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Sentenced to 1 year solitary confinement, but you can bring the complete works of one actor or director to entertain you (1 Viewer)
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Dezbelief
Footballguy
Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening narration of all U.S. series in the Law & Order franchise.
Bogart
Footballguy
There you go. Always a work around.
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
Interesting that you and a couple others thought pornstar (I’m assuming there is probably a large amount of kidding in regards to that thought). I would actually think that would possibly be the worst idea. A year in solitary confinement would inevitably lead to some tough times and dark days. The effects of isolation for that long could and probably would have some massive cognitive effects. With that said—I find the porn answer odd. Being in complete solitude for a year with the only content available to absorb being pornography would seem to be a good roadmap into creating massive depression and a bad sex addiction. I feel like that would make life after the confinement pretty terrible as well.
Keith R
The Don
Of those already named, my debate is Samuel L. vs Hitch. Of those not listed, two stand out above the rest.
No surprise, one is Al Pacino. I couldn't go a year without The Godfather and Godfather II. Pacino also gets me top- notch films like Scarface, Serpico and Heat, guilty pleasures like The Devil's Advocate and Sea of Love and quirky movies like Cruising. Inches out Robert Duvall, who would bring To Kill a Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now and Sling Blade in addition to the first two Godfather films.
The other is James Gandolfini. He brings the entire Sopranos catalogue plus True Romance, Get Shorty and The Mexican.
(The Mexican reminded me of another contender - Gene Hackman. He also could bring Get Shorty, the good Superman movies, westerns, just a full array of goodness. )
No surprise, one is Al Pacino. I couldn't go a year without The Godfather and Godfather II. Pacino also gets me top- notch films like Scarface, Serpico and Heat, guilty pleasures like The Devil's Advocate and Sea of Love and quirky movies like Cruising. Inches out Robert Duvall, who would bring To Kill a Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now and Sling Blade in addition to the first two Godfather films.
The other is James Gandolfini. He brings the entire Sopranos catalogue plus True Romance, Get Shorty and The Mexican.
(The Mexican reminded me of another contender - Gene Hackman. He also could bring Get Shorty, the good Superman movies, westerns, just a full array of goodness. )
Beef Ravioli Part 2
Footballguy
I would have never guessed he had that many more episodes on CBS than he did on NBC. In fact I may have guessed he had more on NBC.
Scoresman
Footballguy
This is actually my favorite answer so far. That's about 13-14 episodes a day which is perfect and covers so much.
Runkle
Footballguy
I dunno man, a bunch of eight minute celebrity interviews with like Mario Van Peebles plugging Jaws 4: The Revenge might get boring after a while. I guess you could always fast-forward and just do the first half of each episode and skip the boring talking.
Orange&Blue
Footballguy
eric roberts
massraider
Footballguy
You get, what, 30 years of musical guests? And Letterman always had the best musical acts
Atomic Punk
Footballguy
William Roache
63 years worth of episodes of Coronation Street should get me through pretty easily.
63 years worth of episodes of Coronation Street should get me through pretty easily.
Tau837
Footballguy
I think Hanks is a great choice, assuming you get everything he acted in, directed, hosted, and produced. That is ~80 movies; several miniseries, including Band of Brothers and the Pacific; several documentary miniseries; mutiple TV series and episodes, including all of Bosom Buddies and Big Love; 20 SNL appearances; and more. Variety of genres, and pretty high quality overall.
If not going the producer route there are a few big modern tv actors (not counting soap opera stars.) I feel like the Law & Order types or Mark Harmon (NCIS, Chicago Hope, St. Elsewhere) would bore me by being too repetitive. Of others, I don't think anyone has mentioned Ted Danson yet who has lots of variety:
Cheers
The Good Place
Becker
CSI
Damages
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fargo tv Show
The Orville
Some short lived series and bunch of random episodes here and there
Plus a few random movies but includes Saving Private Ryan
Similar Kelsey Grammer gets you Cheers and Frasier and a lot of other stuff (would The Simpsons count or just the Sideshow Bob episodes?)
