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The World Trade Center has been featured in numerous films, as well as made appearances in many television shows, cartoons, comic books, and computer/video games.

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[edit] Movies

See also: Skyscrapers in film article and WTC in Movies website
Date Title Notes IMDB
1973 Godspell Portions of Godspell were filmed at the top of the World Trade Center, while the building's construction was nearing completion.

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1976 King Kong In this version, the final scene took place at the World Trade Center, instead of the Empire State Building where the scene took place in the original film. The death of King Kong was filmed using a styrofoam stand-in, which was equipped with electrical wiring, hydraulic hoses and jacks to control its movements.[2] [2]
2001 Serendipity Released in Fall 2001. Any depictions of the World Trade Center were digitally removed from the film.[3] [3]

[edit] Computer and video games

  • Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro (2001), by Activision, depicted the tops of the Twin Towers as part of the final stage, with the large radio attenna as a crucial piece to defeat the final boss, Hyper-Electro. After the 9/11 attack, the game was pulled and rereleased, changing two stage titles and modifying the final stage to add a large bridge to it.[4]
  • In response to the tragic events of September 11th, Microsoft announced that future versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator would not include the Twin Towers in the game's New York City skyline. A patch was also made available to remove the WTC buildings from the existing versions of the simulator. More disturbing however was the speculation that the flight simulator found by the FBI on the laptop of the would-be 20th hijacker was indeed Microsoft's offering.[4]
  • Shortly after the attacks, the now defunct Westwood Studios pulled all remaining copies of the 2000 real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, whose box contained artwork of New York City under attack by invading Soviet forces; notable buildings depicted under attack included the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty. The single player campaign of the game also contains a pair of missions in which the player was instructed to destroy The Pentagon and capture the World Trade Center as well as being able to destroy it. Westwood retooled the box art before re-releasing the game.[4]

[edit] Films

[edit] 1966-1969

[edit] 1970-1979

  • The 1971 film The French Connection shows the still under construction WTC in the background during the unloading of the "drug car" in Brooklyn Heights.
  • The 1972 film The Hot Rock includes footage taken from a helicopter flying toward the World Trade Center, still under construction.
  • In the 1973 film version of the musical Godspell, the song "All For the Best" ends atop the newly-finished World Trade Center.
  • In the 1973 film Sisters, the World Trade Center, still being built, can be seen in the background of a shot early in the movie.
  • The 1978 blockbuster Superman: The Movie shows Superman and Lois Lane flying around Metropolis (which was filmed in New York) and passing by the Twin Towers numerous times. The towers would be seen as well in all Superman movie sequels including the poster for Superman II.
  • The 1978 film I Spit on Your Grave shows the World Trade Towers in the background of the opening credits, when the protagonist is driving out of the city. At one point, the action freezes and the word "I" from the title almost completely covers one of the towers.
  • The 1978 film adaptation of the musical The Wiz uses the Twin Towers as the location of "The Wiz" in the Emerald City, and a musical number was shot in the plaza between the two towers.

