Have you seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow? Has the abnormal climate become "tomorrow" or "today"?

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The day after tomorrow is an American science fiction film in 2004, which describes the disasters caused by global warming and global cooling. This film is the annual sci-fi blockbuster of 20th Century Fox, with an investment of $6,543.8+$25 million.

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Chinese name: the day after tomorrow

Mbth: the day after tomorrow

The end of the world/after tomorrow

Producer: Twentieth Century Fox Film Company

Production area: USA

Directed by roland emmerich and roland emmerich.

Screenwriter: Roland, Jeffrey Nachmanoff.

Producer: roland emmerich mark gordon

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tian Holm and emmy rossum.

Type: plot thriller

Length: 124 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2004

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[Edit this paragraph] Summary

The day after tomorrow depicts a sci-fi story that the earth, represented by the United States, suddenly cooled sharply in one day and entered the ice age. In the story, climatologist Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid) points out that global warming caused by the greenhouse effect will bring unprecedented disasters to the earth after observing the prehistoric climate research.

At an international scientific forum, Dr. Jack warned government officials and the vice president of the United States to take preventive measures. In his speech, he explained that due to the greenhouse effect, the melting of polar ice sheets will lead to disaster, and a large amount of fresh water produced by melting will quickly change the water temperature, ocean currents and seawater composition, thus triggering drastic changes in the global climate, and the earth will once again enter the ice age. The vice president of the United States takes the development of economy and industry as the first goal. At the meeting, he asked Jack, "When will the disaster come?" Jack can't give a specific conclusion, so he can only answer, "Maybe it will happen in six months, maybe tomorrow." This is also the origin of the title of this film. But the vice president of the United States is obviously blind in science. He not only refutes Jack's research results, but also refuses to give any consideration to his suggestions.

After the rally, a marine scientist met Dr. Jack Hall and had a long talk with him. They all believe that ocean currents are closely related to the global climate. The old scientist hurried back to his high-dimensional ocean monitoring station, and the illusion had already happened before he arrived. Several marine monitors sounded the alarm at the same time, and soon the alarm came from monitors all over the world. The marine scientist talked to Jack and told him the reaction of the ocean. Finally, he suggested to Jack that he could only use Jack's own analysis system to predict the current climate development. Jack was surprised to say that his system was used to analyze prehistoric climate. The old scientist said that this is the only system available at present. Jack said goodbye to the old scientist sadly. The old scientist is very open-minded. Soon after, the snowstorm in that place escalated. The research institute is short of oil and electricity, and the rescue helicopter is frozen. The old scientist and his two assistants drank the last bottle of whisky that he had treasured for many years and waited for death calmly.

Climate disaster has already appeared before people have time to react. There was a lot of bad weather, so the government could only appease the masses in the usual way.

Jack was anxious to report the matter to the government, but the vice president once again objected unreasonably, and put forward "you told me that disaster would happen in half a year" as a reason for not trusting him. Finally, Jack's boss privately agreed to use the host resources for analysis, but only gave him 48 hours. On the one hand, he has a great responsibility, on the other hand, it is urgent. Within 48 hours, Jack and his assistants tried their best to make statistical analysis and finally came to a conclusion. After Jack asked to see the White House, he told the President directly that he could only announce that the American people south of 40 degrees north latitude should evacuate to the equator as soon as possible. The president was shocked. On the one hand, he blames the vice president who only cares about the economy and ignores the environment, on the other hand, he implores Jack to find a way to save the other half. Jack said that people in the north of the line can only try to keep warm and wait for help, and there is no other way, because people in the north of 40 degrees are no longer allowed to evacuate. Some people denounced Jack's irresponsible suggestion, but Jack's boss told them that Jack's son went to Manhattan, new york, which is 40 degrees north latitude. According to Jack's plan, he didn't consider his son's hope of survival at all. Finally, the president decided to start the evacuation plan immediately according to Jack's suggestion. He promised that he was the last person to evacuate from the White House.

Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), the son of Dr. Jack Hall, is taking part in the national high school knowledge contest with his favorite girl in new york. From the time they boarded the plane to the end of the knowledge contest, the climate has been deteriorating at an obvious speed. They saw large animals that were "frozen" during the prehistoric ice age in the museum. After the game, it began to rain heavily in new york. They went home with their new friends in new york, but they had a hunch that new york was not safe. On the way to Philadelphia to pick up their new friend and brother, there was a traffic jam in front of the new york Library, and then the tsunami engulfed Manhattan, and even ships were washed into the streets of the city. They hid in the library. All communication signals have been cut off. Sam ventured to talk to Jack through the flooded wired telephone on the first floor. Jack told him to hide in the house, light everything that can be used to keep warm and wait for help. Then it snowed heavily, and the accumulated water caused by the tsunami and rainstorm froze. They tried to stop those who were prepared to venture out on foot, but few people were willing to listen to them and stay. And those who escaped through the snow on foot eventually froze to death outside. Stage photo

Jack and their assistants worked in the polar regions. He decided to venture to new york to carry out rescue operations in the ice and snow, and his assistants would go with him. They drive first, and then walk in the ice and snow. After a companion died heroically, Jack finally entered downtown Manhattan with the last seriously injured assistant. At the same time, Washington was also hit by thunderstorms and tornadoes. The scene was so grand that basically the whole city was destroyed. The president kept his promise, and the plane crashed in bad weather shortly after the last of them left the plane. Since then, snow and ice have covered all the earth's surface except tropical and subtropical regions, and a new ice age has begun.

When the camera returned to the United States again, some surviving Americans fled across the border to Mexico. The American government forgave all debts of Mexico, and Americans finally entered the refugee camps there. At the end of the film, the former vice president, who has succeeded the president, apologizes to the people in the temporary the State Council where the embassy was rebuilt, admitting that the policy he pursued was wrong, and saying that the government will thoroughly repent from now on.

In July 2002, Fox defeated Paramount, DreamWorks, Universal and Warner Bros., and finally won the right to shoot The Day After Tomorrow, and invited Emmerich (Independence Day and Godzilla), directors who are good at sci-fi disasters, to give him a check of $654.38 billion. The film was originally scheduled to be released this summer, but due to the difficulty in making special effects shots, the production cycle had to be extended, and it became a blockbuster in the following 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. Stage photo

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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 possible new ice age in theory, 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.

[Edit this paragraph] Movie highlights

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.

Large-scale super-realistic natural disaster special effects

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."

The Historical Prototype of The Day After Tomorrow —— The New Fairy Wood Ice Age

The American blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow depicts a terrible scene brought about by global warming: As the icebergs in Greenland and the Arctic melt, a large amount of fresh water enters the North Atlantic, reducing its salinity, which eventually leads to the complete termination of the Gulf of Mexico warm current and even the global ocean thermal salt circulation, and the equator and low latitudes stop transporting heat to the polar regions and high latitudes, leading to a sharp drop in temperature in these places and a new ice age.

Is this just science fiction? Indeed, in order to dramatize, there are a lot of exaggerations and irrationalities in this film, but on the whole, the plot in this film is scientifically reasonable. Geologists point out that there have been events in which the earth's temperature dropped sharply in a very short time, and the most famous and influential event is the new fairy wood event.

The origin of the name of the new fairy wood event is the discovery of fairy wood in the stratum accumulation in Europe, which is a herb that only grows in the Arctic now, proving that the climate in Europe was much colder in the past than it is now. It is called the "new" Xianmu event because Xianmu was also found in earlier strata, so Xianmu event happened more than once. However, apart from the new Xianmu incident, the previous Xianmu incident is not quite the same as that described in The Day After Tomorrow.

The uniqueness of the new fairy tree event is not only that the average temperature has dropped-historically, the average temperature of the earth has dropped even lower, but it happened against the background of the end of the ice age and the rising global temperature. From the last glacial maximum 18000 years ago, the Quaternary glaciers reached their peak, the earth's temperature was rising and glaciers were melting. However, in the process of temperature rising, a sudden repetition of sudden temperature drop, such as the new fairy tree, is very interesting and meaningful for us to study global climate change today.

