1、Cast Away 查克在荒岛上面临着生存的巨大挑战,为了活下去,所有的事情他都要自己来做,甚至是取火。四年之后,查克成了经验十足的原始人。One day, climbing onto the top of the mountain on the island, Chuck finds that it is a small and uninhabited island. All of a sudden he spots a mans body near the beach. It is one of the crew(全体机组人员). Chuck pulls it ashore. With a
2、 mixed feeling of fear and sympathy, he hesitantly(迟疑地) takes off the mans shoes and flashlight before burying him. One night in the darkness, he finds a light from afar. It must be a ship. Chuck is very excited and he uses his flashlight for SOS signal. But it is of no use. The light is too weak to
3、 be noticed by people on the ship. The following day, Chuck tries to row the lifeboat to the ship. However, big waves turn his lifeboat upside down, and to make things worse, he is injured on the leg. That night there is a heavy thunderstorm. Chuck has to hide himself in a cave. He forgets to turn o
4、ff the flashlight and the battery runs off. As the hope of being saved is getting less and less, he faces challenges of survival. An idea strikes his mind, and he opens every and each parcel. Videotapes are thrown away and so are important commercial contracts and documents. A pair of skating shoes,
5、 a nightgown(睡衣), and a volleyball are kept. The blades(冰刀) are used as knives for cutting, and the nightgown as fishing net. As for the volleyball, Chuck uses his blood to draw a mans face on it and names it “Wilson” who gives him spiritual comfort. He begins to talk to the “man” he has created and
6、 Wilson has become his company. Next he has to start a fire. Without fire, he has not had any food or hot water for days except eating live fish and drinking rainwater and coconut juice. He gets some wood and works on it for a long time. He almost loses his hope until he discovers that air is import
7、ant to start a fire. He drills the wood in the middle with a stick while blowing some air in between the two pieces. When a fire is finally made, Chuck sings and dances like a tribesman(部落人), happy for the first time after landing on the island. He has his first meal, a cooked crab. Four years later
8、, Chuck becomes an experienced primitive man. He still keeps his girlfriends photo in his cave. Beside the photo, there stands another companion of his for those lonely yearsWilson. Chuck is so used to talking to Wilson, the volleyball, that he regards as his best friend. Once he throws away Wilson in anger and despair but only finds himself more lonely and desperate. So he searches for it and is very excited to get it back. Then he paints Wilsons face with his blood again so that Wilson has a new face.