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If Hollywood has their typical way, Nicholas Cage will race up the stairs and save everyone above the 70th floor. He will race down the steps and dive out the door with a damsel-in-distress just nanoseconds before the explosion engulfs the building behind them as he dives turning in midair with both guns blazing up at the terrorists in the jet. We will get the ultra high-speed film version that will show every detail in hyper slow motion from 15 different angles.
He will then stand up, brush off the dust, utter some trite, cliched, smarmy one-liner, and then take the woman in his arms.
/cynicism
I don't see a need to film a movie version of this event as there are hundreds upon hundreds of hours of documentary and news footage that is far more emotional and wrenching than anything Hollywood could conjure. I no longer trust Hollywood to make anything but focus-group tripe that trivializes our lives and reduces people to a single dimension.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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