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    appeared in several big names films, such as Apollo 13, Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can and the film that launched his career Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump white washed the Film Academy Awards, including, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks). If you read or see the film trailer to Forrest Gump you probably won't

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    Forrest Gump Analysis

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    characters’ emotions. Some songs played are Hound Dog by Elvis Presley, Rebel Rouser by Duane Eddy, I Don’t Know Why But I Do by Clarence Henry, and the list goes on. Forrest Gump was released in 1994 by Paramount Pictures and was directed by Robert Zemeckis. The original story was written by Winston Groom. As a recipient of numerous awards, this movie’s scores have been considered as one of the winning ticket as the scores set the moods and tonalities in this narrative film. The music connects itself

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    “Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you’re going to get” (Hanks). Many times when books are changed into movies they are done incorrectly. Forrest Gump is one of these examples. Forrest Gump, the novel, was written in 1986 by the author Winston Groom. The movie Forrest Gump was created by Paramount Pictures in 1994. Tom Hanks stars as the main character Forrest Gump. The movie portrayed Forrest Gump in a different way and as sometimes more innocent than his character in the book

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    perceptions and without any certainty about right or wrong. This is unlike those who believe that everything that occurs is fated or that there is a plan for life that one must follow and live based on it. The movie Forrest Gump (1994) directed by Robert Zemeckis is an existentialism movie because the movie shows the existentialism theme of freedom and choice as the main character Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks was born without a purpose in life and he makes his own decisions throughout the movie for

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    Back to The Future – 1985 Directed by – Robert Zemeckis Produced by Neil Canton and Bob Gale Context What How The fear that aliens exist and that no one know what they would be like. As people are trying to find life on other planets today. The fear that people will potentially mess up the world by advancing in science too far. Due to the fact that the world today quickly advancing in all types of sciences That you can achieve any goals that you really want to. That being able to excel in

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    watch stop ticking, this is a representation of when a particular person’s motivation stands still; an individual possessing no time on their hands. In Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump, Jenny’s life is the watch. Her abusive father molesting Jenny at a young age represents the watch dying, her happiness and motivation froze in that moment. Therefore, Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump develops the idea that the nature of motivation instigates a negative course of action in the lives of abuse victims consisting of self-harm

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    Back to the future by Robert Zemeckis is a fictional narrative. The plotline of this movie is that a young boy, Marty is accidentally sent to the past in a time travel machine invented by a scientist in the movie, Doc Brown. The setting of the movie is in an urban area referred to as Hill Valley in the movie. Back to the Future involves time travel, comedy scenes, and have creative science-fiction plotting, but the storyline of this narrative is pretty straightforward and easy to follow because instead

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    Tom Hanks Review “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” These are some of the most well-known words from the movie Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is a man that is gone through many struggles in his life. From being physically disabled as a child, to being in war, and also having to deal with his best friend, Jenny, not love him back, you could say that he has gone through his fair share of hard times. Although struggling throughout his life he manages to stay positive

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    Those with disabilities whether it be physical or mental are severely underrepresented in film and when they are shown is it not accurate to the reality faced by real people with disabilities (Markotic, 2008, p.7). Forrest Gump is the child of a single mother in Alabama, he has severe scoliosis, at least in his youth, and a slightly below average IQ. While his IQ is below average we clearly see that he is very capable of living a normal life. However, the people around his treat him like the village

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    Forrest Gump Disability

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    Introduction In the movie Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks portrays a character that was diagnosed with a low IQ score of 75 as a young child. Throughout the movie the character Forrest Gump is sought of as having a disadvantaged life because of his low IQ and his mild intellectual behavior disorder however, his actions proved that he is far from disadvantaged and was able to live not only a normal life but an adventurous one. Despite suffering from his mild form of intellectual behavior disorder Forrest

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