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

Who is this general? 1866, some American civil war veterans formed a violent and hateful group, the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the Ku Klan. 1867, the ku klux Klan held a national congress, and this general Nathan Bedford forest was elected as their national leader.

2. Elvis Presley

In the movie, a young man playing guitar lives in Forrest Gump's house, and Forrest Gump teaches him a set of his own dances. Later, Forrest Gump saw the young man dancing the dance he taught on TV.

This young man is Elvis Presley, also known as Elvis Presley. In 1950s and 1960s, Elvis Presley was the king of pop music. The "hunting dog" played by young people in the film is also Elvis Presley's masterpiece. Forrest Gump "taught" his hip-twisting dance, which is also the most iconic dance step of Elvis Presley.

3. Blocking the school gate.

Lovely Forrest Gump mistakenly entered the TV camera. At that time, the governor and the commander of the National Guard were facing each other at the school gate.

This is also a real event, called "standing at the school gate". In June 1963, 1 1, the University of Alabama enrolled two black students. George wallace, then governor of Alabama, was dissatisfied with the school's decision, so he stood at the school gate to prevent black students from entering the school.

4. george wallace was assassinated

Forrest Gump recalled, "The short man standing at the school gate later thought it was a good decision to run for president, but some people thought it was not."

1972 may 15, george wallace, who supported apartheid, took part in the presidential election and was attacked by gunmen in laurel, Maryland, and was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. If you do more wrong, you will die. Secular news came too fast. ......

5. Kennedy was assassinated

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

1963165438+1On October 22nd, President John F. Kennedy was shot in the head by gunman Oswald and died after being treated.

1On June 5th, 968, John F. Kennedy's younger brother Robert Kennedy inherited his elder brother's legacy and ran for the presidency. This morning, after his speech, he was assassinated by Palestinian immigrant Silhan.

6. Vietnam War

Forrest Gump's experience in joining the army goes without saying.

From 1955 to 1975, the Vietnam War lasted for 20 years and served as four presidents of the United States. During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 8 million tons of bombs in Vietnam, far exceeding the sum of bombs dropped on various battlefields during the Second World War, resulting in more than 6.5438+0.6 million deaths in Vietnam. The losses in the United States itself are also very heavy, with more than 58,000 people killed, more than 300,000 injured and losses exceeding 400 billion US dollars.

7. Floating in the Wind

Jenny is on the stage of the club, naked and singing on the guitar.

"Floating in the Wind" sung by Jenny is a famous anti-war folk song written by Bob Dylan. Dylan wrote this song in 1962, when he was only 2 1 year old, but the spirit conveyed in the song was profound beyond his age. This song sold very little at first, but it was picked out after the war and regarded as a classic of anti-war songs.

8. Hippie Movement

After Forrest Gump went to Washington to receive Nixon's interview, he was surrounded by a group of anti-war young people on the platform. At this time, Jenny was in the excited crowd under the stage.

The hippie movement, which arose in the 1960s, is an important stage of American culture. At that time, many young people rebelled against society and tradition with extreme behaviors such as strange clothes, long hair and beard, wearing miniskirts, taking drugs, listening to rock music, dancing swing, homosexuality and living in the countryside.

Decadence is their way of life and anti-war is their slogan. Jenny is the representative of hippies.

9. Black Panther Party

Forrest Gump wanted to take Jenny home, mistakenly entered the Black Panther Party, and had a conflict with the leader of this group, a hippie with round glasses and Nazi uniform. Finally, members of the Black Panther Party took out their guns.

The Black Panther Party mentioned here is really true in history. The Black Panther Party, founded in 1966, is a radical black left-wing party in 1960s. The purpose of the Black Panthers Party is to ensure that black Americans have the same rights as whites. They believe in the * * * production party and worship Zu Mao. Members are familiar with a quotation, and their typical feature is that they like to wear uniform.

Landing on the moon.

Forrest Gump performed table tennis with both hands in the hospital, which attracted everyone to watch. On one side of the TV, the famous sentence "This is one small step for me, but one giant step for mankind" is playing.

1969, the United States announced the success of Apollo manned landing on the moon, and American astronaut neil armstrong took the first step of human landing on the moon.

