Technology In Forrest Gump

Despite Jenny’s rough representation, she still plays an important role for Forrest. In the childhood memories Forrest recounts, the common “gumpism” was coined by Jenny saying, “Run Forrest, Run!” This saying shapes the entire movie, because from that moment on Forrest was able to excel. “When Marsellus Wallace, the black godfather of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994), is about to exact revenge on Zed, one of the two redneck captors recently responsible for his rape, he declares ominously: “I’m gonna git Medieval on your ass”(108), a line which drew an instant comic response from the audiences I observed,”(Jewers 39). This popular catch phrase surrounds the movie Pulp Fiction and as it states gives a comedic response. This relates to Forrest Gump because of the popular “gumpisms” surrounding the movie. “Life is like a box of

In Star Wars, CGI technology digitally created Jabba the Hut to replace a human actor. This same technology used in Forrest Gump, allows Forrest to meet John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, and participate in other unlikely events. For example, the feather at the beginning of the movie was created using CGI technology, because the likelihood and ability to create that motion with a real feather would be too hard. This scene was taken through the use of a long take that follows the feather until finally cutting to Forrest on the park bench. Another technique used in the film is morphing. “Through this technique the director was able to integrate real film clips into the story, and manipulate it in such a way that the main character appears to be part of the historical footage,”(Moller 69). The scene in which real footage from the desegregation of the University of Alabama is edited to incorporate Forrest’s presence and become part of the