse for lots of shots of fighter planes taking off and doing fancy maneuvers. Said pilot may end up bombing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.