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Grand Central Terminal

Movie Friends with Benefits Will Gluck (2011)
Dylan Harper (Justin Timberlake) hosts a huge surprise at Grand Central Terminal to win back the heart of Jamie Reliss (Mila Kunis)
Grand Central Terminal in New York
Grand Central Terminal in New York. Photo credit: Fantrippers

“Sorry I had to use the real Grand Central instead of the fake one.”

Dylan Harper (Justin Timberlake)

This scene is a reminder of a sequence that Dylan and Jamie saw in a movie earlier in their relationship. Bryce, played by Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), caught up in Grand Central Madison, played by Rashida Jones (The Office) to make her declaration of love.

For the record, this film was shot especially for Friends with Benefits.

It’s also a tribute to their first outing, when a huge flash mob took over Times Square.

Here, Dylan develops a similar event in the huge central station, under the eyes of a Jamie impressed and charmed by the gesture both romantic and original.

Grand Central Terminal Scene in Friends with Benefits Grand Central Terminal in New York

He reminds her that she wanted her life to be like “in a movie” and therefore uses Grand Central, the real one, not as in the fake feature film, to open her heart.

They then leave the station together for a drink at The Pershing Square opposite, the same catchy end music as the fake film in the background.

Grand Central Terminal Scene in Friends with Benefits
Scene of Grand Central Terminal in Friends with benefits Photo credit: Screen Gems, Castle Rock Entertainment, Zucker Productions and Olive Bridge Entertainment

Grand Central Terminal

Beneath its superb fine arts building, Grand Central is the station with the most platforms in the world: 44 giving onto 67 tracks spread over two levels. A total of 273.7 million passengers pass through it each year, or 8.7 per second! So it is only natural that it should have inspired the authors so much.

And to think that this magnificent building almost disappeared. While the fine arts building at Manhattan’s other major station, Penn Station, was demolished in 1964 to make way for a modern building combining the railroad tracks and Madison Square Garden, Grand Central escaped the bulldozers thanks to the support of Jackie Kennedy-Onassis.

Built between 1903 and 1913, the station was the third to occupy this site, the other two having been successively destroyed. At the beginning of the twentieth century, nothing stopped the railway and the work was pharaonic; besides the old station, it was decided to raze 120 buildings, three churches, two hospitals, an orphanage and warehouses to make Grand Central comfortable on three hectares.

It was necessary, because today nearly 800 trains pass through there every day. A major renovation in 1998 brought to light the huge painting on its main ceiling.

Made in 1912 by the Frenchman Paul-César Helleu on the theme of the signs of the zodiac, it has 2,500 stars forming constellations. As time went by, cigarette smoke and dirt had totally hidden it to the point that no one remembered it was here!

The other big star is the clock on the central information booth, but Grand Central has many other resources: a food court in the basement, a ballroom, many stores and even two tennis courts!

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By Damien Duarte

Friday, August 21, 2020

Passionné par la culture pop depuis son enfance, ses références vont de Donald Duck à Batman en passant par Marty McFly. Fantripper dans l'âme, voyager sur les traces de Ghostbusters, James Bond ou des héros de romans comme Cotton Malone fait partie d'un séjour idéal et réussi !

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