3. That scene has a pre-history. Almost as soon as Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886, people began imagining it as a ruin.
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14. Think of the countless science fiction movies where the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, White House, Taj Mahal, Pyramids are destroyed.
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15. In 1927, the Russian fantasist Sigismund Krzyzanowski imagined the Eiffel Tower coming to life.pic.twitter.com/8kssuCMfqH
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16. Krzyzanowski's fantasy is rooted in the fear monuments can provoke. They loom over us, burden us, belittle us. We want to destroy them
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17. Here's a 1953 cover for Fantastic Universe which might have influenced the Planet of the Apes final scene.pic.twitter.com/hqtTEvWTDQ
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18. And here's the same artist (Alex Schomberg) riffing on theme in 1964 (four years before Planet of the Apes).pic.twitter.com/8KPAX6l6oi
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19. I'll just end with the great Jack Kirby riffing on this them, post-Planet of the Apes, in Kamandipic.twitter.com/Ss7sSsxaMB
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I'm getting tired I misread "futurity" as "futility"
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There's also a third aspect in that its an incredibly easy/lazy visual shorthand for dystopia overused by hack writers in SF
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