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Someone Needs to Make a Movie on the Hoover Dam
Posted on 8/12/24 at 10:32 am
Posted on 8/12/24 at 10:32 am
Preferably Christopher Nolan. Or a movie about taming the Colorado through the years. I think that the subject material is right in his wheelhouse. Or even a PTA TWBB type movie.
I am reading a book called the Emerald Mile, and it goes in depth on the history of our relationship to the Colorado. The section where he talks about the construction of the Hoover, and the subsequent dam boom is so fascinating to me.
It could start off with John Wesley Powell and crew first going through the Grand Canyon, and immediately afterward Jack Sumner and Andy Hall breaking off and continuing all way to the what would become known as the Imperial Valley and thinking that it was nothing more than a barren wasteland.
Then the Imperial Valley being colonized by farmers and businessmen before the realization that the Colorado would divert and fan into the valley and form the Salton Sea, totally flooding the place. And the incredible effort to dam the river around there which was incredibly unsuccessful.
That would lead into the construction of the Hoover years later and all that went into it, and what it led to.
I need to write a script and sell it to Hollywood.
I am reading a book called the Emerald Mile, and it goes in depth on the history of our relationship to the Colorado. The section where he talks about the construction of the Hoover, and the subsequent dam boom is so fascinating to me.
It could start off with John Wesley Powell and crew first going through the Grand Canyon, and immediately afterward Jack Sumner and Andy Hall breaking off and continuing all way to the what would become known as the Imperial Valley and thinking that it was nothing more than a barren wasteland.
Then the Imperial Valley being colonized by farmers and businessmen before the realization that the Colorado would divert and fan into the valley and form the Salton Sea, totally flooding the place. And the incredible effort to dam the river around there which was incredibly unsuccessful.
That would lead into the construction of the Hoover years later and all that went into it, and what it led to.
I need to write a script and sell it to Hollywood.
This post was edited on 8/13/24 at 9:20 am
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Posted on 8/12/24 at 10:36 am to Funky Tide 8
Posted on 8/12/24 at 10:37 am to Funky Tide 8
wasnt there a yellowstone erupting disaster movie where the hoover dam collapsed?
oh, not that kind of hoover dam movie.
oh, not that kind of hoover dam movie.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 1:06 pm to Funky Tide 8
It actually is very interesting. While.lving in vegas my father went into researching this topic. He wanted to know more about the flooded town in Lake Mead since we would fish around the flooded houses. I recall him finding out the government didn't put out much info on it in an effort to not advertise them displacing all those people
Posted on 8/12/24 at 1:21 pm to jmarto1
Yeah, this book didn't touch at all about the displaced town.
It does talk about how the weight of the impounded water in Lake Mead deformed the surface of the earth along the reservoir and triggered a series of earthquakes that toppled chimneys and buckled roadbeds between Boulder City and Las Vegas well into the '60s.
Building a dam like that was basically one massive engineering experiment, and they went into it not even knowing if/how it'd work, but they willed/thought their way through it. One of the biggest obstacles was cooling the concrete that was to be poured which they were able to cut the cooling time from 125 years to 3. And the amount of concrete poured is hard to wrap the mind around. 16 tons per minute 220 yards an hour, 24 hours a day, for 21 months. The base of the wedge was the thickness of 2 football fields.
It does talk about how the weight of the impounded water in Lake Mead deformed the surface of the earth along the reservoir and triggered a series of earthquakes that toppled chimneys and buckled roadbeds between Boulder City and Las Vegas well into the '60s.
Building a dam like that was basically one massive engineering experiment, and they went into it not even knowing if/how it'd work, but they willed/thought their way through it. One of the biggest obstacles was cooling the concrete that was to be poured which they were able to cut the cooling time from 125 years to 3. And the amount of concrete poured is hard to wrap the mind around. 16 tons per minute 220 yards an hour, 24 hours a day, for 21 months. The base of the wedge was the thickness of 2 football fields.
This post was edited on 8/12/24 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 8/12/24 at 1:27 pm to Funky Tide 8
quote:
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that gray tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around and around and around
And around and around and around
Posted on 8/12/24 at 1:27 pm to Funky Tide 8
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And the amount of concrete poured is hard to wrap the mind around. 16 tons per minute 220 yards an hour, 24 hours a day, for 21 months. The base of the wedge was the thickness of 2 football fields.
How many concrete trucks does that work out to be?
