In Popular Culture
As an iconic New York landmark, the building has been seen in a few films such as Only When I Larf, Coogan's Bluff, The French Connection, Armageddon, Catch Me If You Can, Godzilla, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The building is compared to a tombstone in Joni Mitchell's song "Harry's House." The building is seen in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV as a parody called the GetaLife Building, and in the game Crysis 2, in which it is hit by alien artillery fire and collapses onto Grand Central Terminal. The building is also seen in the movie Knowing, where it is destroyed along with the rest of New York City, and in the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), where Megatron orders Starscream to launch a full-scale attack on the planet. It was shown as it appeared in the sixties with the Pan Am logo on ABC television series of the said brand title. In The Avengers, the building is deconstructed to make way for Stark Tower.
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