Robinson Crusoe (1954) - full transcript
On 30 September 1659, the aristocratic British Robinson Crusoe's ship sinks and he miraculously survives on a deserted island somewhere in South America. He retrieves a dog, Rex, and cat, Sam, from the shipwreck together with some supplies, weapons, clothes and tools and builds a shelter. He soon learns how to survive by cooking, farming, harvesting the crops. Then the loneliness begins to haunt him, especially after the loss of Rex. When he sees a group of cannibals in the island, tension and fear become part of his life. Later he saves the life of a savage that was going to be eaten by the cannibals; he names him Friday and they become friends. When Robinson Crusoe sees Caucasians on the island, he finds that Captain Oberzo was the victim of a mutiny and he helps him to retrieve his ship.
SHADE
Being the third
son of a good family
and not educated to any trade
my head began
to be filled early
with thoughts of leaving
England, to see the world.
And thus against the will,
nay the commands
of my father,
I broke loose
and went out to sea.
How true my father's
prophecy of disaster
for not long after
being in the latitude of
12 degrees, 18 minutes
bound for Africa
to buy Negro slaves
for my fellow
planters in the Brazils
a violent tornado
came upon us
which carried us westward.
Far out of the way
of human commerce.
My only possession,
my only weapon.
I woke refreshed
and half perished with hunger.
Thirsty, without provisions,
with little hope of survival,
I set out to survey my fate.
No other land in sight.
I was on an island,
and barren by the sea.
The wreck of our ship
stranded during the night.
Ay!
Ay!
Sam!
She might slip from the rock.
I must contrive a raft
and try to save
her precious supplies.
I plundered from
the wreck many chests
with all manner of clothes,
tallow,
gunpowder,
the carpenter tools
and scores of useful articles,
not to forget that
fellow survivor, Sam.
Gold.
Yet, what use to me.
However, on second thoughts.
Tinder,
steel,
flint,
fire.
Firel
Worth more to me,
than all the
gold in the world.
How often had I seen
my servants do this,
Yet I a master of servants
couldn't even
build my own fire
Rex!
Ah Rex.
A all,
you are alive too.
Rex.
What was that, Rex?
What is it?
She was gone.
That fearful sound had been
the death cry of our poor ship
I regretted all the iron work,
cable and lead that
had gone down with her.
Ratsl
The only things from the ship
that I did not want ashore.
No ship will sail by
without my knowledge.
I kept dry branches ready
to flame into a mighty beacon.
My days were hurried,
crowded with all
manners of urgent tasks.
Most urgent of all
was to secure myself
from wild beasts and savages.
Meanwhile the rains approached
and needing a store room
for all the supplies
I found a place where
the earth was easiest
and started to dig up a cave.
I had never before so
much as handled an ax
and, or for that matter
any kind of tool.
I was but a very sorry workman
and all this cost me
a great deal of time.
I became a pleasant good shot
and with good cause,
for my constant
hard manual labor
gave me a most
voracious appetite.
The green coconut and its milk
I found to be most wholesome,
cool and refreshing.
My eleventh month.
Days passed in
hunting wild foul,
preparing food,
trips to my lookout hill
to search for sight of ships.
One day much like another.
Uneventful and,
I am sick,
chills.
Fever.
Getting worse.
Ah...
help...
help me.
In this second sleep
I had this terrible dream.
A
s,
Here, here, here,
here, here, here.
Not there, but here.
Where else would I be?
Are you not here?
How did you get here?
Sl
la al
At my house, with your
dear mother and me,
you had the very best
o all possible worlds
Yes, yes,
I remember all you told me
' lg
Give me water.
At home you are well o.
Saved the miseries o labor
and hardships o
mankinds lower state.
Though yet embarrassed by the
pride, envy,
luxury, and ambition
o its upper state.
Water, ather,
give me water.
Ours is the middle
station o lie my boy,
the middle station
Even kings would
have envied you.
Admit that now.
Will you not help me?
I want water.
Why did you ling yoursel
into this stupid adventure?
Did you not know, that your
mother and I were praying
that God would not
separate us rom you?
BB
you were always wayward.
Water, bring me water.
Your mother and
I will orgive you.
Remember, But God
will not orgive you.
Heh, heh, heh.
He will not orgive you.
Ill I llk a g
I will die.
I will die.
I woke weak,
yet clear of head.
Whether I had slept
for one whole day or more,
I could never be certain.
My first thought
was for water.
Did not Brazilians
have some physic
to prevent
recurrence of fevers?
Of coursel
Tobacco, mixed in rum.
