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June 8, : Forrest, Dan, and other soldiers are admitted to the army hospital. June 16, : Forrest masters ping-pong, and begins playing it excessively during his stay in the hospital. June 6, : Robert F. Forrest leaves two weeks later. Later that day, Forrest gives a speech about war at an peace rally, then reunites with Jenny.

November 20, : Jenny leaves for Berkeley, California, leaving Forrest behind. July 20, : Jenny begins a life of drugs and sex, while Forrest plays ping-pong as he teaches veterans as Neil Armstrong lands on the Moon. December 31, or January 1, : Forrest becomes a national ping-pong champion. He travels to China where he plays against some of their ping-pong champions.

Dan, who is now retired from the Army. June 17, : Forrest calls a security guard Frank Wills to report a supposed power outage in an office across his room. August 8, : Nixon makes his resignation speech on TV, while Forrest is discharged from the Army, and returns to Greenbow, Alabama. August 11, : Forrest meets Bubba's family to tell them of his deal with Bubba.

Later, he visits Bubba's grave to tell him of his journey to China and his money that he will spend on a shrimping boat. August 12, : Forrest purchases a shrimping boat and names it Jenny. Meanwhile, in California, Jenny almost commits suicide after taking drugs. August 13, : Lt. Dan joins Forrest on his shrimping boat. After several failed attempts, Lt. Dan sarcastically tells Forrest to pray for the shrimp, which he does. August 29, : Forrest and Lt.

Dan steer through Hurricane Carmen. Early September, : Forrest and Lt. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that. Goofs When Forrest is given his discharge papers, he sets down his ping-pong paddle and computerized ball to salute the officer. When he picks the paddle back up, he also pretends to pick up the ball, which didn't end up getting animated. Quotes Jenny Curran : Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?

Connections Edited from The Birth of a Nation User reviews 2. Top review. Quite possibly the best movie ever made. I've seen most of the top-voted 30 or 40 movies here at IMDb, and Forrest Gump probably wins my vote for the single best movie ever made. This is not a conclusion I came to the first time I saw this film, or the second.

The more you understand about this movie, the more you like it. And in terms of understanding it, my wife and I both were still gaining new understanding the 5th or 6th time we watched it. For example: Why does Jenny behave exactly as she does throughout the movie? Just the fact that we've seen it at least half a dozen times says a lot. There are few movies that I ever even give a second viewing. Like many of the truly good movies, there are people out there who see it once and consider it to be a waste of time.

Such people are usually just looking for the most "action," gore and sex they can find, and haven't a clue about films that actually involve thought, ideas, and life. Did I mention the script is absolutely brilliant? And the music rocks. But those are only specific aspects of a movie that has just about everything else right about it as well. See it, enjoy it, think about it, see it again.

Think about it some more. Forrest Gump is one of the greatest movies -- if not THE greatest -- ever made. Three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours after the start of his run, Gump decides, at Monument Valley in Arizona , to go home.

Visit: South Carolina. Visit: Beaufort. Visit: North Carolina. Visit: Grandfather Mountain , Linville. Visit: Georgia. Visit: Savannah. 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.

Tom Hanks signed onto this film after an 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 to ease 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.

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. Tom Hanks ' younger brother, Jim Hanks , doubled for him in many of his numerous running sequences.

During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors' paddles.

The actor who plays the reporter on the scene when Tom Hanks visits Washington, D. He happened to be on Capitol Hill that day with his wife, and he was asked to read.

The running scene was inspired by an actual event. When I get hungry, I eat. When I have to go to the bathroom, I go. Attention to detail: When Gump calls to report the Watergate burglary, the security guard answering the phone says, "Security, Frank Wills. The park bench that Tom Hanks sat on for much of the movie was located in historic Savannah, Georgia, at Chippewa Square. The fiberglass bench he sat on, since then, has been removed and placed into a museum to avoid being destroyed by bad weather, or possibly stolen.

The church where the feather first falls was about yards just down the street from the bench. Selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in December as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Gary Sinise 's lower legs were wrapped in a special blue fabric that allowed them to be digitally removed later. Travolta later admitted that passing on the role was a mistake. Bill Paxton was one of Zemeckis's initial first choices for the titular role, but the studio demanded somebody with more star power.

Kurt Russell did the voice of Elvis Presley. Greenbow, Alabama Forrest's hometown is fictional. Bayou LaBatre, Alabama Bubba's hometown , however, is real. 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. Johnson for his actions in Vietnam a year earlier.

Tom Hanks ' head was superimposed on Davis' body. The movie's line, "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Robin Wright was sick with a cold while shooting the nightclub scene.

In spite of this, she was still able to perform her own singing during a non-stop twenty-four hour shoot in which she was nearly nude, except for her guitar covering her. Every still picture of Forrest during this film shows Tom Hanks with his eyes closed.

Inspired by Lieutenant Dan Taylor, the military veteran character he played in this movie, Gary Sinise co-founded a rock and roll cover band during the mids called "The Lt.

Dan Band. Sinise was awarded the Presidential Citizen Medal in for his charity efforts. Ice Cube refused to play an idiot and Chappelle thought the movie would bomb.

Chappelle had since admitted to deeply regretting not taking the role, and would eventually go on to play Tom Hanks' best friend in a different movie, You've Got Mail Robert Zemeckis decided to leave out several planned effects shots.

One shot in particular involved Forrest running into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 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. Over two days of filming, approximately 1, 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.

Warner Bros. Magician Ricky Jay designed a special wheelchair for Gary Sinise that used an illusion to hide his legs, which were on a hidden platform underneath. The contortion required to sit in it meant that Sinise could only be in it for about ten minutes at a time.

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.

All three movies were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, but only Forrest Gump won in the category. During the ambush in Vietnam the enemy is never actually seen.