What‘s your take on the lovable bad guy so popular in american comedies? With so many questionable characters finding success in the real world nowadays, is it appropriate for tv and film to continue to popularize such a character?

@@janusquiamco7128 that would be a great vid.

Tom Kershaw thats the best horror movie of all time unless you do Psycho maybe that one is. There is a tie lol. This movie is corny as well putting nice

Dive into THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. OR THE GOOD WILL HUNTING.

Please make a video about the new HBO drama EUPHORIA. It's a mindblowing story and I would like to hear what you guys have to say about it!

no it didn't. too many people say X made me cry. I've never once seen someone weeping during some powerful scene. they say the did to get internet points that mean nothing.

@@joshmciver4847 Jesus, who pissed in your corn flakes?

Josh McIver bitch I cry during every sad movie moment

Than he banged her ... XDD

Josh McIver damn who hurt you 😂

I think it was more fear that his son would be bullied and picked on and if anything shows 1) even though he never brings it up, it must have been very painful for him to go through as a child and 2) his was already being a great father from the second he found out he was a Dad.

I think it was more that he was scared that little Forest would be bullied the same way that he was. If anything it shows us 1) that even though he never talks about it, being bullied was obviously a very painful thing for him as a child, and 2) that he was being a good father from the second he found out he was a Dad. It was probably at that moment that Jenny decided that he was quite capable of taking care of little Forest.

StrosB4Hos exactly how do we know Jenny wasn’t trying to take advantage of a gullible millionaire. Oh yea the uh millionaire is definitely the father...

So once she found out forest was rich she suddenly decided to tell forest about his kid? YEARS after kid was born Sick Jenny finds out simple minded forest is rich and tricks him into believing hes the father of her kid so foret will care for him after she died Forest was never good enough for her, for her entire life Its shown over n ovsr again that jenny is a whore She fucked countless guys in the time of free love Was with random guys in drug dens, got aids So all that experience with sex, and she gets pregnant by accident with one encounter with forest... the guy she never wanted to be with And didnt get an abortion Unless we are to believe the theories that jenny loved forest but didnt think she was good enough for him And none of what she did was her fault, n she never actually had sex with anyone else I'm rambling, you get the point Jenny used forest over n over At least little forest Jr got a good father and a good life

Shows that he (like all humans) have insecurity

Even Tex, Cleveland, and Dallas all had brief but memorable parts in the movie.

Yes that drill sergeant is always one of my fav parts xD Like, he's the only one who ever doesn't call Forest an idiot but a genius! Love it!

Aww the best christmas pageant ever

I can attest from personal experience drill sergeants are like that.

Stephen Powdexter I always thought the scene was great because DS would talk EXACTLY like a DS but it’s juxtaposed with him praising Forrest. Which almost never happens. First time it happened to a group of us and it was a compliment disguised as an insult we looked at each other like “did that just happen?”

Oh yes! First time I watched that scene I sobbed!

The AIDS baby?

Him talking to Jenny's grave makes me WEEP.

Instant tears 😭

The child is smart because he's not Forrest's son. Jenny tricked a rich simpleton into raising her child once she realised she had a terminal illness. Why else would she keep a child away from it's supposed father for so long?

Same

I did become a shrimping boat captain.

Bubba wasn't talking about shrimp but that white powder😂😂😂

@Young Totodile 👀👀😮

I wanna go home...Jesus that war..

LET THE DARKNESS CONSUME YOU!

Hello darkness my old friend........

That hippie played Abbie Hoffman

The actual words (as found in an outtake from the movie) are, "In Vietnam, your best good friend could get shot. That's all I have to say about that."

But in 1994 wasnt apple computers going bankrupt. Now it's one of the biggest companies.

Warren Rose they had to get Steve Jobs back

Now they are the first company to reach a trillion

Gosh darn banana conpanies

@@noneofyours16 probably not its unknown but it's likely the dutch VOC, they were literally a company and country.

Tom hanks made it that way. Imho

It is kinda preachy though but in a good way

Its cheesy as hell, but it is endearingly cheesy

Film is nearly 30 years old bud, it's just a classic lol

He uses the same voice as Mr. Rogers.

In a few years he will.....pay it forward!!

It's cuz he's just a manifestation of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)

@Shannen T Not necessairily.

lmao

He’s so smart, he’s a key blade weilder

@john son whatboutism, great....... You do realize that we are no more warmongering than any other nation right?

