Castaway Movie Analysis-Journeys

    Movies are meant to evoke emotion in a person and attach them to the story being told on the big screen. Writer, William Broyles, Jr., in his movie, Cast Away, shares the story of a desperate man, Chuck Noland, trying to survive after being stranded on an island. Broyles’s purpose is to make the audience feel for Chuck and share the same feeling that he is going through. He adopts a sad and serious tone in order to do this that allows the mature audience to show emotion towards Chuck. The ways he makes the audience feel for him include: repetition, personification, and camera angle/ sad music. With all of these combined, Broyles is able to manipulate the audience into feeling for Chuck.

"Cast Away" is a fantastic film that has many hidden meanings beneath the surface. Before being analysed, it seems like it's simply about a man who experiences an adventurous journey after his plane crashes into the Pacific. After more thought was put into it, many symbolic meanings that demonstrated his human nature, mainly consisting his drive of survival, faith, hope, and morals, was revealed. I am able to arrive at the conclusion that yes, I do agree with the quote, "Cast Away delivers a strong message of fear, survival, faith and hope."

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

They were on their way to New York City and had about a week left onboard. They are manly type of men. Yank, is the know-it-alls woker. When Yank speaks the men listens. Yank is a proud man. Paddy was the eldest of the men. He felt work life onboard the Ocean Liner was a piece of cake compared to his work onboard a Clipper Ship. Mildred, a wealth passenger volunteered with Manhattan's Lower East Side’s less fortunate and was on her way to do volunteer services in Europe. Mildred's Aunt believed Mildred's service to the less fortunate is "slumming" and does not understand why she has to do it in another country. She takes a tour of the ships and walks into the men work area. She walks in on one of Yank’s rants. Disgusted by Yank’s appearance and behavior she mumbles that he was a filthy beast. Paddy told Yank Mildred looked at him like he was a big "hairy ape." That angered Yank. Yank ends up getting arrested because he makes a Gentleman in Manhattan miss his bus. While Yank is imprisoned on Blackwell's Island he finds out that Mildred’s father built both the physical and metaphorical cage that had him trapped. His fellow prisoner tells him he should join the Wobblies or the Industrial Workers of the World. In Scene Seven, Yank visits the local I.W.W. but they kicked him out because the Secretary thought he was a government spy. In the eighth scene, Yank tried to become friends with an ape.

The best scene that I believe it was effective was when Chuck and Wilson were in the middle of the sea. When Chuck is sleeping Wilson is taken by the sea and Chuck does not notice until Wilson is getting far. Then Chuck just into the middle of the sea and tries so hard to go get back Wilson and not lose his companiet that he has been for 4 years. When the waves start pulling Wilson farther and farther Chuck kept swing to try and get him back but he couldn’t. When Chuck finally notice he was not going to get Wilson back he started crying hopelessly and apologized to Wilson for not getting him. After that Chuck felt lonely and solitary, and he never saw Wilson again. Time passed and Chuck get rescue without his buddy Wilson.

On the eighth of September, 1900, a Category Four Hurricane set its eye on Galveston, Texas. Surges storm streets, steel keels over, shrapnel flies, and ships beach on buildings. Afterwards, unclogging streets could risk losing survivors or bodies- often buried on site. But America, like the “Jewel of Texas”, brushes off typhoons, even the deadliest one (geology.com). That is, until a wizard’s films release. Edison calls it a chide to damage "unequaled since the Johnstown flood of 1889 (https://www.loc.gov)." Since "Mr. A" saw the tragedy in all this drives the populous to hop on the bandwagon to spread the word. At length, teams, including The Red Cross, deploy on maiden disaster relief efforts. With film, Thomas Edison spreads the facts of

In the movie Cast Away Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland, an obsessively punctual FedEx executive who wants things done right and on time. But when his plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean during a storm, he is the only one to survive the crash. He wakes up on a deserted island with nothing but the deflated

Castaway was an astonishing film about survival, love, and loss, three things we take advantage of every single day. Tom Hanks undoubtedly gave one of the best performances of his career. Throughout the movie you see his character, Chuck, change from a busy, time-obsessed man, to someone who is at the brink of death multiple times. The emotions displayed when Chuck was on the island told the story of how he coped with being away from his one true love and society in general. Slowly, you see his sanity starting to escape. When he started talking to a volleyball he named Wilson, you realize how much being alone affects a person. Not only was the acting excellent, the storyline was one to remember. Castaway stood out from other survival films

Chuck has finally been untethered from his technological world. In the new world Chuck now faces he must learn primitive survival skills, he must learn to get safe drink and food, he must also learn how to make tools that our primitive ancestors used to bring knowledge to man. Chuck’s transformation into becoming a creator comes when he makes fire, he is now a living representation of Prometheus, the light bringer. This previously alien world to Chuck has now taught him that he is not this idea of a corporate bigshot, he now learns he is just a primate and gets humbled. Up to this transformation Chuck has been living in a world where everything is a ritual, from clothes to food to sports; he has been living in an artificial world.

the description reminded him of the movie industry term “serial adventures” which referred to short episodic films, featuring the likes of Batman and the Lone Ranger, shown in theaters on Saturday afternoons during the 1930s and 1940s. Each week, youthful matinee audiences were lured back for the next installment in the series by an inconclusive ending known as a “cliffhanger” that left them wanting

They spent the next few months catching up and Kelly telling Chuck about her promotion and how she knew he was alive. But not once did he talk about his years on the island they were sort of a blur to him. Like they didn’t actually happen like all those people didn’t die or that he lost Wilson or injured himself an awful amount of times or everything else that happened. He couldn’t picture him being the only one surviving or surviving at all or even getting off the island. It never occurred to him that he would actually be able to leave the island and be with Kelly again.

The goal is clear and the stakes are death. The first act has a solid inciting event and a catalyst that drives the story forward when the crew becomes stranded on the island and realizes there’s some form of a demon with them.

The main character, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) goes to the desperate extent of creating a friend out of a “Wilson” branded volleyball. A particular scene in the famed movie strongly demonstrates the bond he had created with the volleyball, as when the volleyball slowly drifts into the unfathomable uncharted ocean he breaks down in tears along with the audience. He originally created Wilson to help motivate himself in his efforts, because Wilson served as a reminder for what Chuck had back home, therefore helping him survive until he is able to see his beloved wife and family again. On the other hand, imagine Chuck had no wife, no friends, no responsibilities and no life. Do you think he would have really wanted to live and get back to his so called

Throughout the film of Cast Away, Kelly and Chuck are both challenged by the American values of independence. For example, when Chuck is stranded on the island he is left helpless, and chooses to depend on the pocket watch that Kelly gave him. While Kelly eventually moves forward with her life, and starts depending on someone else to move on from Chuck. The persistent theme of dependence both characters show challenges the American Values. For example, as Americans we should all be able to be independent and hold our own

The 1983 film ‘Vacation’ perfectly encapsulated an era and yet it was still able to establish itself as timeless road trip film through the way it expertly simulated how a family road trip with good intentions could easily go awry under the wrong circumstances. This new ‘Vacation’ is hoping to catch lightning in a bottle for a second time, which is an incredibly tall order. Yet, for some reason, Warner Bros. is positive this is going to become an instant classic, remarking time and time again how confidently they feel about the critical and box office success of this film. When a studio is this excited for a film that excitement definitely rubs off on me, and the recent announcement that the duo behind this film are set to write the