I have some questions about "CAST AWAY"

About 2 weeks ago I watched the movie "Cast away" on TV. Actually I viewed that film 3~4 times. But I didn't finish to watch it. I always missed the last part of the film. When the last part was shown, I had to go somewhere or someone visited to my home, or the place was not enough to watch whole film so had to stop watching it.

Anyway, this time I could watch whole film but I was little bit curious Tom Hanks’s last decision. It was not so clear for me but it gave me little intimation. I caught the new Wilson ball in his car. He stood at the crossroad and looked at a map. He seemed to go back to the Island. So here are some questions. I ask anyone who knows clearly what this scene is about and what the meaning of last parcel is. I simply thought he gave up his hope as putting the parcel in front of the house. Because when he escaped the island, only his hope was his wife and going back to his normal life with his wife. But he lost his hope when he met his wife and found out she was re-married. Anyway I will wait for the answer if my guesses are right or other meaning is there which I missed. Thanks!


PS. When he let Wilson go, I had empathy with him. His voice still linger in my ears.”WILSON I am sorry!!” It was sad.

3077_marie_favdirector

James Cameron is no doubt as one of the world’s best renowned and reputable directors of all time. He is said to be a self-made giant in Hollywood. He started as a set builder to art director to writer then to director.

He’s been active in the film making from 1980’s up to the present and he is keen to making a science-fiction and action type of film.

He was behind the success of the movie Titanic which is said to be the highest-grossing motion picture of all time. The movie also received a 14 Oscar nomination and won as the Best Picture and Best Director awards in 1997. James Cameron after receiving the award, exulted the lines delivered by Leonardo di Caprio in the movie, “I’m the king of the world!”

He also directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in his career making role in the Terminator, Sigourney Weaver in the Aliens, Ed Harris in The Abyss.

Then he made the mega-budgeted sci-fi opus Avatar which was known before as “Project 880.” The film was considered to be a technological state-of-the-art spectacle and became a box-office record around the world. Again, James Cameron was nominated for best director by the Director’s Guild and the Academy and won in the Golden Globes ceremony.

His contribution to underwater filming and remote vehicle technology was also recognized by the University of Southampton by awarding an honorary degree of Doctor of the University

3067_Natalie Xie_Review of Director

Helen Catherine Hardwicke, is an American production designer and film director. She was born in October 21, 1955.She's working mostly on independent projects and cult films, Tapeheads, Tank Girl,1995), she did some bigger films in the late '90s( Three King, Vanilla Sky).And I like her,cause she is a talent female director. And has a young heart.





Catherine Hardwicke was born in Cameron, Texas, the daughter of James Elbert and John Benjamin Hardwicke.She grew up in McAllen, Texas and graduated from McAllen High School,Texas, and was raised in the Presbyterian denomination. While at UCLA film school during the 1980s, Hardwicke made an award-winning short, Puppy does the Gumbo. She has a sister named Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, who is an artist, and she has a brother named Bruce.

Hardwicke began her careefr as an architect. She spent most of the 1990s a production designer, working on such film as Tombstone (1993), Tank Girl(1995), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), The Newton Boy (1999). Hardwicke works include the independent film, Thirteen, which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, the biblically- themed The Nativity Story, and the vampire film Twilight. The opening weekend of Twilight was the biggest opening ever for a female director.




She most used phrase on set is "Let's focus, everybody." Catherine says it's because she works with many young people.

3268_Sergio_Hayao Miyazaki

When I was child, I watched so many animations on TV. Most of them are Japanese and American animations and I really liked animation during my childhood. Now I don’t like animation as much as I was child but I still like Hayao Miyazaki’s animation films especially his drawing style. He is Japanese animator and filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo in 1941. Now he is nearly 70-year-old man. But his imagination and sensibility are immortal and continuously going on. He produced lots of animations namely Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(1984), "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" (1986), "My Neighbor Totoro" (Tonari no Totoro, 1988), "Kiki's Delivery Service" (1989), "Porco Rosso" (1992), etc. He is one of famous animators who lead Japanese animation industry.


I viewed lots of his animations. When I viewed them, those films took me to the mysterious and unrealistic world. After viewing the films, I felt that I had travelled the special world. So his animations always make me look forward to new unrealistic world. I like his imagination and sensibility. Most of his animations include lyricism and messages. Normally, he delivers realistic messages through unrealistic worlds. But in my perception, the messages are not in his animations. If you feel better than before you viewed his animations, it is enough at least you can get little emotion.

2831-Qiaolin-Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is an American director, he is born in 1963 and he is famous for his unique film style.

About the early years of him, his mother married with a musician when he was a child, I think it also an important reason why the music in his film is excellent. Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school when he was 16, and then he was working at a video shop, he practiced movie shooting skills and direct skills with his friend.

He is good at making the blood and violent sense, in my opinion the most representative work of him is Kill Bill, as we known this movie a violent and blood, it tells us the story of revenge, some times the senses make us uncomfortable but powerful, it is the beauty with violence.

Another reason I like his movie is the film scores, he is good at playing with melody, because once the music played, the audience almost feel what the feeling of movie actor at that moment.

Nattinee - 3155 - Steven Spielberg

My Favourite Director is Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg was born in Ohio in 1946 into a Jewish family where both his parents had professional jobs. His mother was a restaurateur and concert pianist while his father was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. Steven started making films while he was still a teenager and even started selling tickets for these movies. He applied for University of Southern California School of Theater multiple times but each time was declined. From this he went to California State University Long Beach. Even though he went to university Steven never completed his degree until he was 35 due to dropping out and completing an independent project.

The reason I like this director is because he makes the audience believe things are happening in real life even though you know it is still only just a movie. He is able to create films in different genres which include science fiction and adventure films and even depict true life issues such issues include Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. The main reason I like this director is that many movies that he directed did not use cheap special effects or suspense to keep you interested but they were still able to draw you in and keep you wanting to watch more.

Steven Spielberg created many famous movies over his directing career. Some of these films include the Indiana Jones series and the Jaws series. “Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films - Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993) - achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time” (Wikipedia, 2010).

References list

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/bio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg