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Hello.
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My name's Forrest. Forrest Gump.
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Do you want a chocolate?
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I could eat about
a million and a half of these.
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My mama always said
life was like a box of chocolates.
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You never know what you're gonna get.
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Those must be comfortable shoes.
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I'll bet you could walk all day
in shoes like that and not feel a thing.
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I wish I had shoes like that.
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My feet hurt.
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Mama always said there's an awful lot
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you could tell about a person
by their shoes:
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where they're going,
where they've been.
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I've worn lots of shoes.
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I bet if I think about it real hard,
I could remember my first pair of shoes.
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Mama said they'd take me anywhere.
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She said they was my magic shoes.
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All right, Forrest,
you can open your eyes now.
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Let's take a little walk around.
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How do those feel?
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His legs are strong, Mrs. Gump,
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as strong as I've ever seen,
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but his back is as crooked
as a politician.
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But we're gonna straighten him right up,
now, aren't we, Forrest?
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Forrest!
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She said we was related to him
in some way.
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And what he did was,
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he started up this club called
the Ku Klux Klan.
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They'd all dress up in theirrobes
and their bed sheets
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and act like a bunch of ghosts
or spooks or something.
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They'd even put bed sheets
on their horses and ride around.
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And anyway, that's how I got my name,
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Forrest Gump.
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Mama said that the "Forrest" part
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was to remind me that sometimes
we all do things that,
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well, just don't make no sense.
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Okay... Get it, get it...
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Wait, is it this way? Hold on.
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All right...
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What are you all staring at?
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Haven't you ever seen a little boy
with braces on his legs before?
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Don't ever let anybody tell you
they're better than you, Forrest.
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If God intended
everybody to be the same,
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he'd have given us all braces
on our legs.
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Mama always had a way of explaining
things so I could understand them.
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We lived about a quarter mile
off Route 17,
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about a half mile from
the town of Greenbow, Alabama.
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That's in the county of Greenbow.
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Our house had been in Mama's family
since her grandpa's grandpa's grandpa
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had come across the ocean
about 1,000 years ago,
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something like that.
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Since it was just me and Mama
and we had all these empty rooms,
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Mama decided to let those rooms out,
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mostly to people passing through,
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like from, oh, Mobile,
Montgomery, places like that.
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That's how me and Mama got money.
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Mama was a real smart lady.
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Remember what I told you, Forrest.
You're no different than anybody else is.
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Did you hear what I said, Forrest?
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You're the same as everybody else.
You are no different.
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Your boy's different, Mrs. Gump.
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Now, his IQ is 75.
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Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock.
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She wanted me to have
the finest education,
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so she took me to
the Greenbow County Central School.
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I met the principal and all.
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I want to show you something,
Mrs. Gump.
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Now, this is normal.
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Forrest is right here.
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The state requires a minimum IQ of
80 to attend public school, Mrs. Gump.
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He's gonna have to go
to a special school.
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Now, he'll be just fine.
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Now, he'll be just fine.
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What does "normal" mean, anyway?
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He might be a bit on the slow side,
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but my boy Forrest is gonna get
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the same opportunities
as everyone else.
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He's not going to some special school
to learn how to re-tread tires.
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We're talking about
five little points here.
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There must be something can be done.
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We're a progressive school system.
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We don't want to see anybody
left behind.
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Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump?
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He's on vacation.
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Well, your mama sure does care
about your schooling, son.
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You don't say much, do you?
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"Finally, he had to try.
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"It looked easy, but,
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"oh, what happened.
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- "First, there..."
- Mama, what's "vacation" mean?
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- Vacation?
- Where Daddy went.
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Vacation's when you go somewhere
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and you don't ever come back.
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Anyway, I guess you could say
me and Mama was on our own.
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But we didn't mind.
Our house was never empty.
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There was always folks
coming and going.
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Supper.
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- It's supper, everyone. Forrest...
- My, my. That sure looks special.
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Sometimes we had
so many people staying with us
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that every room
was filled with travelers.
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You know, folks living out
of their suitcases
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and hat cases and sample cases.
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Forrest Gump, it's suppertime!
Forrest...
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One time, a young man
was staying with us,
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and he had him a guitar case.
