“Forrest Gump” is a monumental 90s Hollywood movie in which master director Zemeckis uses the latest technology to portray the “American picture.”

Opening with CG "feathers" falling from the sky

This is a work whose expectations kept rising even before I enjoyed the main story. The film is based on a novel published in 1985. As director Zemeckis himself said, ``It's a very American movie and a movie about American history,'' and the original story is full of episodes from modern American history. However, these were never structured to be suitable for film adaptation.

In order to develop these into a two-and-a-half-hour winding human drama, another groundbreaking pillar is needed. This work was reborn with this in mind by Eric Roth, the screenwriter who won an Oscar for this work ( The Insider (1999) , Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018)). ) `` DUNE '' (21) etc.).

For example, it was Ross's idea to make the love story between Forrest and Jane the main focus of the film. Director Robert Zemeckis adds further flavor to this foundation. Zemeckis also said that the development in which Forrest tells the old story in chronological order at the bus stop, "catching up with the present in the middle," was an idea. From there, Forrest rushes out of the bus stop and, at the same pace and perspective as the audience, leads to the climax.

“Forrest Gump” (C) 1994, 2019 Paramount Pictures.

It was also said that Eric Roth came up with the idea of ​​the "feathers" element that colors this movie. There is a scene in this film where a young Jane says, ``I want to go somewhere far away like The Birds.'' If you look at this part alone, it would probably be a ``feather = Jane,'' but director Zemeckis decided to have it fly softly from the sky in the opening scene, and use it as a symbol not only for Jane, but for the entire movie.

Feathers drawn with CG are by no means something that instantly grabs our hearts. However, the more I look back at the movie, the more I gradually become aware of how cleverly it functions as a point that ties the whole thing together. This is because the characters in this work, Jane, Forrest, The Day After Platoon Leader Dan, all drift left and right at the mercy of fate, and in the end, like bookmarks in a book, they all end up in the right place. This is because they have settled in.

Zemeckis is really good at using CG in places like this. In a sense, it almost feels like I'm putting my life on the line.

The visual revolution brought about by Robert Zemeckis