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She's also rocking a mohawk, a version of the character that has a history of being the best kind of bad ass, from \u003ca href=\"http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m95xbe9uqJ1rdoqkro1_400.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">making out with Wolverine\u003c/a> just cause she feels like it to \u003ca href=\"http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/40/2082642-x2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">challenging Cyclops' white male privilege\u003c/a>. Psylocke, played by Olivia Munn, is similarly killing it in the style department. She's an under-appreciated character in the X-Men universe (she only got one or two cameos in the animated series) so it's good to see her finally getting her deserved place in the film series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there's Apocalypse. The villain is supposed to be a towering, brutal blue giant. Here, he is played by Oscar Isaac, who is 5'9\". Apocalypse is supposed to be the biggest and the baddest. We're supposed to believe that he could truly precipitate the end of the world. All this depiction accomplishes is reminding us of Ivan Ooze, the villain from the Power Rangers movie:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/tumblr_inline_nbajyrnJQS1r2z6s8.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/tumblr_inline_nbajyrnJQS1r2z6s8.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_nbajyrnJQS1r2z6s8\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17141 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373.jpg\" alt=\"fassbender-ew-1373\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This shot of Michael Fassbender as Magneto looks like a screen test for \u003cem>Drive\u003c/em> (you know, the movie in which Ryan Gosling wears a fly scorpion jacket and kills people in elevators). That blurry guy in the background is wearing a bib, perhaps to catch the drool that results from feasting eyes on Fassbender? Yeah, that's probably it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17142 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew.jpg\" alt=\"mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The gang finally gets around to watching \"2 Girls 1 Cup.\" If you don't understand that reference, please wait until you're not at work to Google it. Better yet, just stay in the dark on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17140 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters.jpg\" alt=\"ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) gets to wear more than just blue paint in this movie. She's staring down Magneto's son Quicksilver and probably about to ask him \"Was that you going through my laundry?\" or \"Why do you only look 5 years younger than your dad?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17139 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer.jpg\" alt=\"ew-1373-director-brian-singer\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Bryan Singer is most likely breaking it to Apocalypse that he is actually on the wrong set and has to leave immediately. The Power Rangers reboot is shooting across town. Or maybe, just maybe, Singer is explaining how they can actually bring about the end of the world by pissing off all X-Men fans everywhere with this wack portrayal. Were the Mayans right, after all? We'll know for sure if the studio changes the release date from May 27, 2016 to December 21, 2016. Tell your family you love them just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The first photos from 'X-Men: Apocalypse' are here! Let's figure out what they mean!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1437078562,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":536},"headData":{"title":"Let’s Wildly Speculate about the First Photos from 'X-Men: Apocalypse' | KQED","description":"The first photos from 'X-Men: Apocalypse' are here! Let's figure out what they mean!","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"17138 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=17138","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/07/16/lets-wildly-speculate-about-the-first-photos-from-x-men-apocalypse/","disqusTitle":"Let’s Wildly Speculate about the First Photos from 'X-Men: Apocalypse'","path":"/pop/17138/lets-wildly-speculate-about-the-first-photos-from-x-men-apocalypse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 609px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/xmen-sq.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17145\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/xmen-sq.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Entertainment Weekly\" width=\"609\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/xmen-sq.jpg 609w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/xmen-sq-400x378.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ew.com/gallery/first-look-x-men-apocalypse\">Entertainment Weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems like we get a new superhero reboot, sequel, prequel or spinoff every few weeks. I ignore most of them. But never X-Men. My allegiance to the '90s cartoon series is too strong to ever overlook any output from that section of the Marvel universe. So I was pretty pumped when \u003ca href=\"http://www.ew.com/gallery/first-look-x-men-apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Entertainment Weekly\u003c/em> released\u003c/a> a handful of photos that give us our first look at \u003cem>X-Men: Apocalypse\u003c/em>. Let's overanalyze them, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/oscar-issac-1373-ew.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17143 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/oscar-issac-1373-ew.jpg\" alt=\"oscar-issac-1373-ew\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/oscar-issac-1373-ew.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/oscar-issac-1373-ew-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Let's start with the good. Storm is not being played by Halle Berry. Hallelujah! She's also rocking a mohawk, a version of the character that has a history of being the best kind of bad ass, from \u003ca href=\"http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m95xbe9uqJ1rdoqkro1_400.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">making out with Wolverine\u003c/a> just cause she feels like it to \u003ca href=\"http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/40/2082642-x2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">challenging Cyclops' white male privilege\u003c/a>. Psylocke, played by Olivia Munn, is similarly killing it in the style department. She's an under-appreciated character in the X-Men universe (she only got one or two cameos in the animated series) so it's good to see her finally getting her deserved place in the film series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there's Apocalypse. The villain is supposed to be a towering, brutal blue giant. Here, he is played by Oscar Isaac, who is 5'9\". Apocalypse is supposed to be the biggest and the baddest. We're supposed to believe that he could truly precipitate the end of the world. All this depiction accomplishes is reminding us of Ivan Ooze, the villain from the Power Rangers movie:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/tumblr_inline_nbajyrnJQS1r2z6s8.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/tumblr_inline_nbajyrnJQS1r2z6s8.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_nbajyrnJQS1r2z6s8\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17141 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373.jpg\" alt=\"fassbender-ew-1373\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/fassbender-ew-1373-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This shot of Michael Fassbender as Magneto looks like a screen test for \u003cem>Drive\u003c/em> (you know, the movie in which Ryan Gosling wears a fly scorpion jacket and kills people in elevators). That blurry guy in the background is wearing a bib, perhaps to catch the drool that results from feasting eyes on Fassbender? Yeah, that's probably it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17142 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew.jpg\" alt=\"mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/mcavoy-xmen-1373-ew-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The gang finally gets around to watching \"2 Girls 1 Cup.\" If you don't understand that reference, please wait until you're not at work to Google it. Better yet, just stay in the dark on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17140 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters.jpg\" alt=\"ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-xmen-evan-peters-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) gets to wear more than just blue paint in this movie. She's staring down Magneto's son Quicksilver and probably about to ask him \"Was that you going through my laundry?\" or \"Why do you only look 5 years younger than your dad?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-17139 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer.jpg\" alt=\"ew-1373-director-brian-singer\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer.jpg 612w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/07/ew-1373-director-brian-singer-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alan Markfield / Entertainment Weekly\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Bryan Singer is most likely breaking it to Apocalypse that he is actually on the wrong set and has to leave immediately. The Power Rangers reboot is shooting across town. Or maybe, just maybe, Singer is explaining how they can actually bring about the end of the world by pissing off all X-Men fans everywhere with this wack portrayal. Were the Mayans right, after all? We'll know for sure if the studio changes the release date from May 27, 2016 to December 21, 2016. Tell your family you love them just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/17138/lets-wildly-speculate-about-the-first-photos-from-x-men-apocalypse","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_629"],"featImg":"pop_17144","label":"pop"},"pop_12024":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_12024","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"12024","score":null,"sort":[1399571148000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-san-francisco-fall-a-collection-of-the-most-destructive-movie-scenes","title":"Watch San Francisco Fall: A Collection of the Most Destructive Movie Scenes","publishDate":1399571148,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/06/watch-san-francisco-fall-a-collection-of-the-most-destructive-movie-scenes/gg-bridge-destruction/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12057\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12057 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/gg-bridge-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"gg-bridge-destruction\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/gg-bridge-destruction.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/gg-bridge-destruction-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: 20th Century Fox\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What is it about the human condition that makes man capable of creating things of great beauty (paintings, sculpture, fashion collections, entire cities even), and so fascinated with destroying them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm only speaking cinematically, of course. It seems like no disaster film would be complete without one of the following scenes: the Statue of Liberty (although you can also use the Eiffel Tower) either in great peril (\u003cem>Escape from New York\u003c/em>) or already blown to ruins (the original \u003cem>Planet of the Apes\u003c/em>), a government building blown to smithereens (The White House in \u003cem>Independence Day\u003c/em> and The Old Bailey and Houses of Parliament in \u003cem>V for Vendetta\u003c/em>) or (now pay attention here; it may come up later) the Golden Gate Bridge getting destroyed in every possible manner in so many different movies that it's almost a film sub-genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even post 9/11, what is behind this need filmmakers have to destroy the landmarks of major cities? Or a better question might be: what is behind the need film audiences have to see landmarks destroyed on screen? By CGI-exploding the skylines of New York, Paris, London and yes, San Francisco, are moviegoers outside of urban areas validated in their decisions to live away from tall buildings that might attract terrorist threats/fall from natural disasters/be destroyed by Martians? Do urban audiences get to vent their frustration at city life by watching \u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em> (\u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/new-godzilla-trailer-san-francisco-693791\">coming soon to destroy San Francisco in the newest incarnation\u003c/a>) or the \u003cem>Cloverfield\u003c/em> monster inhale a block of office buildings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, I thought San Francisco's reputation for liberalism probably made it a crowd-pleasing target for movie destruction in more conservative regions. Is San Francisco now being popularly annihilated onscreen because audiences are mad about housing costs? And I think this bears repeating, what is this fixation with destroying the Golden Gate Bridge? In recognition of our unique status in the cinematic crosshairs, we compiled a list of some of the many films where San Francisco has been targeted, destroyed or taken over by alien invaders (no tech shuttle jokes, please).