Actor & writer Tom Hanks talks about playing real people & the importance of a film's score

Tom Hanks takes questions from the audience about his writing career, the characters he has played in his many films and the important role music has to play when making a movie.
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[@lt.col.gregputnam7951]

All you can say is watching the greatest living actor is such a pleasure. Thanks Tom!

[@mbennett7065]

shout out to that guy for putting Bristol on the map

[@abritandhisbikeinpoland6802]

I was born and raised in Bristol, I can assure you that is not a Bristol accent, he was probably raised and schooled in a middleclass system in a middleclass household, cause mate he is posh as f.... ! That ain't no Brissol accent, not even close!

[@kapri5095]

lol it’s already on the map

[@mbennett7065]

@@kapri5095I know I was just trying to be nice to the guy with the speech delay

[@r.mattcoker4184]

@@mbennett7065 Nah he was doing fine, he just sounded nervous and had a heavier accent.

[@aaropajari7058]

Cary Grant did that already.

[@freemagicfun]

Tom Hanks has always been one of the greats of his generation. Such a good actor, and just a downright nice guy. 😎

[@xplaybwoix]

Do you know him personally ?

[@edwinhaley4371]

He is a evil man.

[@Anon54387]

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are both anti-American to their cores. The both made a bundle of money doing movies and mini-series celebrating the WW2 generation beating back tyranny, but vote and donate a lot of money to the American political party that is always growing government power over our lives. That makes them Grade A hypocrites, and to think that both their fathers served in the military to aid the Allied cause in WW2.

[@michaelbednarski4601]

Tom Hanks is one of the most versatile actors. He can perform in any kind of role.

[@TranquilBlackout]

You meant the most versatile p3d0phil3!

[@bobkeen2138]

WHAT?! Versatile?

[@dan-mb2ne]

Have you ever seen him playing an antagonist ? Yeah exactly.

[@debbywillan5165]

That Thing You Do is a fun film, thanks Tom.

[@kithill1423]

In high school, Tom wrote a great short story about a man who goes into a bar and meets a most stunning young woman who has captured every one's attention. As he sits down next to her it is revealed that the woman is his sister. Probably one of the best stories to come out of Mrs. Wyatt's creative writing class.

[@orcanimal]

?! What is that short story called and is it online for us to read?

[@patrycjuszsinkiewicz6935]

Have watched the movie "The Terminal" right after watching this. The good acting is when you do not see actor but character, believe this movie is the we very essence of those words

[@chrisbailey9331]

This man is an absolute legend❗️

[@OzzieBenzC300]

Can we not wait til this guy is dead to acknowledge how much joy and happiness he has brought to all of our lives along the years. Thanks Tom Hanks for all the laughs, tears and all the range of emotions you have made us feel! You sir are a national treasure! I want to thanks him from the bottom of my heart! I don’t have any social media so I can’t post it straight to his account so if someone can copy and paste to his Facebook or whatever other social media he uses I would be very grateful! Thanks again!

[@michaelmckenna1229]

If ever there was a celebrity to just get a cup of coffee with it would be Tom hanks. He just exudes kindness

[@Hiltonology]

I'm an artist and walking away from my paintings often does help with the next step of the painting. I guess its a great practice for all artist types to do that. I guess I can see it as getting tunnel vision, which you do not want to do, in any art form.

[@bertisat2008]

I am a Musician and exactly what you and Tom said, it is neccesary to walk away from the project and return a bit later, in my case you develop "Ear fatigue", where basically many things just sound bad, but upon return you can pick out the unwanted bits and keep going. Great observation...thanks. Tom Hanks a living legend, so natural and talented!!

[@2222...]

Great actor, great vison and an even greater guy!

[@flaviopechansky5257]

What a lovely class to enjoy! Not only one of the greatest actors of our times, but also a great chap! An honour!

[@_om.shewale_]

Thank you Oxford for Uploading. Lots of Love to you Tom From India ❤

[@ethelreneanderson2266]

Love you Tom, from the first time seeing Busum Buddies

[@ethelreneanderson2266]

And Philladelphia is my 2nd favorites

[@74Helen]

Yet topsy n Tim the book for us n them ❤ 10:09

[@Handlethetruth666]

Should have got Ricky gervais to come in and ask some questions 😂

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Oooooo. I like both but that would not be a good cocktail.

[@syanhc]

Love Hanks ❤

[@74Helen]

The man at the back James blunt ! 😂❤ 0:30

[@Ritza.Elefteria.Michaki]

As a Greek person, I understood both of the English dialect, and my mother tongue is Greek.

[@castelodeossos3947]

Very sorry, doesn't mean a thing really. Foreigners may live in a country and understand various dialects because they've been exposed to them frequently. They may then be exposed to a dialect they've never heard before and have difficulty understanding what's being said. A perfectly natural/common set of circumstances.

[@Luca_86]

As an alien I understood everything, and my mother tongue is Martian

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

@@Luca_86 Huug wiruk slalken fri. (For non-Martians I just said "welcome to earth").