Ian Cassidy but you are no less. Just because your warmongering spirit isn’t particularly large does not mean it’s not there.

@@cool-zd3ev he whom is without sin may cast the first stone. Being anti-american by invoking warmongering is the stupidest form of it possible.

Ian Cassidy I’m not American and I’m not trying to be anti American. I learnt a long time ago that trying to get an American to accept that other countries may be somewhere near as important as their own is futile. My point is that in the video their point isn’t that Americans are specifically warmongering, instead that the country is a country and so to an extent, warmongering.

@@cool-zd3ev So since you cannot handle the fact that the U.S. has a singular belief that compels our society that you think is incorrect; you resort to petty insults where you know Americans will congregate. If you wish to break the "myth" american exceptionalism, this ia not the way to do so.

She reminds me of ms Crabtree from South Park...

The actress's name is Siobhan Fallon and she is amazing. If you want to see her in a more dramatic role watch Dancer in the Dark. She plays a prison guard and does one hell of a job. She also played in a few other movies by the same director but her stand out role is most definitely that one.

Shes also chewing gum instead of smoking, i guess hinting at a progressing society, maybe im looking too far into it

I always felt like they should have made her look a little aged over the years. She looks the same exact age when Forrest was little to when she drives little Forrest. She never aged.

B Toombs No, that’s definitely intentional. You could still smoke in a lot of public places in the ‘80s but a school bus was not one of them. Lol. And in the ‘50s they just didn’t care (or at least, they didn’t know how harmful cigarettes were).

Wow.. You're right

Rachel oh that’s a great interpretation. Yes so true

Bubba was no more enslaved and enslaved than many a european immigrant. Ironically, many a black man living in the “ghetto”of segregation lived a more fulfilling life than those of his grandchildren who suffer from a crippling envy.

@@JRobbySh I think you are forgetting the time period it was set in were colour segregation was still prevalent and even schools. So a good education was beyond most of them so for him to have this dream to help his big family showed grit and determination.

@@JRobbySh Nobody here claimed immigrants have it easy. Two different groups can both experience hardship. But...do try to think for a minute about how black people were treated in his time period.

@Rachel , Love that interpretation!

Rick Newman Not me I still laugh my ass off when he's holding his mangled shot up soon to be corpse and he says! HEY BUBBA!!!

The rejections on the buses made me mad. Kids are cruel and they grow up to be cruel people. What we do is early on we judge whether someone is worthy of life and acceptance. Who are we to think we should do this?

@@jonmacdonald5345 Dude, I think you might be a psychopath

He represents all our lost dreams. Your comment makes sense to me.

Jack Xiao Thank you!

Sally Field doesn't get enough credit

And I guess she was also destined to give up the Ass to the principal 😅😅😅 god show does work in mysterious ways

@@metatronblack she probably dated the prinicpal cause duh she's lonely and so forrest wouldn't fail.

I couldn't not cry at this line by Mrs. Gump because it reminds me of our parents' best efforts to raise us to be kind and empathetic.

Especially with the major backlash it would get for “rewriting history” for entertainment.

Nelson Smith they can make any film they want...they just choose to make average films to keep us hooked without spending too much money or energy, and they throw us a piece of rib eye every now and then.

@@jasoneaton4520 you couldn't make this movie twice, just like you can't keep up the story that you are stupid.

@@khupmung7600 I don't know if that's true. The rewritten history in Forrest Gump was mainly there, like you said, for entertainment and comedic purpose, that's fine. Rewriting history in fictional movies in other ways is fine too; the thing that people have a problem with is rewriting history in a way that is more flattering to America, essentially turning movies into propaganda, like minimizing the suffering of slaves or the human cost of unnecessary wars. Forrest Gump didn't do that. So that would still be fine today. Not that the movie doesn't have its problems from a modern viewpoint that would be more heavily scrutinized today but I think your assessment is a bit too general.

It wouldn't fly today. Even though Forest is the protagonist, over half the humor was rooted in his disability. I think most people would still love it, but the loudest group would be shaming everyone for laughing at such a "disgusting and degrading" movie and the company wouldn't want the backlash. All hypothetical of course, but my opinion

Whole scene is very emotional. Like how they watch Burt & Ernie the same way..touching.

Same. 😭

keep her

hahahaha that is brilliant!

