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Cast Away Martian

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Cast away and the Martian.

Both movies are about survival. They are both structured in a very similar way. Everyone thinks they’re dead, they have no way to contact anyone and they don’t have a lot to survive. They both spend a lot of time alone. Mark Watney manages to get in contact with earth but Chuck Noland had no contact with anyone for around 4 years. However he did draw a face on a volleyball that he talked to and kept him company. Mark watney got left behind on a mars mission that should’ve been 30 days but they had to leave early because a huge storm hit.
His crew thought he died in the storm and abandoned him there, not knowing he was still alive. Mark used the supplies that should have lasted around 60 days for 6 people and stretched them out. He found some potatoes, that he then farmed so he could survive longer. He had to build a greenhouse and found a way to get water for the potato crops. He was farming enough …show more content…

Chuck Noland is a FedEx employe that was on a cargo plane headed to asia, they had to divert course due to extreme winds and storms. They were somewhere in the south Pacific when the plane crashed. Chuck got washed to and island on a life raft and was the only survivor of the 5 crew that was onboard the aircraft. The plane was a Douglas MD-11, the MD-11 had several problems. The problems were mostly related to performance but not failure of parts. In the movie the crash is not caused by the plane, it is caused because of a series of unfortunate events. It starts with the plane being off-course and had lost contact due to a violent storm. It was mentioned that a mislabeled container of hazardous materials caught fire causing decompression in the plane resulting in the pilots losing control and the plane

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