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...make it through the apocalypse. TV's Jericho and Battlestar Galactica are about bands of survivors (of nukes and Cylons, respectively). The video game Half-Life 2 is set on an earth conquered and picked over by alien invaders (you play a resistance fighter). And then there's Cloverfield, which opened on Jan. 18 and follows a group of unsuspecting partygoers on the night a massive beast attacks New York City. (See review, page...
...Hiroshima was the awakening of Godzilla and the Japanese monster movie as a way of reckoning with the nightmare of U.S. atomic weapons. "Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears," says J.J. Abrams, creator of Felicity, Alias and Lost and producer of Cloverfield. "When Godzilla came out, the idea of doing a movie about the destruction of a city because of a radioactive man-made thing must have had a similar feeling. On the one hand, it's a silly man in a rubber suit. On the other hand...
...great ironies of 21st century culture to date, the U.S. has now imported the Japanese monster movie?created in response to their fear of us?as a way of dealing with our own fears, starting with the attacks of Sept. 11. The result is Cloverfield...
...horns wasn't available at press time) shouldering its way between skyscrapers. But the most indelible images are of clouds of pale dust billowing down city streets and shredded copy paper sifting down out of the sky in eerie silence, images that instantly evoke the 9/11 attacks. "With Cloverfield, we were trying to create a film that would be entertaining and, as a by-product of the subject matter, perhaps be a catharsis," Abrams says. "We wanted to let people live through their wildest fears but be in a safe place, where the enemy is the size of a skyscraper...
...original version of this story contained several mistakes. It stated that the incident site in the movie Cloverfield was called Cloverfield, when it fact it was referred to as U.S. 447. The character of Beth was described as the "on-and-off" girlfriend of the character Rob, when she is more accurately described as his "would-be girlfriend." And the story incorrectly stated that one character was "a pretty stray named Lizzy (Marlene Diamond)." In fact, the character's name is Marlena Diamond, and the actress who played her is named Lizzy Caplan...