Marion Cotillard's 9/11 And Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories

Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks. The 32-year-old French star has swept this year's best actress awards, also receiving a Bafta, Golden Globe and a César for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose...

But the actress faces a potential backlash in the US over comments she made in an interview in France. Footage which surfaced on the internet showed her questioning the New York terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the 1969 moon landing.

"I think we're lied to about a number of things," she said, singling out September 11.

Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.

It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."

Miss Cotillard suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated "money sucker" which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.
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Turning to America's space programme, 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."

Miss Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments on Paris Première - Paris Dernière (Paris First - Paris Last), a programme first broadcast a year ago.

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[martinchill]

no one here has addressed her actual comments about the WTC.

from wikipedia:

The insurance policy on the World Trade Center was for $3.5 billion. During the trial, Silverstein insisted that the destruction of the site was the result of two separate attacks and was entitled to double insurance payout. At trial, the jurors agreed that most of the insurers were limited to a single insurance award, which is a maximum of $4.6 billion. On May 23, 2007, the insurers agreed to pay out a remaining $2 billion, on top of the previously paid $2.55 billion.

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elsewhere i've read where larry silverstein pocketed $500 million in insurance profit from the destruction of wtc-7, which is where rudy had the city's 'emergency command center' located. one wonders why he wasn't there.

[damnadamson]

If you haven't seen zeitgeist or loose change watch these two free net films on 911 ... she's right it's painfully obvious that the US govt had to be involved.

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

[GRobSecular]

It's also noteworthy that eyewitness accounts from the initial plane attack recall clearly that there was first an explosion in the BASEMENT of the WTC tower before the plane actually hit. This is an obvious sign of collusion to some degree, as instigating an attack via airplane while synchronizing a basement blast is very improbable.

Ever heard of a movie called "Press for Truth"? No wild conspiracy theories, just facts laid out on the table.

[LeoMarvin]

Martin. Chill. Get a hobby. Get a life. IT WAS BIN LADEN!! He had the motive. He told us he was going to do it. He claimed credit for doing it. WE SAW THE PLANES HIT THE BUILDINGS. Get over it.

[martinchill]

nice and simple, hey?

[GoreyFantod]

"WE SAW THE PLANES HIT THE BUILDINGS."

Umm, no, WE didn't. This is an excellent example of why this notion that seeing something on television makes it "real."

The second World Trade Center strike was televised - the first happened before all the networks knew and aimed cameras at the buildings. Unless you're one of the two Naudet brothers or the firefighters they were interviewing (or, perhaps, an amateur videographer who happened to be taping the WTC), you only saw the second craft hit.

Apart from a few (five, I believe), the military has refused to release footage from any of the cameras which ring the Pentagon, including footage that they seized from private security cameras. Of, course, no footage exists of the airplane that we're told Dick Cheney definitely did not order shot down over Pennsylvania.

So, although you may think you saw something else that day, your memory is fooling you. Don't feel too bad, though. George W. Bush also claims to have watched the first plane hit the WTC.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uBm9ZyIg3I0&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pajKfN9VP8&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cEy7DX7OLcE&feature=related

[Passenger57]

While we're talking about Silverstein , how many out there know that -
Larry Silverstein would have normally been in one of the Towers , had he not had a dermatologist's appointment that his wife DEMANDED he not "blow off".
Both his SON and DAUGHTER had temporary offices in one of the Towers (and would also have been there when the planes hit) - but they were both "running late" on the 11th. What a stroke of good luck for the Silversteins!

[LeoMarvin]

That blows my mind! You wanna know what's REALLY freaky? "Dermatology" has exactly eleven letters, just like "Silverstein." And you know what else has exactly eleven letters? That's right, "George W. Bush."

Now try telling me THAT'S a coincidence. Ha!

No offense, I'm sure you mean well, but you 9/11 Truthers are imbeciles. Turn off the computer, go get laid, and see if you still think the airplanes that crashed into the WTC had nothing to do with it falling down.

[eugenegerard]

The moon landings happened. The problem with the photos is the radiation from the sun. They needed to restage the shoots. Didn't have digital back then. The film couldn't handle the x-rays and gamma and alipha particles.

