Reasons to Love New York
New Yorkcelebrates the citys timeless, peerless connection to movies.
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Traffic-choked streets and grimy tenement hallways.
Gunfights and car chases.
Mobsters, street gangs, urban blight, pervasive corruption.
Plainclothes cops chasing suspects through alleyways and beating them senseless.
But there was a countermovement happening in the 70s that produced nearly as many pictures as the doom-and-gloom mode.
These movies werent about mean streets but clean streets.
Thats not to say the options were immaculate, but the worldview was rosier.
A character might get splashed with mud or even lose a pocketbook to a mugger.
Comedies and romances were the vanguard of clean-streets cinema.
Its a little feel-good parent-child love story.
The I HEART NY campaign really began here.
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