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In the run-up to Friday’s release of “Captain Phillips,” Hanks has appeared on the cover of Parade magazine with Phillips and the headline “The Making of an American Hero.” The film won the opening-night slot at the New York Film Festival on Sept. 28 and opened the London Film Festival last Wednesday. The Left sees the Electoral College as an impediment to their agenda. Should pirates get too close, the crew should cut the lights and power and lock themselves below deck. [3] Phillips enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and planned to study international law but transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, from which he graduated in 1979. One of the crew mutinied — he refused to do it, instead going below deck, sleeping with his boots on and his flashlight by his side, waiting for the inevitable. At one point he attacked the chief pirate, seizing him and using him as a bargaining chip for the return of Phillips. Phillips also added, "I never lost hope for myself, but I didn't see a good ending coming out of it." Of Irish descent, Phillips was born in Massachusetts, and graduated from Winchester High School in 1973. The crew didn’t know whom to fear more: the pirates or Phillips. On Saturday, April 11, Maersk Alabama arrived in Mombasa, still under U.S. military escort. “I want everything closed, locked, even in port.”. The sailors' lawyer, Deborah Waters, told the Post: "The crew had begged Captain Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast. His book was packaged as the story of a man who gave himself up for his crew, which Phillips later said was a false narrative spread by the media. The audience already knows the outline of what happened before walking into the theater: Captain Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont, finds that his 17,000-ton cargo ship, the Maersk-Alabama out of Norfolk, Virginia, is highjacked by four AK-47-wielding pirates who have sailed out from the Somali coast on a tiny speedboat skiff. Of Irish descent, Phillips was born in Massachusetts,[2] and graduated from Winchester High School in 1973. Phillips' real-life crew member says his captain was just 235 miles off the coast, though Phillips says he was 300 miles off. Phillips enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and planned to study international law but transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, from which he graduated in 1979. As I told the crew, it would be a matter of when, not if ... We were always in this area. [26] In March 2011, it was announced that Tom Hanks would star as Phillips, Barkhad Abdi as Abduwali Muse and Faysal Ahmed as Najee in a Sony Pictures film based on the hijacking and Phillips' book,[27] scripted by Billy Ray, and produced by the team behind The Social Network. Captain Phillips: Well-made Film Based on Real-life Drama, Masks Behavioral Modification Through Health Concerns, Gaslighting America, Stealing the Election, other Somalis have since also been convicted of piracy. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It’s made for Hollywood: the story of an average American family man, captain of a cargo ship in dangerous waters, his vessel overtaken by armed Somali pirates demanding ransom, saving his crew by allowing himself to be removed from the boat and taken hostage. “I don’t know.”. "In that area of the world, any blip on your radar is of concern," said Phillips, "I always told my crew it was a matter of when, not if. ", A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea, International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, "Resolution Praising Captain Richard Phillips Of Vermont Passes", "Friends Describe Hostage Captain as Seaman's Seaman With Keen Sense of Humor", "Who is Richard Phillips? While the remaining crew waited for the Navy to reach them, they sat and wondered: What just happened? "It is just horrendous, and they're angry. Phillips commented in his interview that the rendition of the events is accurate, adding, "When I met him [Tom Hanks] I told him if he's going to play me he's going to have to put on a little weight and get a little better-looking and he did neither. The crew member said Phillips, who went on to meet Barack Obama and write a memoir, refused to cut power and lock himself and the crew below deck in line with anti-pirate protocol. “He was real arrogant.” Phillips says he knows nothing about such a plan. There was nothing we could do. He met with President Obama in the Oval Office and wrote a memoir. “That’s what many of us officers were saying to ourselves,” he said. “And he goes, ‘Oh, no, no, no — you’ve got to do the lifeboats drill.’ This is how screwed up he is. "[31], Since the release of Captain Phillips, there has been controversy over its portrayal of Phillips, with several crew members claiming that he was not the hero presented in the film, according to lawsuits filed by more than half of the crew of the Maersk Alabama. [15], On April 9, a standoff began between the Bainbridge and the pirates in the Maersk Alabamas lifeboat, where they continued to hold Phillips hostage. I didn't believe 1,200 miles would make you safe. He was hailed as an American hero. Capt. Your Ad Choices [11] The crew attempted to exchange the captured pirate, whom they had kept tied up for twelve hours,[12] for Phillips. "It is just horrendous, and they're angry. Meanwhile, another crew member was tasked with keeping track of every ship in the region that had been attacked. Got it? According to this crew member, during the first attack, as two pirate boats came into view, clearly chasing them, Phillips was putting the crew through a fire drill. Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical drama-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi.The film is inspired by the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, an incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by Somali pirates in the Guardafui Channel led by Abduwali Muse. Caught in a sting: Big Mouth and other fugitives duped by the police, Aaarrr, dim lad! This story has been shared 116,109 times. Today he tells The Post, “I was already a hostage,” but remains vague on the exchange. Ruling: Fact Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, which suffered the raid off the coast of lawless Somalia in April 2009, told the New York Post the titular hero played by Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass's critically acclaimed film was far from heroic. “No one wants to sail with him,” he says. [14] Maersk Alabama then departed from the area with an armed escort, towards its original destination of the port of Mombasa. It’s the film’s version of events — and Hanks’ version of Phillips — that will be immortalized. Richard Phillips, they say, is no hero, and the film is one big lie. He told them he wouldn't let pirates scare him or force him to sail away from the coast. The sailors' lawyer, Deborah Waters, told the Post: "The crew had begged Captain Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast. • Interview: Tom Hanks talks to Hadley Freeman, Sailors who served under Phillips during hijacking of Maersk Alabama dispute captain's actions as portrayed in Tom Hanks film, • Peter Bradshaw reviews Captain Phillips. “It is just horrendous, and they’re angry.”. “The ship,” he says, “was never actually taken.”. “The mate called up and said, ‘Do you want to stop the drill?’ They [the boats] were seven miles away. "For me it was really a relief—my crew and ship were safe." “They told us they would change some stuff,” says the crew member, laughing. But after the Phillips incident, the company had armed the ship with a security team that successfully fought off the pirates without casualties every time. [24][25], Following the hijacking, Phillips published A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea. ", According to the Post's report, ships in the area were warned to stay at least 600 miles off the Somali coast because 16 container ships had been attacked by pirates during the prior three weeks in the same region. "Because he went through that area, and the company is sending him e-mails, and I know he saw that chart [of prior attacks] 50 times.". "Phillips wasn't the big leader like he is in the movie," said one crew member who worked closely with the captain, speaking anonymously for legal reasons.

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