Political messages are no stranger in today’s Hollywood. Republican or Democrat, actors and filmmakers can’t help but integrate their personal message into their movies, especially when it comes to the environment. In “Promised Land”, Damon plays Steve Butler, a salesman for Global Crosspower Solutions, a natural gas company. His job, along with his partner Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), is to go into small towns with a big smile on his face and convince people to sell their land to allow for the drilling of natural gas. He is, maybe without realizing it, a puppet con artist. He smiles, shakes hands and offers these people, who are struggling already, the promise of possibly millions of dollars in return for the right to tear up their land.

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