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Forrest Gump is a 1994 American film directed by and written. It is based on by, and stars,. The story depicts several decades in the life of (Hanks), a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century in the United States. The film differs substantially from the novel.Principal photography took place in late 1993, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Extensive visual effects were used to incorporate Hanks into archived footage and to develop other scenes. The features songs reflecting the different periods seen in the film.Forrest Gump was released in the United States on July 6, 1994 and received favorable reviews for Zemeckis' directing, Hanks' performance, the visual effects, and the script. The film was an enormous success at the box office; it became the top-grossing film in America released that year and earned over 677 million worldwide during its theatrical run, making it the. The soundtrack sold over 12 million copies. Forrest Gump won the for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. It won many other awards and nominations, including, and.Varying interpretations have been made of the protagonist and the film's political symbolism.

In 2011, the selected the film for preservation in the United States as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. In 1981 at a bus stop bench in, Forrest Gump recounts his life story to any stranger who sits next to him and would care to listen. Although having a below average IQ, his endearing character is clearly apparent, and he shows devotion to his loved ones, traits that will earn him encounters with significant situations and historical figures. By 1951, in, young Forrest is fitted with leg braces to improve his walk and correct his spine. He lives with his single mother, who runs a boarding house that attracts such tenants as, who borrows Forrest's restricted dancing. Due to his leg braces, during his live performance.On Forrest's first day in school, the only one to allow him the vacant seat at her side is Jenny Curran, and the two become good friends. Forrest is often bullied for his apparent disabilities and once, when running to avoid such harrasment, his braces fall off, revealing his talent as fast runner.

This leads toa football scholarship at the University of Alabama, where he witnessed desegregation, and met President at the as part of the football team.After his college graduation, Forrest enlists the, where he befriends a fellow soldier, Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue, who offers Forrest to join him in a shrimping business once their service is over. In 1967, they are sent to, serving there in the 9th Infantry Division in the. After a few routine operations, their platoon is ambushed while on patrol, and Bubba is killed in action.

Forrest saves his Lieutenant Dan Taylor's life, but the commanding officer loses both legs. For his bravery in saving the lieutenant's life and many others, Forrest is awarded by.At the anti-war rally, Forrest briefly reunites with Jenny, then leading a hippie lifestyle. He also develops a talent for, and becomes a sports celebrity as he competes against Chinese teams in, leading to an interview alongside John Lennon. In, he spends New Years Eve 1972 with Dan, who is by then an embittered cripple with just whores as company. Forrest however soon crosses path with, and even takes a passive role in the.Returning home, Forrest endorses a company that makes ping pong paddles, and uses the earnings to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his promise to Bubba.

Dan joins Forrest, and after their boat is the only shrimp boat to survive the 1974, the become wildly profitable for lack of competition. Dan invests their earnings into, which makes the two millionaires. Forrest gives part of his share to Bubba's mother then returns home to see his now sick mother, who soon dies of cancer.In 1976, Jenny - recovering from years of rather destructive lifestyle, apparently the result of an abusive childhood - visits Forrest. Walking with him around her childhood home, she fails to contain her fierce rage, and throws stones at the abandoned crumbling house. Later Forrest proposes to her, but Jenny declines, yet has sex with him, and then leaves the next morning, for a new start, working as a restaurant waitress.

A heartbroken Forrest goes running, spending the next three years in a relentless cross-country marathon, covered by the media, becoming a celebrity again.At the bus stop Forrest reveals to an elderly lady, that he is on his way to meet Jenny, who saw him on TV, and has invited him to visit her. Reunited again, Jenny introduces him to Forrest Junior, their witty cute child, assuring a worried Forrest that his son is very smart.

Later she reveals to Forrest that she is sick with an incurable virus, and the two move to live together with their son. They finally do marry, but barely a year later Jenny dies, while a grieving Forrest ensures that her childhood home is torn down.The film ends with a widowed Forrest seeing off his son on a school bus for his first school day.Cast.

as: Although at an early age he is deemed to have a below-average IQ of 75, he has an endearing character and shows devotion to his loved ones and duties, character traits which bring him into many life-changing situations. Along the way, he encounters many historical figures and events throughout his life. Tom's younger brother is his acting double in the movie for the scenes when Forrest runs across the U.S. Tom's daughter Elizabeth Hanks appears in the movie as the girl on the school bus who refuses to let young Forrest sit next to her. Was the original choice to play the title role and admits passing on the role was a mistake. And were also considered for the role.

Stated in an interview having been second choice for the role. Hanks revealed that he signed on to the film after an hour and a half of reading the script. He initially wanted to ease Forrest's pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by director to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel. as young Forrest Gump: Hanks revealed in interviews that after hearing Michael's unique accented drawl, he incorporated it into the older character's accent., who wrote the original novel, describes the film as having taken the 'rough edges' off of the character, and envisioned him being played by. as Jenny Curran: Forrest's childhood friend with whom he immediately falls in love, and never stops loving throughout his life. A victim of at the hands of her bitterly widowed father, Jenny embarks on a different path from Forrest, leading a self-destructive life and becoming part of the hippie movement in the 1960s and the 1970s/1980s drug culture.

She re-enters Forrest's life at various times in adulthood. Jenny eventually becomes a waitress in Savannah, Georgia, where she lives in an apartment with her (and Forrest's) son, Forrest Jr. They eventually get married, but soon afterward she dies from complications due to an unnamed disease.

as young Jenny Curran. as Dan Taylor: Forrest and Bubba Blue's platoon leader during the Vietnam War, whose ancestors have died in every U.S.

