I wanted to deal with subject matter that was largely verboten in mainstream movies, taking the concept of a guy trapped against the elements, with no external forces, no pirates, no bad guys, and tell it in a way that challenged the normal cinematic narrative structure.” 2. But Chuck learns no great lessons.” The basic themes of the film are of physical and spiritual survival, and as Hanks told the Los Angeles Times, “I didn’t want to show a man conquering his environment, but rather the effect the environment has on him. In an interview with The Guardian, Tom Hanks explained, “Because there is a standard way of telling this story, and that’s to have a rich, snotty guy who’s obviously not in touch with what’s important and blah, blah, blah, and then he learns a lesson and he’s not like that anymore. Tom Hanks didn't want to tell a standard story with Cast Away. The movie was released on December 22, 2000, and became a huge hit, grossing $429,632,142 worldwide on a $90 million budget. six years to shape the story with Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis, to a Method degree: filming halted for a year so that Hanks could shed 50 pounds as real time passed in the movie. It took Apollo 13 screenwriter William Broyles Jr. But Hanks’s long beard and survival scenarios generated an iconic character and film. Deemed an “existential blockbuster” for the 21 st century, not a whole lot of action occurs during Cast Away’s 143-minute running time. He has mastered the skill of spearing a fish and making a raft, but he has to learn a whole new set of survival skills back at home.When FedEx employee Chuck Noland’s plane crashes, he ends up stranded on a deserted tropical island for four years, with an inanimate volleyball named Wilson as his only friend. We know, though, that the world he left now seems strange to him and that it will take a long while for him to reorient himself and decide where he will go next. But once he gets home, the movie falters. There are some moving and beautiful moments on the raft, especially the glimpse of a whale's eye peeking just above the water. But the film is more impressive than involving and begins to seem more of an acting exercise than a saga about the triumph of the human spirit or the importance of love and family. Noland is an engaging character, and Hanks is undeniably one of the world's most engaging actors. He shreds his leg on coral and has to extract an abscessed tooth. For 45 minutes, we are alone on the island with Noland.

There is no music and almost no dialogue. There may be crystal waters and azure skies, but this is no Blue Lagoon, and Hanks is no Brooke Shields. This movie is a moving exploration of what happens when everything we hold on to is taken away from us. What finally makes it possible for him to leave isn't what he relied on in his old life but the hope he has learned on the island. He knows the tides and the seasons well and plans an escape, knowing he'd rather die out on the ocean than stay on the island. Four years later, the side of a cabin bathroom washes ashore, and Noland has what he needs to create a sail. But he leaves one package unopened as a symbol of his identity - the man who gets the packages delivered. A volleyball, stained with his own blood, becomes a companion. When he finally realizes no one's coming, he gets to work, using items from the packages as survival tools. He expects to be rescued and sorts the FedEx packages that wash up. But his plane crashes in the Pacific, and everyone else is killed. In CAST AWAY, Chuck Noland ( Tom Hanks), a precise time-watcher who works for Federal Express, is called to duty on Christmas Eve and promises his girlfriend ( Helen Hunt) that he'll be home for New Year's. I am not sure that my son got all the subtleties of this last scene but he understood that it was a happy ending.

') Nonetheless, the last scene where Chuck is at a crossroad not knowing which way to go next, while contrived, was a positive and hopeful ending. (Reminiscent of the dialogue Tom Hanks has with a friend in Sleepless in Seattle where he talks about how after his wife died 'all he could do is breath in and out.') In Castaway, Chuck also talks about how 'you never know what the tide is going to bring in.' (Reminiscent of the famous Forest Gump line 'life is like a box of chocolates. Chuck talks about his lack of control on the island, how he could not even succeed at suicide and all he could do is keep 'breathing'. Parts of the movie also seemed completely contrived, such as the dialogue the main character, Chuck, has with his friend after he is rescued. However, the movie could easily be a FedEx commercial. I had no squirmish moments where I thought that he should leave the room and my son most enjoyed the survival scenes on the island. I watched Castaway with my 10-year-old son and we were both completely engaged.

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