The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 science fiction movie directed and produced by Roland Emmerich. The movie depicts the disastrous event of an abrupt climate shift, which is accompanied by several natural disasters such as tornadoes and flooding, causing a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere (The Day After Tomorrow). After its release the movie received very negative reviews from the scientific community for being scientifically incorrect and showing natural events that are barely possible to occur. In this essay I want to argue that the movie The Day After Tomorrow, although it has received mostly negative reviews for being too unrealistic and exorbitantly dramatized, it still managed to create public awareness for serious issues such as
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In the movie different natural events occur which are very unlikely to be scientifically possible in reality; the formation of multiple disastrous tornadoes in the same city at the exact same time (27:05-30:35), the emergence of an enormous wave which completely floods the streets of Manhattan (48:52-49:56), and most of all the disruption of the North Atlantic Current which causes a new ice age within a timeframe of only weeks (The Day After Tomorrow). Thus, “[t]he science underlying the film was criticized by many climatologists and other scientists” (Leiserowitz 25). For example, Patrick j. Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute, states that each one of the phenomena occurring in the movie is physically impossible (Michaels) and Dr. Jeff Masters, Director of Meteorology at Weather Underground, says: “[t]he laws of meteorology get seriously abused here” (Weather Underground). Thus, the general consensus amongst scientists is that the movie is full of impossibilities and therefore it is often discarded as a nonsense blockbuster by the scientific
In the movie different natural events occur which are very unlikely to be scientifically possible in reality; the formation of multiple disastrous tornadoes in the same city at the exact same time (27:05-30:35), the emergence of an enormous wave which completely floods the streets of Manhattan (48:52-49:56), and most of all the disruption of the North Atlantic Current which causes a new ice age within a timeframe of only weeks (The Day After Tomorrow). Thus, “[t]he science underlying the film was criticized by many climatologists and other scientists” (Leiserowitz 25). For example, Patrick j. Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute, states that each one of the phenomena occurring in the movie is physically impossible (Michaels) and Dr. Jeff Masters, Director of Meteorology at Weather Underground, says: “[t]he laws of meteorology get seriously abused here” (Weather Underground). Thus, the general consensus amongst scientists is that the movie is full of impossibilities and therefore it is often discarded as a nonsense blockbuster by the scientific