Hollywood

Frank Lee

Staff Writer

        Hollywood is considered the prominent filmmaking industry in the global scene. Hollywood movies can be almost perfect; the business, the skillful crews, the actors, the newest technology are all aspects that are marveled upon by the masses of the world.

           Many  Hollywood movies contain symbols that teach and tell us a lesson. Sometimes the movie is hard to understand, but it is just so good that it makes people want to watch it again or do research on it. Yesterday while I was flipping through TV channels, the Academy Awarded movie “Forrest Gump” was on. The movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis. was released in 1994 and had received 13 Academy Award Nominations among many other awards. The movie had been on Tv many times before, but I had always missed the beginning of the movie until yesterday. I was happy and relieved that ABC was showing this fresh, wonderful and magical movie.

           Forrest Gump is a movie itself that symbolize our American society during the 60s and 70s. Robert Zemeckis is such a good director that he uses new computer technology to makes the movie so real like they were really living in the 70s. The movie contains everything about the American society during the 70s: From the segregation of black and white to the U.S. and Vietnam War and from the assassination of President Kennedy to the assassination attempt of President Reagan. The movies are almost like a reflection of the real world.

           Forrest Gump is the main character of the movie; He was born in the state of Alabama. Although he was born not as smart as others, he was a good kind country boy. His interest in running allowed him to go to college and join the foot ball team and later he fought in the Vietnam War and won a Medal of Honor for saving his platoon. Afterwards, he kept his promise to his friend that died in Vietnam and joined the shrimp industry, which made him rich.

           Although this movie isn’t as exciting as action movies, it has many facts of our society: Facts of how we are treating the world and other people, facts of how a man can do things that he never imagined to do, facts of how impossible is nothing. Things that Forrest Gump didn’t think he could do he did because of work, honesty and love.