Movie that inspired attacks on NYC!!!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Movie that inspired attacks on NYC!!!

Posted: 11/2/2001 7:25:26 PM EDT

Well, not really. But this does bear quite a resemblance to what happened on 9/11.

I was lucky enough this afternoon to be free of obligation to the "man", so I put in the DVD John Carpenters [u]Escape From New York[/u].

One of the first scenes in the film depicts the cockpit of Air Force One after it was hijacked by a woman. She is screaming over microphone things like, "our revolutionaries will overthrow your imperialist empire to free this country", and other such ramblings. Also in the cockpit are two pilots with their throats slit...

She procedes to fly Air Force One over the New York City area, and crashes into a building fairly close to the former WTC towers. Although he goal seemed to be assassinating the president, and not to destroy civilians or tke down the building.

Still, the similarities are startling...

Posted: 11/2/2001 7:47:51 PM EDT

[#1]

Coming from a guy named "Snake"...

Posted: 11/2/2001 7:49:46 PM EDT

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Coming from a guy named "Snake"...

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I heard about him... I heard he was dead! [;)]

Posted: 11/3/2001 9:18:17 AM EDT

[#3]

Seriously, anyone else seen this movie?? If not, isn't this an interesting coincidence..
-Andrea

Posted: 11/3/2001 9:40:17 AM EDT

[#4]

One of Columbine's Klebold and Harris's plan was to hijack a plane and ram the World Trade Center. I wonder if they inspired Atta.

Posted: 11/3/2001 10:03:33 AM EDT

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Seriously, anyone else seen this movie?? If not, isn't this an interesting coincidence..
-Andrea

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Yeah, I've seen it a bunch of times...it's a favorite of mine, I like Kurt Russell movies.

But, back to the point...the movie has no basis for any inspiration of the 9/11 attacks. the plane crash in "EFNY" is not a terrorist attack, it is an attempt upon the President's life..it was Air Force One, not a commercial airliner. Also, New York city has been converted to a prison in the movie. You should rent it or catch it on cable...quite entertaining.

No_Expert

Posted: 11/3/2001 10:19:43 AM EDT

[#6]

Go watch Charles Bronson in Telefon, 1970's movie so the bad guy is Russian, but it paints a picture.

"Miles to go before I sleep..."

Posted: 11/3/2001 10:32:26 AM EDT

[#7]

One of THE LONE GUNMEN episodes dealt with a plane crash into the WTC also. I belive it was by remote control on the aircraft.

Posted: 11/3/2001 11:03:15 AM EDT

[#8]

[b][i]Black Sunday[/i][/b] anyone? Not the WTC, but portrayed a terrorist attack on a stadium on Super Bowl Sunday with a blimp.

Posted: 11/3/2001 11:07:17 AM EDT

[#9]

As far as I can tell, nobody needs movies to figure out what makes good targets. Why does everybody think that only movies point out targets?

Posted: 11/3/2001 11:15:40 AM EDT

[#10]

It's just some more fodder for discussion. That's okay with you isn't it?

Posted: 11/3/2001 11:23:24 AM EDT

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It's just some more fodder for discussion. That's okay with you isn't it?

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Yes. Sorry [;)] It just got old with people digging up movies and pinning the blame because there are smilarities. However, fodder for discussion is good, and I am going to rent this movie (sometime)
[:P]

Posted: 11/3/2001 4:10:57 PM EDT

[#12]

Anybody see Escape From LA? I seem to remeber Snake with a badassed AR in that one.

Posted: 11/3/2001 4:19:32 PM EDT

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Anybody see Escape From LA? I seem to remeber Snake with a badassed AR in that one.

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yeah, I saw Escape From L.A. too....love the weapons, but as with most sequels...not as good as the original, but still entertaining.

I feel like a Kurt Russel marathon coming up... those two "Escapes" and "Soldier"....

[sniper]

No_Expert

Posted: 11/4/2001 2:57:59 AM EDT

[#14]

No_Expert, don't forget about "The Thing"!

Posted: 11/4/2001 3:27:19 AM EDT

[#15]

Hey I just finished watching "Invasion USA". I'm still waiting for helo's to drop the leaflets declaring martial law and a dusk to dawn curfew.

Posted: 11/4/2001 4:19:20 AM EDT

[#16]

Actually, I think "The Siege" is more closely related to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Decent movie, I rate it a solid B+.

Gotta love DVD. VHS stinks.

Posted: 11/4/2001 4:44:49 PM EDT

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No_Expert, don't forget about "The Thing"!

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true! One of the few movies that I like the original "B" movie and the remake.

No_Expert

Posted: 11/5/2001 2:16:19 PM EDT

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Anybody see Escape From LA? I seem to remeber Snake with a badassed AR in that one.

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They should do "Escape From Berkeley".

Posted: 11/5/2001 2:22:54 PM EDT

[#19]

What's the name of that movie where a bunch of New Yorkers get together and run a couple of Arkies back to Little Rock?

Posted: 11/5/2001 2:26:00 PM EDT

[#20]

you want scary?

rent swordfish and listen to what he says about terroism.

they take a palne we take an airport

they take a church, we nuke a town

we make the consequences of terrism on america so unthinkable that it will be eliminated.

(that's what he says, more or less)

Posted: 11/5/2001 6:11:36 PM EDT

[#21]

It should also be noted that Tom Clancy's book [b]Debt Of Honor[/b] discusses a (Japanese) terrorist/pilot killing his unknowning co-pilot and crashing his 747 into the Capitol building during a ceremony to announce a new Vice President (i.e., both houses, the President, and the Supreme Court justices were all there).

The Capitol building is believed to be the target of the plane that crashed in Penn...

-Troy

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