It is generally believed that the cause of the new fairy wood incident is as described in The Day After Tomorrow. At the end of the ice age, the global temperature rose and the Laurentis ice shelf on the North American continent began to melt. About 654.38+0000 BC, the melting of glaciers began to accelerate, and a large amount of fresh water entered the North Atlantic, which led to the termination of the global ocean hot salt circulation, the temperature in high latitudes dropped sharply, and a large number of ice and snow piled up, with high reflectivity to sunlight. The solar radiation absorbed by the earth is reduced, the temperature is further reduced, the ice-covered area is further expanded due to the temperature reduction, and so on, which makes the earth extremely cold in a short time.

Although the cooling rate of the new fairy wood incident is not as exaggerated as that in The Day After Tomorrow, it is indeed extremely fast. The latest research on ice cores shows that the average temperature in the northern hemisphere may have dropped by about 20 degrees in 10 years.

In contrast, the average temperature difference between Beijing and Guangzhou is about 10 degrees.

Then, why does fresh water entering the North Atlantic destroy the Gulf Stream and even the global ocean temperature and salinity circulation?

The Gulf Stream originated in the Caribbean and ended in Norway. Due to the prevailing westerly winds in the North Atlantic, the heat of the Gulf Stream is mainly transported to Northwest Europe by air (it also heats North America, but to a lesser extent), making the climate in Northwest Europe much warmer and wetter than that in the same latitude.

However, although the Gulf Stream continues to bring high-temperature seawater from the Caribbean to high latitudes, the sea level in the Caribbean has not decreased, and the sea level in high latitudes has not increased. This shows that there must be another ocean current besides the Gulf Stream, which takes away the excess water at high latitudes and supplements it to the Caribbean Sea, making the Gulf Stream uninterrupted. This is the thermohaline circulation in the global ocean.

In fact, the Gulf Stream is only a part of the global ocean thermohaline circulation, but the global ocean thermohaline circulation is unknown because many parts are under the sea surface.

In the process of flowing northward, the Gulf Stream continuously exchanges heat with the air, and the water temperature drops. At the same time, because the Gulf Stream is carried out on the surface of the ocean, the seawater will continue to evaporate and the salinity will increase. Both temperature drop and salinity increase will increase density. When the warm current in the Gulf of Mexico reaches Britain and Norway, because of its high density, it will sink to the bottom of the sea, and then replenish it to the Atlantic Ocean through the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean (see attached figure 1, where the red line represents the warm current on the ocean surface and the blue line represents the cold current in the deep sea). The reason why the Gulf Stream can't be interrupted is that the sea water on the surface of the high-latitude ocean in the North Atlantic sinks and flows away, which "pulls" the warm current in the Caribbean. If the sea water in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic does not sink, there will be no room for warm water in the Caribbean. Moreover, the cold water flow in the deep sea will stop because there is no source, and the low-latitude ocean will not be replenished, and the whole hot salt cycle will end.

However, the sea water on the ocean surface in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic is dense because of its temperature and salinity, so it sinks. If its temperature is high or its salinity is light, its density will decrease; If its temperature is high enough or its salinity is light enough, its density may not be so high as to sink, thus ending the Gulf Stream and even the global ocean thermohaline circulation.

If enough fresh water enters the North Atlantic, the seawater in its high latitudes can be diluted to less than the sinking density; This is the mechanism of the new fairy wood ice age, which is also described in The Day After Tomorrow.

Once the Gulf Stream stops, the temperature in northwest Europe will drop to the level of other regions in the same latitude-northern Canada and Siberia. Norway, Sweden, Finland and Scotland will begin to form glaciers. White snow and ice will reflect more solar radiation back into space, reducing the heat available to the earth and further lowering the temperature. Lower temperature will promote the development of glaciers, and so on. Although the speed of temperature drop will not be as sharp as that described in The Day After Tomorrow, it seems that the average temperature of the earth dropped by about 20 degrees in 10, and a similar cooling speed may occur in the future.

