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The Alabama football scenes in Forrest Gump...
Posted on 5/7/09 at 7:39 pm
Posted on 5/7/09 at 7:39 pm
What stadium did they use to film the Crimson Tide football scenes? Didn't it look like Bama's real stadium? None of the movie was even filmed in Alabama.
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Posted on 5/7/09 at 7:59 pm to RGCjr01
heh
Posted on 5/7/09 at 8:02 pm to m2pro
i don't know, but the team they were playing kinda looked like LSU, except had white helmets
Posted on 5/7/09 at 8:03 pm to feedthepig20
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i don't know, but the team they were playing kinda looked like LSU, except had white helmets
Didn't Louisiana State have white helmets at that time?
Posted on 5/7/09 at 8:05 pm to RGCjr01
Tennessee was one of the teams.
Posted on 5/7/09 at 8:29 pm to superman
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Didn't Louisiana State have white helmets at that time?
don't think so
Posted on 5/7/09 at 10:45 pm to RGCjr01
Posted on 5/7/09 at 10:50 pm to DvlsAdvocat
I forgot how good they did with CGI in that film.
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Posted on 5/7/09 at 10:54 pm to DvlsAdvocat
Can you provide a LINK proving that the football scenes were CGI'ed? The link you put up didn't mention the football scenes.
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Posted on 5/7/09 at 11:11 pm to RGCjr01
they wanted to use bryant-deny but bama declined. didn't like the line in the movie about just showing up and running the football and being handed a degree. anyone else go to the lsu bama game when they shot the scenes from the dennis quade movie after the game? all the lsu fans left after the loss so it was just bama fans dressed in fifties garb left in the stands.
Posted on 5/7/09 at 11:19 pm to Alabama Slim
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anyone else go to the lsu bama game when they shot the scenes from the dennis quade movie after the game?
Everybody's All-American.
ha No, but i read about that.
Posted on 5/7/09 at 11:39 pm to RGCjr01
YES, it's Wikipedia. But it's more information that you guys have posted thus far.
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In the movie Forrest Gump, special effects were used to turn ELAC's Weingart Stadium into the University of Alabama's football stadium. Using digital FX, a small crowd which was filmed at ELAC, appears to fill the entire stadium.
Posted on 5/7/09 at 11:45 pm to Hanrendar
Your the man. Nice find.
Posted on 5/8/09 at 12:03 am to superman
Posted on 5/8/09 at 12:06 am to geauxtigahs87
I always thought it was ga. tech
Posted on 5/8/09 at 12:14 am to Alabama Slim
quote:What year did Gump graduate? The last time GT played at Bama was 1963. The Helmet Project is unclear as to whether GT wore gold or white helmets that year.
I always thought it was ga. tech
Posted on 5/8/09 at 12:21 am to Alabama Slim
Did Bama really used to paint their endzones like they have in that movie clip of Forrest Gump scoring the touchdown up there?
Posted on 5/8/09 at 1:59 am to xiv
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Did Bama really used to paint their endzones like they have in that movie clip of Forrest Gump scoring the touchdown up there?
yes
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What year did Gump graduate? The last time GT played at Bama was 1963. The Helmet Project is unclear as to whether GT wore gold or white helmets that year.
he met LBJ with the all american team, so the time frame fits.
Posted on 5/8/09 at 2:23 am to Alabama Slim
A+ Thread
Posted on 5/8/09 at 2:33 am to Alabama Slim
quote:JFK.
he met LBJ with the all american team, so the time frame fits.
Forrest's senior season was probably 1961 in the movie, then. That's the only year when GT played in Birmingham and Kennedy handed out the All-America honors (he was assassinated shortly before the 1963 ceremonies).
A big help here would be the date given on Jenny Curran's grave (I don't have the movie with me, but I know there's a shot of the grave, and you can see the years on it). Forrest and Jenny were the same age, and one can assume that Forrest was 21 during his senior year at Bama.
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