Movie culture, said Feil, seems to embody a kind of disposability, venality and manipulation that both personifies catastrophe and causes it .

The urge to level those who live too well,http://hellenicstudiescsus.com/wp-searches.php?teams/k/kosovo/old-kosovo-football-shirt-s30724.html, or too wantonly,http://www.producteursdemaregion.com/_error.php?stores/realmadrid/fr/products/kitselector/home-kit-15-16/real-madrid---maillot-%25C3%25A0-domicile-15-16---enfant---blanc/161346, of course pre-dates film: the Bible gave us Sodom and Gomorrah,http://www.agrolangeland.dk/phpinfo.php?landsholdstrojer-647/argentina-649, inspiration for an Austrian silent blockbuster, Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrah, by the director Michael Curtiz in 1922.

Watching seemingly successful people punished by earthquakes, sudden illnesses or bad luck is literally calming down the people's anger (that they are less fortunate) and a perverse form of healing the tormented souls, John-Stewart Gordon, a professor of anthropology and ethics at the University of Cologne in Germany, said in an email.

The suffering in Nepal is human; this is cinematic.

California's earliest filmic levelling dates at least to 1906, when primitive newsreel footage captured falling buildings and smoking rubble immediately after the April 18 earthquake in San Francisco, then a gilded capital of sin,http://www.vincinibottier.com/wp-walker.php?categorie/equipements/maillots/maillots-nike, known for its Barbary Coast red-light district.

There were ruins on every hand, read a perhaps gleeful card on one such film, now posted by the Library of Congress.

Destruction by earthquake reached feature length in 1936, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's San Francisco. The melodrama starred Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald; but the morally tinged destruction of San Francisco's liquor-soaked hangouts was the sell.

An earthquake, noisy and terrifying and so realistic that the customers will be dodging the falling buildings and mentally hurdling the crevices that yawn in the studio's streets awaited viewers,http://www.laverdadapostolica.com/single.php?647-Maajoukkueet-Peliasu/685-Etela-Korea-Peliasu, assured Variety in its review.

In Earthquake, Universal upped the ante with a Sensurround system that emitted low-frequency vibrations meant to make the audience feel as queasy as the people on screen. With computer-generated imagery, San Andreas can now rend the earth with startlingly wide fissures, crumple skyscrapers and send Johnson's speedboat over that tidal wave in ways that Mark Robson, who directed Earthquake, could only imagine.

(Peyton and company also recorded seismic sounds of the San Andreas fault, and incorporated them in a score by Andrew Lockington.)

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But filmmakers never stopped imagining the end of California, or parts of it, whether by giant ants,http://www.foto-gerd.de/wp-searches.php?Bundesliga-Deutschland/BVB-Dortmund/, as in Them! (1954); pod people, as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); birds,http://www.brassogtreblaas.no/tag.php?Kaka-Fotballtr%25C3%25B8ye-726, as in The Birds (1963); or Japanese bombardment,http://www.ausblow.com.au/phpinfo.php?soccer-cleats-461.html, plus John Belushi, as in 1941 (1979). There were more earthquakes, as in Short Cuts (1993) and Escape From LA (1996); a volcano, triggered by ill-advised subway construction, in Volcano (1997); falling frogs in Magnolia (1999); and armed aliens in Battle: Los Angeles (shot in Louisiana in 2009, and released in 2011).

In Miracle Mile, an indie thriller written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt in 1988,http://www.urbanoasis.com.au/wp-feed.php?japanese-rolex/ladies-daytona.html, it rained nuclear bombs on a date gone wrong between Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards. (Ground zero was the mid-Wilshire tower in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles that now houses The New York Times bureau: For those who live here, it gets personal.)

New York has suffered its share of movie damage, although it is usually not seismic. Apes and meteors often play a role, as in King Kong, from 1933, or Armageddon and Deep Impact (both from 1998).

More than a few of the California films settled scores with a place that seemed to have it too good. In San Andreas, overcompensated northern California techies get their comeuppance as tsunami-tossed ships, trolleys and office furniture crash through some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.

Salvation is low-tech: it comes in the form of land lines, hot-wired cars and raw nerve.

Others might say Californians have done enough damage here, without Hollywood's help.

Chuck DeVore, a former California Republican state assemblyman who is now vice-president for policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, lists prohibitive housing costs, rising taxes and overbearing bureaucracy as contributors, in his view, to a paradise almost lost.

If I didn't think so, I guess I wouldn't be in Texas, he said.

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