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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Chuck refuses to come between Kelly and her new husband.]]
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Chuck refuses can't quite bring himself to come between Kelly and her new husband.husband, although how happy this will actually make her in the long run is open to possibility.]]
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Kelly\'s husband wasn\'t Jim Spalding, but a dental surgeon named Jerry Lovett that Spalding had referred Chuck to years earlier
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* StealthPun: Chuck grows attached to a Wilson brand volleyball to cope with the isolation. Back home, his wife gets in a relationship with a man named Spalding. (Spalding is another brand of sports equipment. Yes, they make volleyballs.)
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Chuck Noland has everything: success in an exciting, high-paying job with FedEx, close friends, and a woman who loves him. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, washes up on an uninhabited tropical island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
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Chuck Noland has everything: success in an exciting, a high-pressure, high-paying job with FedEx, close friends, and a woman who loves him. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, washes up on an uninhabited tropical island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Interestingly, [[spoiler:Kelly was fully willing to drop her new husband for Chuck, but [[DidNotGetTheGirl both Chuck and Kelly realize that being together would be impossible]].]]
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Interestingly, [[spoiler:Kelly was fully willing to drop her new husband for Chuck, but [[DidNotGetTheGirl both Chuck and Kelly realize that being together doing so would be impossible]].]]
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* CaliforniaDoubling : The movie was filmed on one of the small uninhabited islands belonging to {{UsefulNotes/Fiji}}, even though the movie's island is supposed to lie somewhere south of the Cook islands.
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* CaliforniaDoubling : The movie was filmed on one of the small uninhabited islands belonging to {{UsefulNotes/Fiji}}, even though the movie's island is supposed to lie somewhere south of the Cook islands.islands(which are very close to Fiji).
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** That said, he'd obviously become a massive celebrity, and likely a bestselling autobiographical author and sought-after motivational speaker.
* GallowsHumor: With a rotten tooth Chuck mentions toWilson Wilson, a volleyball, that his dentist back home was named Dr. Spaulding.Spalding.
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* ProductPlacement: The movie is one great big commercial for Fed Ex. And Wilson the volleyball is one for the company of the same name. Neither firm paid a dime. The best kind of product placement.
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* ProductPlacement: The best kind of product placement - neither firm paid a dime, but the movie is one great big commercial for Fed Ex. And Ex, and Wilson the volleyball is one for the company of the same name. Neither firm paid a dime. The best kind latter came about as the result of product placement.a Wilson ball washing up on shore in RealLife when the screenwriter was doing survival training as researching for the film.
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'''''Cast Away''''' is a 2000 film directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/TomHanks.
Chuck Noland has everything: a successful, high-paying job, a woman who loves him, and enough money to buy anything he wants. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, makes his way to an uninhabited island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
If anything, it's like a modern day Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
Chuck Noland has everything: a successful, high-paying job, a woman who loves him, and enough money to buy anything he wants. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, makes his way to an uninhabited island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
If anything, it's like a modern day Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
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'''''Cast Away''''' is a 2000 film directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis Creator/RobertZemeckis, written by William Broyles Jr. and starring Creator/TomHanks.
Chuck Noland has everything:a successful, success in an exciting, high-paying job, job with FedEx, close friends, and a woman who loves him, and enough money to buy anything he wants.him. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, makes his way to washes up on an uninhabited tropical island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
If anything, In many ways, it's like a modern day Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
Literature/RobinsonCrusoe. The film was a massive commercial and critical success, with Hanks being praised(and eventually nominated for the Best Actor Oscar) for his performance, which required him to undergo a drastic physical transformation and spend the majority of the film alone on screen.
Chuck Noland has everything:
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while funny, listing Fed Ex as \"product placement\" in the header is inaccurate - they didn\'t contribute to the budget and had to be convinced by the producers to let their company be a subject of the film
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while funny, listing Fed Ex as \"product placement\" in the header is inaccurate - they didn\'t contribute to the budget and had to be convinced by the producers to let their company be a subject of the film
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[[ProductPlacement Brought to you by Federal Express.]]
