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20 years celebrated film "Forrest Gump" - July 6, 1994 in the US premiere of the most successful career in painting not only directed by Robert Zemeckis, and lead actors. Even before filming this movie Tom Hanks has already played in "Philadelphia" and won his first "Oscar" and "Forrest Gump" earned him a second consecutive statuette - this happened in the history of the award, either before or after. Whole picture won 6 prizes Academy Award, winning almost all the major categories - including Best Picture and Best Director.





The film - the story of growing up and life of a man named Forrest Gump, narrow-minded, simple-minded men. He was born in the fictional town in Alabama at Grinbou single mother (Sally Fields), who makes a living by renting rooms guests. Little Forrest suffered from serious back problems, resulting in was forced to wear braces on his legs special. This, together with a low level of intelligence made the boy a target for bullying peers. But to escape from his pursuers, Forrest discovered his amazing ability to run - because of this he gets into a university football team, and later commits a marathon, several times across the United States. The life story of the hero - his service in the army and participated in the Vietnam War, anti-war speech at the rally, a meeting with the president, unwittingly successful investments and, of course, the love of his childhood sweetheart Jenny (Robin Wright) - against the backdrop of important historical events to which Forrest becomes unwittingly. That he is obliged to Elvis Presley his famous dance moves, thanks to him, revealed the Watergate scandal, and John Lennon would not have written the song Imagine, if he were not one on one TV show with OAB. In the story, Forrest is the author of "smiley" and phrases «Shit happens». Even in the final Jenny dies from not so long ago, the open by the time the disease - AIDS. On the historical authenticity himself insisted Tom Hanks - this was the only condition that he set creators before to accept the role. Also, the actor refused fee, agreeing only to a percentage of the fees that ultimately brought him a total of about $ 70 million.



The soundtrack is also a kind of encyclopedia of XX century - the musical score of the film is made up of 50 key tracks century, such as the song The Doors and Jimi Hendrix. In some episodes appear newsreels, in which the efforts of specialists in special effects shots were mounted with the heroes of the film. Not surprisingly, 2 of 6 figurines "Oscar" for best editing were and visual effects, including over the high-tech shooting scenes, which takes place during the Vietnam War.

The film was shot on the novel by Winston Groom, written in 1986. However, many of the events in the book were either replaced or rendered "bracketing" of the film. For example, the hero Groom not wearing braces on his legs and did not commit a race across the US, but managed to become an astronaut, Dogstar and even ran for the Senate. In the film's success, the rights to which were bought by Paramount Pictures after the film adaptation were from Warner Brothers, no one believed - especially because of the cooperation refused several eminent writers such as Terry Gilliam and Barry Sonnenfeld. As a result, the novel turned into a screenplay by Eric Roth, later worked on the film "Ali," "Munich" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." However, its only for the moment "Oscar", despite the many nominations received exactly Roth for "Forrest Gump».





As for the lead actors, and that they were found not at once: for the main role claimed, besides Tom Hanks, John Travolta and Bill Murray. However, the most award-winning actor and deserved at the time of the shooting was not Tom Hanks, as you might think, and played the mother of Forrest Sally Fields, which by 1994 had already been twice winner of the "Oscar" - actress, by the way, older than his on-screen son only 10 years. The role of Jenny instead of Robin Wright could play Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman. For many of the other actors of the picture has become a kind of ticket to Hollywood - for example, to Gary Sinise, who played Lt. Dan.

Filming began on 27 August 1993 and lasted until 9 December. Natura found in South Carolina - here including the fictional town located Grinbou school Forrest and even a place that became the movie Vietnam. Interiors were shot in the halls in Los Angeles, except that the episodes in the university - were chosen for this room all the same University of South Carolina. During his Running Marathon hero Hank moved on to Washington and Arizona, Montana and Maine. But the bench on which sits Forrest, talking about his life, was established in Savannah in Georgia - now it is the main exhibit of the local history museum.

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