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Film Summary And Film Analysis: World Trade Center
World Trade Center
By Nicomi Kloempken
Liberty University
April 2014

World Trade Center Years after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York city, Oliver Stone (1946-) directed the movie World Trade Center (2006 version). The movie follows the various characters thru their seemingly normal day of work; Except this day the terrorists fly two planes into the two towers. Nicholas Cage stars as the lead Port Authority Police officer, John McLoughlin. He says to his gathered men during a briefing, “Protect yourselves and watch your back.” (Cage, 2006). Shortly thereafter plane one crashes into the World Trade Tower #1. The police officers have planned and trained to react to any other kind of disaster: bombs, car bombs and the bombing in the …show more content…
There was no special equipment available to help them deal with the devastation that happened that day. In 1993 a terrorist car bomb was set off in the parking garage of one of the towers. One must note that they did have plans to deal with disasters, someone on sight was in charge of the initial response, and the officers were deployed quickly. The chaos that Director Oliver Stone depicted was very much realistic compared to the actual available news footage of the sight. A group of men chose to enter into the crash site of their own free will. They borrow the firemen’s gear from the available pile. They had been trained in the past on how to use the breathing apparatus. They received their flashlights, and to their credit, they checked to make sure they worked properly before continuing. John McLoughlin (Cage) kept his team gathered together, calm, and focused on the task at hand. As a first responder I can say that as you train, or practice, that is how you will perform in a real life emergency. Although the team did not have current or up to date
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