Oliver Stone and Nicolas Cage Transformed by ‘World Trade Center’

Based on some recent remarks made by director Oliver Stone and actor Nicolas Cage on CNN Headline News, the experience of making the “World Trade Center” film had a profound effect on the two men.

Stone and Cage told CNN Headline News why this movie was different from other works of theirs.

Stone described the movie as “detailed, accurate, based on true events and real participants who survived.”

Stone said it was different because it’s “an amazing story” that’s “never been told” and involves a rescue that “is so improbable.”

“I don’t think the director is the issue. If you like him, great. If you don’t, the film is better than the director,” Stone uncharacteristically explained.

Cage approached the film with an attitude of desiring “to honor their story and to not bend it.”

The actor also explained his reluctance to do promotional interviews for the film.

“I view the film as storytelling which depicts history. And I’m respectful of these people’s stories, and I do not see this as an opportunity to go on other shows that are entertainment-based to sort of sell it,” Cage said.

Cage admitted that the movie had “absolutely changed him. “I had the most amazing experience I’ve ever had on any film,” he said.

Meeting the actual men who are the subject of “World Trade Center” was “like an electric current that went right through me,” Cage recounted.

“Wow, there really are angels,” the actor said. “These people are above and beyond. Their spirit is an incredibly powerful force to feel. And it changed my life. Absolutely.”