The Day After Tomorrow story
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Roland Emmerich. It is based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. Synopsis: A series of extreme weather events usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age.
10 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| global cooling | choice | The film is principally about Earth suddenly entering into a new ice age. |
| father and son | major | One storyline follows Jack as he risks life and limb to rescue his teenage son, Sam, who is riding out the snow hurricane together with other tsunami survivors in the New York Public Library. |
| human vs. the elements | major | Much of the story concerned the protagonists' efforts to survive the passing of an enormous snow hurricane. [snowstorm] |
| refugee crisis | major | A novelty of the film is that much of the United States populate fled to Mexico to escape from the coming ice age. Mexico initially closed the border, but reopened it after a deal was made to cancel all Central and Latin American debt to the USA. |
| romantic love | major | The story built up to Sam winning the heart of his love interest, Laura. |
| husband and wife | minor | Jack and Lucy Hall. |
| master and pet | minor | The homeless man Luther had a dog named Buddha. |
| medical occupation | minor | The physician Lucy Hall was treating for a boy with cancer. |
| mother and son | minor | Lucy interacted with her seventeen-year-old son, Sam. |
| what it is like on a passenger flight | minor | Sam lost his nerve when the flight he was on entered into a region of severe turbulence. |