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Saturday 09 July 2016
As Forrest Gump he inspires laughs as AIDS sick lawyer he moves you to tears: Tom Hanks is such a versatile as successful superstar. That he has reinvented itself several times in his long career, you hardly notice him.
Tom Hanks is the consensus actor par excellence. Comedy fans can also do something with him as cineastes. Romantic souls melt away when he conquered Meg Ryan, and thriller fans devour his Dan Brown films. Trailer exciting history films as primarily English-language viewers know him his voice made several animated films
Blockbuster and shallow entertainment, political theater and drama -. Almost a genre in which Tom Hanks had not already tried. He is – on the basis of one of his most famous movie quotes – like a box of chocolates: You never know exactly what you get. Often, of course, it is sugary. For over 30 years, he is one of the most successful actors in Hollywood. Reliable he delivers films is unmistakably his face. If you look at his old movies, you can see its typical trains as well as in his major successes in the 90s and in later works. He may have gained a little over time, may have a few more wrinkles, but the average face is his trademark.
Hanks does not have the masculine presence of a Marlon Brando, not the manic look of Joaquin Phoenix or the self-sacrifice of Daniel Day-Lewis or Philip Seymour Hoffman. A multitalented actor he is anyway. Not only because he has a flair for great roles. But also because he is his characters always appropriates makes them unmistakable. You hear only time his voice in “Forrest Gump” to – be Southern accent is a power that remains largely hidden from the German public. Or his game in “Cast Away.” – As he carries this film over long distances alone
slapstick and romance
Hanks is a thoroughbred performer. Early on, he discovered his love for the stage, he studied acting and performed in the theater. This was followed by the jump to television, small roles in series and films and a momentous encounter: Ron Howard gave him in 1984 his first theater role in “Splash – A virgin on the hook”. It was the first of many joint projects.
For now, however, remained on Hanks comedy subscribed. Much fuss was among them, as it have produced en masse the 80s: “Bachelor Party” as reminiscent of the “Hangover” series, “Everything is at my command” and “Dragnet”. But Hanks starred in notable films, including “Big”, “burbs” and Brian De Palma’s literary adaptation “Bonfire of the Vanities,” which earned him a wider attention.
The perfect average American
finally, in 1993 published two films that represented a first highlight, but at the same time a turning point of his career. On one hand, “Sleepless in Seattle” by Nora Ephron, an entertaining attack on the heartstrings, which convinced the critics and the audience enthusiastic. On the other hand Hanks played in Jonathan Demme’s “Philadelphia” his most serious role until then: a suffering from AIDS, gay lawyer who fights against discrimination. It was the first major Hollywood film, which dealt with the disease. And for Hanks, it was a radical change of image, which earned him his first starring Oscar
The commercial and artistic success catapulted Hanks in the first row of Hollywood -. From where it was almost inconceivable without a result. With “Forrest Gump”, its up to now perhaps best known role that earned him the second Oscar in a row with “Apollo 13″ by Ron Howard, “Saving Private Ryan” directed by Steven Spielberg and “Castaway” by Robert Zemeckis, he was one of the most influential actors of the 90s. And one of the most successful, thanks to box-office hits such as “The Green Mile,” “em @ il for you” and “Toy Story”, where he gave Cowboy Woody his voice.
Despite the diversity of roles remained of 1956 in California born Hanks but always one: an all-American boy, an average American who fights for the “good” – even if that often brought him close to the border with honesty. He was not only a toy cowboy, soldier, Astronaut and Southern simpleton. He also played baseball coach ( “A League of Their Own”), music manager (his directorial debut “That Thing You Do!”) And FBI investigators ( “Catch Me If You Can”), a lawyer in the Cold War ( “Bridge of Spies”), Walt Disney ( “Saving Mr. Banks”) and soon a heroic pilot in “Sully”. Even his 30s killer in “Road to Perdition” is ultimately especially a caring family man. Given all these indigenous figures who often heartwarming story with a happy ending, the often nostalgic tone of his films, but also because of its high recognition value was Hanks soon as heir of another Hollywood icon:. James Stewart
Hardly noticeable change
Only rarely has managed to elude this Image Hanks. Only in the new millennium, he took a barely noticeable change. Not only because he more often occurred behind the camera as a producer of series ( “Band of Brothers”, “The Pacific”) and films ( “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, “Mamma Mia”). But also because his characters were critical. In Terminal, he plays a man who falls into the clutches of the immigration bureaucracy. In “Charlie Wilson’s War”, he is a Member who engages in the Soviet war in Afghanistan – with today noticeable consequences
The literature. “Extremely Loud & amp; Incredibly Close” deals with the consequences 9/11 for a family apart, “Captain Phillips” with piracy off Somalia. The American dream, the Hanks has conjured in his films so often is questioned here critical – after some typical American films the actor is now taking the world into view. . Tom Hanks, the Hollywood greenhouse, the dream man of romantic comedies, has become the performer of complex characters
This includes a more influential role: Hanks’ Professor Langdon, which he in “The Da Vinci Code” and “Illuminati” and soon also plays in “Inferno”, is an antidote to Forrest Gump. Even Harvard professor stumbles through history, meet the secrets of Mary Magdalene and the Illuminati. But it do not come luck and chance to help, but curiosity and knowledge. The film does not live by references to the American pop culture, but on the European history.
More aboutLast eventually Hanks worked repeatedly with German director Tom Tykwer together: First, in “Cloud Atlas”, an exuberant film experiment in which Hanks multiple roles assumed. Just recently, in “A Hologram for the King”, where an American manager can be enchanted by the Arab culture. . Again, lets the performer purely American perspective behind who have previously determined almost all his films
This change of Hanks is an expression of his many interests off screen: He advocates the exploration of space (not least as a “Star Trek” fan) and a passion for history – the 60s, the decade of his childhood and youth, immerse in his films again and again. He collects typewriters. And he is to have always for jokes – be it an obscure appearance at
Despite this cosmopolitanism and a certain eccentricity that makes Hanks basically only sympathetic “Wetten, dass ..?”. but it remains an important Hollywood player as successful producer and vice president of the Academy. Tom Hanks is and remains above all: a consensus on which all can agree
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Source: n-tv.de
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