1. The Ku Klux Klan
Forrest Gump says he was named by his mom after American Civil War hero Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Who was this general? In 1866, a group of U.S. Civil War veterans formed a violent hate group, the Klu Klux Klan, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan. In 1867, the Klan held a national convention, and the general, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was elected as their national leader.
2. Elvis Presley
In the movie, a young man with a guitar stayed at Forrest Gump's house, and Forrest Gump taught him a self-created dance routine, and later, Forrest Gump saw the young man on TV dancing the same dance he taught him.
The young man was Elvis Presley, also known as Elvis Presley. In the 1950s and '60s in the United States, Elvis Presley was the king of pop music. The young man in the movie played and sang the song "Hound Dog", which is also a masterpiece of Elvis Presley. And the hip-twisting dance that Forrest Gump "taught" him is also Elvis' most iconic dance step.
3. The Schoolhouse Door Incident
Forrest Gump made the mistake of stepping into a TV camera that was broadcasting a confrontation between the governor and the National Guard commander in front of the school.
This is also a real-life incident known as "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door." On June 11, 1963, the University of Alabama admitted two black students to the school, and then-Alabama Gov. decision and stood in front of the school to prevent the black students from enrolling.
4. Assassination of George Wallace
Forrest Gump recalled that "the short man who stood in front of the school later thought it was a good decision to run for president, but some people thought it wasn't."
On May 15, 1972, pro-segregation George Wallace, running as a presidential candidate, was attacked by a gunman in Laurel, Maryland, and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Many hands make light work, and the present is coming too soon ......
5. JFK assassinated
Allen Gump played on the varsity football team and was received by the president, who Gump recalled was a nice guy, but then he was shot and killed, followed by the assassination of his brother.
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot in the head by gunman Oswald as he rode in his car through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, and died after medical treatment.
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's own brother, followed in his brother's footsteps and ran for president. Early that morning, after delivering a speech, he was sniped by a Palestinian immigrant, Sheehan.
6. The Vietnam War
Gump's enlistment in the military is a no-brainer.
The Vietnam War lasted for 20 years from 1955 to 1975, with four U.S. presidents. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. *** dropped 8 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, far more than the sum of the bombs dropped on all battlefields during World War II, resulting in the deaths of more than 1.6 million Vietnamese. The U.S. itself suffered heavy losses, with more than 58,000 killed and more than 300,000 wounded, at a cost of more than $400 billion.
7. 'Blowing In the Wind'
Jenny sings on stage in a club, naked and holding a guitar.
"Blowing In the Wind," which Jenny sings, is a famous anti-war ballad by Bob Dylan, who wrote the song in 1962 when he was only 21, but the spirit of the song is profound beyond his years. The song sold very few copies at the time of its release, but was picked up after the war as a classic anti-war song.
8. The Hippie Movement
After Forrest Gump traveled to Washington to be received by Nixon, he was flanked on the podium by a group of anti-war youths. At this point Jenny was among the throngs of excited people on stage.
The Hippie Movement of the 1960s was an important phase in American culture. At the time, many young people rebelled against society and tradition by dressing in strange clothes, growing long hair and beards, wearing short skirts, taking drugs, listening to rock and roll, swing dancing, homosexuality, and living in villages.
Decadence was their way of life and anti-war was their slogan. Jenny is the representative of the hippies.
9. The Black Panther Party
Wanting to take Jenny home, Forrest Gump mistakenly enters The Black Panther Party (The Black Panther Party) and clashes with the group's leader - a hippie with round glasses and a Nazi uniform - and ends up in a conflict with the Black Panthers. -has a confrontation that ends with the Black Panther Party members pulling out guns.
The Black Panther Party, mentioned here, has a real history. Founded in 1966, the Black Panther Party was a radical black left-wing political party in the 1960s. The Black Panther Party's aim was to ensure that black Americans had the same rights as whites. They believed in the ****production party, worshipped Mao Zu, had members who were familiar with certain quotations, and were typically characterized by their preference for wearing uniforms.
10. Moon Landing
Forrest Gump performed a two-handed ping-pong game in a hospital, drawing crowds of spectators, while the famous line "One small step for me, but one giant leap for mankind" played on a television set.