War and who regards it as his destiny to do the same. After losing his legs in an ambush and being rescued against his will by Forrest, he is initially bitter and antagonistic towards Forrest for leaving him a 'cripple' and denying him his family's destiny, falling into a deep depression. He later serves as Forrest's first mate at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, gives most of the orders, becoming wealthy with Forrest, and regains his will to live. He ultimately forgives and thanks Forrest for saving his life. By the end of the film, he is engaged to be married and is sporting 'magic legs' – which allow him to walk again. Was considered for the role.

as Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue: Bubba was originally supposed to be the senior partner in the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, but due to his death in Vietnam, their platoon leader, Dan Taylor, took his place. The company posthumously carried his name. Forrest later gave Bubba's mother Bubba's share of the business.

Throughout filming, Williamson wore a lip attachment to create Bubba's protruding lip., and were all offered the role but turned it down. Chappelle said he believed the film would be unsuccessful, and also acknowledged that he regrets not taking the role.

as Mrs. Gump: Field reflected on the character, 'She's a woman who loves her son unconditionally. A lot of her dialogue sounds like slogans, and that's just what she intends.' .

as Forrest Gump, Jr.: Osment was cast in the film after the casting director noticed him in a commercial. as: Although was uncredited, he provided the voice for Elvis in the scene. as himself: Cavett played a version of himself in the 1970s, with applied to make him appear younger. Consequently, Cavett is the only well-known figure in the film to play a rather than be represented through the use of like or President. as Coach., Conor Kennelly, and Teddy Lane Jr.

As theProduction. 'The writer, Eric Roth, departed substantially from the book. We flipped the two elements of the book, making the love story primary and the fantastic adventures secondary.

Also, the book was cynical and colder than the movie. In the movie, Gump is a completely decent character, always true to his word. He has no agenda and no opinion about anything except Jenny, his mother and God.' —directorThe film is based on the 1986. Both center on the character of Forrest Gump. However, the film primarily focuses on the first eleven chapters of the novel, before skipping ahead to the end of the novel with the founding of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

And the meeting with Forrest, Jr. In addition to skipping some parts of the novel, the film adds several aspects to Gump's life that do not occur in the novel, such as his needing leg braces as a child and his run across the United States.Gump's core character and personality are also changed from the novel; among other things his film character is less of a — in the novel, while playing football at the university, he fails craft and gym, but receives a perfect score in an advanced physics class he is enrolled in by his coach to satisfy his college requirements.

The novel also features Gump as an, a, and a player.Two directors were offered the opportunity to direct the film before Robert Zemeckis was selected. Turned down the offer. Was attached to the film, but left to direct. The shrimping boat Jenny used in the film.Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year. Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina, including a running shot on the.

Downtown portions of the fictional town of Greenbow were filmed in. The scene of Forrest running through Vietnam while under fire was filmed on. Additional filming took place on the in, and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near.

The most notable place was, where a part of the road subsequently became known as 'Forrest Gump Curve'. The Gump family home set was built along the near, and the nearby land was used to film Curran's home as well as some of the Vietnam scenes. Over 20 trees were planted to improve the Vietnam scenes. Forrest Gump narrated his life's story at the southern edge of in, as he sat at a bus stop bench. There were other scenes filmed in and around the Savannah area as well, including a running shot on the in Beaufort while he was being interviewed by the press, and on West Bay Street in Savannah. Most of the college campus scenes were filmed in at the. The lighthouse that Forrest runs across to reach the Atlantic Ocean the first time is the in.

Additional scenes were filmed in Arizona, Utah's, and Montana's. Visual effects. Gump with President. A variety of visual effects were used to incorporate Tom Hanks into archive footage with various historical figures and events.and his team at were responsible for the film's visual effects. Using techniques, it was possible to depict Gump meeting deceased personages and shaking their hands.

Hanks was first shot against a along with reference markers so that he could line up with the archive footage. To record the voices of the historical figures, voice actors were filmed and special effects were used to alter for the new dialogue. Archival footage was used and with the help of such techniques as, and, Hanks was integrated into it.In one Vietnam War scene, Gump carries Bubba away from an incoming attack. To create the effect, were initially used for purposes.

Then, Hanks and Williamson were filmed, with Williamson supported by a cable wire as Hanks ran with him. The explosion was then filmed, and the actors were digitally added to appear just in front of the explosions. The jet fighters and napalm canisters were also added by CGI.The CGI removal of actor 's legs, after his character had them amputated, was achieved by wrapping his legs with a blue fabric, which later facilitated the work of the 'roto-paint' team to paint out his legs from every single frame. At one point, while hoisting himself into his, his legs are used for support.The scene where Forrest spots Jenny at a at the and in Washington, D.C., required visual effects to create the large crowd of people. Over two days of filming, approximately 1,500 were used.

At each successive take, the extras were rearranged and moved into a different away from the camera. With the help of computers, the extras were multiplied to create a crowd of several hundred thousand people.

Critical receptionThe film received generally positive reviews. The website reported that 72% of critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.36/10, based on a sample of 98 reviews. The website's critical consensus states, ' Forrest Gump may be an overly sentimental film with a somewhat problematic message, but its sweetness and charm are usually enough to approximate true depth and grace.' At the website, the film earned a rating of 82 out of 100 based on 20 reviews by mainstream critics. Audiences polled by gave the film a rare 'A+' grade. Snap from Wax Museum at Innovative Film city BangaloreThe story was commended by several critics.

