What are the real historical events in "Forrest Gump"?

1. Ku Klux Klan

Forrest Gump said that his mother named him after the American Civil War hero General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Who is this general? In 1866, some American Civil War veterans formed a violent hate group, the Klu Klux Klan, commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan. In 1867, the Ku Klux Klan held a national convention and General Nathan Bedford Forrest was elected as their national leader.

2. Elvis Presley

In the movie, a young man carrying a guitar stayed at Forrest Gump’s house. Forrest Gump also taught him a set of dances he created. Later, A-Gump Gan saw this young man dancing the dance he taught on TV.

This young man is Elvis Presley, also known as "Elvis Presley". In the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, Elvis Presley was the undisputed king of pop music. The song "Hound Dog" played and sung by the young people in the movie is also Elvis Presley's masterpiece. The hip twisting dance "taught" to him by Forrest Gump is also Elvis Presley's most iconic dance move.

3. Blocking the school gate incident

The cute Forrest accidentally fell into the TV camera. At that time, the TV was live broadcasting the confrontation between the governor and the National Guard commander at the school gate.

This is also a real incident, known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door incident". On June 11, 1963, the University of Alabama admitted two black students. The then Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, was dissatisfied with the school's decision and stood at the door of the school to prevent black students from registering.

4. The Assassination of George Wallace

Forrest Gump recalled, "The short man standing at the school gate later felt that it was a good decision to run for president, but some People don’t think so.”

On May 15, 1972, George Wallace, who supported segregation and participated in the presidential candidate election, was attacked by a gunman in Laurel, Maryland, and was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Anyone who commits unjust acts will be punished by his own death. Retribution in this world comes too soon...

5. Kennedy Assassination

Forrest Gump joined the school football team and was received by the president. Gan recalled that the president was a good man, but he was later shot and killed, and then his brother was assassinated.

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was driving through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, and was shot in the head by gunman Oswald. He died of ineffective medical treatment.

On June 5, 1968, John F. Kennedy's younger brother, Robert F. Kennedy, inherited his brother's legacy and ran for president. Early that morning, after he gave a speech, he was shot dead by Palestinian immigrant Shirhan.

6. Vietnam War

Needless to say about Forrest Gump’s experience in joining the army.

From 1955 to 1975, the Vietnam War lasted for 20 years, and four U.S. presidents successively served. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army dropped 8 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, far more than the total number of bombs dropped on all battlefields during World War II, causing more than 1.6 million deaths in Vietnam. The United States' own losses were also very heavy, with more than 58,000 people killed, more than 300,000 injured, and a cost of more than 400 billion US dollars.

7. "Blowing In the Wind"

Jenny was on the club stage, naked, holding a guitar and singing.

"Blowing In the Wind" sung by Jenny is a famous anti-war ballad written by Bob Dylan. Dylan composed this song in 1962. He was only 21 years old at the time, but the spirit conveyed in the song is profound beyond his years. This song had very few sales when it first came out, but it was picked up after the war and regarded as a classic anti-war song.

8. Hippie Movement

After Forrest Gump went to Washington to be interviewed by Nixon, he was confused and surrounded by a group of anti-war young people on the podium. At this time, Jenny was among the excited crowd in the audience.

The Hippie Movement that emerged in the 1960s was an important stage in American culture.

At that time, many young people rebelled against society and tradition by wearing strange clothes, growing long hair, long beards, wearing miniskirts, taking drugs, listening to rock music, dancing swing dances, homosexuality, living in group villages and other extreme behaviors.

Degeneration is their way of life, and anti-war is their slogan. Jenny is a representative figure among hippies.

9. Black Panther Party

Forrest Gump wanted to take Jenny home, but accidentally joined the Black Panther Party (The Black Panther Party), and got together with the leader of this group - a bandit Hippies wearing round glasses and Nazi uniforms - there was a confrontation, and eventually the Black Panthers pulled out guns.

The Black Panther Party mentioned here is indeed true in history. The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 and was a radical black left-wing party in the 1960s. The purpose of the Black Panther Party was to ensure that black Americans had the same rights as white people. They believe in the Communist Party and worship Mao Zedong. Members are familiar with certain quotations. Their typical characteristic is that they like to wear uniform military uniforms.

10. Landing on the moon

Forrest Gump performed table tennis with both hands in the hospital, attracting everyone to watch. The famous phrase "This is me" was playing on the TV on one side. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

In 1969, the United States announced the success of the Apollo manned moon landing project, and American astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first step for humans to land on the moon.