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1936)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/VAoNDihnfbc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this classic starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald, the Barbary Coast is decimated by the great quake of 1906, the mansions of Nob Hill are dynamited, and, no matter what happens, operatic soprano Jeanette MacDonald doesn't miss a note. Whether the roof falls in, the street gives way beneath her or the city burns, Jeanette just keeps \u003cem>singing\u003c/em>. Unless she's fainting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Not applicable; it wasn't built yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>It Came From Beneath the Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1955)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/Xkymhit3Reg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this typical atomic age monster movie, San Francisco is attacked by a giant octopus that wipes out the Ferry Building (but where will I buy organic lavender infused truffle oil now?!) and a chunk of the Embarcadero. In the end, the six-legged octopus (budget issues?) is driven back out to sea and nuked because what atomic weapons have created, atomic weapons can destroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Definitely. Old six legs wipes out a whole section in what may be the first big screen destruction of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Towering Inferno\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1974)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/nch1URmJvMA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Irwin Allen disaster classic featured every star known to man in the early '70s from Paul Newman and Steve McQueen to Faye Dunaway, Dabney Coleman and (weirdly) O.J. Simpson and Fred Astaire. The world's tallest building (located in San Francisco) turns into -- you guessed it -- a towering inferno, when a fire breaks out at the opening night gala. It's basically \u003cem>The Poseidon Adventure \u003c/em>in a skyscraper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No. The building going up in flames like a firecracker was all the destruction this movie needed. That and the expressions on Faye Dunaway's pre \u003cem>Mommie Dearest\u003c/em> face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Invasions of the Body Snatchers\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1978)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/GEdeXyqC-Ew\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You thought gentrification was bad? Meet the original pod people in this sci-fi thriller. Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartright try to fight off alien invaders in the City by the Bay with little success. The end result is bland, emotionless alien-humanoid hybrids. Basically, all of San Francisco becomes that time in the late '90s when people were trying to get their Prozac dosage correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Surprisingly, no. The only destruction here is of the body disintegrating variety. Say what you will, at least the Body Snatchers were tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1978)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/XImPJl_mQOQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lex Luthor (played by the one and only Gene Hackman) sets off an earthquake designed to sink the California coast, including San Francisco. It's up to the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeves) to pull a Cher and turn back time so California stays above water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No destruction, but Superman does save a school bus from going over the side. Trust me, if you grew up here and saw that scene as a kid, it stayed with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A View to a Kill\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1986)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/aSADSCCHDZg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this extremely campy (but enjoyable) James Bond flick, Roger Moore as Agent 007 fights off Christopher Walken as a baddie who wants to detonate explosives at the San Andreas and Hayward faults. Not content with just another lame man-made earthquake, the filmmakers also set City Hall on fire, again, because we just can't resist destroying government buildings on screen. The film's best special effect by far remains Grace Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No, but the film's final action sequence is an extended chase scene on the suspension cables with a henchmen tossing sticks of dynamite at Bond. Terrible for the paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Rock\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1996)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/ClOQJAB0uD0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One minute you're peacefully visiting Alcatraz and the next you're being held hostage by Ed Harris. This is why you should never do touristy activities on vacay. Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery (already in his sixties here and better than ever) are tasked with rescuing the hostages and the citizens of San Francisco, who are being threatened with rockets armed with a deadly gas. Panic ensues on the streets, much like Bay to Breakers before the official sponsorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No, but Alcatraz takes it pretty hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>X-Men: The Last Stand\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2006)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/mnTi2wMGJDU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Alcatraz becomes the base for a \"mutant cure\" project, Magneto (Ian McKellan) and his Mutant Brotherhood attack the facility in the name of mutant rights. There's nothing wrong with them; they don't have to be \"cured.\" Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and the rest of the X-Men charge in to stop the destruction of the Island, which was still recovering from the antics during \u003cem>The Rock.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Yes, and it's a doozy. Magneto actually lifts the bridge and turns it into a pathway to Alcatraz for his attack. Beautiful and terrifying all at once, mainly because I'm not 100% convinced Ian McKellan doesn't have powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Megashark vs. Giant Octopus\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/qvciIVcn33c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it's not the Giant Octopus that imperils San Francisco in this Deborah Gibson/Lorenzo Lamas clunker. That would be redundant (see \u003cem>It Came From Beneath the Sea\u003c/em>). Rather, scientists lay a trap for top-billed Megashark in the Bay and it does not go well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Megashark takes a megabite out of it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Monsters vs. Aliens\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/9ITeGRWcThw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even cartoons are in on it. In this Dreamworks animation, a team of government \"monsters\" fight off an alien invasion. Among the alien's first stops on Earth? San Francisco! You know, to try some of our artisanal ice cream and price out residents in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> There's a battle and some partial destruction of the bridge, because we're not even safe in cartoons!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/QP8L7aLDvAU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to be honest: I'm more of a \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> fan than a Trekkie, so I may get the terminology wrong here. Here's my understanding of the 2009 reboot: villainous Captain Nero (Eric Bana) drills into the San Francisco Bay to deposit some kind of exploding red matter into the earth. Some other things happened, and then I figured out they don't have light sabers and sort of stopped paying attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Nope, but I bet they would have gone after the LucasFilm complex, if given the chance. Or maybe not, now that director J.J. Abrams is helming both franchises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Terminator Salvation\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/yBS5Elx635w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How's this for timely: Skynet, the tech force sentient computer that enslaves humanity, is based in San Francisco in this recent \u003cem>Terminator\u003c/em> sequel. John Connor (Christian Bale) leads an attack on the headquarters and, while the battle may be won, \"the war is just beginning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> I don't even think we \u003cem>see\u003c/em> the bridge in this movie. Hmm... Did Skynet destroy it years prior?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2011)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/4sYSyuuLk5g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a monster or a terrorist that targets San Francisco this time; it's a disease. San Francisco is among the many infected cities in this film, a startling reminder of the AIDS epidemic for those that saw it here in the '80s and '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> None.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2011)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/V0LQnQSrC-g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what feels like the tenth or eleventh in the seemingly infinite \u003cem>Mission Impossible\u003c/em> series, some kind of terrorist targets San Francisco with a missile from a Russian submarine. The specifics don't really matter. Just know we win and have Tom Cruise to thank for it, which is the point of all these movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> A near miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rise of the Planet of the Apes \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>(2011)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/oNfbCXFGsaY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this \u003cem>Planet of the Apes\u003c/em> prequel, James Franco is a primatologist who creates/discovers the first sentient ape who will go on to father the race of super apes that take over the Earth. Doesn't it just seem like the kind of weird performance art Franco would actually do in real life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> In one of the most magnificent shots in the film, the apes overrun the bridge swinging from suspension cables like aerial ballet artists. A breathtaking use of the iconic landmark.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What is it about San Francisco that leads so many filmmakers to imagine its destruction?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1399572675,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1804},"headData":{"title":"Watch San Francisco Fall: A Collection of the Most Destructive Movie Scenes | KQED","description":"What is it about San Francisco that leads so many filmmakers to imagine its destruction?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"12024 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=12024","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/08/watch-san-francisco-fall-a-collection-of-the-most-destructive-movie-scenes/","disqusTitle":"Watch San Francisco Fall: A Collection of the Most Destructive Movie Scenes","path":"/pop/12024/watch-san-francisco-fall-a-collection-of-the-most-destructive-movie-scenes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/06/watch-san-francisco-fall-a-collection-of-the-most-destructive-movie-scenes/gg-bridge-destruction/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12057\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12057 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/gg-bridge-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"gg-bridge-destruction\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/gg-bridge-destruction.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/gg-bridge-destruction-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: 20th Century Fox\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What is it about the human condition that makes man capable of creating things of great beauty (paintings, sculpture, fashion collections, entire cities even), and so fascinated with destroying them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm only speaking cinematically, of course. It seems like no disaster film would be complete without one of the following scenes: the Statue of Liberty (although you can also use the Eiffel Tower) either in great peril (\u003cem>Escape from New York\u003c/em>) or already blown to ruins (the original \u003cem>Planet of the Apes\u003c/em>), a government building blown to smithereens (The White House in \u003cem>Independence Day\u003c/em> and The Old Bailey and Houses of Parliament in \u003cem>V for Vendetta\u003c/em>) or (now pay attention here; it may come up later) the Golden Gate Bridge getting destroyed in every possible manner in so many different movies that it's almost a film sub-genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even post 9/11, what is behind this need filmmakers have to destroy the landmarks of major cities? Or a better question might be: what is behind the need film audiences have to see landmarks destroyed on screen? By CGI-exploding the skylines of New York, Paris, London and yes, San Francisco, are moviegoers outside of urban areas validated in their decisions to live away from tall buildings that might attract terrorist threats/fall from natural disasters/be destroyed by Martians? Do urban audiences get to vent their frustration at city life by watching \u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em> (\u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/new-godzilla-trailer-san-francisco-693791\">coming soon to destroy San Francisco in the newest incarnation\u003c/a>) or the \u003cem>Cloverfield\u003c/em> monster inhale a block of office buildings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, I thought San Francisco's reputation for liberalism probably made it a crowd-pleasing target for movie destruction in more conservative regions. Is San Francisco now being popularly annihilated onscreen because audiences are mad about housing costs? And I think this bears repeating, what is this fixation with destroying the Golden Gate Bridge? In recognition of our unique status in the cinematic crosshairs, we compiled a list of some of the many films where San Francisco has been targeted, destroyed or taken over by alien invaders (no tech shuttle jokes, please).