#345 - At Long Last, the Forrest Gump Episode

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's an extremely discouraging political moment for our neighbors in the United States, so we decided the time was right to finally examine one of the quintessential cinematic articulations of American exceptionalism, FORREST GUMP (1994). Is life, in fact, like a box of chocolates? We investigate. "The Man Who Loved Presidents: On John Meacham" by Thomas Frank - https://harpers.org/archive/2021/07/jon-meacham-thomas-frank-soul-of-america/ "Tom Hanks Explains It All" by David Marchese - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html

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0:00.0	Al Gore lives on my street.
0:03.0	Hi everyone, your old pal Will here.
0:05.0	My dear friend Luke would be very upset with me if I didn't tell you what's happening on the Michael and Us Patreon page.
0:11.0	For the low-low price of five Yankee dollars a month, you can get an extra episode every week.
0:17.0	Recent Patreon exclusive episodes have covered such topics as the Louis Benuel Salvador Dali classic Lajdor,
0:24.3	the movie that nearly got its financiers excommunicated from the Catholic Church, as well as
0:29.3	the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy, and a deep dive into the October crisis in Canada.
0:35.3	This on top of years of bonus content, including episodes on everything
0:38.9	from Paths of Glory to Crumb, patreon.com slash Mike Lenus. Here endeth the commercial. Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
1:09.7	Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.
1:11.4	This is, at long last, the Forrest Gump episode, more than 300 episodes in.
1:16.2	And I'd like to tell you just a little bit about how we got here.
1:19.0	Because Forrest Gump, I think it's been in our backpocket since 2016, I want to say.
1:23.9	I went to see the Elvis movie this week. Baz Luhrman's biopic of Elvis Presley, co-starring, friend of the show, Tom Hanks.
1:31.6	I didn't even know that.
1:33.2	Yeah, yeah, he plays Colonel Tom Parker.
1:35.1	And I kind of enjoyed the movie, you know, sue me.
1:38.5	I thought it was fun.
1:39.2	A Baz Luhrman movie about Elvis is probably just those two things as selling points. There probably no two things
1:46.0	that would make me less inclined to want to see a movie. Well, listen, I'm not going to sit here and
1:50.0	litigate Elvis with you, the movie or the man. But, you know, the Elvis movie, it is a biopic
1:57.3	cranked up to 11. It fully leans into the cliches of the biopic genre. It goes all in on them.
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