Fascinating Facts About ‘Forrest Gump’

Published on August 19, 2019 By Jason Albert

Making War

Many of the Vietnam scenes were actually filmed on a golf course in South Carolina. The Ocean Creek Golf Course is found on Fripp Island and was the location for many of the outdoor scenes needed to convey a warzone.

Paramount Pictures

While they worked to adjust much of the practical sets with props, they also relied on ground-breaking CGI to enhance some of the settings and increase the feeling that bombs could fall from the sky. We think it worked.