Spielberg’s War of the Worlds and the Post-9/11 Influence

Andrew
10 min readJun 11, 2020
War of the Worlds, ©Paramount Pictures

The impact of 9/11 threw Hollywood into a state of confusion: the attacks, which had been viewed as frightening and unprecedented, caused an upstir of sensitivity and fraught reflection in American cinema. Images of the towers were removed from movie posters and trailers (most famously Sam Raimi’s Spiderman), the theory being that they might be too upsetting for American audiences still…

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Andrew

My passions include cinema, literature, fantasy, psychology, music/guitar, photography and ancient/medieval history.