Forrest Gump [DVD]

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Director Robert Zemeckis presents a heartfelt look at life's special moments in Forrest Gump (1994). million worldwide during its theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1994, behind The Lion King.

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What everyone referred to as "a masterpiece of a movie", turned out to be a harmless (and occasionally beautiful) little gem. It makes us feel good to pretend that retarded people are somehow magical and wise, because otherwise we would feel so bad that they were severely mentally crippled.

Additional filming took place on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, North Carolina. In its opening weekend, the film placed first at the US box office, narrowly beating The Lion King, which was in its fourth week of release.Extensive visual effects were used to incorporate Hanks into archived footage and to develop other scenes. After she dies, Forrest spends most of his time volunteering as a gardener at the University of Alabama.

Gump's core character and personality are also changed from the novel; among other things, his film character is less of a savant—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. Forrest Gump won Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hanks had won the previous year for Philadelphia), Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the 67th Academy Awards.Academy members said that, given a second chance, they would award the 1994 Oscar for Best Picture to The Shawshank Redemption instead. While the movie does not boast with explosive effects, the subtly of some of the special effects is remarkable. Bal, Sumeet; Marc Bernardin; Monica Mehta; Joshua Rich; Erin Richter; Michael Sauter; Missy Schwartz; Nancy Sidewater (January 9, 2004). Forrest Gump held the record for being the highest-grossing Paramount film until it was taken by Titanic three years later in 1997. We bought it recently for our son to watch and unsupprisingly he loved it even though we had to explain some of the history to him he loved it for the magic that it is.

The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story rich in big laughs and quiet truths. On the first page of the sequel novel, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story," and "Whether they get it right or wrong, it doesn't matter. Wang argues that the film was used by Republican politicians to illustrate a "traditional version of recent history" to gear voters toward their ideology for the congressional elections.

In December 2011, Forrest Gump was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Sean Penn had stated in an interview that he had been second choice for the role, but would later portray a character with a disability in the 2001 film I Am Sam. Ivan Reitman, Penny Marshall and Terry Gilliam passed on the project before Robert Zemeckis was hired. The ideas in many of his movies are novel and potentially provocative, but his approach is too often focused on the gimmicks that enable those ideas, rather than on the resonating implications they might have on our lives.