Movies/Scenes Representing
Ecology/Care of the Earth
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Local Hero (1983)
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A Houston oil executive is sent to a small oceanside Scottish village to purchase the entire village with the plan to destroy the village and the ecology of the beautiful beach and bay that the village is located on in order to install a gigantic oil tank storage facility. The Houston oil executive ends up with a deep appreciation of the simple pleasures and satisfactions of the human community in this village and contrasts this community with the emptiness of his life in Houston. The movie ends with a crusty old resident of the beach "converting" the oil company CEO (played brilliantly by Burt Lancaster) and the beach and village are saved. Great soundtrack by Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits.) (Curtis Huber)
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