In that chest,
I found a cure for both
the body and soul.
Come to me in
the day o trouble,
and I will deliver thee.
And thou shall gloriy me.
S I's
Only He can deliver
me out o this place.
I now respect the Sabbath
and so, I mark this day
differently from all others.
The last o it Rex.
Now lve been denied
the sta o lie.
I recalled a grass
I had observed to
sprout and start to grow.
Grain, that which in
England we call corn,
and in the new
world, we call wheat.
Some few seeds
must have come ashore
with me from the ship.
With the Lord's help,
I could try to raise a crop.
Meanwhile I set out to make a
more perfect
discover of my domain.
I found great
amounts of cocoa,
orange, and lemon trees,
sugar cane,
tobacco,
and banana.
I discovered the turtle,
which furnishes an
abundance of savory flesh.
Great quantities of
most useful shell.
And even turtle eggs.
Also that other sea beast,
the octopus,
Which they say some people
lack the fortitude to eat.
Parrots,
which were known to me.
And other birds,
which were foreign.
Animals I did not recognize,
And those I did,
goats.
It was a most
unusual clear day.
Landl
Could I not hack out
a canoe to sail to it?
I hewed out a
tiny sailing canoe,
and was swept out to
sea by some great current.
Thanks only a sudden wind,
was I even fortunate
to get back to shore.
In other ventures
I was more successful.
P Pll
Here Polly, here Polly.
On my inger Polly.
Call Rex Polly
Here Rex.
Come here, Rex.
Come.
Tell me only this.
Where did you
ind their ather?
Do you know?
The one mystery of the
island I never solved.
Due to sowing
during dry season,
first half of
seed complete loss.
Second half now in ground,
hope for the best.
Just as it may seem the
best would come to pass
and that I might triumph
over the sun, the rain,
I was threatened
by a new enemy.
The birdsl
They came down on
my field like a plague.
A ruthless devouring army.
I fought for wheat
as if it were my life.
Used every weapon
to frighten and kill.
Hungry Rex?
A a all,
but you cannot talk to me.
Five years.
The fifth anniversary
of the day I landed.
Time to celebrate.
I care
not I or nobody,
and nobody cares or me.
Do you or do you not?
Well I do.
I did.
This is a day,
a day,
what a day this is.
I have nothing urther to say.
Isl
I Is
I care not I or nobody,
and nobody cares or me.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
I remember you all!
Hooray or riendship.
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Here the lowly Keg is dead.
A I kp s g
Stuck, one to another.
Until the resurrection.
Tom,
Ak,
And to you Campbell.
At lastl
A full harvest.
Now it could be truly said,
I worked for my bread.
Pa ak,
pa ak, ak's a
bake me a cake as
ast as you can.
BB pal, Rx
Sing or your supper, Poll.
Coarse,
burnt,
and most delicious
meal of my life.
I built a bower,
so that I fancied now,
I was Lord of the whole manor.
I had my country house,
and my seacoast house too.
I perfected
myself in all tasks.
And was forced
to learn new ones.
In short,
I learned to master everything
in my island except myself.
Sometimes in the
midst of my work,
the anguish of my
soul and my loneliness
I would break out
upon me like a storm.
Escape.
No matter the dangers,
I must do something
to escape this tomb,
this prison.
My heart died within me.
Alone.
Alone.
Forever alone.
I was a prisoner,
locked up by the eternal
bars and bolts of the ocean.
Days became weeks,
weeks became months,
months became years.
I quite gave up
looking to see for ships,
in time my linen
clothes rotted,
my cats all ran wild.
My faithful dog weaken by age
could no longer
keep up with the hunt
he so dearly loved.
Rex.
Rex.
Whats wrong?
Rex.
Come on boy.
Eat Rex eat.
P Rx
P
Would you like a tasty?
A dove?
A pigeons egg?
Now you just
wait there or me.
Here Rex, here Rex
Now truly alone,
starved for the
sound of another voice,
any voice.
I would rush to the
valley of my echo.
The Lord is my shepherd
I shalt not want,
He makes me to
lie down in green pastures,
he leads me
besides still waters,
he restores my soul,
my soul!
Dreadful fantasies
possess my mind.
I fought to save my sanity.
LI I G pas s
He leads me
besides still waters,
he restores my soul.
Green pastures.
Green pastures.
The scriptures came
meaningless to my eyes.
The world seemed
but a whirling ball.
Its oceans and continents,
a green scum,
and myself.
With no purpose.
And no meaning.
Help!
Help!
Help, help!
