Cast Away

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Movie
German title Cast Away
Original title Cast Away
Castaway-logo.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 143 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Zemeckis
script William Broyles Jr.
production Tom Hanks ,
Jack Rapke ,
Steve Starkey ,
Robert Zemeckis
music Alan Silvestri
camera Don Burgess
cut Arthur Schmidt
occupation
synchronization

Cast Away is a 2000 American film directed by Robert Zemeckis . The main role of the Robinsonade is played by Tom Hanks , who is stranded after a plane crash on a small island in the South Sea and from there, after more than four years of being a hermitage, can escape with a self-made raft. The film was published by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks .

action

Chuck Noland, of Memphis , Tennessee , is a senior executive at FedEx , a US logistics company . Constantly on the move worldwide for his international business, he not only postpones an urgently needed dentist appointment, but even the Christmas party with his girlfriend Kelly.

Island stay

Chuck Noland is on a business trip as a passenger on board a FedEx cargo plane that gets into an air emergency over the South Pacific and crashes. Chuck is the only survivor and can free himself from the sinking plane wreck. Although he can take one of the inflatable life rafts with him from the aircraft at the last second , its accessory bag with the emergency transmitter and survival equipment is lost. A little later he is stranded on a small uninhabited island. He quickly realizes that a rescue is unlikely, as he cannot draw anyone's attention and no one is looking for him because of the lost emergency transmitter. With what little he has left, he settles on the island. In the days after the crash, several packages from the cargo plane were washed up on the beach, which Chuck is now gradually opening. They contain video tapes, ice skates, a dress and a volleyball - at first glance apparently a lot of useless stuff. Over time, however, Chuck can adapt to life in the wilderness and the supposedly useless objects also prove to be usable. So he constructed z. B. a hatchet from a skate . After initial difficulties, he finally succeeds in lighting a fire and catching fish in order to support himself, similar to Robinson Crusoe .

Even volleyball, which at first seemed superfluous, takes on existential significance: after Chuck has painted a human face with the blood of a hand injury, it becomes a mute "friend" with whom he repeatedly talks to himself or consults and who makes him mad and utter despair preserved. After the logo of the manufacturer Wilson Sporting Goods on the ball, Chuck calls him "Wilson" and makes him his constant companion. Noland leaves a single package unopened - as a sign of his former reliability and deep-seated hope that one day he will still be able to leave the island.

After a first failed attempt, he finally made a second, better-prepared attempt to escape four years later. He succeeds in building a raft , the individual parts of which he partially moored to the video tape material. A washed-up part of a mobile toilet cabin acts as a sail for the necessary advance and at the same time serves as a small cabin. With the help of this sail, he overcomes the dangerous coastal surf for the first time and ventures out to sea, where he is exposed to wind and weather. He secures his nutrition by hunting fish with a spear and by collecting rainwater with the help of the toilet cubicle walls and a plastic sheet.

After some time, he first loses his sparse dwelling in a storm and later, due to the progressive dissolution of his raft, also "Wilson". He wants to fetch him back by swimming, but soon has to give up his desperate attempt to rescue him in order not to lose the raft and with it his life. Finally, after several weeks, he is discovered half-dead by the crew of a container ship .

After actually being rescued and arriving in civilization, he finds that his fiancée has let go of him. After talking to Kelly, they both go their separate ways.

return

Back in civilization, he realizes that he is alienated from life in the "normal" world and that his former fiancée - since he was declared dead - started a new life at the side of his dentist and shared a life with him Daughter has. Although Kelly and Chuck still love each other, they realize that they cannot go back to their old life.

Chuck travels to Texas to bring the unopened package back to the sender (as indicated by the Elvis Presley song Return to Sender, which was played on the car radio at the same time ). Since no one is at home, he leaves the shipment with the short note “This package saved my life. Many thanks. Chuck Noland “, back on the doorstep.