[edit] 1980-1989

  • In the 1981 film Escape from New York, the lead character lands a glider on the roof of the World Trade Center. As well as having a group of terrorists crash Air Force One into a different New York City building.
  • The 1982 made-for-television movie Mazes and Monsters includes a climactic scene at the top of the Twin Towers.
  • Oddly, in the 1983 film Terms of Endearment, which primarily takes place in Texas, you can see the Towers in the background in a scene where Debra Winger's character goes to NYC to visit her high school friend. Winger is standing on a balcony with the Towers right behind her.
  • The 1986 Film Sid & Nancy, shows the world trade center in the background,across the river. As Sid Vicious dances in the foreground.
  • The 1987 film Wall Street, with Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas, features the WTC in numerous scenes, especially the opening credits which has a number of sepia shots lingering on the towers and also features the WTC's PATH escalator bank.
  • Coming to America, 1987, features a good night-time sequence of the towers when Akeem gives away a large sum of money to tramps Randolph and Mortimer (now bankrupt since the end of 'Trading Places').
  • The poster for the 1987 Michael Keaton workplace comedy The Squeeze features Keaton sandwiched between the Twin Towers, as a hand squeezes them together.
  • The final scene of the 1987 film *batteries not included pans out from the Riley apartment, it is seen to sit between two towers of the proposed office development. These are the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and its surrounding plaza.
  • The 1988 film Big Business as the movie jumps to the present, the slats of the nursery crib dissolve to feature the Twin Towers.
  • The 1989 film The Dream Team features Michael Keaton, playing a pathological liar, pointing out the Trade Center, saying, "You see those two towers? World Trade Center. I was an architect working on them. First they just wanted to build one but I said, 'Hey, fellas, we're here - What the hell, let's throw another one up'. Turned out pretty well, didn't it?"
  • The 1989 film Ghostbusters 2 features many New York cityscapes in which the WTC can be seen, including two very prominent shots. In one scene Dan Aykroyd's character Ray Stantz accidentally causes a blackout and the lights in all of New York City, including the WTC, go out. Another notable shot is when Peter MacNicol's character Janosz Poha takes on the form of an old woman ghost and flies through the New York City skyline to steal a child as part of the chief villain's grand plan. The original Ghostbusters movies also contains a couple of shots with the World Trade Center in the background.
  • The 1989 film Back to the Future II features a view across New York harbour of the WTC towers in 2015 on the cable TV station "The Scenery Channel".

[edit] 1990-1999

  • In the 1993 film Super Mario Bros., the Twin Towers become the "Koopa Towers" in the film's parallel dimension, which is a dinosaur-laden Manhattan run by antagonist King Koopa (Dennis Hopper). One of the towers features a sharpened top and both are adorned with Koopa's signature "K" symbol, the second tower is unfinished with a jagged top. Both have rather demonic looks to them. The towers briefly replace the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan when the two worlds are merged for a short time.
  • In the 1995 film Die Hard: With a Vengeance, the towers can be seen behind behind McClane and Zeus as they are jogging away from Wall Street and later when Zeus looks up at the 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center, they are clearly zoomed in on.
  • In the 1996 movie Independence Day, The WTC appear several times in the New York skyline, as a large alien ship enters the city. Ironically, they are the tallest remnants of a ruined New York in a later shot with a toppled Statue of Liberty in the foreground.
  • In the 1997 movie Antz, the opening shot shows what appears the New York skyline including the World Trade Center, but what turns out to actually be grass. At the ending shot of the movie, the camera pans out of the anthill, which is located in Central Park. The real New York City skyline appears in the background including the Twin Towers, appearing closer than they actually are (In real life you can't see the Twin Towers from Central Park unless you are high above it). The Twin Towers (a real picture of them) appear on the movie poster, along with the Empire State Building.
  • In the 1997 science fiction film Men in Black, the Twin Towers are in the background of the scene on the turnpike where the agents intercept the fleeing extraterrestrial family (one of whom gives birth). The finale of its 2002 sequel, Men in Black II, was set to take place atop one of the WTC buildings. Due to the tragic fate of the towers, however, this was modified prior to release.
  • The 1997 made-for-television film Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing chronicled the events leading up to and shortly after the 1993 attack.
  • The 1998 film Godzilla The World Trade Center appears 15 times in the background and shots of the city, including one where lightning hits the antenna of the North Tower.
  • The 1998 film Armageddon At first during a normal day in New York, the Twin Towers are shown in the background. Later, a meteor shower hits New York City in the beginning in the movie. The Twin Towers are shown three times during the meteor shower. The first appearance was a low point of view from between the towers looking up as large meteors pass over the towers. The second appearance is when the New York Financial District is shown as meteors passed by, one hitting the South Tower. The third appearance is New York City after the meteor shower. The North Tower had a hole on the right side of the tower, while the top of the South Tower had been partially destroyed and was on fire. As a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the scene showing the towers getting hit and being on fire were cut when the movie aired on ABC in April 2002.
  • In the 1998 TV movie Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, the Twin Towers are shown numerous times in the opening credits. After the earthquake, a TV Reporter from a news chopper is reporting the damage, the Two Towers had a few small fires on them, and the TV Reporter said "They look good. They're both still standing." They also appear in the ending behind the Statue of Liberty which was under reconstruction.
  • The 1998 film The Siege, starring Denzel Washington, features the WTC in the background.
  • The 1998 disaster film Deep Impact A comet hits the earth, causing a huge tsunami that hits the east coast. The Twin Towers appeared four times in this scene. The first appearance is when they show the New York City skyline with the Twin Towers before the wave hits Liberty Island. Right after the wave hits Liberty Island, the wave hits the New York Financial District, knocking over several highrises. The Twin Towers appear on the top right corner of the screen. Right after this scene, the camera points to the Twin Towers from street level as the wave engulfs them. At the end of the tsunami scene the water recedes, and the Twin Towers can be seen poking out of the water, with one collapsed against the other.
  • According to his Oscar speech, Alan Ball was sitting at the World Trade Center plaza when he saw a paper bag floating in the wind and was inspired by it to write the film American Beauty (1999).
  • The 1999 film Bicentennial Man, the future New York showed the WTC three times its height.

