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(All the while, disas-tourists swarm the South Lawn as if they were clamoring to get into the Easter Egg Roll.)
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“White House Down,” written by James Vanderbilt and directed by Roland Emmerich (who, having also made “ Independence Day” and “ 2012,” clearly has a fetish for destroying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.), takes perverse glee in putting its human and architectural characters through an increasingly barbaric series of physical punishments, from that shocking blow suffered by a cute, tear-stained child to the Green Room literally going up in flames. That film, of course, starred Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler in an eerily similar story that, although often just as outlandish, looks in retrospect like a quiet, sophisticated little thriller. Capitol and shortly thereafter at the White House, an aspiring Secret Service agent named John Cale (Tatum) happens to be taking a tour of the latter with his daughter soon, the men are playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, outmaneuvering their shadowy opponents and outgunning inevitable comparisons to “ Olympus Has Fallen.” President James Sawyer, Foxx plays a more bespectacled, less formal version of President Obama, his Nicorette gum and basketball shoes chiming unsubtly with Sawyer’s real-life counterpart. government suffers a viciously violent coup.
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If cognitive dissonance ensues for an audience unsure whether to laugh or wince, that’s nothing compared to the level of sheer volume - and preposterousness - the film inevitably reaches for with its we-can-top-that finale.īetween all the stuff that goes boom, stars Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum manage to develop genuine comic chemistry as two men thrown into an apocalyptic cataclysm when the U.S. At least that seems to be the aim in a film that, in the midst of sadistic violence, throws in jokes and bits of buddy humor as blithely as its protagonists toss those grenades.
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A riotous display of serial explosions, helicopter crashes, car smash-ups, sniper attacks and at least one slap on the face of a winsome little girl, “White House Down” is the kind of celebration of rampant mayhem in which everyone seems to have a rocket launcher - or at least a live hand grenade - at the ready, just in case they need to dispatch a scrum of exceptionally vile and cruel villains.īut “White House Down” also clearly wants to be a lighthearted comedy.
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“I worked under a Republican president and a Democratic president, and I can tell you that the motivation is really celebrating the holiday so that the American people can enjoy it,” she says.“ White House Down” never quite seems to decide what kind of movie it wants to be, although by firepower alone it qualifies as this summer’s most cartoonishly bombastic exercise in sensory overload (so far). Regardless of how grand or traditional a given First Lady’s vision, Burke says that the reason the White House decorates is so that people can experience and emulate a part of the trappings themselves. Since decorators can’t visit the White House ahead of time to measure all of the nooks and crannies, they have to work quickly once they finally arrive. “The bus just got lost every time,” she says. Every year, the bus that brings the decorators to the warehouse takes a roundabout route-perhaps, Burke muses, in an attempt to prevent the decorators from knowing exactly where they are.
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Most of the prep happens in an off-site warehouse, the location of which is kept under wraps. Ronald Reagan Library-Getty Images Here’s how the volunteers bring the White House Christmas decorations to life