"All the exchange and theories about how the towers collapsed" have been removed, an HBO spokesperson confirmed.
That prompted him to go back to the editing room and cut the 30-minute segment of the conspiracy theory material from the film. (Experts say the steel didn't need to melt - only bend enough for the structural integrity of the massive building to fail.) After the episode was released to the media in advance of its airing, and Lee made controversial comments to The New York Times about how he doesn't buy official explanations of what happened on 9/11, he received serious backlash. Everything I do is seen through my eyes, for good, bad or indifferent," he added.īut in late August, some things were seen through his eyes but ultimately didn't make the cut in the final episode: interviews he had with members of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, who notoriously perpetuate the idea that jet fuel doesn't melt steel.
"I'm a New York storyteller," he said with pride, pointing out that his art shows the truth as he knows it. The docu-series is Lee's testimonial to the greatest city in the world. As per Variety, the work is a tribute to the city's resilience and its ability to bounce back in the aftermath of tragedy, whether by terrorism or the coronavirus pandemic.
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On the 20th anniversary of the Septemterror attacks, Spike Lee decoded untold stories of the tragedy in a four-part documentary series for HBO 'NYC Epicenters: 9/11 - 2021 1/2'.
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