Analysis Of The Movie Armageddon

Armageddon begins by showing the destruction of the Earth by an asteroid 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs inhabited the earth. According to the narration, the asteroid is said to have been six miles wide, with the power of 10,000 nuclear weapons. The after effects were trillions of tons of dirt and rock thrown into the atmosphere, creating a blanket of dust that the sun was unable to penetrate for 1,000 years. The narrator explained that it happened once, and that it would happen again, it was only a matter of when.

The beginning of the end.

Pete, an astronaut on the shuttle Atlantis, is speaking via satellite radio to NASA’s executive director, Dan Truman. Pete is completing maintenance on a satellite when it is struck by several small meteorites. Atlantis, Pete, and the Satellite are all destroyed by the meteorites. As Truman gives

Harry Stamper, a deep earth driller is hard at work on his oil rig in the middle of the China Sea. Harry is surrounded by a lively crew: Harry’s right-hand man, Chick, is great at his job, but has screwed up his life gambling; Bear, the loveable gentle giant; Rock Hound, a horny genius that knows everything there is to know about geology; Max, the mamma’s boy; Oscar, a brilliant but quirky geologist; and last but not least, AJ, the young, “hot dogging, show off” that is constantly going against what Harry tells him to do. Harry has recently found out that AJ and his little girl, Grace (also his employee) are intimately involved. Harry, not happy about the relationship, fires AJ, but not before he chases him around the rig with a shotgun, accidently shooting him in the leg. Amidst all of the chaos of Grace and AJ’s newly discovered relationship, Harry is asked to come to the NASA headquarters on orders from the President of the United States. Harry reluctantly agrees to go, on the condition that he gets to bring Grace with