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Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you about my abhorrence of plot-ruining spoilers. I hate hearing them, I don't like giving them and I rarely talk about them. However, I stumbled upon a spoiler for the new Robert Pattinson movie that is so shocking, I can't help but talk about it.
But before I go into any detail, I thought it prudent to offer up the world's biggest, fattest, boldest SPOILER ALERT! I am seriously about to ruin the ending of "Remember Me," Robert's new movie, co-staring Emilie de Ravin and Pierce Brosnan.
I'm not kidding.
It's coming.
OK, this is the spoiler I stumbled across:
In the final moments of the film, Robert Pattinson’s character has a fight with his girlfriend, played by Emilie de Ravin. He leaves to go to his father’s office and when he arrives, he rides the elevator up to the 92nd-floor. As he waits for his father, he looks out the window and helplessly watches American Airlines Flight 11 hit the building and dies in what is now known as 9/11.
Me <--- speechless.
The fact that Hollywood has dramatized the events of Sept. 11 in "World Trade Center" and "United 93" is one thing. Those films aim to celebrate the heroics of the average men and women who risked their lives for the greater good.
But to literally use the World Trade Center attacks as an emotional trigger seems reprehensibly manipulative and solely engineered to make Robert seem like even more of a romantic martyr than "Twilight" has turned him into. Now, I know what you're thinking -- Jarett, didn't you celebrate "Fringe's" utilization of the Twin Towers for dramatic effect in last May's finale?
The short answer is, yes. However, "Fringe's" inclusion of the Twin Towers was to illustrate the vast differences that existed in their alternate world. Showing Olivia attending a meeting inside the still-standing structure wasn't meant to elicit tears, but surprise.
I guess the question that encompasses the whole of this story is, how much distance is needed from any sort of tragedy for it to become a plausible plot point in an otherwise unrelated 9/11 movie?
Do you think staging the final of "Remember Me" on Sept. 11, 2001 is manipulative or creative?
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Comments (6)
Post Your Commentkingscout
03/16/2010 7:07 PM
Were there not movies about WWI & II 9/11 is part of this country's history-the movie was done respectfully-period.
DFoxed
03/11/2010 6:19 AM
I think the Post should advance screen ALL movies, and tell us what Uncle Rupert thinks we should be allowed to see
JustinDom
03/10/2010 5:10 PM
I disagree. It was only a matter of time before somebody used the 9/11 tragedy in a movie. Most tragedies are incorporated into films one way or another. There are stories about soldiers, stories of suicide, murder, rape, violence... I could go on. If we all stopped going to see movies because we were offended by one part or another, there'd be no more movies. I don't necessarily think it was included just to illicit tears from the audience. The people that were in the building had lives before the attacks and this movie portrays one that could have been. Not to mention the fact that it's JUST A MOVIE. Really shouldn't be taken that seriously.
schlecht1
03/10/2010 4:29 PM
The girls won't care if you spoil the ending. They won't even notice who else is in the movie. They just want an excuse to stare at RP for an hour and a half.
Planes can crash into the theater and they won't notice!!
ny2va11412
03/10/2010 3:02 PM
Not at all. I think what's "emotionally manipulative" are people like this author who have a self-righteous attitude of ownership of 9/11. Are there not supposed to be any movies made to coincide with the bombing of Nagisake? How about movies that celebrate slave-holders like Thomas Jefferson? Is that "insensitive"? To use a real event as a measure of time and a symbol of imminent death is no more our call to make than it is for any other creative decision a filmmaker makes. Not to mention that it was incredibly petty of you to give away the ending because you don't happen to like Robert Pattinson.
ny2va11412
03/10/2010 2:52 PM
bummer