Grand Central Terminal au cinéma

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00:00And finishing off Manhattan's historic buildings in style with the Grand Central Terminal, New York City Station.

00:05She has been part of many great moments in American cinema.

00:08And it is true that its architecture allows for a dynamic and inspiring staging.

00:12She houses an entire civilization in one of her lockers in Men in Black 2.

00:15Who are you, stranger?

00:17J.

00:18Hmm!

00:19Black to J, black to J, oh J it's here!

00:24Oh, benevolent J, guardian of the night!

00:26Come here!

00:26Well what?

00:27She is part of the imagination of the protagonists in Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine.

00:31It transforms into a giant ballroom in Terry Gilliam's Fisher King.

00:35It is the home of the Duke of New York in John Carpenter's New York 1997.

00:39Michael Bay blows it up in Armageddon.

00:42Of course, it's Michael Bay.

00:43We find it in an animated setting in the first Madagascar.

00:46And she's at the heart of the conflict in the first Avengers.

00:48Who will defend Earth against the aliens inside the building.

00:51But above all, outdoors, offering us unbeatable entertainment.

00:57As you will have understood, the building is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for cinema artists.

01:05It works just as well in a science fiction universe as in a musical or even animation.

01:10But if there is one film in which the station is sublimated by the staging, it remains in Brian De Palma's impasse.

01:15The strength of this sequence comes from the way De Palma uses the environment to increase the tension.

01:21He uses this veritable giant maze to keep us in suspense until the end.

01:24Even giving us hope of an escape for the character of Carlito played by Al Pacino.

01:30But there is no hope in Brian De Palma's cinema.

01:32And this bitter ending concludes one of the most incredible chases in American cinema.

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