The Core
Promotional poster for The Core
Directed by	Jon Amiel
Written by	Cooper Layne John Rogers
Starring	Aaron Eckhart Delroy Lindo Hilary Swank DJ Qualls Bruce Greenwood Stanley Tucci
Music by	Christopher Young
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	2003
Running time	135 min
Language	English
Budget	$85,000,000 (production) $30,000,000 (advertising)
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The Core (2003) is a science fiction disaster film very loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core. The Core was directed by Jon Amiel, and starred Aaron Eckhart, Delroy Lindo, Tchéky Karyo, Hilary Swank, DJ Qualls, Bruce Greenwood, and Stanley Tucci. Image File history File linksMetadata The_Core_poster. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Rogers is a scriptwriter, film producer, and comic book writer. ... Aaron E. Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is a Golden Globe nominated American film actor. ... Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British actor. ... Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a two-time Oscar winning American actress. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956 in Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian actor. ... Stanley Tucci, Jr. ... Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an award-winning music composer for film and television. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A Disaster film is a movie genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster (a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck or an asteroid collision) as its subject. ... Core is a science-fiction novel by author Paul Preuss. ... Paul Preuss (born March 7, 1942 in Albany, Georgia) is a U.S. writer of science fiction, science articles and also a science consultant for film companies. ... Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Aaron E. Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is a Golden Globe nominated American film actor. ... Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British actor. ... Tchéky Karyo as Dmitri Mishkin in the James Bond film Goldeneye. ... Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a two-time Oscar winning American actress. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956 in Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian actor. ... Stanley Tucci, Jr. ...

Plot

Strange things are happening on Earth's surface: A number of people within a 10-block radius in Boston simultaneously drop dead for apparently no reason. This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Boston redirects here. ...

Keyes, a geologist, and Serge, a physicist, are brought together by Gen. Purcell of U.S. government to determine a cause for the deaths in Boston. Keyes deduces that the people who died had one thing in common - they had Artificial Pacemakers. He initially believes the cause to be an electromagnetic pulse. ... A pacemaker, scale in centimeters A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the hearts natural pacemaker) is a medical device which uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart. ... The term electromagnetic pulse (EMP) has the following meanings: electromagnetic radiation from an explosion (especially a nuclear explosion) or an intensely fluctuating magnetic field caused by Compton-recoil electrons and photoelectrons from photons scattered in the materials of the electronic or explosive device or in a surrounding medium. ...

Soon after pigeons in London's Trafalgar Square lose their internal navigational ability and start smashing into windscreens and breaking panes of glass. Upon seeing this news relayed in a webcast, Keyes realizes the cause of these anomalies: Earth's core has stopped rotating. Within a year, the Earth will lose its electromagnetic shield and be fried by solar radiation. While he is calculating, the space shuttle Endeavour crash-lands in L.A. Pigeon redirects here. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Trafalgar Square viewed from the northeast corner. ... Panoramic (wrap-around) windshield on a 1959 Edsel Corsair. ... This article is about the material. ... A webcast is a live media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field, encompassing all of space, composed of the electric field and the magnetic field. ... Solar irradiance spectrum at top of atmosphere. ...

A team of "terranauts" is recruited to drill down to Earth's core and set off a series of nuclear explosions in an attempt to restart the core's rotation. Their $50 billion journey uses a transport made of an indestructible metal dubbed "Unobtainium" equipped with a newly-developed "sonic laser" that can cut through rock. Unobtainium is a humorous colloquialism that refers to any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. ...

Meanwhile, police storm an apartment, whose occupant, Rat, a computer hacker, races to destroy his numerous hard drives with a large magnet whilst also microwaving CDs of presumably sensitive material. Aware of Rat's hacking of the FBI database last year, the U.S. government employs him to keep classified information regarding the mission from leaking onto the internet and causing mass hysteria. In return, he asks for an unlimited supply of Xena tapes and Hot Pockets as they help him concentrate. For the television show, see Xena: Warrior Princess. ... The Hot Pockets brand logo used from 2001 to 2007. ...

