Tom Hanks' thoughts about "The Burbs"

[RayPeterson]

What I found in the German press kit:

- Hanks is fascinated from Dante's stylized, visionary filmmaking and says that this is a movie, he has never done before.

- Furthermore he is fascinated from Ray Peterson's character since he is a man who has everything, he's married, has a house, has a son, lives in a nice cul-de-sac. Usually he should be a happy man but he wonders why he isn't. That's Hanks' challenge: to convey Ray's dilemma

- He accentuates that he likes the fact that Dante's movies show a nice world on the outside with terrible things happening within. For Hanks, this comedy with its black humor is so grotesquely interesting because what really happens in your nice neighbourhood let your hair stand on end.

 

[Art_Weingartner]

That's interesting. Thanks for posting that.

 

[yellowtangerine]

yeah. i like how everything is so picture-perfect (nice houses, pretty flowers etc) and yet they have a dude running around with a gun, a crazy dude who can snap your neck, a geezer who hates them all etc.. and it's not like "pretty on the outside, dark on the inside"-stereotype. it's actually really subtle. the movie isn't *really* about it, but if you watch it like a million times, you'll start thinking about it.