New York in the popular culture.

Cinema

The city of New York is the scene of many famous films. Is the second center of produccion, after Hollywood. This is explained by the fact that the Big Apple is conducive to filming, with the skyscrapers and the many small neighborhoods that are correspond to several modes.
We can see a very famous films filmes in NY:
New York, New York o Gangs of New York by Martin Scorserse,
the famous Breakfast at Tiffany's Manhattan by Woody Allen and the musical comedies On The Town, West Side Story and.the monsters monstruos King Kong y Godzilla scared all the public in their films. In comedy we can see Coming to America with Eddie Murphy and Madagascar by Dreamworks. The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a major inspiration for many directors, who portrayed both the terrorist attacks as their impact on the city and its habitants.
we can see World Trace Center and 11'9"01 September 11. The more recent film is ''I AM LEGEND' with Will Smith.

New York New York by Alexs and Marti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ig_I_uw9c

Breakfast at tiffany's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8


Literature.
NY has been the inspiration and the scene of many poems and books. The most importants are:

Literature Breakfast at Tiffany's de Truman Capote, The Godfather de Mario Puzo, Poeta en Nueva York de Federico García Lorca, American Psycho de Bret Easton Ellis, Brooklyn Follies de Paul Auster y Manhattan Transfer de John Dos Passos.


Music

The music are very relationated with the city. Probably, the song more famous is New York by Frank Sinatra where he praises saying that is the city where everything is possible and being the city more interesting and atractive. Other famouse songs are I love NY by Madonna or Englishman in New York by Siting, New York City Serenade by Bruce Springsteen and Sacrificed songs by Dream Theater. All of this song we can heard them in this blog.
But there are a lot of songs that the lyrics are about the Streets such as Seventh Avenue by Rossane Cash, Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan, Union Square by Tom Waits.

One thing very important and tragic was the murder of John Lennon, who was murdered in fron of his house by a fan. He has a beauty mosaic in Central Park in his memory.

And the best Rock and Roll band of the history The Rolling Stones, named the city in their song Shattered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKAUQVu9v8U
In this video you can see the city with the famous song by The Rollings.

TV

The series in the city have been very famous, 'cause the scenes of the series are all recorded in the city and the image of the life and the people of NY have been a reference for it. We can see the famous ''Friends'' where are a lot of scenes with the city, '' The Nanny'' that distinguish the social and stereotype the residents of districts such as Manhattan or Queens.
But the more famous is ''Sex in the city'', of course. Everybody knows this series.
In it we can see all the city, at night and at day. We can see the life about 4 friends in the city with theirs lovers, problems with the love, problems with the life... All the series is records in the city with reals scenes and reals places.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8LmGSOO4M (opening)

we can see the cartoons 'Futurama' that shows NY in the year 3000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8g4jk2hvAg&feature=related

And the city is the scene of very famous police series:

CSI NY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4k4r41a0NQ

Law & Order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV_b7XrVe44

and without a trace and Third watch.

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