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* KilroyWasHere: See the page illustration above. Chuck leaves a message on a rock before sailing away, as a record for someone to find if he dies at sea.
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chuck sees one dentist, kelly marries another dentist—how is this a chekhov\'s gunman?
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* AtTheCrossroads: [[spoiler: The ending. Two possible paths to his future. It's all very symbolic.]]
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* AtTheCrossroads: [[spoiler: The ending.Chuck finds himself at a literal crossroads. Two possible paths to his future. It's all very symbolic.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: As mentioned under GallowsHumor, Chuck remembers his dentist was Dr. Spaulding. When he returns, he discovers [[spoiler: Kelly has married Dr. Spaulding's colleague (Jerry Lovett) and started a family with him]].
** Also qualifies as ChekhovsGag as the audience assumes it's a throwaway line.
** The female welder who sends one of the packages counts as well, as Chuck runs into her during the finale scene.
** Also qualifies as ChekhovsGag as the audience assumes it's a throwaway line.
** The female welder who sends one of the packages counts as well, as Chuck runs into her during the finale scene.
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** Chuck's offhand comment early in the movie about needing to go to the dentist? Yes, that will be important later.
* ChekhovsGunman:As mentioned under GallowsHumor, Chuck remembers his dentist was Dr. Spaulding. When he returns, he discovers [[spoiler: Kelly has married Dr. Spaulding's colleague (Jerry Lovett) and started a family with him]].
** Also qualifies as ChekhovsGag as the audience assumes it's a throwaway line.
**The female welder who sends one of the packages counts as well, as Chuck runs into her during the finale scene.
* ChekhovsGunman:
** Also qualifies as ChekhovsGag as the audience assumes it's a throwaway line.
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* LargeHam: Chuck - after lived several years in the savage jungle everyone would become this.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Averted, because there's ''no freaking wildlife'' except for the fish and crabs that Chuck catches for food.
** And maybe some sea birds, but we don't get to see any. The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population [[ShownTheirWork is fully in line with how such small Polynesian islands look like]]. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows...
** And maybe some sea birds, but we don't get to see any. The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population [[ShownTheirWork is fully in line with how such small Polynesian islands look like]]. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows...
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* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck never opened?
** [[spoiler: Two possibilities: 1) According to an earlier script draft, two bottles of salsa verde. 2) According to a Fed Ex commercial made to parody the movie, a water-proof satellite phone, a GPS, a water purifier, and some seeds. Ironically things that would have been immensely useful when surviving on the island.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck never opened?
** [[spoiler: Two possibilities: 1) According to an earlier script draft, two bottles of salsa verde. 2) According to a Fed Ex commercial made to parody the movie, a water-proof satellite phone, a GPS, a water purifier, and some seeds. Ironically things that would have been immensely useful when surviving on the island.]]
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated
ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Chuck is startled to find out his friends held a funeral for him.
* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck neveropened?
** [[spoiler: Two possibilities: 1) According to an earlier script draft, two bottles of salsa verde. 2) According to a Fed Ex commercial made to parody the movie, a water-proof satellite phone, a GPS, a water purifier, and some seeds. Ironically things that would have been immensely useful when surviving on the island.]]opened? (See MacGuffin above.)
* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck never
** [[spoiler: Two possibilities: 1) According to an earlier script draft, two bottles of salsa verde. 2) According to a Fed Ex commercial made to parody the movie, a water-proof satellite phone, a GPS, a water purifier, and some seeds. Ironically things that would have been immensely useful when surviving on the island.]]
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* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOONNNNNNN! I'm sorry, Wilson!" Yes, only Tom Hanks can yell that line, believably, at a volleyball]], and not make it [[{{Narm}} sound stupid.]]
