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Monday, October 17, 2005

Movie thoughts -- The Next Bad Guys

I'm going out on a limb and making a prediction. I predict that we will see a rash of movies wherein the "bad guys" will be the big oil companies. For years, the bad guys were Russians -- Russian agents, Russian terrorists, Russian henchmen of various kinds. Easy and a politically correct option. Then the Cold War ended, and writers had to get more creative. We had some maniacal communications magnates (such as Jonathan Pryce in the 1997 Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies). Narco-terrorists were good for awhile and they served as all purpose bad guys. So did Arab terrorists. Recently we've had movies about shady figures in the pharmaceutical industry (1993 Harrison Ford movie, The Fugitive and 2005's The Constant Gardener are good examples). But I think as gas prices increase and the war in Iraq continues, it will become acceptable, even necessary, to villify the energy industry. We'll see if I'm right.

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