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Author Topic: Films featuring the WTC Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-22-2001 10:42 AM                     I'll start. Godspell (1973.) It features a dance number on the roof of the North tower. Good, though underrated film.  |  IP: Logged Arthur Allen Film Handler Posts: 99 From: Renton, WA, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 09-22-2001 10:58 AM                        The ending of "Trading Places" takes place in a commodies trading room at or near the WTC. And there was a Simpsons episode that took place in the courtyard between the towers.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-22-2001 11:21 AM                     The WIz, where the big production number took place in the plaza below, the "horse of another color" (if you need to reference from the original "Wizard of Oz"  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-22-2001 11:52 AM                        Wasn't it the WTC buildings that King Kong jumped between in the last remake a few years back ------------------ Greg Mueller Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut http://www.muellersatomics.com/  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-22-2001 03:52 PM                     Your right Greg, the 1976 version of King Kong had the big ape climb one tower then jump to the second one. It starred Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-22-2001 05:44 PM                    yep and he fell to his death right between the two towers...I remember seeing King Kong in theaters in 1976....Didn't someone try to walk a tightrope between the two buildings....I can't think of the guys name that did the walk....or if it was the twin towers that was featured in the stunt.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-22-2001 06:04 PM                     Yes, Darryl, the tightrope walker was Philipe Petit, and it was 1984, as memory serves. He had an accomplice help him raise a wire and secure it between the two towers, and then he walked across it holding a balance bar. I recall that the police who were waiting for him on the top of the other tower were mightly impressed, they gave him a big round of appaluse before hauling him off. I think the charges were eventually dropped. It's been over a week now, and it still won't sink in. I come into town on the train from New Jersey, getting off at Christopher Street in the Village, and the first thing I used to look for when I got up to street level was the WTC towers to get my bearings. Now, nothing. Unnerving to know that while you are buying your morning muffin and coffee, nearly 7000 people lay dead less than a mile away.  |  IP: Logged Joel Michalec Film Handler Posts: 17 From: North Cape May, NJ, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 09-23-2001 01:14 AM                        Nothing But Trouble - Chevy Chase,Demi Moore,John Candy  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 09-23-2001 01:50 AM                     Didn't Men in Black wave the WTC in it? It was kinda all over New York City, though, so I'm not entirely sure.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-23-2001 03:30 AM                     Anyone know of any films that show the INSIDE of the buildings? The only one I've heard of is "Three Days of the Condor", which I have the original CAV DiscoVision laserdisc of and will have to check closely for.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 09-23-2001 04:53 AM                     I think I'm totally wrong but isn't the wtc shown in A.I there is a scene where Jude law and Haley Joel Osment are driving around a city with tower blocks.  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-23-2001 08:13 AM                     There's a shot of the Towers in MGMs "Heartbreakers".  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2001 03:35 PM                     How about "Home Alone II", or whatever the one was in which Macauley Calkin was left in New York. I remember watching the particular scene and thinking the sky line must have changed a lot since my great-grandparents were married there in 1910.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-24-2001 09:38 PM                     How about "Superman: The Movie". It not only features a few shots of the real towers, but then also has one of the cheeziest models of the NYC Skyline with not too convincing replicas of the twin towers.  |  IP: Logged Jerry Chase Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1068 From: Margate, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-25-2001 12:34 AM                       I counted over nine shots of the towers in Superman. Side note, I remember the huge pits when they excavated the foundations, looking down and seeing the Path tubes. Never cared for the towers that much, they seemed out of scale to me, kind of like buck teeth on the skyline. Still, I'd rather have them standing now.  |  IP: Logged

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