What's Caine's most fearlessly geopolitically subversive movie and/or interview comment? Archived Message
Posted by Jim_Carlucci on March 12, 2023, 8:26 pm, in reply to "Michael Caine on Desert Island Discs in 2009"
Obviously "On Deadly Ground"(1994) ? The film is/was so damned prescient - think BP and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout catastrophe and those faulty Blowout Preventers. (BTW: the official acronym for Blowout Preventer strangely isn't "BP" - but (phew!) "BOP"). Caine plays an ethically-bankrupt US-based British oil company boss who lies, cheats and cuts corners..eg. by not replacing worn Blowout Preventers in order to meet pressing oil production deadlines and save a ton of money. A would-be whistleblower is beaten up and liquidated - another one escapes by the skin of his teeth. The movie "On Deadly Ground" was released in 1994 - the Deepwater Horizon blow out disaster happened in 2010. The movie is particularly important and effective because it gets its anti-corporate, anti-oil, anti-corruption, environmental messages out to an unsuspecting mass audience - reaching very far beyond the choir. (Snooty environmentalists will turn their noses up of course and refuse/fail to grasp or accept this crucial point..)
Caine as oil boss makes a greenwash "We love Nature" TV ad for "Aegis Oil":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Deadly_Ground
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