Title Card : "Your government failed you, and I failed you. Narrator : March 13, The Document proposes staging terror attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay to provide a pretext for military intervention in Cuba.
The plans included: starting rumors The passengers, federal agents in reality, would allegedly be college students on vacation. The duplicate would be substituted for the real plane and loaded with the passengers. The real plane would be converted into a drone. The two planes would rendezvous south of Florida. The passenger laden plane would land at Eglin Airforce Base to evacuate its passengers and return to its original status.
The drone would pick up the scheduled flight plan and, over Cuban waters, transmit a mayday-signal before being blown up by remote control. Narrator : December 1, Before its destruction the plane flew unmanned for a total of 16h 22 min including ten takeoffs, 69 approaches, and 13 landings. Sign In. Video 1h 22m. Play trailer Documentary History Mystery. Director Dylan Avery. Top credits Director Dylan Avery. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Loose Change: 2nd Edition.
Photos 3. Add image. More like this. Storyline Edit. For years, techno-utopians pontificated about how the Internet would democratize the production and dissemination of information, freeing us from the tyranny of media gatekeepers and creating a true marketplace of ideas. Loose Change realized that promise. Now, 15 years after it was first released, Loose Change also has a more troubling legacy, one that the filmmakers insist they never intended.
When Loose Change was released, it proved the Internet could be a powerful political organizing tool—both online and IRL. But it also foretold the dangers of letting that information ecosystem proliferate unchecked. Loose Change , as a documentary, was an accident. It was originally intended to be a summer popcorn flick. Avery had been rejected from the film program at Purchase College, SUNY, the year before and would be rejected again in , but he was undeterred.
He decided to make a film himself. Avery shot a few scenes and quickly discovered an unfortunate truth about Hollywood blockbusters: They cost a lot of money to make. I wanted answers about why we were there.
I wanted accountability. As he pieced the film together, Avery would send early cuts to his childhood friend Korey Rowe, who was 19 years old and on tour in Iraq. In a bizarre coincidence, Rowe had enlisted in the Army in late August of ; his first day of basic training was September 11th.
Conspiracy theories about what actually happened on September 11th had been circulating online on sites like review. Avery released the first version of Loose Change on April 13, , on DVD and Bittorrent, the file-distribution network, to little fanfare. Almost immediately, Avery decided to make a second version of the film based on feedback he received online. By this time, Rowe had finished a first tour with the Army and returned to Oneonta embittered.
Initially supportive of the U. Bermas joined their filmmaking team, bringing with him his cache of videos and a pugnacious intellectual style. Bermas does not dispute the description. I love going out to drink, talking to girls, watching MMA. I have the gift of gab. Avery directed, with Rowe serving as producer and Bermas as the chief researcher. It was a peculiar instance of life imitating art.
At the height, they say they were moving copies a day. But it was Google Video, a precursor to YouTube, that turned the film into an international sensation. The filmmakers never thought to put the movie online themselves.
Later, people would share and watch snippets on YouTube. A subsequent iteration was available for streaming on Netflix from to By the time Loose Change: Second Edition hit the Internet, it was apparent that there were not, in fact, any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that our invasion of the country was, at best, predicated on faulty information.
There was a palpable sense on the left that America had lost its way under the Bush administration. People all across the political spectrum were skeptical of government, and the mass discontent gave Loose Change rare bipartisan appeal. It was about people who believed what they were told and people who were skeptical of the government. P2P sites and streaming video allowed people to share the film with ease, but even so, the film spread mostly by old-school word of mouth, according to Mike Cernovich , a pro-Trump social-media personality who rose to prominence by peddling anti-Hillary Clinton memes and, in particular, the Pizzagate conspiracy.
Loose Change is incredibly powerful. The film turned Avery, Bermas, and Rowe into underground superstars. All of the people named in the previous three paragraphs declined to comment for this article. The Loose Change trio spent touring the country, attending Truther rallies, speaking on college campuses, and conducting film screenings. The three of them moved into a converted trailer on a acre parcel in Oneonta. They called it Camp Freedom. For nearly two months, a team of researchers explored whether there was any merit to these theories.
Meigs says he was open-minded heading into the project. He was particularly intrigued by the conspiracist claim that United Flight 93, which crashed in an open field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers tried to wrest control of the aircraft from the hijackers, was actually shot down by a military aircraft.
There was an engine part found yards south of the crash site, which is perfectly reasonable for an aircraft traveling more than feet per second. Paper and scraps of sheet metal were found in nearby Indian Lake, but that was 1.
The second aircraft people saw? The plane was flying to an airport 20 miles north of Shanksville. The story generated millions of unique visitors that month, Meigs says, and remained the most popular story on the site each month for years. Just as quickly, it precipitated a torrent of hate mail. We were connected with Bush-Cheney, we were connected to Mossad.
And then Loose Change accelerated everything. Loose Change continued to grow in stature despite Pop Mech 's story, a portent for how easily establishment media can be overwhelmed by the lawless, fragmented nature of the Internet.
No amount of fact-checking could combat the appeal of mystery and the speed with which people shared misinformation online. The opposing camps eventually confronted each other in an in-person, videotaped debate hosted by Democracy Now , a leftist news site. Avery and Bermas squared off against Meigs and Popular Mechanics executive editor David Dunbar , who led the research efforts for the article. The filmmakers wanted to capitalize on their fame and create a new, more polished version of the film that would play in theaters, and for a moment it seemed as if that might happen.
Charlie Sheen expressed interest in narrating the film , the filmmakers say, with billionaire Mark Cuban providing the distribution, but a deal never materialized. But I did see a market for watching movies like this.
They were going to get Charlie and make it a more marketable movie. That never happened. So discussions never went further. Rowe claims the deal fell apart because Warner Bros. The movie has a dismal 11 percent rating on movie-review site Rotten Tomatoes , with critics calling it hollow and emotionally manipulative.
Jones financed the film and was its executive producer. But the fervor quickly dissipated. The Loose Change crew went their separate ways after that. The Truther movement splintered as well. Bermas did a stint at InfoWars and remains active on the conspiracy scene. He now hosts a YouTube channel with 56, subscribers, where you can hear him rant about politics. Rowe makes independent films. The film spread misinformation to millions and infected them with the idea that widely agreed-upon facts can, in fact, be total fabrications.
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