Castaway Communication

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gives a trait of themselves that plays a role in the movie. The basic summary of the movie is that

When Chuck returns home, he is more humbled and not so schedule crazy because of having to make industrial advancements on his own that he used to take for granted. He knows now that it 's not always easy to just look at a watch and know what time it is or be able to cook dinner in five minutes. He has also learned that it 's not the corporate world of time and planning that needs to mean the most in life, he needs to pay attention to relationships with friends and his fiancé Kelly. While he 's rediscovering his old Apollonian world of time, structure, and business, he no longer wears his once ritualized watch and pager. Now he realizes that he doesn 't need to check the time and latest information every minute to keep him alive and well. One scene shows Chuck 's friend telling Chuck how everyone thought Chuck was dead, so they had a funeral. Articles that were put in the coffin were watches, old pagers, timers and other gadgets that Chuck used to be obsessed with. Now Chuck has been reborn, he no longer needs those watches, pagers, and timers. All his old concerns of structure are now buried deep in the ground, along with the old Chuck.

1.Describe the main characters of the film: Who are they? What are their motivations? What are their strengths and weaknesses? What are the obstacles they face?

He uses the shelter to protect him from the rain and some animals. After he builds the shelter, Brian uses his hatchet to make spears and arrows. He takes branches and sharpens the tip of them to make arrows and spears. "He had worked on the fish spear until it had become more then just a tool. He shoots the arrows at birds and throws the spears at fish. "I know about fire; I know I need fire." Brian says this the second night he's there. Brian needs a fire because he needs it for heat, to cook food and to keep animals away. Brian makes the fire with his hatchet and a rock. First, he figures out that he needs some paper so he takes his 20-dollar bill and tries to burn it. Unfortunately, the bill just burns right out and leaves him with no fire. After that, he takes his hatchet and cuts small pieces of bark. Then he piles them up under twigs. Then he takes his hatchet and hits a rock with a great blow and sparks catch the bark on fire. He hits another blow and the sparks catch the twigs on fire. Therefore, he has a fire. This process shows that whatever Brian sets his mind to he can do it. About two months later Brian went to the bottom of the lake to see if there was anything useful in the plane. He brought up a survival package. There were many useful things in there like bandages and matches. Couple months later, just before winter was going to hit a man shows up in a plane. The guy in the plane was the man Brian had talked

Steven Spielberg used classic linear storytelling in his movies, the narrative in most of his movies were Plot driven and very effective. He is a storyteller always mindful of holding his audience. Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest directors of today. He is master in taking stories and incidents from the past and and rejuvinating them with his own potential.

A trait that they are opposite in is humbleness. Chuck is very humble about nature and surviving, but the Chechaquo (the man from To Build a Fire) is hubris and cocky. When the Chechaquo wets his feet, which is very serious at that cold of temperature, and builds a fire to warm himself he thinks, “Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought”(20). He does not think the people giving him advice know what they are talking about. They told him to be careful and take a partner, but he went alone. But just after he thinks this, snow from a tree falls on his fire, putting it out. If he is more careful, this will not happen to him. If he brings a partner or if he notices the tree with snow this does not happen to him. When Chuck first gets on the island, he makes sure to get food and water. Also, when he is preparing to leave the island, he takes note of the months and days. He does this so he can have proper wind and current to get home. He knows how dangerous and powerful nature can be, so he takes a lot of precaution. Without water and food you cannot survive, so he is smart to find those first. Also he knows that if he does not leave at the proper time the current and wind will blow him the wrong way. If he does not consider these things, he might not have survived.

Before Chuck was stranded and lost on the island in Cast Away, he was all about his work at Fedex. He would throw himself into working and be gone for long periods of time. Chuck couldn’t see how him being gone was affecting him, and his relationships with people, especially his fiance, Kelly. While Chuck was gone for all those times, he developed a little apathy. After the plane crashed and left him stranded on the island, Chuck was trying to develop ways to get off of the island and finding ways to get nutrients. But after some time, Chuck began to feel lonely and found a volleyball in one of the packages that floated to the island. He cut his hand to create a face with his own blood, and named it Wilson. Wilson kept him company for the time he was on the island, but more often than not he would yell at Wilson because he’s frustrated that he can’t figure out a way off of the island. Chuck began to develop more apathetic traits than when he was at home. He had no concern for his well being. He lost his sense of purpose.

Now, what made him so unique in his take was his use of the scenery to enhance how the story is being told and how the characters were presented and developed in the movies.

The sticks are also used to make a small area of shelter for him. It's where he can keep his packages and other things that he might need. It's didn't help very well when there were storms over night or rain during the day. Chuck then found a cave where he could sleep and not be in the cold rain at night. Nature helped him survive on the island because of it's useful

In Cast Away, Tom Hanks character, Chuck, is stranded on a vast island. His only friend is a volleyball with a bloody handprint on it that he named Wilson. Chuck and Wilson escape the island on their rickety lifeboat made out of an old porta potty and some wood, and make their way out into the rough waters of the Pacific Ocean. After a couple of days of floating aimlessly through the ocean, a severe storm passes over causing Wilson to detach from the raft and float away. Chuck shrieks in agony as he helplessly watches Wilson float away. All Chuck had was Wilson for the past 5 years, together stranded in middle of nowhere, all alone. Although he was a volleyball, he was all Chuck had. Chuck, unable to get Wilson as he was half-starved from being

In the movie “The Departed,” three important ideas that are shown throughout the film. The idea of love and how people act when they are in love, the father-son interactions between characters, and the idea of an individual’s identity. The characters are forced, every single day, to adapt and mold into different roles throughout the film. The movie shows how people are placed into new situations and they create new identities to fit the ever-changing circumstances in their lives.

Communication is a major aspect of the movie Castaway. Tom Hank’s character, Chuck Noland, relies on many different forms of communication to complete his job as a FedEx systems manager. It also helped keep him sane on the island he was stranded upon by talking and relating to a volleyball named Wilson. Minute items in the movie such as the lighthouse and sailing pictures are examples of symbolism in the movie. These items foreshadow what might happen later on.

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?

Joseph Kosinski did so by using camera techniques, language features and lastly music. Because of these techniques it was made clear to the characters emotions and feelings in each significant scene making it easy for us to understand the writers intentions with his portrayed purpose, relating the techniques to the greater society was also fairly easy because of this. And this is how Joseph Kosinski showed the directors purpose through the relationship between two