<P> Principal photography was scheduled to begin in September 1988, but did not commence until mid-October of that year . The production was given an initial budget of $14 million to produce the film, but part way through filming, the filmmakers negotiated a $3.8 million increase . The final production budget was $17.8 million . Because of the high costs, both Stone and Cruise chose to waive their salaries, opting to instead receive a percentage of the box office gross . The film was cinematographer Robert Richardson's fifth colloboration with Stone, and their first to be shot in the anamorphic format . They utilized a variety of film stocks, including 16 mm, Super 16mm and 35 mm . </P> <P> Locations in the Philippines were used to depict scenes set in Vietnam and Mexico . The filmmakers also shot scenes in Dallas, Texas, which doubled as Massapequa, Long Island, New York . For the Fourth of July parade sequences, student protests and presidential conventions, the production employed nearly 12,000 extras from the National Paralysis Foundation, and the Campfire Girls and American Legion organizations . The Dallas Convention Center was used to re-create the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida . The production also shot scenes at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, which stood in for the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York . They also filmed on soundstages at Los Colinas Studios in Irving, Texas . Principal photography concluded after 65 days of filming . </P> <P> After viewing a rough cut of the film, Universal demanded that the ending be reshot . The sequence, which depicted Kovic's appearance at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, had originally been shot in Dallas, with 600 extras . Upon viewing the filmed footage, the studio requested that Stone make the sequence "bigger and better". Stone and Cruise reshot the scene in one day in July 1989, with 6,000 extras . Filming took place at the The Forum indoor arena in Inglewood, California, with a $500,000 budget . </P> <P> The score was composed by John Williams, with Timothy Morrison, a member of the Boston Pops Orchestra, acting as trumpeter . On scoring the film, Williams stated, "I knew immediately I would want a string orchestra to sing in opposition to all the realism on the screen, and then the idea came to have a solo trumpet--not a military trumpet, but an American trumpet, to recall the happy youth of this boy ." The motion picture soundtrack album was released on December 19, 1989, by MCA Records . In addition to Williams's score, it features eight pre-existing songs that appear in the film: "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, "Born on the Bayou" by The Broken Homes, "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, "American Pie" by Don McLean, "My Girl" by The Temptations, "Soldier Boy" by The Shirelles, "Venus" by Frankie Avalon, and "Moon River" by Henry Mancini . AllMusic's Tavia Hobbart wrote that the score "literally haunts you as you watch the movie . It's just as effective here ." Stephen Holden of The New York Times stated, "Mr. Williams's themes are melodically strong enough so that one could imagine them being developed into a full - blown symphonic poem ." </P>

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