Had anyone in England
met such an odd creature
as I was in my
18th year of solitude
it must either
have frightened them
or cause a great
deal of laughter.
Ah, my little riends.
S
I dont know what to call you
but you are my little
riends arent you?
A
Eh?
Just you wait there in your
homes and I will eed you.
G, a'
s
Heres a morsel or you?
Eh.
There.
Go on, get him.
Get him!
Well, good bye.
Good bye.
Condemned, to all
those years of loneliness,
now trembling
in the apprehension
of seeing another human.
How mad men are
possessed by fear.
I even scattered my 10 cattle
so it won't
betray my presence.
Hello Robin, hello.
Shh, shh, shh, quiet.
Men eaters.
From that very land
I had once thought to sail to.
I bolted horrified
all that night
I observed the cannibals
at their ghastly
entertainment.
They left on the morning tide.
But how soon a tide
would bring them back?
How many times have
they come and gone?
While I unknowing,
was on my side of the island.
I was in a murdering humor,
I even thought to
lure them into my castle
and from the ambush,
slaughter 20 or 30,
of the naked wretches.
I knew no peace
for months and months.
A 100 times,
I was just about to let
fly at them in my sleep.
I contrived what
I called my bomb.
Now I had my bomb.
I had a vision.
I imagined how easy
I might set a trap,
and these monsters
might be destroyed.
After passion, hatred.
I realized I had
no heaven sent right
to be judge and executor,
on these people
who had done me no injury.
I would leave them
to God's justice.
I would not
interfere with them
unless they attack me first.
I moved about my island
with the greatest of caution,
never knowing when
their attack might come.
They had 2 victims.
While they strung
one up for slaughter,
I saw that the second
tried to make his escape.
Here, here.
No, no, no, no.
Here, here, here.
Up, up, up now.
Up, up, I shall not harm you.
Here, up, up.
Here, up, up.
Him, him, you.
Underground, underground.
Out o sight, come on.
Him, him.
Him.
Him, under.
A
Up, up, up, up.
What is your name?
What is your name?
A
Name?
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here!
, F la
F la, F la
F riday.
No!
Friday.
Fri day.
As
as-
as-
Friday, Master, riends.
F riends.
Friends!
Eat.
Eat!
No, no eat man, wrong.
Friday, this good, eat.
I dare not sleep.
If the cannibals fail to
come for me before morning,
he might.
The cannibals had departed,
fortunately for me.
Without so much as a search
for their missing companions.
I would not let him
handle any weapon.
I used my musket
to ensure his continued
fear and respect of me.
I put a strong
door to my cave
so he could not take
me unaware at night.
How reassuring it was
to see him eat
the flesh of animals,
knowing the only source
for that other
meat he so relished
would be myself.
Asl
Someday, i you are good,
III teach you to smoke.
How pleasant it was,
once more to have a servant.
Friday, what is this?
Llk
And this?
BBa
No Friday, use the ork.
Friday, whats this?
Pla
This Friday?
A
Good Friday, very good!
What do you see?
Inside, black line.
It is your land.
Al
Inside?
No, there!
BB, I Is,
I appas a
Theres your nation,
your people.
Oh happy, there see
my nation, my people.
Why do you always come
here, to this island?
God says, only good
place ater kill here.
And you would like to
go back to your nation?
S, s
Llk g ak F la
Friday happy go
there see my people.
I understand.
Suppose a whole lot
of his countrymen
were to visit the island.
Would he not, forgetting
all obligation to me.
Either return with them
to his native country
or worse still,
lead them to plunder
my precious possessions.
And even join in
a feast upon myself.
Friday!
Why are you here Friday,
what do you want?
Smoke.
Good or Master,
Good or Friday.
Go.
I you want something
again, ask me, irst.
Had he truly remembered my
promise that he might smoke?
No,
I could not trust him
through another night.
Go to bed now.
Not inished work.
Do you hear me, go to bed!
So long ago,
I had intended
these for slaves.
Sit up!
Give me your ankles.
Igs
Why you tie Friday?
I am your Master,
I shall do as pleases me.
Is
Now at least, I can sleep.
Take o quickly.
Friday oot hurts.
A I
Did you not tell me the other
day you wanted to go away,
go back to your own nation?
That you wanted to
go to your people.
Sl
Go with you, only with you.
Well, they would kill me.
I tell you save lie.
I
Theyd still kill me.
No, no kill.
Ppl F la
Friday love Master always.
Friday, sit down.
I I cannot hold
you here by choice,
perhaps it would be
better i you go back.
Ak, klll F lal
What must I kill you or?
Take.
Klll F la
No send Friday away.
