# Movies in which the Statue of Liberty catches hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037 "2007-02-21T00:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/21 "2007-02-21T15:51:30Z")
In _Superman IV: The Quest for Peace_, Nuclear Man picks up the SoL and throws it a bunch of people. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/22 "2007-02-21T16:21:04Z")
There’s an episode of Family Guy where Peter steals the Statue’s foot as a wedding gift for Quagmire. All we see is the foot though. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/23 "2007-02-21T16:27:06Z")
_Spaceballs._ In a parody of the scene in _Planet of the Apes_ she trandforms into a vacumn cleaner, or worse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/24 "2007-02-21T17:41:45Z")
“Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.” – Woody Allen in _Crimes and Misdemeanors_. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/25 "2007-02-21T17:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] 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. [/QUOTE] And cops with binoculars are using the crown as an observation post, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/26 "2007-02-22T17:46:20Z")
In _Up the Sandbox_, there’s a daydream sequence in which she almost gets blown up. ---
**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/27 "2007-02-22T18:49:54Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Are there any other movies where Lady Liberty gets molested? (Also, what’s the movie where she’s frozen in the trailer?) [/QUOTE] Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. Liberty ducks when they fly overhead. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/28 "2007-02-22T19:46:50Z")
I think this is how Hollywood decided to get even with the French for the Cannes Film Festival every year. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/29 "2007-02-22T20:21:54Z")
Molested, eh? How about in _Splash!_ where Darryl Hannah flashes her? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/30 "2007-02-22T22:34:04Z")
You folks forget that in the _Poster_ for **Escape From New York** the head of the Statue of Liberty is sitting on a street in New York. It has nothing to do with the movie, but it looks cool. I was just thinking about this the other day, having seen PoTA with MilliCal. You’ve named just about all the films I can think of except: **Saboteur** – Alfred Hitchcock film with the climax atop the Torch of Ms. Liberty **Spaceballs** – not really the SoL, of course, but an incredible simulation! That iconic scene at the end of Planet of the Apes is wrong in so many ways it’s ridiculous – Is the SoL gonna be the only thing to be sticking out of rock when NYC bites the big one? It’s a copper sheathing held up by Eiffel’s infrastructure. It’ll probably be the first thing to go. How did it get buried, anyway? Howcum the thing is on the beach at sunset? Did the whole North American continent disappear, and a new one grew up in the Atlantic? But Good Old Rod serling, who purportedly came up with the image, knew not to be bothered too much by facts. A good icon doesn’t need realism. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/31 "2007-02-22T22:54:53Z")
There was an HBO movie made about ten years ago… I think it was called “The Second Civil War”. It stared Beau Bridges and Dennis Leary. It’s about the events that escalate the Unite States into, you guessed it, a second civil war. This time the issue is immigration. It was played as a borderline dark comedy ntil the end when it got ridiculously serious about itself. At the end, Mexican immigrant terrorists blow up the Statue of Liberty. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/32 "2007-02-24T17:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] That iconic scene at the end of Planet of the Apes is wrong in so many ways it’s ridiculous – Is the SoL gonna be the only thing to be sticking out of rock when NYC bites the big one? It’s a copper sheathing held up by Eiffel’s infrastructure. It’ll probably be the first thing to go. How did it get buried, anyway? Howcum the thing is on the beach at sunset? Did the whole North American continent disappear, and a new one grew up in the Atlantic? [/QUOTE] I’d wondered that as well. Where were the skyscrapers? Of course I wondered more how a guy could spend days and days among apes who spoke and wrote in fluent 20th century English and then be surprised to learn he was on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/33 "2007-02-24T19:25:15Z")
[QUOTE=Saltire] 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. [/QUOTE] [Here’s a picture](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0319262/Ss/0319262/DAT2MD1.jpg.html?hint=group). [And some more](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0319262) ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/34 "2007-02-25T00:22:16Z")
In the opening credits to Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? Carmen is seen stealing the statue. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/35 "2007-02-25T00:38:16Z")
[QUOTE=audit1] In the opening credits to Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? Carmen is seen stealing the statue. [/QUOTE] Man, I LOVED that show. Is it on DVD? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/36 "2007-02-25T00:47:13Z")
[QUOTE=audit1] In the opening credits to “Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?” Carmen is seen stealing the statue. [/QUOTE] “Uh… could I see your receipt, please, ma’am?” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/37 "2007-02-25T18:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] In _Superman IV: The Quest for Peace_, Nuclear Man picks up the SoL and throws it a bunch of people. [/QUOTE] I hope you’re ashamed that you know that. I’m ashamed that I might have known it but my brain refuses to retain too much of that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/38 "2007-02-25T20:12:27Z")
Here’s obscure for you: In the first episode of the anime OAV _Read or Die_, an evil clone of [Otto Lilienthal](http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Prehistory/lilienthal/PH6.htm), while chasing our heroes, gets his glider hooked to Lady Liberty’s torch by the lovely and resourceful Miss Deep, and goes up like a moth in a candle flame. Unfortunately, the torch, I assume, is a bit worse for wear after that encounter too. No, I’m serious. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/39 "2007-02-26T04:29:19Z")
I saw _Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut_ yesterday, and where, in the original, General Zod threw Kal-El into a building, in this cut he’s thrown into the Statue of Liberty’s torch, smashing it. It’s not clear (to me) whether it was the actual New York Statue of Liberty or some very similar Metropolis fictional equivalent. But I thought I’d mention it here nonetheless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037.md?page=1)