Rather, the cast and crew were on Fripp Island, a golf and beach resort in South Carolina, when they filmed these scenes, and the post-production crew used special effects wizardry to make the audience believe that the characters were actually in the thrust of war.
It’s pretty convincing special effects; there’s a good chance that if you polled an audience about this scene, they wouldn’t believe it was at a golf resort.
In the movie, Forrest Gump is seen fighting the war in Vietnam, but the filmmakers weren’t actually in the war-torn country when they filmed their classic movie.
There is a lot of movie magic that unfolds in Forrest Gump.