Where is the island located?
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georgegauthier — 17 years ago(September 02, 2008 06:09 PM)
The short story makes it clear that the aptly name Ship-Trap Island is in the Caribbean Sea when the good guy Rainsford, still aboard the yacht at sea, hears several shots "on a moonless Caribbean night."
In the story, he falls overboard and the yacht sails on with no one the wiser, So he has to shuck his clothing and swim for it, climbing the rocks of an inhospitable shore to reach the flats above where he sees signs of the hunt whose denouement he had heard earlier.
The time of the story is a few years after the First World War which Rainsford and Connell himself had fought in. Once a soldier and now a big game hunter, his source of wealth unspecified he is sailing for the Amazon for his latest interest, hunting jaguar. The mad Russian count Zaroff (not a Cossack as in the movie) thinks Rainsford's history of killing men in war and big game in the wild will make a good companion on the hunt for any of another dozen men Zaroff has languishing in his dungeon. Rainsford tell Zaroff he is mad, so is forced to become the hunted instead of a fellow hunter.
No girl of course in the original story. That is pure Hollywood.
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Karl Self — 17 years ago(September 07, 2008 02:39 AM)
Excellent, thanks Gauthier.
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jennithib — 17 years ago(September 15, 2008 01:39 PM)
Actually george he is a Cossak in the story. He says that Ivan his manservant is, and then he refers to himself as one also, as does the narrator at one point. However, it is not Count Zaroff in the story, it is General.
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jic-1 — 17 years ago(February 04, 2009 05:45 PM)
The captain says that they are in a dangerous part of the pacific just before the shipwreck.
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jic-1 — 17 years ago(March 11, 2009 05:12 AM)
It definitely wasn't Skull Island. It was smaller, and there were no natives or prehistoric creatures. You're right about the sets, though. If you've seen
King Kong
and then watch this (or vise versa), you do get a strong feeling of dj vu.
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LemonPuppy — 16 years ago(June 09, 2009 12:00 AM)
But the topography of Skull Island makes more sense than this smaller one. Bob and Eve run back and forth from one side to the other, where the mad scientist has his laboratory and dungeon. He even says how small this island is.
Both sides of the land mass are slightly above sea level because they have to look down to search for boats. There is a marsh which they run back and forth through, while being chased by the bad guys and their canines.
But there is also a steep ravine, as Skull Island has. Bob tosses a rock down into the creek below, and it takes its good old time to land there. If that is the case, then why doesn't the marsh drain down into that steep gorge or the one with the vine-covered log which the canines and bad guys chase them across into the cave?
Then they find a very tall mountain (as Skull Island also has some), but this one contains a very powerful waterfall. Does this make sense to anyone, how a very tiny island has a large source of water at the top of its mountain to furnish all of that downpour?
It would seem that if the marsh, which is somehow above sea level, does not drain way down into those ravines, which are way below sea level, then either the waterfall would flow to flood the place or else the sea water would be pouring in to fill in those gullies.