Interesting Facts About Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump; it is one of the rare films that deserves all these accolades and has an important place for everyone who watches it. As such, we decided to present you with an article containing information about the Forrest Gump movie before and after.

Here are the interesting details of Forrest Gump, who became legendary with Tom Hanks’ magnificent acting and is famous for touching on the famous people and events of the period he passed.

Forrest Gump is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groomm, who passed away in 2020.

After the movie’s popularity, the sequel was released in 1994 by Gump & Co. came out with the name. The sequel also includes an episode where Forrest Gump meets Tom Hanks.

Gump & Co. The screenplay of the movie, which was decided to be shot after the book, was written by Eric Roth in 2001. Tom Hanks refused to appear in the movie, thinking that a sequel to such a masterpiece would be the worst thing to do. After this situation, the project was shelved.

There are also a few differences between the book and the movie.

Forrest, who we see as a naive, thin personality in the movie, is portrayed as emotionless and pessimistic in the book.

“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates.” The line is “Being stupid is not a box of chocolates” in the original language book. in the form. In Turkish it means “Being stupid is not an easy task.” translated as .

Another difference is the appearance of Forrest Gump.

According to the description in the book, Forrest Gump is 2 meters tall and weighs 108 kilograms. For this reason, the author of the book insisted that the person who would portray Forrest in the movie was John Goodman, who stands out with his large size.

Let’s move on to other interesting details about the movie…

Bill Murray and John Travolta, who were initially considered for the role of Forrest Gump, turned down the offer. John Travolta said that turning down the role after watching the movie was the biggest mistake of his life.

Forrest’s childhood sweetheart Jenny was interviewed with names such as Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman and Demi Moore, but none of them were interested. In addition, famous rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, participated in the audition for the character of Bubba, Forrest’s military friend.

These running scenes were inspired by a real event.

16-year-old Louis Michael Figueroa, who started running for his friend who died from bone cancer in 1982, ran from one end of the USA to the other (from New Jersey to San Francisco) about 4500 km and this run took 60 days.

Tom Hanks was so exhausted during the shooting of the running scenes that were too much for the process that they used his brother Jim Hanks as a stunt double.

His brother wasn’t the only relative of Tom Hanks in the movie.

One of the children on the bus who wouldn’t let Forrest sit next to him was Tom Hanks’ daughter Elizabeth. Also among these children was the son of the film’s director, Robert Zemeckis.

Forrest’s shrimp company opened in 1996 as a restaurant chain and now operates in 33 countries.

This scene, in which we see Forrest waiting for his mother in the hallway, is inspired by Norman Rockwell’s painting “Girl with a Black Eye”.

The voiceover of the Elvis scenes in the movie was done by Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell played the famous singer in the 1979 movie Elvis.

While Forrest was learning how to play ping-pong, his fellow soldier shouted, “Keep your eyes on the ball!” After his advice, he does not blink once in all the scenes where he plays ping-pong. Another similar detail is that Forrest’s eyes are always closed in all his photos shown in the movie.

What was Forrest Gump saying in his speech that we couldn’t hear at the rally?

Here are Forrest Gump’s words that we could not hear because the microphone was sabotaged at an anti-war protest:

“When people go to Vietnam, sometimes they return to their families without legs. Sometimes they don’t return at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about it.”

Forrest appears in a blue plaid shirt in the first scene of every episode with age transitions. His son continues this shirt tradition.

The feather we see at the beginning and end of the movie represents Jenny.

It symbolizes the wish of Jenny, who was abused by her father when she was a child and could not get over this trauma, to turn into a bird and fly. In a conversation with Forrest, Jenny said, “If I jump off a bridge, can I fly?” he asks, and in reality he is constantly traveling far.

Another detail about Jenny is about her illness. The disease, which is presented as an unknown virus that doctors cannot cure, is AIDS. His name is not mentioned in the book and the movie because there was a great prejudice about AIDS in the years when the book and naturally the movie were released.

In another article, we will be with you again with interesting information from unforgettable films that have a great place in the audience.

Source: IMDb Trivia, FilMhakika