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Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action (about groundwater pollution) are both good examples, yes. I guess it depends when the article starts its timeline. I was tr
by Bartweiss 8y ago
Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action (about groundwater pollution) are both good examples, yes.
I guess it depends when the article starts its timeline. I was trying to think of movies from the 2010s or so, because I can think of a lot of tech CEO villains in that span but not many non-tech CEO villains. My best guess at why is that action films with corporate villains look better with tech companies. (For instance, Robocop is way older than the article's timeframe, but fits the same villain narrative.)
- eesmith 8y agoFWIW, IMDB has a list of movies with both 'environmental issue' and 'oil' keywords at https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=environmental-issue%2Coil&sort=moviemeter,asc&mode=detail&page=1&ref_=kw_ref_key https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=environmental-i... . It seems to support your observation.
- Bartweiss 8y agoAh, thanks for that! This is the sort of observation where I always worry that I've just got a biased sample, so any unrelated take on the topic is helpful. I see a handful of very on-topic films there, Trouble in the Peace in particular looks like an environmental version of Hell or High Water (mortgages) or Legends of the Fall (local government corruption and mistreatment of Native Americans). But those were high-profile films with famous casts, while Trouble in the Peace looks like a sleeper labor of love. Honestly, I'm really surprised we haven't gotten any good "oil companies ruin our lives" dramas this decade, you could do fracking or sea level rise or drought or... It feels like a weird gap in the set of popular narratives.