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1936)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VAoNDihnfbc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VAoNDihnfbc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In this classic starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald, the Barbary Coast is decimated by the great quake of 1906, the mansions of Nob Hill are dynamited, and, no matter what happens, operatic soprano Jeanette MacDonald doesn't miss a note. Whether the roof falls in, the street gives way beneath her or the city burns, Jeanette just keeps \u003cem>singing\u003c/em>. Unless she's fainting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Not applicable; it wasn't built yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>It Came From Beneath the Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1955)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Xkymhit3Reg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Xkymhit3Reg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In this typical atomic age monster movie, San Francisco is attacked by a giant octopus that wipes out the Ferry Building (but where will I buy organic lavender infused truffle oil now?!) and a chunk of the Embarcadero. In the end, the six-legged octopus (budget issues?) is driven back out to sea and nuked because what atomic weapons have created, atomic weapons can destroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Definitely. Old six legs wipes out a whole section in what may be the first big screen destruction of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Towering Inferno\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1974)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/nch1URmJvMA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nch1URmJvMA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This Irwin Allen disaster classic featured every star known to man in the early '70s from Paul Newman and Steve McQueen to Faye Dunaway, Dabney Coleman and (weirdly) O.J. Simpson and Fred Astaire. The world's tallest building (located in San Francisco) turns into -- you guessed it -- a towering inferno, when a fire breaks out at the opening night gala. It's basically \u003cem>The Poseidon Adventure \u003c/em>in a skyscraper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No. The building going up in flames like a firecracker was all the destruction this movie needed. That and the expressions on Faye Dunaway's pre \u003cem>Mommie Dearest\u003c/em> face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Invasions of the Body Snatchers\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1978)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GEdeXyqC-Ew'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GEdeXyqC-Ew'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>You thought gentrification was bad? Meet the original pod people in this sci-fi thriller. Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartright try to fight off alien invaders in the City by the Bay with little success. The end result is bland, emotionless alien-humanoid hybrids. Basically, all of San Francisco becomes that time in the late '90s when people were trying to get their Prozac dosage correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Surprisingly, no. The only destruction here is of the body disintegrating variety. Say what you will, at least the Body Snatchers were tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1978)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XImPJl_mQOQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XImPJl_mQOQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Lex Luthor (played by the one and only Gene Hackman) sets off an earthquake designed to sink the California coast, including San Francisco. It's up to the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeves) to pull a Cher and turn back time so California stays above water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No destruction, but Superman does save a school bus from going over the side. Trust me, if you grew up here and saw that scene as a kid, it stayed with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A View to a Kill\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1986)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/aSADSCCHDZg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/aSADSCCHDZg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In this extremely campy (but enjoyable) James Bond flick, Roger Moore as Agent 007 fights off Christopher Walken as a baddie who wants to detonate explosives at the San Andreas and Hayward faults. Not content with just another lame man-made earthquake, the filmmakers also set City Hall on fire, again, because we just can't resist destroying government buildings on screen. The film's best special effect by far remains Grace Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No, but the film's final action sequence is an extended chase scene on the suspension cables with a henchmen tossing sticks of dynamite at Bond. Terrible for the paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Rock\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (1996)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ClOQJAB0uD0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ClOQJAB0uD0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>One minute you're peacefully visiting Alcatraz and the next you're being held hostage by Ed Harris. This is why you should never do touristy activities on vacay. Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery (already in his sixties here and better than ever) are tasked with rescuing the hostages and the citizens of San Francisco, who are being threatened with rockets armed with a deadly gas. Panic ensues on the streets, much like Bay to Breakers before the official sponsorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> No, but Alcatraz takes it pretty hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>X-Men: The Last Stand\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2006)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mnTi2wMGJDU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mnTi2wMGJDU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When Alcatraz becomes the base for a \"mutant cure\" project, Magneto (Ian McKellan) and his Mutant Brotherhood attack the facility in the name of mutant rights. There's nothing wrong with them; they don't have to be \"cured.\" Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and the rest of the X-Men charge in to stop the destruction of the Island, which was still recovering from the antics during \u003cem>The Rock.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Yes, and it's a doozy. Magneto actually lifts the bridge and turns it into a pathway to Alcatraz for his attack. Beautiful and terrifying all at once, mainly because I'm not 100% convinced Ian McKellan doesn't have powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Megashark vs. Giant Octopus\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qvciIVcn33c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qvciIVcn33c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>No, it's not the Giant Octopus that imperils San Francisco in this Deborah Gibson/Lorenzo Lamas clunker. That would be redundant (see \u003cem>It Came From Beneath the Sea\u003c/em>). Rather, scientists lay a trap for top-billed Megashark in the Bay and it does not go well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Megashark takes a megabite out of it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Monsters vs. Aliens\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9ITeGRWcThw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9ITeGRWcThw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Even cartoons are in on it. In this Dreamworks animation, a team of government \"monsters\" fight off an alien invasion. Among the alien's first stops on Earth? San Francisco! You know, to try some of our artisanal ice cream and price out residents in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> There's a battle and some partial destruction of the bridge, because we're not even safe in cartoons!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QP8L7aLDvAU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QP8L7aLDvAU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>I'm going to be honest: I'm more of a \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> fan than a Trekkie, so I may get the terminology wrong here. Here's my understanding of the 2009 reboot: villainous Captain Nero (Eric Bana) drills into the San Francisco Bay to deposit some kind of exploding red matter into the earth. Some other things happened, and then I figured out they don't have light sabers and sort of stopped paying attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> Nope, but I bet they would have gone after the LucasFilm complex, if given the chance. Or maybe not, now that director J.J. Abrams is helming both franchises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Terminator Salvation\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2009)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yBS5Elx635w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yBS5Elx635w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>How's this for timely: Skynet, the tech force sentient computer that enslaves humanity, is based in San Francisco in this recent \u003cem>Terminator\u003c/em> sequel. John Connor (Christian Bale) leads an attack on the headquarters and, while the battle may be won, \"the war is just beginning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> I don't even think we \u003cem>see\u003c/em> the bridge in this movie. Hmm... Did Skynet destroy it years prior?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Contagion\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2011)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It's not a monster or a terrorist that targets San Francisco this time; it's a disease. San Francisco is among the many infected cities in this film, a startling reminder of the AIDS epidemic for those that saw it here in the '80s and '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> None.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> (2011)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/V0LQnQSrC-g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/V0LQnQSrC-g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In what feels like the tenth or eleventh in the seemingly infinite \u003cem>Mission Impossible\u003c/em> series, some kind of terrorist targets San Francisco with a missile from a Russian submarine. The specifics don't really matter. Just know we win and have Tom Cruise to thank for it, which is the point of all these movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> A near miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rise of the Planet of the Apes \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>(2011)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oNfbCXFGsaY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oNfbCXFGsaY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In this \u003cem>Planet of the Apes\u003c/em> prequel, James Franco is a primatologist who creates/discovers the first sentient ape who will go on to father the race of super apes that take over the Earth. Doesn't it just seem like the kind of weird performance art Franco would actually do in real life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Destruction of Golden Gate Bridge? \u003c/strong> In one of the most magnificent shots in the film, the apes overrun the bridge swinging from suspension cables like aerial ballet artists. A breathtaking use of the iconic landmark.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/12024/watch-san-francisco-fall-a-collection-of-the-most-destructive-movie-scenes","authors":["2436"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_1571","pop_1570","pop_1573","pop_1572","pop_1574","pop_629"],"featImg":"pop_12057","label":"pop"},"pop_11978":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_11978","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"11978","score":null,"sort":[1398979997000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"movies-thatll-pump-you-up-for-summer-blockbuster-season","title":"Movies That'll Pump You Up for Summer Blockbuster Season","publishDate":1398979997,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/movies-thatll-pump-you-up-for-summer-blockbuster-season/maleficent/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12000\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12000\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/maleficent.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Walt Disney Pictures\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/maleficent.