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Jack Hall: Evacuate everyone south of that line. President Blake: What about the people in the North? Jack Hall: I'm afraid it's too late for them. If they go outside, the storm will kill them. At this point, their best chance is to stay inside. Try to ride it out. Pray.
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- Signs and Omens
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- Fathers, Sons and Echoes Across Time
- The Weird Science of Disaster Movies
- Hell on Earth, Or Path to Redemption?
- What to Read Or Watch Next
The Day After Tomorrow has always been kinda controversial. Or, depending on where you stand, kinda stupid. Implausible plots may be baked into the disaster genre, but critics argued The Day After Tomorrow reduced climate change to Hollywood fantasy. Writing in 2004, Guardian columnist George Monbiot called it “a great movie and lousy science”. Oth...
Exactly halfway into the film, Jack and Laura learn their son is trapped in New York, kickstarting the ‘survival’ strand of the story. As the Halls discuss their favourite photo of Sam, the conversation turns to Jack’s absence from family life. This being a disaster movie, Jack is your classic ‘bad dad’: unreliable and never around. He’s even late ...
Jack Hall and Professor Rapson are the experts no one will listen to, but theirs isn’t the only silenced knowledge. Nature itself is the writing on the wallwhen: 1. The Larsen B ice shelf snaps 2. Birds migrate out of season and animals grow restless 3. Giant hail batters Tokyo 4. It snows in Delhi (practically impossiblein reality) 5. Hurricanes f...
Obviously disaster movies need a disaster, whether human-made (The Towering Inferno) or natural tragedy (Earthquake). Luckily, there’s always a hero on the scene. Or should that be he-ro? Almost always male, this is typically a flawed good guy, i.e., an estranged father or ex-husband. In Signs, the protagonist is both grieving dad and priest … whom...
Jack’s never around, and Sam resents him for it. Their conflict makes them chalk and cheese, yet underneath, they’re surprisingly similar. In fact, it’s yet another kind of narrative doubling. When Sam flunks a school test, he couldn’t be more unlike his science genius dad. But wait: Sam’s a genius, too. Sam fails because he does the calculations i...
As shark-infested movie Deep Blue Sea shows, weird science has long been a disaster genre staple (yet with none of The Day After Tomorrow’s controversy). Incidentally, that film’s flawed hero is a hard-drinking cook called Preacher. Naturally. Anyhoo, it also contains this bonkersincredible line: The Day After Tomorrow is an adaptation of a 1999 no...
We’re used to thinking of hell – if at all – as a place of fire, brimstone and endless death. Given how often disaster movies invoke its imagery, it’s tempting to view them as another kind of judgment narrative. In fact, in an increasingly secular world, maybe this is a function of the genre: to tantalise and terrify us with the visions of hell. Th...
The Coming Global Superstorm (1999 non-fiction book the film was based on)An Inconvenient Truth (similarly urgent climate message released in 2006)Jack Hall is a climatologist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. While collecting ice samples in Antarctica with his colleagues Frank Harris and Jason Evans, he discovers a rope cutting serious climate issue.
Jack Hall : I'm afraid it's too late for them. If they go outside, the storm will kill them. At this point, their best chance is to stay inside. Try to ride it out. Pray.
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City, to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Jack Hall is still on the way to the ruins of New York when he sees the eye overhead, forcing him to hastily dive into an abandoned kitchen and turn all the stoves on at once, barely managing to build up enough heat to survive the storm.
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As Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York City to attend an event.
