I have researched Columbine for hours on end and I find it extremely interesting to learn about and to think about but if someone asked me to make a historical fiction type of movie I wouldn't do it. What I find most intriguing about Columbine are the things I want to know but never will. Why did they have a falling out with their friend Brooks Brown?
Who did they have in mind when they wrote what they did in their journals on their websites? What did they talk about the morning of April 20th? What did they talk about any day really?
Whose idea was it to blow up the school in the first place? How did they communicate their ideas to one another? Who made the call to charge in after the bombs didn't go off?
Were either of them scared? They didn't act like it in their home videos or in their journals but why would they? Why would they want to reveal any signs of weakness?
I want to see the Basement Tapes but they've been shown once and put in a sealed federal file somewhere, presumably to never be viewed again. You can't just reenact those. In order to make a movie you would have to stick made up dialogue in their mouths, that wouldn't do anyone any good.
You can not characterize Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. But you can't really make a good movie without them either. With 9/11 and the Titanic there were so many victims you can make any story line, add a plane crashing into buildings or a boat hitting an iceberg, some screaming people wondering what to do next and there you have it.
No one would question a thing. Titanic is especially easy, the unsinkable ship hit an iceberg and ironically enough, she sunk. There's no "why did they do it?" and no blame game.
9/11, there's an entire war and existing terrorist groups with clear motives. Columbine was a couple kids who to the rest of the world were just normal punks with anger management issues and a dark sense of humor. The victims were some other ordinary high school kids.
No story line. The real interest in Columbine is purely psychological. Documentaries on the other hand, I could do.
Sharing theories and ideas, analyzing information, that I could do, but if I did it would be more like a 1 hour time slot on TV not a major motion picture. You can find their home videos, a good documentary called The Columbine Killers and another video called Zero Hour on YouTube. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is a fictional novel with a general fictional shooting, but parts of it were influenced by Picoult's own research on Columbine.
That would make a great movie. Also, the Twin Towers were office buildings, and most of the other casualties were emergency respondents along with adults on the plane and in the Pentagon, which is why the casualty count for minors was so low on 9/11.
What happened at Columbine is still too new and fresh in the minds of the American people. It's also a very painful memory for the parents and families of the children who were killed. When you are dealing with the deaths of schoolchildren?
It's considered very bad taste to exploit that for profit. Like it or not? Moviemakers are in the business of making a profit.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.