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Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis is a six Academy Awards winner (1995) love-or-hate story of a journey through life of a simple man. Gump (Tom Hanks), continually finds himself in the middle of important events from the late 50's through the 70's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK and Richard Nixon. Without effort of his own he is a witness of almost all major historical moments in the United Stated, however he takes part in them without understanding what he does and sees. It is

Zemeckis and had published in 1994, takes place in Alabama, United States. The story happened around the 1960’s to 1970’s. It was the highest-grossing film of that year and it won 13 Oscars, including Best Director, Robert Zemeckis; Best Actor, Tom Hank; and Best Picture. It came out really famous which people love to watch. Zemeckis A friendly, simple-minded Forrest Gump, who is the main character of this movie. In the movie, he shares his life experiences with the people who sit next to him while

Tom Hanks once said, “Sometimes a man just wants the impossible.” In his lifetime, most would agree that Hanks achieved the impossible through his acting career; he personalized many influential movie parts from a gay lawyer with AIDS in the movie Philadelphia to a dumb man who experienced many important events throughout history in Forrest Gump. This shift in the acting world happened on July 9, 1956 when a star was born. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California; his parents names are

The book I choose for this marking period was ”Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown. Dan Brown’s father was a math teacher and his mother was a church organist. This background paved the path where he developed a fascination with science and religion. These are themes seen in all of his books, especially this one, where he uses the idea that science and religion are intertwined. I felt that this story, driven by the theme of science and religion being the same thing, was a refreshing story that stood

We return to the present and we see Ryan questioning whether he was a good man and made the most of his life for the sake of those soldiers who laid their life down for his. His wife reassures Ryan that he honored their memory. The ending presents itself as a perfect ending, even though many died for Ryan he did not squander the opportunity granted to him and he upheld their memory. In the end it was a perfect Hollywood blockbuster, everything happened for a reason and it was a beautiful story filled

of Cast Away, director Robert Zemeckis gives the whispers of nature precedence over a film score; though unconventional, his use of sound efficiently enhances the film. In Cast Away, a time-obsessed FedEx employee named Chuck Noland (played by Tom Hanks) is cast from civilization when his plane crashes over the Pacific. Chuck and his companion--a volleyball he calls Wilson--survive on an island for four years. Throughout the entire movie, the story unfolds with sparse accompaniment, and the theme

Forrest Gump “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” Forrest Gump is the portrayal of a man that has been alienated from society, not because he is unintelligent or dimwitted, but rather because he is not restricted by the conventional ideals which are embedded within his culture; thus, Forrest challenges the conformities and principals that most people are accustomed to. The contrast that Robert Zemeckis, director of the film, is attempting to convey through

approaching enemy lines, the representation of the soldiers is that they are just ordinary human beings, not gung-ho. The conscripts were full of anxiety and fear. In fact it’s the very first thing you see with Captain John Miller (played by Tom Hanks) as he is drinking his hand trembles. As for the other soldiers, they seemed terrified of death because some of them were praying to God, or it could be that they are religious. Examples are the sniper

Analysis of the Methods Used to Make the Opening Battle Sequence of Saving Private Ryan Shocking and Realistic The Oscar winning wartime epic, Saving Private Ryan, produced by Steven Spielberg was set in 1998, with an opening half hour sequence that was shattering in its realism and ruthless in its depiction of violence. Saving Private Ryan breaks

Comparing Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day The purpose of this essay is to compare which of the two films (Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day) is the most emotionally effecting. I am also trying to compare how each of the two films represent war and soldiers to the audience. The camera work in the two films is very different. The Longest Day nearly always uses the "God" view where the camera is taking an aerial shot of the action. The "God" view means that