Don't Look Up

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Oglethorpe urges Dibiasky and Mindy to leak the news to the media, and they do so on a morning talk show. When hosts Jack Bremmer and Brie Evantee treat the topic frivolously, Dibiasky loses her composure and rants about the threat. Mindy receives public approval for his looks; conversely, Dibiasky became the subject of negative internet memes. Actual news about the comet's threat receives little public attention and the danger is denied by Orlean's NASA Director Jocelyn Calder, a top donor to Orlean with no background in astronomy. When news of Orlean's sex scandal with her Supreme Court nominee Sheriff Conlon is exposed, she distracts from the bad publicity by finally confirming the threat and announcing a project to strike and divert the comet using nuclear weapons.

I started talking to a lot of [climate] scientists. I kept looking for good news, and I never got it. Everything I was hearing was worse than what I was hearing on the mainstream media. So I was talking to [David Sirota], and we were both just like, \"can you believe that this isn't being covered in the media That it's being pushed to the end of the story That there's no headlines\" And Sirota just offhandedly said, \"it's like a comet is heading to Earth and it's going to destroy us all and no one cares.\" And I was like, \"that's the idea!\"[16]

Despite their differences, the effect of a significant collision with the Earth would be much the same, which is why all potentially dangerous bodies now come under the umbrella of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). The largest impact event in recorded history is the 12-megaton aerial explosion near the Tunguska river in Siberia on 30 June 1908, but that was a pebble compared to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event 66 million years ago. Studies of K-Pg, a six-to-nine-mile-wide object making landfall with an estimated force of 100 million megatons, indicate what a similar impact might look like.

The Danish director August Blom made the first attempt to put a NEO collision on screen in his eerie 1916 movie The End of the World. The conceit of the film was inspired by the appearance of Halley's comet in 1910 but its mood reflected the revolutionary temper in Europe (Frank Stoll, a wealthy cad, dies after an angry mob of workers storms his decadent last-night party) and the horror of World War One: the meteor shower looks like a mortar bombardment while the shattered town into which one survivor emerges resembles any number of towns in France at the time.

In fiction, though, a comet isn't just a comet. In the same way that post-war science fiction was always on some level about the bomb, the slow-motion apocalypse of climate change is the subtext of most 21st Century disaster narratives. Recent years have seen a boom in explicit \"cli-fi\" novels such as John Lanchester's The Wall and Jessie Greengrass's The High House, but the metaphor is hard at work in other end-of-the-world stories, from Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind to Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven. Adam McKay has talked about looking for a means of making a movie about the climate crisis and settling on a comet as the perfect allegory.

Don't Look Up, which comes to Netflix on Christmas Eve, is an unlikely cross between Deep Impact and Veep, combining broad satire with genuine anguish. The blacker the comedy, the better the movie gets. The three Professor Peep-like astronomers are familiar genre archetypes revived by a new context as their efforts to warn the world bang up against populist politicians, shallow broadcasters, hubristic tech gurus and online conspiracy theorists. You can also detect in McKay's plea to listen to scientists an unspoken critique of irrational and partisan responses to the pandemic: its comet-deniers literally refuse to look up. While a little too baggy and scattershot, Don't Look Up does politicise a genre which tends to avoid politics, and relocates the satirical energy to be found in people's struggles to take existential threats seriously.

As the hero of When Worlds Collide observes: \"They, and he, could not realise that the world was doomed, any more than a man could realise that he himself must die. Death is what happens to others! So other worlds may perish; but not ours, on which we stand!\" The bitingly pessimistic new wave of impact fiction compels us to consider the worst-case scenario and not just to look up but to look inwards.

In desperation, Male Scientist and Female Scientist finagle their way onto a big TV show. But all the subsequent press is about how sexy Male Scientist is and how shrill Female Scientist sounds. Still in desperation, they go to the New York Times and get an article about the comet. In response, the President has Asian Scientist (who is head of NASA) announce there\\u2019s nothing to worry about, and the Times drops their story and accuses the scientists of making them look bad.

