Forrest Gump (1994) |
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Forrest Gump Cast |
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Tom Hanks
(as Forrest Gump)
with Robin Wright
(as Jenny Curran)
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Forrest Gump (1994) was nominated for the following awards:
Academy AwardsBAFTA AwardsGolden Globes
11.
Golden Globe
1995
14.
Golden Globe
1995 Young Artist Awards
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Young Artist Award
1995
Best Performance by a Young Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture
Nominated
16.
Young Artist Award
1995
17.
Young Artist Award
1995 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USADirectors Guild of America, USAMTV Movie AwardsKids` Choice Awards, USAAmerican Comedy Awards, USAKansas City Film Critics Circle AwardsAmanda Awards, NorwayScreen Actors Guild Awards
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Actor
1995 National Board of Review, USAChlotrudis AwardsChicago Film Critics Association AwardsCzech LionsSoutheastern Film Critics Association Awards |
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Trivia and QuotesTrivia Bill Murray was considered for the role of Forrest. Terry Gilliam turned down the chance to direct the film. Barry Sonnenfeld was offered the chance to direct this film. David Alan Grier turned down the role of Bubba. Ice Cube turned down the role of Bubba. John Travolta turned down the role of Forrest Gump. Chevy Chase turned down the role of Forrest.
The Bayou le Batre hospital named after Forrest Gump is actually the University of South Carolina - Beaufort Performing Arts Center. The Vietnam scenes of Forrest Gump were shot on what is now the Ocean Creek Golf Course on Fripp Island, SC. Gary Sinise`s lower legs were wrapped in a special blue fabric that allowed them to be optically removed from the film by computer later. Tom Hanks` younger brother Jim doubles for him in many of his mindless running sequences.
Tom Hanks patterned his accent after Michael Conner Humphreys (young Forrest) who actually talked that way. On the day that Tom Hanks shot the football running scenes he had been suffering from influenza. #
# The park bench that Tom Hanks sits on for much of the movie was located in historic Savannah, Georgia, at Chippewa Square. The fiberglass bench he sat on has since been removed and placed into a museum to avoid being destroyed by the weather. The church where the feather first falls is about 100 yards just down the street from his bench. The bench is currently held in the Savannah History Museum, Savannah, Georgia. #
# When Lt. Dan says "I`m walking here!" to the cab - a nod to Midnight Cowboy (1969) - the song in the background is "Everybody`s Talkin`", also from Midnight Cowboy (1969). The background music playing while Forrest is using the bathroom in the Kennedy White House is the theme from Camelot (1967), which was a name often used in reference to Kennedy`s years in office.
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# Gary Sinise`s character tells Tom Hanks`s character that the day Forrest works on a shrimp boat is the day he`d be an astronaut. This is a reference to the book, where Forrest actually becomes an astronaut, and the following year, Sinise and Hanks appeared together as astronauts in Apollo 13 (1995). Gary Sinise is also the commander/narrator of the ride "Mission: Space in Epcot" in Walt Disney World, and also starred as an astronaut in Mission to Mars (2000). #
# The necklace worn by Lt. Dan is a rosary with a Saint Christopher medal, inscribed "Protect Us In Combat". It was worn in Vietnam by Gary Sinise`s brother-in-law, Jack Treese, in 1967-68. Tom Hanks said that he would make the film only if all the events that took place were true to historical reality. #
# When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, he says, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don`t go home at all. That`s a bad thing. That`s all I have to say about that." The first boy in the school bus who refuses to let Forrest sit next to him is played by Alexander Zemeckis, director Robert Zemeckis` son. The girl in the school bus with the red hair is Tom Hanks`s daughter Elizabeth Hanks. The line, "My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump," was ad libbed by Tom Hanks while filming the scene and director Robert Zemeckis liked it so much that he decided to keep it in. #
# The actor who plays the reporter on the scene when Tom Hanks visits Washington DC after his tour in Vietnam was, himself, an actual tourist from Atlanta, Georgia. He happened to be on Capitol Hill that day with his wife, and was asked to read. #
# In the opening shot of the film, the feather floats down over Madison Square in Savannah, Georgia. It then floats up to the sky where there is a dissolve, barely visible, and then it sweeps down past the Protestant Church and then heads for Chippawa Square, about half a mile away from the first square (although we are left to believe it`s the same square). Dave Chappelle turned down the role of Bubba, thinking the movie would bomb and has since admitted to deeply regretting it. Warner Bros. gave up the rights to the film in 1988, in exchange for the rights to Executive Decision (1996), because the studio felt that the project had lost its commercial promise in the wake of Rain Man (1988). #
# The disco and strip scenes were shot in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, as was the archive footage (1968) of Robert F. Kennedy, after he won the California Primary. RFK was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel