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题 目: The Day After Tomorrow
学生姓名 指导教师
二级学院 外国语学院 专 业 英 语
班 级 学 号
课程名称 英文影视赏析 得 分
2010 年 11 月 14 日
The Day after Tomorrow
1. Introduction
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science—fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in a new ice age. It did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally。 Domestically, it is the sixth highest grossing movie not to be number 1 in the US box office (behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), but worldwide, it is third behind only Ice Age 3 and Casino Royale. The movie was filmed in Montreal, and is the highest grossing Hollywood film in history to be filmed in Canada (if adjusted for inflation)。
2. Plot
Jack Hall is a paleoclimatologist who is on an expedition in Antarctica with two colleagues, Frank and Jason , drilling for ice core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA when the ice shelf breaks off from the rest of the continent, and Jack almost falls to his death. Jack presents his findings on global w