One of the photographs captured the filming of Emily Cale’s big scene–except in the photo she is foisting an American flag, not the White House one that appears in the finished film.
The unbelievable part is that the flag she uses to do it isn’t Old Glory (what some might consider the natural choice), but a generic blue White House flag instead.Īs it turns out, one version of the scene was shot with an American flag.Įagle-eyed Voice Film Editor Alan Scherstuhl noticed the change while perusing the latest issue of American Cinematographer, which features a full spread on White House Down‘s director of photography, Anna Foerster, and still images from the set. It works–but that’s not the unbelievable part.
So naturally the film’s dramatic conclusion finds her in the middle of the White House lawn, waving an enormous flag as furiously as her little arms can manage, in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to wave the airstrike off. 01:57:31 And Emily Cale is undoubtedly a beautiful hero of the day. 01:57:27 It is an unbelievable moment down here. Emily’s special talent, per earlier exposition, is flag twirling. Delta 2-6, we have a young girl on the lawn. There is only one hope for the hostages left inside the White House, and it is little Emily Cale, spawn of Channing Tatum. The speaker decides the only way to end this thing once and for all is to call an airstrike on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In Columbia Pictures White House Down, Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James. The same terrorists have torpedoed Air Force Two, where the Vice President was just sworn into office, so executive power has passed to the Speaker of the House (a defense industry flack who, it shall later be revealed, masterminded the whole plot). President Jamie Foxx has gone missing in a White House besieged by rightwing terrorists, and is assumed dead. See also: White House Down Is the Most Sharply Observed Spoof Comedy Since Team America
“Repeat after me, conservatives: Not one damn cent.”īut those who did buy a ticket to see White House Down when it debuted in theaters last weekend may have noticed something strange about the the film’s big, nail-biting finish.
“If you spend one damn cent on this crap, you’re spitting on our troops too,” a columnist for the rightwing website wrote. In the 2013 film White House Down, Emily Cale (played by Joey King), the daughter of main character John Cale (played by Channing Tatum) wears a Timex. They don’t need one, but conservatives can add another entry to their long list of reasons to dislike Roland Emmerich’s latest film: The American flag was edited out of a pivotal scene. Walker is able to get Sawyer to surrender when he tells Cale that unless he surrenders, Stenz will shoot Emily in the stomach. Hell, even Mother Jones joined the chorus, calling the film “one enormous pander to the most naïve impulses of your average dime-store liberal.” called it “unrelenting liberal propaganda disguised as popcorn entertainment.” The American Conservative dismissed it as “A Hollywood-White House-Democratic Party Production.” “Obama-Porn” the blog Republican Party Animals crowed. A still from the set, captured in this month's issue of American Cinematographer.Ĭonservatives hate White House Down.