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Play trailer Drama Romance. Director Robert Zemeckis. Winston Groom novel Eric Roth screenplay. Top credits Director Robert Zemeckis.

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Which other A-listers were up for the legendary role? More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. This no-nothing white man becomes a war hero and a wealthy man simply by chugging along, participating in a country that dictates his every move.

But consider what that means: Though Forrest makes serious strides by asking no hard questions or pushing back on whatever opportunities come his way, childhood sweetheart Jenny Robin Wright suffers for her sins. These seem to be comprised of childhood abuse, sexual promiscuity, a bad taste in boyfriends, and hippy protests.

Zemeckis argued that he was playing to both sides of the aisle. Movies provide windows into the world and the way it fits together; by that very definition, they take on political ramifications, especially when they utilize images loaded with preexisting definitions.

Anachronisms During the 4th of July celebration scene at Forest's house with Jenny, the fireworks show on the television shows the Statue of Liberty after it was restored. The Statue was restored in When Forrest begins his three-year run, as he passes the barbershop in town, the TV announcer says President Jimmy Carter suffered from heat exhaustion.

That happened on September 15, However, Forrest begins his trip presumably on July 5, , when Carter isn't President yet. The letter from Apple Computer, dated , uses the 'Apple Garamond' font below the logo. Apple did not use this font before the introduction of the Macintosh in Until then, the logo featured the Motter Tektura font.

The Garamond font itself was only designed in Pepper with a logo that wasn't devised until the mids. Using George Wallace 's symbolic blocking of the doorway to the University of Alabama 11 June as a time reference, we know that Forrest is named to the college football All-America team in where he later meets John F.

Forrest Gump should never have met JFK. When Jenny gets a job in Memphis as a "folk singer," Forrest goes to see her and tell her that he is shipping out to Vietnam.

The year should be born in 44, U of A 18 years later, 5 years playing football, graduation, enlistment. Outside the club in Memphis, Jenny tells Forrest he doesn't know what love is. Significantly, there is a Love's truck stop sign in the background. Musket Corp did not change their company name to Love's until and there most likely would not have been a location in Memphis yet.

Very nice sign for visual messaging, though. In , one of Forrest's shrimping attempts yields, among other pieces of garbage, a Mello Yello can. Mello Yello was introduced in , and the can bears the revised logo introduced circa In a sequence set around , someone is shown reading a copy of USA Today. The newspaper wasn't created until The letter Forrest gets from Apple computers in makes reference to the Lisa computer as being under development, however this did not begin until When Forrest is playing ping-pong before being discharged, the gymnasium where he's playing shows the 3-point line on the basketball court.

During basic training in , Forrest's drill sergeant is wearing a Training and Doctrine Command patch on his left sleeve. The film suggests that Forrest Gump inspired the happy face logo in the late s. Although there is dispute as to when and who originated the smiley face sometime in the mid s it was being commonly used in the early s by brothers Murray and Bernard Spain, who used the image in a campaign to sell novelty items such as pin back buttons.

The smiley face had already passed its peak of popularity by the late s when the film suggests it was first created. While in Vietnam, the cans of Budweiser and Miller are the present model and not the accurate cans of the time. The cans of Falstaff and Busch Bavarian however do represent the correct time frame. Forrest would have been years old in when he and his mom were watching Elvis Presley on TV and not 5 or 6 as depicted in the film.

Forrest claims his famous run back and forth across the country took three years and two months. However, when he begins the run, a television article shows President Jimmy Carter collapsing from heat exhaustion, which took place on October 1, Forrest stops the run on receiving a letter from Jenny; a scene showing the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan is on a television screen.

This assassination attempt happened March 30, This would put the total duration of Forrest's run at one year and six months. Night Ranger wasn't formed until and their debut album "Dawn Patrol" wasn't released until The Stroh's neon beer sign shown outside the Times Square bar in the early 70's, is a blue, block lettered logo. This logo did not appear until the mid-late 80's.

They used a red-script logo up until that time. Forrest Gump is shown with George Wallace which was in June However, the scene is set in December , while the song "Imagine" had been recorded during the summer of that year and was released as a single in October Additionally, Lennon's album Imagine was released in September , several months before the events of the film.

Sam has a modern late 90's Detroit Pistons pennant hanging in his room, a mid 's era Detroit Tigers era Road cap, as well as a miniature late 90's Lions era Football helmet. As Forrest's mother comes into the room with young Forrest and Elvis Presley, you can see Elvis playing the guitar. Elvis plays one or two more notes after the song stops. When Forrest and Jenny watch the fireworks, the sound from the fireworks bursting comes exactly on the same time as they appear.

There should be a delay as the sound travels over some distance. Forrest belches after drinking all those bottles of Dr. Pepper but we don't see his mouth move. While Jenny is angrily throwing rocks at her childhood home she falls to the ground yet you can hear two more rocks hit the house.

Through out the film Lt. Dan refers to Forrest as Private Gump, despite him achieving the rank of Sergeant at the time of his discharge signified by the patch on his sleeve. Prior to the Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, a newsman announces that four service members, one from each service, are being awarded the Medal.

When Forrest bends over to show President Lyndon B. Johnson his wound, there are four members from each of the services with the Medal around their necks, meaning that Forrest makes five.

On seeing Gump on the shrimp boat, Lt. Dan says, "they gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor? When Forrest is in the hospital with a butt injury, he is given back all the letters he wrote to Jenny. On the first envelope, the zip code of her address is On the second envelope, the zip code is The third and remaining zip codes are again When Forrest quickly puts together his rifle faster than anyone else in the barracks, he says, "Done, Drill Sergeant," without his accent.

During the Protest Rally at the Washington Monument, the tree leaves are not consistent. Behind Forrest on the podium, the trees in the background have no leaves as if it were late autumn or winter.

The trees surrounding the reflection pool in front of Forrest are all Green as if it were summer, and in a later scene as Forrest watches Jenny board the bus back to Berkeley, the leaves on all the trees are different colors as if it were the heart of autumn.

When Forrest is giving his speech about the war in front of the reflecting pool and he runs down to meet Jenny, he walks by the same guy twice. The girl behind Forrest and Jenny on the school bus disappears and reappears between shots. Forrest can't run with his braces; he can barely walk. When he and Jenny run to their favorite tree, he is running normally.

Yet when the bullies from school chase him on their bikes, he is back to his old gait. It is only after the braces are lost that he runs normally. Paul 'Bear' Bryant stands up twice to watch Forrest. The ramp outside the stage door at The Dick Cavett Show as seen over Forrest's shoulder is clear of snow, yet moments later it covered with snow as Lt.

Dan slides down it. Forrest is standing in Jenny's foyer upon entry to her apartment. While they are talking it's possible to see in the background there is an ironing board with the iron laying flat, as if it had been knocked over.

While screen shot quickly focuses on the son watching television then quickly back to Forrest and Jenny, the iron has been stood up correctly.

Forrest and Jenny had not moved. When Forrest and Jenny are "walking" along past a candlelit vigil in front of the White House, it is noticeable that they pass the same five or six people several times as well as a couple of the guards at the gate.

Forrest leaves the mower with grass in front of it when he goes to meet Jenny. When they cut back to him, the mower is sitting next to the cut grass, not in the middle of it. When Forrest sits down to watch TV with his son, the iron behind Jenny changes from being down and sitting up between shots. Forrest was already the President of the Bubba Gump shrimp company, a "household name.

When Forrest first gets on the school bus, the shots from inside the bus show the driver's hand on the door lever, while shots from the outside show it on the gear shift lever. When Lt. Dan meets Forrest after Forrest becomes a shrimp boat captain, Lt.