To Look ahead and Imagine

Have you ever been so influenced by a movie, that for the next few minutes, hours, perhaps days, the only thought that goes swirling in your head is.... What if? What if that was reality and I was in the place of the protagonist?

For me, this happened with

1. Road to El Dorado.
2. The Matrix.
3. The Shawshank Redemption.

Really makes that what if, resound in your head, the decibel increasing slowly nad then dying out on a day when something occupies your mind...
First it, in El Dorado, the life of a god in a hidden village of gold, shy to the eyes, covered by a waterfall, then it was the complete virtualisation of the world, where humans generate power, no fuel worries, 24/7/365 power supply, acquiring knowledge through a futuristic "USB" connector to the brain in seconds, no nano seconds; in The Matrix, then to undying determination of one innocent man in prison and how he breaks out, by planning out his work on the fly with his observations in The Shawshank Redemption. Each of these movies have made me ponder on and compare results of a possible swap between, current me (no change whatsoever) with the role of the protagonist.

what if?

I was the guy who found El Dorado and not a keen crook, what if I was the person they recognised as the descendant whom they worshipped.

I was the "One", someone who didn't know how to hack computers, but capable of "freeing m mind".

I was the person, mistaken murderer put into prison, subject to violence of all nature, without any taxpayer knowledge, how would I escape? Would I ever get to the 500 yard pipeline?