19. Not Enough People Turned Up
There wasn’t a huge turnout at the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool on the day Forrest spots Jenny at the peace rally. The large crowd of people was actually created with the help of visual effects. Over the two-day course of filming 1,500 extras were used to create the packed scene. For each successive take, the extras were moved into different quadrants away from the camera and made to look like one massive crowd of several hundred thousand with the help of computers.