Teh One Who Knocks
09-27-2016, 12:55 PM
By the Heat Street Staff
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Tom Hanks has prided himself on being Hollywood’s decent, everyman hero for over two decades now. Sure he’s been too liberal for some and insufficiently edgy for others, but apart from a bizarre incident when he was filmed next to a man in blackface while he was emceeing his children’s school auction in California, Hanks has largely steered clear of controversy.
Until now. The Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan star is taking flak from social justice warriors for starring in iconic director — and prominent Republican — Clint Eastwood’s movie Sully in which he plays Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009 saved 155 passengers. The film has been a huge hit– making almost $100 million so far – but Hanks has suffered from guilt by association:
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Then there’s this Tweet the other day from BuzzFeed‘s Senior Culture Writer Anne Helen Petersen which suggests an investigation by the site into the political incorrectness of Hanks’ early comedic work is imminent:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/dodaistewart">@dodaistewart</a> is it possible that every Tom Hanks movie from the '80s is deeply racist b/c those have been my findings thus far</p>— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) <a href="https://twitter.com/annehelen/status/779120094836301824">September 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Presumably she must be thinking of Volunteers, the 1985 comedy in which Hanks and John Candy are members of the Peace Corps building a bridge for villagers in Thailand rather than Big, Splash or The Burbs. Indeed during that period, Hanks was criticized for not being controversial enough, especially after his career low performance as Sherman McCoy in the flop movie version of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Clint Eastwood’s recent remarks to Esquire spring to mind: “We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”
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Tom Hanks has prided himself on being Hollywood’s decent, everyman hero for over two decades now. Sure he’s been too liberal for some and insufficiently edgy for others, but apart from a bizarre incident when he was filmed next to a man in blackface while he was emceeing his children’s school auction in California, Hanks has largely steered clear of controversy.
Until now. The Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan star is taking flak from social justice warriors for starring in iconic director — and prominent Republican — Clint Eastwood’s movie Sully in which he plays Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009 saved 155 passengers. The film has been a huge hit– making almost $100 million so far – but Hanks has suffered from guilt by association:
http://i.imgur.com/ujLYwdf.jpg
Then there’s this Tweet the other day from BuzzFeed‘s Senior Culture Writer Anne Helen Petersen which suggests an investigation by the site into the political incorrectness of Hanks’ early comedic work is imminent:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/dodaistewart">@dodaistewart</a> is it possible that every Tom Hanks movie from the '80s is deeply racist b/c those have been my findings thus far</p>— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) <a href="https://twitter.com/annehelen/status/779120094836301824">September 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Presumably she must be thinking of Volunteers, the 1985 comedy in which Hanks and John Candy are members of the Peace Corps building a bridge for villagers in Thailand rather than Big, Splash or The Burbs. Indeed during that period, Hanks was criticized for not being controversial enough, especially after his career low performance as Sherman McCoy in the flop movie version of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Clint Eastwood’s recent remarks to Esquire spring to mind: “We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”