What is the first instance of a disaster movie coming true?
Think movies like Twister, Dante's Peak and Hard Rain as general examples, but feel free to expand on them. Avoid movies like The Day After Tomorrow because they're not as clear-cut and may lead to a discussion about global warming rather than answering the question.
Note: specifically looking for the FIRST instance of the movie coming out before the event occurred, not ANY instance of the movie coming first.
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China Syndrome was released in 1979 about 2 weeks before a similar nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Harrisburg, PA.
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What is the first Disaster Movie?
Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."What movie is Disaster Movie based on?
Raiders of the Lost Parody: Disaster Movie, like most films made by them, contains a parody of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Rapid-Fire Comedy: In the Abrams, Zucker and Abrams style, but most of the time, they throw in near-exact replicas of scenes from other movies instead of jokes.What disaster movies make fun of?
The purported fun in \u201cDisaster Movie\u201d is in the relentless mashing up of pop-culture references: In the first few minutes, the film gropes dazedly for \u201cArmageddon,\u201d \u201c10,000 B.C.,\u201d \u201cAmerican Gladiators,\u201d \u201cIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\u201d and Amy Winehouse. Does it slow down from there?What is the meaning of disaster in movies?
(d\u026a\u02c8z\xe6st\u0259 \u02c8mu\u02d0v\u026a ) a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action. Collins English Dictionary.Mysterious List of Numbers Pulled From a Time Capsule Predicts Future Disasters
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Though not strictly a movie, there is the now infamous example of the pilot episode of the X-Files spin-off show, The Lone Gunmen.
Airing 6 months before the terrorist attack on 9/11, it depicts the hackers foiling an attempt by a shady organization to fly a plane into the WTC in order to catalyze a Mid-East attack.
Dodgy conspiracy theories aside, this is a prime example of the entertainment media prophesizing a real event/disaster.
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Well a few months after the film Outbreak was released there was an outbreak of the Ebola virus Zaire.
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