Of the wrote, 'I've never met anyone like Forrest Gump in a movie before, and for that matter I've never seen a movie quite like 'Forrest Gump.' Any attempt to describe him will risk making the movie seem more conventional than it is, but let me try. It's a comedy, I guess.

Or maybe a drama. The screenplay by has the complexity of modern fiction.The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story rich in big laughs and quiet truths.What a magical movie.' Todd McCarthy of wrote that the film 'has been very well worked out on all levels, and manages the difficult feat of being an intimate, even delicate tale played with an appealingly light touch against an epic backdrop.' The film did receive notable pans from several major reviewers. Of called the film 'Warm, wise, and wearisome as hell.' Of said that the film was 'glib, shallow, and monotonous' and 'reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of.'

Gump garnered comparisons to fictional character, as well as U.S. Peter Chomo writes that Gump acts as a 'social mediator and as an agent of redemption in divided times'. Of called Gump 'everything we admire in the American character – honest, brave, and loyal with a heart of gold.' Reviewer Janet Maslin called Gump a 'hollow man' who is 'self-congratulatory in his blissful ignorance, warmly embraced as the embodiment of absolutely nothing.' Marc Vincenti of called the character 'a pitiful stooge taking the pie of life in the face, thoughtfully licking his fingers.' Bruce Kawin and 's textbook on film history notes that Forrest Gump's dimness was a metaphor for glamorized nostalgia in that he represented a blank slate onto which the projected their memories of those events.The film is commonly seen as a polarizing one for audiences, with writing in 2004, 'Nearly a decade after it earned gazillions and swept the Oscars, Robert Zemeckis's ode to 20th-century America still represents one of cinema's most clearly drawn lines in the sand. One half of folks see it as an artificial piece of pop melodrama, while everyone else raves that it's sweet as a box of chocolates.'

Box office performanceProduced on a budget of $55 million, Forrest Gump opened in 1,595 theaters in its first weekend of domestic release, earning $24,450,602. Motion picture business consultant and screenwriter Jeffrey Hilton suggested to producer to double the P&A (film marketing budget) based on his viewing of an early print of the film. The budget was immediately increased, in line with his advice. The film placed first in the weekend's box office, narrowly beating, which was in its fourth week of release.

For the first ten weeks of its release, the film held the number one position at the box office. The film remained in theaters for 42 weeks, earning $329.7 million in the United States and Canada, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film at that time (behind only, and ). Estimates that the film sold over 78.5 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run.The film took 66 days to surpass $250 million and was the fastest grossing Paramount film to pass $100 million, $200 million, and $300 million in box office receipts (at the time of its release). The film had gross receipts of $330,252,182 in the U.S. And Canada and $347,693,217 in international markets for a total of $677,945,399 worldwide. Even with such revenue, the film was known as a 'successful failure'—due to distributors' and exhibitors' high fees, Paramount's 'losses' clocked in at $62 million, leaving executives realizing the necessity of better deals.

This has, however, also been associated with, where expenses are inflated in order to minimize profit sharing. It is Robert Zemeckis' highest-grossing film to date.Home mediaForrest Gump was first released on tape on April 27, 1995, as a two-disc set on April 28, 1995, before being released in a two-disc set on August 28, 2001. Special features included director and producer commentaries, production featurettes, and screen tests. The film was released on in November 2009.

Paramount released the film on in June 2018. Main article:Forrest Gump won, (Hanks won the previous year for ), and at the. The film was nominated for seven, winning three of them:,. The film was also nominated for six and won two for and.In addition to the film's multiple awards and nominations, it has also been recognized by the on several of its lists. The film ranks 37th on, 71st on, and 76th on. In addition, the quote 'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get,' was ranked 40th on.

The film also ranked at number 61 on 's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time.In December 2011, Forrest Gump was selected for preservation in the '. The Registry said that the film was 'honored for its technological innovations (the digital insertion of Gump seamlessly into vintage archival ), its resonance within the culture that has elevated Gump (and what he represents in terms of American innocence) to the status of folk hero, and its attempt to engage both playfully and seriously with contentious aspects of the era's traumatic history.' Lists. – #71. – Nominated. – Nominated.:. Forrest Gump – Nominated Hero.:.

'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.' – #40. 'Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.' ' – Nominated.

– Nominated. – #37. – #76. – Nominated Epic FilmAuthor controversy. Was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film's net profits. However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him, using to posit that the blockbuster film lost money. Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for a percent share of the film's gross receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40 million.

Additionally, Groom was not mentioned once in any of the film's six Oscar-winner speeches.Groom's dispute with Paramount was later effectively resolved after Groom declared he was satisfied with Paramount's explanation of their accounting, this coinciding with Groom receiving a seven-figure contract with Paramount for film rights to another of his books, This film was never made, remaining in for at least a dozen years. 'I don't want to sound like a bad version of 'the child within'. But the childlike innocence of Forrest Gump is what we all once had. It's an emotional journey. You laugh and cry. It does what movies are supposed to do: make you feel alive.' —producerVarious interpretations have been suggested for the feather present at the opening and conclusion of the film.

Sarah Lyall of The New York Times noted several suggestions made about the feather: 'Does the white feather symbolize? Forrest Gump's impaired intellect? The randomness of experience?' Hanks interpreted the feather as: 'Our destiny is only defined by how we deal with the chance elements to our life and that's kind of the embodiment of the feather as it comes in. Here is this thing that can land anywhere and that it lands at your feet. It has theological implications that are really huge.'

