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Comparing it to The Savage is Loose

posted 8 years ago by mel-holden
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Many many years ago I saw the tv movie - The Savage is Loose

What I recall about it is a man and woman and young son are stranded on an island.

The boys reaches maturity. He's spied his parents having sex (I'm not certain they're his parents actually - it's been decades since watching it) and gets sexual feelings

He tries to get it on with the woman, she says no

He builds a 'sex doll' out of plants and sticks to satisfy his urgings for awhile

But he gets older and wants more

Finally he starts to fight with the man over the woman, and it becomes potentially deadly

The woman gives in is how I seem to recall it ending

The father was George C Scott, kinda rough guy, no Mike Brady. What I'm saying is the son's role model was tough guy, so the kid grew up tough and probably explains why he became savage about wanting to satisfy his sexual urges with a real woman

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I got to thinking, it's similar to The Blue Lagoon. The ending of The Blue Lagoon, the baby boy is what, about 3 yrs old maybe? What if he'd grown older, started having sexual urges. What if the two main characters had other children. Would they have ended up having sex with each other, so their sexual urges could be appeased?

I know that sounds kinda sick, but in The Savage is Loose, this issue gets addressed.

If you've seen both movies, or even have thoughts about this, thanks for responding

[–] MadDoctor61 8 years ago

If the movie didn't end with the death of Richard and Emmeline, I'm sure they would have had more kids. A similar situation with the bible story "And Cain knew his wife." Where did the wife come from. The bible only mentioned the notable kids. Adam and Eve were told to be fruitful and multiply. They probably had a couple dozen kids or more over their long lives.

Sure the kids would be siblings, but they wouldn't grow up with our taboo against incest. To them it would be natural, just like their parents. Birth defects however, would be an all to real danger (the reason behind the incest taboo). Though, an inbred species reveals genetic weaknesses and in a competitive environment, removes them from the gene pool.