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/maleficent-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Walt Disney Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With summer blockbuster season right around the corner (here come the explosions and car chases), we felt it necessary to take a moment to remind you of all the movies you should catch this May before the around-the-block lines for sequels and teenage hoards descend on theaters in June. From the indie and arty (hello, James Franco's \u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em>) to big budget spectacles (Bryan Cranston in \u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em> and \u003cem>X-Men: Days of Future Past\u003c/em>), here's a sneak peek at some of the films everyone will be talking about this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 9\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/sTqMUu1iTIo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Gia Coppola's (yes, one of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> Coppolas) adaptation of James Franco's 2010 book of short stories follows a group of delinquent peninsula high school students through a series of unsavory incidents in the Bay Area. You may want to pick up the collection beforehand; it's a breezy and somewhat odd read, as you'd expect from our favorite \u003cem>General Hospital\u003c/em> guest star. The underage relationship between Franco's character \"Mr. B\" and Emma Roberts' \"April\" should be interesting to watch, in light of his recent Instagram rejection from a 17-year-old fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?:\u003c/strong> We're always excited for a new piece of James Franco performance art and it's going to be interesting to see what gets included from the dense set of tales. Val Kilmer is also listed as a cast member and his bizarro boy antics of the '90s seem to be very in keeping with Franco's current persona. When beloved Hollywood weirdos collide!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Neighbors\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/kL5c2szf3E4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> The team behind \u003cem>Forgetting Sarah Marshall\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Get Him to the Greek\u003c/em> take a look at intergenerational conflict in this story about young parents (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) who find themselves living next to a fraternity house led by the oft shirtless Zac Efron. Broad comedy with several likely references to \u003cem>Animal House\u003c/em>, lots of \u003cem>Home Alone\u003c/em> style pranks and, again, frequently shirtless Zac Efron (which seems to be a major selling point of the marketing campaign). What more do you want?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> Zac Efron definitely has a sense of comic timing; let's hope the script does him justice and that he can take this opportunity working with Seth Rogan to further master his skills in the genre. The frat next door story seems a little \"done,\" but we love a clever reinvention of a classic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Double\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/XG8qATRtNuU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Jesse Eisenberg stars in a dark comedy retelling of the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novella. Simon James and James Simon meet at work and discover they bear a striking resemblance to one another but with polar opposite personalities. When the bold and brash James tries to coach a meek and retiring Simon in the seduction of Hannah (Mia Wasikowska), things take a dark turn. Needless to say, the resemblance has a lot to do with it...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> The source material can't be beat and we've been eager to see Eisenberg sink his teeth into another Zuckerberg type role. Maybe he can bring some of that smarm to the duplicitous James?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 16\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/vIu85WQTPRc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche and Sally Hawkings star in this big budget reboot of the Toho classics. The new film allegedly pits the famous monster against other mega-creatures, whose creation is linked to man's scientific arrogance and mistreatment of the environment. Very timely sounding take on the green one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?\u003c/strong>: Walter White battling one of the most classic movie monsters of all time? Excited doesn't begin to cover it. Even though the last American take on the big lizard was a snooze, we're cautiously optimistic that this seemingly smarter approach will present big questions for contemporary audiences like the originals did about life in the atomic age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Million Dollar Arm\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/EiC8o7i_ZqE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Jon Hamm stars as real life sports agent J.B. Bernstein, who traveled to India to recruit baseball reality show contestants Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel for the American big leagues. It looks a little \u003cem>Cool Runnings\u003c/em>, a little \u003cem>The Rookie\u003c/em> and Hamm looks utterly at home in the world of baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong>Eh. But Jon Hamm would be delightful reading Tupperware care instructions so we'll check this out just for him. We're overdue for a new baseball classic, so hopefully this movie will surprise with some good storytelling. Just, please, go light on the cultural fish-out-of-water elements; it can read as xenophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 23\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>X-Men: Days of Future Past\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/gsjtg7m1MMM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Cast members and universes from the two separate X-Men film series unite in this truly epic telling of the \"Future Past\" comic storyline. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen reprise their roles from the original Bryan Singer trilogy and are joined by James McEvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult from \u003cem>First Class.\u003c/em> Time travel, possible apocalyptic futures and the series' overriding metaphors about persecution and intolerance make up what seems like a truly complex dual timeline plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> Clearly. The best of both worlds colliding in the awesomeness that is the X-universe has us all secretly nerding out a little. Plus, the bromance that is the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellan friendship needs to be documented whenever possible. Oh, and the cast will be joined by \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em> Peter Dinklage. We're off to a great start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Maleficent\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/w-XO4XiRop0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Angelina Jolie stars as the title evil fairy from \u003cem>Sleeping Beauty.\u003c/em> What \u003cem>Wicked\u003c/em> did in retelling the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz,\u003c/em> this film aims to do for the queen of the night. Jolie's character goes from youthful purity to a heart of revenge with Elle Fanning's Princess Aurora caught in the middle of a war between the human and forest worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> With memories of Tim Burton's lackluster \u003cem>Alice in Wonderland\u003c/em> and the snooze-worthy \u003cem>Oz the Great and Powerful\u003c/em> still fresh in our minds, we're cautiously excited. The art so far looks brooding and beautiful, and Angelina certainly seems to be channelling the epic villainess trope like never before. But I have to ask: Doesn't she seem like this might be how she behaves at home with Brad and the kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Million Ways to Die in the West\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/WhGkcOoTlkQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What: \u003c/strong>Seth MacFarlane wrote, directed and stars in this western comedy about a meek sheep herder going up against an old west villain played by Liam Neeson, with Charlize Theron and Amanda Seyfried as love interests. The set up seems very Don Knotts in \u003cem>The Shakiest Gun in the West\u003c/em>,\u003cem> \u003c/em> but with standard family-unfriendly touches by MacFarlane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> Yes! We need a good western comedy; there hasn't really been one since \u003cem>Blazing Saddles\u003c/em>. While MacFarlane has proven himself capable of writing and directing a hit film with \u003cem>Ted,\u003c/em> it's going to be interesting to see if he can carry off leading man duties. If his SNL performance is any indication, we'll be alright.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From the indie and artsy to big budget spectacles, here's a sneak peek at some of the films everyone will be talking about this month.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1398985850,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1240},"headData":{"title":"Movies That'll Pump You Up for Summer Blockbuster Season | KQED","description":"From the indie and artsy to big budget spectacles, here's a sneak peek at some of the films everyone will be talking about this month.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11978 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=11978","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/01/movies-thatll-pump-you-up-for-summer-blockbuster-season/","disqusTitle":"Movies That'll Pump You Up for Summer Blockbuster Season","path":"/pop/11978/movies-thatll-pump-you-up-for-summer-blockbuster-season","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/movies-thatll-pump-you-up-for-summer-blockbuster-season/maleficent/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12000\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12000\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/maleficent.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Walt Disney Pictures\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/maleficent.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/maleficent-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Walt Disney Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With summer blockbuster season right around the corner (here come the explosions and car chases), we felt it necessary to take a moment to remind you of all the movies you should catch this May before the around-the-block lines for sequels and teenage hoards descend on theaters in June. From the indie and arty (hello, James Franco's \u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em>) to big budget spectacles (Bryan Cranston in \u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em> and \u003cem>X-Men: Days of Future Past\u003c/em>), here's a sneak peek at some of the films everyone will be talking about this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 9\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/sTqMUu1iTIo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sTqMUu1iTIo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Gia Coppola's (yes, one of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> Coppolas) adaptation of James Franco's 2010 book of short stories follows a group of delinquent peninsula high school students through a series of unsavory incidents in the Bay Area. You may want to pick up the collection beforehand; it's a breezy and somewhat odd read, as you'd expect from our favorite \u003cem>General Hospital\u003c/em> guest star. The underage relationship between Franco's character \"Mr. B\" and Emma Roberts' \"April\" should be interesting to watch, in light of his recent Instagram rejection from a 17-year-old fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?:\u003c/strong> We're always excited for a new piece of James Franco performance art and it's going to be interesting to see what gets included from the dense set of tales. Val Kilmer is also listed as a cast member and his bizarro boy antics of the '90s seem to be very in keeping with Franco's current persona. When beloved Hollywood weirdos collide!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Neighbors\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kL5c2szf3E4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kL5c2szf3E4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> The team behind \u003cem>Forgetting Sarah Marshall\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Get Him to the Greek\u003c/em> take a look at intergenerational conflict in this story about young parents (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) who find themselves living next to a fraternity house led by the oft shirtless Zac Efron. Broad comedy with several likely references to \u003cem>Animal House\u003c/em>, lots of \u003cem>Home Alone\u003c/em> style pranks and, again, frequently shirtless Zac Efron (which seems to be a major selling point of the marketing campaign). What more do you want?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> Zac Efron definitely has a sense of comic timing; let's hope the script does him justice and that he can take this opportunity working with Seth Rogan to further master his skills in the genre. The frat next door story seems a little \"done,\" but we love a clever reinvention of a classic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Double\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XG8qATRtNuU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XG8qATRtNuU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Jesse Eisenberg stars in a dark comedy retelling of the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novella. Simon James and James Simon meet at work and discover they bear a striking resemblance to one another but with polar opposite personalities. When the bold and brash James tries to coach a meek and retiring Simon in the seduction of Hannah (Mia Wasikowska), things take a dark turn. Needless to say, the resemblance has a lot to do with it...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> The source material can't be beat and we've been eager to see Eisenberg sink his teeth into another Zuckerberg type role. Maybe he can bring some of that smarm to the duplicitous James?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 16\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vIu85WQTPRc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vIu85WQTPRc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche and Sally Hawkings star in this big budget reboot of the Toho classics. The new film allegedly pits the famous monster against other mega-creatures, whose creation is linked to man's scientific arrogance and mistreatment of the environment. Very timely sounding take on the green one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?