英语电影赏析课程论文

An Analysis to Some Movies Linked With Disaster

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Disaster films based on the human catastrophe caused by the natural disasters. General rendering thrilling disaster, to stimulate the audience's fear, and some performance out of the way to disaster and defeat or avoid the disaster of wisdom, or to promote rescue and other non-rational religion.Their typical features are large casts and multiple plotlines, and focus on the characters' attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the aftermath of the disaster. One major character, several minor characters, and scores of extras typically die before the story is resolved.

The disaster film genre revived, briefly, in the mid-1990s—perhaps because new special effects techniques made more spectacular disasters possible. The first film in this new trend was the 1996 Michael Crichton-penned film Twister, followed in the same year by Independence Day merged a science fiction alien invasion plot from the 1950s with disaster film conventions (most notably, from Earthquake). Also in 1997 the epic James Cameron film Titanic was released, which combined the disaster genre in the sinking of the ship and the romance genre with the relationship between the main characters.

Disaster films have reappeared periodically in the 21st century. In 2003, The Core featured a disaster resulting from the "stalling" of Earth's

core, while in 2004, The Day After Tomorrow built upon fear of global warming and climate change with an unlikely assortment of disasters, perhaps setting a record for the most disasters in a single film.

The Perfect Storm

So when it comes to the Disaster Movie s,which films will you think of?Someone will say Titanic without doubt.But in my opinion,Titanic is a romantic film more than a disaster movie.So H ow about The Perfect Storm?I t is so much like the Titanic in some plots and It is a 2000 dramatic disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen,and an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same title by Sebastian Junger about a fishing ship met a scarely storm in the northern Pacific Ocean,and the crew leaded by the Captain Billy Tyne tenaciously fight with the storm. T he thing that really irks me is that I had read that it was a disaster film (and it's made pretty much clear in the title), but the actual disaster didn't get started for a whole forty minutes, which almost brought me to the point of thinking that "Perfect Storm" was some kind of metaphor.

Different from other disaster films, The Perfect Storm didn’t leave any single survivor in the end. May be it’s the real situation at that time, but I tend to believe that the director planned such a tragic ending elaborately, with an intention to tell people a cruel truth-- the power of the nature is so great that we humankind cannot always be the winner.