The film ends openly: At a lonely country road crossing, Chuck is undecided which direction to take. When he wants to find his way around with the help of a map, a friendly young driver helps him find the right way. As she continues her journey, a sticker on the rear of her car reveals that she is probably the sender of the package.

background

Location

Monuriki island , location of most of the scenes

Cast Away was shot on Monuriki , an island in the Mamanuca archipelago. ( 17 ° 37 ′  S , 177 ° 2 ′  E ) This archipelago is located a bit away from the largest Fiji island, Viti Levu . The location became a tourist attraction after the film was released.

In the film, when Chuck returns, Kelly explains that he had come 500 miles on his raft and that the island is about 600 miles south of the Cook Islands . In fact, there are no more islands south of the Cook Islands to Antarctica.

Filming

Tom Hanks acts in scenes before the crash with excess weight, which he had gained for the role. This filming took place first, then production was interrupted for over eight months so that Hanks could play all the island scenes again with much less weight. Meanwhile, director Zemecki's Shadow of Truth was shooting with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer .

surreptitious advertising

In addition to volleyball from the sporting goods manufacturer Wilson Sporting Goods , the FedEx company is particularly present in large parts of the film: Chuck Noland has numerous FedEx packages helping him to survive on the island. At the end of the film, he hands the last unopened package back to the sender, demonstrating his reliability as an employee of the company. While FedEx did not pay directly for product placement , it provided significant logistical resources in the form of staff, trucks, and uniforms. Other product and company names included in this film come from the food and consumer electronics sectors.

German dubbed version

The German synchronization was carried out by Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke and directed by Tobias Meister . Alexander Löwe wrote the dialogue book .

character actor speaker
Chuck Noland Tom Hanks Arne Elsholtz
Kelly Frears Helen Hunt Arianne Borbach
Stan Nick Searcy Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Jerry Lovett Chris Noth Tom Vogt
Bettina Peterson Lari White Anke Reitzenstein
Gwen Viveka Davis Bettina Spier
Pilot Al Vin Martin Reinhard Kuhnert
Pilot blaine Garret Davis Tobias Master
Pilot Kevin Christopher Kriesa Bernd Rumpf
Fyodor Leonid Citer Sergei Gladkich

Mass culture

In terms of mass culture, the commercial filmed by FedEx for Super Bowl XXXVIII is worth mentioning. There, a messenger who is supposed to represent Chuck Noland brings the package that he had unopened on the island for all these years to its recipient. When asked what was in the package, she opens it and replies: "Oh, just a satellite phone, a GPS locator, a fishing rod, a water purifier and a few seeds." FedEx, originally not convinced by the idea of ​​the film, was finally impressed by the positive content of the film, as it gave the company a good image.

reception

criticism

“A film conceived as an ambitious one-person drama over long stretches with a diverse potential for conflict, but which is marginalized in favor of the action-oriented plot. Even the convincing leading actor cannot forget the weaknesses of the mainstream cinema concept. "

- Lexicon of international film

Gross profit

The budget for the film was $ 90 million. Cast Away - Verschollen had a worldwide box office of approximately 430 million US dollars.

Awards

Tom Hanks was nominated for an Oscar for best actor , but this went to Russell Crowe ( Gladiator ). However, Hanks won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in the Drama category.

The film was also nominated for an Oscar 2001 in the sound mixing category.

Film composer Alan Silvestri received a Grammy in 2002 for his film music .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

Trivia

The name Chuck Noland (C. Noland) is an allusion to see no land (German: no land in sight).

literature

  • Eberhard Ostermann: "Cast Away" and the crisis in the working society. In: EO: The Movie Count. Eight exemplary analyzes. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4562-9 , pp. 13-27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Korina Miller, Robyn Jones, Leonardo Pinheiro: Fiji. In: Lonely Planet. 2003, ISBN 1-74059-134-8 , p. 54.
  2. ↑ moviemantz.com ( Memento from February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ filmjournal.com
  4. ↑ Cast Away. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 24, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Cast Away. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 24, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Cast Away (2000) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Cast Away - Lost on fbw-filmbeval.com