Forrest Gump

(In Apollo 13, Sinise's character walks the Hanks' crew through a crucial process involving socks, and in Saving Private Ryan, Hanks and his men use socks as containers for improvised explosive devices used to destroy German tanks.). That's the price she has to pay. During the war, Lieutenant Dan's main advice to Gump is for him to keep his feet clean and dry, and change his socks often. When I invite a woman to dinner I expect her to look at my face. This is one of the three Tom Hanks movies (along with Saving Private Ryan and Apollo 13) where socks play a role in the plot. Dumont:I've been sitting right here since 7:00.
Groucho:Yes, with your back to me. For instance, in the novel Gump (after becoming an astronaut) crash-lands on a small jungle island with his crew. The film contains one of the most famous comedy scenes of all filmdom (designed in part by Buster Keaton), when loads of people crowd into Groucho's tiny stateroom (see image).

Later in the book Forrest becomes an astronaut, after which the two stories diverge greatly. The British rock group Queen later paid homage to this film by naming one of their most famous albums after it (see A Night at the Opera (album)). Instead, he has many other adventures (professional ping pong player, wrestler, astronaut, etc). It has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In the book, Gump does not marry Jenny. Sam Wood was the director. Much of the beginning of the film is the same in the book - albeit Zemeckis's Gump is far more placid and naïve than Groom's abrasive, judgmental cynic; the film's quote of "Life is like a box of chocolates" wholly reverses the novel's sentiment of "Being an idiot is no box of chocolates". Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg (uncredited) and Buster Keaton (uncredited) from a story by James Kevin McGuinness.

Others, including Lloyd Kaufman note that Gump's successes result from doing what he is told by others, and never showing any of initiative of his own, in contrast to Jenny's more forthright and independent character who is shown descending into drugs, prostitution and death. The movie was adapted by George S. Particularly outside the United States, the film was viewed as extended and undeserved praise of ignorant naïveté, a stereotypical trait widely associated with Americans in some quarters. Classic scenes included the Stateroom scene (where more and more people are piled into a tiny ship's cabin until they literally spill out at the end), and also the contract discussion scene between Groucho and Chico, which is a masterpiece of non-communication:. Though popular among many, Forrest Gump's warm reception was not universal. These were honed on stage, as the brothers returned to touring new material on road before filming began (another Thalberg change). Jenny's death causes Forrest to question the nature of life: is it "destiny", or merely events "just floating around accidental-like"? Or perhaps it is a little of both. Some Marx Brothers fans were appalled at these format changes, yet the film undoubtedly contained some of the brothers' funniest routines ever.

Jenny finally died "on a Saturday morning", March 22, 1982, making Forrest the only parent to little Forrest (Haley Joel Osment), a bright child who attends school. The opera setting allowed MGM to add big production song numbers, which were one of this studio's specialities. However, the moment was bittersweet, as Jenny tells Forrest she is suffering from an unknown virus, the symptoms of which sound indicative of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS. It stars Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Siegfried Rumann and Margaret Dumont. Jenny tells Forrest that the boy is named after his father; the child is Forrest's son. In A Night At the Opera, the brothers help two young lovers to succeed in love as well as in the opera world. He is reunited with Jenny and, unbeknowst to Forrest initally, his son. So in the MGM films, the brothers were recast as more helpful characters. From now on they heaped their comic attacks upon only the obvious villains of the piece.

On completion of Forrest's narration to the various people who wait with him at the bus stop, he discovers from a lady with whom he has been speaking that Jenny's house, his destination since the very beginning of the film, was merely "5 or 6 blocks" down the street. Thalberg, however, felt that this made the brothers come across as unsympathetic, particularly to female film goers. Moreover, he buys, then subsequently tears down, the house where his childhood sweetheart, Jenny (Robin Wright), had been abused by her father. (Usually, they did deserve it). Forrest duely imparts a portion of his fortune to the mother of his late friend Bubba, feeling it only just that his friend receive his share of the profits, even if he is not there to enjoy the 'fruits of his labour'. In their Paramount films, the brothers' characters were much more anarchistic: they attacked (comically) anybody that was unfortunate to cross their paths, whether they deserved it or not. Returning to port after the hurricane, they found that all other fishing boats in the area had been destroyed by the storm, giving them an instant monopoly in the shrimp market and thus making Forrest a very wealthy man. It was the first film the brothers made for MGM after their departure from Paramount, and, at the suggestion of producer Irving Thalberg the film marked a change of direction in the brothers' career.

One paticular instance that arose during Forrest shrimping career involved Forrest and Lieutenant Dan taking their boat out during Hurricane Carmen. A Night At the Opera is a 1935 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. His former commander, Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise), joined him in his business venture, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Corporation, which was named after his fallen comrade. After being discharged from the Army, he returned home and began a shrimp business, drawing on advice given to him by his African American army buddy, Bubba. During service with the US Army in the Vietnam War, he helped to carry wounded members of his platoon to safety, earning him the Medal of Honor.

This running ability brought him great success with the football team of the University of Alabama (playing for the legendary Paul Bryant). Overcoming his physical handicap, Forrest began to run extensively. His odd walk proved paramount to the inception of a young muscian Elvis Presley's dance routine. Young Forrest Gump was born in fictional Greenbow, Alabama with a crooked spine, forcing to walk with the aid of leg braces from a young age.

The film's special effects include blending of Gump with footage of various historical figures, a process sometimes referred to as "gumping.". The film was praised by many critics as a modern fable. In the film, Forrest (played by Tom Hanks) calls the police about the Watergate break-in, invents the smiley face without realizing it, inspires John Lennon to write "Imagine", and makes millions on Apple Computer stock thinking he has invested in a fruit company. The film, which was directed by Robert Zemeckis, tells the story of a simple man's epic journey through life, meeting historical figures and experiencing first-hand historic events largely unaware of their significance, due to his low IQ.

The film differs substantially from the book on which it was based. The film garnered a total of 13 Academy Award nominations, of which it won 6, including Best Picture and Best Director. As such, Groom has refused to allow the novel's sequel, Gump and Co., to be filmed, stating that he could not in good conscience sell the rights to film the sequel to a failure. The film was a huge commercial success, although Paramount claimed it was a commercial failure, and did not pay Groom his share of the profits.

Forrest Gump is the lead character of the eponymous 1985 novel by Winston Groom, and of the 1994 Paramount Pictures film based on the novel.