La statue de la Liberté au cinéma 🗽

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00:00I'm not going to tell you the story of this incredible monument again.

00:02What I can tell you is that in cinema, it has been represented in many forms.

00:06Above all, it is a symbol of freedom, of the American dream.

00:09At least, that's what they want us to believe.

00:11From his first appearance in the cinema in 1917, in The Emigrant by Charlie Chaplin,

00:15It appears as a symbol of hope, before the reality of the characters and their conditions catch up with them.

00:20In The Godfather Part II, it's the same thing.

00:22Vito Corleone discovers it with optimism.

00:25She faces him, she welcomes him.

00:26Then much later, it is a completely different view that is given to him.

00:30We can barely see her, she's blurred, she's from behind.

00:33He knows at that moment that hope is only an illusion, and that he will have to manage alone.

00:36It has also been a playground for action.

00:38In Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur in 1942,

00:41It is the scene of a chase at the end of the film which ends with the fall of the antagonist,

00:45in a scene that is a landmark due to its special effects.

00:48Because yes, we might laugh about it today, but it was incredibly well done for its time.

00:52She is also found in the climax of the first X-Men released in 2000,

00:56where the heroes fight outside, but also inside the statue.

00:59And having climbed to the very top, I can tell you there isn't that much room.

01:04In any case, the scene remains pure regressive pleasure, even today.

01:07I mean, that, that's beautiful.

01:16In Superman IV, she is simply thrown at the people of New York by the big bad,

01:21before Superman intercepts her, of course, and puts her back in her place.

01:24Because yes, the Statue of Liberty has also had its totally offbeat moments.

01:28In Cloverfield, the statue's head is thrown by a monster over Manhattan,

01:32in an ultra-captivating fan footage style.

01:34In Planet of the Apes, in 1967, she was involved in one of the most iconic shots in cinema.

01:39When the hero discovers her washed up on a beach,

01:41he realizes that he hasn't crash-landed on a distant planet full of monkeys,

01:45but on Earth, a few hundred years after leaving it.

01:48And finally, in Phantom S.O.S. 2, our dear ghost hunters will cover it with a kind of blob.

01:54so that she comes to life and helps them thwart the plans of the evil Vigo.

01:58Oh, I can't wait to see the faces of people when we dock.

02:01It must really get the positive energy of life flowing.