The film is inspired by the idea of doomsday global events that coincide with the final round of the Mayan Long Count Calendar on or about December 12, 2012 (winter solstice the northern hemisphere).
Curtis Jackson (John Cusack) is a divorced father who has been moonlighting as a limousine driver and a writer, while his ex-wife (Amanda Peet) and her children lived together with her new boyfriend, Gordon (Thomas McCarthy).
In the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala, the victims of mass suicide seemed to believe the Mayan calendar, which predicts the end of the world that coincide with Galactic Alignment, which occurred on December 21, 2012, the date of the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. IHC (Institute for Human Continuity), a secret organization, aware of this situation and begin to build a large ship beneath the Himalayas that are designed to deal with many natural disasters to save humans, certain species, and humans are the most precious treasure when the apocalypse finally happens. There is debate about how and when the world will tell their citizens, and how to choose the people who will be saved from this Judgement. Meanwhile, when it was on his way toward Yellowstone afternoon with her two children, Jackson met Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson), who brought his own radio show about the Mayan prediction of December 21, 2012.
Large cracks formed on the San Andreas Fault, California, and even though the government assured everything is safe, Jackson was not convinced. Hiring a private plane and obtain emergency items, she went to her house in LA to save his family and Gordon from the earthquake due to movement of the Earth's skin. Jackson quickly gathered his family, and after a long and dangerous journey with the crumbling streets toward the Santa Monica Airport, the new girlfriend Amanda, Gordon uses his flying ability to rescue this family. The entire city of Los Angeles who fell began to sink into the Pacific Ocean. When the plane more fuel shortage, the group saw the possibility of landing in Wyoming. Jackson to take this opportunity to meet Charlie. Against her wishes, Jackson and Lily went to look for Charlie, even though the van was found empty. Through radio, Charlie tells his audience that he had gone to the mountains to witness the Resurrection. Jackson drove the van to find and save Charlie, but Charlie refused to go. When Jackson and Lily run away from an erupting volcano, Charlie mentioned a map in the van which will show the route running. Jackson and Lily went back to the plane through the rain of lava stone. Upon arrival, Lily ran to the plane, but Jackson remained in the van to find the map, and it is too long. When the ground is open, the van fell into a crack. Jackson's family fears, but should go. Jackson holds the edge, and ran to the plane when it lands behind him continued to collapse. He is quick enough to enter the plane.
It is increasingly clear that not only California that experienced the disaster: the Yellowstone Super Volcano erupts; large earthquake occurred in South America, Washington, DC flooded by the tsunami and the USS John F. Kennedy destroy the White House, and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome collapsed, killing thousands of U.S. orang.Pemerintah finally announced the end of the world. Jackson and his family must find a way to China to climb the big ships, because of the small plane they were unable to make this trip. When they look for new aircraft, all filled with passengers. However, Gordon relies on one of his old clients, Tamara (Beatrice Rosen). He along with Russian billionaire, Yuri Karpov (Zlatko Buric). This family knows that Yuri has brought Antonov aircraft carrier that was originally used as an exhibition of luxury cars to flee to China. Jackson's request to allow his family, but Yuri refused. However, the pilot, Sasha (Johann Urb) told him that he needed a copilot and Jackson said that Gordon is a trained pilot. Thus, this group eventually boarded the plane while the airport was destroyed by an earthquake.
When they were in the air, Sasha realized that this plane did not have enough fuel to fly to China. He told Gordon, and they agreed to land on water. Sasha later learned that they no longer over the ocean: Earth's skin has moved thousands of miles and they lead into the Himalayas. Knowing the risk of landing in the snow, Sasha told passengers to go to the storage of cargo in which many cars stored there, while he and Gordon maintain control and opened the cargo door of the cockpit. Their plan is to remove the car from the cargo storage. Gordon had to leave Sasha and ran to the car in time. They (except the pilot) managed to get away with using a Bentley Continental GT, while Sasha landed his plane in a ravine, which then collapsed. Other group members landed safely. Tamara cried and asked that they return to look for Sasha. Before they act, the Chinese helicopter transporting large animals flying above them. One helicopter landed, although these groups know that they must pay for the ride. Yuri pay for himself and his son, but refused to pay for someone else. Before entering the helicopter, he told Tamara that she knew to do with Sasha.
This group has no choice except the road through the mountains to look for other groups. A car passed, Jackson threw a stone at her. Passenger car turned around and allow them to rise. In it there is a Buddhist monk, Nima (Osric Chau), and her grandmother (Lisa Lu). They went to meet with brothers Nima, Tenzin (Chin Han), who had a plan to sneak into the big ship.
Upon arrival, Tenzin angry. He said the Nima that his plan can not involve a lot of people, and others can not opted to join. Kate Jackson and Tenzin force in that they bring the kids. After lengthy debate, Tenzin allow all groups to join.
Jackson and his family tried to sneak into the ship with the help of Tenzin. Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt), Chief of Staff for President then ordered the gates closed vessel, while supply is not enough. When the gate is closed, Tenzin leg shattered and Gordon were killed. Dr.Adrian Helmsley, scientific adviser to the President (Chiwetel Ejiofor), was shocked and decided gates opened for the remaining survivors. Wheels of a gate at the boat stalled and would not close, so the gate half open. Machines can not be inflamed vessel unless the gate is closed. When the tsunami struck the ship, a broken main supporting structure, and the ship floated towards Mount Everest. Jackson and Noah try to fix the wheel of the ship and the gates were closed. Machine switched on again to avoid collision with the mountain. The ship crashed into Mount Everest, but suffered little damage. When the flood recedes, the captain decided to Cape of Good Hope in South Africa as a new land suitable for survivors. At the time, date shows January 27 0001, as a prefix to the human race to start a new life.
