An expert breaks down Tom Hanks' 23-year-old movie, Cast Away, explaining why it accurately depicts the survival situation while stuck on an island.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Robert Zemeckis’ classic survival drama Cast Away gets high praise from a survival expert, who explains why it's so accurate. The 2000 survival movie follows Charles "Chuck" Noland, a FedEx systems analyst who fights to survive after his plane crashes on a deserted island in the South Pacific.
Twenty-three years after the movie's release, jungle survival expert Hazen Audel recently analyzed Cast Away's realism. In the Insider video, Audel breaks down Chuck's dehydration and desperate search for water on the deserted island with a high score for its realism. The expert noted that he knew two colleagues who worked on the project as consultants, which explains why the film accurately tackles the survival hardships and scenarios.
“In the modern world, they try to stay away from any sort of wild water. Everybody seems to be really scared of it, but in a desperate situation like that, you’re trying to get any little bits of water as you can. This is pretty realistic based on, for example, remote islands that are out in the South Pacific.
Why Cast Away Is A Great Survival Movie? Cast Away was met with positive and glowing reviews for its character study of a lone survivor stuck on an island. This is reflected in the movie's Rotten Tomatoes score, which holds an 89% critical score and an 84% audience score. The success is also evident via its box office, grossing $429 million worldwide against a $90 million budget.
As the only person to survive the plane crash, Chuck is met with trials and tribulations on a remote island, where any chance of rescue seems dubious. The survivor remains stranded for another four years on the island, during which he learns the necessary survival skills and attempts to build a raft to escape. At one point, he creates an imaginary friend named "Wilson" using a volleyball.
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