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A Cinematic History of Destroying America’s Monuments
Civil War’s attack on Washington seems downright tame in comparison.
Other times he’s an suave, idealistic, and agreeable man of the people, such as semi-retired fighter pilot Bill Pullman in Independence Day, Middle East peacemonger Jamie Foxx in White House Down, or amateur boxer Aaron Eckhart whose policy victories include weaning the country off foreign oil in Olympus Has Fallen. There’s something rather satisfying about watching the 555-foot-tall obelisk of the Washington Memorial get folded like a deck chair by an earthquake ( 2012), clotheslined by a crashing plane ( Olympus Has Fallen), or slashed at the ankles by a UFO laser and then tipped onto a Boy Scout troop ( Mars Attacks!). For the 1997 direct-to-video and not-not-kick-ass actioner The Peacekeeper, Dolph Lundgren fails to stop terrorists from torpedoing the monument, or at least the kind of model you make of Mount Rushmore when you’re visibly stretching the very last cent of the budget.
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