August 4th, 2007
The Island of Screenplay Writers
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...I think being secluded on a desert island would be fantastic. I am of course a hermit. I figure there’s too many bad screenplay writers to fit them all on one island, so I should probably find my own. If only life on a deserted island would be more like Gilligan’s Island, and not like the movie Castaway.
I can’t make it more than five minutes into the island part of that movie without falling asleep. Tom Hanks just doesn’t do it for me. Man, I totally should have made this cartoon about them researching for castaway 2. I need to find that memory erasure doohickey so I can redo this comic sometime later. I think I left it somewhere near my Will Smith albums in that portal to hell.
It’s too easy to make fun of movies.
August 4th, 2007 at 7:40 am
I would have to say Cast away is more suitable for me, opposed to Gilligan’s Island, for that “stranded” scenario. I have always been somewhat of a hermit myself. When I was younger the book Hatchet, and there was another one about a boy who ran away and lived in a Sequoia tree, always rubbed me the right way. I guess it would be a bit easier for me than most others, I did grow up in the middle of a pine forest in rural Georgia. For heat my sister and I were put to work chopping wood for our wood burning stove, and AC…lol yeah that was only in our greatest dreams. I never did mind living like that, in fact after my husband and I tied the knot we set out and lived in Kings Canyon for a few months, just living on what we could find in the forest, and bathing in the mountain water streams. It helped a lot that we are both vegetarian. We moved to the city of Exeter, a very small city in the middle of California, when I became pregnant. Well, I would have to say that I would never deprive my children of the wonderful joys of technology, so we now live in a nice size city in North Augusta, SC. Though this is only the tip of our journey. Canada is next ^_^
August 5th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
OMG hatchet! I loved that book! I used to fantasize about that kind of thing happening to me all the time. I think it had more impact on my life than any book I’ve ever read next to Ishmael.
Ooooh Canada, perhaps the last of the unspoiled wild left in North America. It can be insanely cold at times. Make sure to pack lots of non-cotton clothes. Wool is great for that sort of thing.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m glad I appeal to fellow hermits and Hatchet readers.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:59 am
The other book is My Side of the Mountian, about this kid that runs away and lives in the forest, he hollows out a big tree and lives inside it. It was a pretty inspiring book, I think about it whenever I’m camping…. I must have read it 15+ years ago.