Construction on the vehicle begins in the Utah desert, while lightning superstorms appear above the base and around the world. Rome is devastated by one such incident with the Colosseum and Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II completely obliterated on-screen. Construction of the vehicle continues, with various countries contributing to the effort; flags are shown, including France and Iraq. However, while this is going on, Gen. Purcell confronts Zimsky over whether a mysterious Project DESTINI was responsible for the impending disaster; Zimsky vehemently denies this and even states he believes DESTINI can resolve the world's predicament. Eventually the vehicle is launched in the north Pacific ocean, above the Mariana Trench. This article is about the U.S. state. ... The Colosseum by night: exterior view of the best-preserved section. ... The monument of Victor Emmanuel II The Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II) or Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) or Il Vittoriano is a monument located in Rome, Italy. ... This article is about the geographical feature. ...

Twelve hours into the mission and 700 miles underground, the crew encounter 'static' on the screen. Keyes reacts quickly, stating that he never programmed the guidance system to recognise empty space which is being represented as static. The vehicle drills through the outer shell of a gigantic cavernous amethyst geode, falling under gravity and eventually coming to a stop. The crew then attempts extravehicular activity to free the vehicle from a large crystal embedded in its sonic laser. They are under pressure however, as magma begins pouring through the entrance they created. One of the crew, Bob, dies when a piece of amethyst falls through his helmet. After resuming the mission, the crew encounters another problem: Keyes' guidance system detects black objects in its path which Zimsky realizes are mountain-sized diamonds. Childs narrowly avoids them but at the last moment, the vehicle is punctured and a hull breach occurs. Unfortunately, Brazzelton is forced to eject the damaged compartment with Serge still inside, who dies after the compartment is crushed under intense pressure. For other uses, see Amethyst (disambiguation). ... Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered EVA Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. ... This article is about the gemstone. ...

1700 miles deep, the vehicle begins to pick up speed, increasing from 90 to 130 knots in seconds. Keyes deduces that the outer core's liquid is too thin, with the nuclear detonation unlikely to restart the core's spin. During this revelation, Purcell and Zimsky reveal DESTINI: a secret facility in Alaska with which they can start earthquakes anywhere on the planet. This weapon, standing for Deep Earth Seismic Trigger INItiative, is revealed to be the cause of the stalling of Earth's core. For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ... This article is about the natural seismic phenomenon. ...

While the team is underground, the world is struck by more disasters. Huge blasts of microwave radiation from the sun break through the atmosphere, melting the Golden Gate Bridge and frying San Francisco. Upon seeing the devastation, Gen. Purcell decides to activate DESTINI in case the vehicle mission fails. Rat notices this and sends a covert message to Keyes, asking him if he can help. Keyes replies they need more time, and to delay DESTINI (since Keyes believes that if DESTINI is activated, it would cause disastrous consequences, like all of Earth's volcanoes erupting, or worse). Rat attempts to remotely shut down hydroelectric dams in Alaska but is denied by security systems. This article is about the type of Electromagnetic radiation. ... The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower. ...

Zimsky works out that instead of a single large detonation, a series of smaller ones will achieve wave propagation and restart the core. They split the bomb into fragments, and deposit them around the core inside ejected vehicle compartments. The Virgil can't eject compartments without them being damaged, so Braz goes into the crawlspace at the front of the ship to activate a gear which makes the ship capable of manual overrides. Braz dies, though, because the crawlspace is filled with 9000 degree fluid and his suit can withstand only half that. However, due to some miscalculations, the final bomb needs to have 30% more energy which must be obtained from the plutonium in the vehicle's reactor. Unfortunately, Zimsky becomes trapped inside a compartment along with a bomb and dies as the bomb detonates. The plan eventually works, with the core resuming its spinning. Meanwhile, seconds before activation, Rat manages to gain access to DESTINI and diverts power from the weapon to Coney Island, giving the crew valuable time to fulfill their mission. This article is about the radioactive element. ... For other uses, see Coney Island (disambiguation). ...

As the ship's reactor is completely drained of power, Keyes and Childs are seemingly stranded in the core, however, Keyes remembers a property of unobtainium and discovers that the ship's hull can be used as a "giant solar panel". Implementing this new idea, they return to the surface of the planet riding on currents. Later, Rat sends files on what actually happened and the now-dead "unsung heroes" to many organizations and agencies across the world.

