Tom Hanks revealed that he believed that one of the most iconic scenes in the movies he entered in the 1990s could have “died on the beach”. No, he wasn’t referring to the beginning of “Saving Private Ryan.” The scene where Forrest Gump talks to strangers while sitting on a park bench was initially watched by the Hollywood star reluctantly.
In an interview for the podcast CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend, Tom Hanks explained that at the time, the “about 13 pages of script” with the bank conversations were recorded in a day and a half, in which the actor he thought they were “interconnecting images” that would be “chaff for a possible narrative part of the film”.
The actor, at the time, even questioned the director if “Will anyone care about this madman sitting on a bench?“. Bob Zemeckis’ response was equally dubious, but more hopeful than Tom Hanks’s: “I don’t know, it’s a minefield, Tom, it’s a minefield. You never know how people are going to receive it.” They were well received, so much so that it spawned one of the most iconic scenes in the film: the moment when Forrest Gump says to a stranger: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what will come of it.”
The 1994 film portrays the life of an Alabama American who, for lack of better cognitive ability, exhibited at least a childlike innocence, and who ends up finding himself in several moments that marked the United States of America in the second half of the 20th century. Along with filming moments like the Vietnam War, the US Marathon and (warning of revelation) the death of the love of your life, The actor didn’t think the scenes filmed on a park bench in Savannah, Georgia were relevant enough to the Forrest Gump story arc..
There is a moment when I think an actor shooting a film realizes that everything has to be forgotten”. podcast. “It is necessary to forget about all the distractions about what is happening [fora do guião], because it is really about filming, it is a moment in real time that is filmed in real time. (…) It has to carry, in that scene, every moment of the film’s theme”.
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Source: Observadora
