Forrest Gump Actually Used a Ton of VFX

[@hollyshouse928]

I heard one vfx reviewer say that the feather sequence was one of the greatest VFX sequences ever done in film. If you look at how long that is, all the reflections and interaction with the environment, and the fact it isn't a fake feather, but a composited feather, in 1994 technology, it's masterful

[@georgekraus9357]

The feather sequence gave the beginning and final sequence of the movie, a masterpiece.

[@RJ6AV6]

I forget which computer set up they used for the VFX but i remember it was super expensive back then

[@iammissiemarie4302]

I think it's the most beautiful movie opening ever.

[@MrPokerblot]

Wow never knew so much had to go into it

[@paddington1670]

@@RJ6AV6 it was that expensive computer that all the studios used, like 60k each and you can add them together, I forget the name. They were purple

[@JaneAxon123]

That's why people were suprised when it won the oscar for best special effects, they were so subtle and it wasn't a sci fi movie. They focused on the most obvious ones (as in how else would it be done) the editing out of Dan's legs and inserting Forrest into historic footage.

[@GuardianOfRlyeh]

somebody said (I think that was in a making of of "Strange Days"): "The best effects are those you don't notice" (or something like that) - and this movie is a prime example.

[@harshitjoshi525]

and overlaying scenes on top of real scenes from history

[@josefvojtek2403]

@@harshitjoshi525 It's already mentioned: "inserting Forrest into historic footage".

[@toxichammertoe8696]

Your wrong, it's not Dan's its LIEUTENANT DAAAAAAN

[@kbanghart]

This is why the academy has experts in visual effects vote on the best visual effects movies.

[@Musicalsoda]

I didn't realize how many effects and hard work went into making that film, I respect it even more now.

[@molly8643]

Yeh me too

[@no-bozos]

I tell people all the time that I worked on this film or that film and they always respond with, "Really? What did you do? I didn't see any special effects!" To which I always answer, "That's the point. You're not supposed to see my effects."

[@Musicalsoda]

@@no-bozos that is so cool!!!

[@229_yashbagde2]

That's why it got Oscar in special effects

[@matthewweng8483]

Compositing and roto used to be a drag back then, you had to trace everything exactly and if you messed up, you could really see it... Some shots would literally take weeks.

[@planetarium_you]

As part of Forrest Gump's marketing campaign, Paramount actually focused heavily on the film's VFX as a way to sell the movie to audiences. I remember that there was at least one TV specials produced about it, and it was in the news everywhere leading up to the movie's release in 1994. It was very well known at the time.

[@fireaza]

It's funny how these days, the studios use a _lack_ of VFX to promote new movies. Even though they're always lying through their teeth when they claim "everything was done 100% practically". Well, I can't blame them. As the internet has shown, there's a lot of "CGI BAD! PRACTICAL GOOD!" people out there, who are just ripe to be fleeced.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

@@fireaza VFX doesnt equal CGI, the vast majority of VFX *were* practical in the 90s, along with compositing, mattes, matte paintings, etc. CGI was also promoted for a while, as it was new / could do things that weren't realistic to achieve without it.

[@justaway_of_the_samurai]

My parents mentioned once,in passing while we watched this movie, that this movie had incredible visual editing involved. They were of course talking about Lt. Dan's legs being edited out of the film, as well as the historical footage with J.F.K, and John Lennon. Even older generations could appreciate the talent and effort that went into this film.

[@hoilst265]

Having Dan swing his stumps just in front of the legs of a coffee table was a great example of bumping the lamp - though, ironically, it was rather the opposite.

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

As a young guy, you might not realize that when Forrest Gump was released in the early 90's that the vfx were a big deal and everyone knew about it. Yes, they were so good that they were "invisible", but the story of the pioneering vfx by Robert Zemeckis was not a secret. It was just as groundbreaking as Jurassic Park had been the year before it.

[@whyjnot420]

Speaking as a person born in 1980 who saw both in theaters, I can say that while Jurassic Park's effects were cooler (there is no T-Rex in Forrest Gump), the effects in Forrest Gump have always been more impressive to me. One of the reasons that I have always preferred full animated things, to that which are made of a mix of live action and animation, is that when everything on screen is fake, it looks more real than when half of it is real. That is how I say it anyways. In a little more depth I would say that upon starting something that is 100% animated, you are already committed to a certain level of suspension of disbelief for the purposes of entertainment. Making it so that you are less critical of any one element. Than you are when starting a movie or show that is a mix of live action with realistic CGI animation where you are supposed to believe that it is all just stuff shot on camera. The things that really get away with a mix of live action and animation like Who Framed Roger Rabbit or even Monkeybone, are a different breed. addendum: The kit they used to insert Hanks into old footage was used for even better purposes in the Trials and Tribble-ations episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. To insert DS9 people into classic episodes of the original series. :D caveat: I have always been a giant fan of all forms of animation, so things like the CGI of Jurassic Park or the awesome merging with historical footage like with Forrest Gump, have always been of great interest to me. A part of my brain is always looking at that side of a movie, even as another part is simply loving the experience.

