It is, with New York, the American cinematographic city par excellence. We invite you to take a tour of Los Angeles in ten films and ten questions!
Second largest city in the United States after New York in terms of population and cradle of American cinema with its famous Hollywood studios, it is only natural that the city of Los Angeles has been transposed many times in many films, until integrating the title of some of them.
In 1997, Curtis Hanson adapted the famous novel LA Confidential for the cinema, set in Los Angeles in the 1950s. policeman.
Three inspectors with radically opposed methods will be called upon to cooperate within the framework of the investigations. On the bill, a five-star cast bringing together many stars including Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce and Danny DeVito.
In another vein, John Carpenter decided in 1996 to give a sequel to his cult film New York 1997. The film takes place in a futuristic Los Angeles of 2013, which has become a prison island after being detached from the continent following a earthquake. We find Kurt Russell reprising his role as Snake Plissken, sent on a new mission to thwart the plans of the revolutionary Cuervo Jones.
And more recently in 2011, it was an alien invasion that landed in Los Angeles under cover of meteor showers in World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles. Aliens determined to seize the hydraulic resources of the blue planet. But it was without counting on the resistance of the Marines led by Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez.
The City of Angels has therefore had its heyday in the cinema, and it is a tour of the Californian “capital” that we offer you today through this quiz in ten films and ten questions!