He accumulated more than 678 million dollars at the world box office and six Oscar awards, including the best film. With ‘Forrest Gump’ (1994), Robert Zemeckis reached the perfect balance between comedy and sadness, fiction and reality, managing to be crowned with one of those films that everyone remembers with love. Either because of the tenderness transmitted by its protagonist, played by a magnificent Tom Hanksfor the master and imaginative lesson of history that hides, or for the shocking sense of humanity and innocence through its characters, ‘Forrest Gump’ will always be there to get excited.
After 30 years, ‘Forrest Gump’ is still more alive than ever. Especially, after the recent premiere of ‘Here (here)’, Robert Zemeckis’s new film in which Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunits after his iconic collaboration in 1994. The overwhelming common sense of the protagonist, in contrast to the deep crisis of values of society, earned Tom Hanks his second Oscar after his work in his work in ‘Philadelphia’ (Demme, 1993). That was how Tom Hanks won the heart of half the world, but he was not always so convinced of the project.
Through Forrest’s gaze, a child turned into an adult, the viewer becomes a witness of events such as the Vietnam War, the movement hippiethe aggressions of the Ku Klux Klan or the Watergate scandal. The real story surrounding the plot, with appearances as star John Lennon o Elvis Presleyconstantly interact with fiction in a game as fun as a heartbreaking. During a recent New Yorker Live event to promote his new book, ‘The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece’, Hanks admitted that he doubted that someone was interested in the 1994 historical fiction tape. The director, Robert Zemeckis, even warned him that the film would be “a mines field.”
“I said: ‘Hey, bob [Zemeckis]I have a question. Who will this movie import? ‘”Tom Hanks confessed, according to Variety.” And Bob told me: ‘It’s a mines field, Tom. We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction. Any step that we can be a buncing Betty [apodo que la infantería estadounidense dio a la mina S alemana durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial] that could fly our brains. “
Before such optimism from its director, Tom Hanks decided to continue in the project. “Bob zemeckis,” God bless him, I have worked with him more than once, “he gave with the absolute truth and said: ‘We are going to commit to filming something today, and over time we will make him something,” added the actor. “You never know if it will work“Luckily, he did. Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor for his work in ‘Forrest Gump’, before ideas for a possible sequel.
As the actor revealed in the podcast ‘Happy Sad Confused’ last year, “with a long time of difference we dared to talk about another ‘Forrest Gump’ that would last only 40 minutes. But then we never did it. Something intelligent I did was never signed a contract that would imply a sequel. I have always said: ‘Boys, if there is a reason to do it, let’s do it. But they can’t force me‘. There is that natural inclination, purely commercial, which says: ‘Hey, you just have a success, so do it again and you will be successful.’ Luckily no. “
‘Forrest Gump’ is available in the catalog of Movistar Plus+ y Sky ShowtTime.
Trapped between music and cinema, from Vigo arrived in Madrid to study journalism and audiovisual communication at the Carlos III University. Legend has it that classes preferred to skip to go to some premiere although, if you ask, deny it.
He came to the wording of frames as a scholarship in practices, after entering the musical and film journalism collaborating in media such as Milana magazine. He has interviewed personalities such as Jonás Trueba or Irene school and his most precious good is a guitar spike. Live in love with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Nora Ephron. If you do not find it, it will be watching a Kurosawa movie. It doesn’t matter when you read this.
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