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Forrest! I told you not to bother
this nice young man.
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Oh, no, that's all right, ma'am.
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I was just showing him a thing or two
on the guitar here.
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All right, but your supper's ready
if y'all want to eat.
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Yeah, that sounds good.
Thank you, ma'am.
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Say, man, show me that crazy
little walk you just did there.
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Slow it down some.
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I liked that guitar.
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It sounded good.
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I started moving around to the music,
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swinging my hips.
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This one night,
me and Mama was out shopping,
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and we walked right by
Benson's furniture and appliance store,
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and guess what?
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This is not for children's eyes.
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Some years later,
that handsome young man
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who they called "The King,"
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well, he'd sung too many songs,
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had himself a heart attack,
or something.
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Must be hard being a king.
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You know, it's funny how you remember
some things, but some things you can't.
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- You do your very best now, Forrest.
- I sure will, Mama.
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I remember the bus ride
on the first day of school very well.
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Are you coming along?
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Mama said not to be taking
rides from strangers.
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This is the bus to school.
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I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.
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- I'm Dorothy Harris.
- Well, now we ain't strangers anymore.
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This seat's taken.
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It's taken!
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You can't sit here.
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You know, it's funny what
a young man recollects,
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'cause I don't remember being born.
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I don't recall what I got
for my first Christmas,
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and I don't know when I went
on my first outdoor picnic.
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But I do remember the first time I heard
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the sweetest voice in the wide world.
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You can sit here if you want.
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I had never seen anything
so beautiful in my life.
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She was like an angel.
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Well, are you gonna sit down,
or aren't you?
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What's wrong with your legs?
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Nothing at all, thank you.
My legs are just fine and dandy.
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I just sat next to her on that bus
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and had a conversation
all the way to school.
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...my back's crooked like
a question mark.
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These are going to make me...
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And next to Mama, no one ever
talked to me or asked me questions.
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Are you stupid or something?
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Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does."
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- I'm Jenny.
- I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.
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From that day on,
we was always together.
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Jenny and me was like
peas and carrots.
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She taught me how to climb.
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Come on, Forrest, you can do it.
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I showed her how to dangle.
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"...a good little monkey and..."
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She helped me learn how to read,
and I showed her how to swing.
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Sometimes we'd just sit out
and wait for the stars.
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- Mama's gonna worry about me.
- Just stay a little longer.
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For some reason,
Jenny didn't never want to go home.
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Okay, Jenny, I'll stay.
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She was my most special friend.
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My only friend.
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Now, my mama always told me that
miracles happen every day.
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Some people don't think so, but they do.
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Hey, dummy!
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Are you retarded, or just plain stupid?
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- "Look, I'm Forrest Gimp."
- Just run away, Forrest.
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Run, Forrest! Run away! Hurry!
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- Get the bikes!
- Hurry up! Let's get him!
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- Come on!
- Look out, dummy, here we come!
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We're gonna get you!
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Run, Forrest, run! Run, Forrest!
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Come back here, you!
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Run, Forrest!
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Run!
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Now, you wouldn't believe it
if I told you,
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but I can run like the wind blows.
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From that day on,
if I was going somewhere,
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I was running!
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He's getting away! Stop him!
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That boy sure is a running fool.
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Now, remember how I told you that
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Jenny never seemed
to want to go home?
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Well, she lived in a house
that was as old as Alabama.
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Her mama had gone up to heaven
when she was five,
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and her daddy was
some kind of a farmer.
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Jenny?
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He was a very loving man.
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He was always kissing and touching
her and her sisters.
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And then this one time,
Jenny wasn't on the bus to go to school.
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Jenny, why didn't you come
to school today?
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Daddy's taking a nap.
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- Jenny!
- Come on!
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Jenny, where'd you run to?
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You'd better get back here, girl!
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Where you at?
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Jenny! Jenny! Where you at?
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Jenny!
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Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me.
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Jenny!
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Dear God, make me a bird
so I can fly far,
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far, far away from here.
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Dear God, make me a bird
so I can fly far,
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far, far away from here.
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Mama always said
that God is mysterious.
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Jenny!
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He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day.
