Ripoff: Cast Away.
For a long time I’ve enjoyed Tom Hanks movies. Well, until I saw “Cast Away” that is. It wasn’t that it was a horrible movie, but it was horribly long, horribly boring and horribly loses itself amongst it’s plot.
One key thing that I just loved about the movie, since I could identify with talking to an inanimate object (and sometimes receiving a more literate correspondence than you would otherwise with a real person) on more than one occasion, was the creation of Wilson.
Yet, strangely something still nagged at the back of mind. Why does that seem so familiar? I’ll tell you why. It’s a direct ripoff of the movie “The Blue Lagoon“.
And here I thought, amongst all of the steadily decreasing uniquely imaginative ideas that spawn in Hollywood today, surely Tom Hanks would not be privy to it. Just goes to show you what I know and what making over a million dollars on a semi-crappy movie will make you do.
Where is it found?
Emmeline (Brooke Shields) is weaving a Wilsonesque coconut husk head with palm frond hair, whilst Richard (Christopher Atkins) plays with their beautiful toddler, Paddy (Chad Timmerman) on the beach.