[edit] 2000-present

  • The 2000 film Little Nicky's poster and VHS/DVD covers show the World Trade Center in the background of Adam Sandler and Mr. Beefy (an English bulldog) sitting on a bench in Central Park.
  • In the 2000 film X-Men, the Twin Towers can briefly be seen at nighttime during the final fight between the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants at the Statue of Liberty. It was more prominently featured on one the posters that were released for the film.
  • The 2001 documentary Startup.com features a shot of the Twin Towers as a scene concludes.
  • The 2001 film American Pie 2 features Shannon Elizabeth's character, Nadia, calling Jason Biggs' character, Jim, from a payphone in New York City, with the towers in the background. In reality, the scene was shot in Los Angeles and the towers were digitally inserted in post-production. The film was released in August 2001, making American Pie 2 possibly the last major film showing the towers to be released prior to their destruction on September 11, 2001.
  • In the 2001 comedy Zoolander, the Twin Towers were digitally removed from one shot and obscured in another shot. Zoolander was released on September 28th, 2001, just mere weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
  • In Spider-Man (2002), the towers receive a few discreet cameos throughout the movie. The film's original trailer showed a web spun by Spider-Man between the two towers and was withdrawn after the attacks.
  • The 2002 Spike Lee film 25th Hour directly incorporates the ruins of the Twin Towers. The opening credits are shown over views of the Tribute in Light, and one scene takes place at the apartment of Frank Slaughtery, which overlooks the site.
  • The end segments of the movie Vanilla Sky feature the Twin Towers still standing in the panoramic city background. This is plausible as the ending scene to this movie, it is revealed, is created from the lead character's memory. If he remembers the Twin Towers to still be standing, then they would still appear in the skyline.
  • The camera lingers on the Twin Towers at the beginning of a scene in 2002's "City by the Sea."
  • The first 9/11 dramatization, 2002's Stairwell: Trapped In The World Trade Center, showed a number of different shots of the towers. The footage was shot in 1999 and was originally going to be used in a movie about the 1993 bombing. The movie, entitled Hellevator, was shelved after the September 11 attacks.
  • The 2004 film Miracle, set in 1979 and 1980, features a digitally re-inserted shot of the towers just prior to the USA hockey team's exhibition game against the USSR at Madison Square Garden.
  • The towers are the focus of the last shot of Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich. A period film ending in 1973, the towers' presence serve as a reminder that the troubles in the Middle East depicted in the film had not ended by 2001, when the WTC was destroyed, or by 2005, when the movie was released.
  • In the poster for the 2006 film United 93, the Twin Towers can be seen just under the Statue of Liberty's crown burning in the background, as they were on 9/11, with a plane headed towards the towers. In the film itself, the towers are the last glimpse of Manhattan caught by the passengers (most notably the lead hijacker, played by Lewis Alsamari), through a plane window as the flight departs Newark International Airport. While the intact complex was digitally re-inserted into the skyline, its destruction was shown through actual news footage.
  • The 2006 movie Click, starring Adam Sandler, features a futuristic wedding scene with a futuristic version of the Twin Towers in the background.
  • Oliver Stone directed World Trade Center (released on August 9, 2006), the first feature-length film about the attacks on the Twin Towers themselves. It stars Nicolas Cage as Port Authority police officer John McLoughlin, one of the first men called to the scene of the 9/11 attacks. This movie has received much controversy, just like United 93. Although it's the second film about the September 11th attacks to be released to theaters (following United 93), it is the first dramatic non-documentary film based on 9/11.

