Talk about a shock. Twin towers on the TV screen.

[Justice wanted]

So I decide to watch Working Girl tonight and I put the movie on not paying attention to the screen because hubby was talking but when I looked back at the screen the twin towers. It just made me think HOW MANY movies used that skyline to tell people where a movie was set. I mean you saw those two towers and you knew It was about New York and it was about business in some way shape or form.



May sound crazy to some people BUT seeing an old movie like Working Girl really affects me more than the "memorials" and all that. Does it make sense.

[Nye Bevan]

1. I drive on I-278 through Brooklyn quite regularly

Approaching the Battery Tunnel there used to be a striking view of the Twin Towers looming over the skyline. To this day doing this drive I still feel sad that they are missing.

[Justice wanted]

18. I bet it was really hard right after it happened.

[Skinner]

2. Twin Tower Cameos in Movies

http://vimeo.com/28171399

[Walk away]

3. Try driving past the skyline every day!

I watched the North Tower collapse while sitting in my car on the way to see a client. Now I drive past the empty space three or four times a day.
It's so strange. First I see the Empire State Building and then the rest of the Mid Town towers and then ... nothing.

[Justice wanted]

19. oh, man. I don't think I could stand that memory. I'm so sorry.

[libinnyandia]

4. I lived in New York for over 20 years and took many photos from and of the WTC

and saw the the towers on fire and falling. Though they are gone I will always remember.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The building in the last scene when the camera pulls away is no longer in existence.

World Trade Center 7

[pipi_k]

6. The song

remains the same...

music video by Led Zeppelin, filmed in NYC back in the 70s... I watch it at least once per year

they're taking a limo from the airport to MSG and yes...there are the twin towers in the background.

Gives me chills

[Canuckistanian]

7. I recently bought some episodes of Barney Miller

And in every show, there's the skyline of NYC with those towers.

It's still kind of hard to imagine New York without them.

[Sedona]

8. Opening credits Sopranos

View of the World Trade Center and rest of Manhattan in Tony Soprano's mirror.
Starting with Season 4 (the first episodes since the 9/11 attacks), this shot was replaced with two different shots.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sopranos+world+trade+center&view=detail&id=BDED37608229E77ED3C5E7938FFF565B65A92B2C&first=61&FORM=IDFRIR

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[thucythucy]

9. The October 2001 issue

of National Geographic had a full page shot of the World Trade Center taken from the top of the Empire State Building. It was a pure coincidence--the article was on light bulbs, of all things, and the shot was of the guy who changes the bulb at the top of the tower at the top of the ESB. Obviously the issue had been printed and mailed before 9-11.

It was an eerie feeling, and a very sad one, opening to that page at that time.

I love New York. Whenever I hear Palin or some other Republican hack run on and on about "real America" and "small town values" (as if people living in cities are somehow less American or have deficient values) I think of the amazing scenes of courage and compassion that day, amidst all the chaos and horror.

We'll be dealing with the consequences of that day -- and its shameless exploitation by the Bush-Cheney regime -- for the rest of our lives.

[saras]

10. It also dates the movie to 1970-2001, older movies used something else

If the Manhattan skyline wasn't distinctive enough, the Empire State building was. And there's always the Statue of Liberty.

[TheDebbieDee]

16. The top of the Chrysler Building is quite distinctive and beautiful........

The Chrysler Building and the CitiBank Building (at least, I think it's the CitiBank Building - it has a top that slopes in one direction) are dead-on clues for me that I'm looking at the New York skyline.

[Lex]

11. Moonstruck (with Nicholas Cage and Cher) features them in

many shots. I watched it recently and it was a jolt seeing them there on the screen.

[sadbear]

12. They were in The Simpsons, too.

When Homer lost his car and got a notice that it had been booted at the WTC.

[hedgehog]

13. The original trailer for Spiderman featured

a helicopter full of bad guys that gets entangled in a web strung between the towers.

There's an episode of the Simpson's in which Barney leaves Homer's car parked illegally in the WTC plaza.

[Johnny Noshoes]

14. I watched them rise...

I watched from my bedroom window as they slowly rose into the sky in the early 70's. In the American version of Life On Mars when the main character "arrives" in the 70's he's walking along and looks up and if you're a New Yorker you know what he sees and his reaction is something like "Oh man this is NOT possible."

[Liberal In Texas]

15. It was eerie seening the Towers in "Fringe"

in the alternate universe. Where the Twin Towers hadn't been destroyed. Leonard Nemoy had an office on on of the top floors. And there was a dirigible landing station on the top of of one of the towers.

[uppityperson]

17. I've come across them in movies and it takes me aback. Not living there, seeing them for real, then

not seeing them for real. But I know what you mean. They were used as a backdrop so often, were just there. And now aren't.