The iconic movie prop box of chocolates gobbled up by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is really a box filled with sand. Tom Hanks’ autograph is real, though.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
How much would you spend for the most iconic box of chocolates in film history? How about if that box of chocolates was really a box of sand?
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! paid $25,000 at auction for the famous prop chocolates used by Tom Hanks in the 1994 Academy Award-winning film Forrest Gump. Perhaps the most memorable scene of the film has Forrest explaining his mother’s life philosophy to a stranger on a bus-stop bench over a white chocolate box.
“My mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
This quote holds true, even for the prop. It turns out, the movie prop box is not filled with chocolates, but with sand! The reason? Filled with sand, the box weighed more than four pounds, making it easier for Hanks to keep it on his lap during filming. The Tom Hanks autograph on the box, however, is the real deal.
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Forrest Gump won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hanks was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a slow-witted but kindhearted Alabama man named Forrest Gump. The movie, based on a 1986 novel of the same name, follows Forrest’s incredible experiences in the 20th-century United States.
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