关于后天电影的英文介绍

Ⅰ 电影后天

《后天》是大陆上映时根据电影原名《The Day After Tomorrow》的直译，很烂的翻译。
在台湾翻译成《明日之后》，在香港翻译为《末日浩劫》。

老生个人意见台湾版寓意最为深刻，其次为香港版，片名够直观刺激，最差的就是大陆版了。

英文名： The Day After Tomorrow

中文名： 后天 | 末日浩劫 | 末日世界 | 明日过后 | 明日之后

Ⅱ 后天 英文简介

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 #1 in the US box office (behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Sherlock Holmes, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), but worldwide, it is second behind only Ice Age 3. The movie was filmed in Montreal, and is the highest grossing Hollywood film in history to be filmed in Canada (if adjusted for inflation).

The hero of this movie,Jack Hall, (Dennis Quaid) is a paleoclimatologist who is on an expedition in Antarctica with two colleagues, Frank (Jay O. Sanders) and Jason (Dash Mihok), 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 warming at a United Nations conference in New Delhi where diplomats, including the Vice President of the United States, (Kenneth Welsh), are unconvinced by Jack's theory.

However, Jack's concerns resonate with Professor Terry Rapson (Ian Holm) of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland. Two buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in the ocean temperature, and Rapson concludes that melting of the polar ice has begun disrupting the North Atlantic current. He contacts Jack, whose paleoclimatological weather model holds reconstructional data of the climate change that caused the first Ice Age, to predict what will happen. Jack believed that the events would not happen for a hundred or a thousand years, but he, Frank, Jason, and NASA's meteorologist Janet Tokada (Tamlyn Tomita) build a forecast model with his, Rapson's, and Tokada's data.

Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction, including a snowstorm greatly impacting New Delhi, a hailstorm ultimately destroying Tokyo, Japan, and a large outbreak of three F-5 tornadoes wrecking Los Angeles. The U.S. President (Perry King), authorizes the FAA to suspend air traffic over the United States e to severe turbulence. As three RAF helicopters fly to evacuate the British Royal Family, they enter the eye of a very massive hurricane-like superstorm, that causes a temperature drop below −150 °F (−101.1 °C) that freezes their fuel lines and rotors, causing them to crash down and quickly freeze to death.

Meanwhile, Jack's son, Sam, (Jake Gyllenhaal) is in New York City for an academic competition with his friends Brian and Laura (Arjay Smith and Emmy Rossum), where they also befriend a student named J.D. On the flight over, there is severe turbelence, and Sam grabs Laura's hand in fright. During the competition, the weather becomes massively violent with intense winds and flooding rains. Sam calls his father, making a promise to be on the next train home. Unfortunately, the storm worsens, forcing subways and Grand Central Station to close. As the storm worsens in Manhattan, a tidal wave of almost 40 feet above sea level (about half the height of the Statue of Liberty) impacts the island, causing major flooding. Sam and his friends are able to seek refuge in the New York Public Library.

Survivors in the Northern United States are forced to flee south, with some Americans illegally crossing the border into Mexico. After advising the Executive Office of the President of the United States to evacuate half the country, Jack sets off for Manhattan to find his son, accompanied by Frank and Jason. Their truck crashes into a snow-covered tractor-trailer just past Philadelphia, so the group continues on snowshoes. During the journey, Frank falls through the glass roof of a snowbound shopping mall. As Jason and Jack try to pull Frank up, the glass under them continues to crack; Frank sacrifices himself by cutting the rope. The U.S. President's helicopter is fatally caught in the superstorm, leaving the U.S. Vice President in charge.

Inside the library, Sam advises everyone of his father's instruction to stay indoors. Few listen, and the small group that remains burns books to keep warm and breaks the library's vending machine for food. Laura is afflicted with blood poisoning, so Sam, Brian, and J.D. must search for penicillin in a Russian cargo ship that drifted inland, and are attacked by escaped wolves from the New York Zoo. The eye of the superstorm begins to pass over the city with its −150 °F (−101.1 °C) temperatures, and the entire New York City skyline begins to freeze. The three return to the library with medicine, food, and supplies, making it to safety.

