WTC Movie and Millar

[jackolover]

I just watched 'WTC', looking for where, what happened, could be traced into CW. For me, it was when those 2 women met at the coffee machine, in the hospital waiting room.

One woman, the wife of John O'Loughlin, went to the coffee machine and put in her money, and nothing came out. Her money just fell through and she picked it up cursing. Then another woman came up and the first woman said, 'Don't bother. It don't work'. So they 2 just stand there, and they both have someone stuck in the rubble, and tell their story. That's the moment Millar captured in CW. The suspension of reality that occurred in both the WTC incident and CW.

In the WTC, those 2 women poured out their hearts to a stranger, and clamped onto each other for support. I think all the combatants in CW are like those 2 women, pouring out their hearts, and hanging onto another for support, in this chaotic atmosphere.

[a-spidey]

I've watched WTC and i read CW, but i must admit that connection never came to my mind

[jackolover]

I've watched WTC and i read CW, but i must admit that connection never came to my mind

Okay, but where I am coming from is, I feel writers have been affected by 9/11, and want to capture some of the emotion of that incident in their stories. Do you think Millar has had his writing affected in some way by 9/11?

I know I have tried to equate the pace and feel of CW ( being mostly devoid of distraction by other events on MU earth), with the WTC movie. In WTC the people see the Towers get struck, and their whole world changes. The everyday, mundane, regularity is suspended, and they are put on a war footing.

One of the things Oliver Stone didn't touch on was the panic that swept through the community as the feeling of being invaded gripped the country. People couldn't tell whether this was just an incident, or a full scale invasion happening right now.

What I have tried to deduce is the impressions Millar has instilled in his stories, with the background of 9/11, as applied to CW. I can cite the Stamford incident as a suicide bombing, and look at Ramos's CW Wolverine covers. The explosion, the Anger at Nitro, Nitro's anger, the demolised buildings. All aspects of the terrorist attacks.

It just required that one element from WTC that Millar brought with him to CW. What , to you, is that element.

[a-spidey]

i guess what happened 9/11 had a effect to many people. So it's possible of course.