World Trade Center, United 93, etc. ? Would you want a film made based upon the shooting in Sandy Hook or the attack that took place during Bastille Day in France?
9/11, and the whole thing about it, was something very big and complicated, so yeah, as we saw, it had the basis to provide many different movies about what happened that day. But the Sandy Hook and Pulse club shootings, no, there is no reason to make a movie about them. Because a) they have to ask themselves how would the relatives of these kids and people feel about seeing their kid or brother or son dying on screen while people eat their pop-corn, and b) WHAT would the subject be? Those paranoid people's lives? You really gonna give them so much value to make a movie based on their lives? Or would the subject be some of the victims' lives? I'm sure they were just simple people with simple lives, nothing exciting about them, just random people. There is no need to learn about the lives and personalities of every people who die at a shooting. Would we care to know about them if they hadn't died? No. So why would we want now? Because they just died?
If they wanna make a movie about a school shooting, make one NOT about true events (like what Gus Van Sant cleverly did, he did "Elephant" which was obviously inspired by Columbine, but he didn't make a film directly ABOUT it). They don't have to make all that research, interviewing every dead kid's parents about their kid's life and personality and all that, to put it in the movie, and hire some other kid/actor to portray their son. It feels so harsh to me. The same for the Pulse shooting, or that Colorado movie theatre shooting. If someone makes a movie about it, it's guaranteed that he doesn't respect those people's deaths, and he wanna make some cash exploiting that tragic event.
And again, 9/11 is a whole different thing. It's the biggest terrorist act that happened on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, and not 10, not 100 people died, but more than 3,000. Plus, the Twin Towers collapsed and all that. Plus so many other things about it. And "United 93" was a part of it. Yes, it is very-very harsh for those people's relatives to watch that film (I wouldn't blame if some of them couldn't watch it), but it's a different case because it was a part of a bigger and more complicated thing, not an individual event. But generally, even if it was just a random hijacking that happened, there is something about airplane movies that offers material for them to be done, whether it's based on real events or not. Like "Flight" or "Sully". And a movie like "Captain Philips" is a different case, because not only he and his crew survived in real life (I think all of the crew survived, but I don't remember), so it's not that harsh to watch it, but hijacking movies existed forever and it's a very different thing than a paranoid going to a school and killing kids.
About the tragedy in Nice, France, actually it was the first think I thought of when I read about "Patriots Day". If that thing had happened in America, it's 200% guaranteed that they would make a movie about it. But the French, and generally the non-Americans, don't think like that. An American producer thinks like "real story+terrorism+innocent lives dead+recent and known tragedy that people saw on TV/Internet and went viral=MONEY". It's simple as that. Hollywood producers don't think with their minds and heart, they think with math.
At the bottomline, all of these movies have one major goal: to make money. Using other people's real tragedies. The thing is HOW you do it though. With decency, or naivety?
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FlyPirate
8 years ago
I read a rumor that they were already planning a movie based on Sandy Hook a while ago, but focused on the parents/teachers. I wouldn't be surprised if they did. That's Hollywood for you.
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