(Cover) - EN Movies - Tom Hanks claims that portraying real life in a movie is hard.

The actor, who produced his new movie Larry Crown through his own company, explained that nowadays films are often defined by how spectacular the special effects are.

But the Hollywood star insisted that the real challenge is to create a picture that sparkles because of its script.

"The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago and they are driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. That's a great brand of freedom that is given over to the filmmaker," he told British newspaper The Independent. "But when you are going to try to have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have people recognise themselves and their own street and their own house in it, well then you're aiming for the high country and so it's a much bigger gamble."

Tom, whose hit movies include Forrest Gump and The DaVinci Code, also explained why he decided to produce Larry Crowne himself.

The star offered the movie to a couple of well-known studios, who turned it down because they didn't know how to realise a film of this kind.

"I simply decided to do the film through my own company and take the better part of two years. I want to make a movie that's going to surprise people," Tom said. "I don't want to see escapist fare. I don't want to see dream-factory wish-fulfilment films about if you work hard, your dreams will come true. I want to see movies about human beings, adults that have gone through bitter compromise and are, in a glamorous and yet realistic fashion, living up to the challenges that the world presents to them. I think that's what Larry Crowne is." (C) Cover Media