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Does anyone not like how they changed it from movie making, to oil?

posted 8 years ago by RynoII
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I found the movie making greed angle of the original, and of the 2005 version much more interesting, than going to find oil. I mean I don't know... filmmaking has an extremely ambitious artistic passion to it. Maybe it's cause I want to be a filmmaker myself one day.

But changing to finding oil, just doesn't feel right to me. I don't find Fred Wilson near as interesting of a character to get behind compared to Carl Denham.

[–] liscarkat (18419) a year ago

It was just a Hollywood opportunity to make oil guys the villains.

[–] Information-Police (4889) a year ago

It was made in 1976, a couple of years after the first oil embargo, when Americans were first shocked into the realization of how oil prices ruled the world. It was on point marketing.