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...beige. Those drab colors wouldn't do for a miniseries set in the blindingly blue Pacific Basin. Together, Spielberg and Hanks did tests at a Universal Studios back lot to conjure up a faded Hawaiian postcard look. Palm fronds, ripe coconuts and white clouds pop out from the TV screen in a tamped-down Day-Glo way. The cinematic effect is mesmerizing. (See the best movies of the decade...
...couldn't see how to deal with the subject more skillfully than Francis Ford Coppola had in Apocalypse Now or Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest Gump. While the role earned him an Academy Award, Gump hardly epitomized the brutal nature of Vietnam, about which reporter Michael Herr had written so devastatingly in Dispatches. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...that the film “captures 100 percent of the spirit and dynamic of our family” and describes the experience of being on set and seeing details from their own lives—the clothes they wore, the van they had—come alive on screen as “very surreal...
...things make this movie special. It features the kind of characters that aren’t often depicted in film. First of all they are [an ethnic] minority. You don’t see many Asian American lead characters on screen, and you don’t see realistic portrayals of immigrants. This film ascribes to a realist aesthetic, so it almost feels like a documentary in terms of documenting the real lives of immigrants and the trials and tribulations they go through. It doesn’t tie things in a neat little bow. The story is more complex...
...movie asks you to grow up so quickly. Was it hard to wander between the extremes? I'm thinking of the scene in which you finally break up with Peter Sarsgaard's character. Rewind 30 minutes, and you are totally in love. That scene looks so dramatic on the screen. I remember it as the day when my brother was on the set for the first time, and he was so excited. But what was funny was that it was 3 in the morning when they started shooting my side of the scene, and then a full two hours later...