Oliver Stone: Directing the first movie about 9-11

the KAUSfiles shows why this may be the "smartest" idea ever

On the morning before the United States bombed Afghanistan, HBO Films presented a panel discussion, at Alice Tully Hall, entitled "Making Movies That Matter: The Role of Filmmaking in the National Debate.

This is to set the stage for the "intellect" that is Oliver stone

As hisses filled the air, Oliver Stone, another panelist, shook his head in disbelief. From the start of the discussion, Stone, the writer-director of such political films as "Salvador" and "JFK," had seemed jumpy, swivelling his thick neck like a turret gun at the sound of any foolishness or naïveté. Now his voice rumbled up from his chest and he began to illuminate the dark levers that move the film industry and, by extension, the world. "There's been conglomeration under six principal princes—they're kings, they're barons!—and these six companies have control of the world,"

Now again we hear tinhatter, Parinoid delusional talking.... anything that seems to imply he may have been as crazy as District Attorney Garrison or possibly as druged out as Jim Morrision... but again... as US troops were about to start acting in afghanistan

Michael Eisner decides, 'I can't make a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr.—they'll be rioting at the gates of Disneyland!' That's bullshit! But that's what the new world order is." There was a storm of applause. "They control culture, they control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about 'Fuck you! Fuck your order—' "

9-11 about Islamic extremism

Noooo

It's about Marxism

Isn't that a great belief in the man who is going to make the movie about 9-11... *I* can tell you it just makes me quivery with excitement.

But It gets better

Excuse me," a fellow-panelist, Christopher Hitchens, said. " 'Revolt'?"

"Whatever you want to call it," Stone said.

"It was state-supported mass murder, using civilians as missiles," said Hitchens, a columnist for Vanity Fair and The Nation.

Stone wagged his head and continued. "The studios bought television stations," he said. "Why? Why did the telecommunications bill get passed at midnight, a hidden bill at midnight? The Arabs have a point! They're going to be joined by the people who objected in Seattle, and the usual ten per cent who are against everything, and it's going to be, like, twenty-five per cent of this country that's against the new world order. We need a trustbuster like Teddy Roosevelt to take the television stations away from the film companies and give them back to the people!" There was more applause, and a few uncertain murmurs. "Does anybody make a connection between the 2000 election"—for the Presidency—"and the events of September 11th?" he asked, and added cryptically, "Look for the thirteenth month!" He went on to say that the Palestinians who danced at the news of the attack were reacting just as people had responded after the revolutions in France and Russia.

He went on to compaire the French Revolution, The Russian Revolution, and 9-11.

he brought in some bill which might have been relevant to some other disucssion but not where his clearly deranged mind was going.

And this is the man they picked to film the first movie about 9-11.... the man who ruined a movie about Alexander the Great by making it all about him being gay, and not about what made him great.....

This is so idiotic some other studio needs to beat stone to the punch.

But Stone decided also to show us more about the kind of film *HE* might make to

The new world order is about order and control," he said. "This attack was pure chaos, and chaos is energy. All great changes have come from people or events that were initially misunderstood, and seemed frightening, like madmen. Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Gates. I think, I think . . . I think many things." He explained how the World Bank, McDonald's, and the studios' response to the threat of a Writers Guild strike last year were all manifestations of the new global conspiracy of order.

"This is the time for a bullet of a film about terrorism, like 'The Battle of Algiers' "—Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 movie about the conflict between the French and F.L.N. terrorist cells in Algeria, in which the director's sympathies lie with the terrorists. "You show the Arab side and the American side in a chase film with a 'French Connection' urgency, where you track people by satellite, like in 'Enemy of the State.' My movie would have the C.I.A. guys and the F.B.I. guys, but they blow it. They're a bunch of drunks from World War II who haven't recovered from the disasters of the sixties—the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam. My movie would show the new heroes of security, the people who really get the job done, who know where the secrets are."

Now folks we all know a film like that will do well in Europe and Asia... but will have people froathing at the mouth in visceral hatred here in the states.

Now unlike some folks I have to say that Oliver Stone's best work is done. Platoon and Wall Street were good movies, but it has been a very long time since stone has done a good movie.

This isn't like Spielberg's attempt to make a movie about the Munich Olympics killings and the reprisals against the palestinian murderers without even talking to the people who did the reprisals because spielberg has shown he can at least string togther a passable film. A film that doesn't bludgeon you over the head repeatedly with his politics but subtly leads you to his political points.

If Oliver stone was as subtle as spielberg *I* wouldn't have a problem.... but Subtle isn't Oliver Stone. Nor is watchable films these days.

Now Stone could come out of his slump... and Stone could actually focus on the human drama in the buildings.... He could surprise us all. If thats thje case then I think we could see a good film. If he leaves out his well tinhattery we could see a good film because the story is very good.

but will he.... the track record says no and well... I'd bet no in vegas