1 1. Ping-pong diplomacy

Forrest Gump came to China on behalf of the United States to compete with China table tennis players.

197 1 year, the United States and the Soviet Union spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources during the Cold War and were in urgent need of allies. Americans took the first step. This year, after the warm-up of the 3/KLOC-0 World Table Tennis Championships held in Nagoya, Japan, Zu Mao and Nixon reached a certain tacit understanding.

Subsequently, the table tennis teams of the two countries exchanged visits. This diplomatic event is called "ping pong diplomacy". It contributed to Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and then China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations on 1979 1, which lasted for 30 years.

12. John Lennon and imagination?

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

The young man's name is John Lennon, one of the founders of The Beatles and one of the greatest musicians in the 20th century. 197 1 year, Lennon wrote the famous anti-war song Imagination. In the movie, Lennon said the lyrics of Imagination in an interview. This song is Lennon's description of an ideal world and has become the theme song of anti-war hippies.

13. "I'm walking here"

Forrest Gump ran into Captain Dan. When he pushed Captain Dan's wheelchair across the road, Captain Dan shouted to the taxi driver, "I'm going here!" "

This is an easily overlooked point, because it is too inconspicuous, but this line itself has another meaning-it is the writer's tribute to 1969 classic realistic film "Midnight Cowboy".

In Midnight Cowboy, dustin hoffman shouted this sentence to a taxi while crossing the street in new york, but in that movie, this sentence was regarded as the finishing touch. The introduction is another chapter, so I won't elaborate here.

14. Watergate incident

Forrest Gump stayed in a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was kept awake by the flashlight in the opposite building at night, so he reported the case to the authorities. Forrest Gump thus exposed the biggest scandal in American politics-"Watergate scandal".

1972 June 17, James W. McChord, the chief security adviser of the Nixon campaign team of the United States and the Republican Party, led five people into the office of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Building in Washington, D.C., and was arrested on the spot while installing a bug and secretly filming relevant documents.

Because of this, Nixon announced his resignation the next day on August 8 1974, thus becoming the first president in American history to resign.

15. Hurricane Carmen

Forrest Gump and Captain Dan cooperated to catch shrimp, but unfortunately they were caught in a hurricane and almost died in the sea.

This hurricane did exist in history and was called "Hurricane Carmen". During the period of 1974, Hurricane Carmen went west from the coast of Africa, crossed the Caribbean and finally landed in the United States, causing tens of millions of dollars in economic losses.

16. Babu Dried Shrimp Company

Forrest Gump showed his aunt who was waiting at the bus stop that Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, founded by him and Captain Dan, was on the cover of Fortune magazine.

In fact, there really is such a company.

1994, Forrest Gump was released and was very popular. The producer of the film is Paramount, and Paramount has a shareholder named Viacom. Viacom founded the company of the same name at 1996 through the stunt of the film, mainly engaged in chain shrimp restaurants and seafood markets. By September of 20 10, Babu Dried Shrimp Company had 32 chain restaurants all over the world.

17. Apple

Because his mother had cancer, Forrest Gump returned to his hometown of Alabama and handed over the shrimp farming company to Captain Dan. Dan bought Forrest Gump's shares in a company called Apple and told him that he would never have to worry about having no money to spend again.

1 976 April1day, Apple Computer Company was established. 1980 65438+February 12, Apple listed. By the end of 20 14 and 12, the market value of Apple has exceeded 700 billion dollars.

18. Something bad happened.

Forrest Gump travels across America. In the picture, a sticker dealer asked him to help him think of a new slogan. Forrest Gump stepped on a piece of shit and told the sticker that it said "it will happen", so the sticker dealer was inspired to launch a "shit will happen" sticker.

In fact, this slang was first mentioned by a man named Carl wortmann in his master's thesis, and later it spread widely, meaning "There are always unpleasant things in life, so don't take it to heart".

19. Smiling face

In the picture of Across America, a T-shirt businessman found Forrest Gump and asked him to help him think of a T-shirt pattern. At that time, Forrest Gump passed by a mud pit, and a car passed by and splashed Forrest Gump's face. T-shirt dealer handed Forrest Gump a clean T-shirt. After Forrest Gump wiped his face, a smiling face was left on his T-shirt.

