1. Movie Prop Extraordinaire
No big-budget blockbuster movie seems complete without a gratuitous shot of a landmark getting destroyed. And the world’s most recognizable symbol, Lady Liberty, has run the full gamut of destruction in movies. In 1968’s Planet of the Apes, she was buried up to her neck in sand, she wasdrowned in 2001’s Artificial Intelligence, 1996’s Independence Day saw her lying on her face, in ruins as the alien ships hovered above.
The destruction of the Staute is a recurring element symbolising the destruction of the American way of democracy and liberty. It’s meant to stir powerful feelings in the viewer, and it works. Don’t you feel some type of rage at the baddie who wants to destroy the American way, when they destroy the symbol of hope and freedom?
I know I was gutted watching Nuclear Man rip the Statue of Liberty off her pedestal and hurls her towards Metropolis in Superman IV.
As the Statue turns 129 on US soil, we salute all it stands for: freedom from oppression, enlightenment and democracy.
by Ade O
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