11. Ping Pong Diplomacy

Forrest Gump came to China on behalf of the American team and competed against Chinese table tennis players.

In 1971, during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and they both needed allies urgently. Americans took the first step. This year, after the warm-up of the 31st World Table Tennis Championships held in Nagoya, Japan, Mao Zu and Nixon reached a certain tacit understanding.

Subsequently, the table tennis teams of the two countries visited each other. This major diplomatic event is called "ping pong diplomacy." It led to Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the subsequent formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States on January 1, 1979, which had lasted for 30 years.

12. John Lennon and "Imagine"?

After Forrest Gump returned to the United States from China, he was invited to participate in a TV show with another man wearing round glasses and a military uniform. Hippie*** was interviewed.

This young man is John Lennon, a founding member of the Beatles and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. In 1971, Lennon wrote the famous anti-war song "Imagine". In the movie, what Lennon said in an interview were the lyrics of "Imagine". The song was Lennon's description of an ideal world, and it became a theme song for anti-war hippies.

13. "I'm walking here"

Forrest Gump met Lieutenant Dan by chance. When he was pushing Lieutenant Dan's wheelchair across the road, Lieutenant Dan shouted to the taxi driver: "I'm walking here!"

This is a point that is easily overlooked because it is so inconspicuous, but the line itself has another meaning - it is the screenwriter's homage to 1969 A tribute to the classic realism movie "Midnight Cowboy".

In "Midnight Cowboy", Dustin Hoffman also yelled this sentence to a taxi while crossing a New York street, and in that movie, this sentence Words are considered the finishing touch. The lecture is another chapter, so I won’t go into detail here.

14. Watergate incident

Forrest Gump was staying in a hotel in Washington. At night, he was unable to sleep due to the flashlight in a building opposite, so he reported it to the authorities. As a result, Forrest Gump accidentally exposed the biggest scandal in American politics - the "Watergate Scandal".

On June 17, 1972, five people led by James W. McCord, Jr., the chief security adviser to the Nixon campaign team of the Democratic Party of the United States, broke into the hotel. He was arrested on the spot while installing a bug at the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building in Washington and secretly photographing relevant documents.

Due to this incident, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974 that he would resign the next day, becoming the first president to resign in American history.

15. Hurricane Carmen

Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan partnered up to catch shrimp, but unfortunately encountered a hurricane and almost died at sea.

This hurricane actually existed in history and was named "Hurricane Carmen". In 1974, Hurricane Carmen moved west from the coast of Africa, passed through the Caribbean, and finally made landfall in the United States, causing tens of millions of dollars in economic losses.

16. Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

Forrest Gump showed the "Bubba Gump Shrimp Company" founded by him and Lieutenant Dan to the aunt waiting at the bus stop. Shrimp Company) on the cover of Fortune magazine.

In fact, there is such a company.

In 1994, "Forrest Gump" was released and became very popular. The producer of the movie is Paramount. Paramount has a shareholder called Viacom. Viacom used the gimmick of the movie to establish this company of the same name in 1996, which mainly operates a chain of shrimp restaurants and seafood markets. . As of September 2010, Babugan Shrimp Company has 32 chain restaurants around the world.

17. Apple Company

Because his mother had cancer, Forrest Gump returned to his hometown of Alabama and handed over the shrimp company to Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan bought Forrest Gump He bought stocks of a company called "Apple" and told him that he would never have to worry about running out of money for the rest of his life.

On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer Company was founded. On December 12, 1980, Apple went on the market. As of December 2014, Apple's market value has exceeded US$700 billion.

18.shit happens

Forrest Gump is running across the United States. In the picture, a sticker dealer asked him to help him come up with a new slogan. Forrest Gump steps in a piece of dog poop and tells the sticker to say "It happens", which inspires the sticker maker to launch the "shit happens" sticker.

In fact, this slang was first mentioned by a person named Carl Werthman in his master's thesis, and was later widely spread, meaning "unsatisfactory things always happen in life, otherwise Keep it in mind."

19. Smiling Face

In Across America, a T-shirt merchant approached Forrest Gump and asked him to help him come up with a T-shirt pattern. At that time, Forrest Gump passed a muddy puddle. A car drove by and splashed all over Forrest Gump's face. The T-shirt merchant handed Forrest a clean T-shirt. After A-Gump wiped his face, a smiley face was left on his T-shirt.

