This is a movie that should be remade not because it could make money but because this is the best and perfect atmosphere for this type of film. Big oil, big power and willing to do anything and everything to keep it, including buying so many members of congress and regulation officials and hindering renewable energies.
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My only reservation with a remake is that Adam Steiffel would be caricatured as a bad guy and there would be more action and sex scenes, which would ruin the slow plot at the core of which lies greed and not violence.
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Good point, and you're probably right -- which is only to say that we should amend the imperative to "should be remade well, without the usual Hollywoodization."
shareRemake would be a good idea; it's a solid story and plot. Step one would be to get two leading actors who care - Brando and Scott merely showed up for a paycheck in this one.
shareTotally, absolutely agree. "We're in the oil shortage business." Yup. That's shifted a bit, actually; the shortages are going to be created more and more by foreign powers, but still, we're talking about multinationals, and even in times of relative abundance we're talking about controls on price-and-supply, creation of plausible reasons to hike prices (warships are on patrol in the Persian Gulf -- get ready for another 40-cent rise), and so forth.
Anyway, yes indeed. The story here has the basic elements of something really interesting and adult (which is to say, it would make hardly any money at all, but we're talking about making a good film, not a blockbuster-profit film).
It's certainly all the more timely now.
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