Forrest Gump(포레스트 검프), 1994

감독: Robert Zemeckis

 

주연: Tom Hanks/Robin Wright/Gary Sinise/Mykelti Williamson/Sally Field

 

* This film is based on Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

지능이 남들에 비해 떨어지는 외톨이 포레스트 검프는 헌신적이며 강한 엄마의 사랑과 보살핌과 첫사랑 제니와의 만남으로 불편한 사회의 시선과 괴롭힘 속에서도 순수하고 따뜻한 마음을 갖고 성장해 나간다.

주변아이들의 괴롭힘을 피해 도망치면서 포레스트 검프는 그 누구보다도 빠르게 달릴수 있다는 재능을 깨닫고 달리는 삶을 살게된다. 포레스트 검프의 재능을 발견하게된 대학에서 포레스트를 미식축구 선수로 발탁하고 군에서도 훈장을 받게 되는 등 예상못한 삶을 걸어가게 된다.

그러나 엄마가 병에 걸려 죽음을 맞이하고 첫사랑도 떠나가면서 포레스트가 찾아가는 인생 story.

 

In 1981, a white feather lands at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia, a man named Forrest Gump picks it up as he recounts his life story to strangers who sit next to him on a bench.

 

In 1951 in Greenbow, Alabama, young Forrest is fitted with leg braces to correct a curved spine, and is unable to walk properly. He lives alone with his mother, who runs a boarding house out of their home that attracts many tenants, including a young Elvis Presley, who plays the guitar for Forrest and incorporates his jerky dance movements into his famous performances. On his first day of school, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran, and the two become best friends.

 

Forrest is often bullied because of his physical disability and marginal intelligence. While fleeing from some bullies, his braces fall off, revealing Forrest to be a very fast runner. This talent eventually allows him to receive a football scholarship at the University of Alabama in 1963; he witnesses Governor George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door, becomes a top running back, is named on the All-American team, and meets President John F. Kennedy at the White House.

 

After his college graduation, Forrest enlists into the U.S. Army, where he befriends a fellow soldier nicknamed "Bubba", who convinces Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him after their service. In 1967, they are sent to Vietnam, serving with the 9th Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta region. After a few routine operations, their platoon is ambushed while on patrol, and Bubba is killed in action. Forrest saves several wounded platoon-mates—including his lieutenant, Dan Taylor, who loses both his legs—and is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

 

At the anti-war "March on the Pentagon" rally, Forrest meets Abbie Hoffman and briefly reunites with Jenny, who has been living a hippie lifestyle. He also develops a talent for ping-pong, and becomes a sports celebrity as he competes against Chinese teams in ping-pong diplomacy, earning him an interview alongside John Lennon on The Dick Cavett Show. In New York City, he spends the holidays and the 1972 new year with Dan, who has become an embittered cripple. Forrest soon meets President Richard Nixon and is put up in the Watergate complex, where he accidentally exposes the Watergate scandal, forcing Nixon to resign. Forrest Gump is officially discharged from the army and his service his over. He decided return home to his mother.

 

Returning to Greenbow, Forrest endorses a company that makes ping-pong paddles. He uses the earnings to buy a shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre, fulfilling his promise to Bubba. Dan joins Forrest in 1974, and they initially have little success. After their boat becomes the only one to survive Hurricane Carmen, they pull in huge amounts of shrimp and create the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, after which Dan finally thanks Forrest for saving his life. Even though he never said, but he made his peace with God. Dan invests into Apple Computers and the two become millionaires, but Forrest also gives half of the earnings to Bubba's family, giving them a better life. Forrest then returns home to see his mother as she dies of cancer.

 

In 1976, Jenny—recovering from years of drug abuse and returns to visit Forrest, and after a while he proposes to her. She declines, but then has sex with him that night before leaving early the next morning. Heartbroken, Forrest goes running, and spends the next three years in a relentless cross-country marathon, becoming famous again before returning home to Greenbow.

 

In the present, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny, who asked him to visit her. The strangers say that the address on the letter is only a few blocks away and Forrest immediately takes off. As Forrest is finally reunited with Jenny, she introduces him to their son, named Forrest Gump, Jr. Jenny tells Forrest she is sick with an unknown incurable virus, and the three move back to Greenbow. Jenny and Forrest finally marry, but she dies a year later. The film ends with Forrest seeing his son off on his first day of school as Forrest lets go of the feather from the beginning and the wind carries it back into the sky.