Kaboom! Top Five Movies in which Violence is Done to the Statue of Liberty
by Ernest Hilbert on 04/05/12 at 11:04 am
Why, why, why?
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
5. The Planet of the Apes (1968)
What happened: Buried in sand!
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Ouch!
4. Batman Forever (1995)
What happened: Helicopter to the face!
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Peter Venkman: Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it? Winston: Wonder what? Peter Venkman: Whether she's naked under that toga. She is French. You know that.
3. Ghostbusters II (1989)
What happened: animated by pink slime
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Wasn't the Statue of Liberty there a minute ago?
2. Deep Impact (1998)
What happened: Destroyed, including decapitation, by tidal wave caused by asteroid
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Disappointed as a boy that Escape from New York's movie poster promised a decapitated Statue of Liberty that never appeared in the film, Cloverfield's director decided to do it himself.
1. Cloverfield (2008)
What happened: Decapitated by monster
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She also suffers violence in Escape from New York (decapitation), Disaster Movie (tidal wave), The Day After Tomorrow (tidal wave, then frozen), A.I. (drowned), X-Men (shot in the face, and has her crown slashed by Wolverine), and 2012 (tidal wave).
Ernie
May 4th, 2012
Daniel Nester writes in: Movies with Violence to Statue of Liberty topic reminds me of Martin Brest’s student film, which the NYU film department would trundle out every couple of years showing alumni films. Hot Dogs for Gauguin set-up involves a planned explosion of Lady Liberty, all so an aspiring photographer can snap a photo of it for profit.
Here’s one link with clips:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfy57h_clips-from-hot-dogs-for-gauguin-1972_shortfilms
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francisco
May 4th, 2012
having worked for 2 months on that shot, i can confidently say that #2 is, in fact, a still from The Day After Tomorrow, not Deep Impact. i demand satisfaction!
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Ernie Reply:
May 5th, 2012 at 10:01 am
Uh oh! OK. Will replace right away. Thanks for the correction.
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francisco Reply:
May 5th, 2012 at 10:52 am
mostly i was excited to use the “i demand satisfaction” line :)
fun fact! pretty much the same guy did the wave sims on both those movies. (that guy was not me)
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