May 9, 2008
The Lure of Urban Destruction
Why are we so fascinated with films about destroying New York?
Walking down 57th Street in Manhattan, I stopped to look at a poster for I Am Legend, a recent movie about the last human survivor of an epidemic in New York. In the poster, Will Smith strides defiantly with his trusty German shepherd, a wasted New York skyline and a decimated Brooklyn Bridge in the distance. A few blocks later, I noticed a similar image, this time for a competing film, Cloverfield, which documents on a
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