Curiosity Becomes Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks, the lead star of the movie “Inferno”,  always finds solutions to problems that come his way. “Inferno” was adapted from Dan Brown’s novel of the same name, says Hanks, who plays the lead character, Robert Langdon,

Curious character roles

In a press conference held recently in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Hanks talks about something that Brown always made him do. “The gift that Dan Brown gave me as an actor is to play a guy who’s always curious, who’s always opinionated and who’s always searching for an answer,” he said.

Aside from that, Hanks joked about how he could possibly be someone who could be way more than anyone else. He can do this even when in a group of people huddled together as long as allowed, “…the right amount of verbiage and just enough time to do the right amount of research, and I can convince you that I may be the smartest guy in the room.”

Together with co-stars Felicity Jones and Irrfan Khan, Tom Hanks was with director Ron Howard and “Inferno” author, Dan Brown. He worked with Howard in two of Brown’s novels-turned-to-movie films, “Da Vinci Code” and its next installment, “Angels and Demons.”

The plot

Hanks character, Langdon, deals with amnesia and faced with the dilemma of finding an  extremely powerful person. He searches for a billionaire who started a plague in order to prevent overpopulation. Hanks says that the film wants to depict, “Our own version of Dante’s inferno here in the real world.”

Along with that, Hanks observes and reiterates that “the environment is hellacious and the people are held in slavery and there is any numbers of degrees of misery that are in fact created by ourselves one way or another.”

Curiosity compels Langdon to breeze through the City of Florence finding answers to riddles hurled at him. Consequenltly discovering historic places such as buildings and famous piazzas along the way. He tries to solve riddles based on the “Divine Comedy,” a poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century. The poem depicts what happens to a man as he experienced being in hell or ‘inferno.’

Between prophecy and history, Brown chose the prophetic aspect of Dante in order to make it as something that the audience could relate to in modern times. It tackes issues of not just overpopulation but some other more serious world problems that peoples face today.

Ron Howard drew his inspiration from Dante’s Inferno because of its strong visualization.  How it has been passed down from generation to generation is also part of the attraction.

“Inferno,” produced by Sony Pictures, will open in cinemas on Oct. 28.

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