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Mar 29, 2021 · What Roland Emmerich’s ‘2012’ attempts to do is to visually re-enact the Biblical apocalypse in all its visceral grandeur, and as cities and countries are overtaken by catastrophic natural forces, the epic scale of the grand narrative is revealed, albeit with a degree of American supremacy.
May 8, 2024 · Film. Read time: 13 mins. Ruth Bushi. 8 May 2024. 17 July 2024. Making sense of society, survival and the biblical breadcrumbs in Roland Emmerich’s disaster extravaganza, 2012. Like The Day After Tomorrow – another Roland Emmerich movie – 2012’s big, brash science was inspired by a book. “I first read about the Earth’s Crust ...
What we see in Emmerich’s film is a secular apocalypse, a re-telling of the Biblical story, but without God or any transcendent reference. In fact, God is not simply absent; he is aggressively eliminated. As the world falls apart, a number of people in “2012” turn to God in prayer, but they are, without exception, destroyed.
Aug 18, 2021 · Director Roland Emmerich had no particular interest in the supposed Mayan prophecy that the world would end on December 21, 2012. What he did want to do was make a biblical flood movie, and found ...
Mar 25, 2020 · While modern-day conspiracy theorists have interpreted December 21, 2012 as a long-thought day of doom, December 21, 2012 was seen as something vastly different for Mayan cultures. In keeping with Roland Emmerich's filmography, 2012 eschewed reality in favor of plot details that could better serve extravagant spectacle.
May 7, 2011 · reality in destruction: how roland emmerich used real apocalyptic theories in the day after tomorrow and 2012
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This chapter focuses on Roland Emmerich's 2012 (2009). It discusses how the continuous scenes of destruction and disintegration seem to point toward something beyond filmic pleasure, toward an an-economy cinema, of which the film is a perfect example. On the one hand, each second of image, each shot cost a fortune, so grandiloquent are the ...
