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The Whole Plate Ep. 3 - Why Is It So Hard To Remember What Happens in the Transformers Movies?

Important questions for trying times.

The Whole Plate: Auteur Theory vs. Michael Bay

Now the real journey begins.

The Whole Plate - Part One: Intro to Film Studies

Welcome to "The Whole Plate - Film Studies through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers"

In part one, we start with the very beginning - a very good place to start.

Also, have started a new system this month for keeping track of patrons, so if you want your name to be credited in a different way than you see, please send me a DM!

Beauty and the Beast and Stockholm Syndrome

#BEASTMODE activate

Coming this summer! Let's try this again addition.

Hey gang, wanted to shoot everyone an update for my summer plans! For the now-deleted post, someone asked, why not make a poll now that Patreon has that option? 

The answer, dear reader--because I did not realize Patreon now had that option. 

As you may have inferred from vague tweets and pictures of Will Ferrell, I've briefly returned to USC to finish the 10 credits I had left on my MFA, and yes, that is why I haven't been as prolific as I'd like to be, especially as there are so many projects I wanted to get started on.

So, a few big things - the first is that I'm thrilled to bring on my first full time employee - Angelina has been my best friend for nearly two decades (like Nella and Elisa, also an alum from the caves of fanfiction.net where we met as teenagers), so she will help me get the gears of war started.

The next is that, because of demand, I'm transitioning the channel to be more focused on video essay style content than Loose Canon episodes. That does not mean LC is DONE, just taking a backseat to try some more experimental stuff.  

Our big project is the long-awaited "film theory featuring Michael Bay" twelve(ish)-part miniseries I've been joking/not joking about doing for years. Yes, I'm finally doing it, and will be doing it alongside other, non-transformers related video essay content! Traditional Loose Canons are not DONE, just put on the backburner for the summer months. So the GOAL (keyword: goal) is to get out three videos per month for the spring and summer months, so cap your pledges accordingly! 

So, for $10+ patrons - if you pledge $10 ONCE in a month, that gets you in the credits for any videos that come out that month. Feel free to cap your pledge - it will not hurt my feelings and won't affect your credit status (I mean, I'm not gonna fight you if you DON'T cap your pledge, but I am just sayin', just so we're clear).  So we are excited to get started on my first multi-part series since... The Dark Nella Saga? Well, we all saw how well I stuck to that schedule (hopefully I'll be more reliable now that I have to pay another professional a comfortable living wage).

As for my next video essay that comes out in April (I'm working on one about Disney's Beauty and the Beast right now, so bear that in mind) - vote for which one you'd like to see first!

Are Disney Villains Going Extinct?

An important question for a tumultuous time. 

Planting and Payoff - featuring MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

So y'all wanted more film studies-type videos? Here ya go!

Early Access - RENT

Fair warning, this one got a lot darker than I thought it would. 

I am so tired.

Loose Canon: Santa Claus

This one was inevitable.

Designing the Other: Aliens on Film

Will try to finish one more video by the end of the month...

I'm tempted to do one about the literal fucking nazis... talk me out of it... 

Hang in there...

How are you? 

Loose Canon: Jack the Ripper

A fun one for Halloween! 

O_O

Hercules Addendum: How Three-Act Screenplays Work

I had to get this out of my system.Look for Loose Canon on Jack the Ripper by the end of the month! 

Video Essay - Hercules: Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess

An overlong dissection of how to grow a mediocre Disney movie from the seeds of greatness.

I gotta say, making an overlong video essay on why a movie doesn't live up to potential or expectations is a lot harder than making one about why a movie is terrible. 

1000 Patrons, next video essay teaser, and schedule!

I did not plan this to be part of the update, but as of today, looks like I've hit 1,000 patrons! Of course that could change at any second, but thank you all, I'm all verklempt!

Secondly, since I get a lot of requests for the really long video essays to compliment the Loose Canon series, I'm almost finished with a new one on Disney's Hercules - look for that tomorrow.

Because I'll be travelling a lot in October, I'll only be able to do one video that month, but in November in addition to your regularly scheduled Loose Canon episode I'll also finally have that long-anticipated much-requested video essay on RENT, and when it comes out hopefully it will be clear why I took so long. 

In the mean time, enjoy the intro to the next big dumb monstrosity oh god what have I done 

Loose Canon: Hillary Rodham Clinton

I decided to go with a safe topic. :)

And this one comes with a CONTEST!! Notice how this has the words "Hillary" and "Clinton" in it, and how that tends to correlate with a certain, shall we say, turbulence vis a vis the YouTube like bar? Well let's turn it into a bet!