[guajiro]

So the footprints on the moondust at the base of the lander, dust that should have been blown away by the rocket upon landing, are there because of the radiation? hmmmm

[Issak]

eugenegerard,

Dude, give it a rest- what you are saying is sheer nonsense- period. Go to the Rose Planetarium in NYC - study the blow ups from several missions. A great display of very nice enlargements printed from hi quality 35mm film shots- showing incredible detail.

The only ones prone to even thinking the moon landings were faked -seem to be those who also think evolution did not happen, or- as seems to be the case with this great actress- she's talking out of her beautiful ass.

[Thermodynamics]

The astronauts were using Hasselblatt cameras, which shoot some form of wider film, usually 127, not 35 mm.

[RogerHWerner]

I'm willing to give the benefit of doubt to the government the benefit of doubt regards Apollo since fabricating these would have required an extraordinary effort involving many nations and individuals. I'm familiar with the photos from the moon and the "controversy" that surrounding shadows from multiple sources of light from different directions. I wonder if you would mind explaining how the sun's radiation would effect the direction of shadow since I have always found the images something of an anomaly.

The Cotillard's comments about 9/11 demonstrate that she's more aware then many Americans. The 9/11 report is so poorly written that it doesn't even qualify as decent fiction. I won't belabor this but suffice to say that the WTC Towers did not collapse because of the two jet impacts, WTC Building 7 did not collapse owing to fire, and the Pentagon was indeed hit by something but it wasn't a commercial jetliner. Anyone doubting these opinions, should take the time to research the subject as there are plenty of hard facts to render the official report more than a little suspicious.

[RebelPatriot]

Apparently you haven't seen the documentary Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon.

Exposed NASA film of Armstrong staging - faking - their position on the way to the Moon looking back at the Earth as a small globe - when the camera and window insert was removed, it reveals that the space capsule is ACTUALLY in low earth orbit and the Earth FILLS the window.

Armstrong virtually told the world that the event was staged in his White House appearance on the Anniversary.

Totally staged.

[RebelPatriot]

This is grand.

NASA had to restage the photos to prove that the landings happened???? LMFAO?

If the film couldn't handle the gamma, Xrays, and Alpha particles, how could the astroNOTs? There isn't any protection from a thin skin space craft outside the protection of the Earths' radiation belts.

NASA reshot the photos to make it look better.... thats a great one. Thanks.

[WorldsGreatestActor]

are there people out there who really care what she thinks? judging from this board i guess there are. NO ONE will be more surprised than she. i will never understand the current culture where random people get their 15 minutes in the bright light and suddenly their opinions are so important to so many. she is an ACTRESS folks...she makes a living by assuming the identity of others. might i suggest pursuing a credible political discourse in another arena? start with the daily show. at least you'll find some humor in the current world condition.

[GoreyFantod]

"...the current culture where random people get their 15 minutes in the bright light and suddenly their opinions are so important to so many."

That's funny, 'cause I've never understood societies in which we treat some people's opinions as more important or "better" than others'. Certainly some of us are better informed and/or educated than others, but such things say nothing about wisdom or well-rounded intelligence (reason+emotion). Answers to questions like, is there a "god", what is the nature of existence, did one man acting alone murder President Kennedy, did patriarchy precede agriculture - all these and many more lie within the realm of opinion, not "right" and "wrong."

I'll take the informed opinions of doubters & dreamers over the unquestioned assertions of self-proclaimed authorities any day.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=35F15DCBD2B0C038
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6F5F9143D28E9A83
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvodhsMc2QM&feature=PlayList&p=1FC3F92B3BFDE00E&index=2

[Issak]

nobody cares what say either.

[lessthanimpressed]

I agree with you here...to a point.

The same argument could be leveled at your post above. As the opinion of an anonymous poster on a blog, is your opinion any more valid. This isn't an attack on you. I just want to point out the weakness of your argument here.

More importantly I think this type of thing is a result of decades of lying and disinformation by many governments and corporations. Many people don't know what to believe anymore. You can just as easily pick your opinions to suit a mood as an identity purchased in a clothing store.

[WorldsGreatestActor]

No, my opinion isn't any more valid than anyone else's. It was silly of me to even post. I just find it fascinating/frustrating that people can be so motivated by psuedo famous personalities on the far periphery of topics as heavy as these. Wouldn't it be great if the voices of Zinn, Chomsky, Nader (just to name the most obvious) were heard as far and wide as this newly famous actress?

[Mort]

Yeah. It's amazing to me that we pay the highest salaries and give greatest attention to people who pretend and play children's games for a living. But the lowest to the ones who can do the most good... teachers, firefighters, police, etc.

[thegirlnextdoor]

well, I admit to serious doubts about what we've been told aboutSeptember 11th and the World Trade Centre. I thought the questions arising would be obvious to any one. Let's just start with the invisible plane that hit the pentagon? No muss no fuss no waste from the plane. ????
Nope, I agree with the "actress". I have doubts about what happened that day. And about who won the Presidency of the USA in both 2000 and 2004.
And, the Piaf movie is lovely!

[kitvc]

So Marion Cotillard, one of the brightest talents and most engaging of the "new generation" of actors, "doesn't believe all they tell me, that's for sure," and that "I think we've been lied to about a number of things." That should put her squarely in the middle of the 2008 election, where Americans are voting early in vast numbers (and not Republican) precisely because the majority of us feel we've been lied to on major issues for seven years, and because we have stopped believing what the Bush administration and politicians in general tell us. Well done, Marion -- you picked up the current American spirit of rebellion while you were in Los Angeles. At least the rednecks can't do to you what they've done to the Dixie Chicks for speaking out. Anyone who listened to your many interviews here in the US knows you speak from the heart. That ain't such a bad thing.....blow any of this heat off, and get to work and bring us some more great entertainment!

[martinchill]

her interview - if it's real - was conducted a year ago.

[Steamboater]

Cotillard is young and european. Give her a break.

[Cosmic Logic]

I was going to post my own comment, but after reading kitvc's I decided to just give a ditto. No doubt this beautiful, innocent actress will be villified by the American press and the Bubbas on the 'right'. But there are many reasons the Europeans are more civilized and wiser than we...her skepticism is just one of those.

[Arawak]

Her performance in La Vie En Rose is the stuff of legend. They lied about almost everything, but not 9/11. They would never lie about that. It isn't something PNAC ever wanted.

[eugenegerard]

Friday, February 29, 2008
High-Ranking Intelligence Officer Updates His Conclusions About 9/11
You may have already heard that 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer (Robert Steele) stated that "9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war", and it was probably an inside job (see Amazon Customer Review dated October 7, 2006).

However, no one has noticed that Mr. Steele posted the following additional comment on February 3, 2007:

1) 9-11 was planned and executed by Bin Laden with direct assistance from elements of the Pakistani government.

2) No fewer than 9, some say 11, governments warned the US at the highest levels. I believe that Dick Cheney saw this as a gift of heaven, and organized the 9-11 exercises so as to have complete operational control of the U.S. government, and he "let it happen."

3) I believe that Larry Silverstein, new owner of the World Trade Center, NOT the U.S. Government, was briefed on this by the Mossad, and saw an opportunity to solve his asbestos problem at taxpayer expense. I believe that Larry Silverstein, in partnership with the security firm managed by a Bush family member, installed the controlled demolitions and "pulled" all three buildings, murdering the people in them, in order to clear the area for rebuilding and get the $7 billion in insurance money. I believe that ... the insurance company executives are in cahoots with Silversten and got major kick-backs, because there is no way a serious insurance company investigation could have ignored the evidence of thermite being briefed to the Senate this very week.

4) Finally, I do think there is evidence of CIA and FBI blundering about and aiding "assets" who participated in the first World Trade Center car bombing, but it is very important to distinguish between bureaucratic incompetence; Dick Cheney's deliberate decision to let it happen; and Larry Silverstein's alleged dmurder of all those people including firefighters.

