Did any fictional work directly impact your preparations?

[AshWilliams]

Omega Man...

I didn't know this until after I read it, but "Omega Man" is and adaptation of "I Am Legend". The protagonist even has the same name: Robert Neville.

 

[Old Dog]

In an answer to the OP's question: YES.

I absolutely concur with the guys who've mentioned Forstchen's books.

One Second After, One Year After, The Final Day, Five Years After -- these are THE definitive books laying out what we'd be facing after an EMP event, whether as a result of a CME or a nuke EMP attack.

If you haven't read William Forstchen, you're not really preparing. The guy is a prophet.

 

[pdx210]

I didn't know this until after I read it, but "Omega Man" is and adaptation of "I Am Legend". The protagonist even has the same name: Robert Neville.

Yeah, I know the first movie or Tv ? version starred Vincent Price

 

[DunRanull]

Yeah, I know the first movie or Tv ? version starred Vincent Price

"Neville! Open up, Neville! Open up!"

 

[P7M13]

Hansel & Gretel

 

[WillametteWill]

Atlas Shrugged

Perhaps not the technical aspects of the book but the mental, social, and economic aspects. The parallels to our current society and the trends we are seeing is disturbing.

 

[Illuminaughty]

Thought I would toss this out there for consideration: has there ever been a work of fiction that led you to engage in one or more preparedness step, projects, or life plans?

• The type of work can be of any of your choosing (e.g., books, films, theater, video games, et al.).
• The work may be anything from very obscure to very main stream.
• The work would have to have some intersection with preparedness, civil defense, self defense, etc.
• Any time period of your choosing.

So, any come to mind? What was the work and how did it impact your preparations?

Thanks for sharing.

10 cloverfield lane, just hearing the John Goodmans characters passion and well thought out approach made me step up my game. Entertaining watch!

 

[pdx210]

"Neville! Open up, Neville! Open up!"

Watch it free on You tube....

 

[pdx210]

I almost forgot go to youtube and search

• Dystopian short
• Zombie short
• apocalypse short film
• Sci Fi short

There are lots of small independent short moves some are lame and some are descent crack a beer watch a few

 

[unionguy]

Alas, Babylon is what probably got me started thinking of these things when I was a kid.

 

[Aero Denezol]

Any man with an attractive wife needs to watch Straw Dogs.

 

[DunRanull]

Here's one that set me to thinking in Jr High.. "By The Waters Of Babylon" - Stephen Vincent Benet, 1937. A post-apocalyptic civilisation about to rediscover it's history.. ...

 

[AshWilliams]

Watch it free on You tube....

It's amazing that between the novel and movies this story has been told four times over the decades, not to mention probably inspiring countless other stories with a similar premise.

 

[Burt Gummer]

I have to say it wasn't some great work of art, but World War Z - the Brad Pitt movie really, damn. Bordering on silly in some places, but I love watching a movie pushing hyper-speed action. Those Zombies were unusual. Possibly drank too many Red Bulls.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Watching " Night of the comet" right now, probably at least the 50th time I've seen it.
Gun stuff I learned; short barreled revolvers are good for date night in the Barrio. Uzi is better than original MAC series open bolt sub guns.

 

[GWS]

Lucifer's Hammer

 

[Bacchus]

From Mad Max, I learned to stock up on leather neck collars, with studded collars for Saturday nights.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

From Mad Max, I learned to stock up on leather neck collars, with studded collars for Saturday nights.

There have been a few Saturday nights over the years that made Sunday morning feel like TEOTWAWKI!!

 

[Bacchus]

Jericho, a 2006 two-season tv show starring Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney, and Lennie James. Go to the Wikipedia link to read the synopsis. Very unsettling depiction of life after a nuclear detonation on U.S. soil.

 

[AshWilliams]

Watching " Night of the comet" right now, probably at least the 50th time I've seen it.
Gun stuff I learned; short barreled revolvers are good for date night in the Barrio. Uzi is better than original MAC series open bolt sub guns.

I saw a short "making of" on youtube where they interviewed the actresses and they were saying how the MAC-10s were constantly jamming during filming, so at one point the director told them to just keep going when they malfunction. The result was this scene where the gun legitimately jams.

Yes, I'm a movie nerd and child of the 80s.