00:00Besides, one might wonder why the creators of comic books mostly focused their stories in New York.
00:05Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and of course many more.
00:11They're all New Yorkers before they're superheroes.
00:14Even fictional cities are either depicted or inspired by New York.
00:18Metropolis in Richard Donner's Superman, Gotham, a term that, long ago, was a nickname for New York City,
00:24and which was used as a film set in Joker, as we just saw, and in the Dark Knight trilogy.
00:29First of all, you should know that most of the creators of these characters come from New York.
00:33It's a city that Stan Lee favored, for example, because it's a city he knew by heart.
00:38And so it was easier for him to develop these characters in a familiar environment.
00:42Naturally, the films adapted from these comic books followed this trend, and most of them take place in New York.
00:47Spider-Man, one of Marvel's first big cinema hits, gave the city a new lease of life.
00:52the film having been released just months after 9/11.
00:55Moreover, a teaser and a poster highlighting the twin towers will be removed from the communication,
01:00and that's what many Hollywood films will do after the tragic events of September 11.
01:04Simply remove the Twin Towers from the New York environment,
01:08to avoid reliving this trauma for Americans who came to the theater to take their minds off things.
01:13Because yes, there is a before and after September 11, in mentalities, in the world in general, and in American cinema.
01:19We have been treated to a huge number of post-September 11 films that have directly or metaphorically addressed these tragic events.
01:26But above all, there has been a drastic change in the way New York and American cities in general are integrated into cinema.
01:32Steven Spielberg's 2005 War of the Worlds is a 9/11 analogy,
01:37and perfectly illustrates the change in mentality regarding entertainment in the United States.
01:42Because if Americans have been having fun watching the country being demolished in Hollywood for several decades,
01:46After September 11, it's a completely different story.
01:49Fear becomes very real in the face of these crowd movements.
01:52And mass destruction is a lot less fun.
01:55It keeps me in the air!
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