James Spader gets you Blacklist, The Office, The Practice, Boston Legal, quite a few movies of varying quality
A lessor known name: David Boreanaz
Buffy, Angel, Bones, SEAL Team. Dude has been steady working for nearly 25 uninterrupted years
Cheers
The Good Place
Becker
CSI
Damages
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fargo tv Show
The Orville
Some short lived series and bunch of random episodes here and there
Plus a few random movies but includes Saving Private Ryan
Similar Kelsey Grammer gets you Cheers and Frasier and a lot of other stuff (would The Simpsons count or just the Sideshow Bob episodes?)
James Spader gets you Blacklist, The Office, The Practice, Boston Legal, quite a few movies of varying quality
A lessor known name: David Boreanaz
Buffy, Angel, Bones, SEAL Team. Dude has been steady working for nearly 25 uninterrupted years
If going the writer/producer route, I am sure there are lots of names that I don't know or realize but Aaron Spelling jumped out:
Charlie's Angels
Bevery Hills 90210
Melrose Place
Charmed
7th Heaven
Sunset Beach
Dynasty
The Love Boat
TJ Hooker
Hart to Hart
Fantasy Island
Starsky & Hutch
The Mod Squad
If you don't want cheesy drama, maybe a sitcom writer/creator like Chuck Lorre:
Big Bang Theory
2 & a Half Men
Young Sheldon
Dharma & Greg
Mike & Molly
Mom
Bob Hearts Abishola
lots of other stuff
Charlie's Angels
Bevery Hills 90210
Melrose Place
Charmed
7th Heaven
Sunset Beach
Dynasty
The Love Boat
TJ Hooker
Hart to Hart
Fantasy Island
Starsky & Hutch
The Mod Squad
If you don't want cheesy drama, maybe a sitcom writer/creator like Chuck Lorre:
Big Bang Theory
2 & a Half Men
Young Sheldon
Dharma & Greg
Mike & Molly
Mom
Bob Hearts Abishola
lots of other stuff
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
This is my perception of what Hell would be like. I’d orobably watch a Buffy episode every day, but I’d hate myself when that 3 minutes was up.
GordonGekko
Footballguy
http://www.georgeguidall.com/about/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346718/
https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=George+Guidall
"Widely recognized as the world’s most acclaimed and most prolific narrator of audiobooks, George Guidall has brought a consistent artistry to his readings, delighting listeners for over 20 years. His narrations of classics like Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein, The Iliad, Don Quixote, and Les Miserables, along with many popular best sellers, have set a standard for excellence recognized throughout the audiobook industry. His recordings have garnered uniformly excellent reviews from Audiofile, Kliatt, Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, The New York Times, and a variety of national newspapers and magazines. He has also received several Audie Awards—the industry’s equivalent of an Oscar— and holds the record for receiving the most Earphone Awards for excellence in narration given by Audiofile Magazine which has named him one of the original “Golden Voices” in the audiobook industry. He has been honored by the Audio Publishers Association with a life-time achievement award for his record of more than 1,300 unabridged narrations.
Along with his award-winning work as an audiobook narrator, Guidall has also enjoyed a career in the theatre, including starring roles on Broadway, an Obie award for best performance Off-Broadway, and has shared the stage at the New York Shakespeare Festival with Kevin Kline, Morgan Freeman, and Meryl Streep. In addition to TV dramas such as Law & Order, he has appeared on most of the daytime television series."
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To keep your sanity, you want audiobooks. (Guidall technically qualifies as a "voice actor") It will operate as a proxy of someone talking to you.
Things you'll get
- All of Stephen King
- All of Piers Anthony, Neil Gaiman, Elmore Leonard and Issac Asimov and many others
-The Bible
- Just about every classic and major best seller
- A strong array of some business books and self help
- History
- A limited amount of TV and movies, but particularly you get all of the original Law And Order.
Some audiobooks last 4 hours. Some 10 hours. Some 20 hours. Some 100 hours. You'll want it playing all the time. It's comforting just to hear another human voice.
Most of you have no idea how much blank time we are talking about here. You might enjoy watching Blood Diamond and The Beach two or three times. Try watching it 60 times each in a year.
If you want to really understand the kind of mental attrition going on, go spend a full day in an assisted living facility.
GordonGekko
Footballguy
80 films will last you how long? Could you watch 80 films in two weeks if you had nothing else to do? That's 40 films a week. That's 6-7 films a day.