[@cgfischer]

I'd also like to mention Death Becomes Her which was also done by Zemeckis and used ground-breaking VFX.

[@whyjnot420]

@@cgfischer The only thing I ever remember about that movie is the poster, where he has his arm through the hole in her torso, holding a candelabra.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

Jesus Christ died for our sins, rose from the dead, and gives salvation to everyone who has faith in him. True faith in Jesus will have you bear good fruit and *drastically* change for the better! Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. God is three in one; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him. Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, for any reason; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

When you trust in God and cast your cares (worries, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts) upon him, they will be NO MORE! Know that there is power in the name Jesus Christ! His name casts out demons and heals! The world is wicked, evil, and of the devil. I too, was a wicked sinner of the world before I opened my heart to God. I am living proof of God's work and fruitfulness! He is an active God who hears the prayers of his! God's children are set apart (holy) and righteous. The devil is a liar that comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy; that includes your relationship with God.

[@PaulMillerFx]

The 'crossfade' of the feather was a morph, animated in Elastic Reality. It was also used to warp Tom's arm/hand position during the hand-shake with JFK, and to animate changed speech of various historical figures, among other shots. I once ran into a nice old lady who was really upset that they made that poor man with no legs act in all those other scenes with the fake legs. ;-)

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

Jesus Christ died for our sins, rose from the dead, and gives salvation to everyone who has faith in him. True faith in Jesus will have you bear good fruit and *drastically* change for the better! Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. God is three in one; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him. Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, for any reason; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

When you trust in God and cast your cares (worries, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts) upon him, they will be NO MORE! Know that there is power in the name Jesus Christ! His name casts out demons and heals! The world is wicked, evil, and of the devil. I too, was a wicked sinner of the world before I opened my heart to God. I am living proof of God's work and fruitfulness! He is an active God who hears the prayers of his! God's children are set apart (holy) and righteous. The devil is a liar that comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy; that includes your relationship with God.

[@june4135]

@@Call_Upon_YAH I am SATAN!

[@drewopal9283]

@@Call_Upon_YAH you working with the other guy posting? All that does is make people want nothing to do with the snake oil you are selling

[@MasterAnakinSkyWalker]

For a movie from 1994, the effects still hold up pretty well. Ironically, the effects in this movie are way better than the crappy CGI in Green Lantern, a movie from 2011.. almost twenty years after Forrest Gump was released.

[@trustthecurrent]

Because a lot of the things he mentions being cgi are small. Most of the explanations are composite shots of practical shots. Those super hero movies will just cgi whole bodies.

[@matthewweng8483]

A friend of mine did the roto work on a bunch of these shots. She also did the Gallimimus stampede in Jurassic Park, among others...

[@aathisankar6432]

There are very few cgi shots in forest gump. They are mostly VFX enhancements, rather than creating something using a computer, it's already there...and it just needs some polish. Green lantern is more cgi than VFX. Visual effects are different than computer generated imagery. Do your research.

[@greasybumpkin1661]

@@MasterAnakinSkyWalker guy above doesn't know what he's talking about at all. CGI is a part of VFX. He probably means practical effects, compositing or rotoscoping but again, has no idea what he's on about.

[@chicagoblackhawks9840]

That's because Green Lantern had too much CGI

[@JoyKazuhira]

Animating the feathers mask alone frame by frame is pure hell. Even in todays technology the process is the same but the performance is massively different thats why i admire the guys behind vfx on the old days. Because of them we slowly get the improvement we need to lessen time for these huge projects.

[@DanoFSmith-yc9tg]

When they actually tried to hide CGI, now entire movies are CGI, and you can tell the whole time.

[@neiljohnson5351]

Some 28 years later the CGI is still tight. Incredible production standards by Robert Zemeckis and team...

[@proph7543]

That's because, unlike many later films from the 2000s such as the Star Wars prequel trilogy, they knew that CGI was fairly limited, and best used to only do what was otherwise impossible or impractical. Something that should be maintained in today's films too.

[@4seeableTV]

I remember watching the film and wondering if Gary Sinise really DID have a missing leg, and then they just added one in for the early shots. He wasn't well known as an actor, so I had no reference. That's how good the missing limb FX was to me.

[@JZsBFF]

It's not great compared to modern standards but it's not terrible either and that's probably because the movie is very, very good.