[edit] Television

  • A daytime shot of the New York City skyline, including the Twin Towers, opens every episode of the 1970s-80s sitcom Barney Miller.
  • A nighttime shot of the Twin Towers (and the Lower Manhattan skline) is used in the opening credits of Night Court (1984-1992).
  • The 1985 series Blue Comet SPT Layzner had its second "Season" set in a post-apocalyptic New York, with landmarks such as the WTC, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty being featured in brief glimpses.
  • The Twin Towers and the skyline of Lower Manhattan are seen in the opening credits of Mad About You (1992 - 1999). The entire series was filmed long before the 2001 terrorist attacks.
  • Several shots of the Twin Towers appear in the introduction (and establishing shots) for Friends over the first seven seasons (1994 - 2001). Pictures of the Manhattan Skyline (featuring the WTC) also feature on many DVD cases, and DVD Box Set cases.
  • The Twin Towers are seen in the opening credits of NewsRadio (1995 - 1999). They first appear behind Dave Foley's name, and appear again in the distance behind Phil Hartman's name.
  • The Twin Towers made one very brief appearnce in the Family Matters episode "Fa La La La Laagghh!" After Carl turned on the Christmas light decoration on the Winslow's house, a malfunction (thanks to Steve?) results in a power outage. First, the Winslow's home goes out, then a row of family homes, then Lower Manhattan, and finally, the entire world. Steve then says "Look what you did."
  • The ABC series "SportsNight" often used an establishing shot of the New York skyline in which the Twin Towers were the focal point, implying that the studios were in the Towers.
  • The opening credits of the first three seasons of the HBO mob drama The Sopranos featured a shot of the World Trade Center as seen from the rear view mirror of Tony Soprano's SUV, as he enters the New Jersey Turnpike. In later seasons, after 9/11, the sequence was replaced with a new view of the Manhattan skyline in which the WTC is absent. Among the things Tony later discloses to his psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi as contributing to his depression is "this whole 9/11 thing".
  • In the United States version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, the Twin Towers were shown twice in the opening credits (from 1999 until after 9/11).
  • The Twin Towers were seen in the opening credits for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999 - present) for the first two seasons. After the attacks, they were replaced with generic shots of New York skyscrapers at the request of NBC.
  • The pilot of the TV series The Lone Gunmen, first aired March 4, 2001, had the gunmen thwarting a plot to fly a jet into the World Trade Center. In the episode, a faction of the U.S. government is behind the plot; they hope to blame the attack on another country's dictator and use it as an excuse to start a war with him. Transcript of pilot episode
  • In Star Trek: Enterprise, an image of the Twin Towers burning was visible in a panorama of historical images present in the timestream, when Daniels informed Jonathan Archer that time had been altered and set back on course. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")
  • The episode of Matlock entitled "The Game Show" features a shot of the Twin Towers at night towards the end of the opening credits.
  • In Rescue Me's first season, the main character of Tommy Gavin has several flashbacks to 9/11, both before and after the towers fall. In addition, 9/11 is mentioned through the entire season as four firefighters were lost on that day. One of them appears in almost every episode as a vision to Tommy. Also, Rescue Me takes credit as the first and (as of July 2006), the only TV show to show a dramaticized depiction of the events of 9/11.
  • In a 2005 episode of Lost the Twin Towers are seen out of the window of a New York solicitor's office. They were digitally inserted to show the time frame of then and the present day.
  • In the Northern Exposure episode, "The Quest", Dr Joel Fleischman returns to New York. He's standing at the rail of the Statten Island Ferry which is covered in fog. As the fog clears, the Twin Towers become visible in the distance. Cable channel A&E aired this episode (the second last NX episode A&E aired) on Thursday, September 13, 2001.
  • In Eurosport`s Olympic Magazine commercial, few seconds of beginning of north tower collapse are shown.
  • In the UK comedy series "My Hero", George Sunday (Thermoman) flies in between the WTC on several occasions to visit his cousin Arnie.
  • The TV series Third Watch, set in New York, featured many shots of the Towers during the show's first 2 seasons. One final shot appeared in the episode "September Tenth", set the day before the attacks.
  • In some episodes of Iron Chef where Masaharu Morimoto is chosen to battle, a brief shot of the World Trade Center is in the montage that accompanies him.

