The Day After Part XV

Dr. Oakes returns to Kansas City. The ruins of the city behind him were composited from an actual photo of Hiroshima after the 1945 bombing. This is the end of The Day After.

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• Nuclear
• war

[eveningrecords]

As a British person, I would like to say something in defense of this film. It's true that 'Threads' does have the stylistic advantage, but when you consider which film is more important historically, there is no contest. Ronald Reagan may have brought us close to the edge, but he also brought us back from it, and the White-house screening of this movie was instrumental in his desire to pursue detente. The film makers wanted to show what would happen to 'Reagan's America'

[lothartheterrible]

@eveningrecords I've always maintained that both films achieved what they set out to do. I've also maintained that Threads is the superior film. People who did not grow up in that era do not fully understand the impact of these two films; the social statements that they represent.

[voyzovrezon]

What was going on between 1:14 and 1:20?

Thanks for posting this btw. It was very disturbing but I had never seen it before. My older sister remembers seeing it when it originally aired, saying it was a big tv event.

[lothartheterrible]

@voyzovrezon That person was trying to cut the finger off of a dead body in order to get a ring for bartering.

[lothartheterrible]

@MRresievil310 Yeah, but it also has shittier special effects. Nothing is perfect. You're too young to understand that both movies were social statements, and neither film's director was looking to "outdo" each other.

[86485177]

Até em um futuro apocaliptico uma cebola faz uma homem chorar!

[Quintas7373]

@SocratesTheGadfly  your use of CAPS greatly enhances your point. I repeat. IT GREATLY ENHANCES YOUR POINT. what you say is true. i KNOW because you typed it in caps. don't you agree? DO YOU NOT AGREE??

[moaimullet]

Thanks for uploading this. I also appreciated your short description of each segment!

[Kainlarsen]

@eveningrecords Spoken like a true Conservative.

[JohnnyDart76]

@StrangeDreamsStudio: I don't quite see it that way. I feel we are actually much better off in 2011, than say, 1981, or even 1961, not only because the number of usable nukes has gone way down since the end of the '80s but also thanks to significantly relaxed international tensions compared to those days as well. =)

[jawadehud]

nunca dejara esta pelicula de impresionarme...la vi en su estreno en 1983 y aun hoy en que parece haberse alejado el peligro de una guerra mundial las imagenes nos sobrecogen

[SocratesTheGadfly]

@eveningrecords for the most part you are correct however President Ronald Reagan did NOT and I will repeat it for you DID NOT bring us close to the edge. the soviet empire was an EVIL EMPIRE that had recently invaded another country spreading its communist empire into central asia. furthermore, the soviet empire basing nuclear weapons in cuba by kruschev brought the world much closer to armageddon than President Ronald Reagan and Kennedy was President in October 1962.

[StrangeDreamsStudio]

in the year 2011, in the event of a real nuclear confrontation..there would be no survivors at all.

none. Except those that were living in holes that didn't get the oxygen sucked out of them...

they too..would die when supplies ran out or poisoning took them too. there would be no atmosphere to breathe anyway...a dead planet..

[ClearSmashDrop]

Having seen the movie a few times since the original airing its hard to remember exactly how I felt back then. I think like most adolescents I think if I survive the first strike I'll live after cause I'm imortal. Even if intellectually I understood radiation posioning and the collaspe of industry. I have no such illusions as a 40 yr old adult

[sinusbradycardia]

@lothartheterrible Right on. I have said the same thing with respect to both films, they get their point across. As far as which film is superior, that is a matter of personal preference and maybe I'm partial to TDA because I saw it when it first aired in 1983. I was 10. By luck I turned the TV to a station that was airing Threads sometime in the 80's. Scary. Whether rational or irrational the fear of nuclear war weighed heavily on my mind and I wasn't even in my teens.

[normicon]

I never saw this movie before, but it came out the year I graduated from high school. I was too young to remember the worst of the nuclear terror firsthand, but I went to college during the cold war, studying political science. Now that I've seen it, I realize why it caused such controversy. Reading John Hersey's "Hiroshima" was bad - this was far worse. But I'm glad movies like this are around so we don't forget the madness that was the Cold War, and don't make the same mistake again.