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Captain Phillips Film Analysis

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Intro: the feature film captain Philips was successful in the portrayal of all of the accurate factors that actually occurred. Feature films are factual yet intriguing and tell a more detailed version of what was told in the documentary. They are engaging, use a range of cinematic techniques, drama and special effects to engage the viewer to the feature film. The documentary was trying to portray that all of the work was contributed by the crew and that captain Philips didn’t apply any work at all compared to the crew, whereas the feature film tries to tell the audience that captain Philips is the hero. The feature film expands the truth putting a lot of extra details that aren’t necessarily true, example it shows the crew putting glass down as a trap for the somolian pirates but in fact they didn’t.

Paragraph 1: “A feature film is a film with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program”. Everybody knows pirates as scary men with eyepatches, …show more content…

Like when they made the ambush and the feature film said that Captain Philips gave himself up but he didn’t, "I didn 't give myself up," says Anderson Cooper (Captain Phillips). "I was already hostage." Whereas in the movie, he yells to his fellow crew members, "I have got to get them off this ship!" as he willingly climbs into the lifeboat with Maersk Alabama 's, the real Captain Phillips never offered to give himself up for his crew. Which is adding new features to the story which are not true at all, as the crew had to get the captain back but all that captain Philips did in that life boat was write a letter to his family, and made an assumption that the crew were going to get him and he didn’t make any attempt to get out on his

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