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peak oil script ideas
by nero » Thu 31 Mar 2005, 15:37:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat would really help would be if hollywood wood make a good PO disaster movie. Kevin Coster seems always ready for "good" disaster/post-apocolypse movie.
Ok I think this is an excellent idea. Let's get some ideas out there. What would you like to see in the movie so that it properly explains the idea of peak oil?
One thing I hate is when a movie has a "preachy moment" where it explains something to the auduence by having a character gratuitously explaining the big problem to a character who ought to already know all about it. I don't think the original two Mad Max movies ever had a preachy moment and I think they are better for it. So in my ideal Peak Oil movie there can be no gratuitous explanation of Hubbbert's peak or ideally no overt mention of "peak oil" at all.
My ideal movie would take place in the near future pre-collapse, but where things are starting to fall apart and everybody is quite a bit poorer. That Peak Oil Production has occured would be common knowldege but before the system has broken down. I think a post apocalyptic scenario is way too out there and people will think of it as fantasy.
My ideal movie WOULDN'T have the hero save the day by discovering cold fusion or something, in fact I wouldn't even put out there the possibility that someone or something could save us. I'd have all the characters already know before the story opens that the peak in civilization has already occurred and that now they are just trying to take care of their families and save themselves. I'd go for a Grapes of Wrath kind of story, very dark, with the evil being the loss of our common humanity in the face of the crisis.
Ok that's enough for now, anyone have some more script ideas?
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by Sys1 » Thu 31 Mar 2005, 16:26:26
"What would really help would be if hollywood wood make a good PO disaster movie."
I 100% disagree. What happened with "the day after tomorrow"? Just nothing.
As soon as something is a hollywood movie, it's seen as a hollywood movie. Whatever you can preach, nobody will take it seriously because people go to the cinema for fun. Just try to figure "Peak oil apocalypse" betwen "spiderman 3", "Godzilla vs Terminator" or "Hey Dude ! Where's my SUV?"
The only thing to do is watching again Soylent Green. I encourage people doing that. In this film, they have already understood that exponential growth lead to civilisation collapse. They spoke of greenhouse effect, surpopulation, pollution ! Crowd starving ! Ferocious repression ! You see people living in abandonned cars, seems the author already knew about peak oil ! You see propaganda on television ! And lack of energy (remember the old guy using a bike to light his home?)
I'm really amazed by how wise this film is, especially because it was shot in 1973 !
I 100% disagree. What happened with "the day after tomorrow"? Just nothing.
As soon as something is a hollywood movie, it's seen as a hollywood movie. Whatever you can preach, nobody will take it seriously because people go to the cinema for fun. Just try to figure "Peak oil apocalypse" betwen "spiderman 3", "Godzilla vs Terminator" or "Hey Dude ! Where's my SUV?"
The only thing to do is watching again Soylent Green. I encourage people doing that. In this film, they have already understood that exponential growth lead to civilisation collapse. They spoke of greenhouse effect, surpopulation, pollution ! Crowd starving ! Ferocious repression ! You see people living in abandonned cars, seems the author already knew about peak oil ! You see propaganda on television ! And lack of energy (remember the old guy using a bike to light his home?)
I'm really amazed by how wise this film is, especially because it was shot in 1973 !
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by NeoPeasant » Thu 31 Mar 2005, 18:41:34
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')The only thing to do is watching again Soylent Green. I encourage people doing that. In this film, they have already understood that exponential growth lead to civilisation collapse. They spoke of greenhouse effect, surpopulation, pollution ! Crowd starving ! Ferocious repression ! You see people living in abandonned cars, seems the author already knew about peak oil ! You see propaganda on television ! And lack of energy (remember the old guy using a bike to light his home?)
I'm really amazed by how wise this film is, especially because it was shot in 1973 !
')The only thing to do is watching again Soylent Green. I encourage people doing that. In this film, they have already understood that exponential growth lead to civilisation collapse. They spoke of greenhouse effect, surpopulation, pollution ! Crowd starving ! Ferocious repression ! You see people living in abandonned cars, seems the author already knew about peak oil ! You see propaganda on television ! And lack of energy (remember the old guy using a bike to light his home?)
I'm really amazed by how wise this film is, especially because it was shot in 1973 !
I absolutely agree. Soylent Green impresses me as the most likely depiction of the near future. Except for the "Soon they'll be breeding us like cattle" part. Really bad EROEI for breeding large animals for food, especially that particular species.
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by HonestPessimist » Thu 31 Mar 2005, 19:26:37
The idealistic peak oil film would be more like a clever mix of entertainment and documentary, using real people or actors engaging in realistic and fictional scenarios in a future historical backdrop.
The entertainment/documentary template you should follow is to watch "Liberty! The American Revolution" videos. The scenes are reenactments of the American Revolution years but the actors who portrayed American, British, and other figures, great and less, spoke to the camera as if it feel like it's a documentary, recounting their involvements and experiences. It was a well-made, critically acclaimed video from PBS.
You could try to imagine and produce a near future American society in danger of imminent chaos and anarchy following a major war in the Middle East. You have to develop some type of political, economic and foreign scenarios drawing from the various scenario sources from Peak Oil authors such as Matt Savinar, Paul Roberts, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Heinberg and others.
Then develop American and other characters from around the world, but in America, presenting their "views", "involvements", "experiences" and "actions" of the whole fictional pre-collapse situation and the consequential aftermath of the collapse. You could make the whole thing look so dramatically real like the 1983 TV movie, "The Day After", even it is fictional.
Good luck with your endeavor for a peak oil movie for TV, maybe a season long mini-series.
Otherwise, I have a feeling that we are all going to see the real thing soon.
The entertainment/documentary template you should follow is to watch "Liberty! The American Revolution" videos. The scenes are reenactments of the American Revolution years but the actors who portrayed American, British, and other figures, great and less, spoke to the camera as if it feel like it's a documentary, recounting their involvements and experiences. It was a well-made, critically acclaimed video from PBS.
You could try to imagine and produce a near future American society in danger of imminent chaos and anarchy following a major war in the Middle East. You have to develop some type of political, economic and foreign scenarios drawing from the various scenario sources from Peak Oil authors such as Matt Savinar, Paul Roberts, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Heinberg and others.
Then develop American and other characters from around the world, but in America, presenting their "views", "involvements", "experiences" and "actions" of the whole fictional pre-collapse situation and the consequential aftermath of the collapse. You could make the whole thing look so dramatically real like the 1983 TV movie, "The Day After", even it is fictional.
Good luck with your endeavor for a peak oil movie for TV, maybe a season long mini-series.
Otherwise, I have a feeling that we are all going to see the real thing soon.
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