just minutes later. #
# Robert Zemeckis decided to leave out several planned effects shots. One shot in particular involved Forrest running into Martin Luther King and his supporters. Forrest distracts several dogs trying to attack King and his supporters by playing fetch with them and rendering them harmless to King and himself as well as his supporters. While playing at the nightclub, Jenny goes under the name of Bobbie Dylan. The song she sings is "Blowin` In The Wind" by Bob Dylan. With every transition of Forrest`s age, one thing remains the same- in the first scene of each transition he wears a blue plaid shirt. All of the boat scenes, including the hurricane scene, were shot on location in the waters off the coast of South Carolina. A jet engine was used to generate the hurricane winds. The still/news reel shots of the trawlers on land are news shots of the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina 1989. Attention to detail: When Gump calls to report the Watergate burglary, the security guard answering the phone says, "Security, Frank Wills." This was the actual guard on duty during that night, and was the person who discovered the break-in. The Doors have more songs in the movie than any other band with a total of six. These are, "Soul Kitchen" (in one of the Vietnam scenes), "Hello, I Love You" (first song in Gump`s first ping pong sequence), "People Are Strange" (second song in Gump`s first ping pong sequence), "Break On Through" (third song in Gump`s first ping pong sequence), "Peace Frog" (during a New York scene with Lt.Dan) and "Love Her Madly" (when Jenny is leaving the hotel room with a black eye after presumably whoring herself). The scene where Forrest receives his Congressional Medal of Honor is actual footage. The footage is of Sgt. Sammy L. Davis receiving his award. Ret. Sgt. Davis routinely speaks to schools and says he is "very honored and humbled" that it`s his ceremony that was used for the film. #
# The movie`s line "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you`re gonna get." was voted as the #40 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #76 Greatest Movie of All Time. Chippewa Square, the setting for the famous bench scene, does not actually have any benches on the outside of the square that faces the street, only inside the square. The bench was placed there for that scene only by the production team. #
# Robert Zemeckis used the paintings of Norman Rockwell as the design inspiration for the town of Greenbow, Alabama. The scene where Forrest sits in the hallway of his school while his mother talks to the principal is a direct re-creation of Rockwell`s painting "Girl with a Black Eye".
The vintage microphones that Forrest speaks into while in DC and the sound rig that the uniformed man pulls cables out of were all provided by Brandywine Electronics, LTD (now known as BEL.com) and are still on display in its offices in New Castle, DE. Jenny`s last name, Curran, is never said in the film. The only places you can find it are on the back of an envelope that Forrest mailed to Jenny while he was in Vietnam, and on the letters that are returned to him in the hospital. During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors` paddles. Contrary to popular belief, the feather was not entirely CGI. The effects team digitized film of a real feather blowing and twisting in front of a blue-screen. This was then edited into segments, which the computer could link and morph together, allowing the "virtual" feather to move however the filmmakers needed. Thus, there was a real feather, but its performance in the movie was computer-based. This is demonstrated in the DVD supplementals. Greenbow, Alabama (Forrest`s town) is fictional. However, there is a Bayou LaBatre (Bubba`s town) in Alabama. Almost all of John Lennon’s dialog is from his song "Imagine" ("No possessions", "No religion too", "It`s easy if you try...”). The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies Of All Time" by Premiere.
Based on the scripted line of Forest Gump, "I had run three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours" and Forest having left his front porch in Green Bow, Alabama early the morning of July 5, 1976 because he "felt like running" - his entire transcontinental running marathon commenced on July 5, 1976 at 7:00 AM EDT (approx.) in Greenbow, Alabama and terminated on September 19, 1979 at 8:00 PM MDT (approx.) in Monument Valley, Utah. Sally Field is only ten years older than Tom Hanks. Forrest`s favorite book is "Curious George" by H.A. Rey. The shrimp boat used in the film now resides in the moat surrounding the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Downtown Disney, at the Disneyworld Resort in Florida. Also, one of the ping-pong paddles used in the film is signed by Tom Hanks and hung up on one of the walls inside the restaurant. Forrest Gump is in the 9th Infantry Division, as is shown in the Vietnam scenes by the patch on his shoulder (the top is red and the bottom is blue on the color versions of the patch). This took only 66 days to pass the $250 million mark at the box office. The fastest grossing Paramount film to pass the $100 million, $150 million and $200 million marks (as of February 2008). The traffic flow around squares in Savannah is normally counterclockwise. The flow was reversed for the movie in order to have the bus doors open into the square. Tom Hanks wasn`t paid for the film. Instead he took percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of $40 million. | ||
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