I have been hearing rumblings of a couple of movies that are coming down the pike about the attacks on 9/11/01. Having mixed feelings about the inevitable exploitation of 9/11/01... I mean the "news" media has been exploiting it since it happened.
I actually (at the time) disagreed with the decision by the Spiderman 2 producers to pull the scene (from a trailer) where a helicopter is trapped in a web between the twin towers.
But I digress, the focus of my rant today is a hotels.com commercial that I had the unfortunate
timing to witness:
full frame shot of a postcard. A beautiful sandy beach edged by wonderfully bright hotels. A woman's voice seems to be lauding the scene "all these wonderful hotels..." and she drops the postcards and we see the view out her hotel room, where her husband stands peering out at the scene. A giant construction site rimmed by traffic and grey buildings. "And you choose THIS one." the wife finishes with a typical edge of complaint to her voice.
It seems like a funny little commercial... but the fact that it is "GROUND ZERO" really squashes any jovial identification that we are supposed to feel for these people (especially the complaining wife).
I don't often get "outraged" (even though I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where "outrage" is a requirement) but this sorta pissed me off...
Enough that I stopped what I was doing (signing up for a new voicemail-to-email service ) and researching Bayesian filtration (for purposes other than spam).
now back to our regularly scheduled apathetic, self-centeredness
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