The Movie 127 Hours: Aron Ralston

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On April 26, 2003 Aron Ralston was hiking alone through Blue John Canyon, in eastern Wayne County, Utah, just south of the Horseshoe Canyon unit of Canyon lands National Park. When the unexpected happened where suddenly Aron’s life was on the line. Aron Ralston was an arrogant and independent adventurous. Ralston would do anything adventurous that didn’t involve family or someone helping him. He wouldn’t talk to any of his family. Ralston would ignore them because he thought they couldn’t help him. Also, he thought they would want someone to go with him in case of an emergency. After an hour or two of climbing mountains and hiking in the canyon Aron tried climbing down Blue John canyon. This canyon which only is three feet wide and seventy …show more content…

The movie was a huge sell out grossing $18, 335, and 230. James Franco who plays the role of Aron Ralston goes into the Utah canyons alone on a nature hike. He meets two women hikers who are having trouble finding their way around the canyons. Aron convinces them to go on another hike with him. “They go swimming in a beautiful cavern pool were these women learn more about Aron” (127 Hours: Aron Ralston's story of survival). They invite him to an upcoming party, which Aron agrees to. As Aron continuous to hike alone through the canyon’s he comes upon Blue John canyon. Aron struggles to lower himself into the canyon with the materials he has. As he gets deeper a boulder smashes his right arm against the canyon trapping it. Aron can’t believe what just happened. He starts sarcastically talking to himself as if he tries to forget what happened. He doesn’t want to think he’s stuck and will never get out. He cries for help, but he is alone, and miles from anyone. With his video camera, he starts taping his situation to sort of talk himself through it. He looks through his stuff to try and organize what he has. He then drinks a substantial amount of water of the three hundred milliliters, unknowingly thinking he isn’t going to be stuck for the next hour. He realizes this when he tries to physically move the boulder. Now …show more content…

Aron was behind the scenes to make sure the movie played out his experience. Reading through the real story and watching the movie it’s hard to find a couple differences between the two. Even though this film was created to play out the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston, Danny Boyle had to make the film appealing to the audience. First, it is true that Aron did run into a couple of lost girls before his accident. Also, he did actually help them find where they were going but Aron and the girls didn’t have that adventure. In the movie the three of them went hiking and swimming in a beautiful blue water hole located in the canyon. The girls were interested in Aron and had a fun time with him. Before they left, the girls invited Aron to a party which he accepted. In reality, Aron saw these two girls needed help with where they were headed and he helped them. Its understanding why Danny Boyle put in this whole adventure and made these girls interested into Aron. An audience always loves a little excitement and romance in a movie. Also, the beautiful blue lagoon they were swimming isn’t really located in Blue John canyon. Aron also had a scene where he hallucinated into a game show host. He was also the audience and the contenders. This didn’t actually happen but Boyle put it into the movie because it shows how effective the hallucination

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