A pirate expert breaks down the accuracy of Tom Hanks' box office hit Captain Phillips ten years after the true-life movie hit theaters.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT A pirate expert breaks down Tom Hanks’ 2013 true-life drama Captain Phillips. Based on a real-life incident from 2009, Captain Phillips told the harrowing story of what happened when Somali pirates boarded and hijacked a container vessel, taking the ship’s captain hostage.
What is also really nice about this film is those men. They didn't get a Hollywood actor. Those men are local Somali actors and they look it. They look as though they are real. … And obviously they're speaking English, which is what they would have done. Broken English, cause it’s not their first language, but that communication is really important.
So you have to imagine how stuffy it is inside one of those lifeboats. You're not meant to be there. I mean in reality he was in there for five days with these people, so you can imagine the horror of living in there. In this film he asked to urinate, to go out and that's how he makes his escape. I think that's a bit of elaboration by the filmmakers there. But he does jump into the sea as is depicted.
It's remarkable that a small pirate crew managed to climb on board the ship, when you've got the deck 13 meters above sea level, they just didn't think it would be possible. So the way the Somali pirates are attacking here, using small boats to go after a big one, is historically how a lot of pirates do overtake larger vessels.
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