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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Forest Gump meets Benjamin Button on a lonely road in Georgia


I dreamed last night that Forest Gump met Benjamin Button on a lonely road in Georgia. I guess it was a kind of a jogger's track since they kept passing each other. Gump always said "Howdy!" each time he passed Button, and, of course, Button was running backwards. For the duration of the dream, they had a conversation of sorts. Gump said, "Life is like a box of chocolates!" and Button looked perplexed. The next time around, Gump said, "You never know what you are getting!" Button looked more perplexed. Next time around Gump said, "A cherry or a nut!" and Button smiled. Next time around, Button said, "Nothing lasts!" They stopped talking after that. Maybe there were having different experiences in life. Maybe they were looking at the world from different perspectives. They looked at each other suspiciously now, but eventually, Button forgets what they were talking about, or maybe he just regresses to the point where he has lost the inability to speak. Then, I woke up and Jack, my dog, was breathing his doggie breath into my face. He wanted under the covers. Hey, isn't that a line in the Button movie?

8 comments:

  1. The wife and I just watched Benjamin Button last night and we loved it. The combination of him and Forest Gump on the big screen is really compelling. I could see something like that winning at Sundance and Cannes.

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  2. I just watced it a couple of days ago! Very intertaining!

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  3. What is "it"? Did you watch Benjamin Button or Forest Gump? Would someone please comment on my dream? Am I right? Are these two movies variations on the same theme?

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  4. Oh yes, most certainly. Both had mothers that wouldn't give up on them, both shed their exoskeletons, both spent time on the water with a hard-drinking compatriot, both were involved with the same type of woman. These are the few that I can think of. I'm going to check the IMDB site cuz I think the screenplays came from the same person.

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  5. Yes, Eric Roth did the screenplay for both Forest Gump and Benjamin Button.

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  6. Benjamin Button's story came from an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. Both stories have to do with journeys or searches for "life's meaning."
    I'm not sure that they find what they are looking for. I guess both experience war, love and the death of loved ones, but I was maybe more impressed by Button's losing everything: memory, language, thought, etc. I guess I am more interested in the two stories in terms of folk heroes like Peer Gynt,Ulysses and even Candide.
    Time to hush! I'm beginning to sound like an old English teacher.

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  7. Don't you be mean to me Gary Carden, you know I ment BB not FG !! I thought it was a little "out there " but entertaining to a "dreamy " extent! I never thought about FG
    being similar but you may be more observent than me!

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