Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is the title of a book by Winston Groom from 1985, and based on the book of the American movie from 1994, directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film earned 13 Oscar nominations within, which he won six, including Best Film, best director and best actor (for Tom Hanks). In the race for Best Film defeated the film some favorites like Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption. Financially it was the movie with a yield of 677 million dollars also a huge success; adjusted for inflation, it is the second most lucrative film on 28. [source? ] The film differs on some points of the book.

The film is about Forrest Gump, a man with a low IQ and sukkelig behavior. His life is followed from his youth in Alabama in the 1950s until the 1980s. It achieves success after success and makes historical events up close with it, without realizing it. So he gives a young Elvis Presley inspiration for his dance style and a song for John Lennon(Imagine), he is as well as in the Viet Nam war and the protests against the war in Washington D.C.. He also finds the smiley from and is the inspiration for the bumper sticker-spell Shit Happens .

Some other roles in the film are for Sally Field as the mother of Forrest, Robin Wright as Jenny, his childhood sweetheart, Gary Sinise as Lt. Dan, the Viet Nam veteran without legs, and Mykelti Williamson, as his Army Buddy Bubba, with whom Forrest Gump a shrimp fishery would start. Child star Haley Joel Osment also has a small role at the end of the film.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film is about Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a simple soul with a low IQ. In the beginning we see a feather fall and we see Forrest who is sitting on a bench waiting for the bus. He tells about his life to anyone who is on the bench comes down ...
 * 2 Background
 * 3 differences between the movie and the book
 * 4 Cast
 * 5 Trivia

Gump starts telling about the day he braces for his legs. And how his mother always explains everything so that he can understand it. He tells that he is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan . His mother runs a boarding house for tourists in transit. Here also comes a young man named Elvis and Gump teaches him a dance, that Elvis later used in his song Hounddog. His mother trying to get on a very well known and good school, he must have an IQ of at least 80, his IQ is 75 and therefore it does not satisfy the requirements of the school. His mother brings a night by with the headmaster and Gump may finally made it to the school. As the school bus picks up he may sit next to no one except him next to the girl Jenny Curran. Gump and Curran become close friends and are long together, until Curran to a school only for girls.

Gump is constantly bullied because of his low IQ and leg braces. On a day he is chased by a group of boys on the bike and Curran screams than the winged words: ' Run, Forrest, run! ' Gump rent and fall of his legs are brackets, so that he can run even harder. He runs the boys look like and should play in the football team because he can run so hard.

Because of its low IQ he cannot go to University, but a college has a place for him on the condition that he in the team footballt. At the graduation ceremony, young men urged to go in service in the army.

He decides to go in service. He leaves his mother and Curran, America and goes to Viet Nam to fight in the Viet Nam war. In the army he feels perfectly at home because think there anyway is not necessary. There he meets Bubba, who also seems not too smart and a good friend of his is. Bubba knows a lot of shrimp because his family in that industry works. His wish is to take ownership of a shrimp boat and he invites Gump to that dream along with him where to make when they come out of the war.

The war In Viet Nam realizes Gump disagreed that is, but thinks they are "walking" and are looking for a certain ' Charlie '. During an attack are many soldiers and killed him, similarly Bubba's friends. Lieutenant Than Taylor hits his two legs and he blames Gump that this saves him because Taylor now has to go through life as a disabled person. He was rather died in the fight than to be brought to safety. That was also in Taylors family tradition: in every American war was killed a family member.

