{"id":139025,"date":"2020-12-22T01:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tom-hanks-wins-the-west\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:19:35","slug":"tom-hanks-wins-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tom-hanks-wins-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tom Hanks wins the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tom Hanks wins the West<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd has a helluva gig. He schleps around the US reading news<\/a>papers aloud to backwoods townsfolk during the 1870s.<\/p>\n

While that task may seem simple enough next to other 19th-century jobs such as laying railroad track or cattle-wrangling, the work is treacherous. Report the news in the wrong tone, and you could infuriate the masses. Angry mobs might form against you. You\u2019d receive death threats in the saloon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 118 minutes. <br>Rated PG-13 (violence, disturbing images, thematic material and some language). In select theaters.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It was a very different time then, you see. There were saloons.<\/p>\n

Kidd, who is a fictional creation by author Paulette Jiles, is the main character of the new Western film \u201cNews of the World,\u201d a more intimate, less macho take on the genre from director Paul Greengrass.<\/p>\n

The grizzled-but-sensitive Civil War vet is the perfect fit for Tom Hanks, who bounces back from his wobbly war film \u201cGreyhound\u201d that was released in the summer. Kidd taps into all the qualities that make Hanks one of the world\u2019s most popular actors: pathos, empathy, star quarterback charisma and a lesser-seen side \u2014 grit.<\/p>\n

Kidd\u2019s speeches aren\u2019t singsong \u201cForrest Gump\u201d stories; they\u2019re fraught with peril. In each town, the man arrives to a community sequestered and likely illiterate, so every word he speaks sends them into a tailspin. Texans hearing word of abolition? Tough crowd. They go gaga for a faraway, harrowing rescue, though.<\/p>\n

As the captain recounts extraordinary, international tales, he becomes one when he is forced to take care of Johanna (Helena Zengel), a little girl who had been held captive by the Kiowa Native American tribe for six years. Travel<\/a>ing Kidd is tasked with getting the girl back to her family on the East Coast. But Johanna, who wishes to stay with the Kiowa, no longer speaks English and is mystified by spoons. <\/p>\n

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Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel in a scene from \u201cNews of the World.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Universal Pictures \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Putting a child at the center of a Western adds urgency to a world in which life tends to be cheap. The young were not so protected then as they are now, and predators were not always ostracized. Greengrass\u2019 best shoot-out comes when a perv tries to buy Johanna off Kidd for his own sick purposes, which her new caretaker won\u2019t allow.<\/p>\n

Outside of that tense t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate and a few other sequences, \u201cNews of the World\u201d is not a very violent film, as far as modern Westerns go. That\u2019s refreshing. The genre has become one of bloodbaths and thriller plots, and has jettisoned the romance of the Old West.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pitfall of the film\u2019s ambitious hundreds-of-miles journey is that, by all app<\/a>earances, we barely budge. Every town, field and forrest looks about the same, vaguely Western-y, and their residents are an identical mix of dirty and grumpy. So, the passage of time is left to the lead actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hanks and Zengel, a 12-year-old German actress, form a believable, loving bond as she teaches him Kiowa phrases and even helps Kidd get out of some hairy situations. A nomad, whose life has been defined by loss, battle and endless movement, finally finds a glimmer of peace in an unlikely new friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) delivers the \u201cNews of the World.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Universal Pictures \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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