Friday.
Friday.
Forgive me, Friday orgive me.
I want you to be my riend.
I will never leave you.
I you want to go, do so.
Friday, over there!
Wild pig!
How wrong I had been.
Friday was as loyal a friend
as any man could want.
With his many different skills
he enriched my
life on the island.
We had found that
the two working together
could do much more than
the two working separately.
Friday, you like?
K a I Is
BBa II
BBa II ps G
BB sal II
Huh?
No, no you would not
understand, Friday.
Will Master give
Friday 1, 2, 3?
Ak all,
amuse yoursel.
I you get tired o them,
throw them into the sea.
As
Lk a F la
BBa II a a
Take that o.
These were the
happiest years of all
the years I had in my island.
Sit down Friday.
Sa F la
The devil is Gods enemy
in the hearts o men.
He uses all his
malice and skill
to destroy the
kingdom o Christ.
BB as sa G
Is s sg s g a
is God not much
strong than devil?
Yes, yes Friday,
God is stronger
than the devil.
Hes above the devil,
thereore we pray to God.
BB I G Is
sg a II,
why God no kill devil,
so make him no more wicked.
Whats that Friday?
I God the most strong,
why he no kill devil.
Well you see Friday
without the devil,
there would be no
temptation and no sin.
The devil must be there
or us to have a chance
to choose sin or resist it.
Is God let devil tempt us?
S
Then, why God mad when sin?
Huh, ha, ha, ha.
Sa,
' Pll
Friday cant get these
things into his head.
Sa, '
28 years on the island.
The desire to escape
still burns within me.
And now counting on
Friday's skill and knowledge,
I contemplated the
manufacture of a craft
Large enough to carry us
to the Spanish country
which Friday told
me lay to the north.
We devoted weeks to
selecting a proper tree,
this would be my last chance
to see my native
England before I died.
Where did he come rom?
There.
BB g slg,
there must be others.
As
shh, Look!
Come on!
Now, rehearsal
or the last time.
There they are,
here we are behind the trees.
Now, well see.
BB
BB
BB
BB
No, no, no, tinder, tinder.
There!
White man like Master.
Friends?
Shh!
Come on!
I
Tie them to those trees.
Well come back or you,
when we have
water or the ship.
White men eat prisoners too?
Eat them no, Friday.
BB, sl
I
Rope Master, the rope!
In spite o my appearance,
lm not something
that lives in trees,
lm a man.
Captain Oberzo.
Now we can talk.
BB I spak
Who are you?
Where have you come rom?
What is your case?
Tell me.
I, sl
Engineered by my mate,
aided by those you
saw him lead ashore.
S, a s
s aa a lal
lts the mutineers who
control the irearms, sir.
And your ship?
As ine as ever bore
sail, beyond the ree,
waiting only
or the next tide.
They anchored here to take
on water and abandon us
when they surprised
and killed the savages.
Fernandez!
Should they return to
the ship we are lost!
I we prevent their return,
you think it possible,
armed, o course,
to reassert your command?
Nothing could prevent me.
On 2 conditions then.
Agreed!
First, while you
are upon this island
you will be
governed by my orders
Accepted, second.
I we recover your ship,
you will carry me and my man,
to England, passage ree.
Or your home in China, India,
three times around the world!
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Fernandez!
Fernandez!
A
s, la I
Fernandez!
Theyre going to escape!
Unless lve orgotten the
ways o civilization Captain,
They will not be
putting back yet.
Hey!
Whats that?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Klll II
III cut his throat!
Wait!
Gold!
Where did you ind this?
There?
L's g I, ak asl
Which way?
Come on!
, ak a lkl
Nobody here.
Over we go!
Over here!
Drop arms!
In the name o the
governor o this island,
drop your arms!
Drop arms, or I
blow your head o!
No, was I that young?
As
The boat arrived,
the Captain is waiting.
Thank you, Friday.
I didnt expect it yet.
The proo o the pudding,
so the people cannot
say that Crusoes mad.
These are presents
or our riends outside.
A Capal
to punish us
harshly or our sins,
did you not, Governor?
Nothing o the sort,
I asked the Captain to grant
your request to remain here,
rather than return
to the gallows.
Sa III,
but youll live to regret
your sacrilegious waste.
Well I have here
instructions or you,
time o planting,
care o livestock,
places o concealment
o weapons and powder.
Inormation, also,
as to the savages
who do, on occasion,
visit this place.
Whether or not you learn
the lessons I have learned
and survive I cannot oresee.
BB a slg I,
I or years did not have,
Something or which I wept,
For which my soul
shriveled and starved!
