The film, which opens in the UK on Friday, has been tipped to give Hanks a tilt at Oscars glory next March. "Because he went through that area, and the company is sending him e-mails, and I know he saw that chart 50 times."Ĭaptain Phillips debuted strongly this weekend at the US box office and opened the London film festival last week, as well as screening at the New York film festival. Perry told the Post he agreed with theories that his captain wanted to be taken captive, and may even have had a death wish. At one point he attacked the chief pirate, seizing him and using him as a bargaining chip for the return of Phillips. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S. "I don't know."Īnother crew member, chief engineer Mike Perry, is reputed to have been the real hero of the ordeal, despite having only a small presence in Greengrass's film. "I couldn't tell you exactly the miles," Phillips told the Post. Phillips' real-life crew member says his captain was just 235 miles off the coast, though Phillips says he was 300 miles off. "It is just horrendous, and they're angry."Īccording to the Post's report, ships in the area were warned to stay at least 600 miles off the Somali coast because 16 container ships had been attacked by pirates during the prior three weeks in the same region. "It is galling for them to see Captain Phillips set up as a hero," she added. He told them he wouldn't let pirates scare him or force him to sail away from the coast. The sailors' lawyer, Deborah Waters, told the Post: "The crew had begged Captain Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast. Phillips has denied being aware of such a plan. "He didn't want anything to do with it, because it wasn't his plan," said the crew member. The crew member said Phillips, who went on to meet Barack Obama and write a memoir, refused to cut power and lock himself and the crew below deck in line with anti-pirate protocol. "No one wants to sail with him," he told the Post. Released September 27th, 2013, 'Captain Phillips' stars Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 14 min, and received a user score. "Phillips wasn't the big leader like he is in the movie," said one crew member who worked closely with the captain, speaking anonymously for legal reasons. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. The sailors, who are suing their employers Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corp for $50m, said Richard Phillips was a sullen, self-righteous man: their suit claims the captain's wilful disregard for his crew's safety contributed to the attack. Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. "I didn't know what to do.Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, which suffered the raid off the coast of lawless Somalia in April 2009, told the New York Post the titular hero played by Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass's critically acclaimed film was far from heroic. "Tom Hanks came around the corner and I froze," HM Albert said. She had auditioned for a bit part, ("I was not going to let somebody else be the doc on this ship!") and suddenly ended up opposite one of the biggest movie stars in America, which she found "very intimidating!" The scene was shot in the sick bay of a Navy destroyer. "My first take was terrible!" she laughed. The studio won't let us show it, but it features another unlikely star, Navy Hospital Corpsman Danielle Albert. What happened next is probably the most powerful scene in the movie. The Maersk Alabama's captain had been rescued. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge tows the lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama to the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (right), April 13, 2009, after the successful rescue of Capt. "Most of my problems were solved once I got into that lifeboat," Phillips told Martin. Hard to believe, but Phillips considered that something of a victory. Instead, they took $30,000 from the ship's safe and headed for Somalia in a lifeboat. In both the movie and in the real thing, Captain Phillips and his crew prevented the pirates from taking over the ship. "I remember seeing Tom's expression," said Greengrass, "and I could see in it thinking, 'Oh, I've got a worthy antagonist here.' A real pirate, and a real actor." It's not something that I had in mind that I was going to say," said Abdi. "I was just being the character and that came out. You cannot believe your eyes that someone is that skinny and that scary and that fast and has that much malevolence and seriousness in their eyes."Īs Abdi - playing the pirate named Muse - approached Hanks, he ad-libbed what were virtually the first words the two actors said to each other: "Look at me. "I found them so convincing that my lower lip began to tremble a little bit and the hair was standing on the back of my neck. "It was a pretty terrifying and exciting moment all at the same time," Hanks added.
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