The American blockbuster "The Collapse of the Doomsday" has exceeded 300 million in one week of release. The whole film is "simple and rough", shaking from beginning to end, making people feel trembling around when they leave the theater, and despair is everywhere.
A certain film review complained, "The visual effect is beyond words, it is the peak of similar films! It's just the plot, like a phone bill for free."
In order to improve the depth of viewing, let's talk about the background of earthquake science behind this film.
is the title of the movie first. The Chinese translation of "The Collapse of Doomsday" has caused many netizens to complain, and it seems that if you can't win the box office without saying the Doomsday. In fact, the English name "San Andreas" is more straightforward. For American audiences, especially those in California, the name alone is enough to make the back of the spine cold.
San Andreas is the name of a famous earthquake fault. This fault zone is located between the Pacific and North American plates, and runs across California. So California is one of the most earthquake-related areas in the world.
This is also the reason why "Doomsday Collapse" uses California as the disaster site. In the film, almost all of California fell.
In real life, in the United States, Californians are the most familiar with earthquakes. The 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake that occurred near Los Angeles on January 17, 1994 was the closest major earthquake in California, killing 72 people and losing up to $25 billion.
San Francisco is located in Northern California, and it is not quiet. Last August, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred in the northern Pana area. In 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred on Mount Preta near San Francisco; in 1906, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered by the San Andreas fault raided San Francisco, and the city became a ruin, killing 3,000 people.
Seismologists warned in a 2008 research report that the probability of major earthquakes above magnitude 7.8 in California in the past 30 years is as high as 50%.
It is from 2008 that earthquake drills will be conducted every year on the third Thursday of October. Millions of California residents participated in each exercise. According to the key points of self-rescue when an earthquake occurs, people immediately climb under the table, or lie down on the spot, holding their heads with their hands. The radio broadcasts the earthquake emergency formula of "live down, cover up, hold on" and reminds people to pay attention to aftershocks and tsunamis after the earthquake.
These earthquake experts at Caltech in "The Collapse of Doomsday". In real life, California Institute of Technology does have a very good seismology laboratory established in 1983. Dr. Lucy Jones, a well-known earthquake expert in California, is the consultant expert in that laboratory.
At the premiere of "The Collapse of Doomsday", Dr. Jones was also invited to attend the red carpet. Inviting scientists to walk the red carpet is a new thing in Hollywood. "This is really Los Angeles-like, isn't it?" Dr. Jones laughed.
In fact, after the film was released, Dr. Jones was really busy. She explains people's questions through media, social networks and other channels, and tells people which are just fictional plots of movies and which may be what Californians really may face in the future.
For example, in "The Collapse of Doomsday" earthquake experts said that the earthquake in California was so strong that it could be felt even on the east coast of the United States. Dr. Jones explained that it is not. "The San Francisco earthquake in 1906 was the farthest to Nevada, and it was probably the farthest distance that could be reached."
However, Dr. Jones said that the earthquake expert in the film became a hero because of his successful prediction of the earthquake, but unfortunately, the earthquake expert at least has not had that great ability so far. "So far, we have no way to tell people when an earthquake will happen." Earthquake prediction is still difficult.
As for the first wave of earthquakes in the film, the Hoover Dam was fragile to ashes, and the skyscrapers in Los Angeles and San Francisco fell like building blocks. Dr. Jones said, "The possibility of the Hoover Dam (like in the movie) collapse completely. Some of the high-rise buildings in Los Angeles (if there is a major earthquake) will definitely collapse, but most of them will not be razed (like in the movie)." No wonder some netizens complained that "the entire film is filled with the director's resentment towards California housing prices."
Dr. Jones appreciates the role of father and daughter in "The Collapse of the Doomsday", because they can confidently tell people around them how to save their lives and how to be safer at critical moments. This is also the common sense of survival that residents in areas with frequent earthquakes should have.
A number of netizens also have a deep impression of Dr. Jones. "The Collapse of Doomsday is about the importance of having a decathlon husband/dad"; "The Collapse of Doomsday tells us: live well with the original wife and live well."
Some netizens complained, "With more money, you must prepare an airplane or a yacht. If something disaster occurs, the probability of survival is also higher. By the way, you have to learn how to control these two ghosts."
complaints are all about complaints. The positive energy of such disaster blockbusters lies in the fact that when you walk out of the theater, you can’t help but sigh: It’s great to be alive!
(Reporter Zhang Zhongxia, Editor Huayi, Xinhua International Client Report)