'Ll a s
kl,
'll a pals,
a a
a s
ps a I,
it should cost you an
hour o painul work,
by then we shall
have set sail.
From what you
saw today Friday,
are you not a little araid
o coming back with
me to civilization?
I Master is not,
Friday is not.
And thus, I let the island
ater I had been on it
Eight and twenty years,
two months and Nineteen days.
Being the third
son of a good family
and not educated to any trade
my head began
to be filled early
with thoughts of leaving
England, to see the world.
And thus against the will,
nay the commands
of my father,
I broke loose
and went out to sea.
How true my father's
prophecy of disaster
for not long after
being in the latitude of
12 degrees, 18 minutes
bound for Africa
to buy Negro slaves
for my fellow
planters in the Brazils
a violent tornado
came upon us
which carried us westward.
Far out of the way
of human commerce.
My only possession,
my only weapon.
I woke refreshed
and half perished with hunger.
Thirsty, without provisions,
with little hope of survival,
I set out to survey my fate.
No other land in sight.
I was on an island,
and barren by the sea.
The wreck of our ship
stranded during the night.
Ay!
Ay!
Sam!
She might slip from the rock.
I must contrive a raft
and try to save
her precious supplies.
I plundered from
the wreck many chests
with all manner of clothes,
tallow,
gunpowder,
the carpenter tools
and scores of useful articles,
not to forget that
fellow survivor, Sam.
Gold.
Yet, what use to me.
However, on second thoughts.
Tinder,
steel,
flint,
fire.
Firel
Worth more to me,
than all the
gold in the world.
How often had I seen
my servants do this,
Yet I a master of servants
couldn't even
build my own fire
Rex!
Ah Rex.
A all,
you are alive too.
Rex.
What was that, Rex?
What is it?
She was gone.
That fearful sound had been
the death cry of our poor ship
I regretted all the iron work,
cable and lead that
had gone down with her.
Ratsl
The only things from the ship
that I did not want ashore.
No ship will sail by
without my knowledge.
I kept dry branches ready
to flame into a mighty beacon.
My days were hurried,
crowded with all
manners of urgent tasks.
Most urgent of all
was to secure myself
from wild beasts and savages.
Meanwhile the rains approached
and needing a store room
for all the supplies
I found a place where
the earth was easiest
and started to dig up a cave.
I had never before so
much as handled an ax
and, or for that matter
any kind of tool.
I was but a very sorry workman
and all this cost me
a great deal of time.
I became a pleasant good shot
and with good cause,
for my constant
hard manual labor
gave me a most
voracious appetite.
The green coconut and its milk
I found to be most wholesome,
cool and refreshing.
My eleventh month.
Days passed in
hunting wild foul,
preparing food,
trips to my lookout hill
to search for sight of ships.
One day much like another.
Uneventful and,
I am sick,
chills.
Fever.
Getting worse.
Ah...
help...
help me.
In this second sleep
I had this terrible dream.
A
s,
Here, here, here,
here, here, here.
Not there, but here.
Where else would I be?
Are you not here?
How did you get here?
Sl
la al
At my house, with your
dear mother and me,
you had the very best
o all possible worlds
Yes, yes,
I remember all you told me
' lg
Give me water.
At home you are well o.
Saved the miseries o labor
and hardships o
mankinds lower state.
Though yet embarrassed by the
pride, envy,
luxury, and ambition
o its upper state.
Water, ather,
give me water.
Ours is the middle
station o lie my boy,
the middle station
Even kings would
have envied you.
Admit that now.
Will you not help me?
I want water.
Why did you ling yoursel
into this stupid adventure?
Did you not know, that your
mother and I were praying
that God would not
separate us rom you?
BB
you were always wayward.
Water, bring me water.
Your mother and
I will orgive you.
Remember, But God
will not orgive you.
Heh, heh, heh.
He will not orgive you.
Ill I llk a g
I will die.
I will die.
I woke weak,
yet clear of head.
Whether I had slept
for one whole day or more,
I could never be certain.
My first thought
was for water.
Did not Brazilians
have some physic
to prevent
recurrence of fevers?
Of coursel
Tobacco, mixed in rum.
In that chest,
I found a cure for both
the body and soul.
Come to me in
the day o trouble,
and I will deliver thee.
And thou shall gloriy me.
S I's
Only He can deliver
me out o this place.
I now respect the Sabbath
and so, I mark this day
differently from all others.
The last o it Rex.
Now lve been denied
the sta o lie.
I recalled a grass
I had observed to
sprout and start to grow.
