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Two that come to mind are Cast Away and Lord of the Flies. I had a teacher approach me looking for a movie to show that would tie in with the unit they are doing. Any other good suggestions?
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You know, a common bimbo cast into the unknown world of Ivy League academics. She has no friends. She is alone. Will the bimbo survive?
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Early '80s New Zealand SF film... OK, found the title, "The Quiet Earth" -- very few folks survive a strange scientific disaster.
How about Groundhog Day? More of an existential situation, but it'd make for an interesting contrast to the other films.
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Limbo is a rather underrated movie that deals in part with two adults and a child marrooned on an island in Alaska. Very unconventional ending.
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Oh, I've got it! Never Cry Wolf. That one was truly great. A scientist all alone in the arctic studying wolves. The scene where he resorts to eating mice to determine whether the wolves could actually survive on such a diet is great.
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Touching the Void... Is that anything like Tripping the Rift? that would certainly be entertaining,and would probably get me fired.
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Jenny Agutter and her younger brother are deserted in the Australian outback when their father goes berserk and tries to kill them, but winds up killing himself and torching the car.
The two children befriend an aborigine on his walkabout, which is a rite of passage into adulthood where he is supposed to go alone into the wilderness, but in this case he has to help the two children survive too.
If I said much more it would include spoilers.
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The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.
I don't know if it was good or just made me scared of bears again for a while.
It addresses the subject of survival itself, though - Anthony Hopkins is a rich old guy with a fascination with this old book about surviving in "the wilds." He says that most people lost in the wilds die of fear.
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Speaking of sparking a train of thought, I'm glad this thread came up, because the last time I tried to find Walkabout was in the video stores, before Amazon.com, etc.
WOAH WOAH WOAH!! Rewind! They made a movie out of this? My Side of the Mountain was one of my absolute favorite books as a kid, but they made a movie out of it? When? And how come I've never heard of it?! *goes off to IMDB it*
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A biologist goes out into wilderness Alaska alone to study wolves. One of my favorite movies, its a lot of fun Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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And mack, HATCHET? Did they really make a movie out of Hatchet??
*joins Alcon at IMDB*
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I'm back, and I'm elated and angered and saddened all at once. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, was made into a movie called Cry of the Wild. Except they changed the location and some of the plot and seem to ahve done a terrible job. Oh well, I should have guessed a movie version would suck the soul right out of one of my favourite stories ever.
anyone seen it who can comment? Please, I'd like to know if it's not that bad, really.
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Snow Walker is a good one too. An airplane pilot gets stranded in the Northwest Territories with an ill Inuit girl and she helps him survive.
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During World War II, one American pilot (Lee Marvin) and one Japanese navy captain (Toshiro Mifune) are marooned on a deserted island. They must cooperate to survive, but can they?
An excellent film, which I remember seeing in the theatre when it first came out.
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But I also thought of Groundhog Day . Shocker there.
The PBS/American Experience documentary on The Donner Party was very compelling. At least to a geek like me. There are theatrical versions as well. I think one is called "Ordeal by Hunger" or that may be the book. Maybe the movie is "Donner Pass".
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A couple choice episodes of Red Dwarf might work. Specifically, Marooned has one of the best scripts of the entire series, and it's perfect for the topic.
Also, "Grave of the Fireflies" is a fantastic movie dealing with those very topics when a brother and sister have to survive the destruction of their village and death of their family in WWII Japan.
And speaking of TV shows, the episode Out of Gas from Firefly is, again, one of the strongest episodes and perfect for the theme.
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A biologist goes out into wilderness Alaska alone to study wolves.
Did they change Never Cry Wolf for the silver screen? I know it's based on Mowat's own experiences and the book took place in Northern Manitoba (IIRC). I guess changing the locale to Alaska made it more marketable to Americans.
Anyway, I second Snow Walker. Somewhere in the back of mind lurks some other suggestions, but they're not making their way to the front right now.
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quote:Originally posted by UofUlawguy: How about Enemy Mine? [/QB]
I love Enemy Mine--so much so that if you listed the top 10 things my husband enjoys teasing me about, one of them would be how much I like this movie.
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The short story is even better than the movie, in my opinion. But either way, it's a great survival story, as well as a story about tolerance and learning to understand the enemy.
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Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale would be a good one if you have access to it or know someone who does.
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