Had they used a proper railroad pocket watch, Chuck wouldn't have been able to wind the watch and so easily set its time during this scene. It also allowed for station masters to control setting crew watches to calibrated time standards as they would seal the watch back after setting it. (The crown cannot be pulled out from its winding position for time setting as was common with non-railroad watches and is the standard setting method today.) This prevented a railroad crewman from accidentally changing the time while winding the watch. Among a long list of standards, they were required to have an open face (hunter case hinged clamshell covers were prohibited) and be "lever set." That requires the watch back to be opened, exposing the movement, and a lever moved in the movement to allow setting the time by turning the crown. This is not a real railroad watch since the specific design was controlled by federal regulations, and would have never been allowed to be used on the job by a railroad crewman. We briefly see that it has started to decompose and turn white from being in the water too. has a sprung, hinged cover that closes over the watch face). A body from the plane crash washes up on shore and Chuck finds it. The watch shown is a stem set in a hunter style case (i.e.
Chuck subsequently winds and sets the watch to local "Kelly Time" just before departing on the plane. I also personally liked the film, even the ending. They tried to do it in 1 take and seeing the plane crash, the destruction afterwards, and him running up to burning people trying to help all in one take was really one of my favorite crashes on film. Enjoy exclusive castaway plane-crash as well as popular videos. Knowing imo has one of the most intense crashes.
On one such trip, Chuck’s manic existence abruptly halts when his plane goes down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and. Watch full collection of movies about castaway plane-crash from india and around the world.
His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment’s notice, to far-flung locales and away from his girlfriend, Kelly.
Myself, after seeing the footage of the two 767’s hitting the WTC played over and over, I won’t mind if they never put another airliner crash scene in a movie.Early in the movie, Kelly gives Chuck a pocket watch, telling him her grandfather, who was a railroad crewman, used it on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock.
The crash scene isn’t the greatest but it’s not as ridiculous as it looks in the previews. After the MD-11 hits the water & breaks up Tom is swimming & almost gets sucked into the still running #2 engine which is still attached to the vertical stabilizer. You never see Tom boarding the aircraft but the flight deck of the accident aircraft is obviously an MD-11.
Tom Hanks flies on an A300 early in the movie & is seen walking toward an A300 before the crash flight. I don’t recall anything said about a fire in engine #4 (no engine #4 exists on any FedEx aircraft). They are off course trying to avoid a storm in heavy turbulence, some cargo shifts & there is an explosive decompression. After being rescued Tom Hanks is told that the cause was most likely related to some hazardous materials aboard the flight. Flying through a violent storm, his FedEx cargo plane crashes in. The cause of the crash in Cast Away is never clearly explained. Chucks manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment. During the family Christmas dinner, Chuck is summoned to resolve a work problem in Malaysia.