"We didn't want the Blade Runner future where technology has overrun nature, which to some extent is where we are headed now," Shyamalan says. It's a theme he sees in many discussions about the future going on now in society, and that is reflected in a sort of hippie/monk future for humanity seen in the film, which Shyamalan wrote with star Smith. (In Moby-Dick, author Herman Melville wrote, "one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.") Even though he is best known for suspense films rather than cliff-jumping action films, he says he saw the "sense of biblical judgment in the fury of nature" underlying the film. "There is a line in Moby-Dick that always stuck with me about man and nature," Shyamalan says. "I was struck by one biologist's observation that birds would blight the sky without us," he says. What fascinated him about the movie were environmental studies and books digested in a year of planning the production. "The science that is in there, nobody will get in the back row," Shyamalan says with a laugh. So what would it mean to have a world without us? In the air, at least 10% of bird species are likely to disappear by the end of the century at present rates of population decline. On land, big cats such as lions numbered in the hundreds of thousands a century ago, and today there are less than 35,000 in Africa. Increasing numbers of studies looking from the skies to the ocean depths have documented our impact: The stocks of large predatory fish, such as tuna, swordfish and cod, are less 10% of their levels before industrial fishing. Much of the "fun," he says, in planning the film, which opened Friday, was trying to contemplate a suitably adventurous world where Smith and his son Jaden play space rangers who crash-land on Earth and find that the heavy hand of humanity has been abruptly removed from the planet for a thousand years. Night Shyamalan, are the lessons of environmental scientists on the impact of people on our planet. Hidden deep in the "muscular" science-fiction film, says director M. No more marketing calls on the cellphone, traffic jams or radio call-in show blather.īut in After Earth, which stars Will Smith, the adventure-flick vision of the future without other people looks less ideal. Watch Video: Jaden Smith of 'After Earth' on NASA satellitesĪ world empty of other people might sound pleasant in our over-connected, over-sharing, Internet age.
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