It was War of the Worlds for the Jurassic Park age, with Hollywood’s fancy new tool of computer-generated imagery helping astonish moviegoers with greater verisimilitude. In the summer of 1996, German director Roland Emmerich scored a career-defining hit with Independence Day, helped by the fact audiences weren’t yet accustomed to photorealistic scenes of famous landmarks getting destroyed (the shot of the White House zapped by an alien death ray becoming a piece of pop culture iconography). How did the Empire State Building survive the first movie?
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