Deaths

• Commander Robert Iverson: While inside the geode (an air pocket in the mantle formed by crystals), trying to get the Virgil out of the geode, the top of the geode starts to leak magma. A hot splinter pierces Iverson's suit and his head killing him almost instantly. He then falls backwards into the magma.
• Dr. Serge Leveque: The weapons control module on the Virgil gets damaged, loses its ability to withstand the core's enormous pressure, and collapses. Serge gets trapped in it whilst salvaging the detonation system and was crushed to death. Upon death Josh yells "Beck why didn't you open the door I was two inches from him, two inches!" Afterwards Beck States "Not the whole world Josh, just three of them!" copying one of Serge's favorite quotes referring to his wife and two kids.
• Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzleton: He goes on a suicide mission to try to disengage the master hydraulic controller for the compartments emergency release mechanism, accessible only through the ship's impeller "crawl" space through which the magma flows for propulsion, which also doubles as the access way for The Virgil. He dies when he finishes the mission, not being able to return inside; the extreme heat weakened him too much. Once the impeller is restarted, the magma flow engulfs him.
• Dr. Conrad Zimsky: When the remaining terranauts choose to launch the nukes by placing one in each module on The Virgil, Zimsky becomes trapped in one of the modules due to said module's nuke having rolled onto him (breaking his leg); he is killed when the nuke explodes, at which time he is quite calmly smoking a cigarette and laughing to himself.

Characters

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Scientific Inaccuracies

While Hollywood science fiction films often tend to bend the laws of science in order to create a more compelling plot and keep the audience engaged, The Core bends the laws much more than most other big-budget films. Critics and scientists in general have pointed out multiple scientific inaccuracies and plot holes in the film: ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

In geology

• The Mariana Trench was described as being in the South Pacific, but it is actually located in the western North Pacific.
• Much of the Earth from the mantle inward is shown as liquid in the movie; however, the only wholly liquid layer of the Earth's interior is the outer core. Many researchers suspect that much of the Mantle is solid, except for magma that is contained in "pockets" within the lithosphere. However, little is known about the precise composition of the inner Earth.
• Though most scientists agree that the rotation of the Earth's liquid metal core is key to the Earth's magnetosphere functioning properly, the exact mechanism is not well understood. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that anything short of a major cosmic impact event could stop the core's rotation completely; in which case, a diminished magnetic field would be the least of human troubles.
• The magma would have filled the giant geode seen in the movie in much less time than it did on screen because of the extreme pressures that are present at that depth.
• At the end of the movie, the ship is said to be rising between two tectonic plates "near Hawaii". Hawaii is in the center of the Pacific plate. There are no tectonic plate boundaries near Hawaii.
• When the ship is stuck in the geode, it is unnecessary for the crew to stay outside of the ship once they realized that the magma could have melted the crystals. The ship is impervious to the magma while the crystals weren't. The magma would have melted the crystals and left the ship unscathed.