But apply it to COVID, and it\\u2019s even worse. Dr. Fauci and the CDC tell me every day that Pfizer\\u2019s vaccine is safe - but Male Scientist and NASA told their victims every day that Tech Company\\u2019s comet retrieval plan was safe. Sounds like we can\\u2019t trust scientific authorities when there might be a profit motive involved, better skip the jab! I hear ivermectin looks promising\\u2026

Don\\u2019t Look Up decides - well, let\\u2019s just say it doesn\\u2019t take my advice. In the climactic final scene, obese white men in red baseball caps chant their slogan - \\u201CDon\\u2019t look up! Don\\u2019t look up!\\u201D - at a rally, while a clearly visible comet above them barrels towards Earth. The obvious feeling being elicited is condescension. You\\u2019re smarter than all those guys - the right answer is super obvious to you. You\\u2019re better than those Hollywood celebrities who say we need to \\u201Cconsider both sides\\u201D. You know there\\u2019s exactly one side to every question, it\\u2019s the drop-dead obvious one, and the right amount of time to spend thinking about it is zero seconds.

You should absolutely trust Science. But Science is not clearly visible, like a comet bearing down on you. Science is like the Gnostic God. It exists, somewhere out there, perfect in itself. It is pure and right and beautiful. If you could hear it, it would certainly speak Truth. Yet here we are, in the stupid material universe, seeing through a glass darkly. Good sometimes looks like evil, evil often looks like good, and there\\u2019s some jerk with the head of a lion and the body of a snake psyching us out at every turn. Do we trust the priests The scriptures The Inner Light of our own hearts \\u201CJust trust in God\\u201D. NOT HELPFUL.

JS: So as you say, elites have just been putting the lid back on, keeping us from getting out of the pot of boiling water over and over again. And you have written about the psychology of elites and how it looks from their perspective, and why they put the lid back on. And so I think people would be interested to hear about that.

\"I don't expect, you know, religious, earthshaking, mind-changing outcomes from this movie, but just, if you could look at the world and see the distractions, see the profit motive, see the careerism, see the contentiousness that creates profits separated a little bit from what matters just a little bit better, I would be happy with that,\" McKay said.

To rewatch any of these movies, or reread the discourse that sprang up around them, is to peer through a shattered looking glass. The real 2022 is shaping up to be fractionally better than Soylent Green predicted. Last summer was the hottest on record, a mass extinction is well underway, and Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States are surging once again, but humans are not routinely eating each other (as far as we know).

Lawrence teased to Netflix: \"Kate is a truth-teller. Kate Dibiasky is a truth-teller. So when she tries to tell this news to the rest of the world and is met with resistance or just, you know, complete and utter disbelief, it's really... it's really upsetting. And she... you... you can really see... Kate really gets a hard look at life and the public and social media.\"

The sci-fi satire Don't Look Up is about a comet hurtling toward Earth from the cosmos, but the cast is plenty starry on its own! The cast includes several Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe winners, with some of the buzziest actors in Hollywood taking on roles in the movie's massive ensemble. It's the kind of star-studded cast you rarely see, especially in a comedy rather than an Oscars-bait drama, but we certainly aren't complaining about the opportunity to see some of our favorite actors working together!\\nAhead, we're rounding up all the A-list names who are part of the main cast. Plus, this isn't even every single recognizable name in the movie \\u2014 there are a couple of surprising cameos that are much more fun to discover on your own! Keep reading for more about what your favorite stars are doing in this movie and beyond.\\n\",\"id\":48641549,\"type\":\"gallery\",\"photo_source\":\"Image Source: Getty \\/ Kevin Mazur\",\"permalink\":\"https:\\/\\/www.popsugar.com\\/entertainment\\/dont-look-up-cast-48641549\",\"canonical\":\"https:\\/\\/www.popsugar.com\\/entertainment\\/dont-look-up-cast-48641549\",\"share_text\":\"From Jennifer Lawrence to Ariana Grande, You Won't Believe How Many Superstars Are in Don't Look Up\",\"use_tall_image\":false,\"omit_from_countdown\":false,\"caption_num\":false,\"slide_tags\":\"Ariana GrandeJennifer LawrenceLeonardo DiCaprioMoviesStreamingDon't Look Up\",\"is_cover\":true},{\"image\":\"https:\\/\\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\\/files\\/thumbor\\/rWUsz50IaU3Ygt8clIZwvjMrEhA\\/fit-in\\/1024x1024\\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-\\/2021\\/12\\/08\\/966\\/n\\/44498184\\/bcdd4bc6edd6e796_GettyImages-1357397562\\/i\\/Who-Does-Leonardo-DiCaprio-Play-in-Dont-Look-Up-Randall-Mindy.jpg\",\"share_image\":\"https:\\/\\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\\/files\\/thumbor\\/x4DWG5LJ2Ien-m986_vana2_nZQ\\/fit-in\\/2048xorig\\/fil