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No, this isn’t a fun-loving film about Caribbean pirates and Johnny Depp. I’m talking about real pirates with lethal weapons who board your boat, take you captive, kill your crew, and hold you for ransom. That kind of pirate. They’re very real, and they’re very active off the shores of South America and Africa.
Being captured by real pirates is exactly what happened to Captain Richard Phillips in 2009. Captain Phillips, a movie of his harrowing experience, comes out October 11 with Tom Hanks playing the captain.
What did Phillips think of his experience? In a Parade interview of September 22, 2013, Phillips says this about fear
