Forrest Gump
(1994)INNOVATION ''Gumping,'' or digitally placing a person from existing film footage into a scene with a live actor. The filmmakers not only resurrected late presidents and other historical figures to costar with Tom Hanks, but they also digitally manipulated their mouths to match newly uttered dialogue.
MEMORABLE MOMENT Forrest (Hanks) tells President Lyndon B. Johnson how he was wounded ''in the butt-tocks.''
POSITIVE IMPACT Made possible Jude Law's dream to work with Laurence Olivier (who died in 1989) in Sky Captain.
NEGATIVE IMPACT Made possible a beer commercial featuring 25-years-dead John Wayne
EW GRADE C