[@robertsaca3512]

The 90's produced a tonne of great flicks that used technology well, Forrest and T2 are two great examples.

[@mackychloe]

Twister.

[@mackychloe]

& Gladiator.

[@christopherblack7342]

Howard The Duck greatest film ever made...

[@christopherblack7342]

@@mackychloe Howard The Duck is the most epic...

[@mackychloe]

@@christopherblack7342 lol

[@CraftySouthpaw]

Gump's FX were considered groundbreaking upon its release. It's an aspect of the film that gets overlooked today, with CGI being so prevalent (to the point of overuse) now.

[@azis7281]

I watched this movie long time ago but never ever thought that there are so much VFX involved. It is truly a master piece ahead of it's time in 1994

[@Styrofoam-ee]

Absolutely crazy how intuitive and creative people can be to make a movie go from good to one of the greatest.

[@georgethompson4912]

The best special effects are the shots that are so good that you don’t know they are special effects.

[@DaveThompsonfairlife4all]

Wow, I never knew that.

[@cheeseking2825]

Isn't that the point?

[@smartyarts]

Invisible VFX has been mostly used which is digital compositing helping to tell the story and not the VFX, that's why this movie is a milestone

[@reminiscewithmusic6258]

I don't know why KZbin didn't give this man a reward. Cool explanations, Very Intact.

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

And hilarious thumbnails

[@DYNANiK]

1M subs is kinda reward ;)

[@I_Shit_on_your_shit_point]

“A reward” Couldnt oxygen be better used somewhere…

[@CountingStars333]

@@I_Shit_on_your_shit_point No

[@CountingStars333]

KZbin doesn't reward anything than subs plates, which he probably has.

[@KuruGDI]

I always LOVE these behind the scenes videos for movies. They slightly remove the _magic_ behind a movie since it's basically why a magician never reveals his secrets. On the other hand I can appreciate the movie much more because I can actually see all the work that went into making it, all the problems they had to overcome and what clever solution they came up to solve a problem you never had before. Thank you for making this video!

[@SBluesBrotherhood]

Agreed! I usually won't watch any of the "making of..." or the "behind the scenes..." videos until I've seen the film a bunch of times.

[@scorpionjacket3129]

From the thumbnail I assumed this would just be some dude in a green zentai suit taking the piss and adding himself through the film. Glad that wasn't the case

[@dwchen1]

Just remember that this movie was released back in 1994, that was 28 years ago but the visual effects was so revolutionary, equal to Jurassic Park's ground breaking visual effects from a year earlier.

[@raleemay]

The 90s had thee best movies.

[@robroy6374]

80s have the best movies actually.

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@robroy6374 Yes. Like BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogies.

[@robroy6374]

@@shahrulamar5358 yup (even though BTTF 3 was released in 1990).

[@dcarbs2979]

@@robroy6374 Would have been film and produced with 80's technology

[@Locadel2003]

One of the most iconic and rewatchable movie of all time

[@KhaledHamed90]

Absolutely yes

[@mitchspurlock3626]

Look up Laal Singh Chadha.

[@DavidLinn]

i went my whole life knowing this movie existed but never watched it. then in my senior year of high school, the students and teachers and teacher aids told me i need to watch it. so i did. i started watching it saturday morning. by time school had started monday morning i had watched it 13 times.

[@DavidLinn]

@Alfred Einstein actually i don't remember having exams or test that week. but i couldn't stop telling people how great the movie is and no matter who i told, they always told me they had already watched it. funny thing is... the reason everyone was telling me to watch it is because in high school my nickname was forrest because i would run, not jog, run to each class. my high school had separate buildings and i have ADHD. and that's why they told me to watch it because i had that nickname and didn't understand the reference. nowdays my nickname is 6-nic because i vape 6mg of nicotine and accidently got f** up when i tried 55mg nicotine at a party.

[@adityarao7255]

oh my god! look at the hardwork and efforts....hats off to the VFX team of Forrest Gump

[@kristamontesa220]

forrest running feom the car was VFX?? holy crap they did a phenomenal job!

[@SlaV0]

This is always stunning how they were able to make those effects possible with much less powerful software and hardware and still deliver excellent results! I love to see things like these.

[@philcarpenter242]

I was at the screening for the VFX Academy people to vote on which films would get the effects nomination that year. (The other two were True Lies and The Mask) I remember the FX supervisors explaining the shots, like the cgi ping pong - "Some idiot hung the flags upside down and we had to fix that!" Also remember how Gary Sinise had his legs wrapped with blue screen and composited out of the scene.

[@tsdobbi]

Yeah I'm surprised the logistics behind Lt. Dan weren't discussed in this video.

