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If I were to end the world....
I saw 2012 this last weekend. It was a baaaad movie. Absolutely awful. The effects were stunning and it WAS kinda cool to watch the earth be destroyed, but the plot had more holes than swiss cheese.
But it got the old creative juices flowing.
I love end of the world movies. They're usually hokey as heck, but they're amusing.
If I were to ever direct such a movie, I'd start it thusly...
I'd start at Copenhagen, where a team of international scientists discussed the latest attempt to get the developing nations of the world to sign a treaty to deal with the global warming issue. The nations would fight, of course, and the president of the US would walk away from the meeting, as he never really intended to sign a treaty anyways.
Then we'd meet the hapless family. There's always a hapless family in disaster films. Someone to cheer for as their world is destroyed around them. This one lives in the San Francisco Bay. Nuff said.
Shoot hiiiiiiigh up into the sky to see earth's doom approaching, an asteroid NASA hasn't seen flying towards Earth.
Back down below, NASA finally gets word. They race to tell the president who asks for more information. Where will it hit, what will be the effects. They say they're working on it right now.
Flash forward and a scientist comes running into head NASA scientsts room with the results. He says "It's going to hit the Pacific."
Then it hits. And the world is destroyed.
OK OK OK, more than that..
Asteroid hits in the seeming middle of the pacific ocean.
We switch down to an idyllic setting, a young couple on their honeymoon in Hawaii when the heat wave hits and kills them instantly. Then soon after the heat wave, comes the tsunami which takes out the hotel they were staying at.
Out in San Francisco, we see our hapless family, seeing news of the impending crash when the earth shakes below them. The house starts shaking apart. They then run out into the middle of the street as California falls down around them. High holy hell occurs, lots of visual effects here. Somehow, despite a few near misses, they make it safe. Then the tsunami hits and once again, lots of visual effects including a fishing boat plowing into alcatraz and destroying it (It's not a disaster film if we don't destroy some landmarks.)
Out at sea, the fun's just begun. The heat wave blows out all over the place. Japan's on fire, totally on fire, Hawaii is dead, no trees, no life, a dead island. And all around the pacific, volcanoes begin erupting simultaneously
Back in DC, the president gets the news. Hawaii is dead. A 50-foot tsunami has hit the pacific coast and many are dead, missing and injured. And volcanoes all over the pacific are exploding. An expert explains that the meteor hit to fracture the pacific plate and that the remains plates were all flowing outwards.
That's not the least of our problems, says the climate change expert. The president, having ignored the expert throughout the film looks at him curiously. The ash that the meteor sent into the atmosphere is going to keep alot of that heat in. It's going to get very hot, very fast. And that's not the end of it, all that heat will affect other things too. What? asks the president, trepidation in his eyes. Hurricanes could get worse, says the expert, and Tornadoes.
.. that's all I've got so far, as far as actual plot.
meteor hits earth, heat from the attack destroys pacific islands, dust cloud settles around earth making air travel impossible, meteor sets off volcanoes, the ice caps are about to melt, global sea levels going up 30 feet, secondary earthquakes, megatwister destroys St. louis
In other words, lots of special effect action.
And there's, like, a bit of real science in there too! Maybe not a WHOLE lot, but some.
For the record, I don't think anyone's ever studied the affects that an asteroid hitting the earth would have on global warming. But dust traps heat. So I imagine things would get bad much much quicker.
OK, maybe not. But I'm not changing my disaster movie just cause the science says I'm wrong!
But it got the old creative juices flowing.
I love end of the world movies. They're usually hokey as heck, but they're amusing.
If I were to ever direct such a movie, I'd start it thusly...
I'd start at Copenhagen, where a team of international scientists discussed the latest attempt to get the developing nations of the world to sign a treaty to deal with the global warming issue. The nations would fight, of course, and the president of the US would walk away from the meeting, as he never really intended to sign a treaty anyways.
Then we'd meet the hapless family. There's always a hapless family in disaster films. Someone to cheer for as their world is destroyed around them. This one lives in the San Francisco Bay. Nuff said.
Shoot hiiiiiiigh up into the sky to see earth's doom approaching, an asteroid NASA hasn't seen flying towards Earth.
Back down below, NASA finally gets word. They race to tell the president who asks for more information. Where will it hit, what will be the effects. They say they're working on it right now.
Flash forward and a scientist comes running into head NASA scientsts room with the results. He says "It's going to hit the Pacific."
Then it hits. And the world is destroyed.
OK OK OK, more than that..
Asteroid hits in the seeming middle of the pacific ocean.
We switch down to an idyllic setting, a young couple on their honeymoon in Hawaii when the heat wave hits and kills them instantly. Then soon after the heat wave, comes the tsunami which takes out the hotel they were staying at.
Out in San Francisco, we see our hapless family, seeing news of the impending crash when the earth shakes below them. The house starts shaking apart. They then run out into the middle of the street as California falls down around them. High holy hell occurs, lots of visual effects here. Somehow, despite a few near misses, they make it safe. Then the tsunami hits and once again, lots of visual effects including a fishing boat plowing into alcatraz and destroying it (It's not a disaster film if we don't destroy some landmarks.)
Out at sea, the fun's just begun. The heat wave blows out all over the place. Japan's on fire, totally on fire, Hawaii is dead, no trees, no life, a dead island. And all around the pacific, volcanoes begin erupting simultaneously
Back in DC, the president gets the news. Hawaii is dead. A 50-foot tsunami has hit the pacific coast and many are dead, missing and injured. And volcanoes all over the pacific are exploding. An expert explains that the meteor hit to fracture the pacific plate and that the remains plates were all flowing outwards.
That's not the least of our problems, says the climate change expert. The president, having ignored the expert throughout the film looks at him curiously. The ash that the meteor sent into the atmosphere is going to keep alot of that heat in. It's going to get very hot, very fast. And that's not the end of it, all that heat will affect other things too. What? asks the president, trepidation in his eyes. Hurricanes could get worse, says the expert, and Tornadoes.
.. that's all I've got so far, as far as actual plot.
meteor hits earth, heat from the attack destroys pacific islands, dust cloud settles around earth making air travel impossible, meteor sets off volcanoes, the ice caps are about to melt, global sea levels going up 30 feet, secondary earthquakes, megatwister destroys St. louis
In other words, lots of special effect action.
For the record, I don't think anyone's ever studied the affects that an asteroid hitting the earth would have on global warming. But dust traps heat. So I imagine things would get bad much much quicker.
OK, maybe not. But I'm not changing my disaster movie just cause the science says I'm wrong!
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Don't you try to stick your science into my end of the world fantasies!!!!
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