Before the Flood (film)

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Movie
Original title Before the flood
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Fisher Stevens
script Mark Monroe
production Trevor Davidoski ,
Jennifer Davisson Killoran ,
James Packer ,
Brett Ratner ,
Fisher Stevens
music Mogwai ,
Trent Reznor ,
Atticus Ross ,
Gustavo Santaolalla
camera Antonio Rossi
cut Brett Banks ,
Geoffrey Richman ,
Abhay Sofsky ,
Ben Sozanski
occupation

Before the Flood is an American documentary film directed by Fisher Stevens based on a script by Mark Monroe and premiered on September 9, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival . In the film, prominent leaders and politicians, with whom actor Leonardo DiCaprio meets, comment on the consequences of climate change . These include the then Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon , the former US President Bill Clinton and the then incumbent US President Barack Obama , his Secretary of State John Kerry , but also Pope Francis . The film was shown for the first time in the USA on October 3, 2016 at the South by South Lawn in the White House and was presented on October 9, 2016 as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

action

Piers Sellers show DiCaprio models from NASA

At the beginning of the film, only Leonardo DiCaprio can be heard as narrator, describing in detail Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights , which is of great importance for the film.

The film raises the further course a look at what impact the climate change has on the environment and what the company can do with extinction obtain endangered species , but also the ecosystems and communities of indigenous people all over the planet . DiCaprio can be seen in almost every scene in the film. It brings together some of the world's leading scientists and influential world leaders and politicians to talk to them about what could be done about climate change.

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon , the former US President Bill Clinton , his later counterpart Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry , but also Pope Francis will have their say . DiCaprio also speaks about the influence of companies on politics, with an economist from Harvard University . He travels around the world in the film to learn how other countries such as China and India are dealing with climate change and to get first-hand information about its effects.

The film shows how the ice melt in Greenland causes a color change in the region, which means that it no longer reflects the sun, but absorbs it, turning it from a reflector into a heat store. DiCaprio takes a walk on the ice at the Arctic Circle . Afterwards the distant Miami Beach in Florida is visited, where one tries to fight against the consequences of rising sea ​​levels by raising the roads . At NASA , DiCaprio has Piers Sellers show models of ocean currents . DiCaprio also visits oil sands deposits in Canada and the rainforests of Sumatra , which are on the verge of destruction due to clearing for the cultivation of oil palms , which are used in the food and cosmetic industry.

production

Staff and cast

The director was Fisher Stevens , who won an Oscar in 2010 for the production of the documentary The Bay . Mark Monroe wrote the script .

Leonardo DiCaprio , who was appointed United Nations Ambassador for Peace for Climate Protection by Ban Ki-moon on September 16, 2014 and who gave his first speech at the climate summit a few days later , speaks in the film with politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs and other people for whom the topic of climate protection is just as important as it is to himself. After taking office in 2013 , Pope Francis announced an environmental cyclical that was announced in 2015 and focuses on the topic of environmental and climate protection. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, had pushed the Paris Agreement on global climate protection. In the last few months of his term in office, Barack Obama called for the strictest climate protection rules that have ever existed in the USA, but top US judges stopped Obama's climate protection plans. At the UN climate conference, his foreign minister, John Kerry , recognized the responsibility of industrialized countries for climate change, especially that of the USA. Obama's former colleague, former US President Bill Clinton, had signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1998 , but the climate skeptic George W. Bush withdrew the signature. The meteorologist and astronaut of NASA Piers Sellers is a renowned expert on climate change and global warming. DiCaprio also spoke to the director of the Indian Center for Science and Environment Sunita Narain, the marine ecologist Enric Sala of the National Geographic Society and Elon Musk , the chairman of SolarCity .

Filming

As part of the filming, shots of melting glaciers and icebergs , large chunks of which are breaking off , were taken while driving a snowmobile on the coast of Greenland . Further recordings were made during overflights over the arctic regions of Canada and over the local tundra . In addition, aerial photographs of the partly smoldering rainforests of Indonesia took place, and a nature park on the local island of Sumatra was inspected . Narwhals and children swimming with them were filmed on the island of Palau in the Pacific Ocean . In India , recordings were made in a flood-ravaged field where farmers had grown onions. In the Vatican , DiCaprio presented Pope Francis with a book on the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch described at the beginning of the film . In the US itself, DiCaprio visited US President Barack Obama in the White House . A joint visit to the Tesla Gigafactory 1 with Elon Musk took place in Nevada . Further recordings were made in the coastal city of Miami .

