Savannah Georgia Forrest Gump Bench
But it s forrest gump s bench that the museum is best known for left behind from the film production.
Savannah georgia forrest gump bench. We were a couple blocks away at forsyth park so decided it would be cool to see the location of the forrest gump bench. No bench here though. Chippewa square is arguably the most important filming location in forrest gump.
Savannah movie tours see the filming locations from some of your favorite movies from the past century with savannah movie tours. One of which was donated to the city and moved into the savannah history museum. General james edward oglethorpe who had previously founded the colony of georgia founded savannah in 1733.
Tried to hand my 4 year old daughter a flower etc. My expectations were not high since the bench wasn t there but there were some sketchy guys talking to us and walking way too close. Forrest gump made chippewa square famous with its bench scenes where forrest waited for the bus.
Is this really the bench on which forrest gump parked his keister through all the precious interludes in his eponymous movie. It was a prop created specially for the movie. Where forrest gump sat bench site a reasonably convenient place to bring a lawn chair or a styrofoam prop bench and pretend to be tom hanks in a hollywood movie.
Stay away check out the gump bench in the savannah museum instead. It claims to have the real bench in storage and that this bench is just one of several replicas sent as hilarious gifts to the oscar nominees. This is the park where forrest hanks sits on a bench offering chocolates and regaling strangers with stories.
The savannah history museum says yes. In fact the bench is not original to the square. Forrest gump released in 1994 is perhaps the best known movie to feature the city of savannah starring tom hanks and directed by robert zemeckis the story of forrest s eventful life was the highest grossing film of that year at the north american box office and at the time the fourth highest grossing film ever not accounting for inflation after et star wars iv and jurassic park.