One of the best Tom Hanks movies is an adventure masterpiece and the toughest shoot of his career

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One of the best Tom Hanks movies is an adventure

This Sunday, the September 3, 2023shows RTL II at 8:15 p.m. Cast Away – Lost. The adventure film is an odyssey of survival for a crashed parcel delivery boy, but it also demanded more from its star Tom Hanks than ever before in his career.

Today on TV: Tom Hanks adventure film as a solo survival fight

In the adventure film Cast Away, shown on TV today, Tom Hanks plays the stressed-out analyst at a packaging company who crashing over the Pacific Ocean. He survives the accident and goes ashore on a deserted island. But the hoped-for early rescue does not come.

In order to survive on his own, main character Chuck Noland must get creative as an involuntary adventure. The washed-up packages that his crashed plane transported become indispensable tools. For example, the (flying) shipwrecked person turns a pair of ice skates into an axe and fights his own loneliness with the unusual conversational partner of volleyball, Wilson *.

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Tom Hanks is missing in Cast Away

Tom Hanks wears
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the movie, which is a one-person play most of the time. Instead of turning the hopeless situation into a tragedy, he always finds hopeful moments against all odds – for example in the pure joy when he finally manages to kindle a fire. The result is the gripping adventure masterpiece of a modern-day Robinson Crusoe.

Tom Hanks endured a physical odyssey for the Cast Away adventure

Before Cast Away, Tom Hanks had played characters struggling to survive in films like Saving Private Ryan or Apollo 13. For the adventure film, however, the twice Oscar-winning actor was starring in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump completely new physical challenge placed.

Director Robert Zemeckis wanted to make Chuck’s odyssey as authentic as possible and had to Tom Hanks gaining weight, losing weight, and gaining weight again in a short period of time. (So ​​once more than Philadelphia.) Here’s how filming Cast Away turned into a weight odyssey for the star:

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Emaciated Tom Hanks in Cast Away

  • In order to reach the middle-aged, stocky man’s weight that protagonist Chuck possesses at the beginning of the film, Tom Hanks consciously let go before shooting began and refrained from any physical training.
  • Then put the Film production took a year off so that Tom Hanks could lose weight radically. The adventure film’s star lost 50 pounds to become the emaciated islander of the film’s second half.
  • Then followed another 4 month break to gain weightso Tom Hanks achieved an appearance for the final scene that again showed him with a little more meat on the bones.

    • The convincing outcome of a tragic man is well seen in Cast Away’s adventure. However, the fast diet was not easy for Tom Hanks, it is said to have given him type 2 diabetes at times.

    Night owls can watch a repeat of Cast Away on Monday mornings at 03:25. Besides that The adventure film is currently streaming on Netflix, in the film legends channel * and on Paramount+ *.

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