[@julijakeit]

@@tsdobbi I was about to say the same thing.

[@kbanghart]

The mask was also very good

[@1928ModelA1931]

It's a Zemeckis film. He has always impressed me in the fact that there is always a great deal of effects in his movies but they are always subtle or at least the presentation is subtle which of course makes the movie far more believable. He's one of the best.

[@ETA555]

Just like "Back to the future 1" in 1985. The first time travel sceen with the dog "Einstein" is stil impressive.

[@slotwinExcitement]

Contact. Even better zemeckis work!

[@dalandutube]

Lets get things straight. Ken Ralston was the VFX Supervisor. THAT is why the visual effects are incredible.

[@krishnapriyats9504]

Damn! The hardwork! Both by the VFX team and the guy behind this channel ❤️

[@SpectacularDisaster]

The fact its this hard to see where the FX were used highlights how brilliant the director

[@NashJMusic]

I have to say, the most incredible thing about this is Forrest Gump's VFX not only are incredible even by our current standards in the 2020s, but the fact that the tech they used back then must no doubt have been less powerful. Which again is incredible because the skill of all those involved was the real deal!

[@no-bozos]

I'm a special effects artist. We have a love/hate relationship with the phrase "fix it in post". I love it because it means I have work and a steady paycheck. I hate it because sometimes the fix is damn near impossible, or takes a very long time to accomplish, and the film maker could have avoided making the shot so difficult with just a few tweeks of their filming technique. Film makers have gotten REALLY lazy about figuring out how to shoot something.

[@trustthecurrent]

It shows in a lot of their work. Thanks for sticking through the long hours to make these movies good.

[@enzocignetti6359]

Are you ever asked to be on set so you can call out what would be unnecessarily challenging in post?

[@no-bozos]

@@enzocignetti6359 - I used to do set supervision, but I hated it too much to continue. I couldn't stand to sit in a chair for 18 hours to have a 30 second conversation about a setup.

[@enzocignetti6359]

@@no-bozos how far are your offices or where you work from typically from sets?

[@no-bozos]

@@enzocignetti6359 - I live within Los Angeles proper, about 15 miles away from where I work. Although shooting locations can be anywhere in the world, most of the sound stages I've been to are in the same city I work. Buirbank, Hollywood, West L.A., Culver City, Santa Monica, etc. I've worked in other states and countries in the past, but that was some 20 years ago. I did a lot of traveling in the 90's. Did that answer your question? I'm not exactly sure what information you wanted to know.

[@thewolf6943]

What blown my mind away aside from the amazing work on the CGI and animations is that this movie was made in 1994!! With the technology at that time they're able to made these CGI looks realistic is just mind blowing!

[@kbanghart]

Some other really good movies were produced during that time as well, for example James Cameron's The Abyss.

[@OMA2k]

@@kbanghart Not to mention Jurassic Park, released the previous year.

[@ct026]

The creativity within film making astounds me. More so when when effects such as these were done with earlier technology. Absolutely brilliant.

[@snarkyswanky5444]

Who knew! This is crazy... so well done. I dont think I would have picked up on any of these.

[@streetjustices1706]

These people deserve more than credit for what they put together for us to enjoy

[@cc1k435]

It is a rare example of a movie being better than a book, too. 😳

[@commanderkeen3787]

Such a good film. Keep in mind that VFX companies in the 90s (eg. ILM) were always pioneering new technologies and techniques, and often combining old techniques with new (like puppetry with CGI in Terminator 2). The result was a first-time effect, tailor-made for the scene, which blended beautifully and looked incredible. Nowadays most VFX companies do not pioneer new techniques or technologies, because they have so many methods at their disposal already, and effects are often "pre-visualized". It's a cheaper, cookie-cutter approach. Which is why CGI today often looks far less convincing and is easy to spot. Add to that the fact that film budgets are much larger, and main actors in effects-driven films can command a large percentage of the film's budget as their salary, less money remains for experimenting or pioneering techniques

[@expatleanie]

Exactly.. to me it’s asif nothing has changed

[@DSAhmed]

Something else ruined by capitalisms.

[@tommyw.9424]

@@DSAhmed Capitalism rewarded and encouraged all the good things discussed here as well.

[@kaygreen3279]

@@tommyw.9424 It was a toxic incentive that ultimately led to its own destruction. Nobody values quality when dollars are offered in quantity.

[@talpatv512]

@@DSAhmed as if capitalism dint make these thinks happen in the first place, is everything with people like you black and white ? You all seem like the type of people gta would parody 😭

[@Fanta....]

Wow, this just gives me even more appreciation of this film. Its still one of my all time favourites.. cheers for the vid guys.

