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This weekend, sit back and let Hollywood fight the elements for you. There are actually very few characters in the movie, and in most of the scenes Chuck is naturally alone (or with Wilson!), so Funko bet on two Chuck Noland POPs when Chuck Noland has already spent several months or years alone on his island.Did icicles form on your eyebrows this week? Was going for coffee amid polar vortex-level snowstorms akin, at least in the moment, to climbing Everest? It is therefore only natural that Funko pays tribute to this film with figurines in his effigy.
This film, in which Chuck Noland is played by Tom Hanks, has received rave reviews from the public and some distinctions from the film world. Among these objects is a volleyball that Chuck will transform into a companion of misfortune and named Wilson (the brand of the ball). Although it is sometimes of relative usefulness, he will use the objects to improve his daily life. He will therefore have to fight for survival and hope to find his wife one day.Īmong the rare objects at his disposal, Chuck collects the various FedEx parcels that come to be washed up on the beaches of the island.
Nevertheless, he gradually realizes that the plane had lost all signal and that the search area must be huge. When he runs aground on this island, Chuck is convinced that help will soon find him.
Lost in the middle of the Pacific, Chuck learns how to survive as the years go by. Cast Away is a film released in the 2000s telling the story of Chuck Noland, Fedex employee and sole survivor of a plane crash on an island.