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The Statue of Liberty
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Statue of Liberty is a one-hour documentary by Ken Burns.It is of course about that large green-colored lady in New York harbor. After a short prologue in which some talking heads muse about the meaning of liberty, the first part of the program tells the history of the statue. It was conceived of by Frenchmen in the immediate aftermath of The American Civil War, both as a celebration of the end of that war and the liberation of the slaves, and a commemoration of France's crucial role in winning American independence. Bartholdi comes up with a design inspired by the American symbol "Columbia" and the French symbol "Marianne", but which may have been actually inspired by his wife and his mistress.Construction is delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, but work begins in earnest in 1875. Gustave Eiffel, who'd start working on a big tower a few years later, designs the support skeleton. Reaction in America is generally positive, although some are annoyed at the French for giving the United States a "gift" that requires Americans to pay for the statue's base. As it happens the base is delayed when the money runs out, but after Joseph Pulitzer starts a fundraising campaign the statue is completed and dedicated in 1886.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The second half of the movie then considers the cultural impact of the statue, the meaning of freedom, and the degree to which the United States has or has not lived up to the promise the statue makes.Jeremy Irons and Derek Jacobi are among the actors used to read 19th century commentary about the statue. | |
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Dated History: The story of Bartholdi and Laboulaye conceiving of the statue as a monument to the emancipation of America's slaves, presented in this film as fact, seems to be myth, as later research has indicated. | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: Bartholdi's original design was actually intended to be a statue standing at the newly constructed Suez Canal. | |
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Book-Ends: Paul Simon's "American Tune", a song about American ennui in the 1970s that namechecks the Statue of Liberty, plays at the beginning of the movie and at the end. | |
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