[edit] Cartoons and anime

  • In the 1985 cartoon MASK, an episode entitled "Attack on Liberty" leads Matt Trakker to Miles Mayhem's current hideout - 3/4 of the way up the side of the North Tower. Hovering the Thunderhawk outside the window, Matt leaps through the window and confronts Miles, who later escapes and is pursued by Matt around the Statue of Liberty.
  • In a 1994 episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show entitled Powdered Toastman vs. Waffle Woman, there is a scene where Powdered Toastman and his enemy Waffle Woman engage in a big fight. At one point, Waffle Woman gets out her Radioactive Poly-Therdal Syrup Launcher and fires it at PTM, who dodges the attack. The syrup lands on New York City, complete with the Twin Towers. After covering the city with goop for a few seconds, New York (and the Twin Towers) blows up.
  • In the (1999 - 2003) animated series Futurama the setting takes place in the year 3000 in New New York City. In first episode, Fry, Leela and Bender adventured to the forgotten and decaying ruins of Old New York (which was under now located under the sewers of New New York) The destroyed towers appeared in the background several times. In New New York City, A future version of the Twin Towers appear in the futuristic skyline. The towers look similar to the Petronas Tower in that they are circular and have a skybridge between them.
  • In the 1997 episode of The Simpsons (season 9) entitled The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Homer is forced to deal with a mountain of parking tickets issued while his car sat illegally for months in the plaza of the WTC. Particular comic relief is provided when Homer, desperately needing to use the restroom, pushes people out of his way to get a ticket to the elevator into the towers and after pushing other people out of the elevator line to get to the elevator to ride to top of the South Tower only to discover the only working bathroom is in the North Tower, which he took the elevator for. You can see this because when Homer is going up the towers you can clearly hear the elevator rising and dinging at the top of both towers. Also in the episode, two men in opposite towers begin arguing with each other, which was tipped off after one proclaimed, "Sorry, they put all the jerks in Tower One." A man apparently residing a few floors above the brawling men (as evidenced by a clothesline strung across the towers) finally yells at them to shut up. This episode has been banned from showing in many countries. However, some FOX affiliates continued to show the episode in syndication, including New York City's own WNYW Fox 5 airing the unaltered episode less than 2 weeks after the towers' collapses.
  • The New York City skyline, prominently featuring the World Trade Center is seen in the opening title shot for The Critic, but both of the towers feature an aerial, in real life only the North Tower featured an aerial.
  • The 1998 fantasy anime OVA Shin (Change!) Getter Robo: The Last Days of the Earth (commonly known as Getter Robo Armageddon) had two episodes take place on Manhattan Island. The island (the WTC included) were destroyed when the Shin Getter Robo and the Black Getter Robo were forced to destroy the battleship they were using to stop a hoard of Invaders.
  • In the first episode of the 2001 fantasy anime OVA Read or Die, an aerial battle in Lower Manhattan which climaxes around the Statue of Liberty begins with a helicopter crash on the roof of one of the WTC towers. They are also prominent in the establishing and background shots.
  • In the special episode "The Tower Country" of Kino no Tabi (2005) the plot revolves around a tower which collapses in a similar way as the first of the Twin Towers.
  • In an episode of Jimmy Neutron, entitled "Lights, Camera, Danger!" The gang films on top of a building remarkably similar to the South Tower.

