Monday, January 16, 2012
When American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11
When American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11, director Stephen Daldry was nestled in the safety of London, editing his film “The Hours.”His producer, Scott Rudin, got a call relaying the news, and Daldry frantically dialed his soon-to-be wife, New Yorker Lucy Sexton, who was watching the horror unfold from the couple’s 14th St. apartment.“I spent the rest of that day on the phone to my wife, Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale who was on the roof of our building,” Daldry tells the Daily News. “From our roof she had a very clear view of what was going on downtown with the towers.”Returning home a few days later on the first flight he could, the British-born director found his adopted city seemingly “under siege” — the National Guard posted at the end of his street, the posters of the missing, the plume of smoke from downtown.Like all New Yorkers, these images haunt him 10 years later. Daldry, however, is one of the few in a position to make a film capturing the zeitgeist of that time.The result is “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,”Michael kors handbags, cheap Michael kors handbags sale which opened in New York on Christmas and opens across the rest of the country Friday.Based on the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, the movie follows 11-year-old Oskar Schell (newcomer and former young “Jeopardy” champ Thomas Horn), a borderline autistic loner who loses the father he idolizes (Tom Hanks) in the World Trade Center attacks. Trying desperately to find some logic in the senseless, Oskar stumbles on a key that may unlock a final message from his father, and begins a two-year quest that seems to drive him away from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock).“People will have to make up their own minds whether the time is right or whether a story should or shouldn’t be told or what can and cannot be depicted,” Daldry says.
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