He claims that, in the years since, he has never had any nightmares about the clearly traumatizing experience that he survived. "And so I truly believe now that it is important to talk to someone who can help you, and to cry. And it never happened again after that." It seemed to be a lesson that Phillips valued and was happy to advise others going forward.
"For the fourth morning, I woke up at 5 in the morning crying and sobbing like a little baby and I just let it flow for 45 minutes and it ended on its own. Thankfully, Phillips eventually contacted a SEAL psychologist who assessed his condition, explaining that it was a chemical release the former hostage was going through and perfectly normal.
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS PIRATE MOVIE
"2 days after in the movie it shows me crying in the hospital, and the incident actually occurred the 2nd and 3rd night, I would wake up in the night and I had a digital clock so I knew exactly what time it was, and I would be crying, racking and sobbing," Phillips said, recounting the life-changing encounter. They asked him if he wanted beer, thinking that all Americans loved beer.Speaking openly about the ordeal in the aforementioned Reddit AMA, Phillips revealed that he didn't break down exactly in the same way as Hanks' version of him did in the film, but the trauma soon kicked after. (Though Phillips says he just darted past him, rather than pretending to go to the bathroom himself.) After that, Phillips says the pirates beat him, started playing mind games with him (he was becoming paranoid), and performed mock executions. But the real hijackers might not have been quite so isolated: According to the Associated Press, officials said they were communicating with other pirate boats via satellite phone.Īs in the movie, things got much worse after Phillips tried to escape, while one of the pirates was urinating off the boat.
(Phillips says he really did have to suggest that they remove their clips before using a gun to break the window.) Phillips also describes how the pirates “claimed they were former fishermen who’d been forced into banditry when their livelihoods disappeared,” just as they do in the movie.
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS PIRATE WINDOWS
Over those five days, the extreme heat raised tensions, and the pirates broke the boat’s windows to let in some air. Captain Richard Phillips On April 7th, the U.S. In the movie, Phillips says things like, “If you want to shoot someone, shoot me!” But Phillips says that he never meant to sacrifice himself for the crew. Richard Phillips was captain of the US container ship called the Maersk Alabama that was hijacked in 2009 by pirates from the nation of Somalia. Though he was made a hero by ensuing media reports, Phillips doesn’t call himself a hero for these actions. But after Phillips went down to the lifeboat to help the pirates get it started, the hijackers kept Phillips and reneged on the deal. This shifted the balance of power, and the crew was eventually able to negotiate an exchange of Muse for Phillips. (According to the book, they all had sandals.)Īs in the movie, it was chief engineer Mike Perry that scuffled with Muse in the dark of the engine room and, after badly cutting Muse’s hand, used the knife to take him hostage.
The book, for example, never describes a barefoot pirate stumbling on a field of broken glass, left by the crew as a booby trap.
The crew’s efforts to take the ship back are also largely accurate, though some details seem to be invented. They really did offer the pirates the $30,000 from Phillips’ safe, but the hijackers wanted much more. There may be little proven connection between the Somali pirates depicted in the new film Captain Phillips and the al Shabab militants targeted last Saturday, but the new Tom Hanks movie, directed. He pretended he didn’t understand them, that the ship was “broken,” and he surreptitiously turned on his radio to sneak news to his crew. Business or not, Phillips tried to slow their progress any way he could.
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