Many of the main street shops dressed for the movie have elected to retain the Gump look. Built only for the movie, they were torn down after filming. A much-used location, the building has also hosted filming for L. Nearby Port Royal which claims to be the first settlement in the New World, predating Jamestown by some 45 years was the site of the disastrous hurricane, which brings Gump such good fortune.
Gump takes a little run, first through downtown Varnville. Helena Island , east of downtown Beaufort. In the blink of an eye he's jogging through golden wheatfields at Cut Bank , Montana. The picturesque stone bridge set against a background of snowy peaks is at the St.
Going-to-the-Sun Road , the mile scenic road which crosses the park from St. The bend is now signposted as Forrest Gump Curve. I was in Savannah, Georgia for a week filming the scenes at the bus stop. Before filming began, however, we met the director, the producers and Tom Hanks. I was struck by how genuinely friendly Hanks was. He consecutively shook hands with everyone and said 'Hi, I'm Tom Hanks,' to each of us in turn, even though we all knew perfectly well who he was.
I recall being given a bottle of 'Nitro Cola' from Tom Hanks. He said that it was his favorite and had it flown in for him. I kept it for years a souvenir from the filming. Of course, at that time, no one thought the film would turn into the cultural icon that it has. The working title was Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump.
It was an amazing experience. Lots of very fond memories. Helena Island. Bob and Hilda Gay Upton's shrimp boat 'Miss Hilda' can be seen tied up at the dock in the film while Forrest is naming his boat 'Jenny'. Bubba also mentions shrimp burgers when listing all the ways to cook shrimp. Jeff tells us he had no idea what Forrest Gump was and "thought it must be a B movie" so told the man no thanks.
It's no telling what kind of money was spent to fix up the whole town. The way they positioned their cameras I was dead center between Forrest and Jenny as they did their dialogue. I remember they used two different school buses to film that. Perhaps equally iconic are the film's locations—sweeping in breadth, the movie transports viewers from the American South to Vietnam. It's hard to imagine Forrest Gump without the scenes in Chippewa Square , where Gump dispenses wisdom about life to perfect strangers on a park bench everything from "stupid is as stupid does" to "life is like a box of chocolates".
You can visit the square today—but don't expect to sit on the bench. The film's famed bench was placed in the square only for filming, and then moved to the nearby Savannah History Museum. Many of the scenes from Forrest's youth in the fictional town of Greenbow, Alabama, were actually filmed in South Carolina, among the small towns of Yemassee and Beaufort. Many of the structures for the film—like Jenny's farmhouse and Forrest's family boarding house—were built specifically for the film and torn down when production wrapped, but a few remnants of the film remain visible around the towns.
The road where Forrest was chased in a pickup truck by high school bullies is located at Combahee Road , Yemassee, South Carolina—though it leads to a private property, so it's probably best not to recreate the famous chase-scene on your own. Forrest's time fighting in the Vietnam War lends the movie some of its most heartrending moments—but they weren't filmed on the beaches of Vietnam.
Instead, movie officials chose Hunting Island State Park , in South Carolina, as the setting for many of the film's war scenes.
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