History Film / DeepwaterHorizon

* No witness accounts corroborate Dale performing a HeroicSacrifice to move the cranes and rescue his friends. Instead, he had already been operating the cranes. However, he did indeed work to move the crane before struggling to get to safety.
* BadBoss: The higher ups and more middle management types at BP, to put it extremely mildly, don't come off very well. The hands-on supervisors right above the regular rig-workers, though, show serious foresight and suffer through the disaster just as much as everyone else.
* TheBigBoard: Don uses this to draw a [[ExpositionDiagram diagram]] illustrating his idea for why the negative flow test had such a high reading but no mud came shooting back up.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: No witness accounts corroborate Dale performing a HeroicSacrifice to move the cranes; instead he had already been operating the cranes, though he did indeed work to move the crane before struggling to get to safety.

* HateSink: Two words. Don Vidrine. [[Creator/JohnMalkovich John Malkovich's]] smarmy corporate {{jerkass}} gives the Weyland-Yutani Corporation a run for their money.

* NauseaFuel: Characters have their bodies painted in shards of broken glass as well as doused with layers of noxious oil. How viscerally horrifying it is gets magnified by the fact that the audience knows ahead of time that several of them are about to die.

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 dramatization of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010.]] Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JohnMalkovich, and Creator/KateHudson star alongside relative newcomers [[Creator/DylanOBrien Dylan O'Brien]] and Creator/GinaRodriguez in a production that depicts the start of the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history. Many of the characters direct representations of real people, including protagonist Mike Williams (played by Wahlberg).

In April 2010, a group of Transocean crew are transported to the semi-submersible drilling rig ''Deepwater Horizon'' for the final stages of drilling the well they've been working on. Also along are some supervisors from BP, the company they're drilling for, who want to know why they have gotten so far behind schedule. Despite the myriad of problems the rig is experiencing, the BP reps insist on expediting the process, but when a test of the well they insist on running results in a pressure blowout, a series of events [[GoneHorriblyWrong cascades out of control]], [[FromBadToWorse threatening the entire rig and the lives of ''everyone'' on board]].

* BookEnds: The opening lines of the film are Mike being sworn in to testify before the investigation board as to the happenings aboard the rig. The film ends with clips of various testimonies before the board.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Vidrine had a lot of direct responsibility for the blowout (at least, in the film) due to his insistence that the confusing readings from the negative pressure tests were the result of the "bladder effect," a theory he co-formulated with Kaluza that states the reading is the result of outside pressure covering the annular. When the drilling mud first bursts out through the pipe, Vidrine himself is on the drill floor to be covered in it.

* SoftWater: A special aversion: [[TruthInTelevision Mike and Andrea actually did survive jumping several stories off of the rig and into the Gulf.]]

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 dramitization of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010.]] Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Dylan O'Brien, Gina Rodriguez and Creator/KateHudson star in this production depicting the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history. Many of the characters direct representations of real people, including protagonist Mike Williams (played by Wahlberg).

In April 2010, a group of Transocean crew are transported to the semi-submersible drilling rig ''Deepwater Horizon'' for the final stages of drilling the well they've been working on. Also along are some supervisors from BP, the company they're drilling for, who want to know why they have gotten so far behind schedule. Despite the myriad of problems the rig is experiencing, the BP reps insist on expediting the process, but when a test of the well they insist on running results in a pressure blowout, a series of events cascades out of control, threatening the rig and the lives of everyone on board.

* AdaptationDistillation: The movie barely touches on the disaster ''after'' the rig sinks. This counts as PragmaticAdapation as well given how agonizingly depressing the entire situation was from the very beginning, with no single film able to depict all of the related details. The vast amount of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico virtually sterilized it and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds upon hundres of people. It took drilling multiple relief wells over ''months'' of time to finally bring the massive oil spill under control. Even years and years later, shrimp and fish got found with major birth defects and other damage from the spill.

* TheBigBoard: Don uses this draw a [[ExpositionDiagram diagram]] illustrating his idea for why the negative flow test had such a high reading but no mud came shooting back up.
* ChekhovsGunman: The crane operator, Dale Burkeen, seen briefly while Mike is checking the status of the rig and later secures the loose crane when it starts slamming into the rig, threatening to knock it over.
* ChewingTheScenery: This is practically the trademark of [[Creator/JohnMalkovich John Malkovich]]'s smarmy character [[LargeHam Don Vidrine]], especially when it comes to business matters. EvilIsHammy applies.

* HateSink: Two words. Don Vidrine. [[Creator/JohnMalkovich John Malkovich]]'s smarmy corporate {{jerkass}} gives the damn [[Main/Alien Weyland-Yutani Corporation]] a run for their money.

