What happened to the pursuers when the lightning hit?
In Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, young protagonist Sam is being chased by a band of Khaki Scouts, and they are about to catch him when he stops atop a cairn in "lightning field" and is struck by lightning.
A moment later, he awakens, surrounded by friends. The pursuing Khaki scouts are not there.
What happened? The darkest theory is that everything from that point on in the film is a fantasy, and that Sam is dead. There is some evidence that this may be the case, but nothing conclusive. (If this is what Anderson had in mind, then the end is something like the end of Fanny & Alexander, which has a similar moment of disaster followed by an almost magical resolution of all difficulties, sometimes interpreted as the death of the title characters).
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In a fascinating article for Slate, Forrest Wickman explains that this film (like others of Anderson's before this, notably Rushmore and Bottle Rocket) was influenced by Anderson's love of Peanuts and the work of Peanuts director Bill Melendez. (The dog in the film is even named Snoopy.) You are in a fantasy world from the beginning, but perhaps you just don't realize it until the lightning scene. Of Moonrise Kingdom, Wickman says:
Some of its sequences are remarkably cartoonish. When one character is struck by lightning, he looks more like he was hit by Acme dynamite: His face is blackened with soot, and he seems otherwise unharmed. And the scouts aren’t Boy Scouts, they’re Khaki Scouts, a fictional takeoff that’s reminiscent of Snoopy’s Beagle Scouts. Anderson has spoken often of his fondness for “self-contained worlds,” a penchant he says comes from Peanuts—and while all of Anderson’s worlds feel self-contained, that’s never more true than here, in which all the action literally takes place on a (fictional) island. The magic of self-contained worlds is also one of the central themes of the film: At the end of the movie we learn that Moonrise Kingdom takes its name from Sam and Suzy’s own secret place, a cove where they try to make a life of their own away from troubles back home.
It’s there that Moonrise’s hero bonds with his own Little Red-Haired Girl: Suzy. Suzy’s outfit, complete with pink dress, white collar, and, in some scenes, a pink cape, is almost identical to that of the Little Red-Haired Girl. Sam’s outfit may not mimic Charlie Brown’s as neatly, but he does wear a lot of yellow—and, as The Star-Ledger’s Stephen Whitty pointed out, at one point he even says, “Rats!”
Wickman draws from the work of film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, who has studied Anderson's work and has created a video commentary called "The Substance of Style - Part 1" about Anderson's work.
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What does the pursuer drop?
Defeating him makes him drop the Ring of Blades. He will not appear on the platform if he is defeated in his arena first. Three more encounters with the Pursuer can optionally occur. He will spawn in the Iron Keep in the arena of the Smelter Demon after defeating it and resting at a bonfire.Is the pursuer mandatory?
The Pursuer is a boss in Dark Souls 2. The Pursuer first appears on a plaza in the Forest of Fallen Giants as an optional encounter, and later appears again as a mandatory boss at the top of a nearby tower. He can be accessed any time after the player defeats The Last Giant.What happens to Sam in Moonrise Kingdom?
Suzy and Sam escaped to the steeple of the church and were followed by Captain Sharp who offered to adopt Sam after Social Services revealed that Sam would have to enter a Juvenile Refuge or submit to shock therapy. Sam agreed and became a junior member of the Island Police and continued his relationship with Suzy.What happens when you're struck by lighting in a car? | Top Gear
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