Hanks became such a reliable force in movies that we all started to take him for granted.
It was during the 2010swhen Hanks cemented himself as “America’s Dad.
We might expect that the average viewer will only see the man himself on screen.
Phillips is presented as a salt-of-the-earth, humble, and unpretentious blue-collar laborer.
InCaptain Phillips, Hanks effortlessly truncates his immense star power.
Just like the film’s subject, there is no pretentiousness toHanks' ability to morph into this role.
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He becomes a mundane individual by relying on his faithful charm and sincerity.
The two-time Oscar winner is a master at pulling audience heartstrings.
After the navy rescues the hostages, Phillips is treated as a hero, but he rejects this honor.
Rather,he insists that he was merely doing his job.
Phillips would prefer not to indulge in the public valorization of someone who was just trying to survive.
If the Academy was going to honorCaptain Phillips,honoring Tom Hanks' work would have been automatic.
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Instead, Hanks was snubbed, as he frequently has been throughout the 21st century.
In the 2020s, as Hanks reaches 70… get ready for his filmography to get weird and unexpected.
The 2020s have been a mixed bag of creative uses and bizarre misreads of Tom Hanks stardom.
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2022 saw a dual display of Hanks new favorite acting trick: bonkers accents.
However, time will be kind toHere, asit’s quietly a subversive exercise inZemeckis Boomer romanticism inGump.
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The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
