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    University of Perpetual Help

    System Dalta- Molino

    Earth Science

    The Core
    A movie review

    August 19, 2010


    Submitted by Bill Patrick M. Familara
    Submitted to Ms. Almyra Mulitas
    (Professor)
    Introduction:

    Earth this is the place that we called home. But, there are mysteries that covers on it.

    Even the modern-science world cannot explain. Changes happens every second that

    passed. We cannot predict or stop those changes, but we can prevent it to happen and

    we could learn how to adopt to it. Sudden changes could change our lives permanently

    but some changes could seized us from existence. The movie entitled “The Core” is

    about the Inner Core that happen to stop revolving and threatens the earth to end.
    About the Film:

    The Paramount Pictures film entitled “The Core” written by Jon Amiel is based on the

    novel Core by Paul Preuss. It is a disaster film that concerns a team that has to drill to

    the center of the Earth and set out a chain of nuclear explosions in order to restart the

    rotation of Earth's core.

    Plot of the Film:

    For unknown reasons, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's

    electromagnetic field to quickly weaken. Instantly, many unexplainable events on the

    globe happen. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius,

    suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending

    hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar Square, flocks of

    pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds, slamming into

    windshields and causing drivers to lose control of their cars. And in Rome, as thousands

    of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical super storms reduces the ancient Roman

    Colosseum to rubble. Rushing to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call

    upon geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and a team of the world's most gifted scientists to

    travel into the earth's core in a subterranean craft piloted by "terranauts" Major

    Rebecca "Beck" Childs and Commander Robert Iverson. Their mission: Detonate a

    nuclear device that will reactivate the core and save the world from sure destruction.

    They buid asnake-like vessel called the Virgil with the help of Ed "Braz" Brazzelton, who
    has developed both a means of quickly boring through rock using an array of powerful

    lasers, and a material called "unobtainium" for its hull that can withstand the high

    pressures within the core. Keyes develops a means of using MRI-like technology to help

    visualize their way through solid rock. Keyes also enlists the help of a young computer

    hacker, Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch , to help with communications between the vessel

    and the surface, as well as to keep any word of the potential global disaster off the

    Internet for fear of causing a worldwide panic. They start to dig in the Mariana’s trench.

    As they dig, they discovered that the vessel has incapability to see or to distinguish

    open-spaces that resulted to crash on the cave of huge diamonds. One of their

    companion died when they try to remove the piece of crystal that stocked on the laser

    beam. They continue to travel down the earth and they encounter many problems that

    resulted to the death of their other buddy.

    The reach the outer core and the team discovers that the core material is less viscous

    than originally thought and they have to come up with a new plan. They decide to

    release the explosives in Virgil's pods. Braz dies while activating the manual release. A

    nuke falls on Zimski's leg and traps him in a nother pod when it is released. The

    explosions go off and the core restarts. Beck and Josh get to the ocean floor but are

    trapped because they have no fuel. They activate the subsonic pulses and Rat uses that

    to locate them. Afterwards, Rat releases the top secret files onto the Internet and to

    the media so that Commander Anderson, Braz, Zimski, and Serge will be remembered

    as heroes.
    References:

    IMDb: The Internet Movie Database; IMDb.com;


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/plotsummary

    Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia; Wikipedia.org; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core

    FANDANGO; fandango.com; http://www.fandango.com/thecore_v267270/summary

    Movie Review:

    Many factual mistakes was manifested on the film. For example, in the melting bridge

    scene, the space microwave was powerful enough to melt the bridge's thick metal but

    how come it could not melt the roof of the cars on the bridge? When the Golden Gate

    Bridge is destroyed by the sun's unfiltered rays the two towers of the bridge lean in the

    wrong direction. When the middle of the bridge is gone, only the tension from the

    anchor wires (connecting to land) would remain and they would pull the towers

    outward. However, in the movie the towers lean inward.

    When 'Rat' is trying to hack into Project Destiny control, he gets several '404' errors,

    but '404' is page missing or page not found, not access denied. It should say '401-

    Access Denied' in HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) for security reasons.

    In the movie, they use "PPI" to abbreviate the pounds per sq. inch instead of “PSI”.

    You could see this part before they hit the crust.
    Conclusion:

    This is a must-seen movie due to its factual information that was shown and discussed

    on the film. Students could learn many things about the earth’s body and its

    interrelation to each other that even one will deteriorate it affect the whole. They

    discussed the parts of the Earth, the Inner Core, The Outer Core, The Mantel, The and

    The Crust. They also tell the importance of the cores and the activity of it to support

    the life from existence. Although many factual mistakes was manifested on the film, like

    using PPI as an abbreviation to pounds per sq. instead of PSI. Those mistakes are can

    be excuse, I think, because anybody commits mistake and it is unavoidable. When the

    students watch this film, especially the elementary ones, they could learn that the

    Earth’s outer core is composed of iron and nickel that happens rotating that scientist

    believe that it influence the Earth’s Magnetic Field. In the movie itself, when the Outer

    core slowed its rotation , the magnetic field of the earth was weakened that resulted on

    many unexplainable events like vast and strong thunderstorms that hit the European

    countries and the explosion of the ancient Roman Colosseum. According to

    Wikipedia.org “Without the outer core, life on Earth would be very different.” This quote

    explain that the convection of the Outer Core creates the Earth’s Magnetic Field that

    extends to its Atmosphere that protects us from the solar waves like ultraviolet rays and

    solar winds . Without it, the solar waves can directly enter the Earth. That could result

    to massive distraction that the earth will be incapable to support life just like Mars.

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