The Beatles Bible - Topic: Forrest Gump

GniknuS on Forrest Gump

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:26:34 +0000

Exactly, if those results aren't actually comprehended, then no real learning takes place. We need to teach how to learn before we can expect kids to actually learn because this is the result.

mithveaen on Forrest Gump

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:02:44 +0000

Another interesting post Gniknus. This is great.

I have to say I agree with you. I thought those tests were given only in Mexico, but it seems it's worldwide. Maybe we focus too much in the results and not in the learning process. Both are important.

GniknuS on Forrest Gump

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:39:57 +0000

You're certainly right about the lack of education, or interest really, when it comes to history among the younger generation. The problem is that we've been given these tools to make learning easier, calculators, the internet, TV, etc., but rather than helping, those tools basically erase curiosity because history is just taken at base value. We accept answers without questioning them and so our education is based off of memorization rather than critical thinking. I went to a public high school and I can tell you that I was pretty unprepared when I went to college, but now, only a ...

StarWisher on Forrest Gump

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:37:38 +0000

vonbontee said:

I liked "That Thing You Do" too – just wished they'd played the title song less than two dozen times during the course of the film.

I know what you mean, but they really wanted to drive home the point they were one-hit Wonders. And drive it they did. Into your skull.

Didn't they play another song when they were the "house band" in that beach movie? (A small reprieve…)

vonbontee on Forrest Gump

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:12:44 +0000

Funny how half of these "All Together Now" threads always end up becoming Beatles-related! (I'm as much to blame as anybody, I know, obviously, gratuitously inserting a picture of John Lennon with prominent "Safe As Milk" decals into my Captain Beefheart thread, for one thing...)

I liked "That Thing You Do" too - just wished they'd played the title song less than two dozen times during the course of the film.

StarWisher on Forrest Gump

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:35:35 +0000

I'd read somewhere that Forrest Gump was supposed to be a metaphor for the baby boomers who were kind of stumbling through life, and yet all around them all these significant events were happening around them.

Celebrated_Mr_K on Forrest Gump

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:13:34 +0000

There's a huge difference between revisionist history like JFK and the historical perspective of Forrest Gump. JFK is trying to spin history. Forrest Gump is showing the tragedy of events in a comical way through the eyes of mentally retarded man. I think students can tell the difference.

StarWisher on Forrest Gump

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:35:03 +0000

Yeah, I love That Thing You Do as well, and like you, I always pay attention to the references: Shades the drummer, the "accidental" speeding up of a ballad that becomes their first number 1, "Sorry, girls, he's engaged!".

Someone elsewhere made mention that Tom Hanks plays a manager who is in fact a closeted gay man. Maybe it was too subtle that I didn't catch it, and I haven't seen the movie in ages, but is that the case?

mithveaen on Forrest Gump

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:23:51 +0000

Wow now that's an interesting post!!

As a teacher, I totally agree with you. The problem is that the education system (at least in my country) sucks big time. The kids are not getting the education they are supposed to, they don't know a damn thing about history, and they're failing in basic subjects like Math and Spanish. There's a lot to do. And it's easy to blame TV and Internet.

About that Forrest Gump scene, you're right, what Forrest says is nice, but I feel like... I dunno. I think they say "Hey we have footage ...

parco63 on Forrest Gump

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:08:26 +0000

Thanks everyone, I've enjoyed the dialogue.

I have to conclude that it wasn't the Lennon estate that owned the rights to that clip with John in FG because I don't think they would have allowed the tampering.

For me, when I saw the movie in a packed theater, the moment resonated. I liked FG's "eulogy" for John.

As a teacher who is pretty distressed about the lack of even basic historical knowledge not just among students but the general public, my concern is not so much about movies like FG (and Oliver Stone's JFK, which lots of people accept as The Truth), but ...

mithveaen on Forrest Gump

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:03:01 +0000

To be honest, I don't like Forrest Gump movie that much. Some scenes are like "Oh come on…"l. It's not my kind of movie. But I truly believe that Tom Hanks and Gary Sinese performances are wonderful. When it's on TV, I like to watch when both are on the screen.

Now, If I want to make The Beatles – Tom Hanks connection, I think of this movie. I rented it to Mom when it was released, and I remember she hushed me a lot because I was saying out loud the Beatle references

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