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RUN FORREST, RUN!
[h=3]Filming[edit][/h]Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year.[SUP][19][/SUP] Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around Beaufort, South Carolina, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina,[SUP][7][/SUP] including a running shot on the Blue Ridge Parkway.[SUP][20][/SUP] Downtown portions of the fictional town of Greenbow were filmed in Varnville, South Carolina.[SUP][21][/SUP] The scene of Forrest running through Vietnam while under fire was filmed on Fripp Island, South Carolina.[SUP][22][/SUP] Additional filming took place on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, North Carolina. The most notable place was Grandfather Mountain where a part of the road is named "Forrest Gump Curve".[SUP][23][/SUP] The Gump family home set was built along the Combahee River near Yemassee, South Carolina and the nearby land was used to film Curran's home as well as some of the Vietnam scenes.[SUP][24][/SUP] Over 20 palmetto trees were planted to improve the Vietnam scenes.[SUP][24][/SUP] Forrest Gump narrated his life's story in Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia as he sat at a bus stop bench. There were other scenes filmed in and around the Savannah area as well, including a running shot on the Richard V. Woods Memorial Bridge in Beaufort while he was being interviewed by the press, and on West Bay Street in Savannah.[SUP][24][/SUP] Most of the college campus scenes were filmed in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California. The lighthouse that Forrest runs across to reach the Atlantic Ocean the first time is the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine.
[h=3]Filming[edit][/h]Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year.[SUP][19][/SUP] Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around Beaufort, South Carolina, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina,[SUP][7][/SUP] including a running shot on the Blue Ridge Parkway.[SUP][20][/SUP] Downtown portions of the fictional town of Greenbow were filmed in Varnville, South Carolina.[SUP][21][/SUP] The scene of Forrest running through Vietnam while under fire was filmed on Fripp Island, South Carolina.[SUP][22][/SUP] Additional filming took place on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, North Carolina. The most notable place was Grandfather Mountain where a part of the road is named "Forrest Gump Curve".[SUP][23][/SUP] The Gump family home set was built along the Combahee River near Yemassee, South Carolina and the nearby land was used to film Curran's home as well as some of the Vietnam scenes.[SUP][24][/SUP] Over 20 palmetto trees were planted to improve the Vietnam scenes.[SUP][24][/SUP] Forrest Gump narrated his life's story in Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia as he sat at a bus stop bench. There were other scenes filmed in and around the Savannah area as well, including a running shot on the Richard V. Woods Memorial Bridge in Beaufort while he was being interviewed by the press, and on West Bay Street in Savannah.[SUP][24][/SUP] Most of the college campus scenes were filmed in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California. The lighthouse that Forrest runs across to reach the Atlantic Ocean the first time is the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine.
