Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…
“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It’s irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don’t. There should be more women directing; I think there’s just not the awareness that it’s really possible. It is.” - Kathryn Bigelow
“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.”
The music of Forrest Gump doesn’t merely serve as the background filler to the movie, rather, it enhances it, and helps the viewer further get a glimpse and taste the era Forrest finds himself in. The twang of the guitar in Duane Eddy’s Rebel Rouser takes us down to the Deep South in a time it brimmed with racial segregation and discrimination, while Jefferson Airplane’s Volunteers successfully strums up the vehement feelings of the late 60’s. Even though it is a diverse selection of music from a very eventful time in American, and world, history, the soundtrack of Forrest Gump somehow comes together perfectly, and, without feeling like a jumbled oldies station, further cements the brilliance of the movie.
Most days I wish I never met you. Because then I could sleep at night. And I didn’t have to walk around with the knowledge that there was someone like you out there… I didn’t have to watch you throw it all away.
Yay!! Look what I just bought!
Supplementary music in Drive:
- Tick of the Clock - Chromatics
- Nightcall - Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx
- A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth) - College
- Under Your Spell - Desire
- Oh My Love (feat. Katyna Ranieri) - Riz Ortolani
This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to them.
