The Day After Tomorrow: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"This movie is to climate science as ''[[Frankenstein]]'' is to transplant surgery."''|'''[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/6e52157aaf63775f William Hyde]''' }}

 

 

 

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=== Tropes: ===

* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The Japanese version gets a theme song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB8XvmdSmec "More Than a Million Miles"] by a band called...[[Similarly Named Works|Day After Tomorrow]].

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 0 on a large scale, but the [[Inferred Holocaust]] pushes it close to Class 1.

** Interestingly enough, Roland Emmerich's next big disaster film explicitly shows them surviving.

* [[Head-in-The-Sand Management]]: The President and Vice President.

** In the first minutes, a science station has been set up on the Antarctic ice shelf. A crack in the snow appears. Moments later, a crevasse divides the camp in two.

** Later, a sled is sucked into a hole that appears in the snow. Moments later it's revealed that it's actually {{spoiler|not a crevasse but a hole in the glass roof of a shopping mall buried in the snow!}}

* [[Dead Line News]]: A reporter in Los Angeles is hit by a billboard. Also, a guy who's in the middle of it is in his car and gets crushed by a flying bus, and the scene is caught on video. Ironically, the commentator from the helicopter says "I hope no one was in that car!"

* [[Deleted Scene]]: Enough to make a second movie. Three main storylines were cut and one of them included a cameo by Alan Ruck.

* [[Divorce Is Temporary]]: Jack and Lucy are broken up at the beginning due to Jack's work taking him away from the family. But he realizes how much he's missed and after risking his life to save his son from frozen New York, he and Lucy move toward reconciling.

** Also, the cop who {{spoiler|leads most of the survivors out of the safe library, in hope of being found by rescue teams. There are no rescue teams. The policeman's and the other survivors' frozen bodies are found later on.}}

* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]: Features a reporter giving up-to-the-minute reports on the tornadoes rampaging through downtown Los Angeles. He ends up flattened by flying debris, of course.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]

* [[Serkis Folk]]

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Believe it or not, but in 1912, [[wikipedia:Far Eastern Party|an Australian adventurer and two of his colleagues traveled to the North Pole as a part of the Australasian Expedition]]. One fell down a crevasse with half of their supplies, and the other one fell ill and died after Mawson personally pulled him along. Mawson was the only one to survive. In the movie, {{spoiler|the protagonist and his two friends experience a nearly identical fate when they travel to the [[Big Applesauce]]}} ({{spoiler|one breaks through the glass roof of a mall and falls to his death and the other one falls ill for the protagonist to carry him around}}). {{spoiler|In the movie, however, casualty two actually recovers}}.

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* [[Black Comedy]]: ''Hollywood, it's Armageddon here in Hollywood. Apocalyptic hijinks here in L.A, but its a swell day, more fun then they academy awards...''

* [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]