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Originally Posted by captaincaptain
Tom Hanks was a naive, slightly dimwitted guy in love with a slutty woman. He played that to great effect in Forrest Gump. Using a fake country that really is Russia was a horrible idea. Any dropout from The Actor's Studio could have came up with that accent. I felt the movie was only made to capitalize on a similar real life story. As for Speilberg he was totally out of his element with this movie. If it doesn't have dinosaurs, aliens, sharks, or Jews, then he shouldn't be making the movie.
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I don't think his character was dim witted at all. The naive nature comes from the language barrier aspect of the film, and his relationship with the woman was explored through a near elimination of linguistics and a focus purely on intent and emotion. It was an examination of differences in human culture, commercialism, and displacement. Also had some pretty interesting characters.
But to each his own I suppose.