\u003c/strong>: Walter White battling one of the most classic movie monsters of all time? Excited doesn't begin to cover it. Even though the last American take on the big lizard was a snooze, we're cautiously optimistic that this seemingly smarter approach will present big questions for contemporary audiences like the originals did about life in the atomic age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Million Dollar Arm\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/EiC8o7i_ZqE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/EiC8o7i_ZqE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Jon Hamm stars as real life sports agent J.B. Bernstein, who traveled to India to recruit baseball reality show contestants Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel for the American big leagues. It looks a little \u003cem>Cool Runnings\u003c/em>, a little \u003cem>The Rookie\u003c/em> and Hamm looks utterly at home in the world of baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong>Eh. But Jon Hamm would be delightful reading Tupperware care instructions so we'll check this out just for him. We're overdue for a new baseball classic, so hopefully this movie will surprise with some good storytelling. Just, please, go light on the cultural fish-out-of-water elements; it can read as xenophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 23\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>X-Men: Days of Future Past\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gsjtg7m1MMM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gsjtg7m1MMM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Cast members and universes from the two separate X-Men film series unite in this truly epic telling of the \"Future Past\" comic storyline. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen reprise their roles from the original Bryan Singer trilogy and are joined by James McEvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult from \u003cem>First Class.\u003c/em> Time travel, possible apocalyptic futures and the series' overriding metaphors about persecution and intolerance make up what seems like a truly complex dual timeline plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> Clearly. The best of both worlds colliding in the awesomeness that is the X-universe has us all secretly nerding out a little. Plus, the bromance that is the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellan friendship needs to be documented whenever possible. Oh, and the cast will be joined by \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em> Peter Dinklage. We're off to a great start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Maleficent\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/w-XO4XiRop0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/w-XO4XiRop0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What:\u003c/strong> Angelina Jolie stars as the title evil fairy from \u003cem>Sleeping Beauty.\u003c/em> What \u003cem>Wicked\u003c/em> did in retelling the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz,\u003c/em> this film aims to do for the queen of the night. Jolie's character goes from youthful purity to a heart of revenge with Elle Fanning's Princess Aurora caught in the middle of a war between the human and forest worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> With memories of Tim Burton's lackluster \u003cem>Alice in Wonderland\u003c/em> and the snooze-worthy \u003cem>Oz the Great and Powerful\u003c/em> still fresh in our minds, we're cautiously excited. The art so far looks brooding and beautiful, and Angelina certainly seems to be channelling the epic villainess trope like never before. But I have to ask: Doesn't she seem like this might be how she behaves at home with Brad and the kids?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Million Ways to Die in the West\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WhGkcOoTlkQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WhGkcOoTlkQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What: \u003c/strong>Seth MacFarlane wrote, directed and stars in this western comedy about a meek sheep herder going up against an old west villain played by Liam Neeson, with Charlize Theron and Amanda Seyfried as love interests. The set up seems very Don Knotts in \u003cem>The Shakiest Gun in the West\u003c/em>,\u003cem> \u003c/em> but with standard family-unfriendly touches by MacFarlane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are we excited?: \u003c/strong> Yes! We need a good western comedy; there hasn't really been one since \u003cem>Blazing Saddles\u003c/em>. While MacFarlane has proven himself capable of writing and directing a hit film with \u003cem>Ted,\u003c/em> it's going to be interesting to see if he can carry off leading man duties. If his SNL performance is any indication, we'll be alright.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/11978/movies-thatll-pump-you-up-for-summer-blockbuster-season","authors":["2436"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_1562","pop_1558","pop_385","pop_1560","pop_629"],"featImg":"pop_12000","label":"pop"},"pop_5487":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_5487","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"5487","score":null,"sort":[1370286361000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth","title":"Gay Subtext in The Little Mermaid? Stories with a Secret Message for Queer Youth","publishDate":1370286361,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/03/gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth/mermaid/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5508\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-5508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/mermaid.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/mermaid.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/mermaid-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page_132_illustration_in_fairy_tales_of_Andersen_%28Stratton%29.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a gay youth I spent countless hours looking for myself in the pages of the books on the mandatory reading list at my Catholic school. Much as they tried to suppress anything even remotely queer (in both senses of the word) there it was, that certain \u003cem>something\u003c/em> in the subtext that read a little different, a little more than the other characters, a little... gay. Ponyboy and Johnny in \u003cem>S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders\u003c/em> shared something between them I coudn't quite articulate but I knew it made me feel a funny. \u003cem>Ferdinand\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>and his refusal to stop smelling the flowers and toughen up was basically me at every team sport I ever played. \u003cem>The Little Mermaid \u003c/em>and her forbidden love were almost exactly how I felt when I started to feel the first pangs of same-sex attraction. Thank God for the \u003cem>X-Men \u003c/em>and their demonstrating that in spite of society's bigotry I had inner resources I could call on when times got tough, that what made me different was what would eventually give me the strength to fight. In honor of Gay Pride Month take a look at some of my favorite pieces of young literature that I believe have a secret message for gay kids. These books make perfect gifts for the child in your life that seems a little different, a touch set apart from their peers and a bit \u003cem>too fabulous\u003c/em> to grow up to be anything but gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. S.E.\u003cem> Hinton's The Outsiders\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/The_Outsiders_book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"342\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S.E. Hinton's classic young adult fiction reads like the \u003cem>Brokeback Mountain \u003c/em>of middle school lit. Ponyboy Curtis lives in a world of Greasers and Socs (pronounced \"sew-shhhh\" as in \"social\") where the poor kid/rich kid struggle constantly asserts itself into daily life. In this case the greasers are the \"poor kids\" and are looked down upon by Socs and society alike for their socio-economic accidents of birth. There's also almost no adults in this world and ONE GIRL with a speaking role. Instead of high school football games and dances, Ponyboy and his brothers Daryl and Sodapop and greaser buddies Dallas, Two-Bit, Steve and Ponyboy's best friend Johnny, live in a world of rumbles, switchblades, hair product and rolled jeans and leather jackets which are so incredibly in right now. The sexual tension between young Ponyboy and Johnny when they're shacked up in an abandoned church for the second half of the book jumps off the page as does their unintentionally funny, Lucy and Ricky-type domestic set up while they're in hiding. Dallas's bad-boy-tough-but-secretly-sensitive character reads like a John Rechy hustler with a heart of gold and Ponyboy's inability to fit in completely in greaser world and his longing for something better is an age old story for every kid trying to figure out where his place is. The 1980 film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola hints at the novel's gay subtext but doesn't come near capturing it on screen. Dare I say it, maybe it's time for a remake? My choice to direct: Ryan Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003cem>X-Men\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/UncannyXmen504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"386\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncanny X-Men\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mutants. AKA black people. AKA immigrants. AKA nerds AKA GAYS!!! Crack just about any issue of the long running superhero comic and you see the \"mutants as gays\" metaphor. Mutant powers first reveal themselves around puberty (sound familiar?), the government repeatedly tries to limit mutant rights, anti-mutant groups commit mutant hate crimes, mutants sometimes choose to hide or \"closet\" their mutant identities (which is not a possibly for some of the more \"obvious\" mutants); it's a very long list. Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted is a sanctuary for young mutants just figuring out this new aspect of their identities where they can safely discover their mutant gifts and eventually aid progress for mutant kind by joining Xavier's X-Men. Doesn't that sound like the Harvey Milk High School, or \u003cem>Fame\u003c/em>? The comics are notorious for letting ambigious hints to chacters same-sex inclinations slip in (Storm goes through a very butch phase and lives with women on and off before her eventual hetero marriage, Magneto and Xavier share a past that occasionally has hints of failed romance) and the 2006 film \u003cem>X-Men: The Last Stand\u003c/em> even includes a scene where Bobby \"Iceman\" Drake \"comes out\" to his family as a mutant. In a world where gay kids are bullied and bashed at school and home it's important that with the \u003cem>X-Men \u003c/em>comics they see characters as persecuted and \"other\" as themselves battling homophobic, err, I mean \"antimutant\" foes and WINNING.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3.\u003cem> The Story of Ferdinand\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/The_Story_of_Ferdinand.jpg/280px-The_Story_of_Ferdinand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"295\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want you to think about \u003cem>The Story of Ferdinand \u003c/em>by Munro Leaf very carefully and tell me how you haven't seen the subtext in this before. A bull is raised to fight and be aggressive \u003cem>just like the other bulls \u003c/em>(what gay kid hasn't felt that comparison?) but all the sweet-natured (i.e. GAY GAY GAY) Ferdinand wants to do is sit and smell the flowers, probably because he took one of those Japanese three-point flower arranging classes and he's contemplating a FABULOUS centerpiece for brunch in the pasture the next day. When a bee sting causes the gentle giant to be mistaken for the fiercest bull on the farm and sissy Ferdinand gets carted off to the city for the bullfights, our boy stands his ground and refuses to fight. That's just not who Ferdinand is and he is not going to try to fit into anyone else's view of what it means to be a man! I mean, a bull! Ferdinand takes the stand all gay kids eventually have to take: \u003cem>this is who I am and I will not apologize \u003c/em>and has even gone on to become something of a pacifist hero for his refusal to fight. I think he's better suited to his role as gay icon: I for one am always inclined to think of that beautiful bull when I stop and smell the flowers. \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4.\u003cem> The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/The_Little_Mermaid_statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The Little Mermaid\" statue in Copenhagen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's something about Hans Christian Andersen's \u003cem>The Little Mermaid \u003c/em>that speaks strongly to the conflicted feelings baby gays are starting to experience once they realize there's something a little different about themselves. Let's take another look at the basic plot: girl sacrifices who she is (mermaid) with great pain (every time the mermaid walks it's as though her feet are being stabbed with knives) to be with her great forbidden love but finds herself torn between two worlds. She must either give up her family and the underwater home she's known to be with her prince or kill him to return to the sea. DECISIONS. It came as no surprise recently when it came to light that \u003ca href=\"http://www.crewmagazine.com/article/the-little-mermaid-was-gay/\">the tale was actually inspired by an unrequited love the author felt for another man.