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'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' sets its sights on Texas oil - Chron

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'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' sets its sights on Texas oil
Ariela Barer in How to Blow Up a Pipeline Christina Zisa; Neon

In 1956, George Stevens brought Hollywood to West Texas. Giant, the director's sweeping epic about a family of ranchers-turned-oil-barons, placed crude oil at the heart of narratives about modern Texas. In the decades that followed, films like Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show and David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water would expand on the complicated relationship between the oil industry and the communities it impacts.

But if Giant created the modern Texas mythology, then the new thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline returns that myth to the now-tainted soil from whence it came.

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