Anyone know why Forrest Gump and Austin Powers are so high? Those were the biggest surprises to me. Not totally surprised to see Gump on the list, but all the way up at #3?
Forrest Gump might show up on a quiz about fictional characters, movies, books, Tom Hanks, the 90s, top box office, memorable quotes, famous directors, Oscars, or several different notable historical events (Vietnam War, Kennedy assassination, Alabama University integration, etc.)... that's my best guess. This works somewhat for Powers, too, which was after all a work of satire so referenced many different things. Both were big events in the cultural zeitgeist.
I thought of Doc from back to the future.. Not that I thought it would actually work. But then again, no cape but travelling through time is quite the superpower! (I know.. not born with it)
The use of the word 'fictional' is badly misleading. Greek and Norse gods who feature in this are not 'fictional', they are archetypal 'mythological'. That is not the same.
Yeah, right. I've always disliked how the Greek, Roman, Norse, etc. pantheon is considered mythology, but Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, etc. aren't.
Well, the work he comes from has received a few accolades over the years, including "First Modern Novel," "a Founding Work of Western Literature," and "The Best Novel of All Time."
It would be truly insane if the first ever novel also happens, by sheer, unfathomable coincidence, to be the best one of all time. Just got it right straight away, it seems, every other novel ever written might as well not have been.