Vice | ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Review
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Roland Emmerich is the preeminent film auteur of exploding landmarks. A partial list of popular monuments detonated under his watch would include the White House, Statue of Liberty, the Chrysler Building, the White House, the Hollywood sign, the Vatican, the complete works of William Shakespeare, and the White House, again. On some level, it seems like these sites have always been exploding or about to explode; merely to look at them is to imagine them exploding. But it was Emmerich who consummated our will to combustion, beginning with Independence Day, a film named for America's premier explosion-based holiday.
