Beaufoy believes it is not the physical crisis, but the emotional transformation that makes Hours such compelling drama. It's about someone who has turned his back on his friends and his family and society and goes through this extraordinary change," notes Beaufoy.
It was a delivery to life again …a doorway, a portal to being reborn, really. Aron describes it as an ecstasy of feeling that he is driven through and you have to try to capture that in cinema.
It is exhilarating. It is disturbing and overwhelming, but exhilarating as well. I love them; but this is a much more profound feeling of euphoria that you arrive at, because you've also been through a great deal to get there. Not as much as he has, obviously, but you've participated in it in some way. Aron, do not give up. Now wearing a prosthetic arm, Aron Ralston still climbs mountains and explores canyons. Physiologically, a person experiences an acute stress reaction with an outpouring of hormones.
Adrenaline and noradrenaline keep the heart pumping strongly and direct blood flow to the vital organs, including the brain, liver and kidneys. Glucagon stimulates glucose release, so that a person has more energy. With massive willpower combined with the hormonal surge, such a person could survive in some pain with only small amounts of water — no more than three days, however. Drinking urine would probably worsen dehydration because of the salts it contains called urates.
Several sources, including the U. Army Field Manual, advise against drinking urine in survival situations. The effect is similar to that of drinking seawater, in which more fluids must be excreted than taken in to get rid of the excess salt introduced. In the operating room, amputations are done using a modified saw. Boyle shot Hours at the exact spot where Ralston had the accident but added some fictional scenes, such as when he splashes in a secret pool with the women he meets before the accident the reality — helping them with a few basic climbs — was much more prosaic.
Ralston was uncomfortable with these at first but belatedly understood that such changes enabled the audience to "experience it in a truthful way" and did not undermine the "authenticity" promised by Boyle. The vision that Ralston had during his final night in the canyon has come true. Earlier this year, Ralston's wife, Jessica, gave birth to a baby boy, Leo.
Ralston admits to moments of frustration with his prosthetic arm but sees it as his "salvation. It was me getting my life back," he says. After the exhilaration of the rescue, you might expect Ralston to suffer depression. He did not; at least, not immediately. Fearing the loss of "my identity as a self-reliant individual, as an outdoorsman" he "regained all of that": he completed his mission to conquer "the Fourteeners", rowed a boat through the Grand Canyon and is a better climber now than when he had a right hand.
Many people would find this adaptation to disability as inspiring as his escape. But Ralston is honest enough to admit the downside of the fact that this supposedly life-changing experience did not actually change his life as perhaps it should.
In the years following my amputation I thought, I won't let it change me, I just want to be the guy I was before and prove that I am still this hard hero. It's almost pathetic to the extent that what I really needed was a humbling and what happened? I just got reinforced — I'm a fucking badass, I just got out of that. Nothing's gonna stop me! It was not the loss of his right arm but this breakup, in , that caused a "really deep depression".
He felt "crushed to the core," he says, and began questioning whether he was worth anything if he was not lovable. Belatedly, he realised that it was love and relationships that "leads you to strength and confidence and courage and perseverance and everything that people attribute to this story". In the aftermath of his depression, he met his wife and she challenged him "to implement what I'd learned, that relationships are really very important in life and this is how to transform from being this ego-driven twentysomething into being, if possible, on a path at least to becoming a more mature guy.
Ralston still likes solitude but when he goes out rafting and climbing now he almost always takes his friends. In Bluejohn Canyon, he also has a literal touch-stone, the rock that crushed and trapped him. He still visits it. Watch the trailer here. The extraordinary story behind Danny Boyle's Hours. Danny Boyle's new film, Hours, tells how climber Aron Ralston found himself trapped alone in a canyon and had to perform DIY surgery to save his life.
I would feel the pain then I would smile because that pain meant impending freedom. When I hit the main nerve - which is big like a piece of extra thick spaghetti - I had to snap it like I was plucking a guitar string with an upturned knife. And when I did that it felt like I had just vapourised my arm up to my shoulder. I took a real sharp intake of breath, closed my eyes and just felt the most intense fire burning through my arm.
But at the end of that thirty seconds I was smiling again. I hadn't blacked out, I hadn't lost consciousness, I hadn't shed a tear, I hadn't even said 'Ouch'. The best moment was when I get that last piece of flesh cut and I stepped back. It was a real feeling of happiness at all the possibilities available in life. So all that pain was over, and I just headed back to my life. I am so thankful to my mother for spearheading the rescue operation when she did. The synchronicity of that timing to get a helicopter into that canyon couldn't have been more perfect.
I would have died from blood loss otherwise. I was walking for four and a half hours before I saw the helicopter.
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