Throughout the decades, cinema has given us such iconic phrases that they have transcended popular culture. “We will always have Paris” (Casablanca), “That the force accompanies you” (Star Wars), “Until sight, Baby” (Terminator), “To infinity and beyond” (Toy story), “Houston, we have a problem” (Apollo 13), they are just some examples.
Within this item, another dialogue stated by Tom Hanks in the 1994 Classic, Forrest Gump. Although today it is enshrined as one of the most popular and representative phrases of the 90s, the curious thing is that it was only filmed as a resource and not even the director, Robert Zemeckis, had faith. We talk about: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what is going to touch you”.
If we remember, the film tells the protagonist’s memories. Throughout this journey, we see small gump intercortes sitting in a Savannah bench, Georgia, which serve as a thread of the story. In the first minutes of the footage, the character says the phrase to start a conversation. The funny thing is that the team did not have great expectations at the time, without knowing what would happen in history.
As explained Hanks himself for the podcast CinemaBlendHe and Zemeckis remained skeptical about whether this would have any weight in the final result. What at first seemed a minor detail, ended up becoming the emotional core of the film and gave rise to a reflection that connected with the audiences of the world. In a nutshell, the plot encapsulated in a message as simple as powerful.
“In Forrest Gump, everything we shot in the Park Bank in Savannah, Georgia, We roll it as a resource for a possible narrative piece. I told Bob [Zemeckis]: ‘Is someone? What is this? No one knows what is in this box ‘”.
Tom Hanks.
The filming of these scenes was surprisingly agile: in just one and a half and a half thirteen dialogue pages were filmed, in which Forrest recounts key episodes of his life to strangers who sit next to him. Zemeckis, always aware that cinematographic success usually depends on unpredictable factors, was clear during recording. Of course, with its certain caution, of course.
“We ended up rolling about 13 pages of dialogue in a day and a half. It was written on signs. I did not need them after a while because you get into matter. But Bob says: ‘I don’t know, it’s a mines field, Tom, a mines field. You never know what people are going to look‘. And that ended up, you know … that thing. “
In spite of everything, there was always a total commitment by the actor and the filmmaker. Although they faced multiple budget challenges that threatened key scenes, none hesitated to accept the risks. For example, to carry out the sequence where Forrest runs along the United States, Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis made a bold decision: Filming personally financing.
“Robert said: ‘Well, this will cost us x dollars’. And it wasn’t cheap. I replied: ‘ok’. He said: ‘You and I are going to distribute that amount, and we will return it to Paramount. We will return the money, but you will have to share the benefits a little more. ‘ To which the study replied: ‘fabulous, fantastic’. And it was also positive for us. “
And what was positive. In the end, the film became a success among criticism, won six Oscar awards, and more than 600 million dollars was strengthened at the box office. Thanks to this, and the agreement with the study, it is estimated that Hanks won about 65 million dollars. In addition to the phrase, we cannot deny the iconic of the soundtrack and the soundtrack by Alan Silvestri.
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