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Question about the end of Cast Away
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:53 pm
SPOILER!
As if the thread title wasn't enough warning about a 15 or 20 year old movie.
I just saw Cast Away for the first time last night. It was better than I expected, but I have a question that's confusing me. In the final scene, he's driving around the Texas panhandle with the package Bettina Peterson shipped 4+ years earlier. He leaves it on her doorstep with a note saying "This package saved my life. Thank you."
Why did he return it to the sender? It seems like he would have delivered it to the address it was shipped to.
Admittedly, the decision to return it to the sender probably worked out best for Chuck because Bettina was fine as frog hair and out on the plains all by her lonesome.
(Looked up the actress on IMDB ... she died a few months ago from cancer. Only 52 years old. Cancer sucks.)
As if the thread title wasn't enough warning about a 15 or 20 year old movie.
I just saw Cast Away for the first time last night. It was better than I expected, but I have a question that's confusing me. In the final scene, he's driving around the Texas panhandle with the package Bettina Peterson shipped 4+ years earlier. He leaves it on her doorstep with a note saying "This package saved my life. Thank you."
Why did he return it to the sender? It seems like he would have delivered it to the address it was shipped to.
Admittedly, the decision to return it to the sender probably worked out best for Chuck because Bettina was fine as frog hair and out on the plains all by her lonesome.
(Looked up the actress on IMDB ... she died a few months ago from cancer. Only 52 years old. Cancer sucks.)
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Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:56 pm to White Roach
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Why did he return it to the sender? It seems like he would have delivered it to the address it was shipped to.
Because that person would have no appreciation that they directly saved a life. They could have had no idea that that package was being sent to them. It’s much more meaningful to deliver it to the sender and then for the sender to call the intended recipient from there.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:07 pm to OMLandshark
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They could have had no idea that that package was being sent to them. It’s much more meaningful to deliver it to the sender and then for the sender to call the intended recipient from there.
This.
Would have been a weird scene if he shows up to the recipient. Oh, I was supposed to get a package 5 years ago? Cool, thanks.
I mean, he is Fed Ex but that ending would just have him as a delivery-man. Which is sort of lame and has no meaning to the picture.
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 11:08 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:09 pm to OMLandshark
Okay, I guess that makes sense.
I picked up the angel wing/halo logo on the FedEx box, at the ranch and on her truck. (Chuck might have even drawn it on his half a Porta-Potty sail on his raft.) But after the crash, he collected packages and didn't open them. My thought was that he was still in FedEx mode and was holding them to deliver after he was rescued. He was on the island for a while before he opened them to see what he could use. Which, by the way, would have made it extremely difficult for me to leave the last package unopened. I'd be laying awake each night wondering if it held a Swiss Army knife, a VHF radio and/or a flare gun.
I picked up the angel wing/halo logo on the FedEx box, at the ranch and on her truck. (Chuck might have even drawn it on his half a Porta-Potty sail on his raft.) But after the crash, he collected packages and didn't open them. My thought was that he was still in FedEx mode and was holding them to deliver after he was rescued. He was on the island for a while before he opened them to see what he could use. Which, by the way, would have made it extremely difficult for me to leave the last package unopened. I'd be laying awake each night wondering if it held a Swiss Army knife, a VHF radio and/or a flare gun.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:15 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Which is sort of lame and has no meaning to the picture.
I'm no screen writer or film critic. I'm not very adept at figuring out messages that filmmakers are trying to send through symbolism. I thought Rosebud was just a sled. I'm a very black and white person. I answer questions directly and expect the same from others. It's caused lots of problems in my life!
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:37 pm to White Roach
I got to think that cast away was based of Toilers of the sea by Victor Hugo. The stories had some similarities except that in Toilers the protagonist had to eat cold seaweeds instead of coconuts.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:15 am to White Roach
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:22 am to Volvagia
was that ogre from revenge of the nerds?
This post was edited on 3/13/18 at 12:23 am
Posted on 3/13/18 at 1:46 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Would have been a weird scene if he shows up to the recipient. Oh, I was supposed to get a package 5 years ago? Cool, thanks.
Another thing to consider is that anything ordered five years ago that didn't show would have already been replaced.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 5:47 am to White Roach
Spinoff question.