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You'd better get back here!
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Instead,
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he had the police say Jenny didn't
have to stay in that house no more.
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She went to live with her grandma
just over on Creekmore Avenue,
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which made me happy,
'cause she was so close.
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Some nights, Jenny would sneak out
and come on over to my house,
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just 'cause she said she was scared.
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Scared of what, I don't know,
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- Hey, stupid!
- Quit it!
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- Run, Forrest, run!
- Hey,
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did you hear me, stupid?
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- Run, Forrest!
- Come on, get in the truck!
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Get in the truck! Let's move it!
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Come on, he's getting away! Move it!
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Run, Forrest! Run!
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- You better be running, stupid!
- Come on, dummy!
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- Haul ass, dummy!
- Yeah, you better get running!
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Jack rabbit!
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Yeah!
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Go! Go! Go!
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Run, Forrest!
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Now, it used to be,
I ran to get where I was going,
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I never thought it would
take me anywhere.
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- Who in the hell is that?
- That there is Forrest Gump, Coach.
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Just a local idiot.
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And can you believe it?
I got to go to college, too.
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Forrest! Forrest! Run!
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- Okay!
- Run!
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Run, you stupid son of a bitch! Run!
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You son of a bitch! Run! Go! Run!
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No! Turn! Go!
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He must be the stupidest
son of a bitch alive,
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but he sure is fast!
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Now, maybe it's just me,
but college was very confusing times.
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Federal troops enforcing a court order
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integrated the University
of Alabama today.
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Two negroes were admitted,
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but only after Governor George Wallace
had carried out his symbolic threat
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to stand in the school house door.
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Governor Wallace,
I take it from that statement, that...
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Earl, what's going on?
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- Coons are trying to get into school.
- Coons?
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When raccoons try to get
on our back porch,
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Mama just chase them off with a broom.
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Not raccoons, you idiot, niggers,
and they want to go to school with us.
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With us? They do?
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Shortly after Governor Wallace
had carried out his promise
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to block the doorway,
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President Kennedy
ordered the Secretary of Defense
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then to use military force.
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Here, by videotape,
is the encounter by General Graham,
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commander of the National Guard,
and Governor Wallace.
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...because these National Guardsmen
are here today
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as federal soldiers for Alabamans.
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They live within our borders,
they are all our brothers.
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We are winning in this fight,
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because we are awakening
the American people
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to the dangers that we have spoken
about so many times,
00:23:05.634 --> 00:23:11.932
just so evident today, the trend towards
military dictatorship in this country.
00:23:15.352 --> 00:23:17.854
And so, at day's end,
the University of Alabama
00:23:17.938 --> 00:23:20.190
in Tuscaloosa had been desegregated
00:23:20.315 --> 00:23:23.318
and students Jimmy Hood
and Vivian Malone
00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:26.488
had been signed up
for summer classes.
00:23:29.032 --> 00:23:31.868
Ma'am, you dropped your book.
Ma'am...
00:23:32.452 --> 00:23:34.371
Governor Wallace did what
he promised to do.
00:23:34.496 --> 00:23:37.916
By being on the Tuscaloosa campus,
he kept the mob from gathering...
00:23:38.041 --> 00:23:40.127
Say, wasn't that Gump?
00:23:40.210 --> 00:23:44.506
- Nah, that couldn't be.
- It sure as hell was.
00:23:49.261 --> 00:23:51.096
A few years later, that angry little man
00:23:51.179 --> 00:23:53.682
at the school house door
thought it would be a good idea
00:23:53.765 --> 00:23:55.934
and ran for president.
00:23:59.062 --> 00:24:01.690
But somebody thought that it wasn't.
00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.444
But he didn't die.
00:24:09.948 --> 00:24:11.575
My bus is here.
00:24:12.325 --> 00:24:15.412
- Is it the number nine?
- No, it's the number four.
00:24:16.413 --> 00:24:18.582
It was nice talking to you.
00:24:21.543 --> 00:24:25.589
I remember when that happened,
when Wallace got shot.
00:24:26.506 --> 00:24:27.924
I was in college.
00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:29.259
Did you go to a girls' college,
00:24:29.342 --> 00:24:31.178
or to a girls-and-boys-together college?
