Zach Jansen at 2013-04-19 18:53:32:
So this guy lives in cave and has no money, but still has a website. What a marvelous modern age we live in.
Mark Walker at 2013-04-19 19:04:04:
I like the idea of a man/woman and/or their family being in a situation where someone was forcing them into that situation. A thriller situation where they could see their savings accounts and investments start to reduce and disappear, jobs being lost and income decreasing through the malevolent actions of someone with a grudge. I am sure something like that would be possible in this day and age of electrical whizzy things, and could be quite terrifying if you didn't know who was doing it, why or how....and could do nothing to stop it.
Shaula Evans at 2013-04-20 16:38:45:
Zach, the website jumped out at me, too. Let's say he's using a free hosting service and he's logging in on a library computer... he's not paying money, but he's taking advantage of the things money can buy that someone else is paying for. Hmm. Problematic. (Despite what Judas sings in the finale of Jesus Christ Super Star, I suspect that if Jesus came today s/he wouldn't have a website.) The problem with people going off into remote areas is that some (not all, but many) do it very naively. For example, Jon Krakauer's book Into The Wild, which was made into the 2007 movie of the same name, documents a dewy-eyed city boy who hitch-hiked into remote Alaska, got in over his head, and died. I'd take this and make it a modern-day Swiss Family Robinson. They're urban hipster trustafarians (maybe a real family, maybe a surrogate family) who want a "more authentic life", put their stock options in trust, and head out to the wilderness for a year of "roughing it"--which they also document on their website towards book deals and celebrity appearances when they come back. (Which makes room for found footage in all of this.) There's a lot of outdoor adventure and bonding at the beginning: it's all a big lark. Then they get in over their heads. They may tangle with the locals a la Deliverance or Southern Comfort (which could be human, animal, or environmental). It gets very Lord of the Flies as they turn on each other and at the same time very Straw Dogs as they have to improvise defenses and weapons in order to survive. Not all of them make it out alive but at least one does (and at least one dies, horribly). Those who do come out broken, traumatized and reimaged. In the montage at the end under the credits, we see that one is back in the big city as a homeless junkie rent boy, one is in a small town working in a social justice role burying himself in his work, and one is back on the fast track to be a captain of industry in the family business where he hides his tremors and his stealth drinking and boisterously lies about his past--and kicks the homeless guy without seeing him as he walks by.