Just for Fun…Like most people on this site, I think about the threat of an avian flu pandemic daily, hourly and tend to see everything thru an AI lens. I have noticed that I am always gleaning information on survival even from the movies I am watching. Here is what I have learned…..
Hotel Rwanda: the unthinkable happens and drink the pool water
Posieden Adventure: If you wait until the ballroom floods before you climb the Christmas Tree you a doomed (prepare before panic)
War of the Worlds: Be very careful who you choose to SIP with
I am sure there are other tidbits out there
Annie Hall: Can one of the dehydrators tell me if it is possible to dry lobster tails?
Melanie,
You got a dehydrator that TALKS?
:-)
anon_22,
Smarta**.
I learned this from Shrek
Make your place look as unappealing as possible. The masses won’t think you have anything worth stealing then.
anon_22 – at 17:14 Made my laugh — needed that! :)
Waterworld: Learn how to swim and stay off oil tankers run by crazed Dennis Hopper types.
Aliens: Survival may depend upon knowing when to run, when to hide, and when to stand and fight.
Princess Bride: Watch out for RoUS’.:D
Galaxy Quest: Never give up, never surrender.
The Big Lebowski: The Dude abides.
Forrest Gump “Shrimp with potatoes, shrimp with peas, shrimp with parsips…..”
Except with 90lbs of oatmeal mine will be “oatmeal cookies, oatmeal bread, oatmeal muffins…”
A Boy and His Dog—1975 cult classic
When the chips are down man’s best friend wins out. : )
Moral-Have a dog, a really good dog.
A Boy and His Dog—1975 cult classic
Based on an excellent story by Harlan Ellison. ‘Scuse the interruption.
From War of the Worlds (the first one): even big tough bad guys can be felled by tiny viruses.
Not from the movies, but from the tabloids: Tom Cruise is too weird to SIP with. ;)
Yes this could be “War of the Worlds” in reverse.
The Birds: this is really going to suck on the local level.
Jaws: TPTB will try to keep everything open while people are dieing.
The KeyStone Cops What the TPTB will look like once this really gets going.
The PostMan: What I fear we have to look forward to.
Tremors: No matter how well you plan and prep, you can’t anticipate everything.
BF conversation with my wife, from Cool hand Luke: “what we have here…is a failure to communicate”.
My reason for a big prep, from Apocalypse Now: “don’t get off the boat….unless you’re going all the way…..”
9 to 5 - Don’t mistake your rat poison for your coffee creamer. (Be careful with your preps.)
Target Earth- Just when you thought it was safe to come out……..
Ghost Busters - Well, who are you gonna call?
Pirates of the Carribean (part 1)
Captain Jack Sparrow: - …”Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?” (For our front-line BF workers…)
Jaws: The waters look calm, but there is danger lurking underneath.
Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”
Always look on the bright side of life….
Gone With The Wind: Scarlett: As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.
The Big Chill:
It’s going to suck if we lose our loved ones, but life goes on.
If you are as good looking as Vivian Leigh, trust me Darlin, you won’t go hungry.
Terminator 2:
Come with me if you want to live.
Babe:
A little pig goes a long way.
The Matrix
Sometimes I wish I’d chose the blue pill.
From every horror movie made in the last 30 years.
Just when you think the threat has been vanquished . . . it comes back. ;)
You can’t handle the truth !!!
From “Scent of a Woman:
“If I was 30 years younger I’d take a flame thrower to this place”
My comments to the WHO and CDC
Even now, we can still learn a great deal from movies. Look at this Public Service short and you’ll see what I mean:
I have also learned about Bird Flu from this music video. Even though there is a language barrier, I was still able to get most of the message:
Apocalypse Now: Never get off the boat.
Wizard of OZ -“I just want to go home” I’m sure we will all want to go back to how things once were, once the BF hits! So, prepare now to make it the best it can be.
