"Forrest Gump": the story of the film Robert Zemeckis

The film - a story of growing up and the life of a man named Forrest Gump, close, simple-minded men. He was born in the fictional town of Grinbou in Alabama have a single mother (Sally Fields), who make a living by renting rooms guests. Little Forrest was suffering from severe back problems as a result of which he was forced to wear on your feet a special bracket. This, together with a low level of intelligence has made the boy a target for bullying peers. But to escape from his pursuers, Forrest discovered his amazing ability to run - because of this he gets to the university football team, and later commits a marathon several times across the United States. The life story of the hero - his service in the army and participated in the Vietnam War, anti-war speech at the meeting, the meeting with the president, unwittingly successful investments and, of course, the love of a childhood friend Jenny (Robin Wright) - against the backdrop of important historical events, to which Forrest becomes unwittingly. That he is obliged to Elvis Presley with his famous dance moves, thanks to him uncovered the Watergate scandal, and John Lennon would not have written the song Imagine, if he were not one day on one TV show with OAB. In the story of Forrest is the author of "smiley" and the phrase «Shit happens». Even Jenny dies in the final of the recently opened by the time the disease - AIDS. On the historical authenticity himself insisted Tom Hanks - it was the only condition that he set the creators before to accept the role. Also, the actor refused the fee, agreeing only on a percentage of the charges, which eventually brought the actor a total of about $ 70 million.

The soundtrack is also a kind of encyclopedia of XX century - the music of the film is made up of 50 key-century compositions, such as the songs of The Doors and Jimi Hendrix. In some episodes appear newsreels, in which the efforts of experts in special effects, frames were mounted with the heroes of the film. Not surprisingly, two of the six statues "Oscar" was for the best editing and visual effects, including high-tech and shooting scenes, which takes place during the Vietnam War.

The film was shot on the novel by Winston Groom, written in 1986. However, many of the events in the book were either replaced, or made "bracketing" of the film. For example, the hero Groom did not wear braces on his legs and did not make a race across the US, but managed to become an astronaut, a party rock band and even ran for the Senate. The success of the film, the rights to which were bought by Paramount Pictures after it appeared on the adaptation of Warner Brothers, no one believed - especially that refused to cooperate several eminent writers such as Terry Gilliam and Barry Sonnenfeld. As a result, the novel turned into a screenplay by Eric Roth, later worked on the film "Ali", "Munich" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." However, his only currently "Oscar", despite the many nominations, Roth got it for "Forrest Gump».

As for the lead actors, then they were not found at once: for the main role claimed, in addition to Tom Hanks, John Travolta and Bill Murray. However, the most honored and the award-winning actor at the time of the shooting was not Tom Hanks, as you might think, and who played Forrest's mother Sally Fields, which by 1994 had already been twice the winner of the "Oscar" - actress, by the way, older than his on-screen son only 10 years old. The role of Jenny instead Robin Wright could play Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman. For many others actors picture has become a sort of a trip to Hollywood - for example, to Gary Sinise, who played Lt. Dan.

Shooting began on 27 August 1993 and continued until December 9. Natura found in South Carolina - here, including the fictional town located Grinbou school Forrest and even a place in the film have become Vietnam. Interiors were filmed in the halls in Los Angeles, except that the episodes in the university - have been chosen for this room all the same University of South Carolina. During his marathon hero striding Hanks moved on to Washington and Arizona, Montana and Maine. But the bench, where Forrest is sitting, talking about his life, was set in Savannah in Georgia - now it is the main exhibit of the local history museum.