Sunday, September 09, 2012

Jumping from WTC Foreshadowed in Tom Cruise Movie "Vanilla Sky"

The movie was released in December 2001 but clearly was filmed long before then, and well before 9/11. The end scene has Tom Cruise jumping off an incredibly fictional tall building on the north end on Manhattan, and sailing in the air, a la the 9/11 WTC jumpers. Further ironies are (see snapshots* from the paused movie below): 1) that one can see the iconic WTC twin towers in the distance, 2) the building Cruise jumps from looks like the WTC, 3) the falling Cruise looks quite like the iconic 9/11 images of WTC jumpers.

Note the WTC twin towers off in the distance here (to the right of the moving man's arm):


The bldg Cruise is falling from is to the right, note the facade. Cruise's body is in the middle of the shot:

Very odd.

I'm sure others have noticed this striking similarity before, but I didn't see anything obvious in a google search, except for one blog post somewhere, which was quite minimal in its description.

I did see the director supposedly wanted to cut the WTC from the shot after 9/11, but apparently never did.

The movie is weird all the way around-- one of those movies where you don't know what is real and what is a dream or fantasy. Perhaps something like 9/11.

Also, the movie starts on the characters' 33rd birthday, and revolves around what happened that day.

*I apologize for the poor quality and the reflections in the shots. Just wanted to get some quick shots to give people an idea of the imagery.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:03 PM

    Sorry, but I can't make out the images you posted.

    However; isn't it the consensus of most people who've studied 9/11, that the so-called jumpers were just dummies, and that even the sainted "Edna Cintron" only stood in an open space for a while, and then either she or someone else pushed a dummy dressed like her - out the building and downward on to Glory?

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  2. Anonymous8:18 PM

    even if edna cintron only waved for a little while and then her dummy was thrown out as if she jumped, the fact that she was there and waving at all, totally shoots the govt/media fairytale, (that a 767 hit the tower right where she was waving from, and then an "inferno" ensued, which caused the "progressive collapse" of the tower), right in it's own foot.

    someone needs to waterboard larry silverstein. and richard perle. and dov zackheim.

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  3. spooked9:46 AM

    I wouldn't say it was a consensus of most people who study 9/11 that the jumpers were dummies at all. I have heard all kinds of ideas on this. That being said, I really haven't studied the jumpers issue that much. However, I am not a fan of fake victim scenarios at the WTC.

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