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Apr. 1st, 2003 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernisti was watching the USA movie "Rudy" last night.
nicole was right: the title of the movie should have been "What a mensch! The Rudy Guiluani story"
i believe i have ranted on here before about my problems with cinematic portrayals of "complex" men (for some reason this "complexity" is always twinned with treating women in their lives like shit)
but here is a question: the movie kept cutting between Giuliani's life and September 11th. At one point, shortly after the second plane hits, in the movie he calls the White House to get clearance for airspace above the towers, (while all the press mics and cameras are in his face) and finds out that it's evacuated, the Pentagon's been hit and Bush is missing/hiding/airborne in Airforce One, whatever. Realizing that Washinton is going to be of no help (then or in the future), he says "We are on our own. We are the United States of New York." Does anyone know if he actually said it, and then it was downplayed in the press as an "unpatriotic" comment? I am really curious. I don't remember him saying that, but then again, I only had CBS with bad reception that day.
nicole was right: the title of the movie should have been "What a mensch! The Rudy Guiluani story"
i believe i have ranted on here before about my problems with cinematic portrayals of "complex" men (for some reason this "complexity" is always twinned with treating women in their lives like shit)
but here is a question: the movie kept cutting between Giuliani's life and September 11th. At one point, shortly after the second plane hits, in the movie he calls the White House to get clearance for airspace above the towers, (while all the press mics and cameras are in his face) and finds out that it's evacuated, the Pentagon's been hit and Bush is missing/hiding/airborne in Airforce One, whatever. Realizing that Washinton is going to be of no help (then or in the future), he says "We are on our own. We are the United States of New York." Does anyone know if he actually said it, and then it was downplayed in the press as an "unpatriotic" comment? I am really curious. I don't remember him saying that, but then again, I only had CBS with bad reception that day.
