Cast Away - What Would You Do Differently?

[DOC-CANADA]

Somebody beat me to the Helen Hunt line, but actually I think I would have rather taken along the sculptor woman that he delivers the package to at the end of the movie.

While I agree with you, remember this is a survival situation - either would work.

It was a good movie to get people thinking. Unfortunately they made the friction fire lighting look too easy with their artistic licence, but it was still an entertaining tale.

I agree - I also liked the movie.

I think my deep interest in wilderness survival was largely influenced by a book I read several times when quite young. This was a very old edition of the "Swiss Family Robinson". The date written on the inside is something like 1896.

Dang, Coote, you age well - you don't look near that old in your picture!

Doc

 

[coote]

Ha!

That photo was taken years ago.

 

[NIB]

It's a MOVIE people! Meant for entertainment!



Not a How To Survival documentery.

 

[coote]

Life imitates art sometimes.

Sure it was probably just written to make money by entertaining people, but it might provide the only clues some people get about surviving on an island.

Yep NIB, I reckon that sometimes we obsess about this subject too much. And I had similar thoughts to you when I first read through the posts. But anything that gets a bit of discussion going on this forum is a good thing....although I spend far too much time on my computer.

 

[Codger_64]

It's a MOVIE people! Meant for entertainment!...Not a How To Survival documentery.

This is my take on it too. I look at this movie as mind candy, like Blue Lagoon, or a dozen others of the genre. To answer the original question more directly, I'd be more of a manufacturer of goods, constantly making things to make my life easier (Gilligan's Island?). And I think my escape vessel would be a bit more refined, even given the dirth of materials available on the island. I would know the consequences of long term salt water immersion better than the charactor did, and try to avoid becoming a brine pickle, or a salted sun-roasted nut. I also doubt that the final movie cut was the same as the original written version. Directors have a habit of making edits, scene and script cuts (after the screenwriter has re-written his heart out) that make the final film a shadow of the original writer's story. As an example, read "Cold Mountain", then watch the film.

Codger