I don't know why but I find it eerie, looking at pictures and film of the world trade center before the towers were destroyed. I can't put my finger on it but just makes me feel...sad?
shareYeah and you can see why even a reminder that is no longer there, but then again it really wasn't pretty to look at in the daytime anyways
shareOver 3000 people died so it's understandable why. HA2 covers with WTC have been edited/updated without the towers.
shareSame with the scene at the end of "Trading Places", where they show the outside of the WTC before Aykroyd and Murphy go in to make their killing at the commodities exchange. It is handled very well at the very end of the movie "Munich", panning out to show most of Manhattan with the WTC.
shareI've never seen trading places, is that based inside the WTC complex?
shareJust the very end, which takes place at a commodities exchange presumably in that complex.
shareYou know there's a new One WTC so you can stop feeling eerie for no reason. Why would it be destroyed anyway? That scene was like 10 seconds. Nobody ever explained it to me either. Pardon my unintentional "ignorance." I didn't even know what that building was called as a kid and I didn't go to NYC until 2005.
shareAnother thread, entitled "Trivia Goof: WTC Towers cut", mentioned that it was counterproductive patrotically to erase history like that!
shareThis past Christmas, CBC TV aired this movie. The WTC scene was cut out. Along with a few other scènes. I.E. Donald Trump's cameo in the hotel.
shareI would never watch a butchered showing (kind like, since we are talking 9/11, the earlier war, WWII, replacing a Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters novelty with a 60s Sinatra one because, y'know, the latter holds up, but it IS STILL changing WWII music history, same with destroying the WTC post Sept.11,'01! Boycott CBC TV!
shareI feel the same way. I want them to show it because they were the most visible part of the skyline and I don't want people to forget about them, and they looked cool. But at the same time, it still makes me feel sad to see them. The first time I saw the skyline in real life without the towers I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. Glad others can relate to seeing them in old movies.
shareSame.
I always look away for that part.
I would say that would be the most appropriate and common reaction......especially since the scene admiringly lingers on close, grand shots of the tower (to show from Kevin's perspective) and even shows Kevin on the roof. Knowing what happened to those buildings 9-10 years later? Ya....
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