I imagine having to keep it up for a period of three years would be kind of…difficult. So how old is little forrest supposed to be when Forrest gets to their apartment? Forrest Gump has been likened to Being There, starring Peter Sellers as another character who seems to wander passively through life (Credit: Photos 12/Alamy). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. This, however, I discovered to be completely untrue. The Greatest Show on Earth. And carrying a lot of weight makes it very difficult (or impossible) to run. His first stop is Santa Monica Yacht Harbor, seen as he jogs through the marked archway. As to the dates, again, something is a little off there, how does a year and a half (by the television background news) turn into over 3 years? Any amateur Oscar historian can reel off a list of the Academy's greatest misses – movies remembered, when they are at all, only as examples of how rarely the winner of best picture holds any real claim on the term. It can start with pain and fear,  but our why changes. Robert Zemeckis wasn’t the first director to perform this cinematic slight of hand – Woody Allen photo-bombed Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally in 1983’s Zelig – but nobody had ever done it quite so seamlessly, or with so much heart. Its about the message! . Yup, that’s what happens when you do what Forrest did (if you do it anonymously, without displaying any signage to tell the world you’re walking or running across the country). That’s what Kyle was saying and thats what is odd. Just like peas and carrots.”. Some clients have included: Indy Eleven, University of Notre Dame, Marriott, and Walgreens. Would Forrest have kept running if it wasn’t for all of the people who joined him? Silicon Valley Companies Are So Full Of Men, Women Had To Be Hired For The Holiday Parties, Eliminating The Penny Could Hurt The Poor. Yes, the filmmakers did pay pretty close attention to detail, but they also missed or omitted some very important details. His company DRB & associates is based in Indianapolis. Realistic? stocks to document-low levels. he ran an average of about 13 miles a day, probably doing it in about 3 hours of running each day (about 13 minutes per mile). RICK, this is absolutely amazing. As they run on a desert road with the Monument Vally behind them, Forrest suddenly stops running. What I’ve said here is just the beginning of what I could say. Oh, and Golf, swim, ski, run, ping-pong and chess. I’m really curious about this. Based on this information from the movie, the list of filming locations, and an analysis of the script, Centives was able to generate the 11 point route that Forrest follows in his journey across the United States: Point A, the place from where he begins is an arbitrary point in the middle of Alabama since the Greenbow of the film is fictional. The reason why Forrest Gump started running WAS NOT the reason why he kept running. Re-read what was written! ok, I looked all thru the replies & didn’t see any reference to Little Forrest’s age. Although the movie's depiction of Black Panthers as sloganeering windbags and the anti-war protestors of Students for a Democratic Society as woman-slapping brutes did get Forrest Gump drafted into the culture wars – Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called it "a reaffirmation that the counterculture destroys human beings and basic values," and the National Review awarded it "Best Picture Indicting the Sixties Counterculture" – its abject moral idiocy forestalls any attempt at extracting a coherent ideology. That’s not the reason Forrest Gump started running. Didn’t see that in the movie. So Forrest averaged more like 27 miles a day. Please challenge what I’ve said or ask me for more details, just for fun, because I can provide a good answer to just about every challenge or inquiry.