I was watching Leon last night and the very last scene,where Matilda is planting Leon's plant, as the camera lifts to view the New York skyline the Twin Towers have been airbrushed out.

They were however other street scenes where they were visible,albeit briefly.

This was also noticed the last time I watched Home Alone 2....Although there is even a montage of him at the WTC.

Is this the norm now?

I'm not sure if I agree with this as they should be remembered proudly.

I could probably understand this with dvd's that were re-released just after 9/11 but with films coming out 7 or 8 years later?

what do you think?

muirdo said:

I was watching Leon last night and the very last scene,where Matilda is planting Leon's plant, as the camera lifts to view the New York skyline the Twin Towers have been airbrushed out.

They were however other street scenes where they were visible,albeit briefly.

This was also noticed the last time I watched Home Alone 2....Although there is even a montage of him at the WTC.

Is this the norm now?

I'm not sure if I agree with this as they should be remembered proudly.

I could probably understand this with dvd's that were re-released just after 9/11 but with films coming out 7 or 8 years later?

what do you think?

Friends dvd has the twin towers in them. But when they rerun on tv the edit them out.

Don't need to edit them out.

I find it eerie to see them in old movies/TV. I bet some market research discovered that a lot of people felt that way and that is why they decided to get rid of them. Not respect, just marketing

But I don't think they should be edited out. They were there, and people should not pretend they were not just because it makes them not have to remember something unpleasant.

I could see editing them out of some shows for tv run in NEW YORK for obvious reasons.

Removing them is just stupip....... ...................some people have some strange ideas...

I remember when they removed them from the open of the Sex and the City TV series immediately after 9/11 - which I thought was okay. But can you imagine that beautiful New York skyline in Moonstruck (for example) without the towers? I can't - and I don't want to.

They should leave that stuff alone.

Are they SERIOUSLY doing this crap?!?!?!

You can't change the past. You can't pretend that they never existed.

It's creepy (in an Orwellian sense) for this to go on.

Actually it angers me.

what????

that is FUCKED UP IMO.

let's just pretend they were never there and nothing ever happened. ugh

this is from IMDB trivia for Leon.....

Keith A. Glascoe, who played the enormous Benny, or 3rd Stansfield Man, later became a member of the New York Fire Department, Ladder Company 21 in Hells Kitchen. Courageously he died in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

I wonder if this is why they removed them from Leon then?

I hear pretending things were never there totally cures post traumatic stress.

Please. The buildings existed and they don't now, but removing them from movies and shit which were filmed in NY when they -did exist- is just plain silly and borders on subterfuge.

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I'm very sure in the first spiderman movie, there was supposed to be a scene of him trapping a helicopter in a web between the two towers. That was the image on the promotional posters, and it would have served as a scene that would make spiderman famous (In the movie they just sorta jumped to everyone talking about him being a hero). But it didnt make the final cut for reasons we all know.

ManlyMoose said:

Seems to go with everything else these days. Wish it away or into existence. Reality need not apply.

That's ridiculous for them to remove the Towers.

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It's idiotic.

That is quite disturbing.

I like to think of film, (beyond the actual plot, acting etc) as being a snapshot in time too... as someone else said it's is worryingly Orwellian and utterly disdrespectful to those that lost their lives that day.

It's bizarre that Americans spend all their time going on about things that don't exist ie: gods, but try to erase and deny things that do and did exist.

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What a crock! Damn! Those towers were a part of the New York skyline, so why have them removed from old movies? That doesn't make an iota of sense to me. Oh, and the movie staring "Leon" is called The Professional; one of my favorites.

ManlyMoose said:

I'm very sure in the first spiderman movie, there was supposed to be a scene of him trapping a helicopter in a web between the two towers. That was the image on the promotional posters, and it would have served as a scene that would make spiderman famous (In the movie they just sorta jumped to everyone talking about him being a hero). But it didnt make the final cut for reasons we all know.

Now that I get. It was a timing issue.

As far as movies that were released prior to the attack..I have to agree with previous posters. They serve as a memorial so keep them in.

Shyra said:

. Oh, and the movie staring "Leon" is called The Professional; one of my favorites.

Yeah it's one of my favourites too...Luc Besson never really did much better...The Fith Element I suppose was good...I couldn't tell you what else he directed.

I think it depends where the movie was released by it's title..in the UK it's only ever been known as "Leon"

I am aware of it being released as "Leon - The Professional" elsewhere.

What a terrible thing to do. They were an iconic part of New York's skyline. They should not just be erased as if they never existed

No they shouldn't edit the Twin Towers out of movies pre 9/11 tragedy. That's like erasing history.

Erasing the towers would mean it never happened and this is wrong.

We all - Americans and Other Western Countries - should be proud that they have been

there. And yeah we should, and more over the following generations, be reminded about what happened even if it is this second while watching a film.

Don't expect to see a reissue of the 70s remake of King Kong any time soon.

ManlyMoose said:

I'm very sure in the first spiderman movie, there was supposed to be a scene of him trapping a helicopter in a web between the two towers. That was the image on the promotional posters, and it would have served as a scene that would make spiderman famous (In the movie they just sorta jumped to everyone talking about him being a hero). But it didnt make the final cut for reasons we all know.

Kind of gives me the chills.

The making of the movie The Wiz at the World Trade Center. I love The Wiz!!

[img:$uid]http://www.musicorld.com/screen/thewiz/twintowers.jpg[/img:$uid]

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i think they should b kept - those movies captured a piece of history, why destroy that 2???