Post Apocalyptic

By Tom Mitchell

Genre themes

These are some of the themes you can except in a Post Apocalyptic film War, Pandemic, Failure of modern technology, Aliens, Environmental disaster. Post-apocalyptic often take place in a rural place, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain.

Narrative

In light of a recent explosion of post-apocalyptic narratives in popular film, the post-apocalyptic narrative an expression of entrenched human desires, anxieties. Post-apocalyptic is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe or 100 years after the disaster, focusing on the travails of survivors.

I Am Legend In September 2012, military virologist Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville is the last healthy and immune human in New York City. A genetically-engineered variant of the measles virus created by Dr. Alice Krippin meant as a cure for cancer, had mutated into a lethal strain. It spread throughout the world, killing 90% of humanity. Most survivors became predatory, vampiric beings called "Darkseekers" that emerge after dusk to prey on those immune to the virus.

I Am LegendRobert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague, The Infected lurk in the shadows watching Neville's every move waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpYq9rgg3w this is the clip of trailer for I Am Legend.

The Book of EliIn a violent post-apocalyptic society, a drifter, Eli, has been wandering westward across North America for thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, Eli travels on foot toward the west coast of the United States. Along the way, he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of highway bandits who try to ambush him. Searching for a source of water, he arrives in a ramshackle town built and overseen by Carnegie.

The Book of Eli A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. Eli walks through the abandoned road in a post-apocalyptic 2043. He is a wanderer and traveling out West. He finds an abandoned house and searches it for anything that can be useful. He tries to fill his canteen with water, but the taps don't work. He checks a closet and finds a dead body. He takes the corpse's boots and clears his weapons while listening to an ancient 3rd Generation iPod. He roasts the cat and eats it, sharing a small portion with a rat that comes close by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAMUv22y1og this is the trailer for The Book Of Eli

The Road A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified cataclysm has killed all new plant and animal life. Civilization has collapsed, reducing the survivors to scavenging, and in some cases, cannibalism. They search for supplies as they travel south on a road to the coast, in the hope it will be warmer. The man carries a revolver, but has only two bullets.

The Road A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food and each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLgszfXTAY this is the trailer for The Road