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* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOONNNNNNN! I'm sorry, Wilson!" Yes, only If you ever want to figure out how good an actor Tom Hanks is, forget those two Oscars he won. Only Tom Hanks can yell that line, believably, at a volleyball]], ''volleyball'', and not make it [[{{Narm}} sound stupid.]]
* ShownTheirWork: The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population is fully in line with what such small Polynesian islands look like]]. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows.
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* StealthPun: Chuck grows attached to a Wilson brand volleyball to cope with the isolation. Back home, his wife gets in a relationship with a man named Spalding. [[hottip:*:Spalding is another brand of sports equipment. Yes, they make volleyballs.]]
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* StealthPun: Chuck grows attached to a Wilson brand volleyball to cope with the isolation. Back home, his wife gets in a relationship with a man named Spalding. [[hottip:*:Spalding (Spalding is another brand of sports equipment. Yes, they make volleyballs.]])
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* {{Fainting}}: After Chuck removes his own tooth. ''With an ice skate and a rock.''
** Also, Kelly, when she hears the news of Chuck's survival and rescue over the phone.
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* {{Fainting}}: After Chuck removes his own tooth. ''With an ice skate and a rock.''
**'' Also, Kelly, when she hears the news of Chuck's survival and rescue over the phone.
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* CanYouHearMeNow: Portrayed realistically here.
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* StealthPun: Chuck grows attached to a Wilson brand volleyball to cope with the isolation. Back home, his wife gets in a relationship with a man named Spalding. [[hottip:*:Spalding is another brand of sports equipment. Yes, they make volleyballs.]]
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'''''Cast Away'''' is a 2000 film directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/TomHanks.
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'''''Cast Away'''' Away''''' is a 2000 film directed by Creator/RobertZemeckis and starring Creator/TomHanks.
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Crosswicking.
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* ImpaledPalm: Chuck Noland does this to himself, which leads to the creation of [[CompanionCube Wilson]].
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* IFellForHours: That plane seems to be going down for a ''really'' long time...
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* IFellForHours: That The flight crew struggles for what seems like hours to keep the plane seems to be going down for a ''really'' long time...in the air, but they ultimately fail and crash in the ocean.
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* DeusExMachina: While Noland survives on the island - and ultimately gets off of it - by his own wits and creative scavenging skills, he's just short of dying at sea [[spoiler: when a container ship passes close to his position. Massive as the ship was, by all rights it should never have spotted him, but it happened to have crewman on deck when it passed by...]]
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* DeusExMachina: While Noland survives on the island - and ultimately gets off of it - by his own wits and creative scavenging skills, he's just short of dying at sea [[spoiler: when a container ship passes close to his position. Massive as the ship was, by all rights it should never have spotted him, a lone man on a tiny raft, but it happened to have crewman on deck when it passed by...]]
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* DeusExMachina: While Noland survives on the island - and ultimately gets off of it - by his own wits and creative scavenging skills, he's just short of dying at sea [[spoiler: when a container ship passes close to his position. Massive as the ship was, by all rights it should never have spotted him, but it happened to have crewman on deck when it passed by...]]
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* ClockKing: Chuck Noland starts out as this, a FedEx "efficiency expert." Then he's marooned on an island where he literally has nothing ''but'' time to spare.
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* ClockKing: Chuck Noland starts out as this, a FedEx Fed Ex "efficiency expert." Then he's marooned on an island where he literally has nothing ''but'' time to spare.
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* BookEnds: The movie begins and ends at [[spoiler:the same rural crossroads in Texas, near the ranch that the "winged package" came from.]]
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* ClockKing: Chuck Noland starts out as this, a FedEx "efficiency expert." Then he's marooned on an island where he literally has nothing ''but'' time to spare.
--> '''Noland''': Nicholai! Ticktockticktockticktock!
--> '''Noland''': Nicholai! Ticktockticktockticktock!
