Hanks' film promises realistic war experience
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November 6, 2009, Friday
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ACTOR Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens at the National World War II Museum in the American city of New Orleans today.
The film will be shown exclusively at the museum's new Victory Theater, which includes "4-D" elements such as props, simulated winds and shaking seats. Images from Pearl Harbor to the wintry Battle of the Bulge are shown on a 36-meter-wide screen.
The film incorporates vintage film footage, animation and sensory effects so audiences can feel the rumbling of tank treads and booming of anti-aircraft fire.
"This is not just a widescreen movie," said Hanks, who narrates the 35-minute film. "There's actual things that pop up, actual elements that come into it that put you in the environment."
Victory Theater has been a highly anticipated attraction at the museum. The theater was built specifically for "Beyond All Boundaries" as part of a US$300 million museum expansion that is expected to continue until 2015.
"We think of it as a World War II museum history park with a variety of things to engage visitors," said Gordon "Nick" Mueller, the museum's chief executive.
Hanks, the star of "Saving Private Ryan" and an executive producer on the World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers," said the planning and making of "Beyond All Boundaries" took five years. He said one of the toughest aspects of the project was trying to decide what elements of World War II would be represented in such a short film.
What had to be captured, "without question," Hanks said, were the economic and human costs and the war's roots in the civil rights and women's rights movements.
"We still had segregated armed forces," Hanks said. "We asked guys to go off and risk their lives and come back home and ride in the back of the bus. There was no way that brand of injustice could continue in our country after that war."
The film will be shown exclusively at the museum's new Victory Theater, which includes "4-D" elements such as props, simulated winds and shaking seats. Images from Pearl Harbor to the wintry Battle of the Bulge are shown on a 36-meter-wide screen.
The film incorporates vintage film footage, animation and sensory effects so audiences can feel the rumbling of tank treads and booming of anti-aircraft fire.
"This is not just a widescreen movie," said Hanks, who narrates the 35-minute film. "There's actual things that pop up, actual elements that come into it that put you in the environment."
Victory Theater has been a highly anticipated attraction at the museum. The theater was built specifically for "Beyond All Boundaries" as part of a US$300 million museum expansion that is expected to continue until 2015.
"We think of it as a World War II museum history park with a variety of things to engage visitors," said Gordon "Nick" Mueller, the museum's chief executive.
Hanks, the star of "Saving Private Ryan" and an executive producer on the World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers," said the planning and making of "Beyond All Boundaries" took five years. He said one of the toughest aspects of the project was trying to decide what elements of World War II would be represented in such a short film.
What had to be captured, "without question," Hanks said, were the economic and human costs and the war's roots in the civil rights and women's rights movements.
"We still had segregated armed forces," Hanks said. "We asked guys to go off and risk their lives and come back home and ride in the back of the bus. There was no way that brand of injustice could continue in our country after that war."
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