Forrest Gump
“RUN, FORREST, RUN!”
CHOSEN BY ALAN SILVESTRI (COMPOSER)
ALAN SILVESTRI: “When I worked on Forrest Gump, my son [Joey] was very young and he had recently been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, which is a very profound event to happen to a child. I could not get the sense of what he was living with, and what the potential future was for him. And this image of Forrest being someone with a malady, who begins to cast off these apparatuses only to discover that he is, in effect, cured, was just a magical metaphor for me and for my family. That’s really where the music came from, in that sequence.”