22 Facts From the Making of 'Forrest Gump'

Some fun facts from this masterpiece of a film. 

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    Guitarist - Poppingramins Gary Sinise later started a band called the Lieutenant Dan Band, with the proceeds from the band's performances going to charity. He also stars in a series of ads as Lieutenant Dan supporting suicide hotlines for veterans
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    Text - The actor who plays the reporter on the scene when Tom Hanks visits Washington, D.C. 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 he was asked to read. The ceremony was kicked off with a candid speech by the President
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    People - The scene where Forrest spots Jenny at a peace rally at the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC required visual effects to create the large crowd of people. Over two days of filming, approximately 1,500 extras were used. At each successive take, the extras were rearranged and moved into a different quadrant away from the camera. With the help of computers, the extras were multiplied to create a crowd of several hundred thousand people. SPEACE
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    People - Poppingremlins The girl in the school bus with the red hair is Tom Hanks's daughter. And the first boy in the school bus who refuses to let Forrest sit next to him is Robert Zemeckis' son.
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    Text - Gurious Gecnge KA RY Tom Hanks signed onto this film after hour and a half of reading the script, but agreed to take the role only on the condition that the film was historically accurate.He initially wanted Forrest's pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by Robert Zemeckis to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel and he patterned his accent after Michael Conner Humphreys (young Forrest), who actually spoke that way
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    People - Poppingremlins Kurt Russell has said that he did the voice of Elvis Presley (uncredited) in the film, reprising his role from Elvis (1979)
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    Photo caption - Poppingremlins 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.
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    Human - The necklace worn by Lieutenant Dan is a rosary witha 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. Popping mlins
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    People - Poppingremins Many of the extras in the hippie scene were actors from the Maryland Renaissance Festival, since the casting director, Ellen Lewis, realized that would be a good source of performers with long hair.
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    People - adangremiins Gary Sinise's lower legs were wrapped in a special blue fabric removed later.
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    Forehead - Forrest Gump's Medal of Honor ceremony uses the footage of the actual ceremony for Sammy L Davis, who was awarded the Medal of Honor on November 19, 1968 by President Lyndon Johnson for his actions in Vietnam a year earlier. Tom Hanks head was superimposed on Davis' body. Poppingremlins
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    Text - Poppingremlins When Gump calls to report the Watergate burglary, the security guard answering the phone says, "Security, Frank Wills. He was the actual guard on duty during that night, and he was the person who discovered the break-in, on Saturday, June 17th, 1972.
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    Photo caption - Poppingremlins 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"
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    Forehead - Poppingremlins lce Cube, and Dave Chappelle turned down the role of Bubba, lce Cube refused to play an idiot and Chappelle thought the movie would bomb. Chappelle had since admitted to deeply regretting not taking the role.
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    Photo caption - Poppingremins When Forrest first learns to play ping-pong in the infirmary, he is told the trick is to "keep his eye on the ball" by another soldier. After that moment, whenever he is shown playing) ping-pong, he never blinks.
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    Performance - Poppingremins During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors paddles.
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    Forehead - Poppingremlins Tom Hanks' younger brother, Jim Hanks, doubled for him in many of his numerous running sequences.
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    Screen - Popangremlins All of the boat scenes, including the hurricane scene, were shot on location in the waters off the coast of South Carolina. Ajet 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
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    Property - The house used in Forrest Gump is the house used in The Patriot (2000). Some paneling was changed for interior shots in the latter film.
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    Uniform - RT OUR G G TH Popp 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 donit go home at all. That's a bad thing: That's alll have to say about that"
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    White-collar worker - ppingins With every transition of Forrests age, one thing remains the same. In the first scene of each transition, he wears a blue plaid shirt
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    Forehead - EMERGENCY Poppingremlins 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.
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