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This undated photo, supplied by Paramount Pictures, shows
Oliver Stone (L) directing a scene from 'World Trade Center,'
Hollywood's first look at the Sept. 11, 2006, terrorist attacks that
destroyed two of the world's tallest buildings. The movie opens nationwide
on Wednesday, Aug. 9,
2006. | BEIJING, Sept. 5 -- Filmmaker
Oliver Stone has hit out at the movie industry, accusing Hollywood of promoting
war.
Stone claims movies Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down
"worshipped the machinery of war" and glamorized conflicts involving America.
Speaking at the Venice Film
Festival --where his 9/11 movie World Trade Center is
to be screened--Vietnam veteran Stone insists his movies Platoon and Born on the
Fourth of July responsibly portrayed the realism of war, unlike other films.
He says, "Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down--these
movies worshipped the machinery of war and I think America went back to the
concept of war too easily.
"I have reasons to be depressed as a Vietnam veteran,
and I can say many Vietnam veterans are depressed about why we are in Iraq."
In contrast, he claims World Trade
Center delivers a message of hope: "In the past I
made very intense films, very powerful films about dark subjects.
"I did Vietnam at a time when America was very
prosperous and there was no war.
"Now is a time to go the other way--that's my
nature--and I want to be positive.
"Things have gotten very dark and frankly there is
more terror, there is more death, there is more war. The consequences of 9/11
are far worse than the day itself.
"Somebody asked if it was too soon for this movie--I
think in many ways it's too late. We have got to wake up."
(Source: Chinadaily.com.cn)
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