Sally Field compared the feather to fate, saying: 'It blows in the wind and just touches down here or there. Was it planned or was it just perchance?' Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston compared the feather to an abstract painting: 'It can mean so many things to so many different people.' In episode ' opening scene, is shown on a park bench, same like Forrest Gump. Homer gets stung in both his eyes by the acute tip of the gently falling feather.Political interpretationsHanks states that 'the film is non-political and thus non-judgmental.' Nevertheless, CNN's debated in 1994 whether the film promoted conservative values or was an indictment of the movement of the 1960s.

Thomas Byers called it 'an aggressively conservative film' in a Modern Fiction Studies article. All over the political map, people have been calling Forrest their own. But, Forrest Gump isn't about politics or conservative values. It's about humanity, it's about respect, tolerance and unconditional love.—producerIt has been noted that while Gump follows a very conservative lifestyle, Jenny's life is full of countercultural embrace, complete with drug usage, promiscuity, and antiwar rallies, and that their eventual marriage might be a kind of reconciliation. Jennifer Hyland Wang argues in a Cinema Journal article that Jenny's death to an unnamed virus 'symbolizes the death of liberal America and the death of the protests that defined a decade' in the 1960s. She also notes that the film's screenwriter developed the screenplay from the novel and transferred to Jenny 'all of Gump's flaws and most of the excesses committed by Americans in the 1960s and 1970s'.Other commentators believe the film forecast the 1994 and used the image of Forrest Gump to promote movement leader 's traditional, conservative values.

Jennifer Hyland Wang observes that the film idealizes the 1950s, as made evident by the lack of 'whites only' signs in Gump's Southern childhood, and envisions the 1960s as a period of social conflict and confusion. She argues that this sharp contrast between the decades criticizes the counterculture values and reaffirms conservatism. Wang argues that the film was used by Republican politicians to illustrate a 'traditional version of recent history' to gear voters towards their ideology for the congressional elections. Presidential candidate stated that the film's message was 'no matter how great the adversity, the American Dream is within everybody's reach.'

In 1995, included Forrest Gump in its list of the 'Best 100 Conservative Movies' of all time, and ranked it number four on its 25 Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years list. 'Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s. The love of his life, wonderfully played by Robin Wright Penn, chooses a different path; she becomes a drug-addled hippie, with disastrous results.' Professor James Burton at argues that conservatives claimed Forrest Gump as their own due less to the content of the film and more to the historical and cultural context of 1994. Burton claims that the film's content and advertising campaign were affected by the cultural climate of the 1990s, which emphasized family values and American values, epitomized in the book Hollywood vs. He claims that this climate influenced the apolitical nature of the film, which allowed many different political interpretations.Some commentators see the conservative readings of Forrest Gump as indicating the death of irony in American culture.

Vivian Sobchack notes that the film's humor and irony rely on the assumption of the audience's historical knowledge. Main articles: andThe 32-song soundtrack from the film was released on July 6, 1994. With the exception of a lengthy suite from 's score, all the songs are previously released; the soundtrack includes songs from, and among others. Music producer Joel Sill reflected on compiling the soundtrack: 'We wanted to have very recognizable material that would pinpoint time periods, yet we didn't want to interfere with what was happening cinematically.' The two-disc album has a variety of music from the 1950s–1980s performed by American artists. According to Sills, this was due to Zemeckis' request, 'All the material in there is American. Bob (Zemeckis) felt strongly about it.

He felt that Forrest wouldn't buy anything but American.' The soundtrack reached a peak of number 2 on the. The soundtrack went on to sell twelve million copies, and is one of the top selling albums in the United States. The Oscar-nominated for the film was composed and conducted by and released on August 2, 1994.Proposed sequel.

Main article:The screenplay for the sequel was written by in 2001. It is based on the original novel's sequel, written by Winston Groom in 1995.

Roth's script begins with Forrest sitting on a bench waiting for his son to return from school. After the, Roth, Zemeckis, and Hanks decided the story was no longer 'relevant.' In March 2007, however, it was reported Paramount producers took another look at the screenplay.On the very first page of the sequel novel, Forrest Gump tells readers 'Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story,' though 'Whether they get it right or wrong, it doesn't matter.' The first chapter of the book suggests the real-life events surrounding the film have been incorporated into Forrest's storyline, and that Forrest got a lot of media attention as a result of the film. During the course of the sequel novel, Gump runs into Tom Hanks and at the end of the novel in the film's release, including Gump going on and attending the.Remake. In March 2019, actor and filmmaker announced he will produce and star in Laal Singh Chadda, an Indian remake of Forrest Gump.

Khan revealed the film's director as Advait Chandan, who he previously worked with on the acclaimed hit drama film (2017). Laal Singh Chadda will be produced by ’s local studio. Filming will commence in October, with the film's release slated for 2020. Kareena Kapoor Khan is signed as leading lady in the film and will play the strong and unconventional character played by Robin Wright.

The studyforrest project. The German audiovisual movie and its audio-track have been the central part of the scientific studyforrest project.

This project aims at 'studying high-level cognition in the human brain under complex, natural stimulation' and uses the multi-modal, complex content as stimulus material during, and cardiac and respiratory trace acquisition. In a first major release, participants listened to the German audio version of the movie, and, in an extension, watched the audio-visual movie. The resulting data have been publicly shared to facilitate open scientific practices and at the time of release constituted the world's largest dataset on speech processing in the human brain.

Since its initial release, stimulus annotations and additional brain imaging data have been added, and the dataset was described or used in 28 publications (status as of March 2019). The projects contribution to the movement have been covered in national news.

Running time142 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$55 millionBox office$678.1 millionForrest Gump is a 1994 American film directed by and written. It is based on by, and stars,. The story depicts several decades in the life of (Hanks), a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century in the United States. The film differs substantially from the novel.Principal photography took place in late 1993, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Extensive visual effects were used to incorporate Hanks into archived footage and to develop other scenes.

The features songs reflecting the different periods seen in the film.Forrest Gump was released in the United States on July 6, 1994 and received favorable reviews for Zemeckis' directing, Hanks' performance, the visual effects, and the script. The film was an enormous success at the box office; it became the top-grossing film in America released that year and earned over 677 million worldwide during its theatrical run, making it the.

The soundtrack sold over 12 million copies. Forrest Gump won the for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing.

It won many other awards and nominations, including, and.Varying interpretations have been made of the protagonist and the film's political symbolism. In 2011, the selected the film for preservation in the United States as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. Contents.Plot In 1981 at a bus stop in, Forrest Gump recounts his life story to strangers who sit next to him on a bench.In 1951 in Greenbow, young Forrest is fitted with leg braces to correct a curved spine, and is unable to walk properly. He lives alone with his mother, who runs a boarding house out of their home that attracts many tenants, including a young, who plays the guitar for Forrest and incorporates his jerky dance movements into his famous performances. On his first day of school, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran, and the two become best friends.Forrest is often bullied because of his physical disability and marginal intelligence. While fleeing from some bullies, his braces fall off, revealing Forrest to be a very fast runner.

This talent eventually allows him to receive a at the in 1963; he witnesses 's, becomes a top, is named on the, and meets at the.After his college graduation, Forrest enlists into the, where he befriends a fellow soldier nicknamed 'Bubba', who convinces Forrest to go into the business with him after their service. In 1967, they are sent to, serving with the in the region. After a few routine operations, their platoon is ambushed while on patrol, and Bubba is killed in action.

Forrest saves several wounded platoon-mates—including his lieutenant, Dan Taylor, who loses both his legs—and is awarded the for his heroism by President.At the ' rally, Forrest briefly reunites with Jenny, who has been living a lifestyle. He also develops a talent for, and becomes a sports celebrity as he competes against Chinese teams in, earning him an interview alongside on. In, he spends the holidays and the 1972 new year with Dan, who has become an embittered cripple. Forrest soon meets President and is put up in the, where he accidentally exposes the, forcing Nixon to resign.Returning to Greenbow, Forrest endorses a company that makes ping-pong paddles. He uses the earnings to buy a shrimping boat in, fulfilling his promise to Bubba. Dan joins Forrest in 1974, and they initially have little success.

After their boat becomes the only one to survive, they pull in huge amounts of shrimp and create the, after which Dan finally thanks Forrest for saving his life. Dan invests into and the two become millionaires, but Forrest also gives half of the earnings to Bubba's family.

Forrest then returns home to see his mother as she dies of.In 1976, Jenny—recovering from years of drug abuse and prostitution—returns to visit Forrest, and after awhile he proposes to her. She declines, but then has sex with him that night before leaving early the next morning. Heartbroken, Forrest goes running, and spends the next three years in a relentless cross-country marathon, becoming famous again.In the present, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny, who asked him to visit her. Reunited with Jenny, she introduces him to their son, named Forrest Gump, Jr. Jenny tells Forrest she is sick with an unknown incurable virus, and the three move back to Greenbow.

Jenny and Forrest finally marry, but she dies a year later. The film ends with Forrest seeing his son off on his first day of school.Cast. as: Although at an early age he is deemed to have a below-average IQ of 75, he has an endearing character and shows devotion to his loved ones and duties, character traits which bring him into many life-changing situations.

Along the way, he encounters many historical figures and events throughout his life. Tom's younger brother is his acting double in the movie for the scenes when Forrest runs across the U.S. Tom's daughter Elizabeth Hanks appears in the movie as the girl on the school bus who refuses to let young Forrest sit next to her. Was the original choice to play the title role and admits passing on the role was a mistake. And were also considered for the role. Stated in an interview having been second choice for the role.

Hanks revealed that he signed on to the film after an hour and a half of reading the script. He initially wanted to ease Forrest's pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by director to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel.

as young Forrest Gump: Hanks revealed in interviews that after hearing Michael's unique accented drawl, he incorporated it into the older character's accent., who wrote the original novel, describes the film as having taken the 'rough edges' off of the character, and envisioned him being played by. as Jenny Curran: Forrest's childhood friend with whom he immediately falls in love, and never stops loving throughout his life. A victim of at the hands of her bitterly widowed father, Jenny embarks on a different path from Forrest, leading a self-destructive life and becoming part of the hippie movement in the 1960s and the 1970s/1980s drug culture. She re-enters Forrest's life at various times in adulthood. Jenny eventually becomes a waitress in Savannah, Georgia, where she lives in an apartment with her (and Forrest's) son, Forrest Jr. They eventually get married, but soon afterward she dies from complications due to an unnamed disease. as young Jenny Curran.

