One of my all time favorite films is Forest Gump. Before now I hadn't thought about how the music impacted my experience of the film. The storyline is so compelling that I was caught up in that and not really listening to anything else. Now that I think about it, the music really plays a role in helping to tell the story more so than I realized. It serves as a solid background, it helps to set the mood, and adds to the character's traits. For example, Elvis Presley is built into the movie, it shows how Forest was influenced by him and how he was influenced by Forest. This was all fictional of coarse but it added some fun to the storyline. The song "Hound Dog," added to Forest's character, showing how impressionable he was and his goofy side.
