Forrest City, Arkansas

I guess one of my favorite movies of all time has to be Forrest Gump. I remember seeing this movie when I was a young child. I was very young but I remember the movie so well, how even then it touched me in ways I can remember to this day. This movie is about a little boy from the back roads of Alabama with a crooked spine in leg braces that had no friends and was terrorized by other children for being different. Against all odds he made it through many obsticals and overcame them all. remaining…

their quest for justice. I mean because there are some courthouses that are genuinely scary places – some might even say “haunted.” In a scene straight out of a horror movie, in January 2015 a trial at the Sevier County Courthouse in De Queen, Arkansas was disrupted by 30 bats that flew in to the courtroom. Although the ensuing “disorder in the court” subsided when the lights were turned off and the trial was relocated to another location, it probably doesn’t bode well that, according to the…

favorite “Pulp Fiction,” heartwarming classic “The Shawshank Redemption” and the winner, a simple tale called “Forrest Gump.” The snooty film lovers bemoan the loss of “Pulp Fiction,” but for my money “Forrest Gump” is easily good enough to win the Oscar. The story of the movie is basic. It follows the title character (Tom Hanks), a simple man with an IQ of 75 from Alabama. In his life, Forrest experiences some of the significant events of the last 50 years. He goes to Vietnam, meets…

Forrest Gump is an American classic. Released in 1994, the movie won 6 Academy Awards and was the fourth highest grossing movie at the time. The movie follows Forrest, a Protestant born in 1945 with an IQ of 75, as he grows up in the deep south during a tumultuous period of American history. Mysteriously, Forrest finds himself at the center of dozens of major events of the 60’s and 70’s. He was present during the forced integration of the University of Alabama, he was one of the players in…

theatrical release in the summer of 1994, Forrest Gump has become one of those movies seemingly everyone is familiar with. It 's a cultural touchstone with lines like ‘Life is a box of chocolates’ appearing everywhere from tee-shirts to greeting cards.” I admit that Forrest Gump is really popular and inspiring since I watched it so many times, especially when I am upset. Forrest Gump has encouraged me through my teen years till now. However, some people regard Forrest Gump as an unrealistic,…

A Jewish father with his wife and son are trapped between the appalling situations of discrimination and fall of a race. La vita è bella (Original title: Life is Beautiful) will certainly leave you in awe once you finish the film. According to IMDB (n.d.), it lavished prestigious awards including three Oscars (1999), one from the Cannes Film Festival (1998), four Italian Golden Globes (1998) and one Grammy Award (2000). The Italian film was directed by Roberto Benigni and was released on 20th…

The movie Forrest Gump has many actors, the main characters within the movie are Tom Hanks who plays Forrest Gump, Sally Field who is mama Gump, Gary Sinise who is Lieutenant Dan Taylor and also Robin Right who plays Jenny Curran. Forrest Gump is a man with an IQ of 75, who manages between the 1950’s- 1980’s to become involved in major events in America. In this movie you will notice that Forrest takes things for exactly what they are and never complains because he is fine with the life that he…

If one does nothing and simply makes unconscious decisions, fate will not be changed. One must act consciously to change the path set forth by the outside forces. Destiny is in one 's own hands. It takes the realization of that for a change to occur and without this realization one will just act based off what they believe their destiny to be. A person 's life is planned out for them the day they are born by their parents based off personal expectations that will try to be reached. The…

Challenges are presented to everyone within their daily lives, each struggles does not compromise who a person fundamentally is. Rather, the actions taken whilst one undergoes adversity forms a person’s character. Through the use of the characters in, Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis shows the audience different forms of adversity, and different reactions to such. For example, Jenny Curran --the love interest of the main character-- has a life riddled with strife, and the ways she responds to…

Mud Stained Nikes Only in the movie Forrest Gump can one witness the late JFK being mooned by an imbecile. A comedy, drama, and romance all packed into one hundred and forty minutes. This simple-minded man lives a life of wandering filled with action and adventure. This is a movie one could watch on repeat and find themselves on the edge of their seat each time. Forrest Gump follows the life of Gump (Tom Hanks) as he touches the life of Jenny, Bubba, and Lt. Dan as well as its audience. The…