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: By this time, Wilson is Chuck's BFF.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: By this time, Wilson is Chuck's BFF.BFF and has his own "hair," while Chuck's has gone almost completely blond from bleaching in the sun.
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* SuddenlyShouting: "I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!!"
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* SuddenlyShouting: "I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean ocean, than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!!"VOLLEYBALL!!!!"
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* SuddenlyShouting: "I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!!"
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* UnstoppableMailman: Even after being stranded on an island for years, he still delivers the last package. (Strictly speaking, he doesn't. Like the song said, he "[[ElvisPresley Return[s it] to Sender]]".)
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* UnstoppableMailman: Even after being stranded on an island for years, he still delivers the last package. (Strictly speaking, he doesn't. Like the song said, he "[[ElvisPresley "[[Music/ElvisPresley Return[s it] to Sender]]".)
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** [[spoiler: Two possibilities: According to an earlier script draft, two bottles of salsa verde. According to a Fed Ex commercial made to parody the movie, a water-proof satellite phone, a GPS, a water purifier, and some seeds. [[Irony Things that would have been immensely useful to surviving on the island.]] ]]
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Chuck Noland has everything: a successful, high-paying job, a woman who loves him, and enough money to buy anything he wants. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, makes his way to an uninhabited island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
If anything, it's like a modern day Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
[[ProductPlacement Brought to you by Federal Express.]]
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!! This film contains examples of:
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Interestingly, [[spoiler:Kelly was fully willing to drop her new husband for Chuck, but [[DidNotGetTheGirl both Chuck and Kelly realize that being together would be impossible]].]]
** It's an interesting bit of trivia that according to the commentary that the scene [[spoiler: was the part of the movie that confused watchers between the ages of 14 and 20 in the test audience. They were either too accustomed to the idea of the protagonist [[HappilyEverAfter getting the girl in the end]] or weren't yet emotionally ready to grasp the sheer complexity of adult relationships.]]
* TheAloner
* AtTheCrossroads: [[spoiler: The ending. Two possible paths to his future. It's all very symbolic.]]
* BeardOfBarbarism: Chuck has plenty of time to grow some pretty wild facial hair during his time on the island.
* BloodyHandprint: Wilson.
* BrickJoke: At the start of the movie the female welder sends a [=FedEx=] package to her husband in Moscow, who we see is cheating with a young Russian girl. At the end of the movie his name has been cut away from the sign above the entrance to her house.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Portrayed realistically here.
* CaliforniaDoubling : The movie was filmed on one of the small uninhabited islands belonging to {{UsefulNotes/Fiji}}, even though the movie's island is supposed to lie somewhere south of the Cook islands.
* ChekhovsArmoury: After a while, Chuck opens the Fed Ex boxes that washed ashore with him, and the contents appear to be comically useless for his situation: video tapes, a volleyball, ice-skates and such. He finds a use for all of them, ''especially'' the volleyball.
** In an interesting case, the writers chose these items by drawing them from dozens of others out of a hat, then asking survival experts how they could be used.
* ChekhovsGunman: As mentioned under GallowsHumor, Chuck remembers his dentist was Dr. Spaulding. When he returns, he discovers [[spoiler: Kelly has married Dr. Spaulding's colleague (Jerry Lovett) and started a family with him]].
** Also qualifies as ChekhovsGag as the audience assumes it's a throwaway line.
** The Female welder also counts as well, as Chuck runs into her during the finale scene.
* ChekhovsHobby, a very subtle one: Right before the family diner scene, the audience briefly sees Chuck's sailing certification and sailing awards. No wonder then that [[spoiler: he finds the right solution to overcome the powerful wave that prevented him from leaving the island and manages to do it when the weather conditions are optimal.]]
* CompanionCube: Wilson the volleyball, whom Chuck talks to in order to keep from going insane due to loneliness.