During the Neofairy Wood Ice Age, the temperature was close to the last maximum ice age. Even in midsummer, the highest mid-latitude temperature never exceeds 10 degrees, while the mid-latitude temperature in winter is generally below MINUS 20 degrees. From September to May, the snowstorm almost never stops. Standing in the Strait of Gibraltar or at the mouth of the Yangtze River, you can see icebergs floating on the sea. When the ice age comes, the snow line and forest line will move down and south; A large amount of fresh water is locked in the snow and ice at high latitudes, and the precipitation at low latitudes will drop sharply, which will cause great interference to human life. The ice age of the new fairy tree had a great influence on early human civilization. It is generally believed that the disappearance of Clovis culture in North America was caused by the ice age of the new fairy tree.

Of course, humans will adapt. During the New Fairy Wood Ice Age, agriculture was born in southwest Asia and the Yangtze River Delta in China (agriculture in the rest of Eurasia spread from these two places). It is likely that the harsh environment caused by the cold and dry climate makes hunting/gathering insufficient to support survival and forces people to turn to agriculture. As for the invention of agriculture, it is not as difficult as generally thought. It is likely that early hunters/gatherers found that if they left some leftover fruit and threw it into the ground, they would have plenty of food in the same place when they came back the next year. After repeated several times, agriculture was born. Modern molecular biology shows that under the condition of strong artificial selection, domesticated crops may only need 30 generations (30 planting seasons) to obtain good enough varieties.

The ice age of the new fairy tree lasted about 1000~ 1300 years and ended in 9500 BC. The reason why it ended is not clear, but it ended as suddenly as it started, probably because the temperature rose by 7 degrees in a few years. By the end of the new fairy wood ice age, human beings have entered the era of civilization.

[Edit this paragraph] Movie appreciation

Compared with the fixed pattern of saving the world from a group of people to the last man and a woman in many disaster films I have seen before, The Day After Tomorrow has achieved a breakthrough to a great extent, that is, in this film, whether it is scientist Jack Hall, his son Sam Hall or other characters, they are not heroes, they are not saving the world, they are just saving themselves, friends and relatives from beginning to end, but it is this that makes this film more moving. After all, who can really feel the sense of accomplishment in saving the whole world? But who is not moved by the strength of people in the disaster, the willingness to stand up when friends and relatives are injured, and the desperate help when the son is in distress?

As a disaster film, the special effects in the film are shocking. One scene in the movie impressed me deeply: several tornadoes hit downtown Los Angeles wantonly, and a cleaner in the building seemed to have no idea what was going on outside. When he felt a little strange, he pushed open the door of a room, only to find that the abyss was at his feet-the tornado even scraped off the outer layer of the building! At this point, when the camera is pulled, the whole city of Los Angeles is in ruins and devastated.

In the use of color and light, the film The Day After Tomorrow mainly uses three colors: blue, white and gray-black. Among them, blue is divided into deep blue and sky blue according to the development of the plot. At the beginning of the disaster, storms, lightning and floods flooded the city. At this time, the whole earth is shrouded in a chaotic dark blue, and black symbolizes terror. Even people's clothes are almost all dark, and the light in front of the screen is very dim. The use of this color and light, well rendered this terrible disaster, giving people a shock. When the whole world was frozen, we saw the Statue of Liberty covered with snow and ice. At this time, there are only two colors in new york, sky blue and white snow. At this time, the light turned on again. And this kind of blue and white is exactly the color that the earth itself should have. The use of this color clearly named the theme of this film, that is, to arouse people's concern about environmental protection. There are few warm colors used in the film, but most of them focus on one thing, that is fire. In such an environment, fire symbolizes life, hope, love between people and our human strength.

The film The Day After Tomorrow intuitively reflects the realism and hypothesis of film and television art. On the one hand, it creates a seemingly impossible "the day after tomorrow" with computer special effects, but after the special effects, our hearts are deeply shocked and we vaguely feel that "the day after tomorrow" is really not far away.

[Edit this paragraph] magazine of the same name

The day after tomorrow is a contemporary avant-garde art magazine in China and the first large-scale folk avant-garde culture and art magazine in China. It was founded in June 2005 by Jiang Xue, an important post-70s poet and freelance artist. By the end of 2009, it had published four volumes, one volume per year. The publication is exquisite in atmosphere and pursues the pioneering and independent humanistic spirit, covering the cultural fields of China's contemporary literature, art, film, music, academics and so on.