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World Trade Center
When I lived back east, a friend of mine and I used to take a drive to upstate New York together on occasions when she needed to pick up her children from their dad's home. On the way, we enjoyed stopping at the World Trade Center for lunch. We would grab something yummy to eat and sit in the courtyard, staring up at the awesome towers and having a blast just watching people. When we had the time to spend, we actually took a trip up the elevators to Windows On The World. We never ate there; we couldn't afford it, really, and were not dressed for it. But oh, the view! It was absolutely breathtaking. I will never forget it, and fervently wish that I could take my husband and my stepkids up there and share it with them. When the towers fell, I was sad, not only for the obvious reasons, but because I had wonderful memories of that great place, which I would ever see again. Since 9-11, I have taken to looking for the World Trade Center in movies. I smile when I see the towers, standing tall and proud and beautiful. My most recent WTC "sighting" was last weekend, while watching Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. I like that one. Not only is it a really fun movie, but the WTC is not simply in the background. It is up close and personal. Near the end of the movie, Aykroyd and Murphy actually walk between the towers; you can see the distinctive decorative construction along the bottom that is recognizable to everyone as one of the largest pieces recovered from Ground Zero. I remember walking between the towers in the exact same spot with my friend, and it is a great memory. The movie brings it back for me. Not the horror or the grief; the happy times I spent there. Do you ever see the World Trade Center in movies or TV shows? What have you seen the towers in? How does it make you feel? Or do you have something else that you look for while watching movies, something that brings back a happy memory for you? I would like to hear about it. I would also like to find out if there are other WTC bytes out there. I'd like to see them...for old times' sake, you know. 9 comments from 6 users
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posted by
Infowar
on Jun 11, 2009 at 09:52 PM
Aaron Russo was a producer in the film trading places.
By the way...9/11 Was an inside job.
infowars.com This was his latest work before he past away from cancer in 2007.
America Freedom To Fascism You can watch his last film on google video. here is the link:video.google.com/videoplay
website:www.freedomtofascism.com/
posted by
sagefever
on Jun 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM
My old brain....arugh. I was watching a directors cut of *brain freeze* and the Towers were in the New York skyline. During editing Sept.11 happened,so of course,the question was whether to leave them in the shot. Would it be disrespectful to leave them in? To take them out,as if they did not exist? Would their presence take the viewer "out of " the movie?
They decided to leave them in. Best choice in my opinion. I saw the movie in DVD release,so the impact was not as fresh for me. I remember watching the camera pan across them,as the sun did the same,the play of light an shadow was a thing of beauty. If I can remember all that,you'd think I could remember the dang name of the movie! I had a video tape of Kelsey~ he was part of a Discovery program about MOVE. I "loaned" it to my ex-mother- in -law. Never saw it again.For me~ that is probably a good thing. posted by
ghostriter
on Jun 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I dunno, sage. I think I would have needed that tape back. However, I still can't watch videos of Jordan, even the ones where he was really little. I really do wish I had one of him when he was older, just so I could hear his voice. Lemme know if you wake up in the middle of the night with an epiphany on the name of that movie. I do remember that the original Spiderman was meant to have a really cool scene with a web strewn between the WTC towers. They decided to remove it from the finished movie. I always thought that was a mistake. posted by
Shwaine
on Jun 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM
The season finale of Fringe this year had the WTC towers in it. You can probably find a bunch of screen caps on fan sites for the show. It was a calculated risk the show producers took. The show ended in an alternate universe where the White House got destroyed on 9/11 instead of the towers. I know there was a whole buzz about it after that episode aired last month. posted by
randomfactor
on Jun 12, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I've got an old answering-machine message from my late wife, recorded about two weeks before she died. Simple, routine "get back to me" question. Thanks to this discussion I just played it again. :) posted by
sagefever
on Jun 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM
I wanted that tape back~ I begged for it. Those good Christians folks "lost it". Before the howling starts~ not all Christians would behave so,in fact most would not. *This* set is particularly holy than thou and pretentious. This is the same woman who asked me if I ever considered Kelsey was "Gods" way of questioning my spirituality:i.e. join their church. I told her she had a lot of nerve assuming I wasn't "right" with God and that if that was true,right before I hit the lake of fire "God" was getting a punch on the nose from me for Kelsey.
posted by
ghostriter
on Jun 12, 2009 at 02:56 PM
That's cool, random. {getting teary} Wish I had a tape like that of Jordan.
Oh, boy, sage, now you did it. This thread is going to turn into a big atheist/christian bash now. ;P Can't believe that woman had the audacity to ask that. The things some people say...! Shwaine...I never saw Fringe. I wonder if they have the season on DVD. Looked like a fun show, just never got the chance to watch it. posted by
sagefever
on Jun 12, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Fringe is a great show~ you'd love it. I have a tape of Chris,he was about 10. He was singing along with a bluegrass tape and decided to make up and record a new verse! I was mad at the time...but now that tape is priceless. posted by
joe0403
on Jun 14, 2009 at 07:29 AM
Very strange. I can't think of any way "stopping by" the WTC is on the way to upstate unless you were to be going to Syracuse by way of Bermuda. Lower Manhattan is/was a good 2 hours off the NY through way.
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