Episode 86: Forrest Gump vs. Benjamin Button (with Patrick H. Willems)

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team welcomes back YouTube creator Patrick Willems to compare Forrest Gump and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The team discusses the films' strangely similar premises, dissects the movies' plot structures and filmmaking techniques, and debates the overall effectiveness of the stories' differing tones.

Show Notes

Patrick's video on Robert Zemeckis: https://youtu.be/JKe8qCzPdkI

Patrick Willems on Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickhwillems

Listen to our discussion of Loki Episode 3 on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3hbxH0w

Tricia's movie recommendation: Bacurau (2019) by Kleber Mendonça Filho

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a
0:10.0	conversational deep dive analysis into a film. Today we're talking about two films, Forrest Gump,
0:16.1	directed by Robert Zemeckis, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by David Fincher,
0:21.6	both of which were written by Eric Roth.
0:23.7	I'm joined today by part of the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arandt.
0:27.4	Hello, everyone.
0:28.3	And Brian Bittner.
0:29.3	Hello, hello.
0:30.0	And we are joined once again by none other than video essayist, filmmaker, Patrick Willems.
0:36.1	Thank you.
0:36.9	Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.
0:38.9	Once again, it's a pleasure to be back. So I'm excited because this is kind of a continuation
0:45.1	of a conversation because when we recorded recently our Paddington episode, after we were done
0:51.4	recording, we were just chatting and somehow the idea of talking about
0:56.2	the curious case of Benjamin Button and Forrest Gump came up and we spent a fair amount of time
1:01.1	talking about how weird they are and how weirdly similar they are, but also just unto themselves
1:08.6	how weird they were. And so we kind of came away from that being like,
1:11.9	I think this could be a fun episode.
1:13.7	We should just talk about these two movies and see what happens.
1:17.2	And so here we are.
1:18.9	So I'm excited to get into these two movies really quick.
1:22.8	The question for people listening on the Spotify app is,
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