I've yet to here anybody express concern (maybe I'm just a worry wort) that The World Trade Center may be edited out in the new DVD release.
As I write this, it is Febuary 4. The DVD was released yesterday, so hopefully somebody here will have the inside story by now and put our (or just my) worries to rest. Hopefully, this masterpiece remains intact and unedited!
I have the new DVD and yes the towers are standing.
shareWhy would they edit them out???
It's not like they were never there. As horrible as it was, they are part of america's history
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I think Sex and the City removed the twin towers from their title sequence after Sept. 11. And there was a Simpsons episode where they go to NYC that was edited later as well.
If you're looking for a great film moment featuring the twin towers, watch Godspell. When they're singing "It's All for the Best," they're dancing on top of one of the just-completed towers, and there's even some scaffolding left. I love Godspell and my dad and I watched it a few months ago and got chills watching that song.
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Thats crazy. I'm not american, so I guess I have a differnt expose, but it just seems wrong to edit them out of anything....you can't just deny they were ever there, and showing them in a lighter, movie situation, would show they used to be a proud part of the New York skyline, or for thoes pro war amrican's, just what can happen, to something so proud....hmmm, I dunno. Not expressing it well, but do you get what i mean?
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I guess it would make sense in some situations. Say you're the director of a movie shot in New York in 2000 and the story is set 'sometime in the near future.' In that situation you could edit them out because it wouldn't make sense for the Twin Towers to be there.
Editing them out of movies clearly set in the eighties or nineties doesn't make sense in whatever way.
Is it true that US releases of Home Alone 2 censor out the scene where Kevin sees the WTC and the scene where he is on top of one the towers taking pictures?
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The issue with the first Spider Man was that it was filmed right before the attacks, and was released into the theaters a few months after the attacks. The horror of the attacks was still fresh and I think it would have been hard to see. Plus, they had a trailer where spider man spins a web between the twin towers and it catches a helicoptor. They aired it only a couple times, as a theatrical trailer, before the attacks, and they pulled it after the attacks.
I can understand in that situation. I don't think that any movie that was filmed and released before the attacks should be edited, but since Spider Man came out right after...
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I know. It is foolish.
I also hated when Spielberg edited out the scene with guns at the end of ET because it was the PC thing to do.
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This movie is already well dated, like any movie set in a specific time period. The movie screams 80's. Look at the clothes. The general beat of most of the songs. If aspects of the film "dating" it is a problem, then the towers are the least of it.
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I could be wrong, but I think the release of Spider-man 3 was too close to the time of 9/11. It was a matter of sensitivity. Now its been almost 9 years. So its understandable that they wouldn't be edited out.
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Spider-Man 3 was made in 2005.
Why would they have edited out the World Trade Centers?
Not to be crude, but they were already edited out by that time.
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Why would they edit them out???
It's not like they were never there. As horrible as it was, they are part of america's history
That's why I'm glad that Martin Scorsese decided to keep the Towers in the final montage of "Gangs of New York".