[@74Helen]

C once upon a time in america retro its in ! 10:38 Cuba as in holding junior war sub 1st soldier to join up deep sea diver ... ❤❤❤🎉 11:22

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

Quite a learning :)

[@andriedemetriou3113]

Love TOM ❤

[@74Helen]

C x the autistic child teenager drew in an instant skylines of the Thames ... Watergate ❤❤❤ 4:31

[@74Helen]

No im in stamstead ref a 12 the old bypass the wall the oldest rd ! Fact 7:05

[@74Helen]

Stan Sam ham in the airport lounge x hemel Heinrich man over roar like a tiger nuts first aiders ❤ 9:53 or to choke n die 10:02 anaphalytic shock ❤❤ 10:19

[@74Helen]

Unless your a condor flying in the drifter bycicle 12:54

[@sophiat2058]

So good

[@williamjueschke9960]

I felt bad for the guy with the heavy accent.

[@maverick214]

Ex President of the Oxford Union v Bristol guy - not only the clarity of her accent but her direct and to the point question.

[@jetsdude8]

Which she used to ask a legendary actor about musical scores lol

[@BruceWayne-xl8ud]

8:14 - 8:19 ...but I did get to learn some of the reasons to it and we could we could we could actually carry it around sort of something something (sounds like OGN upon)... Phonetically it sounded like ogenapop or OGN upon or ponder upon Could anyone hear what was/were the word(s) which Tom Hanks said? Thank you, appreciate it.

[@chuknorris12]

If he has trouble with a Bristol accent god help him with the others

[@74Helen]

Collerado ? 12:18

[@Alan_AB]

You'd think that someone at Oxford Union would be able to set up an efficient sound system. That interview was totaly ruined by the bad system.

[@74Helen]

Exodus the parting of the red sea with the tabernacle x ❤ god 9:34

[@test-do1gc]

Tom, can u pls come to Nevada State University?

[@dpelpal]

Don't hold your breath 😆

[@m.rgh.i9199]

I forgot to do Promodo tnx again my legend!

[@stevenholquin2127]

The Sound Track She Mentioned Is Not The Movie Musical 🎶 Score and Thanks To Tom He Explains The Difference The Movie Score Is The Orchestral Musical Arrangement Behind a Scene 🎬 The Soundtrack Can Be a Song By a Band or Artist If in a Scene 🎬 The Star is Tip Toeing To Be Quiet The Movie Musical 🎶 Orchestral Score My Have The String Section Playing What is Called Pizzicato Or Plucking The Strings of a Violin Now Lets Not Discount The Arrangement is in a Time Signature and The Arranger Is Writing ✍️ The Actors Tip Toeing To a Time Signature Which Corresponds To The Actors Movement So The Arranger Has a Screen In Front Of Him or Her and a Orchestra And He Is Writing ✍️ According To The Actors Movements or Tip Toe So The Movie 🎥 Director Also Is Involved In This Process So As Tom Said We Really Don’t Know Until You Take It Away And The Musical 🎶 Score Is So Important As Is The Soundtrack Which is Marketed As Well….To Be Sold

[@74Helen]

Tinkerbell 6:14 ! Cinderella how many shares in fairy flipping liquid get savers ! 😅❤❤ 6:02

[@silversteel6312]

COVID in his voice 😷👀

[@pvandck]

Why not influenza, or pneumonia, or maybe (and most likely) just a common cold?

[@stevenholquin2127]

Bristol Man Gave 7 Syllables To Pronounce “The “

[@74Helen]

Grey stoke ! Vvvv good DVD 6:36

[@optimus6858]

sweet tom hanks

[@74Helen]

Ref turner art history ! 4:55 through the mists of time ... 5:07

[@74Helen]

Dick Whittington the streets are paved with gold or a perception of Samuel peoies thing 3:31 3:32 ref art 3:36

[@publicaccount1589]

That WASN'T the question!!

[@74Helen]

Congress XXX 25 plus 😢

[@techtipsuk]

He didn’t even have a strong accent, can’t imagine many Oxford students do. He’d have no chance with my Yorkshire accent.

[@EdekLay]

Ah you've made this about you having a Yorkshire accent, no one cares.

[@pvandck]

An accent doesn't have to be broad or eccentric to be incomprehensible. Poor enunciation is one of the worst offenders.

[@74Helen]

U can pump what u like in the hold x i find flying a terrible xperience ❤ 11:39 11:49

[@74Helen]

And #shorts then hold on eds remixed it or has he x plus 1 ref to 7:49 infinity n veyond i liked the small soldiers ❤

[@aldolajak1267]

Tom Skanks ????????????????????????

