Random Movie Trivia - Forrest Gump

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Forrest Gump

• Bill Murray, John Travolta, and Chevy Chase all turned down the title role.  It makes you wonder how dumb the casting director was that Tom Hanks was their fourth choice.
• The Vietnam scenes were filmed on what is now the Ocean Creek Golf Course on Fripp Island, SC.  I only mention that because fellow Brainfart contributor Alex and I have played that course numerous times and pretended to be Bubba and Forrest while playing.  Also, the scene where Forrest's boat, Jenny, crashes into a dock was shot at a nearby fishing company and that boat is still sitting wrecked in that dock to this day.
• David Alan Grier, Ice Cube, and Dave Chappelle all turned down the part of Bubba.  While I could see Grier and Chappelle doing okay with that part, but Ice Cube?  Are you serious?
• Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim Hanks doubled for him in most of the running scenes.  Other than having no hair, Jim looks just like his brother.
• As I've mentioned before, this movie is actually base on a novel and in the scene were Lieutenant Dan tells Forrest that the day Forrest becomes a shrimping boat captain he will be an astronaut is actually a reference to that book.
• When the microphone is unplugged during the Vietnam Rally, Tom Hanks' inaudible line is "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without legs.  Sometimes they don't go home at all.  That's a bad thing.  That's all I have to say about that."
• Tom Hanks' daughter and director Robert Zemeckis' son are two of the extras on the school bus at the beginning of the movie.
• One scene that was left out was a run-in with Martin Luther King Jr where Forrest inadvertently saves MLK from an attack by some dogs.
• While her last name is never actually spoken, Jenny's full name is Jenny Curran which can be seen on the back of an envelope in the scene where Forrest receives all of the letters he wrote to her during Vietnam.
• Forrest's hometown of Greenbow, Alabama is fictional.
• Sally Field plays Forrest's mother even though she is only ten years older than Tom Hanks and actually played his girlfriend in the movie Punchline which was released six years before Forrest Gump.
• Kurt Russell provided the voice for Elvis in the movie.
• Following the success of the movie, the author of the book wrote a sequel called "Gump & Co" in which Forrest lives in a world where the movie was released and Forrest calls it inaccurate and even meets Tom Hanks.

"A bald Tom Hanks?  Nope, just his younger brother Jim."