[@mysticmarble94]

Really nice retro vfx 👏

[@Pack.Leader]

This was awesome ! Thank you. Forrest Gump is a wonderful film. A real treasure.

[@griffinoleary1694]

3:53 that makes sense how Hanks teleports a hundred feet ahead in this scene

[@0liverB0liver]

Yeah

[@270MOX]

Well, now we know why this movie won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The Academy loves when VFX are like this: very subtle. That's why the last winners are like that

[@fndmystory]

One my favorite movies still watched when I need a hug but after watching this I have another level of respect for everyone involved. This is amazing, brilliant and so many talented people. Thank you for sharing, they all deserved the rewards... 🙏😇😃

[@raleemay]

I’ve loved this movie done I was 7.

[@rosskerr1439]

When I finally watched this movie with my dad, he was wondering how they got Gary Sinise to look like his legs had been amputated. I remember seeing an image of Hayden Christensen in on the set of Revenge of the Sith. His legs and left arm were wrapped in some blue cloth to help them blend in with the special effects and make it look like Anakin had been completely dismembered. I have to assume they did the same thing with Lieutenant Dan's war wounds.

[@alekz8580]

It was a combination of that and some very clever compositing to add in objects (like a table) that would get hit by his legs if he had them.

[@FozzyBBear]

I remember seeing the behind the scenes of the shot where Lt. Dan swings off the side of the boat and into the water. There was a gap in the railing and his calves were wrapped in green cloth.

[@erroneousbosh]

Pretty much. You can actually do something like this yourself with any camera you have kicking around, even your phone, and some video editing software. The trick is, you make sure the camera is "locked off" - cannot move, anywhere, not even a tiny bit - on a tripod or similar mount, and take some shots of the scene with no-one in it. This is your "plate". Now when you move into shot, you can make yourself appear and disappear by dissolving between the two clips - the background remains the same so it just looks like it's you that's fading in and out! Now, if you wrap green or blue cloth around your legs, you can use a chroma keyer to punch that out, or punch a "Death Becomes Her" hole right through your body with a green circle on your shirt...

[@rosskerr1439]

@@erroneousbosh Intriguing. I haven’t seen Death Becomes Her, but still…

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

i remember seeing a behind the scenes bit on the vhs of forrest gump as a kid, it was amazing to see how they got him spliced into historical footage. sure with todays standards you can tell JFK's face is janky as hell but on a standard TV and on VHS, it was mind blowing. i legit thought forrest was a real person when i saw those scenes until i asked my parents lol

[@digitalian99]

Forrest Gump IS WELL KNOWN to have used a Ton of VFX

[@parshotamlal1749]

I just like to clarify that when you buy a box of chocolates, you will find that in the box or on the box on the side of the box there is a description on what kind of different chocolates you have in the box, from soft, toffee, or fruity. So when his character says Life is like a box of chocolates, you don't know what you're going to get l thought that's wrong, l have purchased box of chocolates many times its got the description of all sweets in the box.

[@danielesteve8359]

That's 1 among lots of reasons why this movie is completely pathetical.

[@jetfan925]

Life WAS like a box of chocolates.

[@_Daud]

🤓

[@chriskunce3331]

Some boxes have them now but most didn’t back in that time. Especially if it was a fancy gift set like he uses in the movie.

[@technospaz]

Excellent video. Really shows the magic in the movie and how difficult it was to make!

[@burgerjointgame]

Wow that was an amazing video! Apart from the meeting the presidents/Lennon scenes, I had no idea the film used so much CGI. You did a great job explaining the Vietnam scene the way they went from a stunt guy to Tom with the other actor's weight supported by a crane. Fascinating and very well researched.

[@kgpqywuw93838]

6:08 so.. you’re saying they *didn’t* drop bombs on people for the shot??

[@BLAZINHOTTV]

So u saying u didn't understand nothing was said 😂

[@robertwest5789]

I saw this green goblin on the train last weekend

[@collinscameron686]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate you showing how your craft is made. Excellent job guys.

[@AndorranStairway]

Forrest Gump is truly one of a kind. A ton of VFX but so well done that you could never tell. Not to mention the plot is so bizarre and impossible to describe

[@MachiavellisThePrince]

Calling the plot bizarre is the nicest way of saying it was a steaming pile of...

[@Joshua_N-A]

It's mostly plates and compositing and very little complex 3D animation shots. No wonder it aged well. Back when PC CPUs weren't as powerful as it is today, they have to think of some VFX that is looked real and convincing. Best VFX is when people couldn't tell it well. Perhaps we took VFX for granted these recents years and heavily rely on it even for a simple scene.

[@Caydiem]

Insane how much effort they put into these old classics.