Leave a comment with your prediction for the final like/dislike ratio for this video on YouTube by the beginning of next month (October)! Place your prediction in the comments in the form of, for instance, "Like 50%/Dislike 50%." The person who gets the closest to the final percentage by October 1 wins an actual physical prize!!

Mystique

Finally got to do my favorite X-villain(?)!

Next couple are going to be my choice.  Muahahaha. 

Unabridged 9/11 notes & references

http://www.cracked.com/article_19087_the-9-most-offensive-911-references-in-pop-culture.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18729704

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevekandell/the-worst-day-of-my-life-is-now-new-yorks-hottest-tourist-at?utm_term=.gp8GQv1yZ#.hbOLG64jB

Collective Trauma

Tens of thousands of individuals saw firsthand the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon. Even more individuals were shaken by vivid and pervasive television images.

Why people tend not to like images of the attacks now, let alone dumb jokes about it, is it is, well, kind of triggering, but in a collective way.

Americans’ degree of searching for and ability to find meaning in the events surrounding 9/11—may account for differences in long-term adjustment to the attacks and their aftermath.

Images are synonymous with fear and helplessness. The idea of American identity was solidified, for better or worse, because these people and places were attacked for no reason other than being American. The literal rationale used by Al Qaeda was that being American  revokes claims to "innocence", as killing innocents is expressly verboten in the Quran.

Frankl observed that the prisoners who were able to retain a sense of meaning in their experiences were the most likely to survive the horrifying conditions, and he argued that the search for meaning is a primary human motivation that enables individuals to retain hope in the face of adversity.

Movies hastily edited after 9/11

• Trailers for the film Spider-Man were edited so a scene (not in the film) showing Spider-Man capturing a helicopter between the towers was deleted. In the actual film, a shot of the World Trade Center was deleted. The scene of Spider-Man hanging onto a flagpole with a large American flag, seen in later trailers and at the end of the film, was added in response to the attacks.

• In the film Zoolander, the WTC was digitally deleted.

• The WTC was removed from the poster for Sidewalks of New York, though the buildings were kept in the film.

• Shots of the WTC in Serendipity were digitally removed.

• In the 2001 film Spy Game, the level of smoke shown following a bombing was reduced because of its similarity to the smoking WTC wreckage.

• The 2002 film Men in Black II featured a climax that included the World Trade Center. The building was changed to the Statue of Liberty.

• A scene in The Time Machine, in which debris from the moon crashes into a building, was edited for its resemblance to the towers.

• Shots of the WTC in Kissing Jessica Stein were removed before its release.

• The ending to the 2002 animated film Lilo and Stitch was edited from Stitch taking a 747 on a joyride and swerving around buildings, to Stitch taking a spaceship on a joyride and swerving around mountains. The original ending was included on the special edition DVD.

• Stitch did 9/11

• The 2002 film The Bourne Identity was extensively edited due to the involvement of terrorism in the storyline. On the special edition DVD are descriptions of how and why the film was changed.

• Scenes of the WTC were removed from People I Know.

• Early versions of the 2004 film The Incredibles featured a scene where a frustrated Mr. Incredible vents his emotions on an abandoned building, but ends up accidentally damaging a neighboring building as well. This was considered too reminiscent of the World Trade Center collapse, and was replaced with a scene where Mr. Incredible and Frozone rescue trapped civilians from a burning building.

TV Shows:

• Friends, in episode 8x03 ("The One Where Rachel Tells..."), Chandler and Monica could not get on their flight for their honeymoon because Chandler joked about a bombing in the airport. After the attacks, the story was rewritten and re-shot. Additionally, as the show was set in New York, a screen reading "Dedicated to the People of New York City" was added to the end of episode 8x01 ("The One After 'I Do'"), which was the first episode of the series to be broadcast after the attacks.

• http://www.etonline.com/news/170298_watch_the_deleted_friends_scene_that_was_pulled_after_9_11/

• In the opening credits of The Sopranos, a shot of the twin towers visible in Tony Soprano's rearview mirror was deleted.

• The television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit originally included an image of the World Trade Center which was removed for the start of the third season three weeks later.

• Power Rangers Time Force had a number of changes:

• The episode "Ransik Lives" was edited to remove Ransik's television broadcast due to its similarity to Osama Bin Laden's speeches.

