# Last 5 minutes of Cast Away?  (Open Spoilers!)

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**Created:** [June 7, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-5-minutes-of-cast-away-open-spoilers/452132 "2008-06-07T14:04:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-5-minutes-of-cast-away-open-spoilers/452132/21 "2008-06-07T21:03:03Z")

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remember that mr. hanks is married to rita wilson.

that tooth scene was just… one of the most horrific scenes ever.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-5-minutes-of-cast-away-open-spoilers/452132/22 "2008-06-07T21:52:13Z")

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[QUOTE=rocking chair]  
that tooth scene was just… one of the most horrific scenes ever.  
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I liked it. It was one of the things that set _Cast Away_ apart from the endless Robinson Crusoe Fantasy\* movies about how much better your life would be without all of the other people around. It wasn’t realistic _per se_, although it did realistically depict the kinds of things you have to do for yourself without a society and technology around you, but it did emphasize how different even simple medical procedures are when you no longer have effective medicine. It was one of the things that reminded you the film was from the 2000s, not the 1930s.

\*(As distinct from the real novel called _Robinson Crusoe_, which is more about being removed from European society and having to survive among ‘savages’ who, incidentally, _don’t_ run a massive slave trade.)

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-5-minutes-of-cast-away-open-spoilers/452132/23 "2008-06-08T01:42:41Z")

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That part where he and Wilson are sitting in the sand staring at the upright piece of metal they will eventually use as a raft was reportedly a homage to _2001: A Space Odyssey_, Hanks’ favorite film. Other homages include to _The Ten Commandments_ and the British television series _The Prisoner_. See [here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/trivia).

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