In popular culture

Soviet propaganda poster during the Cold War: Efim Dolgorouki, the American Freedom, 1949. The Statue of Liberty quickly became a popular icon, appearing in numerous commercials and pictures and movies and books. In 1911, the American writer O. Henry was talking to Miss Liberty with another statue. In 1918, the monument included on the announcement of Victory Loan (loan of victory) granted by the United States to Europe. In the 1940s and 1950s, numerous reviews science fiction pulp showed the statue surrounded by ruins and remains of other periods. During the Cold War, the statue appeared often in the propaganda posters as a symbol of freedom or of the United States (of course one way or another, depending on the side in question). The American designers showed it as representing New York after the attacks of 11 September 2001.Advertising also used it to make known products such as Coca-Cola and chewing gum. The statue has also inspired artists of the twentieth century, like Andy Warhol. In the film, appears in a statue large number of films, some with a high profile. Already in 1917, in The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin admires the statue while his ship reaches the port of New York. Josyann Abisaab In 1942 appears in the film by Alfred Hitchcock Sabotage during the final outcome. At the end of the first version of the film Planet of the Apes, the sample in a final surprising partly buried under the sand of a beach. In the film Ghostbusters 2 makes the Statue of Liberty 'alive' through the streets of New York.In more recent filmography also makes its appearance in movies like X-Men in the final battle takes place in the statue, in Titanic where it appears in one of the final scenes of the movie when the Carpathia, the ship with the survivors the collapse, leads to New York in Artificial Intelligence where black appears in Men in black II where the agent K 'neuraliza "to all New York with her torch, Tomorrow in which he appears in several scenes or National Treasure where the sister statue located in Paris provides the treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) a track to discover the secret treasure. The Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota submerged in 1979: a joke-size ... In 1979 the statue was part of a hazing imagined at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Several students reproduced the top of the statue and placed in a frozen lake in the region, giving the impression of being submerged. The monument contained in the license plate of the state of New York and the New Jersey. In the world of sport, Lady Liberty serves as the logo for the NHL team the New York Rangers and the women's basketball team New York Liberty, who play in the WNBA. To celebrate the centenary of the monument, the French postal service created a stamp in 1986 was the face of the statue entitled "Freedom". In 2000, the monument was part of proposals to designate the "new wonders of the world" (New7Wonders), which was a finalist. The logo of the University of New York recovered the torch of the Statue of Liberty to show that serves the city of New York. The torch appears both on the seal and the logo of the university, designed in 1965 by Ivan Chermayeff.The famous illusionist David Copperfield made to "disappear" the monument in a live program on TV in 1983 in one of their most memorable tricks. The image of the statue has also been moved into the world of videogames. The launch of the controversial title from Rockstar Games GTA IV in 2008 included an accurate representation of New York (Liberty City in the history of the game) and the Statue of Liberty, parodied as "Statue of Happiness." 81