Forrest Gump Historical Perspectives

“Hippies were called Flower Children because they gave flowers to communicate gentleness and love” (Salge). The Hippie Movement was a popular counter culture during the 60’s-70’s. Hippies are best known for their practice of psychedelic drug use, interesting political views, where they took up living quarters, and their unique fashion sense.

The plot is about a man, Forrest Gump, who is supposed to meet up with his old bestfriend, Jenny Curran. When he is waiting for the bus, he sits on a bench

The Vietnam War was the longest war that the United States was involved in. It started by giving America financial assistance to France. Sending nearly over 500,000 American soldiers around middle 1960’s ending in a massive antiwar movement, allowing Americans to withdrawal that caused the United States to lose their first war. The purpose of this war was to reunify Vietnam and in order for that to happen Northern Vietnamese government against Viet. Congress had to fight.

Hippies of the 1960’s. The hippie’s traditions and beliefs were opposed by mainstream society. Lifestyle and musical choices were controversial and political preferences were viewed as threatening by most. Because of these controversial issues, hippies were misunderstood in their expressions.

‘The hippie movement germinated in San Francisco, with the Vietnam War at its core. The movement eventually spread to the East Coast as well, centralized in New York's East Village in addition to the Haight-Asbury district of San Francisco and Sunset Strip of Los Angeles” (Buchholz 858). Many hippies were angry over the conformist lifestyle that Americans were living in, and wanted to live how they wanted to live not how their employer or television wanted them to live. Hippies also took a political

Introduction When one mentions the word, “hippie” most people picture dirty, drug addicts with long hair. This perception, however, suggests negative aspects to hippies when they lead one of the largest historically defined movements. Hippies were the upcoming generation of America in the 1960’s that reconstrued their judgments on war and society. At a time when the Vietnam War was without recourse, hippies used peaceful movements to show their discontent with war.

The “hippies” of the 1960s had many effects on the American society. The visual appearance and lifestyle of the hippies were in sharp contrast to the conservative nature of the older generation, which defined them as a counterculture. The hippie lifestyle was based on free love, rock music, shared property, and drug experimentation. They introduced a new perspective on drugs, freedom of expression, appearance, music, attitudes toward work, and held a much more liberal political view than mainstream society.

America in the 1960s and 1970s is often associated with the hippie counterculture of the antiwar movement, usage of recreational drugs, and the rejection of traditional American values. This was a cultural movement that promoted peace and rejected mainstream culture. The hippie counterculture emerged due to America’s youth being dissatisfied with America's political and social traditions and issues. Many hippies were frustrated with America’s involvement with the Vietnam War; this fueled the emergence of a cultural movement. Hippies were also frustrated with the social issues that affect America in the 1960s.

Forrest is sitting on the front porch of his mother’s house when he decides to go for a quick jog, this jog turns into a three year run through the United States. The scene starts off with Forrest as a clean cut and a very put together young man. Zemeckis changes this when Forrest slowly becomes disheveled and sloppy looking. Throughout the three year journey Forrest grew out a beard and long hair, which was always tucked into his Bubba Gump Shrimp hat. He did not care what he looked like or what happened to him because he was running away from his life. He says “I just felt like running” but the audience sees that he is running away from his problems such as Jenny Curran, his long time love interest, (Robin Wright). Forrest

Their lives are completely different. Irony is shown when Forrest reveals that you do not have to live a busy life in order to be happy. It is the people who just accept

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement beginning in the United States around the early 1960s and consisted of a group of people who opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing an ideology that favored peace, love, and personal freedom. The hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, were usually eco-friendly and vegetarians, and promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. They created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs to explore alternative states of consciousness. They strived to liberate themselves from societal restrictions, choose their own way, and find new meaning in life.

Gump also invests in apple computers, then later decides to go for a run and continues his run all across the country(Roger Ebert). When he returns back home he meets with Jenny and she tells Forrest that he has a son. Forrest and Jenny end up moving together and later get married. Although some think that Jenny just used Forrest to settle down with him after she knew she had their son and found out she was dying from aids, Forrest is still the happiest man because he ends up with his

Just as my childhood game, this "adult" version is played by some more than others. While some of my classmates in grade school would spend their whole 30-minute recess going around in a circle, whispering in someone's ear and feeling entertained of the outcome word, I was kicking ass on the hand ball court. Maybe it was that I grew up around boys and the thought of sitting on my butt, whispering in someone's ear and waiting for an exciting turnout... was not my jam.

Early in the film, Jenny and Forrest have a platonic relationship, as Jenny is Forrest’s best and only friend. Jenny help him learn to read and stand up against the bullies that harassed Forrest. Their relationship offered Jenny an escape from her abusive alcoholic father who molested his children. Jenny and Forrest found comfort and understanding in their platonic relationship. As Jenny is the only one by his side growing beside his mother, Forrest immediately fall in love with her.

Lt. Dan Taylor was born into a family which was a military tradition. Many in his family were killed in every one of the American Wars. This is believe to be why Lt. Dan’s reasoning for enlisting into army. Lt. Dan went overseas to Vietnam during the Vietnam War and assigned to the fourth platoon. While enlisted in the army in Vietnam, he was very paranoid and on the lookout always of snipers and surprise attacks by the enemy. His platoon was involved in an ambush and Lt. Dan Taylor called for a bomb drop.