Overview: the overview of Forrest Gump involves a plot centred around a 1994 American-comedic romantic film which centres around a man who is mentally-disabled yet has a kind-heart and down-to-earth mentality. the entire movie talks about events of the latter half of the 20th century, and talks about his past, all the way from his childhood to adulthood, and detailing several important events which make up the main part of the movie as a whole. the movie is also made by the same person who wrote the novel, by a Winston groom. the movie however is also different because Gump's personality is different and several different events which took place during the movie but didn't in the novel.
it was released to the American public in the year 1994, on the 6th of July. it was quickly a commercial and overall success and became the top-earning us film within the year of its initial release and screen time.
What we find out about the plot: the film starts off first in 1981, as the main protagonist Forrest is watching a feather fall from the sky at a bus-stop in savannah, Georgia, he starts telling his story to strangers, who sit next to him on the bench, he starts off with how he on his first day at school met a "angel", called jenny, he quickly develops feelings and falls in love with her. despite his mental-disability it seems he was blessed in the physical and was able to run at lightning-speed which even earned him a football scholarship. after college he decides to enlist in the army, where he becomes best-friends with a soldier called "bubba". he talks about going into the shrimping business when the war is over. Unfortunately after bubba is sadly killed, and Forrest ends up saving half his platoon from being killed. because of this is he is awarded the medal of honour.
coming home Forrest endorses a sponsorship for Ping-Pong-which he becomes very good at, which earns him $25,000. which he uses to purchases a shrimping boat deciding to honour his promise to bubba. eventually Forrest and jenny meet up again and marry in the end though sadly she dies of a unknown disease, and the end scene shows Forrest and his son opening a book together while a feather drifts away into the wind.
Camera shots and angles: we see various camera shots and angles within the trailer of Forrest Gump for example in the first scene we see a close-up shot of forests face, straight away we can see the goofiness associated with his character, and why he becomes such a icon within the movie but also popular culture, we also see birds-eye-view shots of Vietnam during the wartime atmosphere which Forrest had to endure in order to survive and make it back to jenny. it shows the dense forests as well as the soldiers making their moves towards the Vietcong. This is highly-effective because it shows the target audience that war is not a funny matter and shows the brutality of it that many experience have their close friends die in front of them making it something that you really shouldn't be getting into. We see other camera angles such as a over the shoulder shot of Forrest making his speech towards the people until he sees jenny. all of these are very effective. and detail again what a amazing movie it is once again.
Rating: overall I would say this is a great movie to show kids, and this is indeed its main target audience, and what its aimed at. I would give this a 8/10 providing it as a comedy movie was nearly perfect if I included more historical reference then it would be perfect.
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