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''Promised Land'' is a 2012 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, and Hal Holbrook. The screenplay is written by Damon and Krasinski based on a story by Dave Eggers. ''Promised Land'' follows two corporate salespeople who visit a rural town in an attempt to buy drilling rights from the local residents. Damon was originally attached to direct the film, but he was replaced by Van Sant. Filming took place mainly in Pittsburgh from early to mid-2012. During filming and afterward, the film's highlighting of the resource extraction process hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking," emerged as a topic of debate. The film had a limited release in the United States on , 2012 and followed with a nationwide expansion on , 2013. The film had its international premiere and received Special Mention Award at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2013. ==Plot== Steve Butler has caught the eyes of top management at his employer, Global Crosspower Solutions, an energy company that specializes in obtaining natural gas trapped underground through a process known as fracking. Butler has an excellent track record for quickly and cheaply persuading land owners to sign mineral rights leases that grant drilling rights over to his employer. Butler and his partner Sue Thomason arrive in an economically struggling Pennsylvania farming town whose citizens are proud of having family farms passed from one generation to the next. Coming from a town and a life very similar to that of the people he is now determined to win over on behalf of Global, Butler tells the story of how his own town died after the local Caterpillar assembly plant closed. The idea of a town surviving solely on family farms being passed down through generations as a viable economy is one that he can no longer accept. He claims to be offering the town its last chance. Butler spends some pleasant after-hours time with Alice, a teacher he meets in a bar. The town decides to put Global's offer up to a community vote and seems willing to vote in Global's favor until a local high school science teacher, who happened to be a successful engineer in his working life, raises the question of the safety of fracking during a town meeting. Butler and Thomason's sales pitch is further challenged when Dustin Noble, an unknown environmental advocate, starts a grassroots campaign against Global, motivated by a tale of his family losing its dairy farm after the herd died as a result of Global's industry-standard fracking process. Butler begins to meet a great deal of resistance in town. Noble seems to be winning over nearly everyone, including Alice. One night Butler receives a package from Global that includes an enlarged copy of a photograph of dead cattle on a field that Noble said came from his family's Nebraska farm. The enlargement shows that the object thought to be a silo is in fact a lighthouse and that Noble has been practising deception. Butler tells the town's mayor and then visits Alice, trying to prove that "I'm not the bad guy." He returns to the hotel to find Noble is loading his truck and leaving town. Noble accidentally reveals that he knows the picture with the lighthouse was taken in Lafayette, Louisiana. The film makes no reference to the fact that Lafayette is a landlocked parish with no coastline. Butler realizes that the only way Noble could know this is if he were also employed by Global. Noble's job had been to discredit the environmental movement. He arranged for Butler to receive the "confidential" photos and engineered the entire public relations effort. Noble wishes Butler good luck back at the company's headquarters in New York. At a town meeting the next day, the citizens are prepared to vote on Global's efforts to buy gas rights to their property. Butler tells how the barn in the picture reminds him of his grandfather's barn. He reveals that Noble had manipulated them and is employed by Global. Butler leaves the meeting to find Thomason on the phone with Global. She tells him that he's fired and that she is leaving for New York. Butler walks to Alice's home and she welcomes him in. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Promised Land (2012 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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