Movies about the environment!

The most typical: the day after tomorrow.

Chinese title: The Day After Tomorrow (also called Armageddon and The Day After Tomorrow)

English title: The day after tomorrow

Director: Roland Emmerich roland emmerich

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal

Distribution company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Company

China film distribution group company Huaxia film distribution company

Issue date: May 28, 2004 (global simultaneous issue)

Length: 124 minutes

Classification: USA: PG- 13

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Ice age and the threat of serious greenhouse effect

The ice age 65 million years ago made dinosaurs completely extinct; If a new ice age comes, where will mankind be? In order to arouse the world's threat to the increasingly serious greenhouse effect and the new ice age that may theoretically lead to it, the film The Day After Tomorrow has designed a series of related frozen images for world-famous landmarks, showing the urgency and comprehensiveness of the threat of climate to human beings. Because the climate change in the film was first submerged by seawater and then suddenly frozen due to the sudden drop in temperature, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben in London were all frozen into icicles, and the horizontal icicles highlighted the rapid cooling and freezing of the earth. Choose two pictures of the Statue of Liberty "wet" and the Statue of Liberty "ice cream" as official posters!

Roland emmerich, the director of The Day After Tomorrow, noticed the terrible consequences brought by the greenhouse effect, and decided to make The Day After Tomorrow the world's first A-class work that was completely carbon neutral: "The extensive use of lights, generators and fuel in filming aggravated the greenhouse effect, and we tried to neutralize and absorb the emitted carbon dioxide to make up for the future forests of the earth." Not only that, the director also funded the purchase of light bulbs to Jamaica to help low-income families in the United States save electricity! It really doesn't worsen the greenhouse effect, which proves that blockbusters can also care for the earth.

In recent years, no matter where you are in the world, you can obviously feel the climate change of the earth. Hail in Chinese mainland, flood in Europe, Indian heat wave, one-day 16 tornado in the United States, and the highest temperature in a century was 38.7℃ on August 9 last year. All this makes people wonder, what happened to the earth? The World Health Organization points out that the greenhouse effect is the chief culprit of the earth's climate change. Climate warming leads to the melting of polar ice, the warming of sea water and the change of ocean currents. According to WHO's prediction, 654.38+600 million people will die every year due to the external influence of the greenhouse effect, and the number of deaths will double in 2020. Sea level rise will further cause 25 million people to leave their homes. The third world will emigrate in large numbers because of floods, famines, droughts and poor harvests, and the elderly in Europe will die of heat waves.

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The day after tomorrow is the annual sci-fi blockbuster of Fox Company in the 20th century, with an investment of $654.38+0.25 billion. Directed by roland emmerich, who directed Independence Day and Patriot, the film stars Dennis Quaid, Jack Gee Runhall, emmy rossum and Sarah Ward.

The film tells the story that the global climate is about to fall into the second ice age because of the greenhouse effect. The whole film brings together many top special effects. Because the climate change in the film is caused by the sudden freezing of sea water due to the sudden drop of temperature, the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Big Ben in London will all be frozen into icicles, and the scene is extremely spectacular. Of course, in addition to overwhelming natural threats, it will also closely interweave the unforgettable feelings between father and son and between men and women.

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First of all, unprecedented natural disasters

The biggest attraction of The Day After Tomorrow is the wonderful pictures of natural disasters. It tries to show and explain that if the trend of greenhouse effect and global warming continues to develop, it will inevitably lead to major disasters on a global scale, which is undoubtedly a very realistic background of crisis.

The cunning roland emmerich mobilized almost all the elements about water in the disaster film. The flood in Collision of Heaven and Earth turned into a huge wave after the glacier melted, and poured into new york City. The hurricane in "Tornado" has become more powerful this time, and it has become commonplace to lift cars and houses. It even tore up the whole of Los Angeles.

Second, wonderful super-realistic special effects

"No one wants to see the scene of the building being bombed now (he means the scene of bombing the White House on Independence Day), but The Day After Tomorrow is a completely different movie, a bit like Poseidon or Towering Hell. This is more like a classic disaster film, but if these disasters are over, the world will change. " Director emmerich said.