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In physics

• Despite being underneath hundreds of miles of solid rock, the crew is able to maintain radio contact with the control centre; the connection between ship's crew and the mission control center is maintained almost instantaneously throughout the entire operation by unspecified means, though electromagnetic radiation that could be used for real-time transmission at relatively short distances (outside of the Earth) would not reach the ship. Transmitting the signals using sonic waves would require much greater time. The control center keeps tracking the ship in the same real-time manner, though losing it in final stage of the operation when it seems to be captured between tectonic plates.
• The rotational momentum of a closed system is conserved. If the Earth's core were suddenly to stop rotating (or suddenly start rotating), the enormous change in rotational momentum would have to be balanced by a corresponding increase (decrease) in the rotational momentum of the Earth's crust, i.e. the length of day would change dramatically. The transfer of momentum would also result in earthquakes massive enough to render the Earth's surface uninhabitable, and internal heating of the planet which would likely produce the same result.
• The Earth's seasons would be dramatically changed as the bombs may not be placed in a straight order. The axis would change and seasons would differ. Changing of seasons and axis would also affect the magnetic field even more.
• Moving closer to the center of the Earth should result in a decrease in the force due to gravity, but no such effect is shown in the movie.
• In the movie scientists say that microwaves emitted by the sun will fry the earth. A yellow star like the sun emits a very small proportion of microwaves compared to its visible light output, and this radiation is largely unaffected by the geomagnetic field, or the "electromagnetic energy field" as it is called in the movie.
• The same beam of microwaves destroys the Golden Gate Bridge. The main cables snap, the center span collapses, and the two towers are shown leaning inward. The towers would lean outward from the break due to the tension of the remaining cable at the ends. This is an engineering design principle of a suspension bridge.
• The cars on the Golden Gate bridge seem to be unaffected by the microwaves, while these same waves easily melt the bridge. In fact, it is likely that most metal structures would either reflect the microwaves or become electrically charged, not melt.
• A swarm of pigeons collides into buildings, cars, statues and people in London, with the ostensible explanation that birds navigate via the Earth's now-malfunctioning magnetic field. Such a magnetic sense, while indeed theorized, couldn't possibly guide birds around buildings, vehicles and people, a task for which they use their eyes (their eyesight was not affected), though some could argue that the pigeons were confused. The strength of the Earth's magnetic field is less than around most power lines, and this behavior is not seen in birds perched on power cables.
• When Iverson falls into the magma, his body would have floated on top, not sunk, as is depicted in the movie. Even with the suit on, his body is far less dense than molten rock.
• When Braz ventures into the crawlspace where the ambient temperature is "9000 degrees", nothing around him is glowing (but this could be due to the metal that Braz created called "unobtainium"). Anything at 9000 degrees (either Fahrenheit or Celsius) would be white-hot. Additionally, he would have died almost instantly as the gases he was breathing would have heated to unbearable levels. Because he stated the suits could withstand 4500 degrees, half of the temperature in the crawlspace, both Braz and his suit (as well as the interior of the lower level) would have incenerated instantly. [Though the suit could have been made of the same "Unobtainium" to a slight degree with a weave, the face mask of the suit obviously did not and would have been the first to melt and expose him to the high temperatures.] Furthermore, the match Braz lights in the chamber would've incinerated from the ambient temperature, as wood and phosphorus have autoignition temperatures of only a couple hundred degrees, far less than the geode's 9000 degrees.
• Braz's glasses crack under the intense heat. He would have died before the glass was hot enough to crack.
• When the Space Shuttle Endeavor crash lands towards the start of the movie, sonic booms can be heard as it approaches, but at this point the vehicle would be traveling at subsonic speeds Also, its touchdown vertical speed appears to be 50 or 60 metres per second, which would severely damage if not destroy the orbiter. A vertical speed of 1 or 2 m/s would be more appropriate.
• The Space Shuttle should not have been able to raise its landing gear when on the ground - the landing gear on most aircraft is equipped with a micro switch that detects pressure on the gear (i.e. it detects when the wheel is on the ground), and prevents it from retracting. In addition, the shuttle's landing gears cannot be retracted. They have to be manually retracted once it has landed and is prepped for the next flight.
• When the ship pierces the geode's surface and begins to fall, the crew are thrown forward in their seats. In reality, the crew would experience momentary weightlessness, similar to the "Vomit Comet".
• Lightning of any kind could not possibly cause buildings, particularly buildings made of stone, to disintegrate.^{[citation needed]}

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Regarding nuclear bombs

• Five large H-bombs are used to restart core rotation, each with a 200 megaton yield. The largest H-bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, had a 50 megaton yield. It weighed 25 tons and was 8 meters long and 3 meters in diameter. The bombs shown in the movie are roughly human-sized and can be pushed around by one or two people.
• The last bomb had to be 30% larger, or another 60 megatons had to be added to its yield. The fuel rods from the nuclear reactor (seven kilograms of plutonium) are used as additional fissile material. Such an amount of plutonium (Keyes lifted it around, and it was only the size of his torso) could not generate that much explosive force. The Fat Man bomb used roughly this amount of plutonium and had a 20 kiloton yield. Later improved bombs using this amount of plutonium still yielded less than 50 kilotons, less than a tenth of a percent of what was required.
• Furthermore, Keyes's approach of just leaning the plutonium reactor core against the bomb would have done nothing for yield. For fissile material to affect yield, it must be part of the weapon's physics package, not placed nearby. Since the weapons in the movie were ostensibly French, the implication would be that these would be implosion-type thermonuclear weapons. Ergo, unless the nuclear material was shaped perfectly and was within the explosive "crush sphere" in the bomb's physics package, there would be no effect on yield. The reactor core would merely be vaporized.
• The nuclear explosions depicted in the movie were roughly spherical. A spherical explosion would produce no torque on the Earth's core, and thus would be unable to start its rotation.
• Even with a total yield of one gigaton, the explosions would not be nearly powerful enough to start or even influence rotation in the outer core, which is roughly the size of Mars. The effect would be akin to attempting to impart a current into a swimming pool using small fireworks.
• During the preparation, it is made clear that the calculations upon which success or failure hinged were based on 'guesses' about core density.
• Nuclear reactors use uranium-235 at a 3-4% ratio to the uranium-238, whereas nuclear weapons with uranium use 90% uranium-235 almost all nuclear weapons use plutonium now. some plutonium may have been made in the reactor but there would still be far to few fissile atoms and far too many fertile atoms

