Okay so I wasn't really sure what the Saturday song would be and it would be too easy just to talk about The Beatles again. So I've chosen a track from the film Forrest Gump entitled You're no different as it was the first tune on my i-tunes today. It is a beautiful piano piece that sets the tempo at a different pace for a weekend. Although I am writing this after a good gym work out and some volunteering I am settling down to do some novel editing so the mood needs to be mellow and chilled. The pieces of music isn't very long, a minute long to be exact, but it fits the film. The title reflects the views of Forrest's mother in the film that he is no different to other kids and just because he thinks and does things slightly differently, doesn't mean he should be treated differently to others. I think what's great about the character Forrest Gump is that he has a simplicity to him and instead of making everything so complicated, he manages to live by the rules his mamma told him and what he thinks is right. Perhaps we should all live like that sometimes, without the needless ends of complications.Written in 1994 for the release of the film, Alan Silvestri's instrumental score for the film was nominated for best original score at the 67th Academy Awards. Silvestri is another of these great American movie composers who you may not know the name of him or what he looks like but you know his music through films like Who framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future and Captain America.
Silvestri's Forrest Gump score is beautiful and a little interlude between all the pop music that has been put into the jukebox in the last couple of weeks.
Have your mellow moment by listening here:
You're no different from Forrest Gump
Written by: Alan Silvestri
Date released: 1994
Album: Forrest Gump - Picture Score
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