"Forrest, Forrest..."

Early the next morning, the crew continued filming the scene of rescuing people on the battlefield in Vietnam. Every time Forrest Gump ran back to the battlefield to find his good friend Babu, he was called by another comrade asking for help. He ran like this several times

, reciting a comrade every time.

After several attempts, Forrest Gump found Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan was calling for fire support from the rear and wanted to use aerial bombs to blow up the whole place. He had been seriously injured, his legs were blown off, and he only wanted to die for his country like his ancestors.

But A-Gump's intelligence could not understand such a complicated matter, so he still ignored his strong protests and wanted to carry him to a safe river.

Except for a few scenes of Tom Hanks running with his comrades on his back, what was shot today was mainly his conversations with many comrades by the river. From the eyes of a person with a low IQ, it can be seen how the Vietnam War affected ordinary Americans.

The impact of people.

Most of those who were drafted and sent to the front line of fire to actually fight were civilians, and there were also people with low IQs like Forrest Gump. The American Army has always been responsible for the logistics at the back, and there are far more people than in the army.

Frontline combatants.

During World War II, people across the United States still had a simple feeling of upholding justice and opposing fascism. They wanted to fight for an ending for their hometown and relatives that would not be occupied by the Nazis like Europe.

But when it came to the Vietnam War, this natural sense of justice was gone. Vietnam was far away, and it had no ability to hit America. The most soldiers there were AK-47s and rocket launchers. In front of the U.S. military equipped with modern weapons, they were almost helpless.

The slaughtered lamb is average.

The reason why Jane Fonda spoke for the Vietnamese and opposed the US military was because too many Vietnamese were killed. In many battles, the exchange rate was more than one to one hundred. The people could not stand their children going to fight in Vietnam.

Dead unarmed Vietnamese.

In the confrontation between the two, the worst thing is the soldiers who were sent to the battlefield. On the one hand, they themselves were tortured internally, and on the other hand, there were still casualties on the battlefield. Those Vietnam War veterans who returned to their hometowns were, on the one hand, treated by the people

Not happy, on the other hand, they are also tortured by conscience, and some of them are even more miserable if they are disabled.

And this kind of social division continues to this day. The Stars and Stripes legislation passed two years ago (the Stars and Stripes can be burned) highlights America's current extreme opposition to this, and the evaluation of the Vietnam War has become polarized.

Even when it comes to Hollywood, it's polarizing. The most left-wing one is Oliver Stone, who shot several Vietnam War movies and criticized everything in this war as a personal participant.

On the other hand, because of the aftermath of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the right wing dare not make movies like John Wayne's "Green Berets" in which all of them spoke favorably for the US military. But Stallone's "First Blood", in

After Rambo went berserk, I could not hide my feeling that this war should continue and I should go to Vietnam to kill the enemy. The subsequent sequels even featured special battles with the ultimate enemy of the Cold War...

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Ronald's "Forrest Gump" focuses on the theme of real history seen from Forrest Gump's eyes. Therefore, he can neither oppose the war nor support it. Anyway, Forrest Gump's IQ is limited.

Nader's idea is not to make any evaluation, but to only present the facts at the time for you to see. As for your reaction after reading it, and which side you criticize, it can be said.

Therefore, when Ronald was filming the quarrel between Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan, as well as the scene of farewell with Babu, he paid great attention to designing this kind of neutral image scheduling. The tones and colors of the Vietnam War episode focused on one person who did not participate in the scene.

without any modifications.

There are neither colors that warm people's hearts, nor colors that turn Vietnam into an inner hell. It just truly presents the inner memories of a generation of veterans on the screen.

What Ronald shot this scene was the farewell scene between Forrest Gump and Barb. Although there was a wire hanging Barb to save effort, it was just part of the weight. Mykelti Williamson was also a big strong man, so Tom

After Hanks put him down, he still had to take a breath to recover.

"Hi, Babu..."

"Hi, Forrest..."

The close-up shot looked for the touching expression on the two people's faces. In this scene, Babu really knew that he was not going to die soon. On the way, he kept comforting Forrest Gump that it was okay, and he was also holding on to a palm leaf.

Covering the huge wound on the abdomen.

But A-Gump really didn't understand this. He thought he had rescued Babu safely. Behind him, Lieutenant Dan and several other extras were still pulling smoke bombs and giving instructions to the aircraft that had been called.

Don't explode in the direction you are in.

Purple smoke rose, and there was a haze behind Forrest Gump and Barb. It seemed that at this moment, the two of them had left Vietnam and returned to their hometown of Alabama, and were about to discuss how to start a business together.

"Forrest, why do these things happen to us?"

Barb has reached his deathbed. He just wants to talk to his best friend about his regrets. How could a boy from Alabama come to Vietnam and lose his life in this land that is said to be the best place in the world?

Where's the shrimp?

"Babu, you were shot..." A-Gump still looked like he didn't have enough IQ.

In this shot, Mykelti Williamson was facing the camera, and his head began to shake involuntarily, an obvious symptom of excessive blood loss.

Babu already knew that he didn't have much time left in his life. He said what he hoped most in his heart, "I want to go home!"

At this time, no matter how stupid Forrest Gump is, he still sees that his good friend Babu is leaving him, and Tom Hanks looks sad...