[@lisaramsey2090]

I loved this film, and now I have a greater appreciation for extraordinary behind-the-scenes talent that helped make it!

[@tomsherwood4650]

NO CGi, I had the feather sequence for real. I was setting on a bench at night in a lit area. A feather floated down from overhead. The air was still. This feather floated down till it was even right in front of my face a few inches. There it continued to spin but was totally stationary, hovering as if on an invisible string for a seemingly long moment, neither going up or down or anywhere. Then it continued it's downward path but instead of landing on my lap, it drifted over just in time to land on the bench right beside me. I really can't explain it except this movie came to mind immediately. I still have that feather. I thought it might bring good luck but it is indifferent.

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

yeah that's why they won Oscars Best Visual Effects

[@drhkleinert8241]

And i remember that the press only talks about Hanks meetings with Kennedy..."Oh, look at this, what a wonder, Tom Hanks meets Kennedy, in fact thats impossible! What a Special Effect!"...hm.

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948

[@ShiningHourPop]

When in Savannah, where the square scene was filmed, I was told that the bus that goes by had to reverse as it was on a one-way street and was not permitted to go forwards further down the street The film-makers therefore filmed it reversing past the bench and then reversed the film to show a forward motion.

[@armybeef68]

If it went to the left as opposed to the right, it was going the wrong way.

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@KittyCatComa]

"Make me a bird" has been a long running joke in our friend group since college when we don't want to be somewhere and to find out they were never there in the first place makes it so much better.

[@niwaka273]

My sister's studying video editing and that opened my eyes of how magical "film magic" is ^^ Loved the video :)

[@philtucker1224]

Big respect to you buddy for explaining it so well! The film industry is a marvel of invention and also a marvel in respect to the thousands and thousands of dedicated men and women around this planet who make their living from entertaining us so brilliantly. All hail the film industry! 👍🙏

[@lawryteos2230]

I’ve watch it in the movie 3 times and love every moment of it.

[@MisterBurgerBeachball]

Man, the only one of these I ever really noticed was the helicopter scene. Fantastic work by everyone involved.

[@mackychloe]

The most obvious one for me is Tom Carrying that huge black dude. you can tell by his body language he's not holding all the weight.

[@carsondenny1986]

@@mackychloeTHATS BUBBA SHOW SOME RESPECT

[@mackychloe]

@@carsondenny1986 lol

[@fabianlichtin]

Absolutely fantastic 😍 such an immense amount of work just for a feather landing on a shoe 💪 That's dedication

[@dejoyag4763]

Oh how I loved forrest gump.... I keep on re-watching it every once in a while

[@OXIR]

Absolutely amazing quality at that time. And this whole explanation of the effects they had to use to solve the problems makes me like this movie even more.

[@pauljmaldonado]

A few scenes were filmed at USC. I worked in the Telecom Dept at the time. There is a scene where Forrest runs across the street in the rain to wherever it was that Jenny was living. There was a Pacific Bell pay phone pedestal with 3 pay phones on it in front of David Marks Hall (Jennys residence ). The pedestal was in the shot, Pac Bell wouldn’t remove it for the shot so I had the pleasure of removing it. There was a bike rack in the shot as well. USC wouldn’t remove it so I suggested putting period bicycles in it…… memories

[@jphataraki6764]

Was it still ghetto back then

[@charleslee3676]

We all know that Forrest Gump was a masterpiece of cinema for its time. It's one of the films that I agree with being in the 'Criterion Collection.'

[@John-ct9zs]

I know a lot of people will bring up The Matrix as the best SFX movie of the 90s, but to me there was this time in the early-mid 90s when I was a teenager when I was repeatedly blown away by things we had never seen before. Terminator 2 in 1991, Jurassic Park in 1993, and Forrest Gump in 1994. Nobody had seen effects like this at the time, it was mind blowing. Yeah that wire-fu CGI stuff from The Matrix and of course Star Wars Phantom Menace in 1999 was all nice and cool, but it was not as mind blowing for most mainstream people like what we had had during that 1990-1994 time. I remember in 1994 thinking the Forrest Gump SFX was even more impressive than T2 or Jurassic Park.

[@thenerdycrafter301]

Wow...it's truly incredible how much effort went into making this film. I'm glad it became the timeless classic that it is.

[@bigsistahtips]

I thought this was well known. It was literally THE reason why it created such a fuss, besides the story and the acting. I remember also they talked about the differences of blue and green screens.

