Golden Gate Bridge in popular culture
As a prominent American landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge has been used in a variety of media, often shown or mentioned where San Francisco, California is the setting of the story.
Films
Destroyed
Golden Gate Bridge has been destroyed in the following films.
- It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955, Robert Gordon) = Destroyed by a giant monster attack.
- Superman (1978, Richard Donner) = Partially destroyed by an earthquake.
- The Core (2003, Jon Amiel) = Destroyed by a solar flare from the Sun.
- 10.5 (2004, John Lafia) = Destroyed by a major earthquake.
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, Brett Ratner) = Destroyed and moved to Alcatraz by Magneto, one of X-Men's villans. Shown to be rebuilt at the end.
- Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009 Jack Perez) = Destroyed by a giant monster attack.
- Monsters vs. Aliens (2009, Conrad Vernon & Rob Letterman) = Partially destroyed by a giant monster attack.
- Meteor Storm (2010, Tibor Takács) = Destroyed by a meteor shower.
- Pacific Rim (2013, Guillermo del Toro) = Destroyed by a giant monster attack.
- Godzilla (2014, Gareth Edwards) = Destroyed by a giant monster attack.
- San Andreas (2015, Brad Peyton) = Destroyed by a major tsunami.
- Terminator Genisys (2015, Alan Taylor)
Other appearances
It has featured also in the following movies.[1]
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Dark Passage (1947)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Love Bug (1968)
- Herbie Rides Again (1974): The bridge is missed
- A View to a Kill (1985)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986): The bridge is almost hit by Admiral Kirks' out of control Klingon Bird of Prey
- The Abyss (1989): The bridge is missed
- Bicentennial Man (1999): Seen expanded in the future (circa 2200s) with a two-tiered roadway added.[2]
- Hulk (2003)
- Land of the Lost (2009)
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011): The bridge is missed
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): The bridge is hit and disrupted traffic, but not destroyed.
Documentaries
It has been the subject of a 2006 documentary and a 2008-2010 documentary TV series:
- The Bridge – a film about suicides from Golden Gate Bridge in 2004.
- Life After People - A TV documentary series about what happens to the world if humanity suddenly disappears; the Golden Gate Bridge collapses after around 100 years due to corrosion in its support cables. After 200 years, only the towers remain intact.
Video games
The bridge is replicated in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which is itself heavily based on San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. There it is known as the "Gant Bridge".
In Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the bridge is destroyed in the "Collapse" campaign mission after Atlas detonates it.
The 2011 game Driver: San Fransisco, as its name implies, is set in San Fransisco. It also features many missions modelled after famous movie car chases including one from Gone in 60 Seconds which ends at the Golden Gate Bridge.
In Watch Dogs 2, the bridge appears in the game as it is set in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a side mission in the game, the character will paint graffiti on the Bridge.
Other
- KRON-TV, the former NBC/My Network TV affiliate used an animated version of the Golden Gate Bridge as their legal ID in the 1970s and 1980s.[3]
- NORAD Tracks Santa, the Golden Gate Bridge was a featured Santa Cam location for the 2002 tracking season.[4]
- A small-scale replica of the bridge was previously used at the main entry point of Disney's California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California. The replica was replaced in the early 2010s by a small-scale model of the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge as part of the entrance plaza's transformation into a re-creation of Los Angeles' Buena Vista Street.[5]
- In the Sliders episode "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome", the Golden Gate Bridge is blue, which is how Wade finds out the Earth they have landed on is not Earth Prime.
References
- ↑ "How many times was Golden Gate Bridge under attack?". youtube.com. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
- ↑
- ↑ YouTube video of GGB legal ID from July 14, 1987
- ↑ tomsmith0002 (January 15, 2009). "NORAD Tracks Santa - Dec 2002 - 23 - San Francisco, CA, USA - English" – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Golden Gate Bridge at Yesterland". www.yesterland.com.
