Differences Between The Crucible And The Day After Tomorrow

Will Society Learn?
Different forms of media are created constantly, sometimes even to address an idea in order to educate the audience, so they may learn from past mistakes. In today’s society, there have been countless films, where an idea was discussed or shown that educated society. Genres such as literature, theater, and film influenced today’s society as demonstrated by the movies the Crucible, which addressed false accusations with no proof, and The Day After Tomorrow, which addressed the debated issue of global warming’s effects.
To begin with, the Crucible, a 1996 film, was based on the book by Arthur Miller which. The book was written as a play during the 1950s, during the time when people were accused of being communist with little

This movie demonstrated the effects of global warming by setting a scenario where a second ice age had occured because of societies poor protection of the earth. One way this movie proved itself to be influential to society so they can learn from their mistakes, is through the box office earnings. The movie made major sales on opening weekend with over $68,000,000 earned in ticket sales. The movies domestic total gross was $186,740,799 (“The Day After Tomorrow”, boxofficemojo.com). The fact that the movie made so many sales, shows that it had quite a good reputation during the time period which means people enjoyed it. This proves that this left an impact in people’s lives which eventually led others to watch it also. Another reason is that Yale researchers, explained how The Day After Tomorrow also helped increase awareness on climate change, and encouraged people to consider how their actions could help create a similar environmental crisis as described in the movie. A survey was taken and people who did and did not watch the movie, were asked how likely do they think that certain events in the movie will occur in the next 50 years due to global warming. 80% of the people who watched it agreed there would be more intense storms. 40-66% of the people who watched the movie believed in food shortages, flooding, disease, and a new ice age. The percentages of the people who didn’t watch the movie were almost 10% lower in all the categories (“The Day After Tomorrow”, weforum.org). This itself compares people who were influenced by the movie, versus people who were not because they did not see it. People had a stronger feeling and thought that if the environment is not properly taken care of, scenarios created in the movie would come true. This shows how a simple film was able to allow the audience to learn from mistakes they are