The Day After Tomorrow
Jake Gyllenhaal looks back on the absurd and monumental musical scale ofThe Day After Tomorrowshoot and how it solidified his feelings about acting . Gyllenhaal asterisk in the 2003 picture as Sam Hall , Word ofDennis Quaid ’s paleoclimatologist Jack , who is trapped in New York when a major violent storm upsurge brings in tsunami - like wave and flooding the urban center , trapping Sam and his friends inside the New York City Public Library . His father races against time to reach him before the impending new ice eld freezes Sam and his friends to death .
Alongside Quaid and Gyllenhaal , the cast forThe Day After Tomorrowincluded Sela Ward , Emmy Rossum , Ian Holm , Arjay Smith , Austin Nichols , Dash Mihok , Jay O. Sanders , Kenneth Walsh , Perry King and Nestor Serrano . Co - written and manoeuvre by Roland Emmerichand inspired by the novelThe Coming Global Superstorm , the disaster thriller debuted to mixed review from critic , who praised the exceptional effects and action succession while direct criticism to the wretched screenplay and ludicrous science presented in the flick . Despite the mixed reviews , The Day After Tomorrowwas a box office smasher , gross over $ 552 million against its $ 125 million budget .
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While appearing onVanity Fair ’s series of actors revisit their life history timelines , Jake Gyllenhaal look back on filming Roland Emmerich’sThe Day After Tomorrow . The Oscar nominee recalled the " silliness " of shoot on a " massive " heated soundstage in the freezing winter of Quebec and how it help boost his confidence in his professing . See what Gyllenhaal shared below :
“ One of the things I remember about that film , which I think it defines moviemaking and being an actor in movies totally , is that we were film in Montreal in the dead of winter and Quebec winter are not for a slouch . It was freezing and yet we were shooting on a phase , a massive stage , that was heated to 80 degrees and then we were fritter in fake Baron Snow of Leicester inside that stage venture like we were suspend cold . [ Laughs ] That just sort of encapsulates the fatuity of what film are and how you urgently take your resourcefulness in parliamentary procedure to make these matter put to work . And also , there are these great moment of the size that movies can be , like the grand nature of make pic that is just so beautiful and I remember walking on set and there being the front steps of the New York City Public Library on a stage in Montreal and a water tank the size of , I do n’t even bed , it was just monolithic with machine deluge up to their window and a thousand extras and a simple machine that could make a faux tsunami . I just thought , ‘ This is just the best occupation . ’ ”
Roland Emmerich is intimately known for his work in the calamity genre and is credit as one of the fundamental figures in help revive the genre in the ' 90s alongsideJan de Bont withTwister , Michael Bay withArmageddonand James Cameron withTitanic . Emmerich ’s first effort in the genre come with 1996’sIndependence Dayand would continue in the subsequent 25 years with hit such asThe Day After Tomorrow,10,000 BCand2012 . Despite most of his films scoring large box office returns , most have received immix - to - damaging review from critic for his poorly written screenplays , uninteresting theatrical role an inaccurate historical and scientific plots while some have remember him for delivering Zea mays everta entertainment .
Gyllenhaal’sThe Day After Tomorrowexperience seems largely in line with how critics and audiences feel aboutEmmerich ’s films in oecumenical , delivering something that ’s both absurd and massive in its scale . Though devotee of the actor may not have the movie in their tilt of favorite Gyllenhaal character , his prison term on the set and cementing his making love for the job should do as a magic look back in history . Audiences can revisitThe Day After Tomorrowstreaming on HBO Max now .
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Source : Vanity Fair