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Inconsistencies with the ship's design

• Even when the reactor core is removed, depriving the ship of power, the interior heats up far too slowly.
• Heat was used to form the hull together, even though the ship is supposed to be heat-resistant.
• There is a lengthy explanation about sections of the ship being designed to detach when the hull is compromised, which works for the plot as long as only the end section is damaged, but doesn't take into account the possibility that a middle section would be damaged, which would mean ejecting all subsequent sections.
• Each compartment houses a different function of the mission, rather than each designed with redundancies so that ejection of one compartment (the one with the bomb, for example), won't ruin the mission.
• The name of the material used in the ship's hull is also a small joke; unobtainium is term used for a "magic" material, used whenever something impossible is being referred to. Hence, a material that converts heat into energy, withstands thousands of degrees and hundreds of atmospheres over long periods of time, and is a perfect thermal insulator, is something which does not, and possibly cannot, exist in the real world.
• Another inconsistency of the ship, is that they had designed the crew cockpit to be gyroscopic to gravity so the occupants would always have their feet facing the direction of gravity no matter how the terra-ship was orientated towards the center of gravity. As they are heading for the earth’s core, the center of earth's gravity, they should be for most part vertical towards it. A minor scene has Dr. Braz showing a model of the cockpit with this feature, and another major scene has the crew doing badly in a simulation cockpit to work as a team. However, this feature is not played properly through most of the journey aboard the terra-ship as the orientation of the ship is horizontal and not vertical.
• The ship has six different compartments. It is seen that one of the compartments is ejected due to collision with a diamond. After this point there are five compartments and five bombs. Once every bomb has been ejected from the ship later on, this should have included the front end of the ship which Keyes and Childs maneuver back to the surface.

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Miscellaneous

• In the scene where the character 'Rat' communicates secretly with Dr. Josh Keyes by instructing him to type prime numbers into the program he sent him, Keyes enters the number 1 as the first one, however one is not a prime number.

• While it is possible for 'Rat' to crack into a large number of computer systems running insecure software, there are still a significant number of systems running more secure software and this is likely to have presented a significant obstacle to his task.

• When 'Rat' is hacking in to the Destiny computers, he receives a 404 Access Denied message. the 404 error means 'Page Not Found'. it should have been a 401 message.

• The professor's offer to his student to pass his thesis blindly ("do not pass Go, go directly to PhD"), in exchange for doing a detailed search, seems to be leaving aside the fact that PhD students are examined by at least two separate examiners, one of them from outside the institution, something which any PhD student should have known.

• In the scene in which the pigeons go haywire, one of the pigeons shown smashing into a glass pane and bouncing off is in fact a trout, an animal which is not usually known for its flying capability. This is in fact an easter egg and was intentionally included by the film's crew, as explained in the Making Of.

• Generally pigeons make a 'coo, coo' sound. However in the movie they make a noise unlike any bird in existence.

• Whilst rescuing what remains of the team from the waters of Hawaii, whale noises are heard. The whale song is actually produced by male humpback whales, however the picture shows a pod of killer whales circling the sunken vessel.

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Trivia

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• Reference made to the secret government facility in Alaska is real. Project D.E.S.T.I.N.I. is a parody of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, that some believe uses the Earth's magnetic field to manipulate weather and earthquakes, broadcast signals, and even control minds.
• Several signs in the Alaskan base spell D.E.S.T.I.N.I. as DESTINY.
• The Core was parodied in South Park's episode of Die Hippie, Die.

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