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Tvtropes escape from tomorrow12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Artificial Outdoors Display: The Monitor can show anywhere on Earth in a full 3-D display.Armor-Piercing Question: When one of her teachers recites one of the calamities facing the world, Casey asks him "Can we fix it?".He warned everyone the end was coming and they turned it into entertainment. Apocalypse Cult: How Governor Nix sees the world he was born to.Anti-Hero: Frank is a cynical old Jedi master-type character who's seen the pins for what they really are and is quite rough around the edges.The "T lapel pins" are more of a VR thing. Alternate Universe: Tomorrowland is this, with accessibility through dimensional portals of various sophistications.Alternate Reality Game: The Optimist, which established the film's universe back in 2013.This neatly explains why he doesn't want to turn it off. A deleted scene explains that Nix was able to turn Frank's invention into the best clean energy source ever discovered, and it is now Tomorrowland's primary source of power.All There in the Manual: Much of the film's backstory is explored in The Optimist ARG and the novel "Before Tomorrowland".The modern "bridgeway" is basically a giant IPod. The equipment Frank finds under the 1964 World's Fair is Raygun Gothic. Nikola Tesla's designs are Steampunk a wood, brass and steel spaceship out of Jules Verne. The Aesthetics of Technology: Best demonstrated by the methods used to reach Tomorrowland.It becomes very literal when she finds the Tomorrowland pin, is dazzled with wonder and starts blindly wandering the virtual landscape - into walls, down staircases and into lakes until it runs out of power and she has to find her way to Tomorrowland for real. "Don't be so obsessed with your destination you forget to watch where you're going." This is figurative with Casey's attempts to keep NASA's last shuttle gantry from being dismantled - which get her arrested.An Establishing Character Moment montage has her attending classes in which teachers list numerous problems in the world while she struggles to get them to acknowledge her question, "What's the solution?" Casey retells her father's parable about the "two wolves" to encourage him not to lose hope.In the end, Frank sends out a new wave of recruiter animatronics with pins, telling them to "Find the ones who haven't given up. His pamphlet for The World's Fair has "I'll never give up!" scrawled on it. He also refuses to give up after Nix rebuffs him. "Never give up." As a child, Frank refuses to give up on his jet pack when his father tells him he'll never fix it.An Aesop: "Feed the right wolf." In other words, look for solutions and refuse to give up rather than surrender to despair and hopelessness.However, she is revealed to be an Audio-Animatronic®, aka a robot. Action Girl: Athena, who rescues Casey from the Sci-Fi memorabilia store with gadgets, a blaster, and her fighting skills.(Note: Tomorrowland is not connected with a Disney Junior animated series, Miles from Tomorrowland.) It tells the story of a mother and son who stumble into a conflict between Plus Ultra, Nazi scientists and an embittered cyborg around the 1939 New York World's Fair. Evading agents seeking to maintain a post-60s masquerade of Plus Ultra's activities, they set out to Tomorrowland to find just what's been keeping the world away from the future.Ī prequel novel, Before Tomorrowland was released in April 2015. She leads her to a jaded ex-boy genius named Frank Walker (George Clooney), who first journeyed to Tomorrowland at the World's Fair. In the present day, a young aspiring astrophysics student and daughter of a NASA scientist, Casey Newton (Britt Robinson), stumbles upon the secret when she is given a mysterious pin by a youth named Athena (Raffey Cassidy). The Tomorrowland we know in the parks was a cover story/orientation space created by later member Walt Disney, who was also giving lucky Plus Ultra inductees the opportunity to visit the real thing via a portal hidden beneath the 1964 New York World's Fair installation of It's a Small World. Eventually, Tesla's experiments uncovered an alternate dimension, which would become their living laboratory: A realm that would become known as Tomorrowland. ![]() ![]() They established a secret society, known as Plus Ultra, to figure out how and where to change the world. In 1889 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, a group of visionaries put aside their differences to discuss how to make the future happen: Jules Verne, Gustave Eiffel, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. The first teaser trailer was released on October 9, 2014. The film stars George Clooney, Britt Robertson, and Hugh Laurie, and is inspired by the Tomorrowland area found at the Disney Theme Parks. Remember Tomorrow? Tomorrowland is a 2015 film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Brad Bird and produced by Damon Lindelof. ![]()
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