King of Hollywood

Chapter 281 - 281 9 Continue Filming and Cameo Appearances

?Chapter 281: Chapter 9 Continue Filming and Cameo Appearances Chapter 281: Chapter 9 Continue Filming and Cameo Appearances “Well done, Gary, now I have some good news and some bad news. Which would you like to hear first?” Adrian, behind the monitor, lifted his head and said loudly to Gary Sinise, who was playing Lieutenant Dan on set.

“Hmm…” Sinise glanced around and shrugged. “How about the good news?”

“The good news is that you look fantastic, and I’m very pleased,” Adrian said with a smile.

“And the bad news?” Tom Hanks, who was standing next to Sinise, asked before anyone else could.

“The bad news is that my technical advisor told me that the blue material wrapped around your legs is off by just a bit, so we’re going to have to shoot this scene again,” Adrian said, throwing his hands up in the air, and immediately, groans arose from all sides.

They were shooting the wedding scene of Forrest Gump and Jenny at the end of Forrest Gump, where Lieutenant Dan comes with his fiancée to attend, and this scene marked the first and only time the two most important people in Forrest’s life, Jenny and Lieutenant Dan, met.

Regarding this scene, Adrian remembered once reading a review that said: Two representatives of America’s diametrically opposed and even extreme views made peace because of Forrest.

Jenny undoubtedly represented the young people of America’s 60s and 70s that were described as the beat generation; drugs, promiscuity, radicalism, a thirst for freedom, the desperate desire to stand out and be noticed, while Lieutenant Dan represented those conservative, traditional people, resistant to change, like his belief that if he went to battle, he should have died there and not lived on as a disabled person.

In the end, they both lost the goals of their lives and their faith in life. In contrast, Forrest Gump, with the simplest view of life, always remembered his mother’s words and kept running forward no matter what happened, achieving success that others could not. The stark contrast was not only satirical but also profoundly meaningful.

So it could be said that Forrest Gump was a quintessentially American film, even though the character Forrest Gump was fictional, he was still seen by many as a representation of the American Dream: that success comes with hard work!

Many people were actually aware that the American Dream was largely an illusion. Sure, there are people like Steve Jobs who started from nothing and became successful—and that’s why Forrest invested in an Apple-selling computer company—but there are many more like Bill Gates who had both talent and connections. Self-made success stories might be one in a hundred thousand, if not fewer unless one lowers their standards.

However, giving hope is always better than offering nothing at all, which is why Adrian appreciated the spirit of the Oscars, even though the Film Academy could be conservative and not entirely fair. Just look at each year’s Best Picture winners, and one will see that the vast majority of films, no matter how dark and negative the overall story is, there is always a dazzling ray of light that brings encouragement and hope. Take, for instance, the movie American Beauty from a few years ago, many said it stripped away the shiny surface of the American middle-class, but the line after the death of Linus, “I’m proud of my petty life,” elevated the whole theme.

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