Production
Directed by Roland Emmerich and composer Harald Kloser-producer writing spec script titled 2012, which is marketed to the major studios in February 2008. Almost all the studios to meet with Emmerich and their representatives to hear the estimated cost of director and story line, a process that never lived director through the movie Independence Day (1996) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). [4] The film was budgeted cost of $ 260 million. [3] In that month, Sony Pictures Entertainment won the right for that spec script, plans to distribute it under Columbia Pictures. [5] The studio plans to make this film less than the cost estimate. [6]
Filming is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles, California, in July 2008, [7] but later moved to Vancouver in August 2008 and completed in January 2009. [8] Because the Screen Actors Guild strike of 2008, the filmmakers create a backup plan to continue with this film. [ 9] Uncharted Territory, Digital Domain, Double Negative, Scanline, Sony Pictures Imageworks and others diiikutkan to create visual effects for 2012. [10] Thomas Wander make music together with Harald Kloser.
Although this film shows the destruction of a number of cultural and historic buildings known around the world, Emmerich says that the Kaaba is also considered to be destroyed. Kloser not want to enter Mecca, for reasons he did not want a fatwa issued for him. [11]
Cast
* John Cusack as Curtis Jackson, author of science fiction works as a limousine driver. [12]
* Amanda Peet as Kate, the former wife of Jackson. [13]
* Liam James as Noah Curtis, son of Jack and Kate.
* Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, daughter of Jack and Kate. [14]
* Thomas McCarthy as Gordon, Kate's current boyfriend and a plastic surgeon. [15]
* Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, President of the United States to-45 [6]
* Thandie Newton as Laura Wilson, daughter of the President. [6]
* Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley, scientific advisor to the President. [16]
* Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, Chief of Staff. [6]
* Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, [17] someone who predicted the end of the world and is considered crazy by others. Alex Jones claims Harrelson told him that Frost's character based on himself. Frost's character is based on Art Bell. Harrelson compared the character to the figure of Greek mythology, Cassandra, whose predictions were rejected. [18]
* Ng Chin Han as Lin Pang, a worker in Tibet. [8]
* Zlatko Buric as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire.
Music
Original music for the film composed by Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander. Singer Adam Lambert from American Idol contributed songs for this film, entitled "Time for Miracles" and expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to interview with MTV. [19] Music of this film consists of 24 tracks, which also includes the song "fades Like a Photograph" by Filter and another song titled "It's Not The End of The World", authored by Kloser and Wander. [20] Marketing
On 12 November 2008, the studio released the first teaser trailer for 2012 that show the tsunami hit the Himalayan scientific and a message stating that the world will end in 2012, and that the government of the world does not prepare people for this event. Trailer ends with a message for the readers to "find out the truth" (look for the truth) by searching for "2012" on search engines. The Guardian criticized the effectiveness of marketing as "deeply flawed" and a connection to a web site that no longer make claims about 2012 ". [21]
The studio also launched a viral marketing website which is operated by the Institute for Human Continuity artificial, in which hunters can sign up to film a lottery number to be part of the population that would be saved from global destruction. [22] David Morrison of NASA has received more than 1,000 questions from people who thought the website was genuine and condemned it, saying "I've also had cases of teenagers wrote to me saying they wanted to commit suicide because they do not want to see the world end. I think when you lie on the Internet and scare children to make money, is ethically wrong. "[23] other viral marketing website promoting Farewell Atlantis, a fiction novel that was made by the player main protagonist of this film, about the events of 2012. [24]
Comcast also has held a "closed road campaign" to promote the film, where the scene two minutes of the movie is broadcast at 450 United States commercial television networks, local stations speak English and Spanish, and 89 in the cable television channel broadcast 10 minutes between 10: 50 nights EDT / PDT and 11:00 pm EDT / PDT on October 1, 2009. [25] The scene is the destruction of Los Angeles and ends with a Cliffhanger (film term), with all clips of five minutes 28 seconds available on Comcast's Fancast website . Trade newspaper Variety predicted that, "this release will be aired in front of 90% of all homes watching television advertising, or nearly 110 million viewers. When coupled with the flow of online and mobile, can be increased by more than 140 million viewers". [25] Sony also plans to replicate this campaign in other areas. [25] Release
2012 was originally scheduled to be released on July 10, 2009. Release date moved to 12 November 2009 (November 13 in the U.S.) to get out of the busy summer schedule to a time frame that the studio is considered to have potential for financial success. According to the studio, the film will be finished for the summer release date, but the change of date will give more time for production. [26] The film was released on November 11, 2009. [27] [2] Released Friday November 13, 2009 in Canada and the United States, and 21 November 2009 in Japan. [1] a big release in India on November 13, 2009. In the United Kingdom, a number of theaters, like Islington Vue Cinemas, has the screening schedule at 8:12 pm (20:12) that coincide with the movie title. [28] Reception
Film 2012 currently holds the value of 34% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 5 reviews, mention various scientific errors, which seem lazy script and visual reliance on CG. In the 'critics' above, the value is 22%. [29] For comparison, the film also has a value of 'mixed' 56 in Metacritic, based on 7 reviews. [30]
Roger Ebert is very enthusiastic about this film, giving it 3.5 of 4 stars, saying the film is "to provide what was promised, since no one will buy tickets expecting something else, this film is, for the audience, is one of the most satisfying movie this year. " The emergence of television
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Emmerich confirmed that the television series based on this film is being made. The series will be used as a sequel to the movie and planned to talk about a set of survivors in the year 2013
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