*In the film " Madagascar", Alex yells "Shut up, Spalding!" to a basketball similar to Wilson. Peter yells at the ball saying, "Wilson! Wilson! What are we gonna' do now!?", to which the volleyball shouts back, "My name is Voit, dumbass!". *In the " Family Guy" episode " A Fish Out of Water", a flashback shows Peter stranded on a raft, talking to a volleyball. (The song typically begins with double-notes dividing the audience chanting the song's name, which occurred here regardless.) "Tom Hanks" also appeared to sing part of the song's ending, although it was simply keyboardist Page McConnell's brother in disguise. *At legendary jam band Phish's comeback show on New Years Eve, 2002, they opened their decade-older track "Wilson" with footage played over the jumbotron of Hanks yelling at Wilson. In addition, Wilson still manufactures a volleyball with the handprint face on one side. Wilson the Volleyball has been the subject of humour in pop culture, having been parodied in " Scary Movie 2", " Family Guy", " Saturday Night Live" and " Mad". However toward the film's end, Noland is seen driving with a brand new volleyball sitting in the passenger seat. Chuck is eventually rescued, but Wilson is lost forever. Chuck weeps after failing to save Wilson and throws away his oars, seemingly losing the will to live after losing his friend. He also reveals that it was Wilson who "suggested" Chuck test his rope before attempting suicide, an act which later proved to save him from severe injury, as the log which held the rope couldn't support the weight of a dummy.Ĭhuck loses Wilson after the volleyball washes off his escape raft and drifts too far out to sea for Chuck to be able to retrieve it. For example, in one scene Chuck blames Wilson for waking him up and yells at Wilson to shut up. At first, Chuck only jokingly talked to Wilson, with questions like "You wouldn't happen to have a match, would you?" but after years of isolation Chuck begins to see Wilson as an actual being, and not an inanimate object. Chuck is frequently seen talking to Wilson in the movie, and responds as though Wilson is talking back. Wilson is also slightly modified by Noland sometime during the four-year gap a section of the volleyball above the face has been removed and a coif of leaves has been inserted, serving as hair.įrom a theatrical standpoint, Wilson also serves to realistically imply dialogue in a one-person only situation. ![]() Wilson plays the role of a mute, infinitely patient, non-living listener in the movie, providing Chuck with a companion for the 1,500 days he spends on the island. He names it Wilson after the company that made it. He then bandages his hands and wipes away some of the blood, making the volleyball's "face". This leaves a hand-shaped blood mark on the ball. When Chuck tries to make a fire, he cuts his hand and angrily palms the volleyball and throws it. In the film, a volleyball is found in one of the FedEx boxes that Chuck Noland (Hanks) salvages from the plane crash. Wilson is named after the Wilson Sporting Goods company that made the volleyball (and hence the name stamped on the ball). In the film, the volleyball is the anthropomorphized volleyball friend of Chuck Noland (portrayed by Tom Hanks), and serves as his only companion during the four years that the character spends alone on a deserted island after a plane crash. ![]() Wilson is the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 film, " Cast Away".
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