[edit] Comic books

  • In 1985 The Uncanny X-Men #189 featured an incredible vision of the future, Rachel Summers (who came from the future) says that in the 21st century: "The twin towers of World Trade Center lie in ruins. Thousands are dead, many more injured". The September 11 attack fits this description exactly.
  • In the 1989 Damage Control, the Twin Towers were damaged when a giant robot fell on them. Damage Control, a construction company that specialized in repairing superhero-related damage, had the towers repaired (although visibly crooked) by the end of the issue.
  • In the Mortadelo y Filemon comic "El 35 Aniversario" (The 35th Anniversary) appears an image of a plane that cracks in the WTC.
  • The 2004 comic Ex Machina detailed the life of Mitchell Hundred, formerly the world's first and only superhero, who was elected mayor of New York City in the wake of his saving hundreds of lives during the collapse of the North Tower, and in preventing the collapse of the South Tower.
  • Most of the Marvel Comics heroes reside in New York City, so views of the towers was not uncommon. Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) issue 36 showed the aftermath of the Tower's collapse through the eyes of the heroes, more specifically, Spider-Man's. Captain America (vol. 4) issue 1 had Steve Rogers arguing with Nick Fury when the former decided to stay and find survivors than head for Afghanistan.
  • Issues 1 and 2 of Valiant Comics's Game Boy comic series had two teenagers going through Manhattan Island, aiding Mario in resucing Princess Daisy from the villainous Tatanga, the story concluding at the Windows of the World restaurant.
  • In the ALIENS:Outbreak Graphic Novel, Hicks and Newt escape from a mental hospital using "Jet Rescue technology". It was "developed after the World Trade Center Smoked in '24".

[edit] Computer and video games

  • The 1991 Arcade game King of Monsters features monsters fighting in different Destructible cities. Among them is New York City, where the Twin Towners can be Destroyed, even thrown at your enemy.
  • In the game Kid Pilot, you can select New York as a place to fly. It shows many NYC buildings including the WTC.
  • Streets of Rage, a game released in 1991 on the Sega Genesis features the Twin Towers in the background of the final boss battle, which apparently, occurs in World Trade Center 3 (otherwise known as the Vista Marriott). The towers can also be seen in Streets of Rage 2, in the second level, glowing in the background.
  • The 1994 action game Urban Strike, the third in the Strike series, features the scene of a giant laser deflecting from a satellite and hitting the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, thus marking the start of Mission 7, in which the player must accomplish three objectives before moving on to objective #4: rescuing 16 out of 20 NAFTA business leaders of the WTC (after hitting the radar building east of the WTC); and objective #5: disarming the time bomb in the South Tower (being careful not to cut either the green wire, as one of the members says, or the red wire). It is ironic that, although the game takes place in a fictional 2001 timeline when it was released in 1994, it would be seven years (marking the same number of the game's mission in New York City) before the actual year 2001 (i.e. September 11) would mark the damage of the Twin Towers not by a laser or time bomb, but by the planes crashing into the buildings, with its destruction rather than its survival (as in the game).
  • The 1999 beat em' up classic Tekken 2 features the Twin Towers on the stage where you face Paul Phoenix on a floating island opposite Manhatten.
  • The 1999 city building simulation game SimCity 3000 features the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center as free landmarks which could be built in a city. However, both towers are apparently portrayed as the South Tower; each of the towers featured a rooftop observation deck, but lacked the massive antenna.
  • The first map of the 2000 game Deus Ex, set in 2052, encompasses Liberty Island and a bombed Statue of Liberty. The section of the New York City skyline containing the Twin Towers is absent, to reduce memory requirements for the map. The reason that the developers gave, if anyone asked, was that they had been destroyed by terrorists. "We just said that the towers had been destroyed too. And this was way before 9-11. Years. That's kind of freaky."[5]
  • The 2001 computer game Max Payne, set in New York City, features the Twin Towers in several loading screens depicting the city. They are not seen in the 2003 sequel Max Payne 2.
  • Gundam Battle Assault 2 featured a view of a city in the opening monologue of the story mode. The Twin Towers can been seen scrolling by, though one tower had a large addition to its side.
  • The 2004 video game Spider-Man 2, the game adaptation of the movie, had a virtual New York City that Spider-Man could swing around in. At one spot, there is a large bit of sidewalk with two sets of eight lights arranged in a square. At night, the lights would come on, representing where the World Trade Center had been.