That's a good wife

I love when a woman can quote movies in real life situations haha

I do Forrest Gump all the time in the store, "Jehn-ay, we need some peas."

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

Who forgive whom ?

He didn't really care who he was fighting. He wanted "glory"

@@SuperKannan1976 Both. We fought against Asians in Vietnam, the war that is such an integral part of Forrest Gump. Though Lt Dan is in it for glory rather than because he as any problems with communism or Asians or anything like that, he is still representative of the american fighting spirit and military tradition. So by having him, the military tradition, marry and Asian woman, who could represent a former enemy, it shows Americas ability to forgive for past events and move onto the future towards peace. Also its fairly apt considering that much of why nations have militaries is to protect themselves, and as a deterrent against enemies, to keep peace going. So its equally symbolic that the image for american forgiveness is done with the character who represents the american military tradition.

@@Tr4sh_can34 True, Lt Dan as a character wanted glory rather than caring about who or why he was fighting. But its what his character represents, the American military tradition, that makes this symbolic. By having the character who represents the military marry and Asian woman, who in this context could represent a former enemy, makes the symbolism one of America's ability to forgive and move on into the future, with former enemies as future allies.

Bubba and Forrest were drawn to each other because of their simplicity.

Because Bubba represents the wasted potential and the what ,"could of been " if it weren't for the war

They just can't it.

People disliked Jenny because Forrest was nice to her, while she used him.

Well, while I can empathize with Jenny, I was immensely frustrated at her for not listening to Forrest. He did everything he could to keep her safe, to help her heal. And every time, she’d jump right back in and do something eccentrically self harming. She’d hang around assholes, creeps, people like her dad. She just kept going back. And it didn’t make a lick of sense to me. Because that wasn’t love. Even Forrest understood that, but not her. And he as a result kept getting dragged along for 3 decades worth of her crumbling world. Caught Aids somewhere along the way (and as a result probably gave it to Forrest tho the story never notes that, so either she cheated on Forrest or wound up giving on a disease that would pass on silently to poison the next generation possibly Forrest JR. ) Which means her actions had consequences for innocent people. Anyway, that’s why I didn’t really like Jenny. She wasn’t good to Forrest until literally the very end. When he had his life together, his shit together, was a business owner, a war hero, and a superstar over multiple fields of interest (sports, his run across America, ping pong in China, and having attended or been at multiple world changing events). The fact no one recognizes him is astounding in some cases. Since the man shoulda made national news multiple times. And it took Jenny from 1960 to 19-fucking 80 to realize Forrest loved her in a meaningful way. And I have similar frustrations with the other Characters. So she’s not alone in this regard. The only one I am not frustrated by was Bubba. Bubba was a good guy.

@@davidthorp01 r.i.p to Bubba, the could've been shrimp king! I loved that his family got to enjoy the success he never got to. Forrest is a real one.

When Forest tells Jenny "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." It is a contrast to her own knowledge of love. She is smart, but she doesn't know what love is, because she was abused by a parent, the very person who was supposed to teach her love. That is why, she has so much trouble accepting Forest's love: she doesn't understand it and she doesn't think she deserves it. It is only through the unconditional love of her own child that she comes to understand love, and can accept love from Forrest.

Forrest deserved better than her

Jenny had a terrible life as a child so do many people these days but there's one thing that most people don't try GO TO A FUCKING THERAPIST

Redeemed at last by love.

I dunno know, to me, Jenny was more symbolic of the hippie movement as a "degenerancy", as stupidity and failure. I used to love how they showed the dark side of it, but thinking of the dichtemony they create with Forest, it makes for a more difficult reading. As more the hippies trying to break what was true, and being mired in hipocracy. Something the "myth of America" is itself very guilty off.

@@lonelyhacker9466 as someone who was abused as a kid, I internalized an intense self hatred to make sense of the things that were done to me. When people were good to me, I pushed them away because I didn't believe I deserved it. Like Jenny. It took me forever to understand that those thoughts and beliefs were wrong. It's still hard to think about the things that have happened. I find my mind reverting back to that time and am trapped in that pain. For people like me and Jenny, being put in a situation that triggers those memories or emotions makes you vulnerable. She just couldn't shake her trauma and chased after whatever made the pain go away.

Only 576th? Those are rookie numbers.

😂

omg right?

@@kambermusic /two thumbs up!!