This has NOT been properly investigated, and it needs to be.

[BarryChamplain]

America, when it comes to historical "conspiracy" events, don't look at the events themselves.

Don't look at magic bullets, grassy knolls, vertical implosions, puffs of smoke, steel's melting temperature, or any of the conflicting facts.

Look only at the AFTERMATH. Whether 1963 or 2001, what ONE thread did all these events have in common?

Simple: if you questioned what you were told, the full force of society and government was brought to bear on your sanity. You were a "conspiracy NUT", "tinfoil hat", etc. And I'm not talking about all the independent investigators, who have spent their own money and years of their lives trying to uncover the truth, whatever it might be.

I'm talking about YOU. If any of us average American citizens so much as dares to say, "That IS weird! I never knew that was the case. This bears further investigation", that's it. We are dissed, ridiculed, socially ostracized, and labelled as mentally ill.

Always.

And that's where a healthy Bullshit Alarm should function in all of us. Why is it that no matter what the event, no matter what the era, the operating law is precisely the same: "Question us and you're nuts"?

You may not have been around in 1963, but I was. I remember then, that the Kennedy assassination did not sit right with far too many Americans. But the "conspiracy nut" thing was cranked up almost immediately, so that anyone verbalizing any doubts or questions was met with a sneer at best, and ostracization at worst.

I have a personal theory that it was the disconnect between what Americans KNEW INSTINCTIVELY to be bullshit, and what they were instructed that they must not question, that led to what we now call "The Sixties"; an era when everything weny crazy, and the rules were thrown out. We knew it was all bullshit, so we just dropped the hell out for awhile. And knowing we had no chance to change such a thoroughly compromised "system", we focused on other things that might expand us personally.

[eddiestardust]

Don't blame me Barry, I just happened to have been alive then too and in fact had recently moved from Boston to Dallas....

But does it really matter now?

Not really...JFK has been dead for 45 years.

Time has a habit of moving on.....

[eugenegerard]

Time may move on but the "people" who killed Kennedy are running this government.

[eugenegerard]

The Real CONSPIRACY Theory is the one put out by the criminals that run this government.

[BassPlayer]

Congratulations to Marion!

She joins a growing number of Americans--especially the relatives of those murdered on 9/11--who are demanding a Reinvestigation of 9/11.

[ColoradoDan]

The Real American embarrasment is how many of us bought the 'offical 9-11' story that falls apart like a cheap suit with just 10-20 hours of digging and researching. About 3/4ths of the real questions the government can and will never answer. THEN they convince us that a handful of Saudis did it all ... so we then MUST invade and occupy Iraq! The entire scenario is like a bad movie that no one could believe ... and yet most buy it hook, line and sinker.

Most of the educated other countries know it was an Inside Job ... they watch us like we watched puppet shows as a kid.

[martinchill]

i read the comments.

what's to be embarrassed about?

[KPinSEA]

Well I never thought America had a monopoly on looney actors ... if Cruise and Travolta can rake in mega-milliions, there's no reason a French flake can't too, is there?

[John]

Yes. How loony. A thinking person questioning what governments tell them. That never happens where 'sane' people are concerned.

[ashleybaines]

Bravo!!!

I love it when the spinners get spun by somebody with a megaphone.

9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB>>>>> we know it.... you know it.... and it's about time we had an investigation into those Mossad agents who lived next door to the 'terrorists' in Miami.

or the CIA air field where they learned to fly...

BRAVO!! -- We will not be silenced

FREE PALESTINE - and end the occupation of America.

[Issak]

So, it was the Jews you are saying? And did the Jews fake the moon landings as well? got it.

[RSchewe]

The 9/11 Troofers have arrived.

These kinds of posts are like a honeypot.

[PeaceThroughObedience]

Why should anyone care about 911 details? Just because 70 percent of the investigatory Commissions questions remain unanswered is no big deal. Just keep giving up your rights and watch a lot of TV, and you'll be fine. The President is no longer concerned with Bin Laden, who remains at large (part of a deal of some sort?) No no that's too improbable. The Mujahadeen tunrned Taliban have no links to the American CIA. None at all

[kopyrightliberationfront]

Uh, Staying1776course - come on now. The USA's effect on the world in relation to both of those events was forever changing. It's hard to be baffled at any citizen of the world caring about and commenting on what the USA says and does.