[@awesomeferret]

In the past few years, there's been an actual conspiracy (this is not nearly as debatable as many people think, see "no CGI is invisible CGI" on YT) to smear and devalue VFX artists. It's not some complicated nefarious thing, it's probably just out of touch execs thinking that pouncing on this extreme cultural trend of ignorance is a way to market movies (EG it's easier and cheaper to perpetuate a myth than it is to correct it). CGI has gotten so good that most people who claim they hate CGI are often fooled and praise CGI scenes for being practical (way too funny). Basically, history has been revised, and this is somehow most prevalent among older people who theoretically would be the most likely to know better. For example, Top Gun Maverick uses mostly CGI, but you will have some of the production team outright lie in interviews pretending that what you see in the movie is mostly practical, and have boomers running around praising a film that has over 10 minutes of credits featuring digital VFX artists for having no digital VFX.

[@cmiggiani]

Not sure where the surprise is coming from. When it was released, the movie was heralded for the amount of VFX used and the groundbreaking techniques used in countless scenes. There were countless specials shown on it. And not only visual FX but audio. It was even a model for the burgeoning "surround sound" tech for home audio and was one if the main movies used to demo it at pretty much every electronics store.

[@awesomeferret]

You must have grown up in the 90s or earlier, before it was common for production teams to lie to people's faces in interviews about how much special effects people use. CGI can be so good that it fools most CGI haters, so you can have execs lie about filming something practical in an interview then see a VFX reel of all the CGI and be like "so, how does a movie with over ten minutes of digital VFX credits get praised by so many boomers for having no digital VFX". Basically, most AAA CGI is truly photorealistic, and so when it's not, it really stands out, and therfore, people are conditioned to think that most CGI is bad, because they don't realize that most of the footage they think is practical contains a lot of CGI too. It's sorta sad when you think about it, how people have been conditioned BY THE MOVIE INDUSTRY to hate one of the most appreciated (make no mistake, real artists love CGI... That's why all your favorite directors use it heavily, even if they try to gaslight you into thinking otherwise), and most artisticly flexible tools ever known to humanity.

[@firestorm6836]

So the feather wasn’t a paid actor after all?

[@toddstrong1353]

I was in that scene in the opening of this video, it took from about 7AM to midnight to complete that one scene. What was really interesting is that we got to hear all of the speech "Forrest" gave unlike in the movie. It was really cool to be involved in the making of that film even only as an extra in the D.C. scenes.

[@visakhamproductions8985]

Very informative Video :) Thank you

[@peterhopqk]

Yeah, I know these visual effects are amazing and impressive. But for me it is the great acting performance of Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise and their incredible chemistry onscreen.

[@Tobymeister01]

Thank you for the eye-opening explanations. But how did they film Leutenant Dan without legs? I have always wondered that, especially in the scene where they are on the floor in the hospital.

[@peecee1384]

On the boat, when Dan swings out over the side of the boat, they removed a piece of the side of the boat, and used CGI to replace it. I saw that shot explained somewhere years ago. I actually thought at the time that the actor had lost his legs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqKkk51-gLRooK8

[@coldsamon]

Gary Sinise had his legs surgically removed before filming.

[@souju_13]

@@coldsamon Yes. They had to put it back during some scenes for Apollo 13 but it's all well and good.

[@ruben_balea]

@@coldsamon I remember that in some Spanish magazine they said that John Goodman had offered to have a finger surgically removed from each hand to film The Flintstones if they couldn't do that with CGI. I suppose he could have suggested deleting them with GCI and the journalist added the rest to fill in the article or maybe the whole article was made up.

[@ADityaEvilxpirit]

It's surreal that a 1994 movie had this nuch amount of vfx and cgi.... becides terminator 2 ofcourse

[@Jaydogg222]

I mean it was made by the guy who did Roger Rabbit and Back to the future so not really surprising...

[@jimking81]

VERY VERY intersting info here! Thanks for your effort!

[@macforme]

I love these videos that explain "how it was done." Movie FX have always fascinated me and knowing how it was done does NOT spoil the fun for me. It makes me revel in the talent these FX teams have...it is astonishing.

[@TROOPERfarcry]

It's good. It's not good when you say "That film had great special-effects", it's good when you say "That was a great film." These seamless effects are what it's about.

[@Novacification]

I always thought that the vehicle chase scene looked too dangerous to film like that but it just looked so real. I thought they maybe put Tom on like a wire system, so he couldn't fall down but now I know the real story. Thanks for an informative video!

[@liquidsnow1]

Funny note about the napalm sequence: Director Robert Zemeckis went to the toilet right before the special effects team was about to make, the one and only, shot of the explosives for the napalm sequence. They did not have the production budget to do it twice. Robert Zemeckis heard the booms and stumbled out from the toilet and just missed the extraordinary explosions. He was, to say the least, extremely disappointed. 😁😁😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@InnerEagle]

Yeah, instead of making a good movie, he waited for that moment just to see stuff explode, right, no wonder some people is just directors

[@WUTTAFRIK]

learned a lot!

