![]() "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. In one of the film’s most memorable moments, the lead pirate, Muse, makes clear he cannot give up and go home with the $30,000 cash Phillips has offered because of what he might face for coming back with so little after seizing a massive ship."It was a pretty terrifying and exciting moment all at the same time," Hanks added. “The godfathers, of course, were not in Somalia at all, they were out in Nigeria, Europe or in some cases in the U.S.” warlords moved in and gangsters moved (in) and it became highly organized international crime, worth hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. The director said he deliberately included a reference to international fishing in Somali waters to make the point that over-fishing and toxic-waste dumping weakened the industry, making piracy more attractive - and international. Greengrass said he tried for a nuanced portrayal of the pirates in the film and not Hollywood’s clichéd “moustache-twisting villains.” Piracy, that thrived amid lawlessness and poverty, has eased thanks to tighter security since 2009, but it has cost the international shipping industry - and the world economy - billions of dollars since the mid-2000s. ![]() Two years later, the same special forces unit, including some of the same men, undertook the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. It was the first time Obama, then in office for just three months, had dispatched the SEALS on such a high-profile mission. Navy ships and a contingent of Navy SEALS to the rescue. cinemas on Friday.įour Somali-Americans make their screen debuts as the pirates who kidnapped Phillips in the hope of a multi-million-dollar ransom, prompting U.S. Amid rave reviews and Oscar buzz, the real-life drama distributed by Sony’s Columbia Pictures unit opens in U.S. “Captain Phillips” stars Oscar-winner Tom Hanks as Richard Phillips, whose cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, was seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa in 2009. “It’s old history, isn’t it, these stories? It took an old story and told it in a very new place,” added the director, who is best known for “The Bourne Supremacy” film franchise. or Britain’s highwaymen in the 18th century,” Greengrass said in an interview. “These young men get involved for the same reason that young men got involved in organized crime in the major cities of America in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson arrive for the European premiere of "Captain Phillips", on the opening night of the London Film Festival, at the Odeon Leicester Square in central London October 9, 2013. ![]()
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