Families of the men killed in the world's worst oil rig disaster have branded plans to make a television drama out of the tragedy 'an invasion of our deepest wounds'. In all, 167 men died when a gas leak set off explosions that ripped apart the Piper Alpha platform 120 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast in July 1988. The BBC and STV Studios are looking to make a factual drama to retell the events of that night. But families of workers who died say their loss should not be 'trivialised into a plot for entertainment'.Why not? This is no different to other disasters.
Patrick McLaughlin's father Charles, an electrician, also died in the disaster, aged just 46. Mr McLaughlin said: 'To have actors who could be portraying someone who was killed that night doesn't feel right. I know if there was someone playing my father I wouldn't be happy. Families have been through enough.'
Welp, it's a historical disaster, like Chernoble or Bhopal or 9/11. And no-one objected to those, or if they did, they were rightly ignored.
I'm thinking of the continual flood of war movies.
ReplyDelete"I'm thinking of the continual flood of war movies."
ReplyDeleteIncreasingly realistic ones, too.