this was an awesome movie! The 8th graders @ my school actually watched it as part of a lesson about American History. It follows many historic events accurately throughout the movie - and, yes, I cry @ parts too :redface:
forrest gump is a great movie and i watch it all the time when its on tv, how could you not love it? and the fact that it follows american history is even better. last semester i took a US history course that followed 1968 to the present. it was such a sick course that for one of the essays in the final, we were supposed to write the "screenplay" of "forrest gump 2". b/c forrest gump ends in 1984 at the height of the reagan years, we were supposed to include all the important/notable events/people that happened in the last 22 years such as: reagan, george hw bush and the gulf war 1, clinton, OKC bombing, monica lewinsky, the dotcom boom, george w bush, 9/11, and the current iraq war. we were also supposed to pick who would be considered villans and heroes and how forrest would be affected by all of those events/people. it was super fun/interesting to write. how would YOU write forrest gump 2?
