Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump

Introduction

Forrest Gump, the 1994 blockbuster movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis and received critical and commercial success. The movie revolves around an upbeat character named Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks. The story shows the various decades of the life of Forrest Gump who is a dim-witted and immature individual. Hailing from Alabama, Forrest Gump is shown to be an athletic person who goes through some of the shaping events of his life and the 20th century, which ranges from 1945, the year of Forrest's birth, to 1983.

The movie is significantly different from the novel it is based on written by Winston Groom. Gump's personality in the movie and a number of events has been left out in favor of variation in either for the movie. Filming for the movie began in 1993 and was shot primarily in Georgia, North Carolina and some parts of Southern Carolina. The movie included visual effects that were employed to infuse the character in the archive footage used in a number of scenes. A soundtrack was also created for the movie which made use of music to identify the various time periods in the movie. Commercially, the soundtrack was a success and sold more than twelve million copies all around the world (Bates, 1995).

Forrest Gump Character Analysis

Forrest Gump and Lt. Dan are two of the characters from the movie directed by Robert Zemeckis. The movie was released in 1994. The movie draws attention on the issues that people encounter in the process of their cognitive and psychosocial development. Forrest Gump is regarded as one of the highly inspirational characters to be shown in a movie. The character is symbolic of the manner in which we desire to handle the issues that come our way during our lifetime and actually we should approach the problems to resolve them given that karma is on our side. From his early years Forrest had learnt that in order to make things work for him he would need to have three qualities as part of his character;

Integrity

Honesty

Compassion

Forrest was of the view that having these traits in addition the quality of acceptance, life would pan out in a favorable manner. Forrest believed that only then can true happiness be achieved.

Forrest character is full of honesty which is also something that every one of us wishes to have. During Forrest's time in the army, Forrest made a pledge to take in Bubba's shrimping business. Even after Bubba passed away, Forrest decided to start his own business of shrimping and support Bubba's family. Generally, most of the people would be left disheartened at the death of their best friend and would be unable to gather the courage to fulfill their promises made to their friend. By the strength of Forrest's character and his honest enabled him to continue on the promises and support Bubba's family in their time of need.

The uniqueness of Forrest's character was such that he had more integrity than a number of ...