The First NBA Street game featured the World Trade Centers in the loading screen vaguely seen in the background.

  • The 2005 video game True Crime: New York City, features a fenced in "ground zero" where all there is the concrete foundation and a blue fence surrounding it but it is inaccessible.
  • The 2006 driving video game Driver: Parallel Lines features a replica of the World Trade Center complex in 1978 New York City. The complex is depicted lacking the Marriott World Trade Center hotel, as it was only completed in 1981; the complex also features The Sphere, a 1967 Fritz Koenig sculpture, near the middle of the complex. However, a road cuts through what is supposed to be the center of the complex plaza. The complex is absent in the game's 2006 rendition of the city.

[edit] Music

  • The song by The Notorious B.I.G., "Juicy" released in 1994 features the lyrics "blow up like the World Trade" in a reference to the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
  • The group Limp Bizkit feature the World Trade Center in their music video for the song "Rollin'" (2000). The band is shown on the South Tower, staging portions of the music video on its rooftop observation deck. The end of the video features a gradually distancing helicopter shot of the towers.
  • The video for the Spice Girls song "2 Become 1", released in 1997, features numerous night-time shots of the World Trade Center, from differing angles, throughout the duration of the clip.
  • The back cover for the album "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" by the Bouncing Souls shows the Twin Towers, among other buildings, burning and being destroyed.[6] This album was released in May of 2001.
  • Rap group The Coup released an album in late 2001 called Party Music, whose original cover depicts explosions in the towers set off by a detonator. The cover was changed after the 9/11 attacks.
  • The cover of the Beastie Boys' sixth studio album, To the 5 Boroughs, is a drawing featuring the Twin Towers in a compressed New York skyline. [7] This album was released in 2004.
  • Dave Matthews Band was set to film a music video for their song "When the World Ends" from the album Everyday. The music video was supposed to feature lead singer Dave Matthews climbing a ladder to the top of a giant tower. The video idea and single were shelved after the 9/11 attacks and replaced by the more uplifting song "Everyday".
  • A promotional video for Depeche Mode's video "Enjoy the Silence," features the band performing the song on the observation deck of the South Tower. This video is not, however, the official music video for the song.
  • The song "United Stand" on the Impelliterri album system X is about the two towers.
  • Rapper Jay-Z pays tribute to the dead of 9/11 attack in album Blueprint 2. He was also one of the first entertainers to also help out after the disaster, using his tour money as part of the donation.[citation needed]
  • Rapper Pete Miser wrote a song titled "Might Be" which mentions the events of September 11, 2001. The song is featured on Pete Miser's album "Radio Free Brooklyn" which was released in 2002.
  • There are multiple shots of the twin towers in the music video 'to the moon and back' by savage garden.
  • The bottom of the twin towers appear in the music video for the gomez' song 'we haven't turned around.'

[edit] References

  1. ^ Padget, Jonathan. "When 'Godspell' Was on Top of the World", The Washington Post, September 3, 2006.
  2. ^ "The King Leaks", Time Magazine, August 30, 1976.
  3. ^ Serendipity (2001) - Trivia. IMDB.
  4. ^ a b c d "Game makers blot out signs of WTC tragedy", The Hollywood Reporter, September 19, 2001.
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