Nadir Samara has been writing professionally for almost a decade in various media. His focus has always been on film, both writing and working on set. After writing for Netflix Film, he directed a commercial for Mozilla and worked in production at a CGI studio.
Director Robert Zemeckis is known for innovating the technology of filmmaking but with Forrest Gump, he combined that with a classic American tale. With Tom Hanks at his absolute peak and Robin Wright transitioning from eighties princess to dramatic actress, the trio were all at the perfect point in their careers to make an essentially strange movie and have it gross over $600 million at the global box office and sweep the Oscars.
✕ Remove Ads In Any Other Filmmaker's Hands, Forrest Gump Would've Been A Disaster Tom Hanks Is A Different Kind Of Protagonist In different hands, Forrest Gump is the exact opposite of an Oscar winner. When you think about its combined parts, it's interesting, to say the least, that it became such a pop culture icon. “Life is like a box of chocolates” lives permanently in the American subconscious.
That sort of straightforward comedy seems pedestrian now, but there is an inherent nostalgia that reminds us of a time when comedy didn’t have to be so self-referential.
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