During the deep freeze, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned Wendy's, then resume their journey after the storm dissipates, finally arriving in New York City. They find the library buried in snow, but find Sam's group alive and are rescued by Chinook helicopters. The new President orders search and rescue teams to look for other survivors, having been given hope by the survival of Sam's group. The movie concludes with two astronauts looking down at Earth from the International Space Station, showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice, and a major rection in pollution.

虽然是找的，但没有翻译。。。抱歉

Ⅲ 灾难片<后天>的英文简介

The Day After Tomorrow 《后天》

starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O Sanders丹尼斯-奎德、杰克-吉伦哈尔、艾米-罗森、莎拉-沃德
director: Roland Emmerich 罗兰德-艾默里克
studio: 20th Century Fox 发行公司：二十世纪福斯影片公司

级别rating: PG-13
上映时间release date: May 28, 2004
片长runtime: 124 minutes

synopsis 内容大纲
What if we are on the brink of a new Ice Age? This is the question that haunts climatologic Jack Hall. Hall's research indicates that global warming could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet's climate. While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year-old son Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition. He must now cope with the severe flooding and plummeting temperatures in Manhattan. Having taken refuge inside the Manhattan Public Library, Sam manages to reach his father by phone. Jack only has time for one warning: stay inside at all costs. As full-scale, massive evacuations to the south begin, Jack heads north to New York City to save Sam. But not even Jack is prepared for what is about to happen--to him, to his son, and to his planet.
影片讲述温室效应造成地球气候异变，全球即将陷入第二次冰河纪的故事。全片汇集了大量顶尖特效，由于影片中气候异变是先由海水因气温急速下降而骤然冰冻，因此包括自由女神、艾菲尔铁塔、伦敦大笨钟都将被冻成冰柱，场面极为壮观。当然除了铺天盖地的自然威胁之外，也将细密交织父子及男女之间刻骨铭心的动人情感。

Ⅳ 一篇英文电影评论 <<后天>>

1. This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north...

2. When global warming causes world wide disasters and leads to an ice age, a climatologist named Jack Hall tries to rescue his son Sam who is trapped in New York. Jack must go from Washington D.C. to New York, but on the way some things happen. Can Jack rescue his son?

3. We humans are such sinners. We pillage and plunder our planet's natural resources, carelessly and indignantly burn our fossil fuels, and throw caution to the wind for our wanton irresponsiblity.

Well, to coin a classic phrase, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." And she's one broad you don't dare want to mess with, as the disaster-laden THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW attests. In a movie that must have environmentalists and tree huggers worldwide grinning from pierced ear to pierced ear, we humans are forced at last to atone for the sin of global warming--a sin that melts the polar caps and brings on another Ice Age (in about the time it takes to play a baseball game).

Forget the plot. It's worse than bad--it's trite, banal, hackneyed, threadbare, and worn-out all rolled into one. Dennis Quaid is the climatologist who predicts doom but is subsequently ignored by his greedy government; he also has a son who ends up trapped in New York. The beautiful Sela Ward plays the standard this-disaster-epic-must-have-a-female-lead-who-spends-her-time-wringing-her-hands-and-looking-worried-and-then-cries part. Ian Holm, for goodness sake, is Bilbo Baggins, not some Scottish scientist about to go into the deep freeze, and Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays Quaid's and Ward's son, has a constant smirk on his face that I could never figure out.

As I said, forget the plot. This movie's strength is its visual onslaught of destruction and disaster on a global scale--from tornadoes ravaging Los Angeles (Why do LA TV reporters feel compelled to cover a twister a stone's throw away on live TV?) to three cataclysmic "blizzard hurricanes" that devour the Northern Hemisphere. The special effects are well-done, and jarring; seeing a huge tidal wave overtake the Statue of Liberty and then sweep relentlessly into Manhattan (Why didn't Brooklyn and Queens get equal time?) is bone-chilling. Throw in a pack of hungry wolves escaped from the zoo and an eye of each storm that plunges the temperature minus 150 degrees in a matter of seconds, and you've got a virtual kitchen sink of gloom and doom. Our fearless government reluctantly acts; in a huge twist of irony, the U.S. is evacuated, with its citizens streaming into Mexico, and the northern states take on a popsicle effect. It's all great fun to watch.

