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.
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