![]() Phillips describes them setting up a ritual-like way in which they would kill him that included stringing him up. When the pirates realized they were trapped, they did plan to kill Phillips, but not in a panic. Navy SEALs took out the Somali pirates while Captain Phillips was strung up and blindfolded When they recaptured Phillips, the pirates beat him up and tied him up. However, the moon was so bright that the pirates could easily spot him and retrieve him, after shooting rounds over his head. Phillips pushed one of the pirates into the water while he was relieving himself outside the hatch and tried to swim away. Phillips attempted to escape by swimming away from the lifeboat The crew tried to exchange the captured pirate for Captain Phillips, as depicted in the movie, but once the pirate hostage climbed off the Alabama, the pirates drove the lifeboat away without letting Phillips climb onto the Alabama. He decided to use the enclosed bright orange life boat from the movie instead, hoping to just get the pirates off the ship. Phillips actually tried to put the pirates on an open-air boat first (so that the Navy could more easily shoot them), but the battery was busted. Phillips is kidnapped on the lifeboat as the pirates leave the Alabama Jasin Boland / © 2013 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Rather, Phillips sent one of the sailors down to search the ship with an unarmed Somali pirate, at which point the chief engineer ambushed the pirate with a knife and took him hostage. In reality, Phillips didn’t lead the pirates to his crew’s hiding place. The injury forces the pirate with the bloody foot and Captain Phillips to turn back, allowing the rest of the crew to overtake the other pirate with a knife and hold him hostage. In the film, the Alabama crew craftily lays broken glass on the ground for one of the pirates (who is barefoot) to step on when he enters the engine room where they are hiding. Phillips and his crew tricked one of the pirates by laying broken glass on the ground In both cases, Phillips’ trick scared all the ships off but one. ![]() In reality, the Alabama had one more speedboat in addition to those other boats in pursuit. In the movie, the mothership and two speed boats are pursuing the Alabama at that time, and the mothership and one of the speedboats turn back. Navy warship, dropping his accent to play the voice of the Navy responder, so that the pirates might overhear the exchange on their radios and think that assistance was on the way. When Phillips spotted the pirate boats coming his way, he got on his radio and faked a call to a U.S. The pirates arrived while the crew of the Maersk Alabama was in middle of an emergency drillĬaptain Phillips, who had a reputation as a no-nonsense captain, ran several emergency drills on the Alabama during the voyage, including one that the pirates interrupted, as depicted in the film Captain Phillips faked a call to the Navy to deter the pirate ships Here’s what’s true-to-life - and what’s manufactured by Hollywood - according to Phillips’ memoir, A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea. Tom Hanks’ Phillips employs almost all the same strategies the real-life captain did to save his crew and himself from the armed pirates. ![]() Paul Greengrass, who directed the Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone brings his prowess to this film, creating intense scenes of suspense, action and high-emotion.Follow true tale of Richard Phillips, the captain of a cargo ship taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009, is so thrilling that screenwriters hardly needed to add any extra drama. I was hooked from the start and even when my soda cup was empty, refused to get up for a refill until I saw how the movie was going to end, even though I knew the real-life conclusion. Tensions run high in Captain Phillips and Tom Hanks does not fail to impress as the titular character.Īs far as bio-pics go I’d say this is one worth checking out. military scramble to sea to rescue him and the crew of the cargo ship. Phillips struggles to remain alive while the U.S. The story focuses on the abducted captain as he is held captive by Samoli pirates when their leader Muse (played by Barkhad Abdi in his debuting role) is also taken by the crew the of Maersk Alabama. His performance is honest and captivating, spanning a miraid of emotions from beginning to end. Tom Hanks (Castaway & Cloud Atlas) plays Captain Richard Phillips in this compelling bio-pic. It actually happens and “Captain Phillips” tells the true story of the crew of the Maersk Alabama, an American cargo ship, and the courageous captain who risked his own life to ensure the safety of his crew. Piracy! It isn’t always fancy and romantic swashbuckling and it’s not just something Johnny Depp pretends to do for Disney to raise box office scores.
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