* SoleSurvivor: An odd example as of the people present in the drilling shack when the blowout occurs, Don, who is not part of the drilling crew, he was actually leaving the control room, is the only one to make it out alive.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: As the film begins, the ''Horizon'' is 43 days behind schedule on the well they've been drilling. BP is riding them to get it finished and ordering measures taken to try and make up lost time, measures that have the Transocean people scratching their heads. When Mike asks a few roughnecks if it's stupid what they're doing, they say they're not sure it's stupid, but it "ain't smart". Eventually all this leads up to an uncontrolled pressure buildup that causes a blowout and eventual explosion.

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 dramitization of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Dylan O'Brien, Gina Rodriguez and Creator/KateHudson star in this production depicting the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history.

* AdaptationDistillation: The movie barely touches on the disaster ''after'' the rig sinks: The vast amount of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico and virtually sterilized it. It took drilling multiple relief wells over ''months'' of time to finally bring the massive oil spill under control. Even today shrimp and fish are being found with major birth defects and other damage from the spill.
** Likely because the actual cause of the leak only came out after the Blow Out Preventer was lifted off the sea bed and examined. [[https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/deepwater-horizon-blowout-preventer-failed-due-to-unrecognized-pipe-buckling-report-says/ Turned out it contained a rather serious design defect]], which meant the leak continued even after the scram button was repeatedly pressed.
* TheBigBoard: Don uses this draw a [[ExpositionDiagram diagram]] illustrating his idea for why the negative flow test had such a high reading, but no mud came shooting back up.

* ChewingTheScenery: John Malkovich as [[LargeHam Don Vidrine]], especially when it comes to business matters.

* DeathGlare: When they see each other again after the explosion, Jimmy gives Don the coldest glare ever, made more intense through only one eye. Later on the ''Damon Bankston'' Jimmy gives another when he realizes Don was the only one in the drilling shack to make it out alive.

** In the first scene when the inspection rover heads back up, a single drop of oil seeps out of the ground by the well.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Vidrine was largely responsible for the blowout (at least, in the film) due to his insistence that the confusing readings from the negative pressure tests were the result of the "bladder effect," a theory he co-formulated with Kaluza that states the reading is the result of outside pressure covering the annular. When the drilling mud first bursts out through the pipe, Vidrine himself is on the drill floor to be covered in it.

* DeathGlare: When they see each other again after the explosion, Jimmy gives Don the coldest glare ever, made more intense through only one eye.

** Likely because the actual cause of the leak only came out after the Blow Out Preventer was lifted off the sea bed and examined. [[https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/deepwater-horizon-blowout-preventer-failed-due-to-unrecognized-pipe-buckling-report-says/ Turned out it contained a rather serious design defect]], which meant the leak continued even after the scram button was repeatedly pressed. That turns the story from "Evil dangerous driver!" to "Brake cable snapped." Which means you now have a story with no central villain, no explosions, quite a bit of humble pie for the US press, and some US government culpability - which is not a story Hollywood wants to tell.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The negative pressure test on the bleed pipe leads to a blockage that builds up pressure and causes the blowout and eventual fire.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Vidrine was largely responsible for the blowout (at least, in the film) due to his insistence that the confusing readings from the negative pressure tests were the result of the "bladder effect," a theory he co-formulated with Kaluza that states the reading is the result of outside pressure covering the annular. When the drilling mud first bursts out through the pipe, Vidrine himself is in the drill shack to be splattered by it.

* HopeSpot: There are a couple; when they manage to get the generators going again, which gives the bridge at least some control over the situation, but they lose power again almost immediately. Then when they try to cut the pipe, the blades are unable to penetrate it, then get sheared off by the intense pressure, leaving them with no means to keep the rig's drift from tearing the well open.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Vidrine was largely responsible for the blowout (at least, in the film) due to his insistence that the confusing readings from tthe negative pressure tests were the result of the "bladder effect." When the drilling mud first bursts out through the pipe, Vidrine himself is in the drill shack to be splattered by it.

* SoftWater: A rare aversion: [[TruthInTelevision Mike and Andrea actually did survive jumping several stories off of the rig and into the Gulf.]]

* AdaptationDistillation: The movie barely touches on the disaster ''after'' the rig sinks: The vast amount of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico and virtually sterilized it. It took drilling multiple relief wells over ''months'' of time to finally bring the massive oil spill under control.

** When Sydney's through with her presentation (see LectueAsExposition), the honey (mud) gives way and the soda (oil) comes shooting up the pipe.