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as Dan Taylor: Forrest and Bubba Blue's platoon leader during the Vietnam War, whose ancestors have died in every U.S. War and who regards it as his destiny to do the same. After losing his legs in an ambush and being rescued against his will by Forrest, he is initially bitter and antagonistic towards Forrest for leaving him a 'cripple' and denying him his family's destiny, falling into a deep depression. He later serves as Forrest's first mate at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, gives most of the orders, becoming wealthy with Forrest, and regains his will to live. He ultimately forgives and thanks Forrest for saving his life. By the end of the film, he is engaged to be married and is sporting 'magic legs' – which allow him to walk again.

Was considered for the role. as Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue: Bubba was originally supposed to be the senior partner in the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, but due to his death in Vietnam, their platoon leader, Dan Taylor, took his place. The company posthumously carried his name.

Forrest later gave Bubba's mother Bubba's share of the business. Throughout filming, Williamson wore a lip attachment to create Bubba's protruding lip., and were all offered the role but turned it down. Chappelle said he believed the film would be unsuccessful, and also acknowledged that he regrets not taking the role.

as Mrs. Gump: Field reflected on the character, 'She's a woman who loves her son unconditionally. A lot of her dialogue sounds like slogans, and that's just what she intends.'

. as Forrest Gump, Jr.: Osment was cast in the film after the casting director noticed him in a commercial.

as: Although was uncredited, he provided the voice for Elvis in the scene. as himself: Cavett played a version of himself in the 1970s, with applied to make him appear younger. Consequently, Cavett is the only well-known figure in the film to play a rather than be represented through the use of like or President. as Coach., Conor Kennelly, and Teddy Lane Jr. As theProduction Script. 'The writer, Eric Roth, departed substantially from the book.

We flipped the two elements of the book, making the love story primary and the fantastic adventures secondary. Also, the book was cynical and colder than the movie. In the movie, Gump is a completely decent character, always true to his word. He has no agenda and no opinion about anything except Jenny, his mother and God.' —directorThe film is based on the 1986. Both center on the character of Forrest Gump.

However, the film primarily focuses on the first eleven chapters of the novel, before skipping ahead to the end of the novel with the founding of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. And the meeting with Forrest, Jr. In addition to skipping some parts of the novel, the film adds several aspects to Gump's life that do not occur in the novel, such as his needing leg braces as a child and his run across the United States.Gump's core character and personality are also changed from the novel; among other things his film character is less of a — in the novel, while playing football at the university, he fails craft and gym, but receives a perfect score in an advanced physics class he is enrolled in by his coach to satisfy his college requirements.

The novel also features Gump as an, a, and a player.Two directors were offered the opportunity to direct the film before Robert Zemeckis was selected. Turned down the offer. Was attached to the film, but left to direct. The shrimping boat Jenny used in the film.Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year. Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina, including a running shot on the. Downtown portions of the fictional town of Greenbow were filmed in. The scene of Forrest running through Vietnam while under fire was filmed on.

Additional filming took place on the in, and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near. The most notable place was, where a part of the road subsequently became known as 'Forrest Gump Curve'. The Gump family home set was built along the near, and the nearby land was used to film Curran's home as well as some of the Vietnam scenes. Over 20 trees were planted to improve the Vietnam scenes.

Forrest Gump narrated his life's story at the southern edge of in, as he sat at a bus stop bench. There were other scenes filmed in and around the Savannah area as well, including a running shot on the in Beaufort while he was being interviewed by the press, and on West Bay Street in Savannah. Most of the college campus scenes were filmed in at the. The lighthouse that Forrest runs across to reach the Atlantic Ocean the first time is the in. Additional scenes were filmed in Arizona, Utah's, and Montana's. Visual effects. Gump with President.

A variety of visual effects were used to incorporate Tom Hanks into archive footage with various historical figures and events.and his team at were responsible for the film's visual effects. Using techniques, it was possible to depict Gump meeting deceased personages and shaking their hands. Hanks was first shot against a along with reference markers so that he could line up with the archive footage. To record the voices of the historical figures, voice actors were filmed and special effects were used to alter for the new dialogue. Archival footage was used and with the help of such techniques as, and, Hanks was integrated into it.In one Vietnam War scene, Gump carries Bubba away from an incoming attack. To create the effect, were initially used for purposes. Then, Hanks and Williamson were filmed, with Williamson supported by a cable wire as Hanks ran with him.

The explosion was then filmed, and the actors were digitally added to appear just in front of the explosions. The jet fighters and napalm canisters were also added by CGI.The CGI removal of actor 's legs, after his character had them amputated, was achieved by wrapping his legs with a blue fabric, which later facilitated the work of the 'roto-paint' team to paint out his legs from every single frame.

At one point, while hoisting himself into his, his legs are used for support.The scene where Forrest spots Jenny at a at the and in Washington, D.C., required visual effects to create the large crowd of people. Over two days of filming, approximately 1,500 were used. At each successive take, the extras were rearranged and moved into a different away from the camera. With the help of computers, the extras were multiplied to create a crowd of several hundred thousand people. Release Critical reception The film received generally positive reviews.

The website reported that 72% of critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.36/10, based on a sample of 98 reviews. The website's critical consensus states, ' Forrest Gump may be an overly sentimental film with a somewhat problematic message, but its sweetness and charm are usually enough to approximate true depth and grace.'

At the website, the film earned a rating of 82 out of 100 based on 20 reviews by mainstream critics. Audiences polled by gave the film a rare 'A+' grade. Snap from Wax Museum at Innovative Film city BangaloreThe story was commended by several critics. Of the wrote, 'I've never met anyone like Forrest Gump in a movie before, and for that matter I've never seen a movie quite like 'Forrest Gump.'

