A Crude Awakening
2006 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 2,006 VOTES · DIR. Ray McCormack, Basil Gelpke
Overview
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject at hand is crude oil - specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth, in an era when consumption threatens to exceed supply.
Dialogue Timeline — 792 lines
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00:00:36 Oil is the excrement of the devil, El excremento del diablo.
00:04:46 you can buy for a little over a hundred dollars
00:08:17 A farmer today can work 5 times the land his father worked
00:11:35 and one of the most affluent cities in the world.
00:17:31 ethnic and religious makeup, is displacing those people
00:21:55 that it's right in the middle of world's oil patch.
00:25:10 And these numbers have not changed since.
00:27:56 and we'll be equally peaking out."
00:30:10 So it will be a second curve like this, for production.
00:33:45 we see this same pattern being repeated in one country after another.
00:36:38 to produce the oil than they're getting from oil shales and tar sands.
00:40:54 M. King Hubbert had predicted that worldwide it should be occuring about the
00:44:23 its economy becomes even more diverse and dynamic
00:47:47 there's a smile for every mile at the Esso sun.
00:50:35 lie to the population, which is tell them what they wanna hear.
00:53:18 So, yes, it's going to be a terrible blow to the United States when we
00:56:06 the closest connections with oil companies themselves.
00:59:28 The fundamentalist movement is strong and it's dangerous.
01:02:42 but human creativity is inextiguishable
01:05:32 to deliver and produce cheaply hydrogen. On the other hand
01:08:29 and burn U-235 in them, the worldwide reserves of uranium would
01:11:24 And that's really where the problem is, the demand is so huge
01:15:50 You end up with asking "What is more real, is it the financial market
01:19:31 It's somehow contrary to our mindset to think about these things
Cast & Characters
Wade Adams
Self - Researcher in Nanotechnology
Abdul Samad Al-Awadi
Self - Oil Consultant
Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi
Self - Former OPEC Executive Secretary-General
Roscoe Bartlett
Self - US Congressman
Robert Bottome
Self - Economist, Caracas
Colin J. Campbell
Self - Oil Geologist
Marcello Colitti
Self - Former Chief Executive of ENI S.p.A.
Alberto Quirós Corradi
Self - President of Allied Consulting, Caracas
Mir-Babajev Mir-Jusiv Fazilogli
Self - Oil Historian
Daniele Ganser
Self - Historian
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed792
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:36
Final line01:19:31
Production Record
DirectorRay McCormack, Basil Gelpke
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes2,006