• The show's opening titles were altered to remove a shot of the "Time Shadow Megazord" standing on top of two towers.

• Some of the show's building destruction sequences were removed from select episodes following the attacks, as they were very similar to the World Trade Center collapse.

• Two episodes of Pokémon were temporarily taken off the air:

• The episode "Tentacool and Tentacruel", due to scenes where a giant Tentacruel destroys a town called Porta Vista. Interestingly, a scene of the giant Tentacruel smashing a skyscraper was never removed from the opening credits of the first season, though it seems likely it was because that the season had already ended and the anime had already advanced by more than three seasons.

• The other is "The Tower of Terror", an episode where Ash, Misty, and Brock are in Lavender Town in order to catch a Ghost-type Pokémon so that Ash would have an advantage over Saffron City's Gym Leader, Sabrina, who uses Psychic-type Pokémon. While no explanation has been given, it most likely had something to do with the name.

• The "Door To Door" episode of Invader Zim was delayed from airing in the United States and edited to remove some scenes of a burning city post Irken invasion. The unedited version of the episode was aired in Australia, while only the edited version has been released on DVD. There were various other edits and changes made to the series after 9/11, like changing the colors of explosions.

• Transformers: Robots in Disguise was heavily affected by the attacks, and many of its episodes were held back, re-edited, removed from re-run schedules, aired late or didn't air at all in the United States and Canada. The entire run of episodes was aired on Fox Kids in the UK. These episodes are:

• "Battle Protocol" was never re-aired in the U.S. after its premiere due to a scene of Megatron smashing through a skyscraper in claw mode.

• The opening scene of "Secret of the Ruins" featured buildings being destroyed and a reference to terrorism, and the episode was held back to be redubbed. The scene in question was recreated using footage from "Battle Protocol!". Eventually, the episode aired between "Ultra Magnus" and "Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion". It is the episode in which Doctor Onishi's microchip is introduced, so its removal left something of a hole in the series. The original version of the episode has never been broadcast, and for international syndication, only the altered redubbed version was used.

• "Attack From Outer Space", "Landfill" and "Sky-Byte Saves the Day" did not air in the US. "Attack" would go on to air in Canada, and all three would subsequently air in the UK. All three episodes featured buildings being destroyed, and the plot of "Sky-Byte Rampage" revolved around stopping a tower from falling over. However, this is the first episode to put focus on the O-Parts, and its removal from the lineup disrupted the continuity of the show.

• "Spy Changers To The Rescue": There were 2 versions of this episode aired before and after 9/11. The pre-9/11 episode contained references to the generator possibly exploding and a scene with Prowl's jet-claw. The post 9/11 episode had the jet-claw edited out and the possibilities of "explosions" were changed to possibilities of "circuit corrosion" along with other minor dialogue changes.

Music

I was going to put them all here, but I’d basically be copying and pasting this whole wikipedia article. Let me know how you want this broken down/focused:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_September_11_attacks

Overriding theme - country music v. America Fuck Yeah,

“You’ll be sorry you messed with the US of A”

“We’ll stick a boot in yer ass, it’s the American way”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc

Alan Jackson “Where Were You (When the world stopped turning)”

The song describes the experience of an airplane passenger on September 11, 2001, circling over New York City and unable to see the World Trade Center.[3]

2001

• The Amazing Spider-Man volume 2 #36 - “Black Issue”

• South Park S05E09 - Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants - Hulu

• Aired november 7th, 2001

• “Remember when life used to be simple and cool?” “...not really”

• “Maybe you should stop watching the news for a little bit? You’ve been watching it for about eight weeks straight.”

• “Am I to understand that there’s been a… towlie ban?”

• The “durka durka” joke - not clear what the joke is other than brown people talk funny

• Parodies the fear the media was pushing - Stan’s mom being the embodiment of the collective trauma

• Cartman uses a looney tunes gambit that goes on a long while. … yikes.

• “Tiny ain’t it?” cartman: “so that’s what this is all about”

• See, even matt stone and trey parker were kind of going for some sort of catharsis, in this case by making bin laden look look like a harmless buffoon.

• And ends with an unch sincere affirmation

• was the first episode to air after the attacks, is almost entirely based around the attacks and the American Invasion of Afghanistan. September 11 was also referenced in "A Ladder to Heaven", where Alan Jackson's "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" and Saddam Hussein are the main references in the show. In Season 10, the episode "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" takes on 9/11 conspiracy theories.

