“Oh, it was much worse, the way they tied me up,” he says.
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When asked how accurately Captain Phillips portrays the brutality he suffered at the hands of the pirates, Phillips said the movie actually tones it down. “I’m not a huge movie buff,” the real Captain Phillips says. “So, no, that’s not what happened.” The scene is, however, based on Phillips’ thwarted escape attempt. “They did not let me urinate,” Phillips says, with a bit of a smile. It’s a tense and dramatic scene, one of the film’s most crucial-but there’s at least one big difference from what went down in real life. The pirates chase and swim after him, and manage to drag him back on to the boat, where they beat him savagely.
Phillips takes his chance for a potential escape, and begins swimming to safety. (The movie was penned by Billy Ray, who based his screenplay on Phillips’ book A Captain’s Duty.) For instance, toward the end of the film, Phillips asks his abductors if he can pee on the outside of the lifeboat.
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I caught up with Phillips after the screening and he filled me in on some of the dramatic license taken. “Films aren’t journalism,” Greengrass emphasized while introducing his film, though he argued that dramatizations are capable of conveying certain “truths.” The 58-year-old English director is a former journalist who directed two other acclaimed docudramas: Bloody Sunday and United 93. Barkhad Abdi (who plays the pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse) was in attendance, as were Navy Commander Frank Castellano (one of the men who saved Phillips) and Greengrass. Hanks was there, taking selfies with sailors. Last week, Phillips attended a special screening of Captain Phillips at the Newseum in Washington, DC. “His courage is a model for all Americans.” “I share the country’s admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew,” President Obama said in a statement on April 12, 2009. After being held for five days aboard a lifeboat, Phillips was rescued when Navy Seal snipers took out three of his Somali captors. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ĭaptain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass, tells the true story of Richard Phillips (played by a New England-accented Tom Hanks), a merchant mariner taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009.
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