Andy Weir did extensive research while writing The Martian. His main character, Mark Watney, went through the entire digital archive of all his other crewmates while trapped on Mars. All of it. All their music, film, TV shows and ebooks. What else could he do? He could sleep. He could do some of the scientific experiments. He could grow potatoes. But he was severely limited in a small habitat. Basically he was in prison.
The film only covered that concept in passing. But the novel went a little further into it.
Psychologically and emotionally, you need to hear other people. You also need something to look forward to in life. Maybe the best you can do is look forward to finding out how a mystery from an audiobook of a bestseller ends.
In effect, you need something to kill time that is measured in the thousands of hours. Prisoners, before access to the internet, would read everything. Voracious readers. They could escape into another world for a while.
Can you watch The Money PIt for a whopping 50 times in a single year? Turner and Hooch? The associated TV shows buy you more time, but it's still incremental against a full year of isolation.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
That's why I figure James Hong is a good choice. He has 458 acting credits going back to the 50's. Movies and TV, many of which I haven't seen but sound interesting. If you count voice work in video games, he's really a winner.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Do you people actually like the stuff you are listing, or are we to the point in the thread where we are just in a contest to name who has the most hours of content?
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I really like James Hong and most of his work that I've seen. That's why I ended up there.
Beef Ravioli Part 2
Footballguy
I chose Hanks and part of the reason, there would be a good amount of content, but the bigger part of my reasoning was based on the quality of the actor and movie/show.
The other aspect in my mind was, I don’t need 16 hours of content a day every day of the year. If I have to watch tv all day, that’s going to drive me nuts.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
That wasn't a shot at particular posters or anything, it's just something I've noticed and think is funny about these threads.
GordonGekko
Footballguy
Direct Headline: What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?
When corrections officials talk about solitary confinement, they describe it as the prison within the prison, and for good reason. For 23 hours a day, inmates are kept inside a cell that is approximately 80 square feet, smaller than a typical horse stable. Cells are furnished with a bed, sink and toilet, but rarely much else. Food is delivered through a slot in the door, and each day inmates are allowed just one hour of exercise, in a cage..... Today, it’s not unusual for inmates to spend years at a time in solitary. Supporters say the practice helps keep prisons safe, but according to the medical literature, solitary confinement can also take a heavy mental toll....
..... Harlow also found that monkeys kept in isolation wound up “profoundly disturbed, given to staring blankly and rocking in place for long periods, circling their cages repetitively, and mutilating themselves.” Most readjusted eventually, but not those that had been caged the longest. “Twelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially,” Harlow found.....In one study, he found that roughly a third of solitary inmates were “actively psychotic and/or acutely suicidal.” Grassian has since concluded that solitary can cause a specific psychiatric syndrome, characterized by hallucinations; panic attacks; overt paranoia; diminished impulse control; hypersensitivity to external stimuli; and difficulties with thinking, concentration and memory. Some inmates lose the ability to maintain a state of alertness, while others develop crippling obsessions.....
Suicide is another major concern. In one study of California’s prison system, researchers found that from 1999 to 2004 prisoners in solitary confinement accounted for nearly half of all suicides. A 1995 study of the federal prison system found that 63 percent of suicides occurred among inmates locked in “special housing status,” such as solitary or in psychiatric seclusion cells....It’s tough. In a study of inmates at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, psychologist Craig Haney found that prisoners “lose the ability to initiate or to control their own behavior, or to organize their own lives.” Haney, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, attributed this loss to the near total lack of control that prisoners have over their day-to-day lives in solitary.....Often time, he found, prisoners in solitary “begin to lose the ability to initiate behavior of any kind — to organize their own lives around activity and purpose.” What results is chronic apathy, lethargy, depression and despair....
Jason M. Breslow APRIL 22, 2014
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-does-solitary-confinement-do-to-your-mind/
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I find it interesting that no one is evaluating the total psychological/mental/emotional impact of that kind of extended isolation. Of course, "most hours of content" matters.
A program that has found some success with long term inmates is to have them train dogs for those on the outside with special needs. It gives a carrot and a stick approach ( You need to have good behavior to qualify, you need to stay clean and have good behavior or the dog will be taken from you) It operates as something with "purpose". It gives the inmate some goals and responsibility. Also an inmate can't scam out or corrupt a dog. Just company and physical contact helps on an emotional level. Petting the dog. Walking the dog. Feeding the dog. Having the dog sit next to you. Just having dogs around has a calming effect on the perpetual tension in the overall "community" inside. People can focus on what's good for the dogs, not on their normal vices and interpersonal conflicts. One of the benefits of the program is the raw amount of compressed attention. An inmate can spend 18 hours a day training a dog, if it comes to that. What else are they going to do?
