Has Tom Hanks Given His Last F*ck?
Tom Hanks is known for being the world’s most popular everyman actor.
His leading performances in movies like Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, and Cast Away were so powerful because he created an umbilical cord between the movie and its audience. Thanks to Hanks’ warmth, charm, and relatability, viewers could picture themselves as his characters and, thus, could just as easily imagine overcoming the obstacles that Forrest, Andrew Beckett, Captain John H. Miller, and Chuck Noland had to endure.
I doubt that most people will find anything relatable—or redeemable—about Colonel Tom Parker, Hanks’ character in Elvis. While he helped Elvis Presley’s popularity explode across the country and then the world, so much so that he went on to become the highest selling solo artist in musical history, Parker’s unethical management of the icon led him to pocket at least half of Elvs’ income over his career.