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW succeeds on the visual, and fails dismally on everything else. Now I've got to go get my twelve-pack out of the freezer. I want to see what frozen beer tastes like.

4. There's no two ways about it...filmmaker Roland Emmerich really despises New York...three of his last four films depict some level of destruction within the Big Apple. Why does he hate it so? I have no idea, but he also doesn't seem all that found of Los Angeles, either...

The Day After Tomorrow (2004), written, proced and directed by Roland Emmerich stars Dennis Quaid (who'd been having a really decent run of good films, up until now, that is...), and Jake Gyllenhaal, who seems to bounce between really good movies (Donnie Darko) to really lousy ones (Bubble Boy, Highway). Also appearing is Emmy Rossum (who bares a remarkable resemblance, at times, to American Pie's Elizabeth Shannon), Jay O. Sanders (Daylight), Perry King (The Lords of Flatbush), Kenneth Walsh (Miracle), Sela `yowsa, yowsa' Ward, and Ian `Bilbo Baggins' Holm.

Okay...Jack Hall (Quaid) is a paleoclimatologist...what's that, you say? Well, apparently it's someone who studies the weather of the past, using ice core samples from the artic and sophisticated computer programs...more or less a glorified weatherman. During his research, he's found evidence to support the world is soon (soon meaning anywhere from 100 to 1,000 years) heading for another ice age, but no one is taking him too seriously, especially not the haughty Vice President (Walsh), probably e to the fact the weather reports we get on the TV are usually only right about half the time, so why should we jump through hoops for this clown? Surprise, surprise, it turns out Walsh is right (but his timing is way off...typical weatherman) as the poopie hits the fan...big time. Hail the size of footballs in Japan, tornadoes in LA, tide waves and crazy snow in New York (haven't they suffered enough?), all resulting in a global climate change, which doesn't sound all that bad, but basically the entire northern hemisphere is buried under ice and snow...a lot of ice and snow...and temperatures are dropping. Oh why didn't they listen to Hall? The fools...the frozen fools...

I will say this...The Day After Tomorrow sported some of the best special effects I've seen in awhile. The wide scale destruction of major cities was very intense (Irwin Allen, the master of disaster, the man who brought us all those wonderful 70's disaster movie, would have been proud)...also, I thought the acting was passable, which is sad, given the experienced cast involved, but they were just doing what they were told. If I were to rate this film on the special effects alone, it would be five stars, but I have to also consider the other aspects, the story, the dialog and such. It's these elements (or lack of) that ultimately derailed the film, for me at least. Emmerich seems to try and dazzle the audience with glossy special effects in hope we won't put too much thought into all the holes, large and small, that riddle the plot. I remember when I saw Emmerich's Independence Day (1996) for the first time, I was really taken with the film, but subsequent viewings revealed the paper thin construction, allowing the story to collapse in on itself...here, I need not watch the film again as the flimsy nature came through like a sledgehammer to the head...and Emmerich lays on the schmaltzy, maudlin sentimentality, disguised in the form of altruistic self sacrifice and heroism, about as thick as he lays the snows on New York...I would have thought it difficult to top the gushy, slushy, saccharine sweet goo presented in Independence Day, but I was wrong, as here, he turns it into an art form. The dialog was just awful...I was surprised some of the actors managed to get their lines out while keeping a straight face. Also, the dialog was entirely predictable, especially between the pregnant pauses meant to heighten the emotional level for the drivel soon to follow...I actually found myself speaking lines before they were spoken in the film, as it was that obvious as to what was coming. And the film seems inundated with a preachy smugness...yes, we consume fossil fuels and use resources from the Earth, but does that necessarily make us evil and deserving of the scenario played out in this film? I love it when Hollywood, in all of its shallow gloriousness, tries to teach the rest of the world what's wrong with us. This is a big difference between Emmerich and Irwin Allen...Allen made disaster films to engage and entertain, while Emmerich seems to use the medium as a means to tell us the error of our so called destructive ways, and showing the ruinous consequences that result. Ahh, I've stood on my soapbox long enough...here's some scenes to watch for...the one, after New York is frozen, with the homeless man teaching the rich kid, who normally wouldn't have given the filthy man the time of day, how to use newspapers and such to insulate himself by stuffing them in his clothes...can you see the irony here? The homeless, once a burden on our society, have now, after the disaster, found purpose in advising the uninitiated on how to survive, as they've had to do living on the mean streets. Everyone go out and befriend a homeless person now, before it's too late...okay, how about this scene...the kids, now stuck in the Manhattan library after the storm, are scrounging for food, and break into some vending machines. The homeless guy suggests looking in the trash cans, as there's always something to eat in trash cans (yeah, okay...I'll tell you what my stinky friend, I'll eat the potato chips and M&M's and you can have whatever edible, maggot infested morsels you find rummaging in the garbage)...again, infinitely invaluable advice from the homeless...

