No World Trade Center?

My recollection about the skyline shots was they were showing midtown Manhattan, with views to the left going no farther south than the Kips Bay section, which is roughly 23rd street north. In Manhattan you have a group of tall buildings downtown, aka Wall Street area, where the WTC was, on the Hudson River side, then going north a large araa where there are very few tall buildings, the Met Life complex on 23rd to 25th being the exception, then midtown's tallest buildings beginning around where the Empire State Building is, on 33rd street, with midtown going all the way up to Central Park, or 59th street. The skyline was midtown, not downtown. I take it that is because while I don't recall the film mentioning it, the location of the property Abel was trying to buy was in Brooklyn, but north of the Williamsburg Bridge.

it's actually there. the scene where they turn Julian in to the cops, you can see the towers in the background.

The World Trade Center Towers ARE actually in a number of scenes throughout the film - they're not gratuitous, but they are there. I was amazed at how they managed it in soft focus shots, etc - it was very tastefully and skillfully done.

I did look for the towers and noticed them.

I noticed them subtly edited in. Here's the story behind the editing of them and the decision making on how they did it.
-> http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Sad-Uncomfortable-Decision-Many-York-City-Movies-Have-Make-69103.html

~ Carpe Diem - Janice Marie Foote ~

Yep...they are in there if you pay attention. It is eerie seing them there, in the context of all that has happened...

"Today is the tomorrow I was so worried about yesterday"--Anthony Hopkins

I noticed them at three separate points in the film, most noticeably when they're handing Julian off to the cops. Sure we watched the same thing?

"You liked Rashomon."
"That's not how I remember it."