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Post by mattgarth on Jan 14, 2020 17:41:43 GMT
Over the past 25 years, he has portrayed the following real-life persons:
APOLLO 13 -- Astronaut Jim Lovell CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR -- the Congressman of the title CAPTAIN PHILLIPS -- the title character SAVING MR. BANKS -- Walt Disney BRIDGE OF SPIES -- Attorney James Donovan SULLY -- Airline Pilot Chesley Sullenberger THE POST -- Editor Ben Bradlee A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- Fred Rogers
His character in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN was a composite of several FBI agents His character in THE TERMINAL was based on an actual Iranian immigrant His character in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN was based on ex-Boston Red Sox slugger Jimmie Foxx
and coming up -- portraying 'Col. Tom Parker' in an Elvis Presley project
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 14, 2020 17:44:27 GMT
and coming up -- portraying 'Col. Tom Parker' in an Elvis Presley project so he is finally playing a villain and a real life one at that.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 14, 2020 17:49:56 GMT
Well -- his fictional character in ROAD TO PERDITION wasn't exactly his usual 'Tom Nice Guy.'
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Post by politicidal on Jan 14, 2020 18:00:52 GMT
and coming up -- portraying 'Col. Tom Parker' in an Elvis Presley project so he is finally playing a villain and a real life one at that. I think his character in The Circle was supposed to be kind of nefarious but given how poorly that movie fared with everything else, it didn't work and Hanks still seemed like just some ordinary businessman.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 14, 2020 21:52:33 GMT
Interesting observation. I usually see Tom Hanks rather lazily being called the new Jimmy Stewart, a bit like the English press used to always call Hugh Grant the new Cary Grant.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 15, 2020 16:09:30 GMT
Hanks is more of a rubber face than I would have thought early in his career. He has strong features , especially his nose and chin, which usually does not lend itself to impersonation. But he has been a great success in bios with a reasonably close appearance to the real character.
Stewart was an Everyman in the sense that he was placed in a strange situation but remained his midwestern self, so that you imagine how You would manage Nazis in an Austrian village, or spies in Morocco, or flying solo across the Atlantic. Hanks really becomes that person fitting into the landscape in a way Stewart did not. I canβt recall any Hanks film where he took on a European accent, but his regional US accents are respectable.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 15, 2020 18:55:06 GMT
George Arliss and Paul Muni used so much make-up to resemble the famous persons they were portraying, usually because they were mostly known from old portrait paintings, at least how they looked.
Tom Hanks never does that, maybe change hairdo a bit, eventually put on a little moustache like he did when he played Walt Disney, it's more preferable that way, than a ton of make-up.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jan 15, 2020 23:48:46 GMT
when is larry crowne 2 going to start filming?
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 16, 2020 1:55:15 GMT
Paul Muni was a shameless ham and his overacting is often irritating to watch. I've only seen a couple of Arliss performances, and his cadaverous face and heavy lipstick is a little off-putting. Tom Hanks doesn't seem to feel the need to transform his physical features, which is a relief.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 16, 2020 3:42:19 GMT
Over the past 25 years, he has portrayed the following real-life persons: APOLLO 13 -- Astronaut Jim Lovell CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR -- the Congressman of the title CAPTAIN PHILLIPS -- the title character SAVING MR. BANKS -- Walt Disney BRIDGE OF SPIES -- Attorney James Donovan SULLY -- Airline Pilot Chesley Sullenberger THE POST -- Editor Ben Bradlee A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- Fred Rogers His character in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN was a composite of several FBI agents His character in THE TERMINAL was based on an actual Iranian immigrant His character in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN was based on ex-Boston Red Sox slugger Jimmie Foxx and coming up -- portraying 'Col. Tom Parker' in an Elvis Presley project uh if anyone is Muni its Sean Penn. an oft forgotten leading man who many felt would set the acting world on fire? sounds like Penn to me. Hanks legend will be maintained for generations to come. If anything Hanks falls more into being this generations jack Lemmon or Henry Fonda with a more warm and accessible screen presence. not to mention Penn has a not too dissimilar tickish, mannered quality to any of his roles, Penn always dials it up, another variation of Muni is Rod Steiger in an era previous.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 16, 2020 11:20:21 GMT
Uh -- I was comparing biographical roles, not acting styles.
Like Muni (as Pasteur, Zola, Juarez) and Arliss (as Disraeli, Hamilton, Rothschild, Richelieu, Duke of Wellington), Hanks of late has been gravitating towards playing real life characters.
But their screen personas and acting styles are completely different.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 16, 2020 19:34:59 GMT
Uh -- I was comparing biographical roles, not acting styles. Like Muni (as Pasteur, Zola, Juarez) and Arliss (as Disraeli, Hamilton, Rothschild, Richelieu, Duke of Wellington), Hanks of late has been gravitating towards playing real life characters. But their screen personas and acting styles are completely different. I still don't see a similarity.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 16, 2020 21:12:51 GMT
Look again.
Multiple biographical roles.
Roles, not acting styles
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Post by hi224 on Jan 17, 2020 2:35:38 GMT
Look again. Multiple biographical roles. Roles, not acting styles is your avatar from Red River, its Red River I presume.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 17, 2020 2:54:42 GMT
You are correct.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 17, 2020 15:38:04 GMT
Btw TCM USA. Is showing Paul Muni films today, Friday Jan 17th
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Post by hi224 on Jan 18, 2020 3:58:27 GMT
I may need to update mine soon.
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Post by llanwydd on Jan 18, 2020 18:14:38 GMT
Arliss maybe but not Muni. Tom Hanks is always recognizable as Tom Hanks. Muni was such a good actor you sometimes had to take a closer look.
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