Grain, that which in
England we call corn,
and in the new
world, we call wheat.
Some few seeds
must have come ashore
with me from the ship.
With the Lord's help,
I could try to raise a crop.
Meanwhile I set out to make a
more perfect
discover of my domain.
I found great
amounts of cocoa,
orange, and lemon trees,
sugar cane,
tobacco,
and banana.
I discovered the turtle,
which furnishes an
abundance of savory flesh.
Great quantities of
most useful shell.
And even turtle eggs.
Also that other sea beast,
the octopus,
Which they say some people
lack the fortitude to eat.
Parrots,
which were known to me.
And other birds,
which were foreign.
Animals I did not recognize,
And those I did,
goats.
It was a most
unusual clear day.
Landl
Could I not hack out
a canoe to sail to it?
I hewed out a
tiny sailing canoe,
and was swept out to
sea by some great current.
Thanks only a sudden wind,
was I even fortunate
to get back to shore.
In other ventures
I was more successful.
P Pll
Here Polly, here Polly.
On my inger Polly.
Call Rex Polly
Here Rex.
Come here, Rex.
Come.
Tell me only this.
Where did you
ind their ather?
Do you know?
The one mystery of the
island I never solved.
Due to sowing
during dry season,
first half of
seed complete loss.
Second half now in ground,
hope for the best.
Just as it may seem the
best would come to pass
and that I might triumph
over the sun, the rain,
I was threatened
by a new enemy.
The birdsl
They came down on
my field like a plague.
A ruthless devouring army.
I fought for wheat
as if it were my life.
Used every weapon
to frighten and kill.
Hungry Rex?
A a all,
but you cannot talk to me.
Five years.
The fifth anniversary
of the day I landed.
Time to celebrate.
I care
not I or nobody,
and nobody cares or me.
Do you or do you not?
Well I do.
I did.
This is a day,
a day,
what a day this is.
I have nothing urther to say.
Isl
I Is
I care not I or nobody,
and nobody cares or me.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
I remember you all!
Hooray or riendship.
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Here the lowly Keg is dead.
A I kp s g
Stuck, one to another.
Until the resurrection.
Tom,
Ak,
And to you Campbell.
At lastl
A full harvest.
Now it could be truly said,
I worked for my bread.
Pa ak,
pa ak, ak's a
bake me a cake as
ast as you can.
BB pal, Rx
Sing or your supper, Poll.
Coarse,
burnt,
and most delicious
meal of my life.
I built a bower,
so that I fancied now,
I was Lord of the whole manor.
I had my country house,
and my seacoast house too.
I perfected
myself in all tasks.
And was forced
to learn new ones.
In short,
I learned to master everything
in my island except myself.
Sometimes in the
midst of my work,
the anguish of my
soul and my loneliness
I would break out
upon me like a storm.
Escape.
No matter the dangers,
I must do something
to escape this tomb,
this prison.
My heart died within me.
Alone.
Alone.
Forever alone.
I was a prisoner,
locked up by the eternal
bars and bolts of the ocean.
Days became weeks,
weeks became months,
months became years.
I quite gave up
looking to see for ships,
in time my linen
clothes rotted,
my cats all ran wild.
My faithful dog weaken by age
could no longer
keep up with the hunt
he so dearly loved.
Rex.
Rex.
Whats wrong?
Rex.
Come on boy.
Eat Rex eat.
P Rx
P
Would you like a tasty?
A dove?
A pigeons egg?
Now you just
wait there or me.
Here Rex, here Rex
Now truly alone,
starved for the
sound of another voice,
any voice.
I would rush to the
valley of my echo.
The Lord is my shepherd
I shalt not want,
He makes me to
lie down in green pastures,
he leads me
besides still waters,
he restores my soul,
my soul!
Dreadful fantasies
possess my mind.
I fought to save my sanity.
LI I G pas s
He leads me
besides still waters,
he restores my soul.
Green pastures.
Green pastures.
The scriptures came
meaningless to my eyes.
The world seemed
but a whirling ball.
Its oceans and continents,
a green scum,
and myself.
With no purpose.
And no meaning.
Help!
Help!
Help, help!
Had anyone in England
met such an odd creature
as I was in my
18th year of solitude
it must either
have frightened them
or cause a great
deal of laughter.
Ah, my little riends.
S
I dont know what to call you
but you are my little
riends arent you?
A
Eh?
Just you wait there in your
homes and I will eed you.
G, a'
s
Heres a morsel or you?
Eh.
There.
Go on, get him.
Get him!
Well, good bye.
Good bye.
