As he stepped up to the microphones to speak, a high-ranking military officer slipped up to the stage. Intent on stopping the protest, he unplugged the microphones from the speakers. The protest organizers scrambled to replace the plugs while Forrest spoke, his words unintelligible over the noise of the crowd. Whatever he said moved Abbie Hoffman to tears. The microphones are still on display in their Delaware office to this day. But there were a few details that almost looked entirely different from the movie we know today.
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Dan was to have a dark rain cloud hanging over his head, Jenny was to have angel's wings and Forrest would have an animated Curious George as a companion. Robert Zemeckis believes he was sent the screenplay because he had directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit and knew how to combine live-action and animation.
Knowing full well the headaches he went through on that film, Zemeckis agreed to direct the film on the condition that the above-mentioned elements were taken out of the film.
The speech the Drill Sergeant gives inaudibly while Forrest narrates is "This is one very intelligent individual! You lock your scuzzy bodies up behind that private and do exactly what he does, and you will go far in this man's Army! The famous quote that Forrest uses about life being like a box of chocolates is not completely original to the film or the adapted novel. It was used slightly differently in the British film The Likely Lads where the term used was 'the chocolate box of life'.
The sentence in the movie is based on the very first sentence in the novel: "Let me say this: bein' an idiot is no box of chocolates". Forrest's college football uniform is always spotless, due to the fact that no-one is fast enough to catch him.
The vintage microphones into which Forrest speaks while in Washington, D. 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 declined the role of Bubba, which went to Mykelti Williamson. Chappelle and Williamson both went on to appear together in Con Air Director Trademark: Brick Joke.
When the bus driver picks Forrest up for school the first time she has a cigarette in her mouth. Years later when she picks up Forrest Jr. Forrest Gump appears with Governor George Wallace. Air Force General Robin Olds ; down to the mustache.
Joe Pesci was considered for the role of Lieutenant Dan Taylor. The only film in which Tom Hanks won an acting Oscar for his performance in a film which won Best Picture. That was a real explosion used in the scene when napalm was dropped in Vietnam. The owners of that land was planning on clearing it to build a golf course.
It needed to be done in one take, and director Robert Zemeckis was in the bathroom when it was filming. As of , features Gary Sinise 's only Oscar nominated performance. Michael Conner Humphreys, who played the young Forrest, later joined the army, just like his character. In the scene where Forrest first meets his son, Jenny is flipping through a scrapbook and we momentarily see the cover "Gogo Dancer says Forrest Gump made me his Secret Lover.
When Forrest is at boot camp, they train with the M14 service rifle but when they get to Vietnam they swap to the M16, similar to Full Metal Jacket. When Forrest and Jenny are walking through the camp in Washington DC there is a couple having sex in front of one of the tents behind them.
At the end of the New Year's Eve scene, Lt. Dan looks out the window and snow is falling. It is New Year's By the color of their uniforms, the team that Alabama was playing against would've been the University of Tennessee.
Elvis was played by Peter Dobson , who previously appeared in L. Takedown as Chris Serhelis. Mykelti Williamson also appeared in Heat Tom Hanks Forrest and Hannah R. Hall Young Jenny have the same birthdays on July 9. After Forrest joins the Army, a fellow recruit tosses him a Playboy magazine. The magazine wasn't an actual Playboy, but a prop created with actress Robin Wright posing in a red polka-dot bikini for the cover.
The cover itself is a recreation of the July issue of Playboy but dated July The new cover was then attached to an October copy of Playboy. Pages were inserted with Robin Wright posing as Jenny. The text within says "Jenny, studying to be an entomologist, is on the university chess team and reigning champion.
Jenny also teaches "Shag" classes, a favorite dance of the south. This was one of two movies released in to have its main character named Forrest. The other was On Deadly Ground Tom Cruise spends several scenes yelling "Gump! Included among the American Film Institute's list of movies nominated for the top top America's Greatest Love Stories movies. The second of three times as of Tom Hanks plays the eponymous role. Hanna Hall later appeared in Halloween Jacqueline Lovell's debut.
Cameo Elizabeth Hanks : the girl in the school bus with the red hair is Tom Hanks 's daughter. Alexander Zemeckis : The first boy in the school bus who refuses to let Forrest sit next to him is Robert Zemeckis ' son.
Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. The virus that claims Jenny's life is not specified in the film. Director Robert Zemeckis never revealed what her affliction was, stating that it was irrelevant, and that he didn't even tell Robin Wright. Jenny says in the movie that the doctors do not know what the virus is, and that they can do nothing about it.
This information, combined with the time period in which she got sick early 80s , coincided with the HIV epidemic, so many people assumed Jenny died of AIDS. Hepatitis C was not isolated and named until It was often fatal until effective treatments were developed during the s.
The disease, in fact, had been around for an extremely long time, but bundled in with diagnoses of the single illness of hepatitis. Forrest never uses the word 'were', saying 'was' instead, apart from one scene where Jenny, on her deathbed, says she wishes she were with him on his adventures and Forrest replies "you were".
From the start of the movie up until Jenny's death, Forrest always buttons his shirts all the way to the top. After Jenny's death, he is shown wearing his shirts with the top button unbuttoned. Tom Hanks revealed his favorite scene filmed: was when Lieutenant Dan got new artificial legs, as the scene was so powerful to him. Jenny's birthday as indicated on her tombstone was July 16,
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