If A Quiet Place: Day One really happened what would you do
Before the world of A Quiet Place became a quiet place, it was a LOUD PLACE. And based on the first trailer for this June’s A Quiet Place: Day One, it was particularly loud on day one, when a species of snarling echolocation-reliant aliens crashed on Earth. As teased in John Krasinski’s newspaper-clipping mosaic in the first movie, New York City went into full lockdown after the ETs arrived. Day One, which gets a big spooky trailer that will premiere to the masses at 2024 Super Bowl LVIII, chronicles that fateful day in the Big Apple.
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Anyone who has clocked time in New York knows the city is not the ideal location for a quiet showdown with an alien race. While many natives would cheer the extraterrestrials on as they chased Times Square’s Elmo impersonators through the crowds of Broadway-goers before eventually passing out at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville, the truth is they would inevitably turn to the outer boroughs. “Protect Union Pool!” the Brooklyn twenty-somethings would squeal as they scrambled for one more PBR, knowing the end was inevitable.
Directed by Michael Sarnoski, A Quiet Place: Day One has War of the Worlds and Cloverfield vibes, with Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o in the role of Exasperated Silent Movie Star. It looks like big dumb fun, but it’s specific location raises a question I, a reformed New Yorker, am always asking myself: If shit like this really went down, where would I go? Maybe it’s the memories of 9/11 that are impossible to shake, or Hollywood’s insistence on exploiting that live-TV moment into disaster films, or the unshakeable anxious feeling that when you live on an island with a ton of bridges and tunnels that something could go wrong and suddenly you’ll be trapped (that Sylvester Stallone movie Daylight really did a number on my ability to calmly drive through Holland Tunnel), but now when I see wanton destruction of New York like the kind on display in A Quiet Place: Day One, I wonder where I would go.
One thing I would
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