[@FameFocus]

Thanks!!

[@jdwilliams518]

I was an extra in a beer commercial in 1988.. took place in the Duluth Arena.. we filled up one section and they moved us around each day to different sections. The end looked like the arena was packed..

[@salinsal]

So much in 1994😳 Pretty impressive. 👍

[@garrettanderson8729]

This movie was made in the early 90's! How the hell did the producers pull all of that off without the today's technology??? Forrest Gump was really ahead of it's time.

[@yournightmare9562]

terminator 2 was made in 1991, yet the special effects are amazing even today

[@charlesludwig8672]

Jurassic Park was a game changer as well

[@AdrianToonz]

Wow that's really interesting to know... personally, I never even realized that there were a lot of special effects, and hard work that went into making this movie. Anyway this movie will always be my unique and unforgettable masterpiece from Robert Zemeckis and respect to all the team who worked on the movie during its production.

[@richspies2473]

Steve Starkey. Put in a lot of hard work and hours to get to this point in his career. Good job. Great film. Go bears. 🐻

[@ChrisSche]

This entire movie was groundbreaking in its effects. I remember when it came out being flabbergasted at what i was seeing

[@gsf5882]

The feather bit at the end was in the extras on the DVD. You also missed the great bit where they painted out the other guys legs.

[@meyerdigitalfilm]

THE BEST Movie ever created. It has it all. Fun, anger, happiness, frustration, love, hate.....simply a Masterpiece. I watch Forrest Gump at least 1 or 2 times a year....it is necessary to recover from current hollywood productions as the suck...

[@harrydavey9884]

Hmm, I don't wanna piss on your parade, but I'd argue it's the most pointless movie of the era. It's about a mentally challenged man through serendipitous circumstances being involved in some of the biggest events in his lifetime, then at the end the woman he loved is still a piece of crap and he still loves her regardless. The movie really has no underlying moral or lesson to take away. It's somewhat entertaining, but ultimately pointless.

[@weignerg]

1:00 by my math, it would actually be closer to about 170,000.

[@AdamThoba-h8k]

4:15 the stock footage is bad. and its over used in applications spoon fed to the mass'. come on dude

[@denniseudela411]

Those were breakthrough VFX during that time. I was impressed how they made the scale & shading of Hank's image seamlessly fit in the black & white footage of JFK, etc...

[@andyjay9346]

Well that's worth a box of chocolates.

[@fprintf]

It was very obvious and really amazing to watch this movie in theatres at the time. This was nothing short of revolutionary and while we all knew it was VFX, I really had no idea how some of it was done at the time. In the decades since what they did has become commonplace but that doesn't reduce the innovation nor the wonder of it at the time... or the obviousness of how it was done nowadays.

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@luis2033]

4:21 Who is the girl??

[@alxonpc9388]

Down bad

[@alxonpc9388]

It's called stock footage we'll never know

[@aluminumrivet2142]

4:29 Possibly the worst type of art to show when talking about creativity.

[@awesomeferret]

I was about to defend abstract art but you are right, that's pushing it a bit and does undermine things. Show a different abstract painting or something, or some abstract digital art. Why a child finger painting, the only legit face-palm of abstract art? Abstract art by it's very nature is inherently creative, so I'm not going to completely agree with you, but still... Why finger painting...

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

Thank you for regurgitating all the info from the official making-of. I bet that was a ton of hard work to research and write.

[@Leonardoeditor37]

_"Forrest Gump Actually Used a Ton of VFX"_ This statement makes no sense to me. Forrest Gump is my favorite movie since I first saw it in theater in 1994. And since that first week in theaters me and my friends knew Forrest Gump was/is a ton of brilliant and subtle visual effects.

[@awesomeferret]

That's because you saw it in 94, before it was common for CGI haters to mistake CGI scenes for practical effects. People are so ignorant about the VFX in modern movies that when there's a bad CGI shot, they think it's the only CGI shot in the movie. Top Gun Maverick is a famous example in how most of the movie was mostly CGI, yet there were articles on otherwise credible websites praising it for using no CGI (even though there's over ten minutes of digital VFX credits). The VFX doesn't surprise you because you always understood that good digital effects are ones that are not obviously digital effects. It's really sad how many people haven't realized that CGI is so good now that Hollywood is using myths to market really good CGI as practical effects (which of course, usually requires lying), because they know that it's easier to lean into the "CGI is bad" myths that it is to educate people and help them realize that the reason bad CGI stands out so much in modern movies is because the rest of the CGI in the movie (AKA the majority) is so good that it's mistaken for practical effects.