‘John Candy’ Doc Director Colin Hanks on TIFF Open Nightmil

On the screen, John Candy was often the gegariosy life of the party. He smoked and drank through playing rocketball in “Splash”, he was in charge of “Uncle Buk” and annoyed live Hell Steve Martin with his constant chatter in “planes, trains and cars.” But “John Candy: I ​​love me“New documentary about his life and career coming out of the introductory night in Toronto Intl. The Film Festival, shows private restlessness behind a comedic factory facade.

“There were real, serious, traumatic experiences that formed Jovana and made it who he was,” he says Colin HanksThe director of the film. “He was an incredible human being and a kind, kind, a generous spirit. But all these qualities are coping for a huge amount of pain and sadness.”

The boss among the questions that candy fought was a draw that he felt after his father died of heart diseases at 35. years when the actor was 4 years old. It gave sweets, who would die with 43 years, feeling that he was at an accelerated timeline.

“This idea of ​​the borrowed time is combined with the nature of the issue, go, go, moving at the ability to create this eternal movement for Jovan, which made things incredibly hurriedly and stressed and added that general feeling of anxiety”.

Hanks says it is related to the fighting of his subject to make sense of parent parents, from his mother, Samantha Leves, she died of lung cancer.

“I understand this type of ticking,” says Hanks. “My mother died for 49 years. I’ll turn into 48. November. I always look like a marker for me in my life. I have a zero doubt that was the same way for John.”

Professional, Candi seemed unstoppable during the 1980s and early 90s, making hits like “Stripes”, “Spaceals” and “Cool Runnings” with everyone from Bill Murray to Brook to Douga E. Doug. But the filmmaker whose sensibility seemed to Candi Candy, who worked with him, who worked with him on six films, including classics like “Uncle Buck”, “aircraft, trains and cars” and “alone home”. ”

“They were also real, true people who never lost sight, even after they became famous,” says Hanks. “In the show work, you are part of the circus trip. You meet a lot of different people, and when you find yourself in spirit, you stick to it and spend as much time with them as much as you can. Work with them.” Work with them. “

In interviews, candies, who struggled with his weight for most of his life, had to deal with the press by giving rude comments about its size. Hanks’ film contains many cases in which the surveys were basically called sweets “fat” towards the face, leaving it trying to smile well well. It is shocking cruel.

“You look at the conversation after interviews and horrible things are said and questions are asked in an incredibly insensitive way,” says Hanks. “It’s hard to see how uncomfortable John was in almost all the shot. And he had a good reason, because some things that people said they were disgusting today.”

In order for a documentary, Hanks to talk to Candy’s co-stars and friends – a group involving Eugene Levi, Martin Short, Murray, Aikroid, Catherine O’Hara and almost the whole galaxy of the largest comedian 20th century. Century. Even three decades after his death in 1994. years, they talk about candy with huge love and admiration. Hanks, whose father, Tom Hanks, coached with sweets in “Splash” and “volunteers”, had his memories of the late actor.

“It’s through the kids for a child, because I’ve been young, but even as a child, you’ve been feeling your feelings are important, important to you, they are important to you, they are important to you.”