Posted on 8/12/24 at 1:46 pm to Funky Tide 8
i think you're on to something; if not nola, perhaps ken burns
but yep i recall lots of drama around the building; workers getting killed, etc.
could make for a compelling show.
but yep i recall lots of drama around the building; workers getting killed, etc.
could make for a compelling show.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 2:17 pm to Funky Tide 8
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It could start off with John Wesley Powell
Those are some badarse MFers. All
Those type of people
Kit Carson /Powell … absolutely hard and intense living out there on the plains trying to survive
Posted on 8/12/24 at 3:15 pm to Funky Tide 8
I believe the first and last people to die during construction of the HD were father and son.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 7:08 pm to Funky Tide 8
Not about building a dam. It's about getting people to leave the area where the TVA's dam is going to send the water..
According to Just Watch, it's free on hoopla, and can be rented, or bought on Apple and Amazon.
Montgomery Cliff's character is downright creepy in this. Creepy looking and acting.
Lee Remick's character will make you wish for a simpler, more defined, way of life.
quote:wiki
Plot
In 1937, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift), the new head of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) land purchasing office, arrives in Garthville, Tennessee, a town located upstream from a new hydroelectric dam.
Glover is supervising the clearing of the land to be flooded. His first need is to acquire Garth Island on the Tennessee River. Elderly Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), matriarch of a large family that has lived on the island for decades, refuses to sell. To avoid bad publicity, the TVA wants to acquire the island without force.
Clearing the land is behind schedule because the mayor uses only white labor. Chuck goes to Garth Island, but Ella and the other Garth women, including Ella's granddaughter Carol Baldwin (Lee Remick), ignore him. Glover tries reasoning with Ella's three adult sons, Hamilton (Jay C. Flippen), Cal (James Westerfield), and Joe John (Big Joe Bess in an uncredited role), but relocating means their having to work for a living.
Chuck is forced to leave, but Hamilton later invites him back to speak with Ella. Chuck finds Ella criticizing President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal to her black farm hands and their families. Chuck stresses the benefits the dam will bring, but Ella denounces dams and the taming of rivers as going "against nature." Ella then shows Chuck the family cemetery on the island's highest point.
Chuck learns that Carol is a widow with two small children. She returned to the island after her husband died. She is expected to marry Walter Clark (Frank Overton), a businessman in town. Chuck advises her against marrying if she does not love him. He then addresses the farmhands about working for the TVA, reasoning their leaving the island will force Ella to sell. Carol invites Chuck to her former home off the island. They spend the night together and are soon falling in love. ...
According to Just Watch, it's free on hoopla, and can be rented, or bought on Apple and Amazon.
Montgomery Cliff's character is downright creepy in this. Creepy looking and acting.
Lee Remick's character will make you wish for a simpler, more defined, way of life.
This post was edited on 8/12/24 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 8/12/24 at 7:09 pm to Funky Tide 8
But Vegas Vacation literally exists
Posted on 8/12/24 at 7:12 pm to Funky Tide 8
quote:Yes, he should be the dam director behind the dam camera for this dam film.
Preferably Christopher Nolan.
Take my dam money. Where can I get some dam popcorn
Posted on 8/12/24 at 10:16 pm to Funky Tide 8
I enjoyed the Hoover Dam portrayal in Transformers.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:43 am to Funky Tide 8
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Someone Needs to Make a Movie on the Hoover Dam
It would star The Rock and Kevin Hart...and feature a cool helicopter scene and explosions.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:52 am to Funky Tide 8
A number of old films used it as a location set-piece, like in "711 Ocean Drive" (1950), a little noir item with Edmond O'Brien.
My father visited it on a family vacation in 1940, and still to this day refers to it by its original name, Boulder Dam. I never went there until just fifteen or so years ago. But it's pretty darned neat.
My father visited it on a family vacation in 1940, and still to this day refers to it by its original name, Boulder Dam. I never went there until just fifteen or so years ago. But it's pretty darned neat.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:54 am to Aeolian Vocalion
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But it's pretty dam neat.
fify
Posted on 8/13/24 at 8:55 am to chinese58
quote:
Not about building a dam. It's about getting people to leave the area where the TVA's dam is going to send the water..
I'll check it out
Posted on 8/13/24 at 9:16 am to Funky Tide 8
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I need to write a script and sale it to Hollywood.
Yes, because Hollywood is absolutely gaga over scripts with plenty of misspellings!
Posted on 8/13/24 at 9:20 am to nealnan8
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Yes, because Hollywood is absolutely gaga over scripts with plenty of misspellings!
If its a great script, they won't care.
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