** Or possibly ''because'' he is beginning to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation go insane]].
* DesertedIsland: 80% of the movie.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: And it makes sense, too.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's gradually revealed that Noland came very close to taking his own life. Good thing he did a "dry run" first with a dummy, or else he would've just broken his legs and died of exposure or dehydration.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Chuck Noland''': So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to.]]
* DyeingForYourArt: Tom Hanks grew a long, tangled beard and lost 30 pounds for his post-{{timeskip}} appearance (and gained weight for the pre-timeskip appearance). While he was getting into shape, RobertZemeckis shot ''WhatLiesBeneath'', Hanks produced ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', and Helen Hunt shot ''PayItForward''.
* ExactTimeToFailure
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: By this time, Wilson is Chuck's BFF.
* {{Fainting}}: After Chuck removes his own tooth. ''With an ice skate and a rock.''
** Also, Kelly, when she hears the news of Chuck's survival and rescue over the phone.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Subverted, as Chuck doesn't find the photo of the dead pilot's family until after he washes up.
* FlyingDutchman: Chuck is left without a place in the modern world after finally escaping from the island after five years of solitude.
* GallowsHumor: With a rotten tooth Chuck mentions to Wilson that his dentist back home was Dr. Spaulding.
* GenreSavvy: He's well aware that fictional portrayals of being on a desert island aren't realistic, and have left him unprepared.
-->"Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something [[GilligansIsland Gilligan]] never told us."
* GoMadFromTheIsolation
* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: At the beginning of the film, Chuck was setting up a Fed Ex office in Moscow, where they were still taking down pictures of Lenin and wowed by Snickers bars and ElvisPresley [=CDs=].
* HollywoodHealing: After returning from the island, Chuck somehow loses all his scars, sunburns (down to any hint of a tan), freckles and imperfections accumulated over the four years of being exposed to the tropical island's climate. Skin just doesn't heal that quickly and thoroughly.
* IFellForHours: That plane seems to be going down for a ''really'' long time...
* {{Irony}}: Plenty of this when Noland returns to the abundant world of civilization. His 'welcome back' dinner consists mostly of seafood. His Swiss Army knife is attached to the keys he left with Helen. And light and fire is now available at the click of a switch.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Chuck refuses to come between Kelly and her new husband.]]
* LargeHam: Chuck - after lived several years in the savage jungle everyone would become this.
* LegallyDead: Chuck finds himself in this state after being stuck on the island for five years.
* LonersAreFreaks: What Chuck becomes, although he at least seems to regain his sanity once he makes it back to civilization.
* MacGuffin: The one Fed Ex box that Chuck never opens, and ultimately delivers at the end.
** Zemeckis jokingly stated that inside was... [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot a waterproof solar-powered satellite phone]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3esvJv33M Lampshaded in a Super Bowl commercial]] for [=FedEx=] that year which had his character delivering the package to find that indeed, it had the waterproof satellite phone, GPS unit, seeds, a complete tool set...
** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19138_7-hotly-debated-movie-questions-that-totally-have-answers.html One deleted scene from the script]] actually has Chuck open the box. It holds...[[spoiler: two bottles of salsa verde.]]
* MacGyvering: How Chuck survives using various Fed Ex boxes full of apparently useless crap. Some notable examples include using the taffeta from a party dress to make a fishing net, weaving videotape together to make rope, and making an axe out of an ice skate attached to a stick.
* MeaningfulName: The shortened form of Chuck Noland's name is C. Noland: See No Land.
* MisplacedWildlife: Averted, because there's ''no freaking wildlife'' except for the fish and crabs that Chuck catches for food.
** And maybe some sea birds, but we don't get to see any. The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population [[ShownTheirWork is fully in line with how such small Polynesian islands look like]]. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows...
* MrExposition: A different take on this trope; Wilson serves as a means by which Tom Hanks' character can explain things to the audience.
* MusicVideoSyndrome: Rejected. While Tom Hanks's character is stranded on the desert island (the bulk of the movie), there is no background music at all.
