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The other guy doesn't take it so well he starts yelling at Muse and threatens to shoot him.

Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Between attempts on the Maersk Alabama, Muse orders another pirate to give him another engine for his skiff.

Whether or not he'd chambered a round beforehand is unclear. The pirate removes the magazine, but does not eject a round from the chamber.

Captain Phillips notes that the pirate is using a loaded rifle to do this. While using the life boat to escape to Somalia, one of the pirates attempts to smash open a window in order to get some air.

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Artistic License – Gun Safety: In-universe example.That said, their brandishing weapons and threatening crew with murder is beyond the pale and they had a chance to surrender to US forces and be jailed in America. Between their fishing grounds ruined by factory ships and illegal waste dumping at sea and Somali warlords who obviously would kill them on a whim, piracy is depicted as the only way to survive. Alas, Poor Villain: The Somali pirates, especially Muse and Bilal, are shown to not have much of a choice becoming pirates.Even worse, to rub some salt in these wounds- quite litteraly- Phillips at the end pushes him into the sea in order to escape, quipping Saltwater would be good for your foot'. He spends the rest of the film in great pain. Bilal steps right into it and is pretty much taken out of action.

Agony of the Feet: Upon learning that one of the pirates is barefoot, the crew of the Maersk Alabama strew broken glass by the door to the engine room.Nor is it the first time he's left a loved one at the airport for work only to run into trouble on the high seas. Doubles as Life Imitates Art because, according to his own account of the ordeal, the real Captain Phillips did say, 'Shane, we've got a problem,' at one point (when the open MOB - man overboard - failed to start, forcing them to give the pirates the enclosed lifeboat instead). And this isn't the first time he played a captain. state that a character he played is from. Actor Allusion: Tom Hanks 'has a problem' again.It was highly successful critically and at the box office, with six Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor, and a worldwide box office take of $218 million on a relatively small $55 million budget. Tom Hanks stars as the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips. Captain Phillips is an American drama film released in October 2013 about the Real Life Maersk Alabama hostage situation, in which Somali pirates boarded and seized a freighter.

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