Daily Dialogue — March 14, 2012

FORREST: Hello. My name’s Forrest Gump.

He opens a box of chocolates and holds it out for the nurse.

FORREST: You want a chocolate?

The nurse shakes her head, a bit apprehensive about this strange man next to her.

FORREST: I could eat about a million and a half of these. My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

— Forrest (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump (1994), screenplay by Eric Roth, based on a novel by Winston Groom

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is statement of theme, suggested by John Penny. Today’s suggestion by Summer Johnson.

Trivia: Tom Hanks signed onto the film after an hour and a half of reading the script but agreed to take the role only on the condition that the film was historically accurate. He initially wanted to ease Forrest’s pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by director Robert Zemeckis to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel and patterned his accent after Michael Conner Humphreys (young Forrest) who actually talked that way.

Dialogue On Dialogue: It’s great if you can write the theme of your movie in dialogue… and it becomes a catch phrase in pop culture.

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