This weekend I saw the trailer for Resident Evil: Extinction in which, once again, the Statue of Liberty is shown in ruins. (Admittedly this time’s it’s actually the Las Vegas repro of the S.o.L., but it’s still the same look.)
The most famous of course is Planet of the Apes, but the statue also catches hell in Independence Day and in the trailer of another movie I can’t remember she’s seen up to her waist in snow and ice.
Are there any other movies where Lady Liberty gets molested? (Also, what’s the movie where she’s frozen in the trailer?)
She was so tough in that movie. She took a tidal surge wave that hit about at her shoulders, and didn’t even wiggle. Lady Liberty is the Rambo of hollow copper women.
In the so-gawdawful-I-can’t-believe-I’m-outing-myself-as-having-seen-it-enough-times-to-remember-this Ghostbusters 2, Missus Liberty is filled with “positively-charged” slime and forced to listen to “Your love is liftin’ me higher” until she walks to downtown Manhattan and melts the negative-slime crust over the museum so the Ghostbusters can break in and save Dana Barrett.
I’m not sure I accept your premise re: Planet of the Apes; she’d been through the wringer, but we can presume the rest of New York is much worse for wear, if it even still exists.
In Judge Dredd, the Statue of Liberty stands in the eternal shadow of the much larger totalitarian edifice, Justice Central. She’s also covered with grafitti, and I believe the movie depicts a top-secret cloning facility inside her head.
I don’t remember the specific scene, but isn’t she underwater in A.I.?
Not taking hell, unless you count men the size of ants fighting on her, my favorite Lady Liberty presence in a movie is 1985’s Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, filmed while the statue was being renovated so that it’s surrounded by scaffolding. I’m so glad that was filmed to preserve that moment in history in celluloid. That scaffolding was cool-looking. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a decent picture, which surprised me.
In the never-produced Sam Hamm script for Watchmen, the opening scene of the movie was a group of terrorists blowing up the Statue of Liberty (with the “heroes” bungling an attempt to stop them).
That reminds me: in the video game Deus Ex, the first level a bunch of terrorists have taken hostages at the Statue of Liberty Memorial. There’s a memorial because the original Statue of Liberty was blown up by terrorists several years prior.
GI Joe: The Movie begins with GI Joe fighting forces of Cobra on, over, and around the Statue of Liberty on what appears to be the 4th of July, whilst the Joes foil a plot by Cobra to blow up the Statue of Liberty during what appears to be a July 4th celebration.
Which might actually be the only act of terrorism I can recall Cobra actually trying to carry out, as opposed to general world domination type things.
The Statue of Liberty is in the opening shots, but it appears intact. However, in irony so thick you can cut it with a knife, her island has been renamed to “Liberty Island Security Control”, and is the headquarters of the police who monitor New York.