When Steve Starkey first read the script for “Forrest Gump,” it felt personal. In some ways, he saw himself on the page. He was a student at the University of California at Berkeley participating in the antiwar protests that Gump stumbled into in Washington, D.C., and remembered the monumental, historical moments in the mid-to-late 20th century that Gump lives through.
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Starkey, the film’s producer, thought the film would resonate with people from his generation. But the story of the remarkable life of an Alabama man would do more than just that. The 1994 film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, who would go on to be a longtime collaborator with Starkey, would become the top-grossing film in the United States that year and win several Academy Awards, including best picture and best actor for Tom Hanks, who played Gump.
In 2011, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
But when Starkey and other members of the crew started on their journey, fighting with the studio along the way, they had no idea the staying power that the film would have even 30 years later.
Starkey, who splits his time between Fairfax and Carpinteria, will reflect on “Forrest Gump” during a screening at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Admission is $8.50 to $14. More information and tickets are online at rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/forrest-gump.
Book Passage will also have copies of Starkey’s book, “Stupid is as Stupid Does,” in the lobby. The title, a reference to an iconic line that Gump says in the film, offers Starkey’s perspective of creating the film, as well lines from the script and photos from the adventure.
“When I think back on the making of ‘Forrest Gump,’ my mind swirls in disbelief at what I and the film company went through to get that movie done,” Hanks writes in the foreword. “The show was relentless, but we got through it and maybe got a little bruised in the process, but, at the end of the day, we made the film we set out to make.”
Ahead of the screening, Starkey took the time to speak about …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment