stranded on a deserted island theme
A character is stranded on a deserted island, cut off from society, without much prospect of a timely rescue.
Examples
In Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), the titular character spent 28 years stranded on a remote tropical island off the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad.
15 total · 10 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| futurama4x14 | major | Bender and his robot companions, Robinson Crusoe-like, made a living for themselves on an uncharted island. [tropical] |
| movie: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) | major | Following the crash of their hot air balloon, a group of Union soldiers found themselves stranded on a far-flung island. |
| movie: Horrors of Spider Island (1960) | major | Gary Webster and the dancing girls ended up stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean after a plane crash. |
| movie: Jurassic Park III (2001) | major | Eric had been stranded on the dinosaur island for eight weeks before he was found by the Dr. Grant led expedition party. But the expedition party was itself stranded on the island as their airplane was destroyed in a Spinosaurus attack. |
| movie: Matango Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) | major | A group of day trippers found themselves temporarily stranded on a seemingly unpopulated island. |
| movie: Morels Invention (1974) | major | A shipwrecked man washed up on an island that appeared to be deserted, but it soon became apparent that other 1920s era people were on the island, but strangely the man could not interact with them. So he still faced the same problems that he would have had he been alone there throughout the film. |
| movie: Mysterious Island (1961) | major | A group of people found themselves stranded on a deserted island. They took up temporary abode in a cave as they worked on building a boat to escape. |
| movie: The Noah (1975) | major | Noah found himself on a small, tropical island in the Pacific and he was living in a deserted Communist Chinese military outpost. |
| movie: Two Lost Worlds (1951) | major | Kirk Hamilton and his party became stranded on volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs. [prehistoric] |
| movie: Unknown Island (1948) | major | An group of people survived as best they could on a remote Pacific island. |