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Cinema’s green shoots of sustainability

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” said Robert Duvall as the line of palm trees burned behind him at the beginning of. But one of cinema’s most iconic quips came at a cost – namely pouring 1,200 gallons of gasoline over acres of trees in the Philippines and filming the results. “The environmentalists would kill you,” said director Francis Ford Coppola about the prospect of doing the stunt in the US. Over

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