And I just couldn’t resist this one either. This is, I suspect, what a visit to the Doctor will look like fairly shortly:
Link to Movie Clip Showing How Doctors Offices Will Look Soon
From Apocolypse Now: “Never get off the boat! Never get off the boat!”
From “The Lord Of The Rings”
“We cannot choose the time we live in. We can only choose what we do with the time we are given.”
Also from Apocolypse Now: “One day this war will be over”
Thats my favourite :)
From “The Last Samurai”:
Katsumoto: You believe a man can change his destiny?
Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed.
From Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
“Doctor, will you tell these fools? I’m not crazy. Make them listen to me before it’s too late.”
“Look, you fools. You’re in danger. Can’t you see? They’re after you. They’re after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They’re here already. YOU’RE NEXT!”
“On The Beach”: Don’t believe the banner which says, “There is still time, brothers.” Start getting ready NOW!
Closing line of the original House on Haunted Hill (1950 something):
They’re coming for me now. And then, they’ll come for you.
Okieman, So Glad you posted that one, I was trying to remember the line, I knew it had to do with that we all are given the same amount of time, it’s up to us on how we use it.
Jeremiah: TV Series about life after a disease wipes out all adults and leaves children to fend for themselves. (the grow up because the disease wipes itself out. Lesson: Have a good back pack with canned goods to trade- very helpful.
National Lampoon’s Vacation: When Aunt Edna dies, we’ll just strap her to the roof.
Finding Nemo:
Just keep swimming, Just Keep Swimming… (Don’t give up, when you think all hope is lost)
Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” - “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway, and you see it through no matter what.”
28 Days Later: “I have some bad news.” (Things can change more than you ever thought possible.)
Sixth Sense: “I see dead people.” (Use your fear for motivation)
Jaws: “We need a bigger boat!”(Prepare for adversity appropriately)
Terminator: “There’s a storm coming.” (Head for the hills and learn survival skills.)
Aaaaaaand: (drumroll): Blazing Saddles, the campfire scene! (No explaination necessary.)
BTW, if you haven’t seen “28 Days Later” — so scary, apocalyptic/pandemic WAY cool zombie flick, with British accents, to boot! Maybe too close to the bone for people here, but it made my permanent collection.
Karma is justice without the satisfaction—The Way of the Gun.
---feeling some karma coming round---
“The Birds”
The film does not finish with the usual “THE END” title because Alfred Hitchcock wanted to give the impression of unending terror.
There is no musical score for the film except for the sounds created on the mixtrautonium, an early electronic musical instrument, by Oskar Sala, and the children singing in the school.
Still trying to find the quote from the elderley Ornithologist,Mrs Bundy.
At the Tides Restaurant, an elderly Ornithologist (Ethel Griffies) opines that humanity wouldn’t stand a chance against the hundred billion or more birds on earth, whom she smugly regards as harmless—until another attack begins outside.
After a gull swoops down onto a gas station attendant, a trail of gasoline makes its way into the restaurant’s parking lot, where a man is lighting a cigar. The garbled warning cries of bystanders are misunderstood, and the resulting shattering explosion soon alerts scores of birds, who attack everyone who cannot manage to get indoors.
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
ARTHUR
What does it say?
MAYNARD
It reads, ‘Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaaaaagggh’.
ARTHUR
What?
MAYNARD
‘…The Castle of aaaaaagggh’.
BEDEVERE
What is that?
MAYNARD
He must have died while carving it.
LAUNCELOT
Oh, come on!
MAYNARD
Well, that’s what it says.
ARTHUR
Look, if he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to carve ‘aaaaaggh’. He’d just say it!
MAYNARD
Well, that’s what’s carved in the rock!
GALAHAD
Perhaps he was dictating.
ARTHUR
Oh, shut up. Well, does it say anything else?
MAYNARD
No. Just, ‘aaaaaagggh’.
LAUNCELOT
Aaaauugggh.
ARTHUR
Aaaaaggh.
BEDEVERE
Do you suppose he meant the Camaaaaaargue?
