![]() 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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