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by Michael Gray 
Mar 10th 2009 at 12:00PM
I didn't originally think I'd feature Forrest GumpDK. Mojorising created the video to help celebrate the four year anniversary of his guild, The Enigma Order. While I like seeing these videos, it's usually not the kind of thing that appeals to an audience-at-large. After watching it through, however, the warm-hearted nostalgia grew on me. I actually found "Forrest GumpDK" to not only be a "happy anniversary!" card, but also a fond retrospective of raiding since Vanilla WoW.
The video is based off a certain Robert Zemeckis film from the mid-90s. At the end of GumpDK, the main actor is credited as "Tom Tanks." Hey, it's the little jokes that make things work. Basically, the movie starts off following a feather as it drifts down to a tuxedo-wearing Death Knight, sitting on a bench in Stormwind. The DK then begins telling the tale (in subtitles) of how The Enigma Order has been raiding over the past years.
While Forrest GumpDK is talking about his Guild, I think we all remember the days of fighting that big guy who's made of fire, then a dragon, then another dragon. And then, shooting off into "space!" That sense of wonder might have worn thin for some of us veterans, but Mojorising's Forrest gave me a gentle, rosy-glass view of the old times. For that, I thank Forrest GumpDK for a job well done.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
mojorising Mar 10th 2009 4:17PM
hey, thanks for mentioning my movie :)
Yes, i know the spelling is awful, but i guess thats what you get for beeing buisy doing alot of other stuff, besides wow :)
and no.. the spelling is not to make it more like forrest gump.. its pure lazyness.
truth be told.. it was ment for my guild alone, but they all liked it so much, that i thought it would be fun to put it on youtube/wcm :)
i choose my DK to be the story teller, since i deleted my bankchar, in order to get room for a DK. My bankchar was dressed in a tux, and it ended up on my DK, to save some inventory room on my other characters. Since my DK already had the "forrest Gump looking haircut, i decided to stick on him, and just have some fun with it.
Mike Mar 11th 2009 8:55AM
Dude, gratz on the movie, enjoyed it very much.
But one word of advice: if a perfectly plausible explanation for one of your cock-ups is offered by someone else: take it. It will make you seem smart. And everyone else does it as well, so noone is actually cheating anyone here (you can imagine how much more stupid the Interwebs would seem without this mechanism ;))
mojorising Mar 10th 2009 4:24PM
@ lemons;
actually, ive been playing a druid since retail, and will continue to do so..
The comment have nothing to do with the char beeing a DK, but simply a refference to the movie :)
- just as Tom Hanks dont dish all white people by saying it in the real movie :) If you have to critique my movie, cant you focus on the spelling like the rest?
Lemons Mar 10th 2009 11:17PM
Well at least now I know the whole DK thing was mere coincidence rather than a conscious choice.
And I'm sry but when I critique I have to dig deeper than mere spelling errors :P
Kashtan Mar 11th 2009 4:23AM
Well done Mojo :D Seeing this movie after all those years...made me nostalgic
Obscure Mar 10th 2009 4:57PM
This movie was the winning entry of The Enigma Order's anniversary media contest.
Check the other entries here:
http://enigmaorder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10426
Four years as a guild needs to be celebrated in style. In addition to media contest, we had a 1-10 levelling contest.