That happened to me when I ran my first 10k

Funny you have a story like that; one time back in middle school I was on a school-sponsored trip with a bunch of other kids. There weren't a lot of places to eat lunch, so we stopped by a sort of run-down strip mall with a grocery store and a few other places nearby. There was a guy sleeping on a bench outside a bar, but we didn't pay him too much thought. So we went to the grocery store and bought food- things like Lunchables- and then headed back to the bus. While we were waiting for everyone to board, two girls headed onto the bus, saying that as they passed the bench outside the bar, the guy had woken up, and yelled, "RUN, FORREST, RUN!" It was all anyone talked about the rest of the way.

@@sophiatalksmusic3588 So he yelled it because he heard those girls saying it as he was waking up?

Ha!! We (teachers) yell that to students running in the yard! They never get the reference!! 🤣

man I would love to be like forrest gump! focused and always completing his tasks. Something I struggle with from time to time. Ok a lot of times 😬

Me too, brother.

Same here

It really touches the depths of the human soul, including the trials and tribulations of life like no other.

I tell you its was the onions that made me tear up !

Me too. And I am Indian.

TheLeah2344 that’s awesome you started your own business. I am also in a healing journey. The book CPTSD by Pete Walker and a book called The Journey from Abandonment to Healing have really helped. Best wishes to you

TheLeah2344 I’m proud of you but I wouldn’t sympathize with Jenny or try to relate to her at all She was written to be a bad person

Well done! Keep striving and achieving! You are living an (not The, there is no 'The') American Dream, YOUR American Dream. And for the dark things you are healing from, we dream at night when darkness surrounds us. Dreams are not required in the light. You've made your Dreams a Reality, and I wish you the best in putting the Darkness behind you!

The Realest of the American dream and ambition

Lmao what. "I relate to a black man, who's passion is shrimp as a black woman"

being calm under pressure, the perfect trait of an fighting man

Sergeant

His face every time he's with Forrest is actually priceless.😂

@SARA Yeah very beautiful. And fictional. Written by white people and papering over the racism that still exists. Super cute how working hard for generations got her family nowhere because the system was set up against her, but it's fine now because she became wealthy by a windfall. Fun fact, the average black household has 1/16th the wealth of the average white family.

@@ProfessorEGadd Well said.

@@ProfessorEGadd That was the point, Babba’s family had served for generations and in the end, they were being served it sticks to the theme of the movie!

Same

I can.

TeamRainbow holy shit, I never realized this

justin krichbaum Crazy

I misread this and thought "There was an animated version of Shawshank Redemption??" (x

nobbie01 Wouldnt surprise me if it would happen tbh, I mean when live-action remakes of animated classics are dead then the next thing might be animated remakes of classic live-action films

Wow i didn’t realized that! I think the O.J Simpson trial distracted me that year lol! Plus I was heading off to college.

Maybe you should read a history book, because Forest Gump is nothing more than revisionist propaganda.

Keyser94 how? It legitimately outlines all the major historical events that occurred after WWII to the end of the 80s in as about a non political way as possible. Heck, if you dig deeper into Forrest Gump, you will find more historical examples, such as how Gump was a Tunnel Rat during the Vietnam War. It’s very difficult to think of a major historical event or pop culture reference during this time period set in Forrest Gump that isn’t in Forrest Gump.

@@howardbaxter2514 Because it outshine counter culture and make it look as bad, even that counter culture was one of greatest hits of those decades and did great political and social changes, but they are framed as "sinful", if you actually fight against the system you would end dead, even that her death is also pure revisionism, aids affected mostly gay man in the 80', only later heterosexual couples began to feel the affects of HIV and AIDS.

@@TheKeyser94 IV Drug users, though, which was implied that Jenny maybe tried.

@@molassio1989 yah, thats right I thought they showed her shooting up

It would actually be a pretty bad movie to show other people. The point is it’s a myth, not reality. In real America, most of these things wouldn’t have happened. There is also the fact that this takes place after WWII when America was prosperous and in the American South buffered with old time sweetness.

Femme Futile I think I understand your point, but I was not talking about actual histoy. For that there are probably thosands of better choices, many, if not most of them documentaries. No, I was referring to understanding our psychology, our outlook, our character. Fiction is MUCH better at capturing the zeitgeist than than a recitation of facts (although there are some excellent documentaries that manage to do that, also, they tend to be the exception rather than the rule). Forrest Gump has the power of metaphor. I'm not hesitant to say that it certainly captures my view of America. I grew up in the era that it takes place in. To me, at least, it reflects the spirit of those times beautifully. Not sure that was your actual point, but it's how I understood it. :-)

Wing Flanagan Makes sense. In agreement.

