Was Forrest Gump conservative propaganda?

Now I myself enjoyed the film and I've seen it plenty of times, but is there a subtle conservative message in the film? I was watching it last night and later my friend said, that it does have a tilt.

Now I can see where he's coming from - for example, Jenny is abused, then later becomes a hippy and does lots of drugs, and then surely enough she gets AIDS and dies. The SDS president of the Berkely chapter looks like a complete ass hole and smacks her at one point. So are hippies and anti war protestors portrayed poorly in the film?

I'm just curious what you think.

Forrest's big speech about how we never know what we're gonna get is damningly repukeian in nature.

about Leuitenant Dan "finding God" also seemed like a very conservative theme...

what ever happened to the du'er ForrestGump? :shrug:

7 weeks since I heard a peep from the man. Strange considering. :shrug:

yard. You don't know what you've stepped in until you take a stick, scrape whatever it is off the bottom of your boots, and taste it.

But then I laughed when I was supposed to be crying and felt like crying at the rest of it. Hated it, I'm afraid.

a brilliant idea though that has become a part of the american lexicon..fun to use it on fascists like gannon who is a kind of f. gump "life is just a box of sex toys" couldn't resist using it again

...if it is I think it's so subtle that few people get that message from it. Like, I think if it is in there it's so far beyond detection that it wouldn't actually influence people's thoughts. After all, and maybe this doesn't mean much, Tom Hanks is a Dem, so I don't think he would take a role that was too glorifying of a Re:puke: message.

The part with the SDS President slapping Jenny always did piss me off, though. Just 'cause I figured it gave a lot of ignorant people more reason to bash hippies and participants in the sixties/seventies peace movement, rather than just seeing that one guy as being a hypocritical jerk. ("Well, I saw a hippie in that movie Forrest Gump and he smacked that girl around. He sure wasn't about peace and love.")

The movie is significantly different than the book, though, but I read the book so long ago (though after seeing the movie for the first time) that I can't remember in what major ways. The movie may have brought in the subtle conservatism that is in there, as I don't remember the book having the same "feel" that the book had. I do remember that the book has some scene involving Forrest with Raquel Welch and chimpanzees shooting a film, which I always thought might have been interesting if it had been included in the movie!

baby boomer fucking flashbacks. I
hate it when filmmakers think they
can be "evocative" by including
Hendrix in the soundtrack.
It always says "dumbed down pandering" to me....