• Bill Murray was considered to play Forrest Gump.
• Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Dan)’s legs were wrapped in blue cloth during shooting, so that they can be removed with a computer during post-production.
• In the film, when Tom Hanks ran away with selflessness, his brother Jim would often accompany him on the run.
• Tom Hanks imitated the accent of Michael Conner Humphreys who played the role of Forrest Gump.
• Tom Hanks was suffering from the flu while filming the running scene of the football game.
• After the shooting, the park bench that Forrest was sitting on was moved into the Savannah History Museum in Georgia to avoid damage due to the weather.
• Lieutenant Dan said "I'm walking here!" to the taxi, which was a tribute to the movie "Midnight Cowboy". The background music "Everybody's Talkin" was also from this movie.
• Forrest Gump's unchanging symbol of appearance in each era is: a blue plaid shirt.
• The songs of The Gate Band are used more in the film than any other band. There are 6 songs in total.
• Warner Bros. gave up the opportunity to shoot the film in 1988 because it felt similar to the theme of "Rain Man" (1988).
• The red-haired girl in the school bus is Tom Hanks’ daughter Elizabeth. The first boy to prevent A-Gump from getting on the school bus was the director's son Alexander.
• Terry Gilliam had refused to direct the film.
• Barry Sonnenfeld was expected to direct the film.
• David Alan Grier, David Chappell, Ace Cooper, and John Travota have all refused to play Bubba.
• Chevy Chase refused to play Forrest Gump.
• The Bayou le Batre Hospital in the film is actually the Beaufort Performing Arts Center at the University of South Carolina.
• In all the still photos in the film, Forrest Gump closed his eyes.
•Tom Hanks once put forward the prerequisite for starring in this film, that is, the story in the film must have happened in the past.
• Sally Field, who plays Forrest Gump's mother, is only 10 years older than Tom Hanks.
•When Forrest Gump was speaking at a rally in Washington, the microphone plug was unplugged and the audience could not hear what he was talking. At the time he said: "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."
• All John Lennon’s dialogue in the film comes from his song "Imagine".
• The song Jenny sang in the nightclub was "Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan.
• All the nautical scenes in the film were shot on the coast of South Carolina, and the hurricane was formed by a jet engine.
• When Forrest Gump reported the Watergate incident, the guard who answered the call was indeed the guard on duty that night, and it was he who discovered the illegal break-in.
• The scene in which Forrest Gump was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor was taken in real life, and it was Sergeant Semi L. Davis who was truly commended at the time.
• In the film, Forrest Gump said "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get" ranked 40th in the list of "100 Best Film Lines" selected by the American Film Institute .
• In the scene of the table tennis match, there is no ball at all. The table tennis in the screen is generated using CGI technology.
Through the lens:
• When the lens is 10 feet away from Forrest Gump, the feather can be seen on Forrest Gump's feet and in the sky at the same time.
• The girl standing behind A-Gump and Jenny on the school bus disappears from the camera and reappears. The speed of the school bus also changes according to different shots.
• When A-Gump was bullied by a bad boy, he was hit under the eye with a stone, and then his forehead began to bleed.
• Jenny died in March 1982, but Forrest Gump appeared in a newspaper clipping of "USA Today" on September 15, 1982. According to the date on the tombstone, Jenny died on Monday, not Saturday as Forrest said.
• In Savannah, the woman who gave Forrest Gump pointed in the opposite direction. When Forrest Gump sat in front of the bench in the square, the bus drove clockwise across the square, which was the opposite of the real situation on the ground.
• When Lieutenant Dan fell from the wheelchair, he used the leg that was processed by digital technology to help him stand up.
• When A-Gump was practicing table tennis alone, there was a three-point line on the basketball court, and the three-point line had not yet been used.
• When A-Gump walked towards Jenny after giving a speech by the reflection pool, he passed by the same person twice.
• On the National Day of the United States in 1978, fireworks on TV showed that the Statue of Liberty had been restored. In fact, it was restored in 1986.
• When A-Gump walked into the reflection lake and hugged Jenny, the ducks in the lake were gone. There were a few ducks in many previous scenes.
