The famous Forrest Gump running sequence was funded by Tom Hanks.

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The famous Forrest Gump movie has won numerous Oscars, including Best Actor. It is still one of Tom Hanks’ most recognizable Hollywood movies.

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Tom Hanks

Robert Zemeckis is the director of the Hollywood comedy-drama Forrest Gump. The film is based on Winston Groom’s 1986 novel of the same name. The plot follows Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks, for several decades of his life. Gump is a good-hearted Alabaman who has a significant impact on several significant American historical moments in the 20th century.

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The running scene at the end of the movie stands out above all the other scenes that featured the movie’s main character in various historical moments in America. Although it looked fantastic on screen, the producers instructed the director to cut that scene because it would be too expensive to shoot. The producer and director, Robert Zemeckis, fought about the significance of that sequence, but they continued to decline to provide funding.

Iconic running scene in Forrest Gump:

To make the most famous running sequence in “Forrest Gump” into a movie, Tom Hanks admitted that he had to dig very deeply into his own finances in the interview “In Depth with Graham Bensinger.” The picture continues to rank behind The Lion King as 1994’s second-highest-grossing movie.

Forrest Gump Movie Poster
Forrest Gump Movie Poster

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