Perhaps not the greatest example of the desert island story - that accolade surely lies with the definitive castaway adventure Robinson Crusoe - but seeing as the last adaptation of Crusoe of any note was the loosely adapted version starring Pierce Brosnan in 1997 we'll focus upon Robert Zemeckis' 2000 film starring Tom Hanks. Essentially an update of Crusoe with more Fed-Ex product placement and replacing Man Friday with a volleyball. The volleyball in question, Wilson - so named for the brand of volleyball to which he belongs, (a further act of blatant product placement) is the most memorable motif from the film, and as a device really helps encapsulate the isolation Hanks experiences during his four years of solitude. As overly sentimental as Hanks and the film can be it takes a hard heart not to be moved by the scene where he and the only friend he had during his seclusion are finally and suddenly parted.
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