FORREST GUMP

OMAGGIO 30 ANNI DOPO
Robert Zemeckis
FORREST GUMP
Stati Uniti d’America 1994, 142’

Stiff as a pole with his hair cut military short and his shirt buttoned up to his Adam's apple, Forrest Gump has become the pop-culture hero of the '90s. He's emerged as an Everyman symbol of all things to all people, moving from movie reviews to the op-ed pages, where essayists and critics have compared him to everyone from Huck Finn to "Harvey's" Elwood P. Dowd. [Gump’s] own inventor, novelist Winston Groom, lumps him in with Steinbeck's Lennie, Faulkner's Benjy and "that Doy-chee-eveskie guy's idiot." (Hal Hinson, Washington Post, Aug. 14, 1994) The film, which features several hybrid scenes in which Hanks appears to interact with key historical moments, won six Oscars, including best director, picture, actor, and visual effects.