[LoriB]

Thanks for the welcome!

[Fernando]

I was just going to say that, 9-11 news are a like a flame or a honey pot, absolutly irresistible to some people.

What this article implies is that Marion Cotillard makes no good use of the brains in that absolutly gorgeous head of hers. What a shame. Anyone who believes that this administration, headed by President Numbnuts and supported by a bunch of people who can't find their own butts with two hands and a flashlight is capable of pulling a job like 9-11 so efficiently, that the only people left to wonder about it are the conspiracy theorists who never believe anything anyway, either needs to have their head examined, stop smoking pot or get a job that doesn't involve selling hot dogs at 3:00am.

[aristippe]

LOL

[avraamjack]

WHY THE JOKE STORY?

Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks. The 32-year-old French star has swept this year's best actress awards, also receiving a Bafta, Golden Globe and a César for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose...

But the actress faces a potential backlash in the US over comments she made in an interview in France. Footage which surfaced on the internet showed her questioning the New York terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the 1969 moon landing.

"I think we're lied to about a number of things," she said, singling out September 11.

Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.

It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."

Miss Cotillard suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated "money sucker" which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.
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Turning to America's space programme, 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."

Miss Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments on Paris Première - Paris Dernière (Paris First - Paris Last), a programme first broadcast a year ago.

[WLA]

Why the hell did you just repost the above article?

[Staying1776course]

It baffles me why she cares that much about these two events to doubt and discuss them in a French interview, and they both would be US occurrences. There's a lot of French business she could doubt and work to change. So typical of the US bashing out of Paris.

[kitvc]

I believe the neocons, their AM radio demagogues, and those political amateurs the lockstep GOP elected to Congress have bashed France and the French much more than anyone in France has bashed the US. if you remember, the whole "hate the French" thing came up because France refused to get engaged in the Iraq war. Smart as hell. But it got a reaction from the rightwingers which was inordinately biased and hateful. Can any American ever forget the embarrassment of "Freedom Fries"?

[Staying1776course]

Hello, Pam, the French can't do too much bashing since they depend so much on the US tourist dollars. If they dry up, your taxes will be even higher.

[onenation]

Everyone in the world cares about the United States. We are the biggest economy. We are the only supper power. We are the "light on a hill". So I would be surprised if people all over the world don't have informed opinions about the towers. Simple put, look at the simple list of "odd" events, (not trying to be complete).
1. NORAD on exercise.
2. no fighter planes in the area and delays by the exercise process.
3. Ben Laden family members in US with Bush Sr. at time of 9/11.
3a. Saudi and Ben laden family members leave US on first flight after 9/11 - never questioned.
4. Both towers fall perfectly straight down.
5. Both towers are first and second towers fall due to fire.
6. Building 7 falls due to fire - a conventional structure not hit by an plane.
7. The site at the Pentigon has no building damage from or remains of the two masive engines.
8. Flyers are Saudi nationals.

[owiseone]

"It baffles me why she cares that much..."

And it horrifies me that so many US citizens are only "baffled" and not totally outraged and insisting on truth. We should be flooding the streets demanding a REAL investigation into 9/11 and the lies fed us as reasons to go to war in Iraq.

All the killing, suffering, loss, injury--and someone who is shocked "baffles"?? Where are US citizens who care about anything except what they're told to care about? Don't they realize they're being led like sheep and thus are responsible for atrocities committed by our own government?

[TequilaMockingbird]

Ofucking Please.. Americans routinely BASH EVERYONE of other colors, cultures, attire, education, language etc. etc..

[John]

Keep in mind that those comments were taken out of the context of an entire interview. I'm sure they didn't constitute all but a small fraction of that interview. So don't be baffled. Instead try thinking, as this actress apparently does. Ask a few questions. Like why is this even a story? What else did she say in the interview? Who decided to make this a story?