1. Wilson The Volleyball (Cast Away)
Surely the most famous inanimate object with a human name in movie history is Wilson the volleyball from
Cast Away.
Cast Away followed the plight of Chuck Noland - a time-obsessed systems analyst, who travels the world resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. One Christmas, he is summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. When flying through a violent storm, his aeroplane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but, in the process, loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter. He clings to the life-raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an uninhabited island. He is soon followed by a corpse and a series of FedEx packages that have been washed up from the wreckage. After unsuccessfully attempting to escape the island, he finds a volleyball in one of the packages and smears a face on it using his blood after he cuts his hand. He names the Volleyball, 'Wilson' after the brand of the ball, and begins talking to it (having full conversations and arguments with it). Wilson is essentially the reason that Chuck doesn't go completely insane on the island (though he still loses his mind a little, understandably) and, despite the fact that the audience knows it is just a ball, they come to endear Wilson and it is heartbreaking when Wilson is washed away in one of Chuck's escape attempts - leaving him devastated and lonely.
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