In 1969, the U.S. announced the success of the Apollo manned lunar landing project, and U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon.
11. Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Forrest Gump represented the U.S. team in China and played against Chinese table tennis players.
In 1971, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, who had spent so much of the Cold War, were in desperate need of allies for each other. The Americans took the first step. That year, after a preview of the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, Mao Zu and Nixon reached a sort of tacit understanding.
The exchange of visits between the two countries' ping-pong teams followed. This diplomatic event became known as "ping-pong diplomacy. It led to Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and then on Jan. 1, 1979, the United States and China formally established diplomatic relations after a 30-year absence.
12. John Lennon and 'Imagine'?
After returning to the U.S. from China, Forrest Gump was invited to appear on a TV program and was interviewed with another hippie **** in round glasses and military uniform.
The young man's name was 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," and in the movie, it is the lyrics to "Imagine" that Lennon says in his interview. 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"
As Forrest Gump stumbles upon Lt. Dan and pushes his wheelchair across the street, Lt. Dan yells out toward the cab driver, "I'm walking here! "
It's an easy point to overlook because it's so unremarkable, but the line itself has another layer of meaning - it's the screenwriter's homage to the classic 1969 realist movie "Midnight Cowboy.
In "Midnight Cowboy," Dustin Hoffman yells the same line to a cab as he crosses a New York street, and in that movie, the line is considered the punchline. Expanding on that would be another chapter, not detailed here.
14. Watergate
Forrest Gump was staying at a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was kept awake at night by the light of a flashlight in a building across the street, so he reported it to the authorities. Forrest Gump thus accidentally exposed the Watergate Scandal, the biggest scandal in American politics.
On June 17, 1972, five people led by James W. McCord, Jr. the chief security adviser to the Nixon campaign for the U.S. **** and the party, broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Building in Washington, D.C., and were arrested on the spot as they set up a wiretap and took photographs of relevant documents.
As a result of this incident, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the following day, thus becoming the first president in U.S. history to do so.
15.Hurricane Carmen
Forrest Gump and Lt. Dan are partnered up to shrimp, but are unfortunately caught in a hurricane that nearly kills them at sea.
The hurricane was a real-life historical phenomenon called Hurricane Carmen, which traveled west from the coast of Africa to the Caribbean in 1974 and eventually made landfall in the U.S., causing tens of millions of dollars in economic damage.
16. Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
Gump was featured on the cover of Fortune magazine, showing off his Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, which he founded with Lt. Dan, to a woman waiting at a bus stop.
In fact, there is such a company.
In 1994, "Forrest Gump" was released in theaters and was a huge hit. The movie was produced by Paramount, which had a shareholder named Viacom, and Viacom took advantage of the movie's hype to start the eponymous company in 1996, which focuses on a chain of shrimp restaurants and seafood markets. As of September 2010, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. had a chain of 32 restaurants worldwide.
17. Apple
Because his mom had cancer, Bubba Gump returned to his hometown of Alabama and left the shrimp company in the hands of Lt. Dan, who bought Bubba Gump stock in a company called Apple and told him he'd never have to worry about running out of money again in the rest of his life.
April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded, and on December 12, 1980, Apple went public. As of December 2014, Apple's market capitalization has exceeded $700 billion.
18. shit happens
Forrest Gump was running across America, and a sticker vendor in the picture asked him to help come up with a new slogan. Forrest Gump stepped in a pile of dog poop and told the sticker that it said "It happens", and the sticker vendor was inspired to come up with a "shit happens" sticker.
In fact, the slang was first coined by a man named Carl Werthman in his master's thesis, and has since spread to mean "life happens, don't take it personally.
19. Smiley Face
In the Crossing America graphic, Forrest Gump is approached by a T-shirt merchant who asks him to help him come up with a T-shirt design. Forrest Gump was passing a muddy puddle when a car drove by and splashed Forrest Gump all over his face, and the T-shirt merchant handed Forrest Gump a clean T-shirt in his hand. After Gump wiped his face, the T-shirt left a smiley face.
The smiley face, which is famous in pop culture, has been used in all sorts of places: T-shirt graphics, rating scales, Emoji emojis, and more. But the truth is that the motif was already created back in 1958, only to really take off in the 1970s.
