Friday, January 11, 2008

celluloid city

It's kind of weird to live in a city that regularly gets destroyed, on film at least. At my subway station there's currently a huge poster advertising Cloverfield, soon to be playing in theaters near you, and involving, I gather, the decapitation of the Statue of Liberty.

I dragged poor Mom to see I Am Legend over Christmas and was delighted to see on the big screen the scene I'd stumbled across the filming of on 42nd Street months ago. There's something strangely thrilling about watching my beloved city get demolished again and again, from Independence Day to The Day After Tomorrow to I Am Legend to Cloverfield, only to rise again.

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