Film music

The film music was created in a joint project by several renowned, international artists, all of whom were previously known for their work and have received numerous awards for this. The artists included the American musician Trent Reznor and the English musician Atticus Ross , who together founded the band How to Destroy Angels and before that they also worked together on the music project Nine Inch Nails , including the concept album Year Zero , the one dystopian society in 2022. Reznor and Ross composed the soundtrack for the film The Social Network by David Fincher , for which they rearranged, among others, In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg . For this work they were awarded an Oscar and the Golden Globe Award in 2011 . Reznor and Ross's score for Gone Girl from 2014 was also nominated for the Golden Globes.

The British post-rock band Mogwai , who most recently wrote the soundtrack for Mark Cousins' documentary Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise , was also involved, as was the Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaolalla , who is considered a pioneer of rock en Español, a musical genre where rock and Latin American rhythms merge and who was voted one of the 25 Most Influential Latin Americans in America by Time Magazine in 2005. In 2006 Santaolalla won the Oscar for best film composer for the country-oriented film music he created for Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee and in 2007 for the film music for Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu .

In a first step, the artists worked independently of one another and were guided by their feelings and instincts. In the next step, they exchanged the unfinished titles created in this way for revision, had them expanded, reprocessed and reinterpreted if they considered it necessary or useful. The soundtrack for Before the Flood , which was created in this joint project, comprises 18 songs and was released on October 21, 2016. Reznor released the song A Minute to Breathe on October 7, 2016 . According to his own statements, Reznor sang the song in a voice that he had never sung before. In December 2016, the song was included in the list of candidates (longlist) at the Academy Awards 2017 in the category Best Film Song , from which the members of the Academy will determine the official nominations.

Marketing and Publishing

Leonardo DiCaprio and director Fisher Stevens at the premiere of the film in Toronto Leonardo DiCaprio and director Fisher Stevens at the premiere of the film in Toronto
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Fisher Stevens
at the premiere of the film in Toronto

The film premiered on September 9, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival . A first trailer for the film was published at the end of September 2016.

On October 3, 2016, the film was shown for the first time in the United States at the South by South Lawn in the White House . Before the premiere there, there was a discussion with DiCaprio and Obama. in which he praised the US president for his dedication, who did more to find solutions to the climate crisis than anyone else in history. It had been important to DiCaprio that the film was released before the US presidential election in November 2016 , and he said, “Those who don't believe in climate change don't believe in facts, science or empirical truth, and so should, in my opinion are not allowed to hold public office. ”He was referring to the Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump , who had repeatedly referred to climate change as an invention in the past. The entire discussion was recorded and posted on Facebook by DiCaprio that same day.

According to the director Fisher Stevens, it was his intention to make the deniers of climate change in the US Congress and also the population understand the importance of the Paris Agreement . On October 4, 2016, the day after the film premiered in the White House, the European Parliament approved the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (World Climate Agreement) , which the international community agreed on at the UN summit in Paris in December 2015 has been. From November 7, 2016, the UN climate conference will take place in Marrakech.

The film was presented on October 9, 2016 at the Hamptons International Film Festival and on October 14, 2016 at the London Film Festival . The film was officially released in US cinemas on October 21, 2016. Overall, the film is to be broadcast in 171 countries and in 45 languages. On October 30, 2016, the film was shown for the first time in Germany on the National Geographic Channel . At the same time, National Geographic published the film on Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, iTunes and Youtube.

reception

Reviews

At the beginning of the film, Leonardo DiCaprio presents the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights in detail, especially its middle section At the beginning of the film, Leonardo DiCaprio presents the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights in detail, especially its middle section
At the beginning of the film, Leonardo DiCaprio presents the triptych
The Garden of Earthly Delights in detail , especially its middle section

The film won over 73 percent of the Rotten Tomatoes critics (out of 30 critics in total).

Adam Chitwood from Collider says the film is similar to a study and shows what is happening in the world we live in, what could happen to it in the future and what can be done to prevent the worst possible outcome. Chitwood highlights the high profile interviews and compares the film to An Inconvenient Truth . The film already refers to the worst consequences of climate change and the associated global warming in the title, which alludes to the Flood. As Before the Flood or Antediluvian the period of human history is called before the flood in the English language in the Christian and Jewish theology, that means the antediluvian time. In addition to the biblical references, John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter also recalls the description of the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch used at the beginning of the film , which he also finds in Mark Monroe's script, which uses this as a framework for the presentation of the reckless use of human resources.

Awards

Evening Standard British Film Awards 2017

  • Award for best documentary film

Hollywood Film Awards 2016

Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2016

Toronto International Film Festival 2016

  • Award in third place with the People's Choice Award - Documentary (Fisher Stevens)

Web links

Individual evidence

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