the need for adventure theme
A character, in order to feel fulfilled, need some kind of adventure in their life.
23 total · 1 choice · 15 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Cimmaron (1931) | choice | The hero of the story Yancey Crevat was driven by an unquenchable thirst for adventure. After settling in the booming frontier town of Osage with his family, he built a successful career as a newspaper publisher. The spirit of adventure, however, soon got the better of him and he irresponsibly bolted on his wife and children to settle land in the newly opened Cherokee Strip. From that point on one gathers that Yancey became an adventure seeking drifter. The viewer later learns, for instance, that he went off to fight in the Spanish-American War. |
| ahh3x19 | major | Walter donned the persona of Philip Marshall in order to become a more exciting and adventurous figure. |
| ahp6x33 | major | James wanted to leave his wive because he needed some spice in his life. |
| movie: Moon Zero Two (1969) | major | First man on Mars Bill Kemp sought to satisfy his need for adventure by accepting dangerous space missions under the employ of notorious millionaire J. J. Hubbard, after he lost his career as a pioneering astronaut. |
| movie: Star Wars (1977) | major | Luke wanted to leave the backwater Tatooine and find excitement |
| movie: The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913) | major | Saturnino and Misora travel the world getting into one adventure after another, including an encounter with a whale at the bottom of the sea, finding the lost white elephant of the Siamese king, going to the source of the Nile, and taking a cruise along the coast of the Americas |
| movie: The Invisible Woman (1940) | major | Kitty Carroll was motivated to volunteer as a test subject for being turned invisible by a desire for adventure. |
| movie: The Lost World (1925) | major | The famed explorer Sir John Roxton sets out on an expedition to verify whether reports of live dinosaurs existing in South America are true. |
| movie: The Lost World (1960) | major | Members of the Challenger expedition to a remote Venezuelan plateau were in part motivated by the prospect of adventure and exploration. |
| movie: The Truman Show (1998) | major | the complications all started with Truman wanting to go to Fiji and meet a girl |