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I knew I had beefs with Hanks’ self-congratulatory acting, the relentless product placement and the utter waste of Helen Hunt’s considerable talents as a meaningless prop in yet another Hanks-led “masterpiece” about the triumph of the schlubby white dude. It’s essentially just “What if Tom Hanks was on an island by himself?” I was so excited to revisit, and rip apart, Cast Away that popped a big bowl of popcorn, grabbed a beer and settled in as though it was a new release I’d anticipated all year. Good luck finding a review without a dopey dad joke about getting voted off the island.)īeyond a $100 million acting-class experiment, there seemed no reason for this film to exist. I remembered it as the quintessential Tom Hanks flick - overwrought, histrionic and the kind of overt Oscar-bait for which the screenwriter, from the first draft, highlights inevitable awards-show clips in the margin notes (Earlier that year, the media gods gave Cast Away an unexpected gift with the premiere of Survivor. Once they had him it was easy to backtrack.When we set out to compile this battle of words over the merits of America’s Beloved Everyman, I knew - without question - that 2000’s Cast Away had to be first on my list. He wasn't found in the inital searches because they were off course and searching in the wrong place. He was found in a exactly known area (a shipping lane). He crashed within a small area he was able to chart because of his knowledge.His description of the island's size and layout could narrow it down further, as even tiny islands which nobody's visited for decades are at least documented by oceanographic surveys.So there's more information available than might otherwise seem. But also consider that he got to the island because of a plane crash - even if the black box is unrecoverable, they could find out where the plane might have had troubles (certainly the pilots would have said as much over the radio).
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Knowing where he was picked up, they could at the very least back track along the current. Since he wasn't traveling under his own power for the most part, he'd be at the mercy of the currents. Near the end of the movie, Kelly shows Chuck charts detailing where he was found, where the island was, and how far he drifted - how the heck did anyone figure out the last two?.Had he opened the package he could have gotten off 4 years sooner. It was a satellite phone, a GPS, fishing pole, water purified, and seeds. Out of curiosity he asks the woman he meets to open it for him so that he can know what was in the package.
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