Any attempt to describe him will risk making the movie seem more conventional than it is, but let me try. It's a comedy, I guess. Or maybe a drama.

The screenplay by has the complexity of modern fiction.The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story rich in big laughs and quiet truths.What a magical movie.' Todd McCarthy of wrote that the film 'has been very well worked out on all levels, and manages the difficult feat of being an intimate, even delicate tale played with an appealingly light touch against an epic backdrop.' The film did receive notable pans from several major reviewers. Of called the film 'Warm, wise, and wearisome as hell.'

Of said that the film was 'glib, shallow, and monotonous' and 'reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of.' Gump garnered comparisons to fictional character, as well as U.S. Peter Chomo writes that Gump acts as a 'social mediator and as an agent of redemption in divided times'.

Of called Gump 'everything we admire in the American character – honest, brave, and loyal with a heart of gold.' Reviewer Janet Maslin called Gump a 'hollow man' who is 'self-congratulatory in his blissful ignorance, warmly embraced as the embodiment of absolutely nothing.' Marc Vincenti of called the character 'a pitiful stooge taking the pie of life in the face, thoughtfully licking his fingers.' Bruce Kawin and 's textbook on film history notes that Forrest Gump's dimness was a metaphor for glamorized nostalgia in that he represented a blank slate onto which the projected their memories of those events.The film is commonly seen as a polarizing one for audiences, with writing in 2004, 'Nearly a decade after it earned gazillions and swept the Oscars, Robert Zemeckis's ode to 20th-century America still represents one of cinema's most clearly drawn lines in the sand.

One half of folks see it as an artificial piece of pop melodrama, while everyone else raves that it's sweet as a box of chocolates.' Box office performance Produced on a budget of $55 million, Forrest Gump opened in 1,595 theaters in its first weekend of domestic release, earning $24,450,602. Motion picture business consultant and screenwriter Jeffrey Hilton suggested to producer to double the P&A (film marketing budget) based on his viewing of an early print of the film. The budget was immediately increased, in line with his advice. The film placed first in the weekend's box office, narrowly beating, which was in its fourth week of release. For the first ten weeks of its release, the film held the number one position at the box office.

The film remained in theaters for 42 weeks, earning $329.7 million in the United States and Canada, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film at that time (behind only, and ). Estimates that the film sold over 78.5 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run.The film took 66 days to surpass $250 million and was the fastest grossing Paramount film to pass $100 million, $200 million, and $300 million in box office receipts (at the time of its release). The film had gross receipts of $330,252,182 in the U.S. And Canada and $347,693,217 in international markets for a total of $677,945,399 worldwide. Even with such revenue, the film was known as a 'successful failure'—due to distributors' and exhibitors' high fees, Paramount's 'losses' clocked in at $62 million, leaving executives realizing the necessity of better deals. This has, however, also been associated with, where expenses are inflated in order to minimize profit sharing. It is Robert Zemeckis' highest-grossing film to date.Home media Forrest Gump was first released on tape on April 27, 1995, as a two-disc set on April 28, 1995, before being released in a two-disc set on August 28, 2001.

Special features included director and producer commentaries, production featurettes, and screen tests. The film was released on in November 2009. Paramount released the film on in June 2018.

Accolades. Main article:Forrest Gump won, (Hanks won the previous year for ), and at the. The film was nominated for seven, winning three of them:,. The film was also nominated for six and won two for and.In addition to the film's multiple awards and nominations, it has also been recognized by the on several of its lists.

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The film ranks 37th on, 71st on, and 76th on. In addition, the quote 'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get,' was ranked 40th on. The film also ranked at number 61 on 's list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time.In December 2011, Forrest Gump was selected for preservation in the '. The Registry said that the film was 'honored for its technological innovations (the digital insertion of Gump seamlessly into vintage archival ), its resonance within the culture that has elevated Gump (and what he represents in terms of American innocence) to the status of folk hero, and its attempt to engage both playfully and seriously with contentious aspects of the era's traumatic history.' Lists.

– #71. – Nominated.

– Nominated.:. Forrest Gump – Nominated Hero.:. 'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.

You never know what you're gonna get.' – #40. 'Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'

' – Nominated. – Nominated. – #37. – #76. – Nominated Epic FilmAuthor controversy was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film's net profits. However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him, using to posit that the blockbuster film lost money. Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for a percent share of the film's gross receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40 million.

Additionally, Groom was not mentioned once in any of the film's six Oscar-winner speeches.Groom's dispute with Paramount was later effectively resolved after Groom declared he was satisfied with Paramount's explanation of their accounting, this coinciding with Groom receiving a seven-figure contract with Paramount for film rights to another of his books, This film was never made, remaining in for at least a dozen years. Symbolism Feather.

'I don't want to sound like a bad version of 'the child within'. But the childlike innocence of Forrest Gump is what we all once had. It's an emotional journey. You laugh and cry. It does what movies are supposed to do: make you feel alive.'

—producerVarious interpretations have been suggested for the feather present at the opening and conclusion of the film. Sarah Lyall of The New York Times noted several suggestions made about the feather: 'Does the white feather symbolize? Forrest Gump's impaired intellect? The randomness of experience?' Hanks interpreted the feather as: 'Our destiny is only defined by how we deal with the chance elements to our life and that's kind of the embodiment of the feather as it comes in. Here is this thing that can land anywhere and that it lands at your feet. It has theological implications that are really huge.'

Sally Field compared the feather to fate, saying: 'It blows in the wind and just touches down here or there. Was it planned or was it just perchance?' Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston compared the feather to an abstract painting: 'It can mean so many things to so many different people.'