** Possible FridgeBrilliance, since it really hits home the fact that a deserted island is both much quieter ''and'' much noisier than your average city.
* OceanMadness: Spiritually fits.
* ProductPlacement: The movie is one great big commercial for Fed Ex. And Wilson the volleyball is one for the company of the same name. Neither firm paid a dime. The best kind of product placement.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: The coconuts. Don't worry - everyone seems to get that wrong. Interestingly, the film crew found them as nigh-impossible to open as Chuck did.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated
* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck never opened?
** [[spoiler: Two bottles of salsa verde.]]
* {{Robinsonade}}
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOONNNNNNN! I'm sorry, Wilson!" Yes, only Tom Hanks can yell that line, believably, at a volleyball]], and not make it [[{{Narm}} sound stupid.]]
* SceneryPorn: But totally necessary, so we the audience know just how alone and isolated Chuck Noland really is when he's on that island.
* SettingUpdate: ''Cast Away'' is ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' [-IN THE MID-LATE 90S WITH A VOLLEYBALL AS FRIDAY!-]
* SoleSurvivor: Chuck.
* StoodUp: Type 5.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: [[spoiler:Chuck experiences this when he makes it back home.]]
* SurrogateSoliloquy: The writers even gave dialogue for Wilson's (imagined) half of the conversation.
* TaughtByExperience: A great demonstration here. A survivalist he wasn't, at first.
* TimeSkip: Four years later...
* TheToothHurts: Chuck already has a bit of a toothache before he gets stranded on the island, but it only gets worse once he's there, forcing him to remove the rotten tooth. With an ice skate and a rock. Feel free to faint now.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Seriously. Don't watch the trailer until you've seen the film.
** Even more frustatingly, Zemeckis openly admits to spoiling his films in trailers on purpose, saying that marketing shows that audiences want to know what EXACTLY what they're going to. Thus, most of the suspense of the film is sapped upon seeing said trailer.
* TheUnreveal: We never find out what's in the last [=FedEx=] box. Hell, we never even find out why he didn't open it. (See MacGuffin, above.)
** One popular theory is that the wings on the package were a symbol of hope for Chuck.
** Another is that he left one package to keep himself grounded. "I'm still a civilized human being, isolated in survival mode or not. Someday I will deliver this package, dammit!"
* UnstoppableMailman: Even after being stranded on an island for years, he still delivers the last package. (Strictly speaking, he doesn't. Like the song said, he "[[ElvisPresley Return[s it] to Sender]]".)
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Chuck Noland has everything: a successful, high-paying job, a woman who loves him, and enough money to buy anything he wants. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, makes his way to an uninhabited island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits and his two hands.
If anything, it's like a modern day Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
[[ProductPlacement Brought to you by Federal Express.]]
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!! This film contains examples of:
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Interestingly, [[spoiler:Kelly was fully willing to drop her new husband for Chuck, but [[DidNotGetTheGirl both Chuck and Kelly realize that being together would be impossible]].]]
** It's an interesting bit of trivia that according to the commentary that the scene [[spoiler: was the part of the movie that confused watchers between the ages of 14 and 20 in the test audience. They were either too accustomed to the idea of the protagonist [[HappilyEverAfter getting the girl in the end]] or weren't yet emotionally ready to grasp the sheer complexity of adult relationships.]]
* TheAloner
* AtTheCrossroads: [[spoiler: The ending. Two possible paths to his future. It's all very symbolic.]]
* BeardOfBarbarism: Chuck has plenty of time to grow some pretty wild facial hair during his time on the island.
* BloodyHandprint: Wilson.
* BrickJoke: At the start of the movie the female welder sends a [=FedEx=] package to her husband in Moscow, who we see is cheating with a young Russian girl. At the end of the movie his name has been cut away from the sign above the entrance to her house.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Portrayed realistically here.
