Thrilling adventure film that had to be put on hold for a year just so the star could lose weight

There are adventurers who consciously embark on a dangerous journey and there are those who are involuntarily thrown into it. Netflix currently has a fantastic adventure film of the second category in its program that not only Tom Hanks fans should know. Because Cast Away – Missing Heard As inventive struggle for survival almost a general education for your own future stranding on a lonely island.

Cast Away on Netflix: The adventure film as a one-person fight for survival

In the adventure film Cast Away, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a busy analyst for a logistics company who is about to be engaged when the unthinkable happens: the plane on his business trip crashes in the Pacific.

Chuck survives and can save himself on a deserted island. Here he now has to learn to survive on his own – for which the washed-up packages from his plane are extremely useful. He never completely gives up the dream of rescue. And now you can experience it on Netflix.

Watching Tom Hanks mature into an unexpected adventurer, who turns skates into axes, celebrates the joy of the first fire and in his solitude begins to converse with Volleyball Wilson* is not only thrilling but heartwarming. At the same time, the star ensures that there is always something to smile about despite the grim survival scenario.

The 2 hour and 24 minute Odyssey on Netflix works great as an adventure film of a (mostly) one-person play and keeps you rooted to the dramatic end. Tom Hanks, as a modern Robinson Crusoe, also put up with quite a lot off camera.

For the adventure of Cast Away, Tom Hanks went through a weight odyssey

Because for the adventure film career of his character C. Noland (“See no Land”) in Cast Away, Tom Hanks had to do it within a very short time gaining, losing and gaining weight again:

In this way, not only the audience of the adventure film experienced the exciting journey: the star also experienced his character’s ordeal on his own body.

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