Andrea Varnava-Introduction

Through out history people’s obsession with disaster exploits affected families for their own entertainment and gain. After major disasters occur many movies are made and these movies soon become apart of history and this is what people remember. In these films the major disasters are down played while there are smaller fictional sections that become the main focus in the story. Therefore undermining the importance of the event that actually occurred. Now a few major questions are, are these movies appropriate? Do the people writing these movies take into consideration the people that were affected? And how do these movies affect themselves and the public? Does it affect anybody at all? In this paper I will research and discuss a variety of things like the way movies undermine the importance of a major disaster by creating smaller fictional sections and making them focal parts in movies. Another will be the writers connection with the event; do they have any or is it just because they want to make a good movie that make profit? And lastly how do they affect the families and what are the pros and cons between movies and documentaries.