"...life was like a box of chocolates."

"Gump ideology" proposes that you never know what you are going to live, you just need to follow your heart and not to think neither in the past nor in the future.

Intertextuality and Media

This film was taken from a novel written by Winston Groom  in 1986, and then it suffered  some modifications to create the film “forrest Gump”

throughout the story of this film is shown some important events along the USA history, such as, the president speech, the war, the apple company, smile company, American football in Alabama, etc. where Forrest is immersed and took a role in every part of the History.

       Two different types of media has directly relation with what was mentioned before. "Forrest Gump" went through the same process as many others pieces of art, they were based on a book and then thanks to technology taken to television or, in the case of "Forrest Gump" to the cinema.
     

Narrative

The protagonist of these fantastic adventures enables us to get the essence of this film: a mixture of drama and comedy. This film is a whole narrative that uses a “simple minded” character to portray important events of the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. Together with simple camera shots, a vivid color, realistic mise-en-scene and interesting inspirations of History, this master piece is brought up to call us to simplicity. “Forrest Gump” combines culture, History and love represented by different characters that at random, they fall on with this special man; all of them are ingredients that help Forrest cooking his tasty story.

“Forrest Gump” is one of the most known movies in the world. It has won many famous prizes such as the Academy Awards and Golden Globe.  The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and the main character is represented by Tom Hanks.

                The life story of a special man is developed through many historical events of the United States.  His characteristics, such as, being naive, sympathetic, reliable, loyal, obedient, optimistic and hard-working, guide Forrest to succeed in everything he does. Even when he has to deal with many hard times, his mother and best friend’s death, bullets and wars, the life is in his side to make up him for everything.