One was a simple way of visualizing the decay of a farming community or the ability to be able to farm. And the other key point is from watching Ken Burns’s documentary The Dust Bowl, which is incredible if you haven’t seen it because it is science fiction. It seems like science fiction. You cannot believe the images you’re seeing, the real images. The descriptions are heartbreaking and amazing, but you’re looking at pictures and film of things that if you put them in a movie, directly, people wouldn’t believe it. When we do the dust clouds and the dust storms in the film they are toned down
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