Script for the movie Awake (2007)

Director: Joby Harold

Writer: Joby Harold

Clayton - Sam.
Sam - I'm tired, all right? I just want to go home.
Sam You got me hiding my engagement ring, Clay.
Clayton What is wrong with you?
Sam - Will you come under the umbrella?
Clayton - No.
Sam I've been engaged for six months.
No one even knows I'm dating anyone.
Do you have any idea how that makes me feel?
Clayton I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, okay?
Sam For Christ's sake, Clay, what are you doing?You can't be in the rain.Will you come
inside so we can get warm? Unless you'd rather stand in the rain.
Clayton I should have done this a long time ago.
Sam Here we go.
Clayton Look what we've got here.
Sam All right, sweetie.
Clayton All right. Open up, honey.
Sam You okay?

Clayton Marry me.

Sam What?
Clayton Tonight. Right now. Marry me tonight.
Sam But it's the middle of the night.
Clayton I don't want to wait anymore. We've waited long enough. So proud of you.
Priest I, Samantha Jane Lockwood...
Sam I, Samantha Jane Lockwood...
Priest take you, Clayton Beresford, Jr...
Sam take you, Clayton Beresford, Jr...
Priest to be my lawful wedded husband...
Sam to be my lawful wedded husband...

Priest to have and to hold...

Sam to have and to hold...
Priest from this night forward...
Hayden Christensen as Clay Beresford
Jessica Alba as Sam Lockwood
Terrence Howard as Dr. Jack Harper

Review of the movie Forest Gump

Robert Zemeckis (of Back to the Future fame) has collected another feather for his
cap with his direction of this movie starring Tom Hanks as this childishly naive idiot
savant. Though that description of Forrest Gump might be inadequate.
Gump, gifted with a low IQ which lets him be adorably childlike even as he grows up,
leads a very charmed life: a mother who loves him immensely and who sleeps with
the school principal in order to make sure her child has the best education, a
miraculous incident that eliminates the need for him to have braces for his legs, a
childhood girlfriend who remains faithful to him till the end, surviving Vietnam with a
medal, and, in general, a propensity for turning everything that happens to him into
good.
I wonder what the movie is trying to say. From one perspective, it implies that
intelligence (as measured by IQs and the general idea of what "smart" is) is a very
unnecessary trait. But I think one can look beyond that and say that childlike
innocence, which can be considered stupid, has its rewards. Throughout the movie,
Gump is in situations where he is harassed by other people but he never takes offense
(except, of course, when his girl Jenny is being abused) at any of the insults thrown at
him. He is indeed not completely stupid, even though he is portrayed as such, since he
can re-assemble guns at high speed, run like crazy, play ping-pong like a maniac, and
so on.
The fact that Gump doesn't take offense, I think, is what keeps him content. He
becomes a millionaire, but gives most of the money away. He is honest and open and
this, along with his Alabama accent, endears him to the audience. But this gets
tiresome after a while (especially after 2 hours). I thought the movie was overly long,
but that's the only negative thing I have to say.

Gump rubs elbows with many famous personalities over the last half of the century
including Elvis Presley and Nixon, thanks to computer technology (General Dan
doesn't really lose his legs either---they are just erased and the background is then
touched up by using computer graphics programs). The account of how Gump is
responsible for the gyrations that is so characteristic of Presley is very telling of the
motives of this movie. Gump is contrasted to the famous males, who are idols (in
some cases) in today's society, and it appears as though he is better off in comparison:
Gump's choices in life seem to determine his niceness (he goes to Vietnam, keeps his
promises ("a promise is a promise"), harbours no ill-feelings or grudges, and is not
greedy with fame or money) and successes. Contrast this to the choices his lifetime
girl friend Jenny makes: she wants to be famous and rich, but ends up being a druggie.
The people she is surrounded by are all of a dubious nature: a sexually-abusive father,
a show audience more interested in her naked body than her folk-music playing, and
an abusive hippie-boyfriend.
The traditional male heroes that we have had are all dysfunctional in some respect or
another and we are lost without heroes, as Bloom points out. Gump is a new kind of a
role-model; he's A Nice Boy and everyone knows they're hard to find. As one reviewer
said: "Today the last American hero is a Tom Hanks character with a small IQ".
Forrest Gump is the runaway hit movie of this summer. Many people claim it gets
them in touch with their "inner child". Some reviewers attack it for the view that low
IQ is a necessity for maintaining the child-like attitude Gump has. Gump never grows
up or matures in the movie. He never becomes a man and remains a boy throughout. It
is implied, at least, that his "stupidity" is what allows him to do this. This may or may
not be true, but it is just a movie in the end. Most people in his position would not be
so fortunate as he. And what about the converse: if you are intelligent, does this mean
you cannot be child-like forever? That's not true, and I think Zemeckis did a good job
in showing that anyone can retain their inner child as long they never grow up or
become mature.