Ⅳ 帮我用英语写一篇关于介绍电影后天的文章

In director Roland Emmerich's 'Independence Day' (1996), a boffin eventually defeats the space aliens that have wrought explosive havoc all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world) – without provocation. In 'Godzilla' (1998), a boffin eventually defeats the giant iguana that has rampaged through New York City's highrise – but the fact that the lizard's mutation was a proct of exposure to Pacific nuclear testing hinted that humankind was just reaping what it (or at least what the French) had sown. And now in 'The Day After Tomorrow', there is yet more disaster and destruction on a truly massive scale all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world), only this time the enemy is global warming, the starring boffin is unable to do anything to defeat it, and the blame is placed squarely on the shoulders of Western consumerism and blinkered US governance. In other words, Emmerich's delight in sublime catastrophe may be consistent to the point of repetitivene ss, but at least the man is maturing politically.

A sequence of extreme weather conditions (snow in New Delhi, bucket-sized hailstones in Tokyo, spectacular tornadoes in downtown LA) leads palaeoclimatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) to realise that a new ice age is coming. His son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) becomes trapped in New York's Public Library when a tidal wave strikes the city, and is forced to fight rapidly dropping temperatures – and a pack of hungry wolves escaped from the zoo – while Jack and two colleagues attempt the perilous journey from Washington to find him.

'The Day After Tomorrow' has everything you expect from a disaster movie: personal dramas set against apocalyptic mayhem; lots of scenes set in control rooms (with no-one in control); recognisable public monuments being torn apart/flooded/buried under snow/snapfrozen; and episodes so preposterously daft that you just have to love them, as when Jack feels the need to explain the relationship between the North Atlantic current and the world's climate to a room full of meteorological experts, or when Sam and his friends outrun a towering wall of water (and later a fast-moving coldsnap). Silliest of all is the realisation that Jack has undertaken his journey not to save the good burghers of New York, nor even just to save his own son, but rather simply to prove that he can for once keep an appointment – making the final scenes of this film hilariously anticlimactic, as our hero is left with literally nothing to do except grin.

While Emmerich is really only going over visual effects already well covered by films like 'Deep Impact', 'Twister' or even 'Meteor', he comes into his own in battering his viewers with total sensory overload to convey the sheer, overwhelming scale of the devastation. The bass rumble which accompanies the wave rolling through New York is quite simply the most ear-splitting sound ever heard in a cinema, and if the film's cataclysmic, but occasionally ropey, CGI fails to humble you, the soundtrack might just succeed.

It is for its politics, however, that this film is most audacious, as it represents a direct attack on the refusal of the current US administration to rece greenhouse emissions. Even if it is somewhat simplistic, 'The Day After Tomorrow' may have more impact on Bush's stance on the environment than any serious science could, as it terrifies its American viewers into doing something that the British have always enjoyed – talking about the weather.

