english oral presentation CAST AWAY.pptVIP

Solitary and survive CAST AWAY --- ----------唐秋平 outline Tom Hanks gets marooned on a small tropical island, the sole survivor of a plane crash. Any sane person who has seen a movie in the past 10 years -- or at any point in his or her life -- would be justified in thinking its probably an uplifting movie about triumph over adversity, the indomitable human spirit and other such nonsense. Hanks character is Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer who travels the globe to various FedEx offices, dispensing nuggets of bizspeak like We live or die by the clock, a line thats obviously a setup for the long stretches of solitary time that Chuck will soon have to endure. Chuck enjoys being on the go, but hes less happy about being away from his girlfriend, Kelly (Helen Hunt). But，On Christmas Day hes forced to leave her to travel to the Far East on a last-minute assignment. It a sad thing to a pair of madly in love of lovers so Unfortunately，The FedEx plane crashes en route, and he finds himself washed up on a remote island with little more than the clothes on his back -- and one shoe missing at that. When Chuck washes up on the island, its easy enough to envision a boys adventure retooled for the early 21st century, in which a man reconnects with his most primitive survival instincts and plumbs depths of self-reliance he never knew he had. And thats certainly part of the movies appeal One of Chucks big tasks is to figure out how to make a fire by rubbing one piece of wood against another, and Zemeckis draws out the sequence almost interminably. But thats only the beginning of Chucks island life, and making that fire is the smallest of his achievements. Whats more astonishing is the way he creates a miniature civilization for himself in the form of Wilson, the friend he makes out of the volleyball he has rescued from the wreckage. As we know，Wilson comes into being accidentally: Chuck cuts himself while hes making his first fire and, in a semicomic