This document is a compare and contrast essay analyzing the movies "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012". Both movies depict fictional catastrophic climate effects and were directed by Roland Emmerich. While "The Day After Tomorrow" features storms that cause an ice age, "2012" depicts the earth's core overheating. The essay discusses the technical features and plot differences between the movies, as well as their similar themes of climate change. It also analyzes the different moral values presented in each film.

1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
(FNBE) AUGUST 2014 INTAKE
Name: Foo Zhi Fung
Student Id No: 0320226
Film Selected : The Day After Tomorrow & 2012
Word Count: 851
English 2 (ELG30605)
Written Assignment: Compare and Contrast Essay
Lecturer: Cassandra
Submission Date: 8th April 2015
COMPARE OR CONTRASTTWO MOVIE

2. In thisessay,Iwill tryto compare two movie whichare “ The Day AfterTomorrow “ and
“ 2012 “ bothmovie are directedby the same person, RolandEmmerich.Aftergive of the storyof
the movie,Iwill explaintheirtechnical featuresandtheirsimilarities. Bothmovieare aboutscience
fiction-disastermovie andbothmovie isaboutdepictsfictionalcatastrophicclimaticeffectsina
seriesof extreme weather. The movie “The DayAfterTomorrow “iswrittenat 2004, thisfilmwas
made inToronto and Montreal andis the highest-grossingHollywoodfilmtobe made inCanada.
Andthe movie “2012“is writtenat2009, thisfilmfilmedinLosAngeles.
In the movie “The Day afterTomorrow”and “2012 “differencesare one of the movie there
has stormand anothermovie isn’tanystorm. However“The DayAfterTomorrow”in the ice age has
more outlandishorigin.Duringthe storm, there are few followingthingswillhappened, the Gulf
Streamwill shutdown,anetworkof massive hurricane-shapedsnowstorms, the coveringentire
continents,depositsenoughsnowtoreflectsunlightandcreate anice age inmatterof days.If there
weren’tplentyof that,the airat the eye of eachstorm are cold and icy,enoughtofreeze people
directlyandplacingthe charactersin the mortal danger.Jack’sfriendTerryRapsonisa climatologist
fromthe UK and alsoexplainingaboutcoldairform the top of the troposphere isdownwarding,so
quicklyinthe eye of eachstorm that itdoesn’twormup as expected. The airinthe movie is -150
degree freezing,since itisinstantlyfreezingthe fuel linesinthe helicopters.Inthe conclusion,there
are manyproblemsof storminthe movie.One canrestassuredthat sucha frighteningweather
phenomenonwill nothappened.
On the otherhand,the movie “2012” there’sthe temperature of the Earth’score to rapidly
increase.Andthere aren’tatthe movie “The Day AfterTomorrow”.The Earth’s innercore isthe
Earth’s innermostpartandaccordingto seismological studies,itisaprimarilysolidball witharadius
of about1220 kilometres.There are alsoearthquakesinthe movie“2012”, Jackson’sfamilyescape
fromLos Angelesasthe cataclysmicEarth crust displacementbegins.Lastbutnotleast,there are
volcanointhe movie.Duringthe volcano,Jacksonalmostdie inthe accident.Luckyhe wassave,
whenhe didhislastjumpand hangingon the plane.
Eventhoughthere aren’ttsunami inthe movie of “The Day AfterTomorrow”,there still have
the sea level rise initandaren’tanyat the movie “2012”. Before the snowstormsbegin,there are
extreme weatherevents - fromhurricanestotornadoestogianthailstones.The global warmingwill
rise the sealevels,the changesare expectedtobe extremelygradual. Mostrecentestimatesproject
are rise of 1 – 2 metresby2100 and tensof metresinthe centuriesfollowing.“The DayAfter
Tomorrow”showsthe oceanrisingby“25 feetina matterof seconds”alone the Atlanticcoastof
NorthAmerica.Thiseventisnotabouta tsunami,northe storm surge of a hurricane.Itisexpected
to be resultthat the Greenlandice sheetmelting.The sealevel shouldbe fall gradually byglacier
growthoverNorthemHemispherelocksupagreat deal of ice that wouldotherwise be presentas
liquidwaterocean.
Meanwhile,thereare climate modellinginthe movie “The DayAfterTomorrow”andaren’t
inthe movie “2012”. Inthe 2nd
worldwar, ever– increasingcomputerpowerhasallowedclimate
scientiststodevelopscientificmodelsof the climate system.Global climatecanproduce valuable
projectionsof climate change overinthe nextfew centuries.“The DayAfterTomorrow”,Jack and
hiscolleagues relyonsuchmodelstopredicthow stormsystemwill develop.Still,the movie’s
representationof climate modellingismistakeninmanygreetings.

3. Everymovie have theirownmoral values,more movie youwatcheducanlearna lotmoral
valuesfromthem.Bothmovie I’mcomparinghave differencemoral values. Inthe movie “2012”
there hasno emphasisregardingamoral value thatyou’ve got.But the movie talkabouthow people
extendtheirhelpintimesof trouble.Humanityplaysanimportantrole inthismovie when
sacrificingone’slife forthe sake of others.Andinthe movie “The Day AfterTomorrow”thatmoral
valueswe canlearnis that eventhe strongestpersonneedshelpatsome time andpoint,that’sthe
moral valuesthatthe movie “2012” doesn’thave.Soon,the movie “2012” moral valuesare to
spendeverydayof our life more meaningful,it’sbecause we don’tknow whenitwill end. In
contrast,the movie “The DayAfterTomorrow”moral valuesthatwe can learnfromisfaithin the
compassionof man.Eventhoughthere aren’ton the movie “2012”, but the movie “2012” teach us
howto take care Mother Nature so we can survive andwithoutMotherNature we are history.
REFERANCE
Movie “2012”
 Retrieve fromhttp://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/2012-2009 on 4th of April 2015
 Retrieve fromhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1on 4th of April 2015
Movie “The Day AfterTomorrow”
 Retrieve fromhttp://climatesight.org/2012/04/26/the-day-after-tomorrow-a-scientific-
critique/on5thof April 2015
 Retrieve fromhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/?ref_=nv_sr_1on5th of April 2015
 Retrieve fromhttp://geolor.com/The_Day_After_Tomorrow_Movie.htmon5thof April 2015