\u003c/a> The mermaid's conflicts are easy for gay youth to identify with: torn between love and family, feeling not quite right in your body (the mermaid not feeling right in her aquatic form for love of a human), and of course, giving up your voice and remaining quiet forever for a chance at happiness. Although the original story has one of the most beautifully tragic endings in fairy tales (the mermaid sacrifices herself but instead of dying she turns to foam and is promised a chance at an immortal soul by the daughters of the air, the one thing mermaids do not possess), it's still a pretty depressing fate for gay kids to contemplate, even if it was the most upbeat scenario Andersen could possibly imagine in his time. The 1989 Disney version gives the story a happy ending, gays it up even more with show tunes and basically turns the story into \u003cem>La Cage Aux Folles\u003c/em>. The longing that all gay kids feel to belong still manages to assert itself into the Disney film most powerfully with the movie's signature ballad \"Part of Your World\" which has always sounded like an anthem for moving out of a small town to a big city that would let you be the secret inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5.\u003cem> The Witch of Blackbird Pond\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond.jpg/200px-The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth George Speare's novel begins when Kit Tyler is torn from her childhood home in colonial Barbados by the death of her grandfather and seeks refuge with her conservative religious family (they are quite literally Puritans) in icy cold Connecticut to avoid marrying a man over twice her age. Once she settles into life in New England she discovers that everything she knows of life is considered \"sinful\" and that the townsfolk are not exactly friendly to those who don't conform to their strict code. Things take a turn for the better when Kit meets Hannah, the so-called \"witch\" of Blackbird Pond who is actually a widowed Quaker woman shunned by the townsfolk for her beliefs. Then, of course, because this is Puritan New England, a sickness breaks out and everyone yells \"witch\" at Hannah and Kit and a torch bearing mob come chasing after the women in the middle of the night. Kit's constantly futile attempts to fit into her Aunt and Uncle's zealous lifestyle feel so familiar to any gay boy who tried to butch it up or any baby dyke who tried to play the part of the femme for acceptance and the fact that these are crazy Christian fundamentalists makes the story that much more relevant. Ultimately, Kit proves herself innocent of the crime of witchcraft and decides to head back home to the islands with a sailor she befriended, but not before slightly opening the eyes of the townspeople to their bigotry and making over her drab pilgrim cousins in some of her fabulous tropical gowns. A gayer ending could not be had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6.\u003cem> Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Twilightbook.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Wiki\" width=\"268\" height=\"405\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually I'm \u003cem>loathe \u003c/em>to mention anything having to do with Stephanie Meyer's abstinence-as-supernatural-cautionary-tale series but I feel it's my duty to point out some of the obvious homo themes that crept into the Mormon Meyer's books (and especially their film adaptations.) Bella is basically an unhappy, flannel wearing loner that can't even muster a smile when a Morrisey looking, befanged twink and hunky gogo boy wannabe werewolf spend four books fighting for her heart. Yeah, about those fights... The Edward vs. Jacob conflict usually read like suppressed homo lust expressing itself all aggro and it didn't help that Jacob was usually shirtless. In spite of that I kept rooting for those crazy kids to make it work. No, not Edward and Bella (who really does dress like the stereotype of a lesbian from the early nineties): Edward and Jacob. THAT would have been a series of books: can a vampire and a werewolf make their unnatural love work? And they're both men! Don't worry though, Bella and Alice will eventually find their way together in the new novel's b plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7.\u003cem> Eloise\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Eloise_book_cover.jpg/250px-Eloise_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"348\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eloise cover art illustrated by Hillary Knight\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The titular heroine of Kay Thompson's \u003cem>Eloise \u003c/em>series (\u003cem>Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise in Paris, Eloise in Moscow, Eloise at Christmastime \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Eloise Takes a Bawth\u003c/em> are the original batch by Thompson and illustrator Hillary Knight) is so utterly fabulous she's children's lit's eternal it-girl. Eloise is six, lives at New York's Plaza Hotel (way before the new remodel... sigh), orders room service on her own charge, knows everyone at the hotel, is a world traveller and lives so close to Bergdorf Goodman's that she can probably smell the perfume counter from her suite. Did I mention that the character of Eloise is based on a little girl by the name of...Liza Minnelli? Yes, it's true: gay icon Liza with a Z was author Kay Thompson's goddaughter (Thompson was a vocal arranger and voice teacher at MGM, the studio where Liza's dad Vincente Minnelli directed hits like \u003cem>Gigi, An American in Paris \u003c/em>and met Liza's mom Judy Garland on the classic \u003cem>Meet Me In St. Louis) \u003c/em>and when Thompson saw the independent, Proust-quoting little Liza asking the bellman to \"charge it please and thanks a lot\" while on tour with Judy, a literary star was born. Not even taking into account the plethora of possibly gay characters that populate the books (Bill the room service waiter. Phillip the tutor, Eloise's oft-absent Dior clad mother who was clearly an international fag hag of some renown based on the names in her closet) the \u003cem>sensibility \u003c/em>of the stories is undeniably gay. We know Eloise grows up to be Liza Minnelli but with her devil-may-care party girl \"I think I'll pour a pitcher of water down the mail chute\" elan couldn't you just as easily see Eloise growing up to be either Edina or Patsy from \u003cem>Absolutely Fabulous\u003c/em>? Of course, most gay children don't think about that when they first read the books: they just want to grow up to be Eloise.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In honor of Gay Pride Month take a look at some of our favorite pieces of young literature that just might have a secret message for LGBT kids.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1371071593,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":2261},"headData":{"title":"Gay Subtext in The Little Mermaid? Stories with a Secret Message for Queer Youth | KQED","description":"In honor of Gay Pride Month take a look at some of our favorite pieces of young literature that just might have a secret message for LGBT kids.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"5487 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=5487","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/03/gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth/","disqusTitle":"Gay Subtext in The Little Mermaid? Stories with a Secret Message for Queer Youth","path":"/pop/5487/gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/03/gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth/mermaid/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5508\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-5508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/mermaid.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/mermaid.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/mermaid-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page_132_illustration_in_fairy_tales_of_Andersen_%28Stratton%29.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a gay youth I spent countless hours looking for myself in the pages of the books on the mandatory reading list at my Catholic school. Much as they tried to suppress anything even remotely queer (in both senses of the word) there it was, that certain \u003cem>something\u003c/em> in the subtext that read a little different, a little more than the other characters, a little... gay. Ponyboy and Johnny in \u003cem>S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders\u003c/em> shared something between them I coudn't quite articulate but I knew it made me feel a funny. \u003cem>Ferdinand\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>and his refusal to stop smelling the flowers and toughen up was basically me at every team sport I ever played. \u003cem>The Little Mermaid \u003c/em>and her forbidden love were almost exactly how I felt when I started to feel the first pangs of same-sex attraction. Thank God for the \u003cem>X-Men \u003c/em>and their demonstrating that in spite of society's bigotry I had inner resources I could call on when times got tough, that what made me different was what would eventually give me the strength to fight. In honor of Gay Pride Month take a look at some of my favorite pieces of young literature that I believe have a secret message for gay kids. These books make perfect gifts for the child in your life that seems a little different, a touch set apart from their peers and a bit \u003cem>too fabulous\u003c/em> to grow up to be anything but gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. S.E.\u003cem> Hinton's The Outsiders\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/The_Outsiders_book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"342\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S.E. Hinton's classic young adult fiction reads like the \u003cem>Brokeback Mountain \u003c/em>of middle school lit. Ponyboy Curtis lives in a world of Greasers and Socs (pronounced \"sew-shhhh\" as in \"social\") where the poor kid/rich kid struggle constantly asserts itself into daily life. In this case the greasers are the \"poor kids\" and are looked down upon by Socs and society alike for their socio-economic accidents of birth. There's also almost no adults in this world and ONE GIRL with a speaking role. Instead of high school football games and dances, Ponyboy and his brothers Daryl and Sodapop and greaser buddies Dallas, Two-Bit, Steve and Ponyboy's best friend Johnny, live in a world of rumbles, switchblades, hair product and rolled jeans and leather jackets which are so incredibly in right now. The sexual tension between young Ponyboy and Johnny when they're shacked up in an abandoned church for the second half of the book jumps off the page as does their unintentionally funny, Lucy and Ricky-type domestic set up while they're in hiding. Dallas's bad-boy-tough-but-secretly-sensitive character reads like a John Rechy hustler with a heart of gold and Ponyboy's inability to fit in completely in greaser world and his longing for something better is an age old story for every kid trying to figure out where his place is. The 1980 film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola hints at the novel's gay subtext but doesn't come near capturing it on screen. Dare I say it, maybe it's time for a remake? My choice to direct: Ryan Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003cem>X-Men\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/UncannyXmen504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"386\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncanny X-Men\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mutants. AKA black people. AKA immigrants. AKA nerds AKA GAYS!!! Crack just about any issue of the long running superhero comic and you see the \"mutants as gays\" metaphor. Mutant powers first reveal themselves around puberty (sound familiar?), the government repeatedly tries to limit mutant rights, anti-mutant groups commit mutant hate crimes, mutants sometimes choose to hide or \"closet\" their mutant identities (which is not a possibly for some of the more \"obvious\" mutants); it's a very long list. Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted is a sanctuary for young mutants just figuring out this new aspect of their identities where they can safely discover their mutant gifts and eventually aid progress for mutant kind by joining Xavier's X-Men. Doesn't that sound like the Harvey Milk High School, or \u003cem>Fame\u003c/em>? The comics are notorious for letting ambigious hints to chacters same-sex inclinations slip in (Storm goes through a very butch phase and lives with women on and off before her eventual hetero marriage, Magneto and Xavier share a past that occasionally has hints of failed romance) and the 2006 film \u003cem>X-Men: The Last Stand\u003c/em> even includes a scene where Bobby \"Iceman\" Drake \"comes out\" to his family as a mutant. In a world where gay kids are bullied and bashed at school and home it's important that with the \u003cem>X-Men \u003c/em>comics they see characters as persecuted and \"other\" as themselves battling homophobic, err, I mean \"antimutant\" foes and WINNING.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3.\u003cem> The Story of Ferdinand\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/The_Story_of_Ferdinand.jpg/280px-The_Story_of_Ferdinand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"295\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want you to think about \u003cem>The Story of Ferdinand \u003c/em>by Munro Leaf very carefully and tell me how you haven't seen the subtext in this before. A bull is raised to fight and be aggressive \u003cem>just like the other bulls \u003c/em>(what gay kid hasn't felt that comparison?) but all the sweet-natured (i.e. GAY GAY GAY) Ferdinand wants to do is sit and smell the flowers, probably because he took one of those Japanese three-point flower arranging classes and he's contemplating a FABULOUS centerpiece for brunch in the pasture the next day. When a bee sting causes the gentle giant to be mistaken for the fiercest bull on the farm and sissy Ferdinand gets carted off to the city for the bullfights, our boy stands his ground and refuses to fight. That's just not who Ferdinand is and he is not going to try to fit into anyone else's view of what it means to be a man! I mean, a bull! Ferdinand takes the stand all gay kids eventually have to take: \u003cem>this is who I am and I will not apologize \u003c/em>and has even gone on to become something of a pacifist hero for his refusal to fight. I think he's better suited to his role as gay icon: I for one am always inclined to think of that beautiful bull when I stop and smell the flowers. \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4.