The actor has a choice: try to impersonate the subject by imitating their speech patterns and mannerisms, or try to project their personality, even if the little details aren’t completely accurate. To be fair, it is extraordinarily difficult to try to portray a famous person on the big screen. The casting of Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers was widely lauded from the beginning, but I have mixed feelings about the outcome.
Rogers’ dictum: “If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable.”
Rogers starts to ask Vogel about himself, the writer is first taken aback, then fiercely self-protective, before finally accepting Mr. He is bemused by the man’s all-encompassing empathy, his patient acceptance of others, and his sincere humility. The cynical writer is initially convinced that Fred Rogers can’t really be as good as he seems he must be hiding something. The power of this film comes from Vogel’s voyage into Mr. The journey between their worlds is not just physical. It sounds odd, but it is strangely effective in moving us from Lloyd’s world to Mr. When the story changes locations, the camera zooms around model buildings as toy cars and planes move from set to set.
Rogers sings his welcome song, puts on his running shoes, shows a picture of his friend, Lloyd, and then plays a clip about magazines on Picture Picture. I was skeptical that setting up a television episode as a narrative frame for a feature film would work, but it does. Instead, it uses the format of an episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to introduce us to Lloyd Vogel. It is not a biopic of Fred Rogers, it’s not a happy little movie for kids, it’s not a tribute to children’s television. Somewhat resentfully, he trundles off to Pittsburgh, where he meets the man whose quiet, gentle kindness will change his life.Ī Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is not the movie I expected. Vogel is incredulous - he does investigative pieces not profiles of children’s television personalities. Showing up at his editor’s office the worse for wear the next morning, he is given an assignment to interview Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) for an Esquire feature issue on heroes. Lloyd Vogel’s (Matthew Rhys) answer to that question is to punch his estranged father at a family wedding. “What do you do with the mad that you feel?” has been sung to generations of children by the cast of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
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