People's strange fascination with turning disasters into media eventsThis opinion piece attempts to explain why the destruction of New York is featured in movies and takes the September 11 terrorist attack as a case. and tries to find the reasons why disasters that occur in real life remain etched in the imagination of the human psyche. The destruction of New York's skyline has long been an obsession of the American film industry. It is often depicted in the Planet of the Apes series when, in the memorable closing sequence of the first film, we see Charlton Heston find the Statue of Liberty half-buried in the sand. The sequel “Under the Planet of the Apes” goes even further, where it leads Charlton. Heston and James Franciscus discover a destroyed underground city of New York where they witness the tragic ruins of the New York Public Library, the New York Stock Exchange, and RadioCity Music Hall. In the fourth part "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes", the apes completely destroy New York City and, if we go back in time to 1933, it was the movie Monster that started it all! King Kong culminated with a battle between this gigantic ape and the United States Air Force atop the Empire State Building. Besides monkeys destroying the Big Apple, New York has seen its fair share of varying disasters, such as criminals wreaking havoc on the city in John Carpenter's Escape from New York, where the US president's plane crashes in Manhattan , now transformed into a dark and gloomy place. security prison. In the 1984 film Ghostbusters, a team of scientists are called upon to rid Manhattan of ghosts and poltergeists and end up... middle of paper ... the problem of how accidents are projected on the media and how they impact. leave it on the viewers. They should not be glorified by the film industry/media, nor used as a mechanism to trigger a chain of events or messages. This is why there must be a responsibility and the need to draw a line and not move forward with a way of thinking that bleeds, that leads. That's the problem. We are all able to take responsibility for thinking about what we watch and as repeated broadcasting of certain events can traumatize people and cause them to act in a certain way, education and awareness is therefore necessary. References and bibliography ==== =======================The Virgin Film Guide 1997------------- -------- ----Focus Magazine Italy April 2002--------------------------------