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Why film crews pave roads into the wilderness

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Nature's rugged beauty is terribly inconvenient for massive catering trucks. When directors insist on shooting in untouched wilderness, studios will quietly drop millions of dollars legally paving miles of permanent asphalt straight up a mountain solely so the heavy lighting equipment doesn't get stuck in the mud.

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