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Faced with the ravages of wokism and cancel culture, Tom Hanks protests against the rewriting of books

2023-05-22T16:41:33.393Z

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In an interview with the BBC, the American actor denounces the ripolinization of the classics of literature. And shouts: "Let me decide what offends me and what does not offend me!"


In the midst of promoting his very first novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Tom Hanks protests against the rewriting of classics with content deemed offensive. The American actor says that making an old work politically correct is part of an infantilizing logic.

In an interview with the BBC, the comedian said he was "of the opinion that we are all great people. Let us have faith in our acuity and intelligence instead of letting someone decide what might or might not offend us."

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In 2020, Agatha Christie's The Ten Little Negroes was also reworked and renamed because it was deemed negrophobic. Across the Channel, Roald Dahl's novels have been rewritten. The author's rights holders used "inclusive readers" to review the novelist's work.

Tom Hanks is adamant: "Let me decide what offends me and what doesn't offend me." He continued that he would not read "any book, no matter the register, that would bear the mention ''Abridged because of modern sensibilities.'"

The American actor published on May 9, a novel about the set of a multi-million dollar superhero movie. He discusses the changes that have occurred in the United States since the Second World War. On the big screen, Tom Hanks shares the poster with Scarlett Johannson of Wes Anderson's next film, Asteroid City which will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23 before a release scheduled in theaters in France June 21.

Source: lefigaro

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