YMMV / The Island (1980)

• Awesome Moments: Maynard blowing away the entire tribe with a .50 caliber Browning machine gun.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • After witnessing the carnage the pirates leave and how unrepentant they are for it, it’s satisfying to watch the lot of them get mown down with a heavy machine gun by Maynard.
  • In the original novel, there is no small satisfaction in seeing Windsor end up with his throat cut after he tried to order L'Ollonais to obey him.
• Complete Monster: Windsor is the pirate tribe's liaison with the modern world. Having stumbled upon them years ago, Windsor admired their primitive brutality and formed a partnership with them, sending vacationing boats towards the tribe, resulting in men and women being butchered and raped, and children kidnapped and brainwashed into joining the tribe. Afterwards, Windsor helps cover the disappearances up and takes some of the spoils for himself. He sends hero Blair Maynard and his son Justin to that fate, and later mocks Blair about his slavery and impending death and how Justin will be made the next pirate captain, describing the tribe as an "anthropologist's dream" and a Petri dish. When Blair escapes and Windsor encounters him again, he forgoes raising the alarm to kill Blair with an axe himself.

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