Birthday of Forrest Gump
June 23, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA, the premiere of the film "Forrest Gump" by Robert Zemeckis.
The film went around the screens of movie theaters in almost all countries and brought significant profit to its creators: with a budget of $ 55 million, its box office revenues amounted to more than $ 678 million.
"Forrest Gump" received a total of 50 film awards, including 6 Oscars and 3 Golden Globes. However, outside the United States, "Forrest Gump" did not win any significant film awards. So, being nominated for the Japanese Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category, it lost to Frank Darabont's “The Shawshank Redemption” film, and in a similar nomination for the Italian award, David di Donatello lost to Quentin Tarantino's film “Pulp Fiction”.
Opinions of film critics about the film are quite divided. Suffice it to say that according to the Rotten Tomatoes website, the share of positive reviews is only 70%, which is quite small for an Oscar-winning film. Many film critics reproach the director of the film, Robert Zemeckis, for the fact that the film is significantly different from the original source - the eponymous novel by Winston Groom. This is largely due to the fact that before the shooting, Robert Zemeckis did not read the novel. According to some critics, the film reveals the best national features of Americans - honesty, courage and loyalty. Others see in the image of Forrest Gump, on the contrary, the destruction of the American national character.
However, the guru of American film critic Roger Ebert, whose opinion we take into account in the first place, although we do not always fully share it, rated the film to the maximum - 4 out of 4 stars. In his review, he responds to the critics of the film: "The movie is more of a meditation on our times, as seen through the eyes of a man who lacks cynicism and takes things for exactly what they are. Watch him carefully and you will understand why some people are criticized for being "too clever by half." Forrest is clever by just exactly enough....What a magical movie."
As for the assessment of the film by Russian film critics, then, in the presence of a sufficiently high number of very negative reviews, the most authoritative film critics spoke very positively about it. So, Sergey Kudryavtsev writes: “The picture of Robert Zemeckis is to a much lesser extent a phenomenon of art or an example of the ethical deed of the author. It is interesting as a psychological and sociological test, because Forrest Gump seemed to express the latent mood of Americans tired of the struggle for existence, the race for prosperity and the two-hundred-year-old pursuit of the Great American Dream, for after stopping after three years of continuous running across America (from ocean to ocean), he says to his bewildered followers: “I’m tired.” ... As he did not turn to be smarter at wandering around the world, Gump returns back to his family and from now on will raise a more savvy son than himself. For Americans in the mid-90s, this ingenuous thought turned out to be almost a revelation. "Gampism" they definitely came to face!"
And Evgeni Nefyodov described the film by Robert Zemeckis as a capacious and observational "encyclopedia of modern American life throughout the second half of the 20th century (and this is just a few eras, violently replacing one another)".
86% of IMDB and Kinopoisk users around the world gave this film a rating of 8 to 10. The share of the highest ratings - “ten” - amounted to more than 39%.
Based on the success indicators of this picture listed above, its rating according to FilmGourmand was 9.541, which ensured it 73rd Rank in the Golden Thousand.
