terrorism

The films Flight 93 and United 93 both revolve around depicting the incidents that occured on September 11th. Terrorism is an integral theme throughout these films, as they mostly aim to portray factual events that actually occured. The effect of these films is that  they portray how people who were on the flights involved were affected and dealth with the hijacks illustrating how much of a devastating effect terrorism has on innocent lives. Both of the films focus on the heroism that the passengers on board the United Airlines Flight 93 displayed in order to prevent the plane from reaching its target, the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C. Both of these films attempt to show the events as factually accurate as possible, which we also feel would be appropriate for our film idea, as it makes the narrative more believable and urges the audience to continue watching. 

There are also a number of other films that revolve around other significant events of terrorism or terrorist organisations. Munich, directed by Stephen Spielberg, is based on the events linked to the Palestinian militant group, Black September, and the Israeli government's secret retaliation attacks after the massacre of Israeli athletes. The way in which this film influenced our own was that it had a fictional narrative about real events, which we decided to use whilst coming up with film ideas as rather than depicting factual events regarding 9/11 which has already been done in numerous films as previously stated, we wanted to have a unique twist to it where the audience would still be able to relate it to the actual events yet still recognise that it is entirely fictional.