Francis Lawrence directed I Am Legend with Will Smith. Which was based on Richard Matheson's short story. In the book, Neville found a stray dog, but later it died. In the film, the dog was needed to allow Will Smith to have some dialogue and experience loss and to explain how he could BARELY cope for those years in isolation.
Audio books are the answer here. Full stop. Period. I have no idea what some of you are even talking about. The assorted filmography of James Hong? You are going to live in a cage for a year and no one is going to talk to you. Some people were surprised that Aaron Hernandez killed himself. I wasn't.
Some of you will say "It's Only A Year" Are you going to truly believe that completely after three months straight of living in a cage like an animal and watching the same episode of Bosom Buddies for the 50th time?
Beef Ravioli Part 2
Footballguy
Did anyone actually read all of this post? I’m convinced @GordonGekko post are from AI.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Of course I didn't read it. And AI is smarter. It's right there in the name.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Important question - does this entertainment come to me streaming or physical disc? I'd lean back to movies if I could have access to the discs, bonus feature, and commentaries.
rockaction
Footballguy
I read it. I take Gekko at face value and what he's emphasizing was the exact first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. Solitary confinement is a disturbing concept and I don't think any form of "entertainment" would suffice to pass the time. People that are in solitary wind up with serious mental/psychological issues that never go away. Your sanity after being alone for a year is not something to bet on.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
You do realise that we aren't ACTUALLY confining anyone in that way? Right?
rockaction
Footballguy
Gekko's link to PBS is accurate. The hypothetical thing we're arguing about is very flawed. It presumes that solitary just requires passing time and entertainment to ease one's mind when, in fact, it's the solitary nature of the confinement that is the difficult aspect of that form of imprisonment. In our hypothetical, we were "sentenced" like a prisoner. Why not take that into consideration when choosing the works to bring along with you?
Beef Ravioli Part 2
Footballguy
Of course solitary confinement would be awful, but so are posts that are extremely long and I think gekos always are. That’s why it makes me wonder if it’s AI of some sort?
rockaction
Footballguy
I doubt it. You never know, but I'm betting there's a person behind the account.
Bogart
Footballguy
Had my son over this weekend, I asked him the question. Without hesitation he went: "Oh sure, Christopher Sabat".
Sabat is an English voice actor for some of the biggest anime series ever, including One Piece, DragonBall Z and My Hero Academia. One Piece alone has over 1000 episodes. And with over 100 different titles, he is probably pushing 3000 episodes of unique content.
And that's not counting the 32 video games he has lent his voice to.
Sabat is an English voice actor for some of the biggest anime series ever, including One Piece, DragonBall Z and My Hero Academia. One Piece alone has over 1000 episodes. And with over 100 different titles, he is probably pushing 3000 episodes of unique content.
And that's not counting the 32 video games he has lent his voice to.
Bogart
Footballguy
I would guess any actor or director you picked, you could get whatever they are doing currently as well.
Lehigh98
Footballguy
I forgot about "Bosom Buddies"! The answer is definitely Hanks.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
It really doesn't hold up that well.
Lehigh98
Footballguy
I'm sure, I don't remember it being that good to begin with.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Are video games part of the catalogue you get access to?
Bogart
Footballguy
Hadn't really thought about it until I did the Wiki search on this guy and saw so many credits. I guess if you consider that acting, that could be included.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
Hanks
Yo Mama
Footballguy
Ou’re welcome!
kutta
Footballguy
How is porn not running away with this?
It sure seems to me that there’s gotta be some actress out there that has thousands of movies. Heck, all you need is someone who has done 365 movies and you get one new one every day.
Sure, Tom Hanks movies would be great for a few weeks. But I’m gonna want some more “entertainment” if I’m there for a year.
It sure seems to me that there’s gotta be some actress out there that has thousands of movies. Heck, all you need is someone who has done 365 movies and you get one new one every day.
Sure, Tom Hanks movies would be great for a few weeks. But I’m gonna want some more “entertainment” if I’m there for a year.
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