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"The Day After Tomorrow" was not originally called "The Day After Tomorrow", but "The Day After Tomorrow", also called "The Doomsday Catastrophe". This is really a bad change. It neither has the sense of doomsday ghosts of "The Day After Tomorrow" nor the direct violence of "Doomsday Catastrophe". I hope this translation will not inhibit the audience's desire to buy tickets to enter the venue, because this is really A "good-looking" movie. After "The Lord of the Rings", Beijing has not seen such a movie that only relies on visual "killing" for a long time. A lot of people did die in the movie, mainly Americans, probably less than half of them, including the President of the United States. In this regard, this film is even crazier than director Emmerich's previous film "Independence Day."

Method of destruction: Continuous tsunamis swept through the city and Manhattan sank.

Destruction method two: A huge tornado descends on the world, and Los Angeles becomes a hell.

Destruction method three: ultra-low temperature airflow freezes the city and the Statue of Liberty.

Plot Top-Heavy Rescue

It is generally believed that the focus of disaster movies is computer special effects, while the plot and characters can basically be ignored. In fact, disaster movies often show the reaction of human groups in the face of catastrophic disasters, which puts forward three requirements for the drama: 1. There are many characters; 2. The levels are clear; 3. The priorities are appropriate. To fully meet such requirements is indeed a great test of the director's ability.

Roland Emmerich, the writer and director of "The Day After Tomorrow", is an expert in making disaster films. Although his previous "Independence Day" and "Godzilla" have the style of science fiction or monster movies, Elements, at its core is still an orthodox disaster film. Therefore, for Emmerich, describing group portraits in disasters is quite comfortable. In "The Day After Tomorrow", there are the president of the United States who decides the fate of the nation, beggars living on the streets of New York, British scientific researchers guarding their posts, and Japanese employees knocked down by hail on the streets of Tokyo. The meteorologist protagonist and his family and friends are enough to form a miniature landscape of the doomsday world. Judging from the plot development, the film has always focused on the activities of the protagonist Jack Hall. The first half describes him persuading high-level politicians, while the second half focuses on him saving his son who is trapped in New York. Politicians and Hall’s The actions of the wife and son become auxiliary lines, always surrounding the theme of rescue and self-rescue. It can be said that "The Day After Tomorrow" is also very appropriate in terms of layer processing.

However, the plot of this film is not perfect. The biggest problem is that the film has no real climax, and the narrative structure appears to be seriously imbalanced. The most exciting part of "The Day After Tomorrow" is the scene when a hurricane sweeps through Los Angeles not long after the opening. However, in the second half of the film, Hall's journey to New York to find his son seems rather dull, and he reaches his goal step by step without suffering too much. land. Perhaps, the director originally intended to treat frozen New York as the climax of the film, but unfortunately the creative power failed to achieve the expected effect, making the film as a whole seem a bit top-heavy.

As for the theoretical basis of the film, I think meteorology is not a popular knowledge, and most viewers will not take it too seriously. After all, this is just a summer blockbuster that relies on visual impact, not "exploration". "Science documentary on the channel. In order to create a happy ending, the film actually allows the protagonist to send a fax to the US government that has moved to Mexico under a complete power outage. This is somewhat cunning and makes people laugh.

Special Effects: Putting the Earth in a Refrigerator

No director is as crazy and enthusiastic as Emmerich about destroying the Earth 10,000 times, from "Independence Day" to "Godzilla" ” and then to “The Day After Tomorrow”, the “destruction equivalent” in his movies has doubled. From the perspective of stunts alone, it is enough for the audience to experience the joy of destruction.

"The Day After Tomorrow" has nothing to do with environmental protection or politics. It is not even a science fiction movie predicting the Second Ice Age. In my opinion, it is completely a "fantasy" movie - satisfying the destructive desire in some people's hearts!

Just like the "apocalyptic" nuclear explosion in "Terminator II", when you see the "Hollywood" sign being crushed by a tornado, the streets of Japan being smashed by hailstones like shells, the whole of New York Swallowed by continuous tsunamis, the Empire State Building quickly froze, and only the remains of steel bars were left in the skyscrapers. The pinnacle of civilization instantly turned into dim ruins. How could you not feel the huge impact, like a naughty child overturning a doll on the ground? The unknown The power puts the earth in the refrigerator!

In disaster movies, big is beautiful. What are the flooded towers in The Lord of the Rings? Imagine a scene ten thousand times bigger than that! And your perspective not only stays on the ground, but also is taken into the air, into the clouds, and even into space! "People" are getting smaller and smaller, and "environment" is getting bigger and bigger. This is why the film only shows the destruction of iconic buildings, and rarely sees thousands of "little people" running around with their heads in their hands. It is the eye of the storm with a diameter of dozens of kilometers. Every shot requires the use of a crane. A large number of panoramic overhead shots and aerial shots, combined with models and computer special effects, make the apocalyptic catastrophe look extravagant!

The reason "The Day After Tomorrow" has outstanding visual performance is not only the scale and number of disasters, but also the contagious tonal processing.