• Third Watch (1999–2005) TV series

• about first responders in New York City. The events of 9/11 dominated much of its 2001-2002 season, which began with an episode entitled "In Their Own Words" which broke the fourth wall and featured real-life first responders discussing 9/11. The first two scripted episodes of the season were also directly tied to the event, with the first set the day before 9/11 and the second some 10 days after.

• West Wing S03E01 - Isaac and Ishmael - Netflix

• was one of the first scripted TV series to respond to the attacks with a special standalone (and, according to statements made by the cast introducing it, non-continuity) episode, featuring the aftermath of a similar attack. It was written and filmed within two weeks of the real-life attack.

• I wish this was more accurate

• “Strict adherence” - no! No they bend the shit out of the quran just like fundies do the bible. Did you know it’s specifically verboten to kill women, children or innocents in the quran? Like the prophet is really specific on that point? Didja know? Well now you do! There’s a whole bunch of ways that islamic extremists bend and twist the shit out of the quran and that never gets brought up but

2002

• Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image: September 11

• The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

• Twin Towers: : An American Tragedy - (Italian Short Film)

• Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center,( American independent film)

• about a group of people trapped in a sub-basement of the World Trade Center after the two towers collapse.

• 25th Hour, (Spike Lee film)

• set in post-9/11 New York and puts Ground Zero in the background of a pivotal scene

• 9/11 (TV Movie)

• A real life documentary following the events of September 11 from an insider's view, through the lens of James Hanlon and two French filmmakers who were in Manhattan that one day.

• Sex and the City S04E18 - HBOGO

• in which Carrie’s monologue after Big leaves New York—she reflected on losing people, on cities changing, and on plane trips—felt so current that many viewers ­assumed it was added after 9/11, but it was actually just coincidence. It was filmed before 9/11.

• South Park S6E12 - “A Ladder To Heaven”

• Parodies Alan Jackson’s 9/11 songs

• Capitalizing on people’s emotions

2003

• Bandhak,(American film)

• explores the theme of racism against South Asian Americans post-9/11.

• DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, (made-for-television Showtime drama)

• re-enacting the events of 9/11 from the point of view of President George W. Bush.

• The scene where he finds out about the second plane is just… odd.

• Also could they not find a guy who could do a decent Bush impression?

• 16:08 “No slap on the wrist game this time”

• Then it turns into an episode of CSI

• 23:14 - weepy GWB “you hang in there, rudy”

• 28:40 - “strike the war part - one step at a time”

• 41:60 - sensitive scene between bush and cheney

• I do not remember a time during the Bush years when this was like… the popular view of Bush

• Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, USA network made-for-television drama)

• USA made-for-television drama starring James Woods.

• Ne’er a more starry-eyed campaign ad hath there made

• “Just want to see my city” - he’s just so humble and patriotic!

• Movie is mostly a biopic about rudy giuliani than about his experience during 9/11

• “I AM GOING TO MAKE THIS CITY SAFE AGAIN”

• “What have these bastards done to my city?”

• Scene of Rudy basically worshipping the police

• Actually goes into the whole cheating thing, for all that’s worth

• “Don’t even think of trying to CON! Me” woof… dat tv acting

• Most of this movie ends up being about giuliani’s womens

• “She’s never gonna set foot in this house!”

• Well that ended… I’m not sure what the point was here.

• includes Giuliani's response to the events of 9/11.

2004 -

• Fahrenheit 9/11

• Farenhype 9/11

• A documentary which refutes and debunks 'facts' made by Michael Moore in his hit film "Fahrenheit 9/11".

• The Hamburg Cell

    A Lebanese dental student (Karim Saleh) falls in with Muslim extremists who eventually carry out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

• Madhoshi, (Bollywood film)

• Oh no… ooohhhhh no.

• This isn’t going… where I think it’s going is it.

• Then the family reacts

• Zoom

• Zoom (zoom in on Franklin)

• I should probably go ahead and mention that this is almost identical to an outlier that should not be counted - Postal

• Tiger Cruise,(Disney Channel Original Movie) - YouTube

• intertwines a fictional storyline with the events of 9/11.

• 3:50 Features a dad objecting to the use of the word “wack”

• Story of a girl who is tired of being a Navy brat, and wants to talk her dad out of the military life, but then - 9/11

• The main objection appears to be the word “brat”

• 12:28 - bedwetting - stealing jokes from home alone

• 16:30 - really intensely sincere comparison to Pearl Harbor - “caught completely unaware.”

• 46:00 - he agrees to come home.