20.The Reagan Assassination
Forrest Gump came home from a run and the president's assassination was playing on the family TV.
On March 30, 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan had been in office for only 69 days. He was having lunch and giving a speech with representatives of a labor union group at the Hilton Hotel in the capital, the District of Columbia, at noon on this day, when he left the hotel with three others and was shot by John Hinckley with a revolver. While Reagan survived, White House press secretary James Brady was paralyzed for life as a result of a bullet to the head.
It is worth noting that John Hinckley, the culprit in the world-shaking assassination, claimed that he assassinated the president as a way to get the attention of actress Jodie Foster. Before assassinating the president, he had watched "Taxi Driver" no less than 15 times, and he was y infatuated with Jodie Foster, who played the movie's child prostitute.
Hinckley wrote tons of love letters to Foster, but the latter didn't give a shit about him, so he decided to saber-rattle, imitating Robert De Niro, who assassinated politicians in "Taxi Driver," in an attempt to get the goddess's attention by assassinating the president.
After the murder, Hinckley's rich businessman dad even attempted to bail him out, but the U.S. authorities just hated him so much that they used a twisted trick to kill him: characterize him as mentally ill and throw him into St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., the most horrific psychiatric hospital in the country. Hinckley was held there for more than 20 years, tortured beyond recognition.
Because psychiatric hospitals can't post bail, he can only be released if the attending physician believes his mental state is not a threat to society. And every time Hinckley confidently underwent a hospital examination in the hopes of getting approval from his doctor,
the FBI always found a picture of Jodie Foster from his room or a love letter he had written to Foster and used it to deduce that his mental illness had not been cured, and subsequently refused to allow him to leave the mental hospital.
21.AIDS
Gump finds Jenny and Little Gump, and Jenny tells Gump that she has contracted a virus, and the doctors don't know what it is or how to cure her.
While the movie doesn't tell what kind of virus it is, based on the clues explained in the movie, it's almost certain that it's HIV that Jenny is infected with.
On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly a report of five cases of patients infected with a particular virus, which was the first official documentation in the world about AIDS.
This was the first official documentation about AIDS in the world. In 1982, the disease was named AIDS.
By the time AIDS was introduced, the dreaded virus had already spread across the United States, but doctors could do little about it. In the 1980s and '90s, people began to realize just how frightening this deadly infectious virus was, but there was no cure for it, so it was all the talk of the world at the time. The panic caused by AIDS led to a variety of strange events,
such as the retirement of famous NBA star Magic Johnson. Although Johnson was in his prime and in the prime of his life at the time, when he was tested for HIV, many players said they were reluctant to play with him,
reasoning that "his sweat would infect us with HIV". Though we know now that this argument was nonsense, most people in America at the time thought so. Johnson was pressured to announce his retirement at the prime age of 32.
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Behind-the-scenes
While working on the scene where Forrest Gump is shown meeting and shaking hands with the late President For the meeting and handshake with the late president, visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston and his team at Industrial Light & Magic applied CGI techniques, with Hanks referencing the markers in front of a blue screen to complete the performance, thus blending seamlessly into the documentary image.
To record the voices of the historical figures, the crew used voice doubles, and the special effects department modified the characters' mouth movements to ensure the voices matched.
In a Vietnam War scene where Forrest Gump, carrying a wounded comrade, must exit the battlefield before an incendiary bomb hits the ground, the crew first shot the scene with stuntmen, then put Tom Hanks and MacKayleigh Tye Williamson on the ground themselves and used a wire rope to support Williamson's weight, and then finally filmed the explosion scene before digitally placing the actors in the scene,
where the jet fighters and incendiary bombs were added using CGI. After Lt. Dan's leg was amputated, the special effects department used CGI to remove Gary Sinise's legs, which Sinise wrapped in blue cloth so that he could use his "invisible" legs to support himself when he got up to sit in his wheelchair.
The 10,000-strong peace rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in the film required the special effects department to create a spectacular scale of the crowd, and in the two-day shoot, the crew used 1,500 extras, and every time they finished shooting a consecutive shot, all of the extras had to be rearranged, and the number of people at the scene soared into the hundreds of thousands after the computer special effects process.
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