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TOM HANKS OF '' GUMP '' LINKS UP AGAIN with Robin Wright and the film's director : ' Team behind a classic reunites for a new age.'

It's not exactly a '' Forrest Gump '' sequel, but the new movie '' HERE '' does reunite the stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and the filmmakers -the director Robert Zemeckis, the screenwriter Eric Roth and the composer Alan Silvestri - of that 1994 Oscar-winning favorite.

Like the earlier film, the new one also travels across decades, with an unheard of perspective.

In this case, though, the viewpoint is the camera's : '' Here '' is filmed almost entirely from  one locked-off shot, with a camera positioned in what becomes the living room of a century-old New England home.

There are no cutaways or traditional close-ups; no montages or wide-angle transitions. It's an experiment in cinematic formalism, inspired by Richard McGuire's ambitious, genre expanding 2014 graphic novel of the same name.

Though the story starts with dinosaurs and travels all the way through the present day with different characters. It focuses mostly on Hanks and Wrights boomer couple, Richard and Margaret, whose lives are, by turns, mundane and historicized in that single setting.

The furniture and styles change, and with help of A.I., the stars were also digitally de-aged.

'' It really is about, why do we remember the moments that we remember?'' Wright said

In a recent video interview from New York, she and Hanks spoke about what attracted them to the film [ the answer was largely Zemeckis ], the enduring appeal of '' Forrest Gump,'' and what drives their choices now.

The technical challenge of '' Here '' also energized them : There was no crafting - or saving - a performance in the edit ; no way to cut around a missed mark except to redo a whole scene.

'' Tom and I were so spoiled, we don't ever want to shoot conventional format again,'' Wright said of typical cinematography.

Early reviews have been mixed, with some critics balking at the visual conceit, and the de-aging. Wright, 58, was having none of it. '' It is so simple and beautiful and real and human,'' she said. '' We all have experienced something in this movie.''

Hanks, 68, pondered why cynicism has become, as he said, '' the default.''

'' I remain driven by this never-ending curiosity I have, about how it is true that good things happen to bad people,'' he said.  The response could be cynicism, he said, but only if you're seeking '' the lowest common denominator.''

The conversation, which was punctuated by Hank's impression of Zemeckis and by Wright's laughter, also touched on the 2020 documentary. '' The Truffle Hunters,'' which Zemeckis recommended. These are edited excerpts:

.-  Is '' Forrest Gump '' a project, or an era of moviemaking - or moviegoing-  that you feel sentimental about?

WRIGHT : It's a movie that I will always feel sentimental about, not only because it's a great movie. Sentimental working with these guys because it was such a great experience.

HANKS : It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its own and never has to be repeated. And thank God we never bothered trying to make another one. Why put a hat on a hat?

.-  Do people quote '' Gump '' to you? 

WRIGHT : Constantly. Do you get it?

HANKS : All the time. I get '' Run Forrest, Run all the time. [ In Forrest's voice ]

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.-  When you're in projects that take on this sweep of history, has it changed your own perception of time?

WRIGHT : [ With '' Here '' ] I feel like we're talking sense about who we all are.

HANKS : Well, not because of the work I've done, but because of the number of birthdays that I've had. I'm 68, and I must say, I view time differently. I used to think a day was 36 hours long, and now I'm convinced it's only 18.

I never get done what I want. I guess I am aware of being on the back nine - that time is a very, very finite thing. And to squander it, I think it's a sin. So I ponder everything that I do from a perspective of how many minutes do I have left.

And this is not a morbid thing! I think I'm being liberated by the fact that this is all in my own power. How much joy and compassion and empathy am I going to take part in, and share at the same time? Let's get cracking ! Let's go.

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