Re-posted by N.S.
Forrest Gump is on my list of the Top 100 Pictures. Bob Zemeckis was the first, and maybe the only director, to seamlessly weave brilliant storytelling and CGI. And, of course, Alan Silvestri’s score, with its many themes, was the perfect emotional parallel “book.”
I’ve seen this picture four-and-a-half times (once I turned on the tv in the middle and, of course, couldn’t turn it off), starting with its theatrical release on the big screen in ‘94, and methinks it’s time to see it yet again.
Around 15:00 (when Forrest’s mother dies?), I believe Silvestri begins a slow, mournful riff on Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.” And at around 18:00, he works in a bit of Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid.
(I didn’t copy and paste the original poster’s links, because—possibly due to my failing memory, so many years after watching the picture the last time—they don’t seem to match either the times or the picture’s scenes.)
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If Hollywood had come up with "Forrest Gump" in 1947,no doubt,Jimmy Stewart would have played the role.
--GRA
I recall when Jimmy Stewart died it was said if he had a modern/present day counterpart it would be Tom Hanks.
You and I have the same taste in soundtracks, Stix, including our mutual love of Jerry Goldsmith, the greatest composer in the history of film. His score for "Damien: Omen 2" is my favorite score of all time. "Forrest Gump" is a magnificent score by Alan Silvestri: winsome, heroic poignant, romantic.
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