The choosing to go to space because its hard, and the ein Berliner speech are such powerful words imo

That was pretty much the moment when the US golden era was coming to an end, althrough officialy it ended in 1973 and i think 1973 is a much more official end of the US golden era since a lot and i mean A LOT bad things happened to the US that year, oil crisis, defeat in Vietnam + Hippies were at the peak of thier power.

Yes they should remake the movie for this last decade

I love this list but we had video games in the 90s

enemyhelicopters BASED !

It would suck because it be so convoluted with SJW bullshit

@@metatronblack lol ok

My friend whom I've loved for over 20 years calls me his "Jenny". I call him "Forest". But we've been apart for years.

Because he doesnt understand that Jenny doesn't deserve the amount of devotion he gives her. You should never put your time, effort, and feelings towards somebody who does not value or respect you.

@John Nichols SWEET! THANKS ...

@@docd-monik4380 That's one of the criticisms of this movie, but that's also the beauty of Forrest as a character. He's undeterred by how long he has to wait for Jenny because he truly believes the strength of his love for her would bring her to him in the end. Obviously, this is not something anyone should believe in reality, but in a movie? Man, does it make for a great story!

Matt Montegomery lmao

Same! But it's "find" not save.

I sometimes yell "RUN FOREST RUN!!" instead 😂😂

@@michanghyun 😂😂

Sally Field is a phenomenal actress. I grew up watching her in the Flying Nun.

YES!!!

Her Reel Review but jenny dead lady, she dead already

@@carlosdureza1282 you are correct, but to clean up your comment... "but Jenny's dead, lady, she already died."

lol I can speak and write English appropriately, I did that on purpose with the intent of emulating Forest's manner of speaking. Thank you for the polite correction.

Nah Jenny isn't worth it

Josh McIver r/wooosh

same here

Victoria we all livin In America -Rammstein

Mark Schantz you are a sign of the times. I’m sorry for you.

Lmao same😂 i discovered the existence of the Vietnam war watching forrest gump (true fact)

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This was a perfect summary. Thank you.

Forrest basicly survived the world, being a disabled boy from a single parent household and no family support. This is allmost the worst start into live. Its just missing migrant background and that would be "insane" difficulty. And thats why i really like the movie, because he is against all odds.

That's a really interesting thought. I think there is worth in the idea that there is goodness and contentment in simplicity, but too much of it is going to benefit the wrong people. You need to be able to analyse the world around you with a sharp eye and mind, but sometimes cast off all the burdens on your mind and let it heal a little.

The movie shows scenes that clearly white wash racism in America on multiple fronts. It gets away with it by putting the American Spirit in a lovable character that is essentially automatically forgiven for his ignorance. And of course he is because who could be upset with someone of his caliber not understanding institutional racism or the military industrial complex. He's shown as devoid of ideology and pure, but the movie's scenes leave a lot out as they paint this picture. They don't show the fact that Forrest may have had to watch his platoon force South Vietnamese from their homes and into "Strategic hamlets" for their protection maybe even a massacre at some point. They take the Vietnam was a mistake "why are we here?" implying there is no reason and it was a valiant effort, but a mistake, route. Same thing with racism and black Americans. He never fully understands the institutional racism that held his friends family back, but of course is just giving his mother the money because he can empathize with the immediate situation at hand. This is fine for him personally, but once again it is protected by this idea that Gump/America can simply forget about why things like this have happened and never think about it again while everyone else struggles to their bitter end and forgives him simply for being this adorable likable character that can't empathize on this level for obvious reasons. If Gump learned from these mistakes I've listed it would be solid, but the message is that all these radicals should learn from him because he represents the true pure American spirit of goodness. One that simply doesn't think about or get into any situations that actually challenge his mother's one liners and one that never really challenges America's "mistakes" by simply viewing them through a white, male, capitalist that we have to forgive for his ignorance or be forced to reckon with the question of how cruel we are to those who might be mentally challenged. Was it intended to be written this way? Well, when Forrest Gump 2 comes out and we see Gump himself working on it i think we'll have the same questions all over again i guess.

