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Lairen posted...

Would it be offensive if i made a movie loosely based on people from Columbine but the ending they heroically take down the shooters and no one dies?

Or a movie based on some people that were on the 911 planes but at the end they heroically take down the terrorists and the buildings are fine?

If those movies were made to respect, honor, and memorialize the victims in their best light, while criticizing and indeed de-fanging the perpetrators (the Manson Family still has considerable pop culture power, which this movie successfully, if only partially, deflated), then those movies probably wouldn't be received as offensive, no. But those movies probably wouldn't be made anyway, because Columbine and 9/11 aren't tragedies that are intrinsically tied to the Hollywood system, whereas the Tate murders were, which makes them uniquely suited to a movie treatment by that same system.

I get disliking the movie. It's slow. It meanders. It's not for everyone. But I'd say it's pretty far from offensive, and I went into it on the defensive myself, expecting it to be exploitative and distasteful. I came out of it thinking the opposite.
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