GALAHAD
Where’s that?
BEDEVERE
France, I think.
LAUNCELOT
Isn’t there a ‘Saint Aaauuves’ in Cornwall?
ARTHUR
No, that’s ‘Saint Ives’.
LAUNCELOT
Oh, yes. Saint Iiiiives.
KNIGHTS
Iiiiives.
BEDEVERE
Oooohoohohooo!
LAUNCELOT
No, no. ‘Aaaauugggh’, at the back of the throat. Aaauugh.
BEDEVERE
N— no. No, no, no, no. ‘Oooooooh’, in surprise and alarm.
LAUNCELOT
Oh, you mean sort of a ‘aaaah’!
BEDEVERE
Yes, but I— aaaaaah!
ARTHUR
Oooh!
MAYNARD
It’s the legendary Black Beast of Aaauugh! [Black Beast of Aaauugh eats BROTHER MAYNARD]
BEDEVERE
That’s it! That’s it!
ARTHUR
Run away!
Lesson learned: Sometimes it is best to warn others then run away.
Wow, that was longer than I thought. Sorry mods.
Okieman- ROTFL!
What I learned from the movies-
“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
“Running? Running is not a plan, running is what you do when the plan fails!”
“Never give up, Never surrender!”
“…. and God, please forgive me the men I have killed in anger, and those I am about to.”
What I’ve learned from the movies is that in the highest tension, scariest movies, there is usually a false ending. The monster is gone, everyone is happy, everyone relaxes.
Then the monster suddenly comes crashing through a wall, or up out of the ground and immediately gets a couple of the lovable protagonists and scatters the formerly happy and relaxed survivors who run screaming into whatever shelter they can find.
Translate “Monster” to “influenza” and you have the perfect description of a second wave.
Eccles – at 14:07
And even though some will be shouting “Don’t relax yet! The monster isn’t dead!”, the “cast” will of course relax and end up paying the price.
Hillbilly,very funny,maybe a reveiw of Mad Max,more shells please
Centella wrote: Babe - A little pig goes a long way.
Made me ROTHFLMAO!
The Firm - Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
or conversely,
Jurassic Park - All for one. And one for all.
and eventually,
Signs - It is happening
Doctor Zhivago - live fully, search for love
Hildago: That guy and his horse survived every crazy kind of emergency they faced.
“A plan is a list of things that isn’t going to happen.” The Way of the Gun
From King Kong
If you can get a massive gorilla, which has been heavily sedated, from off the rocks into a small ship (which has been severely damaged) and get back to NY (from a point unknown), when you have thrown all your supplies overboard (so no food, water etc etc), no cage for the gorilla, and not enough ether to keep him drugged up all the way back, and he does not attack during the entire voyage, then this BF stuff should be really easy!
BUMP!!!
Now come on! No one has a Mad Max quote? I think this one is quite fitting from “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome”
Aunty Entity: Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody.
If we are going to include TV series, then I have to go with 24
Jack Bauer: I’m going to need a knife…..
I hope we never need to say anything like this with regard to H5N1, but…
From Jaws: “We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
“Do ya feel lucky? Well? Do ya??”
These are all soooo good…I wish I knew some but can’t remember any….I watch TV but I rarely remember what I see or hear, especially specifics…my mind just sort of drifts off and tunes back in then drifts off again….the joys of ADD! So I’m thankful for those of you who can remember these funny lines!
Hillbilly Bill – at 09:51
If you’re referring to the infamous Marshall Goran scene, not to be nit-picky but I believe that was “I’m gonna need a hacksaw.”
Jack uses hacksaws for pedophile heads and pocketknives for terrorist thumbs, don’t ya know.
April – at 11:53
You are absolutely right! My apologies, besides that makes the quote even more ominous…
In conjunction with my name (and for all us single woman)…
If you are going to SIP in a remote wooded area (trying to keep away from the bad guy)…find the place with seven gentlemen…it will be more entertaining.
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