The End of The World
May 27, 2004 | bengisu
Could sudden climate change wreak Independence Day-level havoc? The director of The Day After Tomorrow (out May 28) let us run his new disaster flick by the experts. Uh-oh.
A note to the reader: Certain scenes in the following account have been dramatized, Hollywood-style--e ntirely made up--but the description of the film, the scientific information and all the quotes are real.
ACT 1: HOLLYWOOD INT. MOVIE THEATER--NIGHT OF MAY 28, 2004
Camera pans a series of faces busy munching popcorn, slurping sodas, etc. Camera then rests on you, the SKEPTICAL MOVIEGOER. Your eyes roll during the previews of the space battles--
SKEPTIC: C'mon. You can't hear explosions in the vacuum of space... .
And then the feature begins. It's called The Day After Tomorrow, and it's a spectacular disaster flick, obviously the gleeful product of someone who has thought far too much about the mechanics of global catastrophe. On screen, a climactic upheaval is brewing. Electrical storms lace the sky over New Delhi while hail pummels Tokyo. A lone paleoclimatologist scrambles to warn the world about impending disaster, yet he is too late: In Southern California, tornadoes dismantle the Hollywood sign and most of downtown Los Angeles. A massive storm surge crashes through Manhattan, foll
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