A Boy and His Dog - A rather kinky tale of survival (Fallout 3's main inspiration)
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[quote]A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society where the old society is preserved. The daughter of one of the leaders of the community seduces and lures him below, where the citizens have become unable to reproduce because of being underground so long. They use him for impregnation purposes, and then plan to be rid of him[/quote]
[quote]The novella and the film adaptation have the same alternate timeline setting. In this, President John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt in 1963 and in his terms of office and that of the other Kennedys, the advancement of technology was concentrated on and billions of dollars poured into it instead of the space race. Technology flourished in the 1960s far faster than it did in our timeline as indeed within a few years even surpassed the point we are at now. Androids became common household servants in the United States before the end of the decade. Extensive research was done in the fields of extra sensory perception, telepathy, and animal intelligence which are all proved possible.
This new form of technological race only intensified the Cold War, which had begun in June 1950 with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, eventually becoming an arms race. The world became divided along the lines of the "Western Bloc" and the "Eastern Bloc". World War III broke out and was fought by conventional means very similar to World War II, yet lasting decades, with both sides suffering heavy losses and neither gaining the upper hand. World War III ended in an uneasy truce—the "Vatican Armistice"—in March 1983. Tensions continued for the next 25 years and the global economy never recovered. In 2007, global negotiations finally broke down and World War IV broke out. This time the war was fought with nuclear weapons and only lasted five days, just long enough for the nuclear missiles to leave their silos on both sides. Civilization was almost entirely obliterated, leaving the surface of the Earth reduced to a desolate, irradiated, desert wasteland.[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu9fESAlGc4[/media]
This was an okay movie. Really weird. But I did like the whole telepathic-dog-befriending-animal thing. Though I didn't like the fact that the whole thing was based around the main character wanting to get laid, more or less.
i thought the bit where you see that glow through the wall and hear screams was pretty disturbing
Its Fallout's main inspiration in general, not just F3.
very good movie though, the ending was hilarious.
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;24991333]Its Fallout's main inspiration in general, not just F3.
very good movie though, the ending was hilarious.[/QUOTE]
I thought Mad max was fallout's main inspiration. :raise:
Both.
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