• In the battlefield hospital, when the black doctor told Lieutenant Dan that he should take a bath and pick him up, he could see Lieutenant Dan's calf tightly under his thigh.
Movie metaphor:
1.3 The
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of the earliest terrorist organizations in the United States, which existed in 1866. Mainly advocate white supremacy racism, using lynching, kidnapping, mass killings and other methods to persecute blacks, Jews and Orientals.
2. Elvis
Elvis Presley is probably the most important figure in American pop music in the 20th century. Although he is not necessarily the best, it is indisputable that he popularized rock music worldwide. It can be seen from his record sales alone that his influence is extraordinary. During the 20 years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, his international hits have been hitting a dozen or so, and even after his death, any reprints of his records can maintain extremely stable sales. There is no doubt that he is the artist with the highest record-selling record in the history of pop music. His controversial sexy stage image established the visual standard of this kind of music.
3. The Little Rock Incident The
Little Rock Incident did not appear in Forrest Gump's biography.
4. The black enrollment incident at the University of Alabama
In September 1957, the District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas, the U.S. District Court in Little Rock, in accordance with the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision on abolishing segregation in public schools, announced that the city’s public central middle school accepted 9 black students for admission. White racists fiercely opposed this decision. On September 2, Forbes, the governor of the state, sent a National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in the name of "riot control," but it was unsuccessful. On the 23rd, under the connivance of the governor, thousands of racists surrounded the school, assaulted black journalists, and expelled 8 black students who had enrolled in school. Attacks on blacks also occurred in several southern states. The Little Rock incident shook the world. The Eisenhower government was forced to send more than 1,000 paratroopers to Little Rock on the 24th to "protect" the blacks from school. Under government intervention, the local authorities announced in 1959 the abolition of the apartheid system in public schools.
4.
As President, John F. Kennedy pursued his "New Frontier" policy in American politics. During his administration, he put forward numerous plans, including improving urban housing conditions, developing education, providing good medical care for the elderly, fighting racial discrimination, and so on. When he was in power, the international political arena was changing. A lot of troubles such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Crisis entangled him. However, Kennedy did not retreat and brought great hope and disregard to the American nation with his high spirits. All the courage to move forward.
5. Playboy's school uniform incident
It seems that this happened in history, but the protagonist is not JENNY.
6. The Vietnam War The
Vietnam War was the longest war in the 20th century. From the mid-to-late 1940s to the mid-70s, in nearly three decades, the Vietnamese patriotic armed forces defeated two powerful capitalist industrial powers-France and the United States with simple weapons, not only creating wars A miracle in history, and with its national sacrifice spirit, it demonstrated scenes of wonders in the history of war.
7. Johnson President
Lyndon Baynes Johnson (1908.8.27—1973.1.22) was the 42nd and 36th President of the United States. He was born in Texas and the five children of his father Samuel and mother Liberka The eldest son. Father is a state legislator. After graduating from Southwest Normal University, Johnson has engaged in a variety of occupations. Elected to the Senate in 1948 and became the leader of the Democratic Party in 1951. Was nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960 and won the election. On November 12, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson succeeded as president. After he succeeded, he proposed legislation on human rights, tax cuts, anti-poverty and resource protection, and was approved. In 1964, he was successfully re-elected. He put forward the slogan of building a "great society" and introduced some practical measures, which also achieved some results. But he followed the policies of the previous government and expanded the Indo-China war. In 1965, troops were also sent to intervene in the Dominican Republic. In particular, the expansion of the Indo-China War was strongly opposed by the American people. Johnson had to negotiate with Indochina to end the war in order to get out of the predicament.
After the expiration of his term, Johnson stopped running for president. After retiring, he lived in a ranch in Texas. On the second day of his death, the Vietnam Armistice Agreement was signed in Paris.
8. Washington anti-war rally
320,000 Americans held a major demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.
