11. September på film, og hvad den mon kommer til at handle om

Det lader til at Oliver Stone er blevet valgt til at lave den første film om 11. September. Kausfiles har sine tvivl om hvor objektiv Stone vil være, og refererer fra mandens udtalelser på en panel-debat en måned efter terrorangrebene:

"There's been conglomeration under six principal princes—they're kings, they're barons!—and these six companies have control of the world," he said, referring to such corporations as Fox and AOL Time Warner. His voice grew louder as his ideas took shape. "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—' "

Han minder næsten om Claus von Trier, ikke?

Taget i betragtning at Stone i JFK gjorde Kennedys snigmord til et ondt snigmord af onde højreorienterede gyser man ved tanken om hvad han kan gøre når han får et budget på et par hundrede millioner til at forvanske 11. September.

I selve panel-debatten gik han imidlertid ikke fri - en af panel-deltagerne gider ikke høre på det ævl:

"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.

Vel brølt.

Henrik