Why do we not consider Chuck Noland a marriage breaker. By the time he got back, Kelly was married with a kid. Yet, he was going to drive off with her.
How come we don't consider him scum. It wasn't his idea to stop, it was hers.
Why do we not consider Chuck Noland a marriage breaker. By the time he got back, Kelly was married with a kid. Yet, he was going to drive off with her.
How come we don't consider him scum. It wasn't his idea to stop, it was hers.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 7:09 am to kywildcatfanone
After what he went through, he could have driven off with your fricking wife and been completely justified.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 7:20 am to White Roach
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Why did he return it to the sender? It seems like he would have delivered it to the address it was shipped to.
It wasn't the name of the addressee that kept him going all that time. It was the thought of a person who would take the care to draw that angel logo on the outside of a shipping box.
The box was his motivation and probably a little sense of normalcy in his life ("I work for FedEX, I care for and deliver packages") that he tried to hold onto while surviving alone.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 8:28 am to kywildcatfanone
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Yet, he was going to drive off with her.
How come we don't consider him scum. It wasn't his idea to stop, it was hers.
What? She professed her love and he drove away because she was married with a baby. How is he scum?
I woulda been like, helen hunt, I'm back so let's go.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 8:34 am to lsu1919
Wasn't the actress from that scene a former country/western singer from the 90s?
Posted on 3/13/18 at 8:57 am to White Roach
I always wondered why a flight bound for Malaysia would have something being shipped from someone in rural Texas. Internet purchasing was in its infancy in 1995 when the movie took place so it seemed odd that the package would have been on that plane. Probably just putting too much thought into it. Lets not forget the ice skates going to southeast Asia where it is not particularly cold.
This post was edited on 3/13/18 at 9:00 am
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:02 am to Perrydawg
I always thought it would be funny if the package was a survival knife, waterproof matches and a bunch of MREs...
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:23 am to kywildcatfanone
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Spinoff question.
Why do we not consider Chuck Noland a marriage breaker. By the time he got back, Kelly was married with a kid. Yet, he was going to drive off with her.
How come we don't consider him scum. It wasn't his idea to stop, it was hers.
spinoff spinoff question.
How big of a slut is Kelly?
Chuck was gone for 4 years, not 5, actually 50 months. Kelly has a kid that's about a year old, so you can kind of estimate she got pregnant about 2 years before Chuck was rescued, or a little over 2 years after he went missing. which means she likely got married less than 2 years after he disappeared since she did not look pregnant in her wedding pictures on the refrigerator. You usually have to have a relationship before you get married, so at what point did she start dating Chuck's dentist? a year after he disappeared? The search party took weeks of searching. Just seems odd that she would move on that quickly. I think you could come up with good evidence that Kelly was banging dentist guy before the plane crash.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:29 am to White Roach
quote:I was going to post this.
Admittedly, the decision to return it to the sender probably worked out best for Chuck because Bettina was fine as frog hair and out on the plains all by her lonesome.
(Looked up the actress on IMDB ... she died a few months ago from cancer. Only 52 years old. Cancer sucks.)
But I think that Chuck ends up with her. She likely got home, found the package with Chuck's note and contacted him, or even turned around and drove back to where he was.
Either that, or she's some kind of angelic figure who is revealed at the end of the movie as the key to his survival.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:43 am to TeddyPadillac
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TeddyPadillac
I read the first sentence of your post, then had to stop to read the name of the poster because I thought it was an old post that I made. I've thought the same thing while watching the movie. I still love it, but that always bothered me. I guess they just had to give Helen Hunt more of a reason to stay than the new husband. It's one thing to just leave the new husband, but she had a family now.
This post was edited on 3/13/18 at 9:44 am
Posted on 3/13/18 at 9:53 am to DestrehanTiger
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I guess they just had to give Helen Hunt more of a reason to stay than the new husband. It's one thing to just leave the new husband, but she had a family now.
exactly. It's a movie. It would have been easy to just leave a guy, but you can't leave your family.
It's just a real shitty situation for both Kelly and Chuck. hell for the dentist as well if he's a decent guy.
You just have to not think about the time passed and if she moved on too quickly. That wasn't supposed to be part of the movie, its just idiots like myself that think about that.
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