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"Cast Away", another silent film

Posted by rico (A) on May 6, 2004 at 10:58:55

It is widely known that Tom Hanks' favorite film is Kubrick's "2001...", which he has seen more times than I have, a tough record to beat. In watching "Cast Away" the other night, I again realized how much of the film is totally silent except for sound effects, much like the Kubrick outing. There is aven at least one homage to the earlier film (Hanks pondering the Porta-Johnny while squatting like one of the apes) and maybe others I have missed.

True, "Cast Away" steals a scene from "The Bridges of Madison County"
(will she or won't she go, in the rain yet) but I have always found the closing scene deliciously ambiguous yet uplifting, the Hanks character literally being at a crossroads. And what a beautiful woman the sculptress, now divorced as we learn from the ranch entrance, is in her extremely brief appearance.

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