Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel
In this rapidly changing world, where it seems that no one can agree on even basic scientific facts, there is something that still unites the world; Tom Hanks He is not only a great actor, but also a legendarily humble and kind one. But now his humility has gone too far as the two-time Oscar-winning star of a beloved series of film and television hits dating back to the early 1980s, while giving an interview recently, claimed to have starred in just four “pretty good “. films.
speaking to People magazine this week about his first novel, The making of another cinematic masterpiece, Hanks laid out the lessons he learned over the course of his singular and critically acclaimed career.
“No one knows how to make a movie, although everyone thinks they do. I’ve done a bunch of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think) and I’m still in awe of how the movies come together. From the flash of an idea to the flickering image on the screen, the entire process is a miracle.”
While Hanks could be said to have starred in four “pretty good” movies early in his career, if you only count the crowd-pleasing comedy hits of the 1980s. Splash, Great, The ‘slumsY the money pitall loved blockbusters that established him as a leading actor in comedy.
By the 1990s, he had branched out into serious drama taking serious creative risks with his Jimmy Stewart-esque persona as America’s “gentle actor.” These risks paid off when Hanks won back-to-back Oscars for his work on Forrest Gump Y Philadelphiaplaying a mentally disabled man and a gay lawyer who dies of AIDS, respectively.
Those films came amid a series of career-making hits throughout the decade that included several classics of their genre such as Saving Private Ryan, no sleep in Seattle, your own league, apollo 13and the first two toy story Movie(s. And that’s just the highlights of a decade.
The making of another cinematic masterpiece it is Hanks’ second book, after his collection of short stories uncommon type, which was a great sales success. Or as Hanks would say, “sold three or four copies.”