It's Got: Widespread demolition of American cities beyond al Qaidas wildest dreams; fun environmentalist Bush-ting; neat satirical scenes in which floods of US nationals are forced to cross the Mexican border as illegals; and weather conditions as cold as a brass monkeys proverbials (still, mustnt grumble).

It Needs: To be seen (and heard) in a decent cinema - without its scale, there would be little left but cheese.

Alternatives:

Deep Impact, Meteor, The Twelve Monkeys, Twister
Summary
At last the British get to see a film entirely about the weather.

Ⅵ 电影后天英文简介

(Acquired) is a 2004 American science fiction film, described the cold of global warming and global disasters arising.
(后天)是2004年的一部美国科幻电影，描述全球暖化和全球寒冷化后所带来的灾难。

Ⅶ 电影《后天》的英文简介

Plot Summary:
This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north...

Ⅷ “后天”这部电影大概讲什么。（英文）

the day after tomorrow

The green-house effect movie is given an account of brings about the earth climate different unexpected turn of events , the whole world is caught in second glacier discipline story soon. Entire the large amount of tip special efficiency having assembled piece, since climate different unexpected turn of events is to freeze up abruptly because the air temperature comes down rapidly first from seawater in the film, big unwieldy bells will be frozen Cheng Bing Zhu , appearance therefore including the free goddess , Eiffel Tower , London extremely grand sight. Bring about climate different unexpected turn of events certainly except the capital blotting out the sky and covering up the earth has described a green-house effect piece, the earth is caught in second glacier century story. Denis · Kuide plays Professor scientist Hall who studies the climate changes , he is based on the law observing and studying the prehistoric climate's , suggests that the grave green-house effect will bring about air temperature dramaThe descend , terrestrial general enters glacier moment hypothesis once again. Result , this prophecy have become reality , the tornado , seaquake and snowstorm have arrived in quick succession , human being has been caught in front futile doom great calamity. The resident who tells an American president to announce to the south of latitude 30 degrees N to the whole world withdraws from Professor Hal from the equator nearby , to the north resident needs to be ready for keeping warm. Meanwhile, Hal is informed that his son mountain lady gives no consideration to danger one people goes to natural calamities New York in invading unexpectedly rescue a girl friend , he also is daring regardless of personal danger the field goes to ice and snow cover lower north area being in progress rescue, in the process being rescued and being saved, film has interweaved exquisite cordial affection expressed out by moving emotion and big disaster servants between father and son. Can't will the moving emotion interweaving to be inscribed in self's heart between father and son and men and women detailed besides natural threat.

Ⅸ 后天观后感英文版

篇一：《后天》 观后感 英文版

英文：
The feedback of“the day after tomorrow”
This is my second time to see “the day after tomorrow”. The first time, and many others, I see the contradiction between human and nature, environmental pollution, energy deficiency. How stupid human are, and human is so small in the disaster. Then, I think more about how to protect the environment and save energy to avoid this situation happens.
But this time, I didn’t see the film from environment, but from the human. I saw people’s affection, friendship and love in the face of death, serious work and dedication, and some people is fatuous and ignorant in the face of scientific.
The time, I really feel what is responsibility, what is persist, what is commitment. In many cases, we do not need to go to the principle of the so-called persistent on the way of things. Some critical moment, we have to give up some minor things, only know how to choose can do anything more perfect.

这是我第二次看《后天》这部电影。第一次，和很多人一样，我看到的是人类和自然的矛盾，环境问题，资源问题，觉得人类是多么的愚蠢，在灾难面前是多么的渺小。然后就想着怎样保护环境，节约能源，避免电影上的情况真的发生。
但是这次，我并没有从环境的角度去看这部电影，而是从人性的角度去看。我看到了，在灾难面前人们亲情、友情、爱情的体现，看到了人们在死亡面前的勇敢，对工作的认真和执着，还有一些人在科学面前的愚昧与无知。
这次，我深深地感受到了什么是责任，什么是坚持，什么是承诺。很多时候，我们没有必要为了那些所谓的原则去执着于某一种做事方式。在某些关键时刻，我们必须得放弃一些次要的东西，必须懂得取舍才可以把一件事做得更完美。