• 49:30 - speech with wtc burning in the background

• 50:50 - B-pull gets to relive his ID4 glory

• 58:30 - “give me his name/rank I’ll let you know” - guy’s like okay and then walks away

• 1:10 - “for now I have to do my duty”

• 1:13 - very serious talk for one hot sec - very scary, but you have to do your duty

• The two people who lost a family member are handling it well

• 1:24:40 - “everything’s different now”

• The rare “dad you need to work less and spend more time with your family” that ends with

• Yasmin, (German/British film)

• set in a British Pakistani community in parts of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England before and after 9/11.

• Arrested Development - Netflix

• In the episode "Best Man for the Gob", after Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) sarcastically asks Tobias Fünke (David Cross) why his marriage is suffering, Tobias responds "Well, I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help."

• Becker S06E12 - Subway Story -

• Becker skips dinner with an old friend because he accompanies the mother of a 9/11 victim to Ground Zero.

• Rescue Me (2004–2011) - television series

• about the professional and personal lives of a group of firefighters in the fictional Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse in New York City, post 9/11. Flashbacks of 9/11 are prominent throughout the series.

• Team America: World Police

• We’re getting to the point where it’s okay to joke about 9/11

2005 -

• Into the Fire (American independent film)

• In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, three New Yorkers respond to a new tragedy. June Sickles Fiorilli (JoBeth Williams) lost her firefighter son on 9-11 and now lives with her granddaughter Quinn, not far from the very firehouse that her boy called home. Walter Hartwig (Sean Patrick Flanery) is the lieutenant in charge on the night a jumbo jet crashes on final approach into Kennedy Airport, intertwining him to June and music teacher Catrina Hampton (Melina Kanakaredes), who is awaiting the arrival of her twin sister.

• The Road to 9/11 (UK TV Movie)

• Starting with the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War 1 and the remodelling of the Middle East by the west, this film looks at the historical influences in modern Islamic terrorism and specifically the attack on America of 9/11.

• National Geographic: Inside 9/11 (TV Mini-Series)

• Inside 9/11 provides insight into the events that led up to 9/11 by tracing the timeline from al Qaeda's earliest origins through the aftermath of 9/11 and the ongoing investigation.

• The Office S02E09 - Email Surveillance - Netflix

• Michael Scott (Steve Carell) initially mistakes the company's tech support employee, Sadiq (Omi Vaidya), for a terrorist as a result of the Post 9/11 atmosphere.

• The Great New Wonderful, (American film) following a group of New Yorkers one year after the attacks.

2006

• World Trade Center - by Oliver Stone

• Nicolas Cage - is distracting

• Also based on a true story

• Stone is an odd choice as the director given JFK

• Stone also (mercifully) steers clear of that impulse

• There were two major releases, one right after the other, in 2006.

• Oliver Stone took the more conventional approach by making it about fireman.

• Intro reminds me of the beginning of Armageddon

• Clueless japanese tourists

• Is Nick Cage trying to do a New York accent?

• 24:53 - slow mo “RUUUUUNNN”

• This appears to be an escape from the hole movie

• Oooooof nicholas cage is bad in this

• 44:33 - AAAAHHHH AHHHH

• The characters played by Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhal were involved, but one widow - the widow of the officer played by this guy, was not thrilled

• "My thing is: this man died for you. How do you do this to his family?"[1] Staten Island resident Jamie Amoroso, whose husband also died during the rescue operation, has also expressed her anger over the film and said she did "not need a movie" to tell her "what a hero" her husband was.[1]

• United 93

• Paul Greengrass took a more Paul Greengrass approach - very shaky camera

• No name actors - lends to its legitimacy

• Flight 93 (Tv movie A&E)

• The 9/11 Commission Report,drama based upon the 9/11 Commission Report.

• A Few Days in September, American film) about a CIA agent with advanced intelligence of the September 11 attacks.

• WTC View, (American independent film)

• about the effect of 9/11 on a photographer who placed an ad for potential roommates on September 10, 2001.

• Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota (Bollywood)

• tells the story of a group of people from India who were aboard the ill-fated flights that crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon on 9/11.

• Hope and a Little Sugar (Bollywood)

• explores the impact of the post 9/11 atmosphere on a Sikh family and their Muslim friend.

• 9/11: The Falling Man (TV Movie)

• documentary that examines one of the many images that were circulated by the press immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. The image in question can be seen above on the cover of the disc. It shows a man plummeting headfirst to the ground, having leapt from the burning towers. After touching on the events of the day and how the nation reacted, the program focuses specifically on this image, the photographer who took it, its subsequent circulation, the public's reaction to it and why it was later deemed UN-newsworthy.

