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

to no evidence. This led to people losing their jobs or being jailed. That is why Arthur Miller wrote the play, to address the idea of accusations without proof. 40 years later the movie was released to the public, and society was influenced by the film, as they were with the book. One can confirm this if they were to analyze the ticket sales of the movie. On the movies opening weekend, the film made $62,000 and eventually, the movie grossed up to $7,343,114 total in ticket sales (“The Crucible”, boxofficemojo.com). As one can see, based off the total income earned, this influential motion picture had a large audience which shows that many people wanted to see it. The reason so many tickets were able to be sold was because of how influential the movie was and how it was able to change some people, causing others to buy tickets. This feature film attracted the attention of many viewers accorded to the grossed earnings, which proves that society was able to learn from its mistakes from the teachings of the movie.
Continuing on to the second piece of media, another movie was produced in 2004 called The Day After Tomorrow.

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

commiting.
In conclusion, different genres of media in today’s society influenced people’s ability to learn from their committed mistakes in the past in present, as demonstrated by the movies the Crucible, and The Day After Tomorrow. Now society must make the decision. Will it still continue to make mistakes without learning from their lessons, or will the world be able to understand what they have commited, and have the ability to change society for the greater good?