FX001 SHATTERING STATUE 1
'LA LAW' television show.

This episode's plot involved a building owner protesting a Los Angeles law requiring that all public buildings under construction spend a percentage of their construction budget on artwork for their buidings. This owner figured if he could comission an artwork controversial enough to incite its destruction, he could then sue the city and come out ahead, protesting the law in the process. The art department toyed with the idea of a nude 'Margaret Thatcher,' finally settling on a 'heroic' Martin Luther King lawn jockey statue. We built an eight foot tall statue, with Mr. King holding up a lantern in a heroic pose, but one that made the enraged crowd's connection to a lawn jockey believeable. We pre-scored the statue for breaking, painting the inside with the same faux stone pattern as the outside. We set it up on its pedestal on site, patching any little cracks with colored plasticene. The statue was lassoed and pulled down by the crowd, shattering when it hit the ground. Actors or not, it was still alarming to be on set with a furious crowd of hundreds of rioters bellowing, "Tear it down," "Destroy it" and "Who made that thing? Let's get them!"

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