That Oliver Stone sure knows how to tell an incisive and gripping human drama about real people, doesn’t he.  None of this puerile Hollywood tinseltown fairlytale crap for him.  He tells gripping human dramas about real people.  And he gets the facts right.  Sort of…

‘World Trade Center’ omits Black soldier

The World Trade Center movie tells the story of the rescues of New York Port Authority police officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno from Ground Zero, as well as that of the men who rescued them. In real life, the officers were rescued by sergeants Karnes and Thomas. In the film, however, they were rescued by Karnes and PFC Dave Thomas; a composite character, played by William Mapother, a white actor, who is meant to represent Thomas.
   
World Trade Center producer Michael Shamberg said that they knew about Sgt. Thomas’s role in the rescue, but were unable to find him when creating the film. He said producers didn’t discover Thomas was a Black man until after they had started the movie. He also said that in spite of the fact that the film was co-written by McLoughlin and Jimeno was consulted for authenticity, no one ever asked them for a physical description of the man who helped save their lives.
   
“Frankly, we goofed–we learned when we were filming that he was an African-American,” said Shamberg. “We would change it if we could. I actually called him and apologized, and he said he didn’t mind. He was very gracious about it.”

And I’m sure Alexander The Great would have been equally gracious about being turned into a heterosexual too.  Him and his…best buddy…Hephaistion.  And…no way are you the kinda cowardly bottom feeding slug who would think about how much box office he’d loose in flyover territory if one of his 9-11 heroes was a black man…

Shamberg also apologized for another African-American officer, Bruce Reynolds, who was also portrayed as white in the movie.

Er…make that two black men.  So…you gonna leave these guys out of the director’s cut?  Make them more white?