* CaliforniaDoubling : The movie was filmed on one of the small uninhabited islands belonging to {{UsefulNotes/Fiji}}, even though the movie's island is supposed to lie somewhere south of the Cook islands.
* ChekhovsArmoury: After a while, Chuck opens the Fed Ex boxes that washed ashore with him, and the contents appear to be comically useless for his situation: video tapes, a volleyball, ice-skates and such. He finds a use for all of them, ''especially'' the volleyball.
** In an interesting case, the writers chose these items by drawing them from dozens of others out of a hat, then asking survival experts how they could be used.
* ChekhovsGunman: As mentioned under GallowsHumor, Chuck remembers his dentist was Dr. Spaulding. When he returns, he discovers [[spoiler: Kelly has married Dr. Spaulding's colleague (Jerry Lovett) and started a family with him]].
** Also qualifies as ChekhovsGag as the audience assumes it's a throwaway line.
** The Female welder also counts as well, as Chuck runs into her during the finale scene.
* ChekhovsHobby, a very subtle one: Right before the family diner scene, the audience briefly sees Chuck's sailing certification and sailing awards. No wonder then that [[spoiler: he finds the right solution to overcome the powerful wave that prevented him from leaving the island and manages to do it when the weather conditions are optimal.]]
* CompanionCube: Wilson the volleyball, whom Chuck talks to in order to keep from going insane due to loneliness.
** Or possibly ''because'' he is beginning to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation go insane]].
* DesertedIsland: 80% of the movie.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: And it makes sense, too.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's gradually revealed that Noland came very close to taking his own life. Good thing he did a "dry run" first with a dummy, or else he would've just broken his legs and died of exposure or dehydration.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Chuck Noland''': So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to.]]
* DyeingForYourArt: Tom Hanks grew a long, tangled beard and lost 30 pounds for his post-{{timeskip}} appearance (and gained weight for the pre-timeskip appearance). While he was getting into shape, RobertZemeckis shot ''WhatLiesBeneath'', Hanks produced ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', and Helen Hunt shot ''PayItForward''.
* ExactTimeToFailure
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: By this time, Wilson is Chuck's BFF.
* {{Fainting}}: After Chuck removes his own tooth. ''With an ice skate and a rock.''
** Also, Kelly, when she hears the news of Chuck's survival and rescue over the phone.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Subverted, as Chuck doesn't find the photo of the dead pilot's family until after he washes up.
* FlyingDutchman: Chuck is left without a place in the modern world after finally escaping from the island after five years of solitude.
* GallowsHumor: With a rotten tooth Chuck mentions to Wilson that his dentist back home was Dr. Spaulding.
* GenreSavvy: He's well aware that fictional portrayals of being on a desert island aren't realistic, and have left him unprepared.
-->"Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something [[GilligansIsland Gilligan]] never told us."
* GoMadFromTheIsolation
* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: At the beginning of the film, Chuck was setting up a Fed Ex office in Moscow, where they were still taking down pictures of Lenin and wowed by Snickers bars and ElvisPresley [=CDs=].
* HollywoodHealing: After returning from the island, Chuck somehow loses all his scars, sunburns (down to any hint of a tan), freckles and imperfections accumulated over the four years of being exposed to the tropical island's climate. Skin just doesn't heal that quickly and thoroughly.
* IFellForHours: That plane seems to be going down for a ''really'' long time...
* {{Irony}}: Plenty of this when Noland returns to the abundant world of civilization. His 'welcome back' dinner consists mostly of seafood. His Swiss Army knife is attached to the keys he left with Helen. And light and fire is now available at the click of a switch.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Chuck refuses to come between Kelly and her new husband.]]
* LargeHam: Chuck - after lived several years in the savage jungle everyone would become this.
* LegallyDead: Chuck finds himself in this state after being stuck on the island for five years.
* LonersAreFreaks: What Chuck becomes, although he at least seems to regain his sanity once he makes it back to civilization.
* MacGuffin: The one Fed Ex box that Chuck never opens, and ultimately delivers at the end.
