A Short History of Landmarks Exploding on Film
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In honor of the summer blockbuster, Slate looks back, via video slideshow, at Hollywood’s penchant for blowing up major landmarks over the years. There’s some social context included—the impact of 9/11 on the disaster movie, for instance—in between the video clips, and writer Keith Phipps also teases out some rules for the genre. My favorite? “When a city is in jeopardy, its most famous landmarks fall prey first. Aliens and natural disasters always target the Golden Gate Bridge, never the Bay Bridge.”
Always the bridesmaid, huh, Bay Bridge? As a Canadian, I can relate. We inevitably get overlooked when the aliens invade.
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