Most of the filming for Forrest Gump took place in South Carolina, with additional scenes, besides those in Savannah, filmed in North Carolina, Virginia and California. In the final scene of the movie, Forrest's wedding ring vanishes between shots. In the next shot, from inside the bus looking down at Forrest, her right hand is on the door-open lever. It's hard to imagine Forrest Gump without the scenes in Chippewa Square, where Gump dispenses wisdom about life to perfect strangers on a park … Forrest Gump Film Tour | Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website | Explore Georgia.org The shot from behind Forrest shows Dorothy's right hand on the gear shift knob. See where Forrest waited for the bus, choose a box of chocolates and more on this self-guided movie tour of Savannah. After Forrest Jr. gets on the school bus, and Forrest Sr. sits back down on the tree stump and the camera pans to the feather on the ground, the ring vanishes.

When he is admiring the Curious George Book, his wedding ring is present. “Forrest Gump” won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor for Hanks and Best Director for Robert Zemeckis, but in the two decades since it hit theaters, opinion seems to have turned against it. This shot changes several times, and each time her right hand is in those two different positions. The vicinity of Beaufort, SC, around 40 miles from Savannah, provided many of the film’s locations.