Tom Hanks 'Realism In The Movie Forrest Gump'

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The Forrest Gump is a 1994 movie and it is played by Tom Hanks. This movie is about the life of Forrest Gump from Alabama, who is unintelligent and naive, but he is a nice guy and very athletic, who witnesses some events of the 20th century in the United States. Through the movie’s entirety, outstanding performances from various award winning actors give this film’s involved and interesting plot a sense of realism that is far superior to that of other dramatic movies. Although many people think that the movie Forrest Gump may only contains romance, comedy and drama as genre, but it can actually be construed with many genres, it is actually a historical movie too. This is a type of movie where it has so many genres but still manages them to blend well. …show more content…
It became clear when the main actor, Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks, sitting on a bench at a bus stop and he is speaking to strangers. Forrest is telling his life story to a person throughout the movie. Most of the movie is Forrest tells his life’s story to strangers, which refers to “Framing Device”. Although Forrest may seem to be unintelligent with an IQ of 75, but he actually appeared to be a social person, throughout the movie, Forrest is able to tell these strangers about his past time, such as, the time when he attended the University of Alabama where he played football, he spent in the military, and then how he joined the Vietnam war, and also when he became successful (he became a shrimping company CEO). There is no doubt that the movie Forrest Gump contains a lot of romance. Jenny is Forrest’s first best friend, and he constantly thinking about his love,

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