The Day After Tomorrow (2004) on Netflix
PG-1320042h 4mActionAdventureSci-FiThriller
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist, warns that climate change could bring a new ice age, and officials dismiss him. When superstorms hit, his son Sam is stranded in a flooded New York City.
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Plot summary
Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall drills ice cores in Antarctica and brings a warning to a United Nations conference in New Delhi: rising temperatures could disrupt the North Atlantic current and tip the planet into a new ice age. Diplomats, including Vice President Becker, are unconvinced. In Scotland, oceanographer Terry Rapson finds the sea temperature dropping at buoys in the North Atlantic and calls Jack, whose model holds data from the earlier climate shift. Superstorms follow: hail in Tokyo, a tornado outbreak over Los Angeles. Jack's son Sam is in New York for an academic decathlon with Brian and Laura, and the three take shelter in the New York Public Library when Manhattan floods and all transport halts. Jack sets out for New York to find him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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- The opening flyover of Antarctica was CGI, created by digitally scanning miniature iceberg models sculpted out of styrofoam, with the falling pieces of ice as the shelf cracks entirely hand-animated. Running about two and a half minutes, it was then the longest continuous all-CGI shot in film history, surpassing the space zoom-out that opened Contact (1997).
- Rather than build the miniature set that was initially considered, the effects artists destroyed New York using a 13-block-sized, LIDAR-scanned 3D model of Manhattan, with over 50,000 scanned photographs used for the building textures.
- Emmerich did not deny that his casting of a weak president, and Kenneth Welsh's resemblance to Vice President Dick Cheney, were meant to criticize the George W. Bush administration's climate change policy. He defended showing a devastated New York City less than three years after the September 11 attacks as a way to show people uniting.
