![]() ![]() ![]() Adding to the difficulty, Zemeckis uses no background music at all. The entire island sequence, lasting over an hour, has Hanks alone, frequently talking to himself, as he plots first to make fire, and later to figure out how to escape, meanwhile coming to terms with being the time expert living in the slowest place on earth, with nowhere to go. He therefore must survive, alone, on the island, with a volleyball (which he names Wilson) his only companion. But as a movie? It’s only middling.Ĭast Away told the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a FedEx executive obsessed with time and efficiency, On a trip to Malaysia, Chuck’s plane crashes in a remote part of the Pacific, before washing up on an island, and Chuck is the only survivor. ![]() It’s an ambitious production, well-remembered for a performance from Tom Hanks that put his body and health on the line. The father of four is on his second marriage, to Rita Wilson, and says he's no loner.Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away, released 20 years ago this week, is one of those films that’s much more impressive in terms of its degree of difficulty, than as a filmmaking achievement. Hanks may not have fared as well on the island as his Cast Away character. And they had none, so I think it’s an infinitely fascinating realm of order to tell a story.” “But there is a spirit of hopelessness that seems to overtake them, and when they go, they gomad - they go nuts … and of course it’s because their health is failing them, but I also think that the connections we have to the world are very tenuous, and always built on our connections with other people. They could figureout how to make fire and find water and eat food. “There are a lot of, like, logs and diaries thathave been found of people who were shipwrecked or cast away on islands,and they can actually battle the elements for a while. That’s how he learned that the toughest aspect of these situations wasn’t the prospect of physical death. ![]() His preparation for the movie also included reading actual accounts of people who had been in similar situations. Hanks reportedly lost close to 50 pounds in the time off, so as to achieve the proper shipwrecked look. To achieve his different looks, the film was shot in two parts over the course of 16 months, with a one-year hiatus within that time. One of the things that happens to him in the film is a physical transformation, as audiences watch his hair and beard grow out and his waistline trim. They’re stuck on the island with them - with Chuck - no matter what happens to him.” Or drug-running pirates weren’t going to land in a seaplane in the lagoon, you know … We said we’re going to take this so far that the audience has no recourse. “Well, we had a philosophical credo that said we’re not going to suddenly have one of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models show up for a photo shoot, or something. Not exactly the splashy sort of star you might expect in a big budget Hollywood movie, but Hanks says it was essential that he sweat it out alone on that island. The cast includes Helen Hunt as his girlfriend, although Hanks's main co-star is the volleyball he nicknames Wilson. That’s where Chuck begins to crack, and begins to lose the battle of his own desperation.” He’s completely removed from any of the distractions that fill up our lives. “It’s about a different brand of loneliness that is very different from being home on a Saturday night with nothing to do. “Once Chuck has figured out how to stay alive, his battle is no longer against the elements, it’s about desperation,” Hanks has said. He told Good Morning America’s Diane Sawyer that the film is ultimately about isolation. Hanks's stint at island living brought both physical and mental challenges. ![]()
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