篇二：后天 观后感 英文版

People always thought that probably as a human on the planet Earth is the most senior animal owners who dominate nature. Can be wanton destruction of the earth, nature mutilations. Also for the immediate interests of the greedy nature and the blood drained 、 the nature of the skin stripped 、 nature of the meat-eating. With the thought this will be what kind of consequences. Also claimed ignorance 、 elated to conquer nature. Sing really ridiculous. If another Ice Age in front of us, the humanity will be caught unprepared? Human nature can conquer? No, summer 2004 opening large - <<acquired>> given us a loud and affirmative answer to the question. This terrible disaster films told us an irrefutable truth - always dominate the natural person. "Acquired" the film depicts the United States as a representative of the Earth within one day suddenly nose-dive into glacial science fiction stories. In the story, climate scientists Jack. Hall observed in the study pointed out that prehistoric climate, the greenhouse effect brought about by global warming could trigger an unprecedented global catastrophe. Mainly refer to the destruction of the beautiful human nature, but by the serious nature of the punishment. Lightning 、 、 hail storm 、 tornado 、 hurricane 、 、 floods caused by global warming, such as the melting of Antarctic ice disaster befall humans, before human consciousness to know repentance may have been too late. In an instant because of the disaster emerged, floods, in the eyes; hail, in the eyes; all in the eyes of force majeure. Entry into the Earth's greenhouse effect will glaciation. Tornado 、 earthquake tsunami 、…… So you ask that the name will become a natural part of human life. In the film, you can see New York City inundated lens: the confusion of the crowd the air vehicle broken glass, followed by the floor, as high waves… you can see in the seaside holiday resort in Hawaii hit by the hurricane scene. This is the destruction of the natural consequences, and this is the punishment of mankind. For thousands of years, continually engulfed in the natural human body, should now enjoy nature of the pernicious consequences of brewing.

Ⅹ 急求电影<<后天>>介绍 中文的

《后天》原本不叫《后天》，而是叫《明日之后》，也叫《末日浩劫》。这实在是个糟糕的变动，既没有“明日之后”的末日幽冥感，又失去了“末日浩劫”直取要害的生猛，但愿这个译名不会抑制观众买票进场的欲望，因为这实在是一部“好看”的电影，在《魔戒》之后的北京，已经好久没有看到这样只靠视觉“杀人”的电影了。电影里也确实死了很多人，主要是美国人，大概死了小一半，其中还包括美国总统，就这点来说，本片比导演艾默里奇的前作《独立日》更疯魔了。

毁灭方式一：连天的海啸席卷城市，曼哈顿沉没。

毁灭方式二：巨大的龙卷风降临人间，洛杉矶成为地狱。

毁灭方式三：超低温气流冰冻城市，自由女神像。

剧情篇 头重脚轻的拯救

一般认为，灾难片的重点当属电脑特效，而剧情和人物基本都可以忽略不计。其实，灾难片要展现的往往是人类群体面对灭顶之灾时的反应，这就对剧作提出三点要求：一、角色众多；二、层次明晰；三、主次得当。而想完好地达到如此要求，确实是对编导能力的极大考验。

《后天》的编剧兼导演罗兰·艾默里奇是拍摄灾难片的行家里手，他以前的《独立日》和《哥斯拉》虽然带有科幻或者怪兽电影的元素，其核心依然是正统的灾难片。所以，对艾默里奇来说，描写灾难下的群像还算是得心应手。在这部《后天》中，上有决策国民命运的美国总统，下有栖息纽约街头的乞丐，既有监守岗位的英国科研人员，也有被冰雹击倒在东京街头的日本职员，再加上身为气象学家的主人公与他的家人朋友，足以构成一派末日世界的微缩景观。从剧情展开来看，影片一直以主人公杰克·霍尔的活动为主线，前半段描写他说服政界高层，而后半段则是以他拯救受困纽约的儿子为重，而政界人士、霍尔的妻子、儿子的行动则成为辅线，始终都围绕着拯救与自救的主题。可以说，《后天》在层次处理上也是非常得当。

