英文影视赏析——后天(the day after tomorrow)

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The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of zzcc面膜机extreme weather events that usher in a new ice age. It did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally. Domestically, it is the sixth highest grossing movie not to be number 1 in the US box office (behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), but worldwide, it is third behind only Ice Age 3 and Casino Royale. The movie was filmed in Montreal, and is the highest grossing Hollywood film in history to be filmed in Canada (if adjusted for inflation).

Jack Hall is a paleoclimatologist who is on an expedition in Antarctica with two colleagues, Frank and Jason , drilling for ice core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA when the ice shelf breaks off from the rest of the continent, and Jack almost falls to his death. Jack presents his findings on global warming at a United Nations conference in New Delhi where diplomats, including the Vice President of the United States are unconvinced by Jack's theory.

However, Jack's concerns resonate with Professor Terry Rawson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland. Two buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in the ocean temperature, and Rawson concludes that melting of the 空调衣polar ice has begun disrupting the North Atlantic current. He contacts Jack, whose paleoclimatological weather model holds reconstruction data of the climate change that caused the first Ice Age, to predict what will happen. Jack believed that the events would not happen for a hundred or a thousand years, but he, Frank, Jason, and NASA's meteor

ologist Janet Tonkawa (Tamlyn Tomita) build a forecast model with his, Rawson's, and Tonkawa's data.

Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction锁架, including a snowstorm greatly impacting New Delhi, a hailstorm ultimately destroying Tokyo, Japan, and a large outbreak of tornadoes wrecking Los Angeles. The U.S. President authorizes the FAA to suspend air traffic over the United States due to severe turbulence. The situation worsens when three massive hurricane-like blizzard super storms begin to form over the northern hemisphere, with their eyes pulling down super-cooled air that causes anything in contact with it to instantly freeze, thus heralding the predicted ice age in seven to ten days.

Meanwhile, Jack's son, Sam, (Jake Gyllenhaal) is in New York City for an academic competition with his friends Brian and Laura (Arjay Smith and Emmy Rossum), where they also befriend a student named J.D. On the flight over, there is severe turbulence, and Sam grabs Laura's hand in fright. During the competition, the weather becomes massively violent with intense winds and flooding rains. Sam calls his father, making a pr

omise to be on the next train home. Unfortunately, the storm worsens, forcing subways and Grand Central Terminal to close. As the storm worsens in Manhattan, Sam and his friends seek refuge in the New York Public Library, burning books to stay alive.

While the survivors in the northern United States are forced to stay inside due to the storm, the President orders to evacuate the southern half of the country. Jack sets off for Manhattan to find his son, accompanied by Frank and Jason. Their truck crashes into a snow-covered tractor-trailer just past Philadelphia, so the group continues on snowshoes. During the journey, Frank falls through the glass roof of a snowbound shopping mall. As Jason and Jack try to pull Frank up, the glass under them continues to crack; Frank sacrifices himself by cutting the rope. In another incident, the U.S. President's motorcade is fatally caught in the superstorm, leaving the U.S. Vice President in charge.

In the library, Sam warns everyone to stay indoors, but few listen. The small group that remains breaks the vending machine for food. Laura is afflicted with blood poisoning, so Sam, Brian, and J.D. must search for penicillin in a Russian cargo ship that drifted inland,

and are attacked by escaped wolves from the New York Zoo. The eye of the super storm begins to pass over the city with its −150 °F (−101 °C) temperatures, and the entire New York City skyline begins to freeze. The three return to the library with medicine, food, and supplies, making it to safety.

During the deep freeze, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned Wendy's restaurant, then resume their journey after the storm dissipates, finally arriving in New York City. They find the library buried in snow, but find Sam's group alive and are rescued by Chinook helicopters. The new President orders search and rescue teams to look for other survivors, having been given hope by the survival of Sam's group. The movie concludes with two astronauts looking down at Earth from the International Space Station, showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice, and a major reduction in pollution.

The movie generated mixed reviews from both the science and entertainment communities. The online entertainment guide, Rotten Tomatoes, rated the movie at 45%, with an average rating of 5.3/10. 钢筋塑料垫块Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, praised the film's special effects, giving the film three stars out of four. Environmental activist and Guardian columnist George Monbiot called The Day After Tomorrow a great movie and lousy science."