While Gump tries to save his buddies, he is in his rear was hit by a bullet. During his rehabilitation, he became acquainted with table tennis. He turns out, after receiving an important tip, there is a lot of talent for it. After serving, he knows a deal with a manufacturer of table tennis bats and he will receive $ 25,000. With a large portion of that amount he buys a boat to fish for shrimp, as he had promised to Bubba. Lieutenant Taylor had earlier pledged, as a joke, mate of the boat but is now to that appointment. The first weeks is the prawn fishing not very successful, but after Hurricane Carmen, in which only remains, he will receive the Gumps boat very monopoly in the shrimp fisheries and creates a successful and profitable company Bubba-Gump Shrimp.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The news that his mother then reached Gump has cancer and is dying. He leaves abruptly his boat and goes to her. She dies a short time later. Gump calls for ever more to Curran and feels lonely. He lives in his parents ' House and is multi-millionaire. He mows grass as a hobby, without there to get money for. Taylor is investing some of the money by Bubba-Gump in a company called Apple, of which Gump thinks it to fruit, but that in reality is a computer company. The shares are worth so much by the success of Apple that Gump now never have to worry about money.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Curran comes one day back and they will stay some time at Gump. They have the fine together and one day he asks her to marry him, but she refuses. He then confesses to keep her, but she doesn't think he knows what love is. A disappointed that he does indeed know tells Curran Gump what love is. That night she arrives at him in bed and they companies love. The next day turns out to be Curran left.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In order to process his grief rent Gump for many years by the United States. During his trip, he is the inspiration for many in the country. Rent a group of people with him. After a few years, he has had enough. Then he gets a letter from Curran, if he wants to come to her. This is the reason that Gump on the bench on the bus wait. People may not believe that they are talking and walking away with a millionaire.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">He tells the woman next to him where Curran lives and this tells him that he can do this running faster than by bus. He thanks her and rushes them off.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Once arrived at the home of Curran Gump comes out that they mother. The child is called Forrest, like him, and turns out to be his son. Unlike his father he is terribly smart. Curran wants to marry Gump while you still can, because she has hiv . On the wedding come many friends of Gump, including Taylor. He is engaged to Susan, a Vietnamese woman and has the ability to be able to walk again thanks to titanium legs.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Curran later deceased and Gump will be left with his son Forrest Jr. He undertakes a lot with his little son and brings him to his mother, just like back then, the school bus. As the bus drives off, he continues to sit and the white feather that he had stopped reading long time back between his book, falls between the pages out and flies away, high in the air. ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Using a certain technique is Forrest Gump in authentic footage of various historical figures, such as John Lennon, John f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. This technique is sometimes referred to as 'gumping, going to the movies. Actor Gary Sinise 's legs to eliminate were CGI and chroma keytechniques needed. The legs had to be packed with this blue material.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The soundtrack of the film contains a large number of well-known pop songs from the fifties, sixties and seventies, including Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog", "I Can't Help Myself" by The Four Tops, "Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35" by Bob Dylan and Dylan's classic "All Along the Watchtower" in the version of Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin's "Respect", "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys, "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & The Papas, "For What it's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, "What The World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, performed by Jackie DeShannon, "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" by The Doors, "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel, "Turn! Turn! Turn! "by The Byrds,"Stoned Love"by The Supremes," San Francisco "by Scott McKenzie," Aquarius "by The 5th Dimension," everybody's Talkin' "by Harry Nilsson," Get Down Tonight "by KC & the Sunshine Band," Sweet Home Alabama "by Lynyrd Skynyrd,"Go Your Own Way"by Fleetwood Mac and" Against the Wind "by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. The soundtrack is one of the most successful of all time, and cited among other things the second spot in the Us Billboard Album Top 200.

<p lang="en" len="201" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some quotes from the movie, including Run, Forrest, run!!, Stupid is as stupid does and life's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get are often parodied. ==Differences between the movie and the book<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is on some moments other than the book. The book is more cynical. Forrest Gump isn't so much a person with a low IQ, but more of an autist, with a talent for numeric calculation. He also saves in the book Mao Zedong of the emergency, he is astronautdrowning, Chess Champion wrestler, and he plays in a movie with Raquel Welch.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the film was a great success, Paramount said that the film was a flop and paid the movie company Groom its share doesn't matter. Groom refused to allow therefore that his sequel to the book, Gump & co., would be made into a film. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and John Travolta were seen as contender for the role of Forrest.
 * Terry Gilliam and Barry Sonnenfeld also had the chance to direct the movie.
 * One of the guys that do not allow Gump sitting next to them, was played by Alexander Zemeckis, the son of the Director. The girl with the red hair in the school bus is the daughter of Tom Hanks.
 * Dave Chappelle refused the role of Bubba because he thought the movie would be nothing. To date he has regret. [source?]
 * In different cities in America are there restaurants that the ideas of voortdragen and Bubba Gump. The BubbaGump shrimp restaurant is a restaurant chain where all preparation methods are used such as Bubba tells in the bus on the way to Bootcamp.
 * In the film says Forrest that Jenny dies on a Saturday morning. However, death on the tombstone date 22 March 1982: that's on a Monday.
 * A fragment of Forrest Gump, in which Forrest rent and so loses his leg braces, starred in the comedy film The Dictator (2012).