Definitely Tom Hanks He doesn’t love all the Tom Hanks movies. The two-time Oscar winner recently engaged in a lengthy discussion with The New Yorker and opened up about the different factors that are at play when it comes to his experiences with his own movies.
“Ok, let’s face it: We’ve all seen movies we hate,” Hanks said. “I’ve been in some movies that I hate. You’ve seen some of my movies and you hate them.”.
Hanks continued: “Here are the five points of the Rubicon that anyone who makes movies crosses: the first Rubicon you cross is saying yes to the movie. Your fate is sealed. You’re going to be in that movie. The second Rubicon is when you actually see the movie you made. Either it works and it’s the movie you wanted to make, or it doesn’t work and it’s not the movie you wanted to make.”
One of the protagonists of the next movie of Wes Anderson “Asteroid City” he said that there is “no way to know” if a film is going to be good or bad during the making process because it is “so slow and specific”.
“You have to entrust the entire process to collaborators who you hope will be working at the absolute top of their game going forward,” Hanks said. “You can only have faith and hope, and what is greater than faith and hope?”
The third Rubicon, as Hanks says, is “the critical reaction” to a movie.
“Someone is going to say, ‘I hated it.’ Other people may say, ‘I think that’s brilliant.’ Somewhere between the two is the movie actually.”Hanks explained. “The fourth Rubicon is the commercial performance of the film. Because if he doesn’t make money, his career will be ruined sooner than he wants. That is just the fact. That’s the business. The fifth Rubicon is time.
More often than not, it’s time for it to end up being the top Rubicon. Hanks cited movies like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “That Thing You Do!” as two examples of movies that were not well-loved when they were released but emerged as classics years later. You’ve seen the same posts that criticized “That you do!” now refer to it as “the Tom Hanks cult classic.”
Source: Ambito
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