@@myroc1 You've entirely missed the point. It wasn't teaching that the radicals should learn from him because He represents the true pure American Spirit, but rather that the various other's were driven by motives and some of those motives were passed onto Forest (like Buba's Entrepreneurial spirit), and other's had motives that destroyed their lives ( Take for example Jenny. Jenny's inability to put the past behind her destroyed her entire life, and her final relent to sorrowfully accept her fate and FINALLY make the best of the future is what allowed her to have the grace of a nice end of life. It was the vain attempt at righting past wrongs, and the inevitable fleeing that came when one does something so vain that destroyed Jenny's life. She couldn't move past the beliefs she formed about herself because of her past trauma and she did the exact same evil to Forest. Forest became a living monument to how wrong she was about everything in her life, and that's one of the major reasons she couldn't allow herself to be with him. He was too forgiving and loving and she lacked the capacity to understand how such things could be applicable to her.

While I did enjoy the film, there is a creepy undercurrent about innocence that really goes so overboard it is fair to call it idolatry. Once he gets past his childhood disability, which he just magically shrugs off by trying hard, everything always goes right for him, by continuing to try hard. Thinking is not necessary. Just *be* a good boy and luck (divine intervention) will protect you. There is a lot of carnage around him, but his innocence always makes him a winner. Frankly, Forrest never had to overcome any real obstacle, because his mother, Jenny, luck, luck, and luck always protected him from the consequences of every dangerous situation and poor decision. In today's parlance, Gump is a Mary Sue whose superpower is infinitely thick plot armor.

@@ComradeOgilvy1984 I think your oversimplifying His character struggle. He definitely struggled a lot, and while I agree that there is a sense everything goes right for him, there is also a lot that doesn't go right for him amd it mostly springs from the suffering of others. His characters innocence stemmed from his significantly low IQ, and the point of his character was in many ways to show how the failures of others caused him to be victimized. Gump had a ton of things happen in his life that having a higher IQ could have led him to ruminate upon and end up like Jenny or Lieutenant Dan. As a result of his low intellect, he was always putting the painful parts of his past behind him and moving forward. In this sense, His main flaw was his biggest thorn and his biggest blessing. It wasn't that because of his dullness that divine intervention made it all work out. It was his capacity to persevere through suffering, which that low IQ actually facilitated.

Derek Roberts Tom Hanks is a god

I don't think it's ironic. It'd be more ironic if Tom Hanks was a terrible person playing these wholesome souls, but Tom Hanks himself is a great dude

@@psychomanatee3459 I think "fitting" is an excellent word to describe Tom Hanks playing such a wonderful man as Mr. Rogers. I was pumped when Mr. Hanks was cast for that role.

@@vincelestrade3758 yeah, definitely

I don’t think you know what irony means....

Crippycooke that show kept bringing up racism for absolutely no reason. It's a great show but brought up non-existing problems or problems faced by blacks, caused by blacks.

@@harrywarden7675 what did you think was non-existing? Curious to hear your thoughts

TPAB GKMC the show was made and set in an age where blacks aren't suppressed and people aren't being prejudiced against them on a scale no bigger than an extremely small portion of what it was over 50 years ago. And yet the show kept bringing such things into the mix as if it was running rampant. It is non-existent in the sense that it wasn't a real problem but they felt the need to blow it out of proportion.

Harry Warden Are you one of these people who thinks the end of Jim Crow laws meant the end of racism in the US?

Crippycooke no, I am not. I am simply stating the fact that racism towards blacks isn't even noticeable in the US. Instead racism towards us whites is at an all time high, but you don't hear us talking about it all the time. Every black show set within the last 40 years constantly brings up racism as if it's happening to every black person ALL the time when it's actually not.

You best believe it

Fax

America is too fractured to have a movie like this in 2019. There's no monoculture, they're very few things that we all agree on. If Forrest Gump came out today, half the country would love it and the other half would talk about how Jenny was made to be so bitchy and unlikable simply because she's a woman who just wanted to go off and live her own life. How the movie implies that Capitalism is the solution to our problems and not the root cause. That's just two things off the top of my head, I'm sure there'd be much more to pick out, for this reason, we're not gonna have a movie set in our reality that'll ever be as universally beloved as Forrest Gump.

Agreed a film like this would never get green lit today... everything changed after 9/11. Including Hollywood.

I think it's Fight Club.

