The Dramatic Meaning in the Opening Scene of Forrest Gump
The blockbuster movie Forrest Gump was made in the year 1994, and it was anAmerican comedy-drama film that won multiple awards and nominations, includingawards won from the 67 th Academy Awards, 1995 Golden Globe Awards, 1995 MTVMovie Awards, 1995 Peoples Choice Awards, 2005 American Film Institute Awards andvarious other ones. It was an adaption of a novel of the same name, by Winston Groom.Robert Zemeckis was the director of the movie, and he made great decisions about thecamera techniques to be used in each scene. In 1996, a restaurant with the nameBubba Gump was open in honour of the movie, and surprisingly there is one in thePeak Galleria in Hong Kong!The opening scene of the movie is filmed very beautifully, especially with thefeather floating in the air, because it creates the mood of the whole piece. Also, themusic and sounds chosen to accompany the opening scene, contributes to the tone of the entire movie.From right the beginning of the film, the feather is already floating around in theair. This white feather is a symbolic object that counts as a sign. The whiteness of itseems to show the purity and innocence Forrest has, and his enthusiastic personality,where he is determined to do whatever it takes to fulfill his own, and his friends andfamilies dreams. It also seem to symbolize the famous quote that his mom always said,Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what youre gonna get. With thefeather floating to random places, e.g. on top of cars, on peoples shoulders, on thefloor It shows how random life can be, and how no one ever knows what lies in theirpath of life, what obstacles they will have to overcome, and what their destiny is.A very interesting effect the feather is shot from in the opening scene is that it isa extreme long shot of different parts of the town, allowing the audience to adapt thesetting of the film into their minds, whilst the feather is shot from multiple angles,sometimes close up, and sometimes using medium