My personal favourite thriller movie is Captain Phillips. The
movie was made in 2013 and tells the true story of a cargo ship captain (Tom
Hanks) who believes he is going on an ordinary trip around Africa passing on
the way, Somalia. It goes terribly wrong however when a group of four Somalian
pirates are able to board the ship and take control of it. The captain must keep
the pirates happy by helping them while also concealing the location of his
crew. The pirates look for the crew but they end up taking the leader pirate hostage.
They do a swap but the pirates end up taking a lifeboat £30,000 and the Captain
with them. They quickly start to sail back to Somalia but the left over crew
call the Navy to pursue the pirates. After long negotiations and fighting the
leader pirate decides to board the Navy ship. Once done snipers get ready to
eliminate the rest of the pirates on the lifeboat they do so and the captain is
freed.
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| Captain Phillips movie poster - 2013 |
One of the reason’s I like the movie so much is because of the great
true story it has behind it, and the way that the director Paul Greengrass is
able to portray this to the viewers. He is able to make it seem as if you are
part of the “crew” on the boat, especially with the use of the camera to move
around the boat. However even though you side with the captain (Tom Hanks) you
still relate to the Somalian pirates as at the beginning you see the conditions
they live in. Even the acting is completely flawless which is especially
amazing since the four Somalian pirates had never even acted before. A great tactic
that Greengrass used was to not let the pirates see any of the crew before
filming the scene when they meet, this creates real tension in the expressions
of the crew. So in my opinion this is the best thriller there is due to the
great amount of suspense and tension techniques in the filming which are very similar
techniques to Hitchcock that is created out of a true story.
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