Condemned, to all
those years of loneliness,
now trembling
in the apprehension
of seeing another human.
How mad men are
possessed by fear.
I even scattered my 10 cattle
so it won't
betray my presence.
Hello Robin, hello.
Shh, shh, shh, quiet.
Men eaters.
From that very land
I had once thought to sail to.
I bolted horrified
all that night
I observed the cannibals
at their ghastly
entertainment.
They left on the morning tide.
But how soon a tide
would bring them back?
How many times have
they come and gone?
While I unknowing,
was on my side of the island.
I was in a murdering humor,
I even thought to
lure them into my castle
and from the ambush,
slaughter 20 or 30,
of the naked wretches.
I knew no peace
for months and months.
A 100 times,
I was just about to let
fly at them in my sleep.
I contrived what
I called my bomb.
Now I had my bomb.
I had a vision.
I imagined how easy
I might set a trap,
and these monsters
might be destroyed.
After passion, hatred.
I realized I had
no heaven sent right
to be judge and executor,
on these people
who had done me no injury.
I would leave them
to God's justice.
I would not
interfere with them
unless they attack me first.
I moved about my island
with the greatest of caution,
never knowing when
their attack might come.
They had 2 victims.
While they strung
one up for slaughter,
I saw that the second
tried to make his escape.
Here, here.
No, no, no, no.
Here, here, here.
Up, up, up now.
Up, up, I shall not harm you.
Here, up, up.
Here, up, up.
Him, him, you.
Underground, underground.
Out o sight, come on.
Him, him.
Him.
Him, under.
A
Up, up, up, up.
What is your name?
What is your name?
A
Name?
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here!
, F la
F la, F la
F riday.
No!
Friday.
Fri day.
As
as-
as-
Friday, Master, riends.
F riends.
Friends!
Eat.
Eat!
No, no eat man, wrong.
Friday, this good, eat.
I dare not sleep.
If the cannibals fail to
come for me before morning,
he might.
The cannibals had departed,
fortunately for me.
Without so much as a search
for their missing companions.
I would not let him
handle any weapon.
I used my musket
to ensure his continued
fear and respect of me.
I put a strong
door to my cave
so he could not take
me unaware at night.
How reassuring it was
to see him eat
the flesh of animals,
knowing the only source
for that other
meat he so relished
would be myself.
Asl
Someday, i you are good,
III teach you to smoke.
How pleasant it was,
once more to have a servant.
Friday, what is this?
Llk
And this?
BBa
No Friday, use the ork.
Friday, whats this?
Pla
This Friday?
A
Good Friday, very good!
What do you see?
Inside, black line.
It is your land.
Al
Inside?
No, there!
BB, I Is,
I appas a
Theres your nation,
your people.
Oh happy, there see
my nation, my people.
Why do you always come
here, to this island?
God says, only good
place ater kill here.
And you would like to
go back to your nation?
S, s
Llk g ak F la
Friday happy go
there see my people.
I understand.
Suppose a whole lot
of his countrymen
were to visit the island.
Would he not, forgetting
all obligation to me.
Either return with them
to his native country
or worse still,
lead them to plunder
my precious possessions.
And even join in
a feast upon myself.
Friday!
Why are you here Friday,
what do you want?
Smoke.
Good or Master,
Good or Friday.
Go.
I you want something
again, ask me, irst.
Had he truly remembered my
promise that he might smoke?
No,
I could not trust him
through another night.
Go to bed now.
Not inished work.
Do you hear me, go to bed!
So long ago,
I had intended
these for slaves.
Sit up!
Give me your ankles.
Igs
Why you tie Friday?
I am your Master,
I shall do as pleases me.
Is
Now at least, I can sleep.
Take o quickly.
Friday oot hurts.
A I
Did you not tell me the other
day you wanted to go away,
go back to your own nation?
That you wanted to
go to your people.
Sl
Go with you, only with you.
Well, they would kill me.
I tell you save lie.
I
Theyd still kill me.
No, no kill.
Ppl F la
Friday love Master always.
Friday, sit down.
I I cannot hold
you here by choice,
perhaps it would be
better i you go back.
Ak, klll F lal
What must I kill you or?
Take.
Klll F la
No send Friday away.
Friday.
Friday.
Forgive me, Friday orgive me.
I want you to be my riend.
I will never leave you.
I you want to go, do so.
Friday, over there!
Wild pig!
How wrong I had been.
Friday was as loyal a friend
as any man could want.
With his many different skills
he enriched my
life on the island.
We had found that
the two working together
could do much more than
the two working separately.
Friday, you like?
