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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis is an American film director best known for Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact, Cast Away, Beowulf, and Welcome to Marwen. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Forrest Gump and has been applauded for his innovative approach to special effects.

An early lover of television and film, Zemeckis was inspired to go to film school after learning about the concept from The Tonight Show...

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How Disability Can Enable Us: Examining Irony in the Film Forrest Gump Faith Neece College

Forrest Gump

Irony is a tool used in literature to expose some incongruity or discrepancy either in characters’ language or behavior or in a situation. Irony reveals the deeper truth about the complexities of life. One type of irony is situational irony, which...