The Analysis of 'The Day after Tomorrow'

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The Analysis of 'The Day after Tomorrow'

‘The Day After Tomorrow’ starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal was

the long awaited big money blockbuster from the world renowned

director, Roland Emmerich. Emmerich’s previous accomplishments include

the hugely popular hits Independence Day and Godzilla. Although

immensely successful both films follow a pretty similar basic, bland

story line. Essentially both plots are just mass destruction and the

eventual defeat of a fictitious enemy by a male hero. Emmerich’s

latest picture, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ clearly doesn’t want to be a

spoil sport and as expected contains plenty of disaster and

destruction. The only differences’ being the enemy in this newest

movie is not an attacking sci-fi creature, but that well-known

blood-curdling enemy, global warming! Plus the hero in this movie

can’t save the day! Instead he has to resort to the much smaller,

unexciting scale of saving his only son.

The film opens on a vast glacier in Antarctica with our hero, Jack

Hall (Dennis Quaid) leaping across a ridiculously large gap to save

some unimportant reports on his research. We then follow a series of

gradually increasing severities of weather across the world, (snow in

Delhi, bucket-size hailstones in Tokyo, and a series of severe

tornadoes that wreck downtown Los Angles). The only person who seems

genuinely worried by all this is Jack, who as a climatologist,

believes a new ice age is coming. However, as in all Emmerich films,

the hero’s apocalyptic warnings are not taken seriously until it is

too late. Whilst Jack wastes his time attempting to convince the vice

president of the forthcoming catacl...

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convey the massive scale of destruction exceptionally well. Without

this fantastic leap in visual technology, I think the film would be

utterly dead.

Overall the film isn’t half as epic as Emmerich’s previous

blockbusters or half as entertaining. The dialogues are about as

interesting as watching paint dry and the bland characters have about

as much depth as a puddle in the street! The storyline isn’t exactly

deep, introspective stuff either. To top it all off ‘The Day After

Tomorrow’ fails to really alarm the audience, which seriously

undermines it’s purpose, as you will not be inspired to become a

cleaner, more user friendly citizen. The visual quality of the picture

means it is hanging on by it’s fingernails however I don’t think even

the stunning special effects can save this film from boring you

stupid.

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