DISASTER MOVIE

Disaster Movie

Disaster Movie



What Is Disaster Movie?

A disaster movie is a genre in suspense, whose plot features are based on disaster natural (earthquake, tsunami, tidal, falling meteorites, etc.) or technological (nuclear explosion, plane crash, shipwreck, fire, etc.). The film catastrophe or disaster film is a genre composed of films whose main theme is a disaster in progress or imminent threat to the human race, for example, large fires, earthquakes, shipwrecks or a hypothetical collision of an asteroid from the Earth. Usually, they carry a large cast of actors and multiple plotlines, and focuses on the characters' attempts to avoid, escape or resist the consequences of the disaster. A main character, several children and many extras are dying before the resolution of the story.

The great rise of disaster films took place during the 1970's, begins with the Airport (1970) by George Seaton, based on the bestseller by Arthur Hailey. In this film, are all topics that have disaster films, many stars and familiar faces making small parts, so that the viewer can remember who is who and who dies every time. The disaster film in some aspects remains the most recognized and loved by the audience, with films that even today, are the most viewed by the public (Michael 2006, pp. 5). But without a doubt the best and most successful example of a catastrophic plot movie is Titanic with global revenue of 1.800 billion U.S. dollars, which makes it the second highest grossing film in history.

Film or disaster movie disaster is a film, characters that were in the accident and try to escape. The specific type is of thriller and drama. This could be as a natural disaster (tornado, earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc.), and about man-made disaster (plane crash, for example).

Film-disaster replaced the peplum and neo- western as a genre of the box office of Hollywood cinema in the early 1970's, after the screens of box-office champion, as the “Airport "(1970) and" adventure "Poseidon" "(1972.) Further, this formula worked out, “Earthquake "(1974)," Hindenburg "(1975) and some other band. In the second half of the 1970s the popularity of the genre began to decline noticeably. The first Soviet film-disaster "713th asks landing “was released in 1962.

In the 1990s, due to the rapid development of computer effects movies, disaster films such as the “Speed' ??, “Armageddon” , “Deep Impact”, had escaped again to the championship of the American steel, and historical disaster film" Titanic "(1997) did for a long remained the highest grossing film in history.

Since 2000, disaster narratives revolve more around the content of the container. The mistakes of the past seem to have been digested and analyzed. In 2000, Wolfgang Petersen realizes him The Perfect Storm, which recounts the terrible true story of sailors lost at sea and since 2000, disaster movies focus more on a real story, as a misuse new means of graphical representation offered by computers today (Keane 2006, pp. 10).

Among the most famous old disaster movies, it is possible to mention: When Worlds ...