"The Hellstrom Chronicle", a well-done science mocumentary, came more than thirty years before Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," but the parallels are uncanny.
Both movies received undeserved Oscars in the documentary field.
Both were fake.
Both fooled a lot of people who might otherwise have been assumed to be intelligent.
The frightening differences are that "Hellstrom" did not spawn a religion of hysterical fanatics who want to destroy our quality of life and our economy.
"Hellstrom" was never used as a bible to brainwash college students and even innocent school children.
The producer of "Hellstrom" was not given the Nobel Prize (presumably the Nobel still had some credibility in 1971).
And "Hellstrom" was ultimately laughed off as a silly piece of entertainment.
Which is exactly what should happen to "An Inconvenient Truth."
Both movies received undeserved Oscars in the documentary field.
Both were fake.
Both fooled a lot of people who might otherwise have been assumed to be intelligent.
The frightening differences are that "Hellstrom" did not spawn a religion of hysterical fanatics who want to destroy our quality of life and our economy.
"Hellstrom" was never used as a bible to brainwash college students and even innocent school children.
The producer of "Hellstrom" was not given the Nobel Prize (presumably the Nobel still had some credibility in 1971).
And "Hellstrom" was ultimately laughed off as a silly piece of entertainment.
Which is exactly what should happen to "An Inconvenient Truth."