Why does ryan reynolds died in buried

Looks like there has also been a demand for ransom money for her life. Since the US government has refused to meet the the demand, she is killed and that video is now being circulated. The video is also sent to Paul to scare him into making his video.

It works, Paul makes the video asking for ransom money and sends it to his captor. This video soon goes viral. This is the exact kind of thing that the hostage negotiation team does not want. The more the information spreads, the harder it gets to contain the situation. Unknowing to Paul, the video adds some pressure on the US government to rescue him. After a silly sequence with a rattle snake and fire, Paul gets back on the phone with Dan. Dan tells Paul about a Mark White who was rescued from a similar situation of being buried alive.

A pointer here — this is a lie Dan is telling Paul just to give him hope. Mark White was never found. His company is shown to be a scumbag firm. Alan Davenport legal team is the guy talking to Paul. The company has figured a way to wiggle out of the hostage situation and insurance pay outs. This according to the company is prohibited and that before he was abducted, he was fired from work for the same reason.

After this, there is an explosion. Fs have been sent to bomb the area. His coffin breaks and sand begins to pour in.

Juan Hidalgo Kidnapper as Kidnapper voice. Abdelilah Ben Massou Kidnapper as Kidnapper voice. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Waking groggy in pitch darkness, Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working in Iraq in , slowly realizes he is trapped inside a wooden coffin, buried alive.

With his cigarette lighter, he can see the trap he is in, and he quickly realizes that there's not enough air for him to live long. He finds within the coffin a working cellphone, which allows him contact with the outside world. But the outside world proves not to be very helpful at finding a man buried in a box in the middle of the Iraqi desert. Paul must rely on his best resource--himself. No way out. Rated R for language and some violent content.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Ryan Reynolds stated that he suffered from claustrophobia towards the end of filming much like the character he is playing. This was mainly due to the fact the coffin he was in was gradually filled with more and more sand as filming went on. He describes the last day of shooting as "unlike anything I experienced in my life, and I never ever want to experience that again.

Goofs The phone in close ups is shown to have multiple bars for the battery life. However, from a distance, the phone is shown to have one battery bar that just slowly decreases as a whole. It's actually 2 different phones he uses. The film does a great job of establishing the constricted dimensions of the box where Paul Conroy is trapped, as he barely has any space to move his head, let alone get enough impulse to punch his way out like The Bride did in Kill Bill Vol.

One of the curious details that start to emerge as the story unfolds is that the movie rarely uses the same shot twice, with every new cut revealing the six walls of the coffin at a different distance and from a different angle. This wouldn't be possible to film with a regular coffin, so the crew built seven different versions of it, each with different purposes. The most commonly used one was called "The Joker" since its versatility was their wildcard.

It had removable walls that let them shoot from one angle at a time, isolated for optimal sound recording and equipped with a reinforced frame to withstand Ryan Reynolds' hits. It was lifted at around 35 inches from the ground so the crew could work comfortably with a correctly-leveled camera.

Another version of the coffin was "The Tunnel", a longer design built specifically for perspective effects and intricate angles. They also used two separate halves to shoot extreme close-ups without Ryan Reynolds inside. The making-of video doesn't elaborate on the remaining two, but they certainly had similar purposes.

It's normal for actors to injure themselves while shooting movies , but some definitely go through tougher ordeals than others. In the case of Buried , Ryan Reynolds paid a heavy physical toll. Back then, doctors used a lack of respiration and pulse to determine when a patient had shuffled off this mortal coil, but sometimes, the patient wasn't actually deceased.

Being buried alive became the stuff of legend; and people went to great lengths to avoid it, stipulating in their wills that the soles of their feet should be cut with razors or that their bodies sit above ground for days, at which point, if they were truly dead, putrefaction would set in. The factors that determine how long a person could stay alive while buried in a coffin depend on the size of the person, the size of the coffin, and how calm that person remains.

Breathing heavily, moving around a lot and trying to get out of the coffin, as Conroy does in the movie, "reduces the amount of oxygen" in the coffin, Bondeson says. And it's not just lack of oxygen you have to worry about, says Jamie Hyneman, who was once buried alive for a short period of time on an episode of MythBusters.

Anyone entombed alive would have to worry about suffocation from CO 2. Believe it or not, some scientists have actually tested how long a living thing can survive in a coffin.