Marion Cotillard Says 9/11 Was Made Up
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends.
Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, Cotillard said:
“We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated “money-sucker” that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
Okay…so all the news stations put the “fake airplanes” in the towers to get rid of them? What about all the people? OMG!! Some of the interview took place last year too, where she was asked about the landing on the moon.
She said: “Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”
I’m thinking she won’t be getting much work in the States now…
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I loved her performance in ‘La Vie en Rose’, but she showed the fatal French Achilles heel which is a snotty anti-Americanism and a pseudo intellectual disdain for ‘bourgeois’ values like ambition, caring about financial compensation, etc. while acting in direct opposition to that. (Girlfriend is plenty ambitious, her contempt for ‘Anglo-Saxon’ values notwithstanding.)
This is endemic to their culture. I remember my French grandmother scoffing in disgust and feigned horror when my brother and I asked for ketchup to go with our scrambled eggs when our parents left us there. “Am-e-r-ee-kans!” she would hiss in disgust. They believe that Adam and Eve were a poor rough draft before that towering achievement of creation, the French man and woman were created.
The French are grand, but their crappy attitude about Americans gets a little tired. I think she’s hurt herself as an artist working in this country and it’s her own arrogant fault.
This interview was taken from Marion Cotillard ONE YEAR AGO, not last week. Get your facts straight before you try to ruin someone whose opinions you don’t agree with. Tolerance is the price of living in a democracy. And please note that in the last seven years the US has bashed France and the French many more times than the French have bashed us. Can we ever get over the embarrassment of “FREEDOM FRIES”? This whole thing has been blown out of proportion by an anti-French British tabloid; its “reporters” must have sat up all night looking for stuff to embarrass Cotillard with. That’s what she gets for winning the BAFTA, I guess. She did hundreds of interviews in the States leading up to the Oscars and never said one word which was not gracious and grateful for being here. I don’t believe anyone in the film business will refuse to hire her based on this nonsense.
I know all about the ketchup thing…I went to Europe when I was younger and asked for ketchup at McDonalds…and they said the same thing (although I am Canadian). But I have a feeling she won’t be welcome to work in the States…and like you said…it’ s her fault.
um, it is the same concept of ppl not believing the holocaust happened, ppl died and they think whatever conspiracy theory they can, but how about forgetting about the government for one second and feel the pain of the people. she said some things a year ago in france, where they expect it, and then leading up to the oscars she was nice… well yes. she is in america and she should be nice… we expect it. she is an actress.. she gets paid to make us believe what she wants us to… simple as that. and the french have been bashing us for decades… it didnt just start, it is a revolving door… we just now are getting verbal about it.
Marion never denied the attacks took place, so this is not the same as denial that the holocaust was real. It would be like claiming that Hitler was not the only one responsible.
I thought that was the beauty of the democracy that the US is trying so hard to impose all over the world: free speech. Presumably free thought goes with that? Isn’t that what ensures we can give a balanced view of history to our children?
If Marion Cotillard decides to believe that the world does not know the whole truth of the 9/11 attacks, that is as much her right to say it as it is for a Christian to believe in the virgin birth, or for a republican to affirm that Bush was fairly elected.
Marion does not only refer to the idea that the Towers were too expensive to maintain”, which is clearly a load of bollocks (at least it tested your capacity to question your beliefs, if only for a nanosecond.)
That stupid theory is just one of many what the state/media call “conspiracy theories”, thereby discrediting any alternative version of history in advance through such manipulative language techniques. One people’s “freedom fighter” is another people’s “terrorist”. But who in the US actually decides who are the good guys, and who are the bad?
Add to this a modern stlye of censorship called “information overload”. You bury the needle of the truth in the haystack of “conspiracy theories”, instead of trying to repress it.
Marion was not denying the violence and horror of the attacks, she was discussing the possiblity that a different version of the reasons behind the events may make more sense than the one we have now.
She was referring to the fact that, however unlikely, it is possible that the whole story about “Our old friend Osama Bin Laden launched multiple simultaneous air attacks on NY from a cave in the Hills half way across the world because he is Rich and Evil, can brainwash people to blow themselves up, and wants to rule the world” may, just may, be incomplete.
Maybe Europeans can give the US a different perspective on their foreign policy? Is it a crime to question your own government’s actions, to doubt simplistic explanations for who was behind 911, and why?
If you believe that NOW is the only point in history that the United State government is being honest with the people… you’d better work on changing your beliefs, best done by reading history, and assuming that it unlikely that much has changed since Watergate. WMD my arse.
And please leave Marion Cottilard alone to appreciate the fruit of her hard work and talent. She is a fine actress that the media have placed on a pedestal… only to smash down for more audience, more money.
From the crazy media uproar, it sounds like the US is ready for a law against “Twin Tower was hit by Bin Laden alone” denial. And many of us in Europe would be guilty of that one, and in no way ashamed.
As for the moon landings, If you include Asia, then about half of planet Earth doesn’t believe they really happened. No big deal then…