As time goes by and the type of disaster changes, the tone of the film shows rich transitions, such as the pale and dim clouds before the disaster, the vast and muddy streets when the heavy rain comes, and the dusty city after the hurricane sweeps, with ice and snow flying. The world was pale at that time, as well as the dazzling white ice after the disaster, the red sky reflecting the afterglow of the sun... everything is fully developed to fully exaggerate the emotions, allowing people to fully feel the sensory reactions brought about by climate changes such as cold, moisture, and warmth. .

What is even more progressive is that Emmerich has learned to use "quiet" to express his emotions - for example, there is no longer a low "boom" when a satellite passes by. The most shocking are the following two scenes - a huge cruise ship drifting silently into the streets of New York after New York turned into a glacier, and after the blizzard, Dennis Quaid and his teammates were walking freely half-covered in the snow. Walking under the statue of the goddess, it feels like you have arrived in another time and space "Planet of the Apes"!

Discover the pleasure of anarchy in the genre chapter

The main reason why disaster movies have always been popular is Because it can satisfy several types of people's psychological needs, let's put "The Day After Tomorrow" on the coordinate system of disaster movies and take a look at its transcript.

Visual impact: Disaster movies always give those visual effects maniacs a huge space to play, and "carpet-bomb" the audience's eyes. I feel that the visual effects in "The Day After Tomorrow" are mixed, probably because the film's booth is too large and there are too many scenes, and no scene can be fully done. In comparison, films such as "Titanic" and "Tornado" with more concentrated scenes are more effective.

Action scenes: Although many disaster movies are about the anger of nature, we mostly see people running around in them. Disaster movies are the best carrier of action scenes. The action scenes in "The Day After Tomorrow" are not very enjoyable, perhaps because the stalls are too big. In fact, "The Day After Tomorrow" still has a lot of potential to be tapped. For example, in the last scene, there can be a big collapse of the floor, or a man-wolf fight or something. In comparison, "Titanic" fully explored the possibilities of action scenes in small scenes.

The apocalyptic underworld: The grand, underworld feeling mixed with sadness, fear and tragedy is the psychological pleasure that only disaster movies can bring. The middle section of "The Day After Tomorrow" successfully achieves this effect, but this feeling leaks out in the second half. Although the investment in "The Day After Tomorrow" reached 120 million U.S. dollars, the ghostly feeling it achieved was only equivalent to that of "Collision" with an investment of 70 million U.S. dollars. This can only be attributed to the unreasonable plot arrangement.

Anarchic pleasure: When disaster strikes, everyone can do their own thing. This anarchic pleasure is ignored by many disaster movies, mainly because those disaster movies only take place in a small part. The disaster in "The Day After Tomorrow" sweeps the world, and it does its part to show the anarchic pleasure in the apocalyptic catastrophe, which is also one of the greatest features of the film. In "The Day After Tomorrow", the plot of burning books as firewood will definitely become the favorite of many viewers. It is difficult to find corresponding examples in other disaster movies.

Characters: Forget them all until the day after tomorrow

The only thing worth watching in "The Day After Tomorrow" is the visual effects, and there is almost nothing remarkable about the actors' performances. The writer and director put all the characters on the commercial assembly line and polished them into nuts and bolts of the same size, almost letting go of any possible plot, dialogue, or character considerations. Therefore, you will not see those human nature and character relationships that should become complicated, unpredictable, and meaningful in the face of catastrophe. Instead, you will see love, family affection, or friendship that is handled carelessly and palely. They are as fake as a bouquet of plastic flowers in front of the apocalyptic scene created by computer special effects. Therefore, when the two "eyes of the storm" shaped like ice cream in the film moved slowly above the atmosphere, and the earth gradually became covered with ice from the outside to the inside like a persimmon accidentally put into the freezer, I felt in my heart I think the world is finally clean...

The handsome guy Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays the male protagonist Sam, has a background in independent films. He is obviously not suitable for such a straightforward and simple role. The situation was always tense, and many scenes were handled with a lack of enthusiasm. And Amy Rossum, who plays his girlfriend, is more like a decoration, a Barbie doll. Her stiff and empty but very standard smile greatly undermines the title of "Hollywood's most noteworthy new star in the next few years"; and Sam's father Dennis Quaid, who plays the role, is slightly better. After all, he is the leading actor, a great hero, a loving father and a loving husband, and his role is not light. But his action of rescuing his son without hesitation is really unconvincing: Unless he brought the Capsule from "Dragon Ball" or Doraemon's space-time car, he would have walked to Manhattan in the ice and snow without backup and met his son. What happens next? Are they going to die together?

The black tramp and his dog do have some outstanding scenes, and Ian Holm's argument about Scotch whiskey is also wonderful, but unfortunately these short-lived highlights cannot change the roughness and stiffness of the overall acting. At this point, "The Day After Tomorrow" will never surpass the heights of classic science fiction disaster films such as "Planet of the Apes" and "The End of the Earth", and it is not even as good as "Independence Day"... In the end, "Ice Cream" is like "Cassandra" The plague in "The Bridge" magically retreats, everything returns to normal, and the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere is as pure as returning to the beginning of creation.

This half-frozen earth played a not-so-scientific joke on people, so we walked out of the cinema in a relaxed mood, laughing and joking, and by the day after tomorrow—even without waiting until the day after tomorrow, we would have completely forgotten all the characters in the movie. .