The Land That Time Forgot story
Set during World War I, the survivors of a British merchant ship end up on an uncharted sub-continent, called Caprona, in the South Atlantic. It is based upon the 1918 novel The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
10 total · 9 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a common interest unites | major | The Brits/Americans and German sailors agreed that the war between their nations was meaningless to them while they were on the sub-continent and agreed to work together to survive there until such time as they could return to a neutral port. |
| cooperation | major | The Brits/Americans and German sailors agreed that the war between their nations was meaningless to them while they were on the sub-continent and agreed to work together to survive there until such time as they could return to a neutral port. |
| human vs. beast | major | The people had to survive around dinosaurs on the sub-continent Caprona. |
| isolated prehistoric land | major | The people on the U-boat ended up on a hitherto unexplored sub-continent in the South Atlantic filled with dinosaurs. |
| living dinosaur | major | The people on the U-boat ended up on a hitherto unexplored sub-continent in the South Atlantic filled with dinosaurs. |
| perilous voyage at sea | major | Some people aboard a U-boat that had run out of fuel ended up drifting at sea for a long time and ended up at an uncharted sub-continent, called Caprona, in the South Atlantic. Note that the voyage took up between a third to a half of the entire film. |
| putting differences aside | major | The Brits/Americans and German sailors agreed that the war between their nations was meaningless to them while they were on the sub-continent and agreed to work together to survive there until such time as they could return to a neutral port. |
| speculative evolution | major | The creatures on Caprona did not evolve according to natural selection, but rather each individual organism (from single celled organisms all the way to hominids) passed through every stage of evolution within their own lifetime. |
| World War I | major | The film was set during the First World War and we saw people from the Allied countries work together with a German U-boat crew to survive on in a land filled with dinosaurs and cavemen. |
| primitive point of view | minor | The caveman Ahm was perplexed with his modern visitors and their technology. |