The Most Dangerous Game: The Hunted

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter, just wants to go home, but he finds himself on an island belonging to General Zaroff, a fellow hunter with twisted, unorthodox tastes.

Sanger refuses to go along with Zaroff, but what will last longer, Sanger's adherence to his principles...or his life?

Adapted by the Weisers from "The Most Dangerous Game"

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Transcript

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0:00.0	So there I was.
0:15.6	Everyone had gone to bed and I'm enjoying my pipe on the deck of our yacht.
0:19.7	We were on their way to South America to hunt jaguars.
0:22.4	I hear three gunshots.
0:24.6	Went to the edge of the boat to see who shoot in a 22 in the middle of the ocean.
0:28.9	Next up hit a wave and boom.
0:31.2	I'm in the water.
0:32.4	Inky black.
0:33.4	I tried to yell, but you know, water.
0:36.8	And before I know it, the ship's lights are twinkling in the distance.
0:40.8	So I swim towards the shots I heard and, bada bing bada boom, washed up on your island.
0:46.8	Sang a rain's firt swept both arms wide and a silent ta-da and waited for a response.
0:54.2	His host, the mysterious General Zaraf,
0:58.6	got watching but said nothing.
1:02.0	Silence hung in the air and sang her was more than happy to fill it.
1:06.3	Yeah, so my hunting companions probably think I'm dead.
1:10.8	If it wasn't for this island, I totally would be, but I gotta say, looking at this mansion,
1:15.7	the spread, all these sweet heads of all these animals you shot.
1:20.1	I'm glad I landed here with a man of culture and taste such as yourself, who likes slaughtering
1:25.4	rare and beautiful animals as much as I do.
1:28.6	Like, is that a water buffalo from Africa?
1:31.9	Those are the most dangerous animals to hunt, right?
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