Cinema fans remember him with sympathy, as the inseparable mascot of one of the most famous characters in the history of contemporary cinema.
We are talking about Wilson, Chuck Noland's best "friend". That is, the character played by Tom Hanks in "Cast Away" who - lost on a desert island - finds in a volleyball found in the wreckage of the crashed plane on which he was traveling the imaginary companion to turn to in order not to lose hope (and wisdom) in adversity.
Well, twenty-one years after the release of the film Wilson was sold at the Prop House auction house for the remarkable sum of 308 thousand pounds (about 270 thousand euros).
In the same auction, another Hollywood heirloom was also sold: the dress worn by Will Farrel in the film “Elf”, sold for over 200 thousand euros, about 10 times more than expected.
In these days, other precious pieces have ended up at auction, not only of cinema, but also of music. Like the Amy Winehouse dresses, recently sold in the US for more than 240 thousand dollars. And then the sum paid out in Switzerland by an anonymous buyer made a sensation, who pulled out 8 million euros (against an auction base that fluctuated from 2 to 4 million) to win the bracelets of Marie Antoinette, wife of king Louis XVI, beheaded in Paris during the French Revolution.
(Unioneonline / lf)