@@unearnedopinion I wish we had a Time Machine we should had stayed in the 90's repeat instead of the new millennium. Which is awful and very divisive pop culture sucks Hollywood looking heroes so there's superhero flicks everywhere.Music is crap Bruno mars is no MJ or Prince Cardi B no Aretha Franklin Nicki Minaj is no Whitney wtf happened to us.

What would a sequel of this film look like?? There are many things that I missed seeing or understanding all those years ago like that Forrest was illegitimate or the legacy that he carries of his father being a clan member, His mother prostituting herself for the sake of Forrest's education or the principal taking advantage of their situation. And then there is the inspiration of the unique moves of a crippled boy on the career of a rock star.

And Forrest is now Forresta.. A lesbian simple mind

@@tubbalcain Should I call her mista ?

@@vladmarius9181yeah, it's fine by me 😁

@@vladmarius9181 Why are you gae?

Yeah I'm broke😂😂😂

That's true

Angela Fernandes-Blevins Actually thats True! For me it is..

that's not the definition of a war. the actions taken by the respective countries dictate whether it's a war or not. both sides fought a war.

@@CamJames yeah, politicians would prefer the legal definition rather than the real deal

@@CamJames yes and the USA was never at war with North Vietnam, or today there'd be no North Vietnam! We'd have wiped out every last one of them yellow and red dink bastards. As it was we only killed the ones that came south. Which in the long run wasn't nearly enough. But for the time we were doing it was.

Paul Frederick holy shit you can’t say those about people anymore

@@1pcfred yikes

Hit me right in the feels

I felt the tears start coming up

One of the most recognizable lines of the film“...life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get” expresses the uncertainty of life and fate. If the movie were just pushing the American Dream, the expression would have been something about hard work or never giving up. Instead the line she says is more about accepting what life gives you. It is an acknowledgment of the fact that, ultimately, life surprises us all no matter what we say or do.

K B Except you know what you’ll get. If you’re family are wealthy you’ll be wealthy, of your family is poor you’ll end up poor.

@@rust44 that is wrong, USA is the easiest or was the easiest to get out of poverty.

That is so true. In reality sons and daughters of millionaires and billionaires are praised as "self made" when they had all the right connections, training, best education, money etc from a very young age. Forrest gump is nothing more than appealing to the optimisum bias people have.

RedShirtSmith yes, its a bit like, if you work really hard and your heart is pure.. the american dream will come to those who deserve it.

true

"Christian morality" & "American exceptionalism" never existed. Unless your a far right chimp who shares the values of The Unibomber.

It pretty much perfectly captures the classic boomer life transitions up to that point: 1. a childhood in a wholesome but morally questionable background, 2. as part of the counter culture movement, 3. the breakdown of that movement, 4. searching for personal autonomy and entrepreneurship, 5. mentoring and finding hope in their children.

Making tons of money off a tech boom they didn't really understand.

"Also, acknowledging all its flaws while at the same time letting itself off the hook? 'Lots of crazy crap happened...but we meant well!'" I was going to say the same thing. As much as I love this film, I'd be lying if I said I couldn't see how it could be viewed as baby boomers trying to excuse themselves for a lot of the shadier things that happened during their generation. And funnily enough, now lots of them yell at my generation (millennials) for not conforming to the '50s idea of the American dream or wanting to clean up the messes they passed off as inheritance to us.

@@AliciaNyblade every generation has its own challenge, tho, most civilians dont really have any power ti change the tide. dont blame them, and dint blame yourselves either

@@owenbunny4023 I disagree. Plenty of movements throughout history have been led by the common people, and it's often they who are the first ones to call for change rather than their political representatives. Women's suffrage, Civil Rights, the environmentalist movement of the '70s, etc. People do have the power to change things, or at the very least make their voices heard. No, no generation is perfect, but imperfection isn't an excuse for inaction in the face of blatant political or societal injustice (not that you were saying it was).

Oh stfu

@@TheKnoxvicious NO U

@@MLBlue30 UR MOM

Haha,he was a clever guy.

what truly defines "americanism" is Jeffery Epstein.... a billionaire that ran a pedophile ring right under the nose of every federal agency, and in the end was killed by the elites that were associated with him before he could testify to cover it all up. America is a land of insane brutality, social inequality, and Lawless corruption where the most evil and despicable people at the top can literally get away with murder while the impoverished serfs at the bottom have no rights or freedoms to the point they aren't even allowed to injest a particular plant that grows in the ground.

Thumbs up for the car talk reference