In this film, the most shocking thing is the extremely amazing and realistic special effects. A thrilling disaster that is rare or unprecedented in history is truly presented to us this time. In the film, the most classic picture is the picture before and after "quick freezing" in new york. Huge waves poured into new york City, the Statue of Liberty was submerged, and the 10,000-ton ship suddenly sank in the Wang Yang and was rushed into the building. In a blink of an eye, the temperature plummeted, and new york City in the vast Wang Yang became a frozen world again. On the vast ice sheet, only the head of the Statue of Liberty is left, which symbolizes that most civilized cities of mankind are buried in the snow forever. Humans and the world created by humans seem so vague in front of nature? T is in danger? In the 20th century, Flowserve tried to integrate the visual wonders of disasters such as birds, tornadoes and crashes between heaven and earth.

Only 380 special effects shots were shot in The Day After Tomorrow, but they are the most complicated shots in emmerich's career as a director. When talking about the virtual effect of new york being frozen in a trailer, emmerich said, "This is the first scene I imagined. All props are specially made for movies, but they must look real. Whether it's a raging flood or a roaring snowstorm, all special effects must be flawless. So we took turns shooting in six special set rooms, like magic, tsunami, earthquake ... It seems that all disasters really happened on the earth. "

Mark gordon production company is responsible for the production of this film. The most famous works of this company are Saving Private Ryan and Grand Alliance of Gentlemen.

Third, the $65,438+25 million blockbuster was released simultaneously around the world.

In July, 2002, the production cost of Flowserve Company in the 20th century was as high as $6,543.8+$25 million, and nearly 90% of its budget was used to produce special effects. Moreover, due to the difficulty in making some special effects scenes, FOSS decided to remake some clips, so the release date of the film was delayed by one year. The film was originally scheduled to be released in the summer of 2003, and it finally became a blockbuster this summer. Quaid plays a professor of paleoclimatology named Hall, and the problem he has to solve is much more difficult than the one he faced before: saving the frozen earth.

The disaster warning blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" is finally scheduled for the world premiere on May 28th. The film uses super dazzling special effects to create the most thrilling disaster and the most impressive special effects in the film. The day after tomorrow is like the hurricane and flood in the movie. Fortunately, the domestic audience can also feel the unparalleled shock brought by The Day After Tomorrow with the global audience at the first time.

Fourth, a real early warning of the disasters facing mankind in the future.

Judging from the films directed by emmerich, he likes disaster films very much. "I like the Adventures of Poseidon best. But I like disaster movies because they tell a story that ordinary people have to do something they don't usually do under extraordinary circumstances. " On the other hand, shooting "The Day After Tomorrow" is not only so simple, but also contains concern and anxiety about the earth's environmental problems. Compared with other natural and man-made disasters that threaten human life and cause panic all over the world, the threat of global climate change is the only problem that can force people all over the world to stop fighting and unite to save the earth.

"This is a commercial film like Independence Day and The End of the World." Dennis Quaid agreed with him. "But what the film tells will happen-it is only a matter of time."

Based on the various trends of climate change, they made a frightening statistic and prediction in the movie official website: in 2003, more than 20,000 people died in Europe due to high temperature; The United States has set a record for tornadoes, with an average of six times a day in a month. According to analysis, this number may be refreshed soon; In the past 30 years, half of the deaths caused by tropical cyclones have been related to floods ... By 2050, 6.5438+0.25 million species will be extinct; The beautiful natural landscape will disappear because of the warming temperature; Due to the warming of the climate, various diseases will spread wildly on this planet. ...

Therefore, in the process of making this film, emmerich and his creative team, who realized that they were also producing carbon dioxide, also launched energy-saving afforestation activities, hoping to call on more people to contribute to the creation of the future forest. As he said, "You must make this movie as entertaining as possible, but I still want to put up a warning flag."

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