• The Path to 9/11 (TV Mini-Series)

• Emmy winning television mini-series on the events leading up to the US terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

• Just Your Average Arab, (American film)

• "Arab-American characters meet in the storage room of a convenience store where they take an 'Arab American Survival Guide post 9/11' class.

• Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, (American independent film)

• about the backlash experienced by the country music band, Dixie Chicks during the Post-9/11 climate.

• South Park S10E9 - "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"

• Makes fun of 9/11 conspiracy theories

• “Yes, I’m saying 1/4th of americans are retards”

• Cartman uses conspiracy theorist logic to blame 9/11 on Kyle.

• “Everyone thinks I’m responsible for 9/11”

• Government encourages 9/11 trutherism because it makes them seem realistically omnipotent

2007

• Reign Over Me

• comedy-drama about the post-9/11 experiences of Charlie Fineman who lost his wife and children in the attacks.

• A guy who is just so deluded and in denial about his loss that he’s lost all basic human empathy

• 53:00 - he loses his shit

• 46:00 - “my dad just died” “cool let’s hang”

• Also did not get great reviews and was not seen by a lot of people

• I don’t know how I feel about dramatic adam sandler

• Sandler spends his days being twitchy and distant and playing video games

• Sandler trying to be drama screaming is a little too billy madison

• 36:01 “lost his whole family in a plane crash” why are we being coy about this movie. It’s new york everyone

• 1:04:51 - threatens guy he thinks is a shrink

• You know… Don Cheadle… in order to recieve help Adams Sandler need to want to help themselves

• Postal (American film)

• opens with the 9/11 attacks.

• “Comedy” scene between two hijackers

• This has some of the worst-sounding ADR I’ve ever heard in a movie. It’s so distractingly horrible I couldn’t even pay attention to what they were talking about. Something about the number of virgins they were promised

• But this is the guy who basically started his career with literal dog snuff

• A Broken Sole, a trilogy American short films that use 9/11 as a backdrop.

• Beyond Belief, (American independent film)

• about the post-9/11 experiences of two women who lost their husbands on 9/11 and who set up a humanitarian program for war widows in Afghanistan.

• Brick Lane (British film)

• tells the story of Nazneen, a Bengali who grew up in Bangladesh. It follows her experiences after she moves to London before, during, and after 9/11.

• Khuda Kay Liye,(Pakistani film) tells the story of three Pakistanis and their lives before and after 9/11 in regards to the after-effects to Muslim Americans from the 9/11 reactions.

• The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 (TV Movie)

• This should be essential viewing for all 9/11 conspiracy theorists. It examines all the conspiracies circulating on the Internet and elsewhere, and neatly demolishes them with the truth. With original source material rather than distortions and mis-quotes, and with interviews with people who were there. It also explains why so many people feel the need to believe these conspiracy theories; their government has already lied to them so often, why shouldn't they believe they'd been lied to again? The most telling comments were the ones that describe conspiracy theorists as people who just can't believe that such an act could be done by a few dedicated people. If that's possible, then nothing is safe. So they believe the conspiracy. In fact they are right to be concerned. Nothing is safe. But this was an act committed by a few dedicated people.

• Family Guy (1999–2003; 2005–present)  - Netflix

- These episodes are an example for 9/11 humor, though it may also be a reference to the fact that the show's creator Seth MacFarlane nearly became a victim of the attacks since he was originally scheduled to board one of the planes, but a hangover caused him to oversleep.

• In the episode "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One" (2007) Lois Griffin repeatedly chants "Nine-eleven" to gain voters at a rally while running for mayor.[43]

• In a deleted scene from "Meet the Quagmires" (2007), when Brian and Peter Griffin go back in time, Brian gets into a fight, and instructs the bar patron to meet on top of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.[44]

• In the episode "Baby Not on Board" (2008) the family stops at Ground Zero at their way to the Grand Canyon to pay their respects. Peter remarks "Ground Zero, so this is where the first guy got AIDS". Brian corrects Peter telling him it was the site of the 9/11 attacks. Then, Peter believes Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) had something to do with the attacks, but those were untrue.

• In Back to the Pilot (2011), Stewie and Brian travel back in time to the pilot episode which took place on January 31, 1999. While in the past, Brian informs his former self about 9/11. This causes it never to happen and when they travel back to the present the United States is in the middle of a second civil war due to the fact George W. Bush never won the 2004 Presidential election.

