Description

Movie is one of the most powerful popular mass,it transfers opinions, facts, thoughts, feelings and value notions to public.The point of movie will influence people who watch it .However,what the movies about climate change always talk about ? Which movies about climate change are affecting the public?

The first way to visualize is by filtering by the information of movies: classify these movies by country ,have influence in China or America or both.The same way use to classify the different attitude to the climate change— —approval the mainstream (think climate change is anthropogenic)or neutral or disputed.The second way ,this will repeatedly regroup films by different influence, rate, genre,content of poster. Each category is accompanied with a graphic visualization of the information presented to help the understanding of trends.

From 1990 to now,the number of movies about climate change is is continually growing,and most are documentary.Early the commercial movies have bigger impact ,climate change just is a background in the story of these movie.But now, the documentaries with authenticity receive more attention.

Protocol

Data source:Douban,IMBD. In IMBD import “climate change “ to get the top 100 movies about climate change by popularity.Because we want to show the influential movies ,we take out the movies there have no reviews and vote.And used the same way to get the movies from Douban. Finally, get 84 movies to analysis.

Download cover images from IMDB using CloudScrape, we create a bot in which we introduce all IMDB links of each film and we create a process were the bot in each website take the image of the cover and downloaded it.

We visit all of the information of the movies and their trailers.Then,manually collect the useful informations.For example ,the name of movie, the release country,the genre ,release time ,the review,the rate,the number of people who give a mark,relationship with climate change.

For the interactive visualization we organized all the covers to present them all together, and classified them by the information of movies .

Data

Data source: IMBD, Douban

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