Twin Towers
I was watching the movie in TV a couple days ago, and I noticed that they tried to edit out the twin towers, but they did a rather horrible job of it and you can still faintly see them. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Why would they do that you can clearly see them on the DVD Cover.
shareHe's talking about a TV screening, Networks edit certain things out that have a sensitive nature, thats why (if you ever see it on tv) The infamous (and hilarious) Twin tower scene in an episode of the simpsons, where they travel to new york, and homer has to use the bathroom, he takes the elevator all the way to the top and on the bathroom is a sign that says "OUT OF ORDER, USE OTHER TOWER", takes the elevator back down goes to the other tower, and sees (from the window) the policeman he was waiting for issuing him yet another ticket
In the edited version homer only races to the top of one tower, completely cutting out the other tower in the scene, also cutting out any references to the WTC (I.E. Homer saying "World Trade plaza" and shots of the towers)
You know, you'd think it's been time enough that the towers are no longer painful to the public. It comes close to mockery to try and erase them from the past (like taking them out of a 2000 movie). Movie and album covers with the WTC are no longer hidden away. Of course, I never noticed this, but I did watch a TV version once and it was truly awful, it was cut so badly. I would think the towers would be the least of the changes to worry about.
shareI saw it too! I logged onto IMDB just to see if anyone else saw it. It really is patheic. And the intent has just the oppposite effect. The towers sit in the background of the scene. The washing effect brings your attention to them. I probably would not have even noticed the towers had the network monkeys not tampered with the scene.
I have no idea why the news can show graphic video of the planes slamming and exploding into the WTCs over and over, but to show them standing up in a movie or a scene with them in a cartoon before the attacks is too offensive.
To me, that would be like allowing your child to watch a porno but turning off another movie because it has a boy and a girl kissing in it.
I watched this on TV one time. I didn't notice the towers. I wonder if when they show Home Alone 2 on TV, they take out the scene where Macauly Culkin is taking pictures from the top of the towers.
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Look at this pic:
http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0185431/Ss/0185431/2?path=gallery&path_key=0185431
They did a bad job.
Why do they edit this stuff out?
Now they are trying to deny the towers ever existed? wtf?
wow i never noticed ill watch it later to see for meself....
shareWhat I find funny (in a morbid way) about the simpsons and the editing out of any reference to the WTC (Homer just went up 'a tower' instead of the WTC) is that there is an episode where Monty Burns Casino is demolished and it has a scene where everyone is running away from a collapsing building, smoke and dust chasing them down the street... almost exacty the same as the news reports from September the 11th. That gets left in, Homer saying World Trade Centre gets edited.
And while I'm ranting, the episode scheduled for September the 11th was one where Sideshow Bob tries to blow up Springfield with a bomb. Quite understandably the BBC swapped the episode and put a different one on, as Bob=Terrorist (although technically bombs weren't needed when you had a big plane to use).
Forward a few years, we (the UK) had some suicide bombers (with actual bombs) blow up chunks of London. Guess what episode Sky showed?
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"By chunks, you mean just small parts with a few buildings blowing up? Because chunks were not blown up from London, d******d. "
What the?!? I have absolutely no idea what you are saying or why you felt the need to insult me.
Ummm, are you saying that it wasn't chunks that were blown up? Should I have said pieces? Portions? Areas?
Help me out here, parts of London were damaged by explosions, how else should I have phrased that?
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It's because the people who control American television networks exert a covert censorship over anything that they perceive might affect advertising revenue. They don't want people changing channels, or heaven forbid, switching off their TVs because something they saw in a movie reminded them of the real world and upset the applecart of their docile escapism.
It's okay, stay asleep America, keep watching television.
but thats stupid... we see twin towers in movies all the time.. wat made it so bad about this movie that they edited it out?
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i think that they think that it will make some people sad to see the twin towers again after september 11th
to be honest i kindof get why they would try to edit it out
I agree with people who think any content about the twin towers should be edited out. Many people died in that. Some of those families cry when they see a picture of it. The twin towers is a very somber subject for America. I haven't lost any loved ones in it, but I still come close to crying seeing pictures of the buildings being destroyed and such.
shareI get sad whenever I see anything that reminds me of the worst terrorist attack in history (such as atomic bombs or the word Enola) but you don't hear me demanding images of Japan are removed from films.
My friend got run over, but I don't have a break down every time I see the number 76 bus.
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They? You're saying it like as though the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki even had a say in the matter. What would you care anyway...
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and this attitude is exactly why most of the world seems to hate america and americans...
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no, i'm just saying that stating "japan got what they deserved" is the exact same as when others say that 'america got what they deserved' when they talk about the twin towers.
anyway, back to the original reason for this thread, i believe it is stupid to remove images of the twin towers from any film. just as i really hate most censorship, especially when films are cut up to be shown on tv...i reckon if you don't like what you see, just turn the tv off! its pretty simple...
I think that censoring out the Twin Towers is stupid. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I have no respect for the people who died in there, but they edit out the Twin Towers in Little Nicky, but many movies about 9/11 are shown on TV a lot. And I agree with kid_Death99, news stories clearly showing the Twin Towers are shown.
sharei dont get it. they shoudl keep the towers in fully visible to honor the towers memory, the memory of the people who died, and the, however trajic, memory of 9/11.
by taking the towers out, it seems like the world is trying to forget about it and act like it never happened.
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