Dark Waters

Capcom supplied architectural blueprints to help recreate the game locations, but the town surrounding those locations had another source of inspiration, a community abandoned by the company it depended on.

Stories about contamination and institutional secrecy, including Chernobyl and Dark Waters, helped shape that part of the film.

The effects combined practical makeup, prosthetics, and digital creatures.

The townspeople's gradual infection drew partly on depictions of radiation sickness, while Lisa Trevor was built around a performer in prosthetics.

You're struggling to get not even two or three companies to adopt it on their bottom line models.

Then you take Dark Waters and Incredible Hulk.

And you think about that you had your marketing budget for those three seed investments invested in that movie that then now six years later is still on the top 10 films to watch on political thriller like litigation thrillers.

The amount of impact that continues to happen every single day because of that film is enormous.

i've never heard of this one either so i'll check it out and then

the highlight that i'm now absolutely traumatized by is i watched finally dark waters

Oh, is this the Mark Ruffalo?

Mark Ruffalo going up against DuPont and obviously the famous story that they contaminated this town and now the whole world.

Sorry, the...

Last podcast on the left have also done a wonderful, I think it's like a three or four part series on the whole thing, which is well worth listening to as well.

It was listening to that that I was like, I must watch that Dark Waters film.

And yeah, Mark Ruffalo's great in it.

Every participant who regularly ate eggs from their own chickens was in the high risk category, as were 75% of those who often ate homegrown fruit, and vegetables.

Experts compared the average reading with that found near the DuPont plant in Ohio, the case made famous by the film Dark Waters.

So, under U.S. medical guidelines, people at this level should be monitored for an increased risk of kidney cancer, testicular cancer, and ulcerative colitis.

As one of the lawyers representing residents put it, PFAS contamination has a human impact, not just an environmental one.

And they just don't they don't they don't connect the dots.

That's what's like how important I think Dark Waters, this movie came out was so important.

It's like it finally put it together for people to realize this is a big deal because it was like, well, how and how bad is this stuff?

Yeah, it's huge.

He's a weird, weird, creepy fellow, I'll say that much.

I imagine that when it comes to some of these, uh, sequel, like, where you have a couple movies in a, in a row.

What, I don't remember what they call that, but it'll come to me in a minute.

But when you have these movies where they're like, "Okay, we're, we're planning on, you know, a 15-year plan to put out three of these films or four of these films," I imagine all those contracts are being pushed forward right now because of the AI.

AI is, is, like, really, it's getting in the crawl of a bunch of Hollywood people.

They're feel, feeling the pressure from it.

Um, so then I started thinking about other l- that other genre, right? The legal thriller, which is, uh, also can be very satisfying and, and stir up, uh, I'd say some appropriately righteous anger within us and whether that's, uh, films that have talked about big tobacco or opioids or, uh, the one that I'm gonna champion, uh, which is not about the environmental sludge that Facebook is, is trafficking in, but in this case, petrochemicals.

And Dark Waters is a legal thriller from twenty nineteen.

It stars Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway as lawyers taking on DuPont for dumping chemicals in rural West Virginia and poisoning the water supply.

It's also about files and investigations and long-term fights to uncover how much DuPont knew about the dangers of PFOA, these forever chemicals in products, everyday products like Teflon.

What? What is?

You heard the ominous tones.

The film is called Dark Waters.

Uh, it's, it's heavy.

I just boomer mom'd us.

Yeah, Dark Waters.

This is with Ruffalo.

What's this about? So this is about, this is about the, um, DuPont.