Article: The Interplay of Fiction and Reality. 9/11 and the USA as a part of Hollywood
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Once again: Is Hollywood offering its audience unlimited inspiration for exercising violence, both publicly and especially privately? Striking similarities between numerous Hollywood movies and the considerably later events of 9/11 seem to confirm this, at least at first glance: In the final scene of “Fight Club” (1999), we see the twin towers collapse – as a result of a terrorist attack. In hindsight, large parts of “Independence Day” (1998) seem like a technically improved documentation of the factual attacks of 9/11, presenting images of burning and collapsing sky scrapers in New York. And in several movies, air planes do hit skyscrapers and create havoc.
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