Yikes! This sounds like a career killer.
When Oliver Stone is on his game, like with JFK or Nixon, he's an incredibly solid filmmaker, able to pack a dense amount of information into a compelling, innovative package. But when he screws up, he does so in a big way (the Doors being a good example, and Alexander being an atrocity he'll be hearing about for years to come.) He's got a new film, "World Trade Center," in the works, and people are justifiably worried that he's going to sully an event that is still fresh and painful in the minds of many Americans.
Yikes! This sounds like a career killer.
Bah! Americans can cope, can't they? They seemed more able in the 70s, at any rate. They made "All The President's Men" just two years after Nixon resigned, and it only took three or four years after another national tragedy ended to release such notable Vietnam flicks as "The Deer Hunter", "Coming Home", and "Apocalypse Now". I wonder what state of mind the Yanks were in in those days.
What always baffles me is that everytime something bad happens in the States, they proclaim "our innocence has been lost." Please, people. The only time that washed was the Civil War. Anytime after that, and it's all due to lack of a long-term memory.
Alexander finished off an already dead career
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