• In Big Man on Hippocampus (2010), during Fast Money round on Family Feud, when Lois was asked to name a favorite holiday, Stewie answered 9/11.

• In the episode Back to the Woods (2008), Peter attempts to get revenge on actor James Woods by going on The Late Show with David Letterman and, pretending to be Woods, tells the world that he is starring in an HBO comedy putting a positive light on 9/11, called September 11th 2000-FUN!, about a window washer who has just finished cleaning the last window of the twin towers; when he turns to get off the scaffolding he sees an airplane and screams "Oh come on!" Peter then makes several evil 9/11 remarks to add to his speech.

• In the straight-to-DVD never-shown-on-television episode Partial Terms of Endearment 2010) a special feature shows a storyboarded scene that was never made part of the episode; in the scene, Peter attempts to kill Lois's unborn fetus by using boxing gloves attached to remote-controlled planes. Two of these glove-planes end up demolishing two sand towers that Stewie is building, causing him to exclaim "This is no accident; we're under attack!", and a third glove-plane is shown to land in a part of the yard labeled 'Shanksville'; all of this is a clear parody of the events of 9/11.

• AmericanEast, (American dr ama)

• about Arab-Americans living in Post-9/11 Los Angeles.

2008

• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,-

• comedy about the impact of the post-9/11 atmosphere on Harold and Kumar.

• You know what’s funny? Prison rape.

• Man… I hope this scene never ends.

• Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (Italian made documentary in English)

• ZERO has one central thesis: the official version of the events surrounding 9/11 can not be true. This documentary explores the latest evidence and witness testimonies.

• Blocking the Path to 9/11 (ABC)

• There's more to the story of the Clintons and 9/11. Over two nights -- September 10-11, 2006, just four months before Hillary announced the exploratory committee for her original presidential campaign, ABC aired The Path to 9/11, a riveting and factual docudrama. This acclaimed and balanced movie faulted two administrations -- Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. But fairness was not what Hillary wanted. Screenwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh told me he had expected the customary DVD distribution. But the Clintons, fearing the impact of DVD release during her campaign, successfully pressured Disney, which owns ABC, to bury the movie. This is a portion of a news article that originally appeared: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261541/hillarys-path-back-911-arnold-steinberg This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arnold-steinberg/hillarys-path-back-to-911_b_9039658.html This article was written by Arnold Steinberg from Huffington Post and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.

• Sarah Silverman S02E11 - Patriot Tact

• after Sarah is criticized for running over men with her car which she mistakes for Osama bin Laden, she tries to raise awareness for 9/11 by putting on a play where her neighbors Brian and Steve dress up as the towers of the World Trade Center.

• The Baby Doll Night, (Egyptian film) set in Cairo post-9/11.

2009

• Kurbaan, (Bollywood film)

• tells the story of Avantika Ahuja and Ehsaan Khan in India and the United States Post-9/11.

• Julie and Julia, (American film)

• the main character works in a call center for 9/11 victims, leading her to find an escape.

• 6:47 - shot of the hole

• Kind of frames families of 9/11 victims like entitled babies

• She’s encouraged not to emotionally engage

• Does help one lady maybe

• T alking with one dimension girlfriends about job - “heartbreaking!”

• Yeah these new yorkers in 2002 sure are detached from this tragedy that probably affected them directly

• 12:29 - She plays a “Mid-level bureaucrat attempting to deal with the after effects of 9/11” good summation, thanks

• Contrasting julie’s experience post 9/11 with julia’s experience post ww2?

• Trying to incorporate other people’s suffering as a thing that needs escaping is awkward. Needless to say the julia parts are a lot more compelling

• New York (Bollywood) - YouTube

• New York cab driver Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh) has been set up by the FBI because they want him to spy on an old friend of his, Samir (John Abraham), who they think is a terrorist. As Omar recounts his relationship to Samir, which began nine years prior, he reflects on his friendship with Samir's now wife, Maya (Katrina Kaif), and how their lives were changed after 9/11. After Omar elects to become an FBI spy, he learns that this isn't the first time Samir has been targeted by the government.

• “PATRIOT Act allows me to detain suspects” - check this, I don’t think that’s part of the PATRIOT act

• Interesting that a movie made by and for Indans remembered the PATRIOT act existed yet everyone was so shocked when the Snowden leaks happened

• New York State University - lol   

• People immediately crying…

• Protagonist Omar gets arrested under suspicion that he’s helping his estranged friend Sam do terrorist things.

