Originally posted by Pielorinho
Poison Ivy was an eco-villain, right? And Twelve Monkeys had animal-rights terrorists.
Problem is, however, that animal-rights and environmental criminals are way into the property-destruction crimes. And it's hard to see Schwarzenegger really getting worked into a gun-toting tiff because a ski lodge got burnt to the ground.
Not wanting to get too political, but spiking lumber trees kills & maims lumber workers as well as damaging machines.
Now, I could imagine Bruckheimer or his kin making a movie in which the animal-rights criminals start assassinating scientists -- he's got no problems moving into the realm of fantasy. I think the real reason such a movie won't get made, however, is that it touches on to many hot-button political issues, and action movies aren't supposed to stir up political controversy. For the same reason, you won't see an action movie made in which the bad guy is blowing up abortion clinics or gay nightclubs.
Daniel
I can see the gay nightclub thing - certainly in the UK - I think they've already darmatised a real case of this which happened a couple of years ago. Generally speaking, killing people for being gay is regarded as beyond the pale in a way that killing people for cutting trees down isn't. I agree about the abortion clinic, though.
Poison Ivy was an eco-villain, right? And Twelve Monkeys had animal-rights terrorists.
Problem is, however, that animal-rights and environmental criminals are way into the property-destruction crimes. And it's hard to see Schwarzenegger really getting worked into a gun-toting tiff because a ski lodge got burnt to the ground.
Not wanting to get too political, but spiking lumber trees kills & maims lumber workers as well as damaging machines.
Now, I could imagine Bruckheimer or his kin making a movie in which the animal-rights criminals start assassinating scientists -- he's got no problems moving into the realm of fantasy. I think the real reason such a movie won't get made, however, is that it touches on to many hot-button political issues, and action movies aren't supposed to stir up political controversy. For the same reason, you won't see an action movie made in which the bad guy is blowing up abortion clinics or gay nightclubs.
Daniel
I can see the gay nightclub thing - certainly in the UK - I think they've already darmatised a real case of this which happened a couple of years ago. Generally speaking, killing people for being gay is regarded as beyond the pale in a way that killing people for cutting trees down isn't. I agree about the abortion clinic, though.