Legend has it that for the filming of pride and passionin 1956, Someone really proposed to demolish a piece of the wall of Ávila. The idea was to rebuild it later, for the record. It is also said that in a scene from Gladiator an entire forest was burned in the United Kingdom taking advantage of programmed deforestation. Less prudent was the filming of The beachwhich ended with a sentence from the Supreme Court of Thailand to 20th Century Fox for altering the landscape of the Phi Phi Lek islands.
And, if we talk about unsustainable filming, the most famous is that of Apocalypse Now. Coppola found his Vietnam in the Philippines because the Ferdinand Marcos regime lent helicopters and allowed trees to be burned to illustrate the effects of napalm without metaphors or blackouts. Nature took revenge with a typhoon.
Something like this does not occur to anyone today, among other things because special effects are cheaper, but there are movie stars who still travel in private jets and there is no shortage of examples of the destruction caused by movies, TV and advertising. The technology company Creast, which is collaborating on the second season of The inmortalestimates that three days of filming leave a carbon footprint of 20 tons of CO2, equivalent to what a family of four people pollutes in three years. And the tradition on modern film sets has always been to offer bottles of water to everyone, all the time. In a seven week shoot 15,000 plastic bottles are spentaccording to consultant Mrs. Greenfilm.
Something is changing, however. It is significant that less and less planes of rain are seen, which is no longer artificially recreated. And if it is necessary to irrigate so that the asphalt shines at night, which is always more filmy, non-potable water is used.
EL MUNDO has been able to verify that in the recordings of The inmortal for Movistar Plus+ plastic cups are no longer used, but made of recyclable cardboard and shaped like a cone, more difficult to abandon with impunity. The workers have reusable aluminum bottles and even for food they don’t use disposable plates, but they are made of earthenware.