然而，这部影片的剧情也并非完美，其中最大的问题就是在于影片没有真正意义上的高潮段落，显得叙事结构严重失调。《后天》最为精彩的段落就是开场不久后飓风席卷洛杉矶的场景，而等到影片的后半段，霍尔前往纽约寻找儿子的过程则显得颇为平淡，未受太多磨难便按部就班地到达了目的地。也许，导演原意想将冰冻纽约处理成影片的高潮段落，可惜营造力未能达到预想的效果，使得影片整体都显得有些头重脚轻。

至于影片的理论基础，我想气象学属于非普及性的知识，多数观众也不至于太过较真儿，这毕竟只是部靠视觉冲击取胜的暑期大片，而并非“探索”频道的科学纪录片。而影片为制造大团圆结局，居然让主人公在完全断电的情况下向迁移到墨西哥的美国政府发送传真，这多少有些穿帮得叫人发笑。

特效篇 把地球装进冰箱

没有哪个导演像艾默里奇这样疯狂热衷于把地球毁灭一万遍，从《独立日》到《哥斯拉》再到《后天》，其电影中的“毁灭当量”成倍增长，单从特技角度说，已经足以让观众体验到摧枯拉朽的破坏乐趣。

《后天》与环保无关，与政治无关，甚至都算不上一部预言第二冰河纪的科幻电影。在我看来，它完完全全是一部“奇幻”电影———满足一些人心底里的破坏欲！

就像《终结者II》中“启示录”一般的核爆炸，当你看到“好莱坞”的招牌被龙卷风拧碎，日本街头被炮弹般的冰雹砸烂，整个纽约被连天的海啸吞没，帝国大厦迅速冰冻，摩天大楼只剩钢筋残骸，文明的巅峰瞬间变成昏黄的废墟，你怎能不感到巨大的冲击，就如同顽劣的小孩掀翻地上的玩偶，未知的力量把地球放进冰箱！

在灾难片中，大就是美。《魔戒》中的水淹双塔算什么？想象一下比那大一万倍的场面！而且你的视角不只停留在地面，还会被带到空中，带到云层，甚至太空！“人”变得越来越小，“环境”变得越来越大，这就是为什么片中只表现标志性建筑的毁灭，很少看到成千上万的“小人儿”抱头鼠窜，动不动就是直径几十公里的风暴眼，随便一个镜头都要用到摇臂，大量的全景俯拍、航拍，结合模型和电脑特效，把一场末世浩劫拍得穷奢极欲！

《后天》有着卓然视觉表现的原因，除了灾难规模大、数量多之外，还在于充满感染力的色调处理。随着时间的推移和灾难类型的变化，影片的色调呈现出富有层次的过渡，比如灾难来临前苍白黯淡的云层，暴雨降临时苍茫浑浊的街道，飓风席卷后满天尘土的昏黄都市，冰雪纷飞时惨白的世界，以及灾难过后耀眼的白色冰层、反射着阳光余辉的红色天际……一切都做到充分渲染情绪，让人完全感受到寒冷、潮湿、温暖等等气候变化带来的感官反应。

更有进步的是，艾默里奇学会了用“静”抒情———比如卫星划过时不再有“轰”的低响。而最令人震撼的是以下两个场面———纽约化作冰川之后一艘巨大的邮轮静静漂入纽约街头，以及暴风雪过后，丹尼斯·奎德和队友在半掩于雪地中的自由女神像下走过，仿佛来到了又一个时空中的《人猿星球》!

