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He was eventually rescued in 1709, four years after his arrival, when a ship came by and took him aboard. He built huts out of materials he found on the islands, made his own clothes from animal skins and chased prey.

#CAST AWAY MOVIE FULL#

It was not an easy existence, and his time on the deserted land was full of loneliness and remorse, as well as physical challenges such as attacks from rats – though feral cats proved useful in keeping the rodents at bay. The story goes, that he was forced from the shores of the island further inland after masses of sea lions came to the beaches for mating season. Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on Selkirk’s experiences (Photo: Getty/Hulton Archive) Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 1721), on the uninhabited island of Mas a Tierra in the Juan Fernándes Islands, where he lived alone for four years.

He took a few items with him from the ship, including a knife, bedding and a Bible, and was left to hunt for his own food which included lobsters and feral goats. He chose to be left on the uninhabited Juan Fernández archipelago near Chile, as he feared the ship he had travelled on was too dangerous to continue the journey. Selkirk travelled around the South Pacific in the early 1700s, taking part in buccaneering pursuits. While the exact story of Cast Away is not thought to be a true story, there are several real-life accounts of people who spent time on uninhabited lands that may have provided inspiration.Īmong the most famous is the story of Alexander Selkirk, who is known by some as a real-life Robinson Crusoe, inspiring the Daniel Defoe novel.

The name was Wilson was simply the brand of the ball. It was during this time, that he also came up with the idea for Wilson the volleyball companion, as a ball washed up on the beach he was staying on and he began to talk to it. While there, he made himself find his own food, water, which included breaking open coconuts and eating speared stingrays, and building shelter made of bamboo and palm leaves. It was going to be an emotional, spiritual one as well,” he told the publication “I realized it wasn’t just a physical challenge. In the creation of the film, screenwriter William Broyles Jr spent a few days alone on an isolated beach near Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, to get an idea of what it was like.Īccording to reports in The Austin Chronicle from 2000, the experience taught Broyles more about what it really means to be lonely. How did the film’s makers research Cast Away?

Thus, I’m guessing that Chuck’s flight crashes on Christmas Eve.It was directed by Robert Zemeckis. Later, onboard the overnight flight, Chuck asks if the sudden turbulence could be “from Santa and those eight tiny reindeer.” If it were already the evening of Christmas Day, Santa already would have delivered his presents, and he and his reindeer would presumably already be back at the North Pole. During this dinner, which has to be on Christmas Eve, Chuck receives a notification on his pager that FedEx needs his troubleshooting skills, apparently in Malaysia. The scene after Chuck falls asleep features a “ Christmas dinner” with Kelly’s relatives, played by some terrific actors, including Joe Conley, Dennis Letts, Nan Martin and Timothy Stack. In a prior scene, after Chuck returns from Moscow, he falls asleep on the couch of his home with Kelly, while a CNN anchor announces that “Just days before Santa departs on his annual gift-giving venture, he’s been declared physically fit to fly,” and then declares that “Santa Clause took off into the wild blue yonder for an early start,” presumably meaning prior to the traditional Christmas Eve start of Santa’s journey. By my interpretation, within the film, it’s clear that the flight is on Christmas Eve.

Some sources online indicate that Chuck’s flight is on Christmas Eve, while others state that it’s Christmas Day.