K a I Is
BBa II
BBa II ps G
BB sal II
Huh?
No, no you would not
understand, Friday.
Will Master give
Friday 1, 2, 3?
Ak all,
amuse yoursel.
I you get tired o them,
throw them into the sea.
As
Lk a F la
BBa II a a
Take that o.
These were the
happiest years of all
the years I had in my island.
Sit down Friday.
Sa F la
The devil is Gods enemy
in the hearts o men.
He uses all his
malice and skill
to destroy the
kingdom o Christ.
BB as sa G
Is s sg s g a
is God not much
strong than devil?
Yes, yes Friday,
God is stronger
than the devil.
Hes above the devil,
thereore we pray to God.
BB I G Is
sg a II,
why God no kill devil,
so make him no more wicked.
Whats that Friday?
I God the most strong,
why he no kill devil.
Well you see Friday
without the devil,
there would be no
temptation and no sin.
The devil must be there
or us to have a chance
to choose sin or resist it.
Is God let devil tempt us?
S
Then, why God mad when sin?
Huh, ha, ha, ha.
Sa,
' Pll
Friday cant get these
things into his head.
Sa, '
28 years on the island.
The desire to escape
still burns within me.
And now counting on
Friday's skill and knowledge,
I contemplated the
manufacture of a craft
Large enough to carry us
to the Spanish country
which Friday told
me lay to the north.
We devoted weeks to
selecting a proper tree,
this would be my last chance
to see my native
England before I died.
Where did he come rom?
There.
BB g slg,
there must be others.
As
shh, Look!
Come on!
Now, rehearsal
or the last time.
There they are,
here we are behind the trees.
Now, well see.
BB
BB
BB
BB
No, no, no, tinder, tinder.
There!
White man like Master.
Friends?
Shh!
Come on!
I
Tie them to those trees.
Well come back or you,
when we have
water or the ship.
White men eat prisoners too?
Eat them no, Friday.
BB, sl
I
Rope Master, the rope!
In spite o my appearance,
lm not something
that lives in trees,
lm a man.
Captain Oberzo.
Now we can talk.
BB I spak
Who are you?
Where have you come rom?
What is your case?
Tell me.
I, sl
Engineered by my mate,
aided by those you
saw him lead ashore.
S, a s
s aa a lal
lts the mutineers who
control the irearms, sir.
And your ship?
As ine as ever bore
sail, beyond the ree,
waiting only
or the next tide.
They anchored here to take
on water and abandon us
when they surprised
and killed the savages.
Fernandez!
Should they return to
the ship we are lost!
I we prevent their return,
you think it possible,
armed, o course,
to reassert your command?
Nothing could prevent me.
On 2 conditions then.
Agreed!
First, while you
are upon this island
you will be
governed by my orders
Accepted, second.
I we recover your ship,
you will carry me and my man,
to England, passage ree.
Or your home in China, India,
three times around the world!
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Fernandez!
Fernandez!
A
s, la I
Fernandez!
Theyre going to escape!
Unless lve orgotten the
ways o civilization Captain,
They will not be
putting back yet.
Hey!
Whats that?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Klll II
III cut his throat!
Wait!
Gold!
Where did you ind this?
There?
L's g I, ak asl
Which way?
Come on!
, ak a lkl
Nobody here.
Over we go!
Over here!
Drop arms!
In the name o the
governor o this island,
drop your arms!
Drop arms, or I
blow your head o!
No, was I that young?
As
The boat arrived,
the Captain is waiting.
Thank you, Friday.
I didnt expect it yet.
The proo o the pudding,
so the people cannot
say that Crusoes mad.
These are presents
or our riends outside.
A Capal
to punish us
harshly or our sins,
did you not, Governor?
Nothing o the sort,
I asked the Captain to grant
your request to remain here,
rather than return
to the gallows.
Sa III,
but youll live to regret
your sacrilegious waste.
Well I have here
instructions or you,
time o planting,
care o livestock,
places o concealment
o weapons and powder.
Inormation, also,
as to the savages
who do, on occasion,
visit this place.
Whether or not you learn
the lessons I have learned
and survive I cannot oresee.
BB a slg I,
I or years did not have,
Something or which I wept,
For which my soul
shriveled and starved!
'Ll a s
kl,
'll a pals,
a a
a s
ps a I,
it should cost you an
hour o painul work,
by then we shall
have set sail.
From what you
saw today Friday,
are you not a little araid
o coming back with
me to civilization?
I Master is not,
Friday is not.
And thus, I let the island
ater I had been on it
Eight and twenty years,
two months and Nineteen days.