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\"Remembering<\/a>Guest blogger JBT writes:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the film that spawned the oft-quoted lines \u201cLife is like a box of chocolates.\u00a0 You never know what you\u2019re going to get\u201d and \u201cStupid is as stupid does.\u201d\u00a0 At the time of the film\u2019s release, I rued the fact that my name was Jenny because my co-workers would incessantly say \u201cMe and Jenny is like peas and carrots.\u201d Some of the lines, silly though they may seem, might have suggested an equally silly movie, but Robert Zemeckis<\/a>\u2019 film is far from silly. \u00a0It\u2019s touching, poignant, funny, heartwarming, sad and brilliant.\u00a0 It\u2019s a smart and thoughtful piece of storytelling with a truly remarkable lead character portrayed inspiringly by Tom Hanks<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0There\u2019s never been a character like Forrest Gump<\/a> in a movie before.\u00a0Even Dustin Hoffman<\/a>\u2019s Raymond in Rain Man<\/a>, with his remarkable memory and his lightening-fast math skills, doesn\u2019t quite achieve the same marvels that Forrest does.\u00a0 His life and the people he meets and the experiences he has are pretty profound. \u00a0Zemeckis\u2019 vivid direction with its tour of American history, its use of archived footage and its dazzling special effects further enhance the story.\u00a0 Every element fits together in this remarkable film about an extraordinary and unlikely American hero touched with great talent despite his below-average intelligence and his unwavering capacity for hope.<\/div>\n
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Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is an idiot-savant with an IQ around 75 who somehow manages to be present at nearly every major event in American history between the 1950s and the 1980s.\u00a0 His remarkable life journey begins when he\u2019s bullied as a young boy for wearing braces on his legs.\u00a0 The bullies throw rocks at Forrest and his childhood friend, Jenny, urges him to run away.\u00a0 Forrest does as Jenny suggests and runs and runs until his leg braces break apart and fall off his legs.\u00a0 It turns out that Forrest can run like the wind.\u00a0 That\u2019s how he lands a college football scholarship later on as a teenager and how, as a soldier in Vietnam after graduation, he saves many men in his platoon by carrying and running with them away from an ambush of bombs for which he\u2019s awarded the Medal of Honor.<\/div>\n
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Forrest later becomes a ping pong champion and then a shrimp boat captain.\u00a0 He buys shares in a new \u201cfruit company\u201d called Apple Computer and makes millions. He decides one day to run and to keep on running and gains a huge following when he runs across America.\u00a0 During his run, he inadvertently coins the popular bumper sticker phrase \u201cShit Happens.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Zemeckis uses computerized special effects to incorporate Forrest into historic situations with the actual historical figures that were present during specific moments in history.\u00a0 He stands next to the schoolhouse door with George Wallace, he unexpectedly addresses an anti-war rally on the Mall in Washington, he shows his war wound to President Lyndon B. Johnson, he teaches Elvis how to shake his hips, he appears on The Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon, he visits the White House three times and he meets President Richard Nixon, who invites his to stay at the Watergate Hotel where Forrest inadvertently helps to expose the Watergate scandal.\u00a0 Zemeckis carefully selects the TV clips, dubs the voices so precisely and incorporates Forrest into the archived footage so seamlessly that you can\u2019t help but rub your eyes because it all looks so astoundingly real.<\/div>\n
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For all of its visual marvels, the film\u2019s greatest achievement is Forrest.\u00a0 He\u2019s sincere and completely without guile with a childlike innocence devoid of cynicism or pessimism.\u00a0 Forrest doesn\u2019t understand everything that happens to him, but he understands what he needs to.\u00a0 He\u2019s clever in his own right, takes things exactly for what they are, and he understands everything that is important about death and about love.\u00a0 He says things like, \u201cMama always said dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m not a smart man, but I know what love is.\u201d He\u2019s uncorrupted, decent, honest and nice, and his story shows us what can happen when limitations are overcome and when someone seizes the opportunities that chance unexpectedly presents. Forrest is a special man in a magical movie that I never grow tired of watching.<\/div>\n
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JBT is a contributor to the movie\u00a0blog <\/em>Big Thoughts From A Small Mind<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogger JBT writes: It\u2019s the film that spawned the oft-quoted lines \u201cLife is like a box of chocolates.\u00a0 You never know what you\u2019re going to get\u201d and \u201cStupid is as stupid does.\u201d\u00a0 At the time of the film\u2019s release,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9715,"featured_media":26619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1497],"coauthors":[5415],"class_list":["post-26618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-tom-hanks"],"yoast_head":"\nFondly Remembering Forrest Gump<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Forrest Gump, the 1994 comedy, romance movie starring Tom Hanks, and directed by Robert Zemeckis is remembered. 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