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Canklefish 
"Let's Get OUTTA Here!"
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 Posted - 03/02/2008 : 06:46:54
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Why do the stranded always arrive 'on shore' in a state of unconsciousness(and just barely on shore, to note), and/or REM sleep?!
Doesn't anybody, in film, that is, arrive fresh and ready to start the day looking for papayas, coconuts and such shite?!
Every movie/film portrays the stranded as an unconscious soul(usually, it's just one)... who's lucky to have struggled to make the beach, as if it were almost outta reach!
I'm watching some whack-ass film on basic cable right now, and somebody just rolled up on shore, unconscious, and it bugs the friggin' hell outta me!
I love to sleep as much as the next reviewer, but my love of papayas/coconuts and dry land runs much deeper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it the swim that taxes these 'survivors?!' Or does sand have the same effect as my Thanksgiving turkey, with the Tryptophans and such?!
Holla back, yo! |
Edited by - Canklefish on 03/02/2008 07:14:21 |
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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 18:14:09
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Some cliches are comforting; they let the audience get settled; the saloon crowd hushes when either the hero or the villan walks in; gangsters are always well-dressed; brunettes are faithful, blondes are slutty and redheads are dangerous; the bedraggled survivor of a sinking ship/downed aeroplane washed up on shore, coughing, spluttering and collapsing on the sand is one such. There isn't going to be much sympathy for a protagonist who washes up on a tropical beach (they're always tropical beaches, aren't they? No one ever gets stranded on an island in the North Atlantic) and immediately sets about gathering provisions and building a liferaft. I am not a huge fan of Castaway (Tom Hanks), but at least the film is realistic in its first act about how long it might take someone to make a fire when they have never made fire from scratch (or at least hasn't done it since they were a boy scout).
And yes, swimming miles in open ocean under stress and scared would tire out anyone. It knackered Robinson Crusoe and he had some driftwood to cling to.
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Sal[Au]pian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 20:21:08
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| It does seem to be accurate, though. I was just thinking about it the other day. I saw a T.V. reconstruction about a real-life case of a 'plane crashing into the sea. One of the people swam to shore for help. He met two Mexican fisherman there, and when he couldn't persuade them of the situation, it seems that he just went to sleep there and then rather than continuing inland for help. And right after that there was a current news story of three men capsizing - one swam ashore and was found passed out on the beach. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/03/2008 : 05:56:37
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I see CF's point and while Sal may be right, the problem is that they always seem to wake up not having even the faintest idea what happend to them after the crash/wreck or how they got to the beach. That's the part that's not realistic. If they hadn't been concious in order to reach that beach, then they wouldn't have reached the beach at all.
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Canklefish
"Let's Get OUTTA Here!"
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Posted - 03/08/2008 : 03:16:06
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If I reach that beach, I'm eating... Something, but the subjects always seem to arrive wiped out and ignorant of their situation...
My memory tends to lapse, but I know for damn sure that if my plane/boat went down, I'd remember it, and I'd be hungry to boot! Forget the swim/float to shore... Once I hit something that felt like land,
I'm searching for my next meal, bed, water, shelter, etc!!!! Naps can wait! |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 03/08/2008 : 09:20:32
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| As I understood it, if you pass out whilst drowning, a dolphin will piggy-back you to the nearest shore. They're helpful like that. |
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Canklefish
"Let's Get OUTTA Here!"
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Posted - 03/09/2008 : 05:03:42
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Originally posted by benj clews
As I understood it, if you pass out whilst drowning, a dolphin will piggy-back you to the nearest shore. They're helpful like that.
A dolphin while in need is a friend indeed...
Tho, I'd probably eat that helpful beast upon arrival... hoping there aren't any Greenpeace advocates amongst our Fwiffering contingency. |
Edited by - Canklefish on 03/09/2008 05:43:03 |
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Desert Islands...
