Why do so many think this movie is ahead of it's time?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Siege
RynoII — 15 years ago(November 26, 2010 11:25 AM)
There are movies with arab terrorists attacking the U.S., that came out before this, such as To Live and Die In L.A. (the pre-title scenes), True Lies, Executive Decision, and probably more I cannot remember. So why does everyone think this is a prophetic film when it's been done before?
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Director-21 — 15 years ago(January 17, 2011 11:02 PM)
Probably because it dealt with the issue in a more adult manor. "True Lies" and "Executive Decision" (I enjoy both movies) just used Islamic Terrorists as stock bad guys; like the Nazis in "Indiana Jones," the Empire in "Star Wars" or generic gang bangers in many urban cop thrillers.
This film actually dealt with the idea that while Islamic terrorists are a threat there are plenty of Muslims who are proud American citizens; who might find it degrading to be lumped in with (arrested/detained/tortured along side of) the very people who they came to the USA to get away from in the first place.
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RynoII — 14 years ago(April 09, 2011 12:38 PM)
The Siege was somewhat more adult. Even though it dealt with the issue, the actual terrorists in the movie were also stock villains. The main terrorist, Samir, was acting all angry muslim, in a stereotypical Hollywood fashion, so I felt the terrorists were stock characters. The story itself dealt with the issue more though for sure.
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WingMaker — 14 years ago(June 13, 2011 10:03 PM)
Hollywood was preparing the American psyche so to accept the future coming staged terrorist attacks and you know who owns Hollywood don't you!
English is not my native language.
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toky-world — 14 years ago(June 22, 2011 03:11 PM)
No one really thought how people would react to a large terrorist attack on US soil. Every other movie that attempted to do this, always failed with unrealistic heroes/reactions and ultimately bad cliche in movies.
And probably you were born on the 90's or late 80's and have little recollection on living in a world pre-9/11. It was better then. People had more freedom then than we have now. You could go through security check points under 5 min, you could trust people more. Anyway. many things shown in the movie were spot on with 9/11. About AMERICANS not arabs.
The american reaction it's what it is interesting about the movie. -