TRUE SURVIVAL STORY MOVIE

He now works as a motivational speaker and continues to the mountaineer. He lost 40 pounds during his experience and miraculously somehow resisted bleeding to death. On his path, a family found him and told the authorities. After liberating himself, he started to walk seven-mile back to his truck. The problem was, not only was the area distant, but he also hadn't told anybody the place he was going.įeeling he may never be located (and running short of supplies), he was pushed to mutilate his arm by cutting through the bone using his multi-tool that included a knife. He survived on packed water and snacks for five days, wishing somebody would find him. While he was falling into one of the distant and incredibly narrow canyons, a rock fell and busted his right arm. Ralston in 2003, was trekking alone in Canyonlands in Bluejohn Canyon National Park in southeast Utah. But for those who haven't, it's quite a shocker.

TRUE SURVIVAL STORY MOVIE

They’re stuck on the island with them - with Chuck - no matter what happens to him.' Hanks committing to that realness and rawness of Check's journey in Cast Away is what made it feel so truthful.If you've watched the movie 127 Hours, you can tell how Aron Ralston's story takes off. He said they avoided having any other human character interacting with Chuck or coming into the story as ' we’re going to take this so far that the audience has no recourse. In an interview about the movie (via ABC News) Hanks spoke about the importance of keeping the stakes real and the situation Chuck was in as desperate as possible. Unlike Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis' collaboration in Forrest Gump, the actor doesn't have a unique and likable character to embrace, as Chuck is meant to be an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Once Chuck is on the island, the movie relies on Hanks' performance to make the audience care about his journey and become invested in his survival.

It takes a very rare actor who can hold a movie as virtually the only one on screen for the entire runtime, and Hanks proves he is that talented. Part of the reason people still ask if Cast Away is a true story is because of the performance of Tom Hanks. These explorers and others like them helped to inspire Tom Hanks' Chuck Noland and his experiences in his island location in Cast Away.

Ada Blackjack was another, sometimes referred to as a 'female Crusoe' – she was a seamstress who became stranded on an island near Siberia in 1921 and was rescued two years later. A range of other real-life castaways inspired some of literature's most famous stories, including Spanish sailor Pedro Serrano, who was reportedly shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Nicaragua in the first half of the 16th century. Robert Zemeckis' movie also draws on the experiences of other survivors to create an original story grounded in reality. After being rescued by an English expedition in 1709, Edward Cooke, who was part of the rescue team, wrote about Selkirk in his book, A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World. Alexander Selkirk is thought to have been the biggest inspiration behind Defoe’s novel, and he was a Scottish castaway who spent four years on a Pacific island in the early 1700s. Like Defoe’s historical fiction, Cast Away was inspired by the lives of real-world explorers. RELATED: How Accurate Elvis Is & What The Movie Changes

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