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business newsBizarro Worlds: Hollywood Pictures an Alterna-America
Six of the US's largest cities get a post-apocalyptic makeover.
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Will New York, a.k.a. Gotham, where capitalism was knocked to the mat, become more like that other Gotham - the one where Batman fights the kind of gritty urban crime produced by extreme divides between rich and poor? Did RoboCop foretell the future of Detroit?
And what about cinematic portrayals of other cities? Minyanville looks at how the big screen has predicted the fate of our cities today and asks which movies got it right - and which ones didn't.
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