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10 Facts You Didn't Know About Forrest Gump

One of the highest grossing and award-winning films in history is, without a doubt, Forrest Gump: Oscars, Golden Globes, Trade Union Awards… An unforgettable film for many and that, curiously, hides a good number of secrets. Join us to know some of them!

10 facts you did not know about Forrest Gump

After just an hour and a half of reading the script , Tom Hanks signed the contract to make the movie.The only condition he put is that the historical facts be respected.

2 Tom Hanks' salary was relatively low, since he preferred a percentage over earnings.This wise decision reported him more than $ 40 million .

3.Tom Hanks wanted Forrest not to have such a sharp southern accent despite the fact that this fact is mentioned several times in the novel.The director, Robert Zemeckis, convinced him and Tom to Or as I refer to the accent of Michael Conner Humphreys , who played the young Forrest and who really spoke like that.

4.Every time Forrest Gump changes age or circumstances , in the first scene, we see him with a blue plaid shirt .

10 Facts You Didn't Know About Forrest Gump

5.When Forrest learns to play ping-pong in the hospital a soldier tells him that the trick is " not to take your eyes off the ball ".If you look at the ping-pong scenes, Forrest It doesn't blink even once.

6.The hippies of the movie were recruited among the actors of the Maryland Renaissance Festival «In this fair, which is held every year between August and October, more than 200 actors who wear the LONG HAIR participate.

7.Do you remember the bank where Forrest Gump sat? I was in the city of Savannah , in Georgia, in Chippewa Square.

10 Facts You Didn't Know About Forrest Gump

There is currently a reproduction there and the original is in the Museum of History of Savanah .

8.Among the scenes with special effects suppressed there was one in the Forrest coincides with Martin Luther King and his followers.These were attacked by police dogs, Forrest distracted the dogs and helped them .

9.In the school bus scene a redhead girl leaves for 10 seconds, is the daughter of Tom Hanks , Elizabeth.

10 Facts You Didn't Know About Forrest Gump

10.In the scene of the entrevis With John Lennon, the dialogue of this are fragments of his song representedImagine where.

One more curiosity!

Forrest Gump states that Jenny died on Saturday , but if you look closely at the tombstone that appears in the movie, it appears on March 22 as the date of death, and That day in 1982 was a Monday.

10 Facts You Didn't Know About Forrest Gump

What do you think about this data? Do you know any more? Share them with us! If you are interested in film curiosities, we invite you to read 10 curiosities about Tarantino films.

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