In episode ' opening scene, is shown on a park bench, same like Forrest Gump. Homer gets stung in both his eyes by the acute tip of the gently falling feather.Political interpretations Hanks states that 'the film is non-political and thus non-judgmental.' Nevertheless, CNN's debated in 1994 whether the film promoted conservative values or was an indictment of the movement of the 1960s. Thomas Byers called it 'an aggressively conservative film' in a Modern Fiction Studies article. All over the political map, people have been calling Forrest their own. But, Forrest Gump isn't about politics or conservative values. It's about humanity, it's about respect, tolerance and unconditional love.—producerIt has been noted that while Gump follows a very conservative lifestyle, Jenny's life is full of countercultural embrace, complete with drug usage, promiscuity, and antiwar rallies, and that their eventual marriage might be a kind of reconciliation.

Jennifer Hyland Wang argues in a Cinema Journal article that Jenny's death to an unnamed virus 'symbolizes the death of liberal America and the death of the protests that defined a decade' in the 1960s. She also notes that the film's screenwriter developed the screenplay from the novel and transferred to Jenny 'all of Gump's flaws and most of the excesses committed by Americans in the 1960s and 1970s'.Other commentators believe the film forecast the 1994 and used the image of Forrest Gump to promote movement leader 's traditional, conservative values. Jennifer Hyland Wang observes that the film idealizes the 1950s, as made evident by the lack of 'whites only' signs in Gump's Southern childhood, and envisions the 1960s as a period of social conflict and confusion.

She argues that this sharp contrast between the decades criticizes the counterculture values and reaffirms conservatism. Wang argues that the film was used by Republican politicians to illustrate a 'traditional version of recent history' to gear voters towards their ideology for the congressional elections.

Presidential candidate stated that the film's message was 'no matter how great the adversity, the American Dream is within everybody's reach.' In 1995, included Forrest Gump in its list of the 'Best 100 Conservative Movies' of all time, and ranked it number four on its 25 Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years list. 'Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s. The love of his life, wonderfully played by Robin Wright Penn, chooses a different path; she becomes a drug-addled hippie, with disastrous results.' Professor James Burton at argues that conservatives claimed Forrest Gump as their own due less to the content of the film and more to the historical and cultural context of 1994. Burton claims that the film's content and advertising campaign were affected by the cultural climate of the 1990s, which emphasized family values and American values, epitomized in the book Hollywood vs.

He claims that this climate influenced the apolitical nature of the film, which allowed many different political interpretations.Some commentators see the conservative readings of Forrest Gump as indicating the death of irony in American culture. Vivian Sobchack notes that the film's humor and irony rely on the assumption of the audience's historical knowledge. Soundtrack. Main articles: andThe 32-song soundtrack from the film was released on July 6, 1994. With the exception of a lengthy suite from 's score, all the songs are previously released; the soundtrack includes songs from, and among others.

Music producer Joel Sill reflected on compiling the soundtrack: 'We wanted to have very recognizable material that would pinpoint time periods, yet we didn't want to interfere with what was happening cinematically.' The two-disc album has a variety of music from the 1950s–1980s performed by American artists. According to Sills, this was due to Zemeckis' request, 'All the material in there is American.

Bob (Zemeckis) felt strongly about it. He felt that Forrest wouldn't buy anything but American.' The soundtrack reached a peak of number 2 on the.

The soundtrack went on to sell twelve million copies, and is one of the top selling albums in the United States. The Oscar-nominated for the film was composed and conducted by and released on August 2, 1994.Proposed sequel. Main article:The screenplay for the sequel was written by in 2001. It is based on the original novel's sequel, written by Winston Groom in 1995. Roth's script begins with Forrest sitting on a bench waiting for his son to return from school.

After the, Roth, Zemeckis, and Hanks decided the story was no longer 'relevant.' In March 2007, however, it was reported Paramount producers took another look at the screenplay.On the very first page of the sequel novel, Forrest Gump tells readers 'Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story,' though 'Whether they get it right or wrong, it doesn't matter.' The first chapter of the book suggests the real-life events surrounding the film have been incorporated into Forrest's storyline, and that Forrest got a lot of media attention as a result of the film. During the course of the sequel novel, Gump runs into Tom Hanks and at the end of the novel in the film's release, including Gump going on and attending the.Bollywood Remake In March 2019, actor and filmmaker announced he will produce and star in Laal Singh Chadda, an Indian remake of Forrest Gump. Khan revealed the film's director as Advait Chandan, who he previously worked with on the acclaimed hit drama film (2017). Laal Singh Chadda will be produced by ’s local studio. Filming will commence in October, with the film's release slated for 2020.

Kareena Kapoor Khan is signed as leading lady in the film and will play the strong and unconventional character played by Robin Wright. The studyforrest project The German audiovisual movie and its audio-track have been the central part of the scientific studyforrest project. This project aims at 'studying high-level cognition in the human brain under complex, natural stimulation' and uses the multi-modal, complex content as stimulus material during, and cardiac and respiratory trace acquisition. In a first major release, participants listened to the German audio version of the movie, and, in an extension, watched the audio-visual movie. The resulting data have been publicly shared to facilitate open scientific practices and at the time of release constituted the world's largest dataset on speech processing in the human brain.

Since its initial release, stimulus annotations and additional brain imaging data have been added, and the dataset was described or used in 28 publications (status as of March 2019). The projects contribution to the movement have been covered in national news. References.