9/11 didn't really change everything

On the special features for The Bourne Identity, Frank Marshall, the producer, announces that

"We all had to take a step back and reconsider everything, and I think everyone in the movie business did."

Tony Gilroy, screenwriter, adds,

"Everyone pretty much accepted that explosions in movies were over, that there would probably never be another film that had an explosion in it."

It's kind of amazing to look back at those days and see how much we thought (many of us, at rate) had been "changed forever".

Marshall started by saying,

"One of the things that you can never anticipate are (sic) world events. And certainly one of the most major world events that occurred ever was the 9/11 tragedy."

Turns out, not so much, really... They themselves are blowing shit up just two years later.

(ps - that was all to explain why they made a new beginning and ending to make the film "relevant" to the "different world" - though they didn't use them. They made the film much worse, if you ask me; good thing no audiences agreed with them.)