Did Tom Hank's wave in Forrest Gump remind anyone of the scene in Zelig where Mia Farrow meets Woody Allen at the Nazi rally? For some odd reason when I recently watched Zelig it just seemed to click. I was wondering if anyone noticed the same thing. I guess it would make a bit of sense seeing as Zelig pioneered the technique of adding new images to familiar ones so a slight reference would be in order...
shareThe whole time I was watching this I kept thinking of Forrest Gump. I think Gump borrowed a lot of elements from this movie as well as 'World According to Garp'
The Friends of Eddie Coyle needs to be released on DVD!
When I first saw Forrest Gump, it reminded me of "Zelig".
share...and Being There
shareHello,
I am watching Zelig right now and find your question interesting - I will look.
I have had the exact same thought as you but applied between Kramer of Seinfeld and Sasha the bartender in Casablanca; their energy and the way they move etc..,
Al
don't forget...this is also the same type of character in Peter Seller's "Being There"
shareThat character never changed himself at all-people interpreted him the way they wanted, but the change was in perspective, not in his actions.
I suppose his adventures were similar, though, if that's what you mean.
Most Recently Viewed
Zelig 8/10
This story is already over
The beautiful thing about Zelig is the way it was made. There are several happy accidents that helped along the way, as well as only two shots in the entire movie that were aided by greenscreen (a cookie to anyone who can tell me boh of them). One of the better accidents I know of is the first time you see Zelig at the nazi rally, it's not Woody Allen at all. That is a piece of stock footage and an editor found a nazi soldier that happened o look frighteningly like Woody.
shareInteresting point about Being There, but in that movie everyone adapts to Chance's environment and interprets what he says according to their own belief systems. Zelig adapts to the environment around him.
Zelig is a great idea and a technical marvel. Parts work better than the whole, and it's too long. The present-day interviews are wryly amusing. People may not remember this now, but two years earlier Warren Beatty's Reds had drawn a lot of attention for its interviews with "witnesses" that were interspersed throughout the movie. Zelig's interviews with people like Susan Sontag and Saul Bellow are a nod to that.
As far as the greenscreen shots, I just saw it last night for the first time in years, and I've sent it back to Netflix. But, is one of those shots in the ticker tape parade after Zelig has piloted the plane upside down across the Atlantic? I would guess the other is at San Simeon, but I've been wrong before. :)
forrest = Zelig + Being There
shareI believe one of those shots is the baseball footage with Allen up to bat. I don't know the other one though.
"Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's."
-Amelie
I watched "Zelig" last night. By the scene at the Nazi Rally I discovered which film it made me remember of, and it was Forrest Gump, that I've seen many years before. For sure Zemeckis took the technique of the main character appearing in important events from this wonderful movie "Zelig".
shareYeah, Forrest Gump definatly borrows from Zelig
Everyone I implore you to check this film out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/
Actually IMO it seems to be more inspired by Little Big Man. At least plot-wise. Though in terms of execution/cinematography it definitely owes something to Zelig.
shareI thought Forrest Gump ripped off the entire idea...
shareI don't think you can say Gump directly ripped off the idea. It seems like the logical thing for them to do since Gump would be meeting various historical characters. At best you could say Gump was possibly inspired by those type of scenes found in Zelig.
share