The Long Rain story
An army spaceship crash lands on a planet where it always rains, and they seek out the only known shelter that exists. Directed by: Lee Tamahori. Story by: Ray Bradbury.
9 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. environment | choice | Four men battled the elements on an alien planet where it always rained, and deadly electricity was (literally) in the air. [tropical] |
| commander and subordinate | major | The leader of the group struggled to keep up morale, at least so that his men wouldn't kill themselves out of despair. |
| group morale | major | The leader of the group struggled to keep up morale, at least so that his men wouldn't kill themselves out of despair. |
| speculative habitable celestial body | major | Four men were exploring a planet on which it has rained ceaselessly for 10 million years, give or take a million. |
| creative writing | minor | In the introduction, Ray Bradbury shared with the viewer the wellsprings of creativity that inspire his writing. |
| descent into madness | minor | One of the men was driven mad by the ceaseless torrential rains. |
| space colonization | minor | Boltz questioned the plan to colonize the "puddle" of a planet on which they had crash landed. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | The story starts out at the site of a crash landed futuristic spaceship. |
| the nature of creativity | minor | In his introduction, Ray Bradbury gave his viewers an intimate window into his writing room, and some of the self-professed sources of creativity that lay about within it. |