The camera slowly panned away from the face of Babu, who was about to die, and slowly moved to the face of Forrest Gump next to him.

In the viewfinder, there were only Forrest Gump's sad face, his breathing that was close to exhaustion, and Babu's blood-soaked hand that was still tightly clenched around Forrest Gump's shoulder. Due to long-term blood loss, one of Forrest Gump's shoulders was

, has been soaked with Babu’s blood...

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Finally tightened it.

The roar of a helicopter came over, and in the blurred background, the fire support called for by Lieutenant Dan finally arrived.

Ronald forgot to call stop for a moment. Everyone waited for a few seconds and confirmed that Tom Hanks and Mykelti Williamson had completed their performances. I don’t know why the director didn’t call stop yet. They all looked at

Got him.

"Kid, it's over..." Art director Polly Platt, still an old partner, noticed Ronald's abnormality, grabbed his hand, and whispered in his ear.

"Cut!"

"Oh, I thought you wanted me to continue holding McKelty, man, you are really heavy..." Tom Hanks joked, and everyone laughed and passed.

Only Ronald himself knew that the scene just now was almost the same as what his father and uncle experienced on the Vietnam battlefield...

A few days later, after filming the Vietnam battlefield scene on the golf course, a party was held to send off the actor Mykelti Williamson, the actor of Barb. His scene ended here.

"Thank you everyone, cheers to McKelty!" Ronald said some words of thanks, and everyone started to have a happy party. Many of the scenes in the past few days were in mud pits, watering, and marching among palm trees.

It took a lot of hard work from the actors to the staff to complete it.

This time, Ronald specially invited many people's relatives to come and reunite, so that everyone could relax and prepare for the upcoming scenes.

"Am I going to be able to shoot all over the country soon?"

Tom Hanks, his wife Rita Wilson, and several children were chatting with Ronald. After Forrest Gump left him again because Jenny and his mother died, he suddenly had the idea to start running. In the footage of running across the country

, there will be landmark buildings in various places, as well as various realistic light changes. Such shots are difficult to synthesize using computer special effects without making people feel strange.

Even if it is forced to be done, the various complicated processes are very time-consuming. Therefore, the crew is still preparing to go to various places for actual shooting. The shooting plan includes the Atlantic Ocean in the east, the Pacific Ocean in the west, as well as the magnificent mountains in the middle, and the characteristic roads of each state.

etc.

However, the entire movie had to leave enough budget and time for post-production special effects, allowing Hanks to fly to these locations to shoot one or two shots, which was actually at the end of the shooting schedule.

"We don't have much time to shoot. You still have a lot of scenes to shoot in Los Angeles. It would be best to have a stand-in who looks very similar to you and go running for you everywhere, so that we can find

A second crew to complete it."

"Hey, I remember in the script, Forrest Gump now grows a beard?"

"Yes, the beard will gradually grow longer..."

"Then you can try my brother Jim. He looks quite similar to me. With the beard attached, it's almost impossible to tell them apart."

Ronald got Jim Hanks's audition photo, and sure enough, the two brothers looked very similar, especially their longer foreheads and meaty noses. Only the mouth and teeth below the nose were similar to his brother's Tom.

An obvious distinction.

However, as long as the makeup artist uses various beards to disguise it, the dissimilar parts can be covered up.

Ronald asked Julia Taylor to help him check, and then set up an independent second film crew, equipped with photography, makeup and other important personnel, and flew to various locations across the country with Jim Hanks.

The whole team took a weekend off in Alabama and prepared to go to the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington DC to film the scene where Forrest Gump and Jenny reunited after the war.

Ronald left earlier than them and went to Crofton, Maryland on the weekend. The Renaissance Carnival held here every August to October has been getting better and better.

Alan Lewis is Julia Taylor's apprentice. He has been squatting here for more than a week, recruiting more than 200 extras, and preparing to go to Washington, DC, to film a movie.

"One of the themes this year is the hippie era. Many of the people who come to the carnival have a background in acting, from high school or college drama clubs, or losers from Broadway and Hollywood. What's even better is that many of them are

I brought my own hippie clothes, which fit the look of the time.”

In a temporary office rented here, Ronald saw many photos of the selected people, and many people were still waiting outside to be selected.

"Very good, we will go to Washington tomorrow. I have applied for two days of shooting time and two days of rehearsal time. Let these extras get used to the atmosphere of the anti-war rally first."

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"Director, you are here. The week before, I went to the Washington Monument as a tourist to check on the situation. I was even asked by the SWAT team for questioning."

The person talking to Ronald was the person in charge of the special effects for this scene, Ken Ralston. The young man looked energetic and very dedicated. He had been here to survey the scene. He was almost found by the local police and the Presidential Guard Secret Service.

Trouble, but fortunately I took out the crew's ID and was not arrested.

"Tell me about your plan..."

Ronald walked to the other side of the large pool opposite the obelisk. Forrest Gump would express his views on the Vietnam War here.

"This is what I think. Here we will set up a rally podium, and the main camera will follow Forrest Gump, come up from below, and then pan over to directly face the thousands of people in the audience. This is a kind of experience for the audience.

A spectacle that is impossible to see normally.
To be continued...