In Popular Culture
- In a key scene in the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr Smith Goes to Washington, the statue and its inscription provide inspiration to freshman Senator Jefferson Smith, played by James Stewart.
- In the 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, Klaatu/Mr. Carpenter and Billy visit the Lincoln Memorial, provoking Klaatu, a visitor from the stars, to say: "Those are great words, he must have been a great man?."
- In the 1976 science fiction film, "Logan's Run (film)", the statue of Lincoln reveals to the characters the look of old age.
- In the 1993 Clint Eastwood movie In The Line Of Fire
- In the 1996 science fiction movie, Independence Day, the Lincoln Memorial can be seen as a massive alien spacecraft enters the sky around Washington, DC.
- In the 2001 science fiction film Planet Of The Apes
- In the 2004 episode "The Stormy Present" of the TV series The West Wing, President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen) visits the Lincoln Memorial after being prompted by a letter to "Go see Lincoln and listen."
- In the 2009 comedy movie Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, the statue of Lincoln comes to life and has a short conversation with the characters of Ben Stiller and Amy Adams and helps them defeat the Horus warriors.
- In the 2011 super hero movie, X-Men: First Class, Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr are seen playing chess and talking on the steps of the memorial.
- In the 2011 science fiction movie, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Megatron destroys the statue of Lincoln and then sits on the chair.
- In the video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, the Lincoln Memorial can be seen in missions that take place in Washington, D.C. In the Allied Campaign Lincolns head was replaced by a head of Stalin before America was liberated. In the Soviet Campaign, it was destroyed for a cash bounty.
- In the video game Fallout 3, in the 200 years since the war in 2077, the Lincoln Memorial has been damaged, including Lincoln's head having gone missing from the statue. The head is later found in the possession of several escaped slaves who want to return it to the memorial and restore it to its original condition.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)