【正文】 1 Abstract Movies reflect the lives,views and values of people. Through the movie viewers will know the different national people’s way of life and their attitude towards the life. We left a deep impression from the hero Forrest Gump’s life experience of the legend. Through this film we learn about the generation of inheritance views and values. In this paper, the author describes the Forrest Gump which movie reflects the American dream and the American optimism that including American views and values.“American dream” is a famous word that every American hears throughout their life. American dream drives everyone in USA and even many nonAmerican people who came to America for their dreams to achieve themselves. In Forrest Gump’s heart, hope is to run and draw each in his own way of doing his American dream. Opportunities for every dreamers open a door whom borrow by this kind of spirit that encourage people to strive to pursue, to explore, to plete and never give up! Maybe the American dream, or other dreams are in this. We will be stand higher than the fool’s station, but the reality is we can not reach the height to the fool’s. Key Words: Forrest Gump, American Dream, American Optimism, Good Luck 2 摘 要 電影反映人們的生活 ,思想觀和價(jià)值觀。透過電影，觀賞者可以了解到不同國家 的 人的生活方式 以及 他們對(duì)待生活的態(tài)度。美國電影《阿甘正傳》中的主人公阿甘一生的傳奇經(jīng)歷給我們留下了非常深刻的印象。通過這部電影，我們了解到美國世代傳承的思想觀和價(jià)值觀。 在 本文 中 ,筆者 旨在 描述 《阿甘正傳》這部電影所反映的美國夢和美國 式 樂觀主義 ，包括這些美國人的 思想觀和價(jià)值觀。 “美國夢”是每一個(gè)美國人在生活中都耳熟能詳?shù)脑~匯。每個(gè)人都生活在“美國夢”的驅(qū)動(dòng)下 , 甚至許多非美國人為了他們的夢想來到美國從而實(shí)現(xiàn) 自我 。 在阿甘的 內(nèi) 心 世界里 ,希望 就是奔 跑 ,驅(qū)使 著 每個(gè)人 按照 自己的方式去做 自己的美國夢。 機(jī)會(huì)為每一個(gè)追夢者敞開了大門 ,借由 這 種精神 ,鼓勵(lì)人們 去 努力追求 ,去探索 ,去完成 ,而且永不放棄 !也許美國夢，或者其它的各種美夢就在于此。我們 可以 比一個(gè)傻子站得更高， 可 現(xiàn)實(shí)卻是我們都 無法 達(dá)到那個(gè)傻子的高度。 關(guān)鍵詞 : 阿甘，美國夢，美國式樂觀主義，好運(yùn) 3 Forrest Gump and the American Dream I. Introduction Family love, friendship and love is always the eternal topic in human’s history. The fool around the culture background, the film tells what happened in Forrest Gump on the family love, friendship and love story. Forrest Gump have been handicap and low IQ, people of the small town use different eyes see Forrest Gump, only two females care and love him:mother gave him great motherly love, Jenny has a pure really girl feelings warm his heart. In the mothers, Forrest Gump is not a burden, but that’s the gift of god for her. There is always a way to find the most straightaway language make him understand life some truth in what life was like a box of chocolate, you never know what you’ll get what kind of taste, stupid is as stupid does, and in order to be able to earn his normal children in the same life learning opportunities, she even promised to sleep with the headmaster. Forrest Gump expressed many different theme, which is the director of the life is repeatedly to never give up. The movie not only give a person with emotional education, and is also a story about the United States in the 1950s to 1982 years of history, is well worth a look. Forrest Gump’s IQ is low, but he was too simple, firm faith and do a lot of normal person unexpected. He has made remarkable achievement in sports, battlefield and market. Forrest Gump’s life is with a course of American postwar and some significant events, like Elvis Presley, the Beatles, racial issues, the Vietnam war and antiwar, watergate, pingpong diplomacy, and so on. Forrest Gump’s story is like a laser reflect all aspects of life, cause the audience to their life thinking. In the United States from the movie, the “American dream” is often topics covered. What is the “American dream”? The most representative about the “American dream” of a movie is Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump (1994) has been directed by the director Robert Keith, Tom Hanks starred in a “fool movie” (antiintellectual movie). The film has achieved great success in 1995,the 67th Academy Awards petition,the prixes 13 nominations, swept the best picture, the best actor, best director,best adapted drama,the best achievement in film editing, won in the nation’s 10 big box office of the film’s first, and in the best seller of film ever to list the fourth, 4 years later the film and to enter into the United States history’s greatest sites out of the movie. So Forrest Gump can say it is the history of a fool electricity shadow of myth. We should see Forrest from the American dream in mapping, and learn his optimism. 4 II. The Definition of the American Dream The socalled American dream is a kind of belief in the United States after the hard struggle will reach better the ideal of life,that is one must work hard,through their own courage, creative, and determined to prosperity,rather than rely on the particular social class and others’ help. It usually represents the people’s success in the economic or entrepreneurial spirit. What is the American Dream? American is not just a dream, and even though it is a dream, it is not a simple dream, but a “national ideal” weaved by the founders of America for American people, whose basic meaning is “pursuit of life, liberty and happiness”. These words,“l(fā)ife, liberty and happiness”,are part of American history written in the Declaration of Independence:“We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men created equal, that they are endowed by their create or with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”[2] American dream is a mon faith in many American people of faith. Equality of opportunity is the soul of the American dream. According to historian’s argument, the rapid economic development and industrial expansion is not only because the United States is rich in natural resources, but also because everyone has a chance by own struggle for wealth. The American dream became attract people around the world as the main reason for the