Imaginative Essay
Topic-
The day I was lost in a dessert.
Explanation-
If you were lost in dessert, what would you do?
Answers
Answer:
Lost in the Desert, initially released as Dirkie, is a 1969 South African film written, produced and directed by Jamie Uys under the name of Jamie Hayes. It was filmed in Techniscope and Technicolor. Uys himself plays Anton De Vries, a concert pianist whose 8-year-old son Dirkie is the central character. Dirkie is played by Uys's real-life son Wynand Uys, credited as Dirkie Hayes.
Lost in the Desert
Lost in the desert dvd cover.jpg
DVD cover.
Directed by
Jamie Uys
Written by
Jamie Uys
Starring
Wynand Uys
Jamie Uys
Pieter Hauptfleisch
Distributed by
Ster-Kinekor Home Entertainment l
Columbia Pictures
Release date
1969
Running time
98 minutes
Country
South Africa
Language
English
Afrikaans
The plot was paralleled two years later by the far more successful "Walkabout".
Mark, a white, 35-year-old male weighing approximately 70 kilogram (kg) started a three-hour drive across the desert on US 95 from Yuma, Arizona, to Blythe, California. He set out at 7 AM on what was expected to be a very hot July day. He anticipated that it would take him about three hours to reach Blythe—plenty of time to make his 11 AM appointment with Sarah, his fiancée. When he failed to appear by noon, Sarah became concerned and called the highway patrol.
By 12:30 PM, Search and Rescue Officer Maria Arroyo, who was patrolling nearby, reported finding an abandoned car on the side of the road with a damaged radiator that…show more content…
The area was so isolated that his cell phone was useless. He waited by the car for a while but then, about 10 AM, as the sun climbed, he saw a large body of water in the distance, possibly, he thought, the Colorado River. The “river” was, in reality, a mirage, as he realized later after he had walked some distance. He then started to become confused and could not find his way back to the highway. Eventually he became very hot and threw away his shirt and hat.