My comparison was about degrees of offensiveness. Obviously this comparison has failed to be understood in the context it was originally intended.
My point was that I don't find the Anastasia cartoon offensive because it does not attempt to retell real life.
Regardless of whether I am a New Yorker or not, I still find the World Trade Center movie, and the whole 'branding' of the September 11th attacks as 9/11, as if it's simply a catchphrase rather than a real event, offensive and derogatory to those who died. As a Londoner, I too have experienced an attack close to home and I feel that making a movie about these things is completely unnecessary. The 'let's make a movie about it', as if we NEED to make a movie to make these people heroes, rather than them being heroes for their own sakes, is what offends me. Making a film out of something that has literally changed the world forever, and that happened only five years ago, is downright offensive as far as I'm concerned. People died going about their everyday lives. They will always be remembered for the terrible means of their deaths. Do we really need to go to the cinema and pay money to see what heroes these people were, as depicted by Nicholas Cage? I think that's disgusting, myself, and Hollywood cashing in on the suffering of others. But everyone feels differently about these sorts of things, and if you think a film that does nothing but earn the cast millions of dollars is a fitting tribute to those who died, then fair dos.
I agree this subject is clearly closed now. We're obviously never going to agree!
Rachel
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