[@thehaywire8889]

🙈🙉🙊

[@74Helen]

Sociology I 2:28 c a broad bean ! Lol jack in the beanstalk my dad to the crimbo production n I got taken out after the giant ❤

[@74Helen]

Grasp whet we n u n us can write the essay in a field x ❤ 11:34

[@74Helen]

😂 slave trade ! Look it up ref I done the project armadillo ! ❤ 6:05

[@boris6261]

Brits love making fun of foreign accents and pretending they don’t understand.. well a bit of banter on your behalf 😉 The lady afterwards spoke clearly but this guy indeed spoke like he was chewing lemon at the same moment…

[@74Helen]

Flower pot men string puppets pinnocheerio x 😢

[@GuitarMan-wb8mk]

That guys does not have a Bristol accent lol. He’s so posh he can barely speak

[@frankhofmann5819]

Nice guy. 😘

[@stevenholquin2127]

Could You Imagine Bristol Man on a Blind Dinner Date in a High End Restaurant With Wine 🍷 and Candles Trying Desperately To Get His Female Date To Melt 😅

[@mickbrave8351]

The person who Tom Hanks didn’t understand, had quite a posh accent. He just did not speak clearly (his pronunciation of dangerous didn’t get any clearer even when he repeated it - mainly down to poor diction and microphone positioning at the time). Certainly not a typical Bristol accent from what I’ve heard before!

[@pvandck]

I lived in Bristol for 11 years, and it sounds like a posh, slightly lazy Bristol accent. Terrible enunciation.

[@RandomnessTube.]

The question at the end is a bit irrelevant I mean imagine watching Forest Gump without music.

[@alastair4839]

6:10 I like Hanks films - but... what a dick he is to that poor kid who is trying to ask a question. Hanks humiliates him - I think he thinks that is funny, but just straight up humiliating someone is not funny. If that guy was a heckler, yes ok, but he was trying his best to ask a question

[@gingergandalf4869]

Did anyone ask him about his exploits on Epstein island?? If not utterly wasted opportunity

[@SusanHopkinson]

💯

[@PalimpsestProd]

check your sources gullible true believer.

[@daveinstlouis]

gingergandalf4869 will post links from legitimate and credible sources that back up his /her claim. Oh, that's right. He /she won't ...because he /she can't.

[@74Helen]

Foresight gallery Tarzan ! Thanks my mate Elton john Disney x ❤ fox n the hounds .... Jacket ! U go over those I'm the fence things ! C u at ascot ! 8:16 😂❤

[@74Helen]

Air con air nicholas cage air con pan am ❤ 10:55

[@mjm5081]

Love Hanks in Bachelor Party Sadly, it was all downhill after that!

[@alexaales7937]

sorry Tom, but if Sully would have not landed that plane without casualties it would have been the biggest flight disaster in US history? forgot about those 4 planes going down on 9/11?

[@thehaywire8889]

HOLLYWEIRD IS DEAD!

[@ImElliottWolfe]

The first guy looks like he could be Tom’s son 😂

[@mariocolindres6876]

ah the cantenbury.

[@stevenholquin2127]

Could You Imagine Bristol Man Talking Drunk 😮 He Talks As If He Has Marbles In His Mouth in a Sand Storm with a Post Nasal Drip….💧

[@forkinpig]

He couldn’t understand, not as American but as an ego filled Hollywood star, he couldn’t mock an Indian for the accent in the same way. These guys never realise they look complete clowns in front of British audiences every time, so mocking a British guy for his British accent can only come from ego.

[@techtipsuk]

Didn’t strike me as that.

[@alpenglow4243]

I think he took a situation where he didn’t hear the question and made it a funny moment. Are you not hearing the audience laughing?

[@pvandck]

Project much? Revealing the cesspit of your own prejudiced imagination there.

[@gregorymotta3296]

pedo

[@PalimpsestProd]

check your sources gullible true believer.

[@daveinstlouis]

gregorymotta3296 will post links from legitimate and credible sources that back up his claim. Oh, that's right. He won't ...because he can't.

[@Nieoszlifowana]

🤹🎸💯🙋🌹💯

[@dionbebe2028]

why did this end so abruptly? .... terrible edit point... give us the entire talk!

[@lovelyskull3483]

I love Oxford Union, but Tom Hanks, really?

[@gailwebb9619]

You don’t have to watch this…..

[@maria369]

You should be in jail

[@PalimpsestProd]

check your sources gullible true believer.

[@pvandck]

You should give up your confirmation bias habit, and learn critical thinking. Then you won't be so easily conned.

[@shanevinson845]

Anyone ask him if he enjoyed Epstein Island?

[@shanevinson845]

@@generalmerch I’m guessing you have zero proof of the dumb statement you made.

[@shanevinson845]

@@generalmerch Ah, the ole question with a question

[@jamesm.3967]

His attempt at an English accent was embarrassing and kind of rude. Come on Tom. 😮

[@3dbacks]

bad sound

[@josephweaver2323]

That's the worst Bris accent I've ever heard....at least a working class Bristol accent. Tom is better.

[@Chalkster1]

Don’t watch this fool after Ricky Gervais tore into these fools in Hollywood

[@davidthirugnanakumar7888]

😂 Ricky who also received récompenses from the same fools and want to act to other movies. He just make promotion from himself

[@74Helen]

Listen n learn 2:57 ref we need a gold coast campus study the cliffs erosion love in slow motion @321edhp

[@maria369]

pedo

[@PalimpsestProd]

check your sources gullible true believer.

[@daveinstlouis]

maria369 will post links from legitimate and credible sources that back up her claim. Oh, that's right. She won't ...because she can't.

[@pvandck]

Says gullible shit-for-brains