\u003cem> The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/The_Little_Mermaid_statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The Little Mermaid\" statue in Copenhagen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's something about Hans Christian Andersen's \u003cem>The Little Mermaid \u003c/em>that speaks strongly to the conflicted feelings baby gays are starting to experience once they realize there's something a little different about themselves. Let's take another look at the basic plot: girl sacrifices who she is (mermaid) with great pain (every time the mermaid walks it's as though her feet are being stabbed with knives) to be with her great forbidden love but finds herself torn between two worlds. She must either give up her family and the underwater home she's known to be with her prince or kill him to return to the sea. DECISIONS. It came as no surprise recently when it came to light that \u003ca href=\"http://www.crewmagazine.com/article/the-little-mermaid-was-gay/\">the tale was actually inspired by an unrequited love the author felt for another man.\u003c/a> The mermaid's conflicts are easy for gay youth to identify with: torn between love and family, feeling not quite right in your body (the mermaid not feeling right in her aquatic form for love of a human), and of course, giving up your voice and remaining quiet forever for a chance at happiness. Although the original story has one of the most beautifully tragic endings in fairy tales (the mermaid sacrifices herself but instead of dying she turns to foam and is promised a chance at an immortal soul by the daughters of the air, the one thing mermaids do not possess), it's still a pretty depressing fate for gay kids to contemplate, even if it was the most upbeat scenario Andersen could possibly imagine in his time. The 1989 Disney version gives the story a happy ending, gays it up even more with show tunes and basically turns the story into \u003cem>La Cage Aux Folles\u003c/em>. The longing that all gay kids feel to belong still manages to assert itself into the Disney film most powerfully with the movie's signature ballad \"Part of Your World\" which has always sounded like an anthem for moving out of a small town to a big city that would let you be the secret inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5.\u003cem> The Witch of Blackbird Pond\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond.jpg/200px-The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth George Speare's novel begins when Kit Tyler is torn from her childhood home in colonial Barbados by the death of her grandfather and seeks refuge with her conservative religious family (they are quite literally Puritans) in icy cold Connecticut to avoid marrying a man over twice her age. Once she settles into life in New England she discovers that everything she knows of life is considered \"sinful\" and that the townsfolk are not exactly friendly to those who don't conform to their strict code. Things take a turn for the better when Kit meets Hannah, the so-called \"witch\" of Blackbird Pond who is actually a widowed Quaker woman shunned by the townsfolk for her beliefs. Then, of course, because this is Puritan New England, a sickness breaks out and everyone yells \"witch\" at Hannah and Kit and a torch bearing mob come chasing after the women in the middle of the night. Kit's constantly futile attempts to fit into her Aunt and Uncle's zealous lifestyle feel so familiar to any gay boy who tried to butch it up or any baby dyke who tried to play the part of the femme for acceptance and the fact that these are crazy Christian fundamentalists makes the story that much more relevant. Ultimately, Kit proves herself innocent of the crime of witchcraft and decides to head back home to the islands with a sailor she befriended, but not before slightly opening the eyes of the townspeople to their bigotry and making over her drab pilgrim cousins in some of her fabulous tropical gowns. A gayer ending could not be had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6.\u003cem> Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Twilightbook.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Wiki\" width=\"268\" height=\"405\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually I'm \u003cem>loathe \u003c/em>to mention anything having to do with Stephanie Meyer's abstinence-as-supernatural-cautionary-tale series but I feel it's my duty to point out some of the obvious homo themes that crept into the Mormon Meyer's books (and especially their film adaptations.) Bella is basically an unhappy, flannel wearing loner that can't even muster a smile when a Morrisey looking, befanged twink and hunky gogo boy wannabe werewolf spend four books fighting for her heart. Yeah, about those fights... The Edward vs. Jacob conflict usually read like suppressed homo lust expressing itself all aggro and it didn't help that Jacob was usually shirtless. In spite of that I kept rooting for those crazy kids to make it work. No, not Edward and Bella (who really does dress like the stereotype of a lesbian from the early nineties): Edward and Jacob. THAT would have been a series of books: can a vampire and a werewolf make their unnatural love work? And they're both men! Don't worry though, Bella and Alice will eventually find their way together in the new novel's b plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7.\u003cem> Eloise\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Eloise_book_cover.jpg/250px-Eloise_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"348\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eloise cover art illustrated by Hillary Knight\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The titular heroine of Kay Thompson's \u003cem>Eloise \u003c/em>series (\u003cem>Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise in Paris, Eloise in Moscow, Eloise at Christmastime \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Eloise Takes a Bawth\u003c/em> are the original batch by Thompson and illustrator Hillary Knight) is so utterly fabulous she's children's lit's eternal it-girl. Eloise is six, lives at New York's Plaza Hotel (way before the new remodel... sigh), orders room service on her own charge, knows everyone at the hotel, is a world traveller and lives so close to Bergdorf Goodman's that she can probably smell the perfume counter from her suite. Did I mention that the character of Eloise is based on a little girl by the name of...Liza Minnelli? Yes, it's true: gay icon Liza with a Z was author Kay Thompson's goddaughter (Thompson was a vocal arranger and voice teacher at MGM, the studio where Liza's dad Vincente Minnelli directed hits like \u003cem>Gigi, An American in Paris \u003c/em>and met Liza's mom Judy Garland on the classic \u003cem>Meet Me In St. Louis) \u003c/em>and when Thompson saw the independent, Proust-quoting little Liza asking the bellman to \"charge it please and thanks a lot\" while on tour with Judy, a literary star was born. Not even taking into account the plethora of possibly gay characters that populate the books (Bill the room service waiter. Phillip the tutor, Eloise's oft-absent Dior clad mother who was clearly an international fag hag of some renown based on the names in her closet) the \u003cem>sensibility \u003c/em>of the stories is undeniably gay. We know Eloise grows up to be Liza Minnelli but with her devil-may-care party girl \"I think I'll pour a pitcher of water down the mail chute\" elan couldn't you just as easily see Eloise growing up to be either Edina or Patsy from \u003cem>Absolutely Fabulous\u003c/em>? Of course, most gay children don't think about that when they first read the books: they just want to grow up to be Eloise.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/5487/gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth","authors":["2436"],"categories":["pop_6"],"tags":["pop_842","pop_850","pop_853","pop_856","pop_857","pop_855","pop_858","pop_854","pop_851","pop_852","pop_190","pop_629"],"featImg":"pop_5508","label":"pop"},"pop_3973":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_3973","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"3973","score":null,"sort":[1366229744000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-brief-history-of-characters-with-lethal-weapons-for-limbs","title":"A Brief History of Characters with Lethal Weapons for Limbs","publishDate":1366229744,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>By guest contributor Jody Amable\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Still mourning the loss of Merle? (OK, nobody's mourning the loss of Merle.) The recent passing of Merle Dixon on \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em> and the smash success of the \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em> remake have us considering all the many people, mutants, and robots in pop fiction that have lethal weapons in place of limbs, either by force or by choice. Here's a look back at our favorite characters who have sacrificed boring ol' opposable thumbs (and some toes) for our entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1904\u003c/strong>: Captain Hook, \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbj7jaDxaV1ra2938o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbj7jaDxaV1ra2938o1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The one that started it all. Drawing on stereotypical depictions of pirates with missing limbs (which apparently already existed in the early 1900s), Captain James Hook made his debut in 1904 in J.M. Barrie’s stage play \u003cem>Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up\u003c/em>, which in turn became the novel, and later, the Disneyfied version, which depicts the Captain as more mincing than menacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1974\u003c/strong>: Wolverine, \u003cem>X-Men\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1adIbEB0oSo/S7gbqYUhWxI/AAAAAAAAABA/mMtccSAFCII/s1600/Movie_XMen_Wolverine.bmp\">\u003cimg src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1adIbEB0oSo/S7gbqYUhWxI/AAAAAAAAABA/mMtccSAFCII/s1600/Movie_XMen_Wolverine.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">X-Men\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OK, so it’s not really an attachment…Wolverine was born this way. Still, he and his claws endure as the epitome of stabby-handedness in all of pop culture. First appearing in an \u003cem>Incredible Hulk\u003c/em> comic in 1974, he’s soon recruited by Professor X to join the new ‘70s incarnation of the X-Men. Wolverine was born with retractable claws made of bone, but as part of the Weapon X program, had every bone in his body laced with an indestructible metal called adamantium, resulting in the familiar \u003cem>snikt!\u003c/em> we know today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolverine, by the way, returns to the big screen on his own this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7KOlXn8qLc&w=500]\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1987:\u003c/strong> Ash Williams, \u003cem>Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/9c453cd647feee3d631ab421c5fe449f/tumblr_ml1sywYj611qd1ubro2_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/9c453cd647feee3d631ab421c5fe449f/tumblr_ml1sywYj611qd1ubro2_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Accidental bad ass Bruce Campbell treats himself to the mother of all augmented appendages in the \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em> trilogy’s second installment. Essentially a comedic remake of \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em> #1, \u003cem>Dead by Dawn\u003c/em> finds horror hero Ash Williams back in the haunted cabin and fending off the same spirits. This time around, Ash is forced to lop off his right hand when it becomes possessed. Instead of making do with it, he gives himself an upgrade by attaching a chainsaw to his stump, giving birth to a cult-horror icon: the chainsaw arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1987:\u003c/strong> Mega Man\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/megamenart01.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/megamenart01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via toxel.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>‘80s Nintendo nerds everywhere (which is pretty much all of us, right?) fondly remember Mega Man, released for the NES in 1987. An android outfitted with a cannon on one arm, the original game encouraged players to fend off evil robots with the Mega Buster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1990:\u003c/strong> Edward Scissorhands\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/51a28a29760de9b762f2aad2798b2535/tumblr_mj9fz3A9p01rmysw2o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/51a28a29760de9b762f2aad2798b2535/tumblr_mj9fz3A9p01rmysw2o1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After his creator died in the middle of assembling him, Edward is forced to make do with scissors as stand-ins for hands. When he’s coaxed down from his creepy castle by a kindly Avon rep, he becomes the most bangin’ hairstylist-slash-topiary designer-slash-puppy groomer in town. However, as Wolverine eventually teaches us, the world doesn't accept blade-handed folk so readily: by the movie’s end, he’s driven to murder and back into exile by endless taunts from some small-minded, small-town antagonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1994:\u003c/strong> Aquaman (yes, Aquaman)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/526/999/551.