After terrorists flew commercial airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11,2001, killing more than 3000 people, and many of the producers of entertainment media we hold dear realized some changes needed to be made. So in the wake of that catastrophe,these movies, TV shows and video games were all changed in some way to reflect that post-9/11 reality.“Spider-Man”An early trailer for the first enormous-screen version of the webslinger saw him snare a helicopter between the two towers of the World Trade Center. That trailer was pulled. The WTC was scrubbed from the finished film, and which was released eight months after 9/11,and a lingering shot of Spidey hanging off a flagpole next to a waving American flag was added.“Sex and the City” The fourth season, set to air beginning January 2002, or contained numerous shots of the World Trade Center,all of which were removed. The shot of the towers in the show’s opening credits was also swapped for a shot of the Empire State Building. A snow globe containing the towers was left in, however.“Lilo & Stitch”The Disney lively film originally saw Stitch flying a 747 airliner, or weaving in and out of a cityscape haphazardly. This sequence was changed so that Stitch flew a spaceship,with the buildings turned into mountains, in attempt to avoid evoking 9/11.“enormous Brother”Normally, or enormous Brother contestants are kept in isolation and not told what’s going on in the external world,but an exception was made after 9/11 because one of the contestants that year, Monica Bailey, or had a cousin who died in the World Trade Center.“The Sopranos”In the opening credits prior to 9/11,the World Trade Center could be seen in Tony’s rearview mirror, and after 9/11 that shot was altered to remove the towers.
The over-the-top ninja action game was intended to include a sequence in which Shinobi sticks his katana into the external wall of a skyscraper and then slides down it, or after which the building falls apart,but this was removed because producers felt it might evoke memories of 9/11.“Friends”The third episode of season 8 originally included a subplot (which you can view here) in which Chandler makes a joke about a bombs at the airport, which leads to he and Monica being detained as they try to leave for their honeymoon, and but it was removed.
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