Sam Shakusky

Soundtrack: "The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe, Parts 1-7" - Alexandre Desplat - Moonrise Kingdom OST

Though I'm sure there is a better choice out there somewhere among all the endless fiction I have consumed, at the moment, the fictional character I would like to be is twelve-year-old Sam Shakusky from Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. Honestly, I would simply love to inhabit the Wes Anderson universe, and Sam seems the best fit. He gets to be a Khaki Scout on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s. Though never a scout myself, I have a lot of respect for scouts, especially in the heyday of half a century ago. Sam clearly knows his survival skills, and with his abilities, he is able to evade those in his pursuit for quite a while. His family life may not be the best, considering he is an orphan, but in the end, he gets to have Bruce Willis as a policeman for a father. A kind-hearted policeman who is also Bruce Willis sounds like the best possible father - Sam even gets a matching uniform. Besides a great father, I would get a qt girlfriend Suzy Bishop, who likes reading weird fantasy novels and listening to records. This is a picture of childhood in the 60s which may have never existed, but in this film, I can continue to believe that such a life did exist. In a word, I would describe the entire world of the film as "cute," and being a romantic, I cannot help but to wish for a world as ideal and beautiful as this one.