Recently, a movie titled “2012” has been causing quite a stir. The film is based on the Mayan prophecy: the world will end in 2012. The movie unfolds the story of 2012 based on this theme. Regardless of whether it is true or not, let us revisit that Mayan prophecy...
Directed by Roland Emmerich, the director of “The Day After Tomorrow,” Sony’s annual disaster blockbuster “2012” has released three new teaser posters today. Targeting three iconic landmarks from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere, they depict a global disaster in progress.
In the posters, we see: the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, collapsing in a massive flood; the entire city of Los Angeles crumbling and sinking with the Golden Gate Bridge snapping; and the scene featured at the end of the trailer where a giant wave flips the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy and smashes it into the White House (the White House was previously destroyed by an alien spaceship in Emmerich’s famous “Independence Day”). Compared to “The Day After Tomorrow,” this film will truly present a panoramic view of the global destruction of the end of the world, fully showcasing magnificent disaster scenes such as meteorite showers, floods and tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and ground fissures, and melting snow peaks, shocking the audience with ultimate visual effects.
Roland Emmerich has “destroyed” almost the entire world three times in his directorial career: “Independence Day” in 1996 (where an alien attack challenged modern civilization), “Godzilla” a few years later (where a monster created by nuclear radiation destroyed the world), and “The Day After Tomorrow” in 2004 (where a climate disaster brought the Earth to the brink of extinction). “2012” shares a similar disaster background with “The Day After Tomorrow,” but it far surpasses its predecessor in terms of geographical span and thematic depth. The story of “2012” follows a scholar’s family, played by John Cusack, who happens to encounter the end of the world predicted by Mayan culture—December 21, 2012—while on vacation, and thus begins a difficult journey for survival. In addition to showing the great power of human emotion at the end of the world, another important plot line is the global joint construction of a maritime “Noah’s Ark” to allow the world’s elites and leaders to survive the disaster and rebuild Earth’s civilization. This includes engineering projects in Tibet, China; sacrifice will become a new theme presented in “2012.”
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Mayan Prophecy
The Mayan Calendar
Every few years, a “visionary” or a group of them throws out a new “doomsday” theory to scare us ordinary people. The most popular one recently sets the time for everyone to perish together on the winter solstice of 2012—about 3 years away from now. More than 100 books have already been published about this prophecy, but to be honest, there is nothing much new in them.
It might be a bit ridiculous that December 21, 2012, is considered the end of the world simply because we found that the Mayan calendar only goes up to December 21, 2012. It seems those so-called “prophets” simply have nothing better to do. Perhaps the real situation was like this:
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