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How War of the Worlds became most controversial movie
Gulf Today
|July 05, 2025
The threat had come from within; from “right beneath our goddamn feet”, as Tim Robbins’s paranoid patriot Harlan Ogilvy would put it.
Twenty years ago this week, Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds opened in British cinemas, offering us a big-budget replay of a trauma from which many of us were still recovering. The film wasn't subtle in its nods to 9/11. After an opening shot that lingers on the Manhattan skyline, a deadly attack unfolds, glimpsed at one point through a grainy home camcorder. Citizens sprint from collapsing buildings, a church being one of the first structures to fall (September II was, after all, the first strike in what both sides would frame as a holy war).
This story is from the July 05, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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