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The CGI removal of actor Gary Sinise's legs, after his character had them amputated, was achieved by wrapping his legs with a blue fabric, which later facilitated the work of the "roto-paint" team to paint out his legs from every single frame. At one point, while hoisting himself into his wheelchair, his legs are used for support. [50] Plume, Kenneth (August 24, 2005). "Gilliam on Grimm". IGN. p.3. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008 . Retrieved October 20, 2010.

Gleiberman, Owen (July 15, 1994). "Forrest Gump (1994)". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on November 4, 2010 . Retrieved October 20, 2010. Tupac Shakur Auditioned for an Iconic Movie Role That Went to Tom Hanks". July 28, 2021. Archived from the original on October 27, 2022 . Retrieved October 27, 2022. Fretts, Bruce (November 3, 1995). "Get Barry". Entertainment Weekly. p.2. Archived from the original on April 25, 2009 . Retrieved October 20, 2010. Welkos, Robert W. (August 10, 1994). "One Studio's Trash Is Another's Treasure". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 14, 2023 . Retrieved February 14, 2023. The scene where Forrest spots Jenny at a peace rally at the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., required visual effects to create the large crowd of people. Over two days of filming, approximately 1,500 extras were used. [51] 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. [33] [51] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ]Gump' a Smash but Still in the Red, Paramount Says: Movies: Writer, who is due to get 3% of net profits, hires lawyer to question the studio's accounting practices". Los Angeles Times. May 24, 1995. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021 . Retrieved January 3, 2021.

Eventually, Jenny returned to Forrest and they started a family together. They lived a happy life until Jenny sadly died of cancer. National Film Registry More Than a Box of Chocolates". Library of Congress. December 28, 2011. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014 . Retrieved December 28, 2011. Michael Conner Humphreys as young Forrest Gump: Hanks revealed in interviews that instead of having Michael copy his accent, he copied Michael's unique Southern accented drawl into the older character's accent. Albert, Tim (June 2017). " 'The Ideas Made It, But I Didn't' ". Politico. Archived from the original on June 29, 2021 . Retrieved November 26, 2018. D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1sted.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.

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a b c Forrest Gump-(Building the World of Gump: Production Design) (DVD). Paramount Pictures. August 28, 2001. Forrest Gump (1994)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 4, 2016 . Retrieved May 31, 2016. I don't want to sound like a bad version of 'the child within'. But the childlike innocence of Forrest Gump is what we all once had. It's an emotional journey. You laugh and cry. It does what movies are supposed to do: make you feel alive."

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Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Dorothy Harris: The school bus driver who drives Forrest, and later his son, to school Forrest Gump-(Seeing is Believing: The Visual Effects of Forrest Gump-Vietnam) (DVD). Paramount Pictures. August 28, 2001. Tiffany Salerno and Marla Sucharetza as "Cunning" Carla and "Long-Limbs" Lenore: a couple of prostitutes that Forrest and Dan spend a New Year's evening with and later turn away [17] [18] In December 2011, Forrest Gump was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. [99] The Registry said that the film was "honored for its technological innovations (the digital insertion of Gump seamlessly into vintage archival footage), its resonance within the culture that has elevated Gump (and what he represents in terms of American innocence) to the status of folk hero, and its attempt to engage both playfully and seriously with contentious aspects of the era's traumatic history." [100]

Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year. [41] Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around Beaufort, South Carolina, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina, [33] including a running shot on the Blue Ridge Parkway. [42] Downtown portions of the fictional town of Greenbow were filmed in Varnville, South Carolina. [43] The scene of Forrest running through Vietnam while under fire was filmed on Hunting Island State Park and Fripp Island, South Carolina. [44] Additional filming took place on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, North Carolina. The most notable place was Grandfather Mountain where a part of the road subsequently became known as "Forrest Gump Curve". [45] The location along U.S. Route 163 in Monument Valley where Forrest ends his run Tiffany Salerno - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on October 12, 2022 . Retrieved October 12, 2022. Groom's dispute with Paramount was later effectively resolved after Groom declared he was satisfied with Paramount's explanation of their accounting, this coinciding with Groom receiving a seven-figure contract with Paramount for film rights to another of his books, Gump & Co. [88] This film was never made, remaining in development hell for at least a dozen years. [89] Home video [ edit ] Choo QL, Kuo G, Weiner AJ, Overby LR, Bradley DW, Houghton M (April 1989). "Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome" (PDF). Science. 244 (4902): 359–62. Bibcode: 1989Sci...244..359C. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.469.3592. doi: 10.1126/science.2523562. PMID 2523562. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 26, 2021 . Retrieved April 17, 2021. a b c Rice, Lynette (August 14, 1994). "Songs Set the Mood for 'Gump' ". Gainesville Sun . Retrieved July 3, 2009. [ permanent dead link]Forrest Gump Left Out an Important Character Detail They Hoped Audiences Wouldn't Notice". March 2017. Archived from the original on June 17, 2020 . Retrieved June 17, 2020. Marla Sucharetza - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on October 12, 2022 . Retrieved October 12, 2022.