Tom Hanks' Bringing Out of Sympathy in Audience as Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks' Bringing Out of Sympathy in Audience as Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks plays the main character in the film Forrest Gump.' When the

film was released in 1994, it shot Tom Hanks to international stardom

as the film received unbelievable amount of critical and financial

success. Due to the international stardom of 'Forrest Gump,' Tom Hanks

has now appeared in several big names films, such as Apollo 13, Green

Mile, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can and the film that

launched his career Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump white washed the Film

Academy Awards, including, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best

Actor (Tom Hanks).

If you read or see the film trailer to Forrest Gump you probably won't

find it very interesting because viewers would just see a person with

a very low IQ fooling around in the Vietnam jungle. The viewers would

need to see the whole film to know the story line to back the film see

interesting.

The way in which Tom Hanks engages the sympathy of the audience by

acting confused and completely blanking the things that he doesn't

understand. An example of this is when Forrest comes out of the door

from receiving his medal and Lt. Dan is waiting there for him. Lt. Dan

says, "they gave you the Congressional Medal of Honour" Forrest

doesn't understand what Lt. Dan means by this and so says nothing back

to him. When Forrest was enrolled into the Army, Forrest was the best

and fastest at doing most things during his training. When Forrest was

assembling his rifle he does it in the fastest time ever, the time

Forrest set was a new company record, and the Drill Sergeant says,

"Why did you do that" and Forrest replies...

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...rest is

terrified, and doesn't know what to

In conclusion Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump engages the emotion and

sympathy of the audience by getting in to situation and having very

little or no reaction to the situation, this is what engages the

sympathy of the audience, e.g. the death of Bubba. Forrest doesn't

react to the death the same way has a normal person would. Forrest

bottles up his emotions rather that letting them out in the open, and

that is why he audience feels sympathy for Forrest. Tom Hanks acting

in this film is amazing, the hardest of acting is a character that is

simpleminded because you can't just act normally. You've got to

imagine that you are that person, and you are acting like you normally

would. The film 'Forrest Gump' is the main reason why I think Tom

Hanks is one of the worlds best actors.