Posted on 10/17/2001 11:31:57 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
Veteran film director Robert Altman has blamed Hollywood for "inspiring" the recent attacks on the US.
"Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie," said Altman, who also directed MASH and The Player.
Violent blockbusters "taught them how to do it" and Hollywood must now stop showing mass destruction in movies, he said.
We created this atmosphere and taught them how to do it
Robert Altman "The movies set the pattern, and these people have copied the movies," added Altman, who is preparing to release Gosford Park, a 1930s murder mystery set in aristocratic England.
The 76-year-old Oscar-nominated director said violent action films with big explosions - usually targeted at young men - amount to training films for such bold attacks.
"How dare we continue to show this kind of mass destruction in movies?
"I just believe we created this atmosphere and taught them how to do it," he said.
A number of Hollywood productions have been changed, put back or scrapped since 11 September because of their similarities to events in America. But that has been because film studios think the subject matter is now inappropriate - and not because they do not want to inspire further attacks.
'Grown-up films'
Altman hoped that the TV footage of the attacks and their aftermath will now make audiences prefer more thoughtful, character-based films. "Maybe there's a chance to get back to... grown-up films - anything that uses humour and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people," he said.
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones have a home in Manhattan
Meanwhile, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Michael Douglas, has urged Americans to return to air travel after the hijack bombings.
"We are all nervous but I think you have to live your life," the actor said after flying from New York to Scotland to take part in a pro-am golf tournament.
Douglas, star of Wall Street, Basic Instinct and Traffic, has a home in Manhattan and was in the city at the time of the attacks. "We encouraged everybody at that time to go to New York because they lost a lot of business," he told STV television. "Hopefully things will pick up, but people have just got to get on with it. You can't live in fear."
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Blame Jerry Bruckheimer
(Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, that's you).
Blame homosexual movie execs for putting these two fruit loops in EVERY MOVIE.
Hey, I liked Popeye. And I'm
not alone, either. I don't think....
Adios, muchacho.
They would if her name is Juanita Broaddrick.
It sure is nice not to be hearing the Republicans being blamed, for once. I hope I do not speaketh too soon.
For all his posing as an outsider, every one of his films has been produced by a major studio. He uses 'ART' as his scam.
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