What´s the true meaning behind the scene with the oil platforms in the end of the movie? Thanks.
The sticky water was oil, they were buying the land for oil rights. Sort of a statement, it was all about the oil...
shareThat very final scene really took me out of the movie.
Such a preachy and fake-looking scene in an otherwise solid modern western.
We did not need the director shoving that "oil is the cause of evil" message down our
throat. If that is your point, implement it throughout the story, not twist it
all around in the last moment.
Gave the film a 7 out of 10, would've been an 8 without the final scene.
the end could also mean that he started an oil empire at the end with the mute princess.
shareOh, please. Preachy and fake-looking?! He didn't shove anything, the scene was 20 seconds long, or even less. "The sticky oil" was talked about not even a handful of times. Jeez, you must be one of the most touchy viewer I've come across. While there're tons of films delivered from the Hollywood factory, REALLY shoving politically crap down our throats.
It's a hint, as the oil industry was in its infancy. The film wasn't a western "Dallas", but above all about power. Give it a rest, and an 8.
What I want to know is where the hell they came from. All we see for the entire movie is open desert, then suddenly there's like a hundred oil towers chilling right next to them.
shareI had the same thing. When zooming out I could accept once tower, or two, three.....
shareYeah, that ending shot was pretty ridiculous, in context. Magical realism?
shareA flash forward, perhaps? Showing the oil empire that Jon and the princess set up after they rode off into the sunset with all of the deeds.
~~Bayowolf
There's a difference between being frank... and being dick.
Its an allusion to the future, for sure. Not those characters futures, I dont think we have enough to go on, just to show the future.
But it didnt really fit, wasn't needed.
You obviously missed the pools of oil seen bubbling quietly as the cowboys raced around on their horses. Pay attention.....
share"The future, Mr. Gitts, the future."
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
They might have defeated the bandits, but the corrupt businessmen that hired them are still out there getting rich on the oil and they will continue on. This is what they did to the previous town, they burnt the houses, bought the land and chased people away, just so they could have the oil towers working there. That's what they wanted to do to their town next and they still might or some other guys that find that oil there. A cautionary tale on the dark side of capitalism? :D
shareThere was really no need to have that final scene with the oil platforms, it looked so fake. Reminded me of the awful CGI bells at the end of Breaking The Waves.
shareI agree. With all the shots of the oil bubbling up, and the talk of the water tasting funny with the "sticky oil", it was already established evil guy was trying to steal the people's land for the oil. It was a "Hey, look at my BIG statement here" moment.
I don't even know why they didn't just offer all the rubes in the town a few bucks for the land and tell them to hit the road. They were all cowards and they just had to say "Take your money and go...now!" and those sissies would have been gone that day. I know the bad guy buying the land said they had to be subtle about it, but who was really going to say anything? Those rubes were so sissified they would have gladly left, anyway.
I actually loved the movie, but it could have been a great movie if they had just put more thought into just making a good movie without being so clunky tying to make a "statement."
What I'd like to know is what was powering them.
shareThe take-the-settlers-land-for-oil theme is an anachronism. Drilling for oil in the west was another 30 years or so off.
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