This kind of smiling face, which is very famous in popular culture, is widely used in various occasions: T-shirt patterns, grading standards, emoticons and so on. But in fact, this model was born as early as 1958, and it didn't really become popular until 1970.

20. Reagan was assassinated

Forrest Gump ran home, and the TV at home was playing "Assassination of the President".

1981March 30th, US President Ronald Reagan took office only 69 days. At noon that day, he had lunch with trade union representatives at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., and delivered a speech. When he left the hotel, he and three others were shot with revolvers by John hinkley. Although Reagan survived, White House press secretary james brady was paralyzed for life because he was shot in the head.

It is worth mentioning that John hinkley, the prisoner of this assassination that shocked the world, claimed that he assassinated the president to attract the attention of actress Jodie Foster. Before he assassinated the president, he had watched Taxi Driver more than 15 times, and he was deeply infatuated with Jodie Foster, the actor of child prostitutes in the film.

Hinkley wrote many love letters to Foster, but the latter didn't care about him at all, so he decided to go astray and tried to attract the attention of the goddess by assassinating the president, imitating Robert De Niro, the politician in Taxi Driver.

After the incident, hinkley's rich businessman's father tried to bail him out, but the American authorities hated him and used a cruel trick: he was identified as mentally ill, and then he was thrown into the most horrible mental hospital in the United States-St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington. Hinkley was imprisoned and tortured here for more than 20 years.

Because a mental hospital cannot be released on bail pending trial, he can only be released if the attending doctor thinks that his mental state will not pose a threat to society. Moreover, every time hinkley accepted the hospital examination with confidence, hoping to get the doctor's approval.

The FBI can always find photos of Jodie Foster from his room, or his love letters to Foster, and infer that his mental illness has not healed, and then he is not allowed to leave the mental hospital.

2 1. AIDS

Forrest Gump found Jenny and little Forrest Gump. Jenny told Forrest Gump that she was infected with the virus. The doctor doesn't know what's wrong with her or how to cure her.

Although the movie didn't say what the virus was, according to the clues given in the movie, it was almost certain that Jenny was infected with HIV.

On June 5th, 198 1, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published five cases of patients infected with a special virus in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, which is the first official record of AIDS in the world. In 1982, this disease is named "AIDS".

When AIDS was raised, this terrible virus had spread in the United States, but doctors could do nothing about it. It was not until the 1980s and 1990s that people gradually realized how terrible this deadly infectious virus was, but it could not be cured, so the society at that time turned pale at the mention of AIDS. The panic caused by AIDS has led to all kinds of wonderful events.

For example, the retirement of the famous NBA star "Magic" Johnson. Although Johnson was in the prime of his life, many players expressed their reluctance to play with him after being infected with HIV.

The reason is that "the sweat on his body will make us infected with HIV." Although we now know that this statement is nonsense, most people in the United States thought so at that time. Johnson was forced to retire at the golden age of 32.

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Behind the scenes production

When making the picture of Forrest Gump meeting and shaking hands with the late President, ken ralston, the director of visual effects, and his team of industrial light and magic effects applied CGI technology, and Hanks performed in front of the blue screen with reference to relevant marks, thus seamlessly blending with the documentary image.

In order to record the voices of historical figures, the crew used body double. In order to ensure the sound matching, the special effects department modified the mouth movements of the characters.

In a Vietnam War scene, Forrest Gump had to leave the battlefield before the incendiary bomb landed. The crew filmed this scene with stuntmen first, and then Tom Hanks and Mikel Williamson went into battle in person, supporting Williamson's weight with wire ropes. Finally, they filmed the scene of the explosion, and then put the actors on the scene with digital technology.

Both jet fighters and incendiary bombs have added CGI. After Captain Dan was amputated, the special effects department used CGI technology to remove gary sinise's legs, so Sinnis wrapped his legs in blue cloth. When shooting the scene of getting up and sitting in a wheelchair, Sinnis can just support himself with his "invisible" legs.

10,000 peaceful assembly in front of Lincoln Memorial requires special effects department to create a spectacular crowd. During the two-day shooting, the crew used 1500 extras, and every time a continuous shooting was completed, all extras had to be rearranged. After computer special effects, the number of people on the scene soared to hundreds of thousands.

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