1/8/2024 0 Comments Cast away castSearcy is true support to Hanks, playing a man more in touch with life, ironically through approaching death, than pre-accident Chuck. Better is Nick Searcy as Chuck's buddy Stan, who's losing his beloved wife of many years to cancer. Of the barely-there support, Hunt is fine. The man brings tears to your eyes over a *volleyball*. On the island, he goes through hope, despair, frustration, industriousness, creativity, cowardice and courage. While he truly loves Kelly, he has trouble expressing emotion. His Chuck Nolan begins the film as a company guy who's always too on the move to stop and smell the roses. For almost two hours of the film's 140 minute running time, Hanks is alone. Yes, it's Best Actor nomination (and possibly a third win) time for America's favorite thespian again. Hanks deserves a lot of credit for tackling this role, not only for the physical hardships he endured. (The transition is handled unimaginatively in the film with a 'four years later' title card.) The first half of the film was shot, then went on hiatus as Zemeckis went off and made "What Lies Beneath," while Hanks dieted almost fifty pounds off his frame and let his hair and beard grow wild. First, Hanks gained weight, ballooning over 200 lbs. "Cast Away's" already gathered reams of press during its production due to the unusual nature of its shooting schedule. All the while, though, that precious picture of Kelly beckons and Chuck knows survival isn't enough - he has to attempt to save himself or die trying. A volleyball, marked with Chuck's own handprint in blood, looks like a face and becomes Chuck's confident, Wilson. A punk rock dress is turned into a fishing net figure skates are used as cutting tools, and eventually, for dental surgery video cassettes provide binding material. As it begins to dawn on Chuck that his chances of rescue are slight (he figures out that the search area must be twice the area of Texas), he starts to open the FedEx packages he's neatly stacked and protected (ever the company man). Survival means learning how to open coconuts, catch fish, and make fire. However, he quickly discovers the island is uninhabitted, so constructs a large help sign on the beach and begins to gather wreckage, packages and the one dead body which wash ashore in the aftermath of his crash. Luck is again on his side when he washes up on an abandoned beach. Miraculously, he finds his way out of the plane and inflates a life raft, which pulls him to the stormy surface. Chuck risks hurtling objects to secure his new pocketwatch, then watches the sea approaching through the cockpit windshield. The private FedEx plane he's on begins to encounter mechanical difficulties in a storm over the Pacific. He gives her a package the size of a ring box, waves and declares 'I'll be right back!' in director Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away." She gives him a pocket watch containing her picture that had belonged to her grandfather. At the extensive family dinner table, the troubleshooter is beeped for another emergency halfway around the world, forcing him to exchange gifts with Kelly in their car at the airport. He calls his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) to rhapsodize over the fact that he's sorting packages within the shadows of Red Square, and that he'll be home for Christmas in Memphis in eighteen hours. Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) emphasizes the digital clock just installed in Fed Ex's newest office in Russia to his new hires in training.
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