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/526/999/551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"442\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-‘90s, the infamously emasculated Aquaman is given a harpoon hand and a brooding backstory to go with it -- something about a power-mad tyrant stealing his ability to communicate with fish and also letting piranhas chew off his hand because hey, why not? Unsurprisingly, Aquaman still fails to resonate with most readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2007\u003c/strong>: Cherry Darling, \u003cem>Planet Terror\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23eu84ntB1qb2n4qo1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23eu84ntB1qb2n4qo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far the only modified leg (and also the only woman) on this list, Rose McGowan’s portrayal of Cherry Darling in 2007’s gritty \u003cem>Planet Terror\u003c/em> is the most recent major milestone in the history of weaponized appendages. Cherry gets outfitted with an assault rifle after zombies chew off her leg, and she quickly sets about mowing down the undead and some former attackers with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2010\u003c/strong>: Rory Williams’ Auton doppelganger, \u003cem>Doctor Who \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W8kSzNVbaA0/UGXjODeXFdI/AAAAAAAAC1Q/Pb85PvVkHkY/s1600/rory3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W8kSzNVbaA0/UGXjODeXFdI/AAAAAAAAC1Q/Pb85PvVkHkY/s1600/rory3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Who\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Were there any companions more beloved in \u003cem>DW\u003c/em>’s modern era than the star-crossed (pun absolutely intended) Amy and Rory? In “The Pandorica Opens,” Rory, erased from time in a previous episode, returns as an Auton -- robotic beings that harbor guns inside their hands. As the result of an incredibly complex story arc, Rory accidentally shoots and kills Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Author’s note: I am amazed that I was not able to find an appropriate GIF of this. Shame on you, Internet.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Merle Dixon, \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7fc3dcd5ec15a0623430b9c9ad221c0/tumblr_mkjl2p7wmQ1s5603io1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7fc3dcd5ec15a0623430b9c9ad221c0/tumblr_mkjl2p7wmQ1s5603io1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merle Dixon, that loudmouthed, good-for-nothin’-even-at-the-end-of-the-world jerk with no soft spot to speak of, reunites with his old clan on \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>. In Season One, good-guy sheriff Rick handcuffed him to a roof to stop him from harassing other members of the group. When their location is swarmed by walkers, Merle is left behind. Give you one guess as to how he broke free. When he shows up again in Season Three, he's sporting one nasty blade where his right hand used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2013\u003c/strong>: Mia, \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvDLWlxxcak&w=500]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In the no-nonsense remake of the camp classic, Ash is replaced by Mia, a recovering addict who finds strength not in rehab, but in vanquishing the evil forces that haunt her family’s remote cabin in the woods. SPOILER ALERT: the producers just can’t wait for the sequel and grant her the chainsaw arm one movie early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got any honorable mentions or major names to add? Let us know in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here's a look back at our favorite characters who have sacrificed boring ol' opposable thumbs (and some toes) for our entertainment.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552197239,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":975},"headData":{"title":"A Brief History of Characters with Lethal Weapons for Limbs | KQED","description":"Here's a look back at our favorite characters who have sacrificed boring ol' opposable thumbs (and some toes) for our entertainment.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"3973 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=3973","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/17/a-brief-history-of-characters-with-lethal-weapons-for-limbs/","disqusTitle":"A Brief History of Characters with Lethal Weapons for Limbs","path":"/pop/3973/a-brief-history-of-characters-with-lethal-weapons-for-limbs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>By guest contributor Jody Amable\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Still mourning the loss of Merle? (OK, nobody's mourning the loss of Merle.) The recent passing of Merle Dixon on \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em> and the smash success of the \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em> remake have us considering all the many people, mutants, and robots in pop fiction that have lethal weapons in place of limbs, either by force or by choice. Here's a look back at our favorite characters who have sacrificed boring ol' opposable thumbs (and some toes) for our entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1904\u003c/strong>: Captain Hook, \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbj7jaDxaV1ra2938o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbj7jaDxaV1ra2938o1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The one that started it all. Drawing on stereotypical depictions of pirates with missing limbs (which apparently already existed in the early 1900s), Captain James Hook made his debut in 1904 in J.M. Barrie’s stage play \u003cem>Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up\u003c/em>, which in turn became the novel, and later, the Disneyfied version, which depicts the Captain as more mincing than menacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1974\u003c/strong>: Wolverine, \u003cem>X-Men\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1adIbEB0oSo/S7gbqYUhWxI/AAAAAAAAABA/mMtccSAFCII/s1600/Movie_XMen_Wolverine.bmp\">\u003cimg src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1adIbEB0oSo/S7gbqYUhWxI/AAAAAAAAABA/mMtccSAFCII/s1600/Movie_XMen_Wolverine.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">X-Men\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OK, so it’s not really an attachment…Wolverine was born this way. Still, he and his claws endure as the epitome of stabby-handedness in all of pop culture. First appearing in an \u003cem>Incredible Hulk\u003c/em> comic in 1974, he’s soon recruited by Professor X to join the new ‘70s incarnation of the X-Men. Wolverine was born with retractable claws made of bone, but as part of the Weapon X program, had every bone in his body laced with an indestructible metal called adamantium, resulting in the familiar \u003cem>snikt!\u003c/em> we know today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolverine, by the way, returns to the big screen on his own this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/h7KOlXn8qLc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/h7KOlXn8qLc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1987:\u003c/strong> Ash Williams, \u003cem>Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/9c453cd647feee3d631ab421c5fe449f/tumblr_ml1sywYj611qd1ubro2_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/9c453cd647feee3d631ab421c5fe449f/tumblr_ml1sywYj611qd1ubro2_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Accidental bad ass Bruce Campbell treats himself to the mother of all augmented appendages in the \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em> trilogy’s second installment. Essentially a comedic remake of \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em> #1, \u003cem>Dead by Dawn\u003c/em> finds horror hero Ash Williams back in the haunted cabin and fending off the same spirits. This time around, Ash is forced to lop off his right hand when it becomes possessed. Instead of making do with it, he gives himself an upgrade by attaching a chainsaw to his stump, giving birth to a cult-horror icon: the chainsaw arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1987:\u003c/strong> Mega Man\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/megamenart01.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/megamenart01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via toxel.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>‘80s Nintendo nerds everywhere (which is pretty much all of us, right?) fondly remember Mega Man, released for the NES in 1987. An android outfitted with a cannon on one arm, the original game encouraged players to fend off evil robots with the Mega Buster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1990:\u003c/strong> Edward Scissorhands\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/51a28a29760de9b762f2aad2798b2535/tumblr_mj9fz3A9p01rmysw2o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/51a28a29760de9b762f2aad2798b2535/tumblr_mj9fz3A9p01rmysw2o1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After his creator died in the middle of assembling him, Edward is forced to make do with scissors as stand-ins for hands. When he’s coaxed down from his creepy castle by a kindly Avon rep, he becomes the most bangin’ hairstylist-slash-topiary designer-slash-puppy groomer in town. However, as Wolverine eventually teaches us, the world doesn't accept blade-handed folk so readily: by the movie’s end, he’s driven to murder and back into exile by endless taunts from some small-minded, small-town antagonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1994:\u003c/strong> Aquaman (yes, Aquaman)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/526/999/551.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/526/999/551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"442\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-‘90s, the infamously emasculated Aquaman is given a harpoon hand and a brooding backstory to go with it -- something about a power-mad tyrant stealing his ability to communicate with fish and also letting piranhas chew off his hand because hey, why not? Unsurprisingly, Aquaman still fails to resonate with most readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2007\u003c/strong>: Cherry Darling, \u003cem>Planet Terror\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23eu84ntB1qb2n4qo1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23eu84ntB1qb2n4qo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far the only modified leg (and also the only woman) on this list, Rose McGowan’s portrayal of Cherry Darling in 2007’s gritty \u003cem>Planet Terror\u003c/em> is the most recent major milestone in the history of weaponized appendages. Cherry gets outfitted with an assault rifle after zombies chew off her leg, and she quickly sets about mowing down the undead and some former attackers with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2010\u003c/strong>: Rory Williams’ Auton doppelganger, \u003cem>Doctor Who \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W8kSzNVbaA0/UGXjODeXFdI/AAAAAAAAC1Q/Pb85PvVkHkY/s1600/rory3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W8kSzNVbaA0/UGXjODeXFdI/AAAAAAAAC1Q/Pb85PvVkHkY/s1600/rory3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Who\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Were there any companions more beloved in \u003cem>DW\u003c/em>’s modern era than the star-crossed (pun absolutely intended) Amy and Rory? In “The Pandorica Opens,” Rory, erased from time in a previous episode, returns as an Auton -- robotic beings that harbor guns inside their hands. As the result of an incredibly complex story arc, Rory accidentally shoots and kills Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Author’s note: I am amazed that I was not able to find an appropriate GIF of this. Shame on you, Internet.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Merle Dixon, \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7fc3dcd5ec15a0623430b9c9ad221c0/tumblr_mkjl2p7wmQ1s5603io1_500.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7fc3dcd5ec15a0623430b9c9ad221c0/tumblr_mkjl2p7wmQ1s5603io1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tumblr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merle Dixon, that loudmouthed, good-for-nothin’-even-at-the-end-of-the-world jerk with no soft spot to speak of, reunites with his old clan on \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>. In Season One, good-guy sheriff Rick handcuffed him to a roof to stop him from harassing other members of the group. When their location is swarmed by walkers, Merle is left behind. Give you one guess as to how he broke free. When he shows up again in Season Three, he's sporting one nasty blade where his right hand used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2013\u003c/strong>: Mia, \u003cem>Evil Dead\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pvDLWlxxcak'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pvDLWlxxcak'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In the no-nonsense remake of the camp classic, Ash is replaced by Mia, a recovering addict who finds strength not in rehab, but in vanquishing the evil forces that haunt her family’s remote cabin in the woods. SPOILER ALERT: the producers just can’t wait for the sequel and grant her the chainsaw arm one movie early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got any honorable mentions or major names to add? Let us know in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/3973/a-brief-history-of-characters-with-lethal-weapons-for-limbs","authors":["2421"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_630","pop_632","pop_385","pop_627","pop_631","pop_628","pop_629"],"featImg":"pop_4011","label":"pop"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. 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