Forrest Gump Gets Big
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Ryan Gosling’s brain food, Cate Blanchett’s secrets, Forrest Gump Gets Big, The Chronology of Kristen Stewart, and a vow of silence.
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FORREST GUMP GETS BIG
We’re infatuated with watching Tom Hanks grow up.
Whether it is literally in Big (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994) or emotionally in Cast Away (2000) and The Green Mile (1999).
Well, 3o years after Forrest Gump, the film’s director, Robert Zemeckis, and screenwriter Eric Roth reunite with the leads Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for Miramax’s Here.
Here is the official synopsis:
The story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.
In this film, the camera is locked in a single position for the duration of the movie while we watch Tom Hanks and Robin Wright grow old together:
First date hug (de-aged still)
Married and moved in (still)
Joyous 50th birthday (still)
In their golden years (aged still)
Zemeckis stated:
“That’s the excitement of it… What passes by this view of the universe? I think it’s an interesting way to do a meditation on mortality. It taps into the universal theme that everything passes.”
He continued:
“Both Tom and Robin understood instantly that, ‘Okay, we have to go back and channel what we were like 50 years ago or 40 years ago, and we have to bring that energy, that kind of posture, and even raise our voices higher.”
For many decades Hanks' boyishness allowed audiences to see their own immaturity reflected in his performances. It’ll be great to grow up with him again.
Here will be in theaters on November 27th.
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