This smiley face is very famous in pop culture and is widely used in various places: T-shirt graphics, rating standards, Emoji expressions, etc. But in fact, this pattern was born as early as 1958, but it was not until the 1970s that it really became popular.

20. The Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Forrest Gump came home after running, and the assassination of the president was being broadcast on the TV at home.

On March 30, 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan took office for only 69 days. At noon that day, he had lunch and gave a speech with representatives of union groups at the Hilton Hotel in the District of Columbia. As he left the hotel, he and three others were shot with a revolver by John Hinckley. Although Reagan survived, White House press secretary James Brady was paralyzed for life by a bullet to the head.

It is worth mentioning that John Hinckley, the convict in this assassination that shocked the world, claimed that he assassinated the president in order to attract the attention of actress Jodie Foster. Before assassinating the president, he had watched "Taxi Driver" no less than 15 times, and he was deeply obsessed with Jodie Foster, who played the child prostitute in the movie.

Hinkley wrote a lot of love letters to Forster, but the latter ignored him at all, so he decided to take a different approach and imitate Robert De Niro, who assassinated politicians in "Taxi Driver". Trying to attract the goddess's attention by assassinating the president.

After the incident, Hinckley's wealthy businessman father tried to bail him out, but the American authorities hated him so much that they used a heart-wrenching trick: classifying him as mentally ill. Then he was thrown into the most horrific psychiatric hospital in the United States - St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington. Hinckley was imprisoned here for more than 20 years and tortured beyond human dignity.

Since bail is not available in mental hospitals, he can be released only if the attending physician believes that his mental state does not threaten society.

And every time Hinckley confidently accepted a hospital examination, hoping to get the doctor's approval, the FBI could always find a photo of Jodie Foster from his room, or a letter he wrote to Foster's love letter, inferring that his mental illness had not been cured, and then not allowing him to leave the mental hospital.

21. AIDS

Forrest Gump found Jenny and little Forrest Gump. Jenny told Forrest Gump that she was infected with a virus. The doctor didn’t know what kind of virus it was, and he didn’t know what kind of virus it was. Know how to cure her.

Although the movie does not mention what kind of virus this is, based on the clues in the movie, it is almost certain that Jenny is infected with HIV.

On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a case report on five patients infected with a special virus in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly. This was the first case in the world. official record of AIDS. In 1982, the disease was named "AIDS".

When AIDS was proposed, this terrible virus had already spread in the United States, but doctors were helpless. In the 1980s and 1990s, people gradually realized how terrible this deadly contagious virus was, but they suffered from the inability to treat it. Therefore, the society at that time was very dissatisfied with AIDS. The panic caused by AIDS has led to various bizarre events, such as the retirement of the famous NBA star "Magic" Johnson. Although Johnson was in his prime at the time and was still in his prime, after he was diagnosed with HIV, many players expressed their unwillingness to play with him on the same court.

The reason was that "his sweat would be harmful to us if it got on us." We are also infected with HIV." Although we now know that this statement is nonsense, at that time, most people in the United States thought so. Under pressure, Johnson announced his retirement at the golden age of 32.

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Behind the scenes

When making the scene where Forrest Gump meets and shakes hands with the late president, visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston The Industrial Light and Magic special effects team led by him applied CGI technology. Hanks completed the performance in front of the blue screen with reference to relevant markers, thus seamlessly integrating with the documentary images.

In order to record the voices of historical figures, the crew used voice avatars. To ensure that the voices matched, the special effects department modified the characters' mouth movements.

In a Vietnam War scene, Forrest Gump, who was carrying wounded comrades on his back, had to evacuate the battlefield before the incendiary bombs landed. The crew first filmed this scene with stuntmen, and then let Tom Hanks and Mike Kelty Williamson personally went into battle and used a wire rope to support Williamson's weight. Finally, he filmed the explosion scene, and then used digital technology to put the actor at the scene.

The jet fighters and incendiary bombs were all Added with CGI. After Lieutenant Dan was amputated, the special effects department used CGI technology to remove Gary Sinise's legs. For this purpose, Sinise wrapped his legs with blue cloth. When filming the scene of getting up and sitting in a wheelchair, Sinise could just borrow " Invisible" legs to support the body.

The peaceful rally of tens of thousands of people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in the film required the special effects department to create a spectacular crowd. During the two-day filming, the crew used 1,500 extras. After each continuous shot, All the extras had to be rearranged, and after computer special effects processing, the number of people on site soared to hundreds of thousands.

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