9. Apollo moon landing
At 10:56 pm (Eastern Time) on July 20, 1969, Armstrong stepped into history. He first took the Kitty Hawk lunar lander to land on the surface of the moon, avoiding lunar boulders, and landed smoothly in the quiet sandy sea. From the lowest level of the cabin ladder, he extended his left foot through the boots and stepped on the moon. Is the first footprint of mankind. It is a shoe print about one-eighth of an inch deep, and it will remain on the moon for half a million years. Then Armstrong uttered the sentence that was destined to be immortal, "This is a small step for individuals and a big step for mankind."
10. Ping-pong diplomacy
began in the late 1960s, and China and the United States, which have been hostile for a long time, began to act. To improve and ease the relationship and engage in temptation and secret contact. With the approval of Chairman Mao Zedong, on April 6, 1971, the Chinese table tennis team participating in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, issued an invitation to the US table tennis team to visit China.
On April 10, 1971, the American table tennis delegation and a small group of American journalists became the first group of Americans allowed to enter the territory of New China since the founding of New China in 1949. On April 14, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai received members of the American table tennis team at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and said to them: "You have opened a new chapter in the relationship between the people of China and the United States. I believe that we are in friendship. This new beginning is bound to be supported by the majority of the people of our two countries."
11. John Lennon
"Father of Rock and Roll" John Lennon. The "Beatles" band is a symbol of the 60s and 70s. They symbolize fanaticism, pioneering, and sensitivity, as well as drug abuse and indulgence. But it is indisputable that they have influenced the thinking of an entire generation.
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon walked out of his apartment in Manhattan. As usual, many fans were waiting for him. A young man took out Lennon's latest album and asked him to sign it. Lennon fulfilled the wishes of the youth. He never thought that after a moment, he would die under the gun of the youth.
12. President Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (richard milhous nixon) was born on January 9, 1913 in the town of Yorba Linda near Los Angeles, California. Descendants of Irish descent. Received a bachelor's degree from Whittle College in 1934. Later, he studied law at Duke University and obtained a bachelor's degree in law in 1937. Worked as a lawyer in Whittle, California from 1937 to 1942. Joined the Republican Party in June 1938. He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1946 and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
13. Watergate Incident The
Watergate Incident refers to the fact that on June 17, 1972, the US Republican Nixon used its campaign team to spy on the opposition Democratic Party’s campaign policies and installed a wiretap in the Democratic Party’s headquarters in the Watergate building. The incident was later caught by "Washington Post" reporter Bob Woodward. De and Carl Bernstein exposed, which set off the impeachment of Nixon. This incident led to the resignation of the first president in American history.
14. Apple Computer
personally feels that the Apple logo can explain everything... This kind of fruit business may be too complicated for Forrest Gump.
15. Carter President
James Earl Carter is formerly known as Jimmy Carter and was born on October 1, 1924 in Planes, Georgia. From 1941 to 1943, he studied at Southwestern University and the Institute of Technology in Georgia. In 1943, he entered the United States Naval Academy in Maryland (namely Annapolis Naval Academy) and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1953. When his father died in 1953, he retired from the military in his hometown to run Carter farms, Carter warehouses and other businesses, and engaged in political activities. Served as a deacon of the Christian Southern Baptist Church and a Sunday school teacher.
From 1955 to 1962, he served as chairman of the board of directors of Sumter County Schools in Georgia, and from 1962 to 1966 as a senator of Georgia. During this period, he also served successively as general manager of the Plains Development Company, Sumter County Development Company, the Georgia Midwest Planning and Development Committee, and the Chairman of the Georgia Improved Crops Association. From 1970 to 1974, he served as Governor of Georgia. In 1974, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee Member Campaign Committee. In 1977, he served as the thirty-ninth president of the United States. In 1980, he was re-elected and lost. Since 1982, he has been an honorary professor at Emory University in Atlanta.
16.The AIDS
On June 5, 1981, when the AIDS virus was first discovered, people didn’t even know what to call it, let alone understand the cause of its lethality. And the Center for Prevention and Control (CDC) reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles died of a rare type of "pneumonia." In July, a gay weekly newspaper called "The New Yorker" wrote an article about the disease for the first time. The title of the article was "Cancer in the Gay Community". At the end of 1982, the disease was officially named AIDS (AIDS).
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