** Zemeckis jokingly stated that inside was... [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot a waterproof solar-powered satellite phone]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3esvJv33M Lampshaded in a Super Bowl commercial]] for [=FedEx=] that year which had his character delivering the package to find that indeed, it had the waterproof satellite phone, GPS unit, seeds, a complete tool set...
** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19138_7-hotly-debated-movie-questions-that-totally-have-answers.html One deleted scene from the script]] actually has Chuck open the box. It holds...[[spoiler: two bottles of salsa verde.]]
* MacGyvering: How Chuck survives using various Fed Ex boxes full of apparently useless crap. Some notable examples include using the taffeta from a party dress to make a fishing net, weaving videotape together to make rope, and making an axe out of an ice skate attached to a stick.
* MeaningfulName: The shortened form of Chuck Noland's name is C. Noland: See No Land.
* MisplacedWildlife: Averted, because there's ''no freaking wildlife'' except for the fish and crabs that Chuck catches for food.
** And maybe some sea birds, but we don't get to see any. The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population [[ShownTheirWork is fully in line with how such small Polynesian islands look like]]. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows...
* MrExposition: A different take on this trope; Wilson serves as a means by which Tom Hanks' character can explain things to the audience.
* MusicVideoSyndrome: Rejected. While Tom Hanks's character is stranded on the desert island (the bulk of the movie), there is no background music at all.
** Possible FridgeBrilliance, since it really hits home the fact that a deserted island is both much quieter ''and'' much noisier than your average city.
* OceanMadness: Spiritually fits.
* ProductPlacement: The movie is one great big commercial for Fed Ex. And Wilson the volleyball is one for the company of the same name. Neither firm paid a dime. The best kind of product placement.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: The coconuts. Don't worry - everyone seems to get that wrong. Interestingly, the film crew found them as nigh-impossible to open as Chuck did.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated
* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the package Chuck never opened?
** [[spoiler: Two bottles of salsa verde.]]
* {{Robinsonade}}
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOONNNNNNN! I'm sorry, Wilson!" Yes, only Tom Hanks can yell that line, believably, at a volleyball]], and not make it [[{{Narm}} sound stupid.]]
* SceneryPorn: But totally necessary, so we the audience know just how alone and isolated Chuck Noland really is when he's on that island.
* SettingUpdate: ''Cast Away'' is ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' [-IN THE MID-LATE 90S WITH A VOLLEYBALL AS FRIDAY!-]
* SoleSurvivor: Chuck.
* StoodUp: Type 5.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: [[spoiler:Chuck experiences this when he makes it back home.]]
* SurrogateSoliloquy: The writers even gave dialogue for Wilson's (imagined) half of the conversation.
* TaughtByExperience: A great demonstration here. A survivalist he wasn't, at first.
* TimeSkip: Four years later...
* TheToothHurts: Chuck already has a bit of a toothache before he gets stranded on the island, but it only gets worse once he's there, forcing him to remove the rotten tooth. With an ice skate and a rock. Feel free to faint now.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Seriously. Don't watch the trailer until you've seen the film.
** Even more frustatingly, Zemeckis openly admits to spoiling his films in trailers on purpose, saying that marketing shows that audiences want to know what EXACTLY what they're going to. Thus, most of the suspense of the film is sapped upon seeing said trailer.
* TheUnreveal: We never find out what's in the last [=FedEx=] box. Hell, we never even find out why he didn't open it. (See MacGuffin, above.)
** One popular theory is that the wings on the package were a symbol of hope for Chuck.
** Another is that he left one package to keep himself grounded. "I'm still a civilized human being, isolated in survival mode or not. Someday I will deliver this package, dammit!"
* UnstoppableMailman: Even after being stranded on an island for years, he still delivers the last package. (Strictly speaking, he doesn't. Like the song said, he "[[ElvisPresley Return[s it] to Sender]]".)
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