类型篇 发现无政府的快感

灾难片之所以长盛不衰，主要是因为它能够满足人的几类心理需要，下面就把《后天》放在灾难片的坐标系上，看一看它的成绩单。

视觉冲击：灾难片总是能给那些视觉效果狂人以巨大的发挥空间，给观众的眼睛以“地毯式”的轰炸。我感觉《后天》中的视觉效果良莠不齐，恐怕是因为片子的摊子铺得太大，场景太多，没有一个场景能够做得充分。相比起来，场景比较集中的《泰坦尼克号》、《龙卷风》等影片反而更有效果。

动作场面：很多灾难片虽然讲的是自然的愤怒，然而我们更多地是看到人在里面跑来跑去，灾难片是动作场面最好的载体。《后天》中的动作戏都不太过瘾，原因可能还是摊子铺得太大。其实，《后天》还有很多潜力可挖，比如说最后一场，完全可以搞个地板大塌陷，或者人狼大战什么的。相比起来，《泰坦尼克号》充分发掘了狭小的场景里动作戏的可能性。

末世幽冥：宏大的、混杂着伤感、恐惧和悲壮的幽冥感是只有灾难片才能带来的心理快感。《后天》的中段成功地达到了这种效果，然而在后半部这种感觉却泄了下去。虽然《后天》的投资达到1.2亿美元，然而它所达到的幽冥感只相当于投资7000万美元的《天地大冲撞》，这只能归咎于剧情安排的不合理。

无政府快感：灾难来了，大家可以各行其是，这种无政府主义的快感被很多灾难片所忽视，这主要是因为那些灾难片只发生在一个很小的局部。而《后天》的灾难席卷全世界，当仁不让地表现出末日浩劫中的无政府快感，这也是本片最大的特色之一。在《后天》中，把图书当柴烧的情节肯定会成为很多观众的最爱，在别的灾难片中很难找到对应的例子。

角色篇 到后天就把他们都忘记

《后天》惟一值得看的就是视觉效果，演员的表演几乎没有任何可圈可点之处。编剧导演将所有角色放在商业流水线上，打磨成统一尺寸的螺钉螺母，几乎放过了对任何可能出彩的剧情、对白、或对角色的琢磨。因此你不会看到那些面对浩劫灾难时本应变得复杂、叵测、意味深长的人性和人物关系，取而代之的是被处理得潦草苍白的爱情、亲情或者友情。它们在电脑特技造出的末世景象面前，虚假得如同一束塑料花儿。因此，当片中那两大团状如冰激凌的“风暴眼”在大气层上空缓慢移动，地球像一枚误放入冷冻室的柿子那样从外到里逐渐结满了冰碴儿的时候，我心想，这世界总算清净了……

扮演男主角山姆的帅哥杰克·吉伦哈尔本是演独立电影出身的，他显然还不适合这种直白、简单的角色，状态一直紧绷绷的，很多戏都处理得缺乏火候。而他女友的扮演者艾米·罗森就更像一个摆设、一个芭比娃娃，其僵硬空洞却十分标准的笑容让“未来数年内好莱坞最值得关注的新星”这样的称号大打折扣；而山姆爸爸的扮演者丹尼斯·奎德稍好一点，毕竟他是男主角、大英雄、慈父爱夫，戏份不轻。可他义无反顾搭救儿子的行动实在缺乏信服力：除非他带着《七龙珠》里面的百变胶囊或者机器猫的时空车，否则他在没有后援的情况下，在冰天雪地中步行到曼哈顿，见到儿子之后要怎样呢？难道是要死在一起？

黑人流浪汉和他的狗倒是有些出彩的戏，伊恩·荷姆关于苏格兰威士忌的论调也很美妙，可惜这些短暂的亮点无法改变整体演技的粗糙和僵硬。在这点上，《后天》永远超不过《人猿星球》、《地心末日》等经典科幻灾难片的高度，甚至还不如《独立日》好看……最后，“冰激凌”像《卡桑德拉大桥》中的鼠疫一般神奇地退却，一切恢复正常，北半球上空的大气层纯洁得犹如回到造物之初。这个只冻了一半的地球给人们开了一个不那么科学的玩笑，于是我们心情轻松，嘻嘻哈哈走出电影院，到了后天———甚至不用等到后天，就会把电影里所有的角色忘得干干净净。