Hometown Homage
The look of Forrest’s hometown came from the paintings of Norman Rockwell. The paintings had a largely American focus, and he illustrated the Saturday Evening Post for 50 years!
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These Forrest Gump Facts Are Better Than a Box of Chocolates
The More You Know
- In Home Alone, Buzz's girlfriend is actually a boy in a wig. The director thought it would be too mean to ask a girl to be in the film this way.
- Keanu Reeves used his profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie's stuntmen.
- In every scene of Fight Club, there is a Starbucks coffee cup.
- Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”