• Something you get here that you don’t get in other media is that no one’s born a terrorist, and you end up with genuinely sympathetic portayals of terrorists, which

• Sam gets arrested right after 9/11 over a goofy misunderstanding, then turns to terrorism for revenge. But he’s still a good guy deep down.

• Actual depiction of water boarding

• Really graphic depictions of Sam being tortured

• Both of the main characters’ muslim-ness is understated to the point of basically being non-existent

• NS’s big “America Fuck Yeah” speech - freedom

• Mostly terrorists hate the FBI, not… any other aspect of the US

• The worst child actor in America and India combined to represent the hope for the future

• Fringe S01E20 - There's More Than One Of Everything

• Fringe repeatedly references the 9/11 attacks, as well as depicts an alternate reality/parallel universe in which the show explicitly shows the World Trade Center attack having been averted in the episode "There's More Than One Of Everything," but the Pentagon and White House were attacked instead, as stated in the episode "Jacksonville."

2010

• Remember Me

• Like getting Rickrolled by 9/11

• It even looks like Twilight

• First shot of the film has a significant… telegraph

• In a class - professor mentions terrorism

• Imagine twilight, but no supernatural elements

• This has FUCKALL to do with 9/11

• Brosnan did 9/11

• Dear John, (American film) uses 9/11 as a backdrop.

• Tere Bin Laden, (Bollywood film)

9/11 - part 2

As promised, here's part 2. Usually I wouldn't drop two in the same week let alone the same day, and sorry for that, but as I mentioned in the last post, these were... tricky.

Anyway, technical issues I will work out this week. As always if there are issues with the credits, let me know in a message.

9/11 part 1 (also, ugh)

I had intended to put this up last week, but computer problems and then leaving town necessitated that I move systems, and owing to the size of the project... Long story short, I've had a lot of technical problems. I hadn't intended to dump BOTH parts one right on top of the other on the same day, but there it is. The second part will be up later today. As for technical problems, I'll try and fix those once my main system is up and running again. The final versions will be up on YouTube next week. 

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July episode(s) update

As you may have seen in the previous video, you can vote for the next episode here (http://namebrandlindsay.com/2016/07/06/next-loose-canon-poll/). In the meantime, after about a month of being overwhelmed by the subject, I did the thing I told myself I wasn't going to do and broke up the 9/11 episode into two parts, and, well, when it's finally done, you'll see why. I'll post both here privately before I upload them anywhere else. Thank you for your patience!

Mini-Canon: Marilyn Monroe

Here's the June mini-sode, voted overwhelmingly by you, the patreons, to be Marilyn Monroe. 

Also, so sorry the full episode is taking so long. Doing an episode on 9/11 is... tricky, but it will be up soon!

June Mini-sode poll - music-y sorts (who actually existed)

What's it gonna be? PICK ONE! (and ONLY one)

The Beatles

Elvis Presley

Marilyn Monroe

Ludwig von Beethoven 

Mini-sode: X-men Dying (and un-dying)

Posted this one to YouTube since I wanted it to coincide with the release of X-men: Apocalypse, which is getting raaaaave revie- no. :(

Aphrodite - unabridged notes, research, resources, further reading

• Background/history

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Drinkin' Round the (Disney World) - Epcot Challenge, 2016

(Temporary) patreon exclusive (and obviously not a charged one)! Watch me and my friends get drunk at Disney World (As long as I had the presence of mind to film it) in the best stereotypes Disney has to offer.

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Loose Canon: Aphrodite

~*~The Goddess of Love~*~

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Patreon is being janky so here's the url: https://vimeo.com/164859395 

EDIT: Here's the link for the poll - http://namebrandlindsay.com/2016/05/03/next-loose-canon-poll-a-thing-that-happened/

Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera: A long, drunken video essay

This will have to be the pre-credits version - I'll upload a credits version hopefully later today (it will just replace this file, because you can do that on Vimeo). In the meantime I'm going to double check all the names I have on file for the 10$+ patrons - again please send me a message if I missed your name/spelled it wrong/want to change it/something! I'm planning on hiring an assistant soon to help me manage all this.

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Loose Canon - April 2016 - More Myth & Legend

Alternately, if the poll refuses to load: 

http://namebrandlindsay.com/2016/03/29/lcapr16/

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Superheroes Fighting other Superheroes

Phantom '04 review got out of hand - I'll break that one into two parts (but I'll only charge for one)

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