00:24:31.261 --> 00:24:32.262
It was co-ed.
00:24:32.387 --> 00:24:35.098
'Cause Jenny went to a college
I couldn't go to.
00:24:35.182 --> 00:24:37.517
It was a college just for girls.
00:24:37.601 --> 00:24:40.687
But I'd go and visit her
every chance I got.
00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:04.461
- Forrest, stop it! Stop it!
- Jesus!
00:25:04.503 --> 00:25:05.670
What are you doing?
00:25:05.754 --> 00:25:07.506
- He was hurting you.
- What the hell is going on here?
00:25:07.506 --> 00:25:11.176
- No, he's not! Get over there!
- Who is that? Who is that?
00:25:11.301 --> 00:25:12.427
- Billy, I'm sorry.
- What the hell?
00:25:12.469 --> 00:25:15.013
- Just get away from me!
- Don't...
00:25:15.138 --> 00:25:18.308
- Don't go! Billy, wait a second!
- Get away from me.
00:25:18.433 --> 00:25:20.560
He doesn't know any better!
00:25:22.229 --> 00:25:24.898
Forrest, why did you do that?
00:25:27.859 --> 00:25:30.820
I brought you some chocolate.
00:25:31.196 --> 00:25:32.906
I'm sorry.
00:25:35.075 --> 00:25:38.370
- I'll go back to my college now.
- Forrest...
00:25:42.082 --> 00:25:43.667
Look at you.
00:25:45.752 --> 00:25:47.837
Come on. Come on.
00:25:50.215 --> 00:25:53.552
Run! Run! Run!
00:25:53.593 --> 00:25:58.098
- Run! Run! Run!
- Run! Run! Run!
00:26:06.064 --> 00:26:10.235
College ran by real fast,
'cause I played so much football.
00:26:10.360 --> 00:26:13.572
They even put me on a thing
called the All-America Team,
00:26:13.697 --> 00:26:17.367
where you get to meet
the President of the United States.
00:26:17.450 --> 00:26:19.077
President Kennedy met
with the Collegiate
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:22.706
All-American Football Team
at the Oval Office today.
00:26:23.290 --> 00:26:25.292
Now, the really good thing
about meeting
00:26:25.375 --> 00:26:29.170
the President of the United States
is the food.
00:26:29.254 --> 00:26:31.965
They put you in this little room
with just about anything
00:26:32.090 --> 00:26:34.551
you'd want to eat or drink.
00:26:35.093 --> 00:26:38.513
And since, number one,
I wasn't hungry, but thirsty,
00:26:38.597 --> 00:26:41.266
and number two, they was free,
00:26:41.391 --> 00:26:44.436
I must have drank me about
15 Dr. Peppers.
00:26:47.397 --> 00:26:49.691
Congratulations.
How does it feel to be an All-American?
00:26:49.733 --> 00:26:51.443
It's an honor, sir.
00:26:51.568 --> 00:26:53.695
Congratulations.
How does it feel to be an All-American?
00:26:53.737 --> 00:26:55.322
Very good, sir.
00:26:56.197 --> 00:26:58.617
Congratulations.
How does it feel to be an All-American?
00:26:58.658 --> 00:27:00.452
Very good, sir.
00:27:00.493 --> 00:27:04.164
- Congratulations. How do you feel?
- I gotta pee.
00:27:04.831 --> 00:27:07.125
I believe he said he had to "go pee."
00:27:22.265 --> 00:27:25.143
Sometime later,
for no particular reason,
00:27:25.268 --> 00:27:27.646
somebody shot that
nice young President,
00:27:27.771 --> 00:27:30.148
when he was riding in his car.
00:27:30.774 --> 00:27:34.903
And a few years after that,
somebody shot his little brother, too,
00:27:34.986 --> 00:27:37.113
only he was in a hotel kitchen.
00:27:38.573 --> 00:27:40.992
It must be hard being brothers.
00:27:41.993 --> 00:27:43.203
I wouldn't know.
00:27:43.787 --> 00:27:45.163
Forrest Gump.
00:27:45.288 --> 00:27:46.539
Now can you believe it?
00:27:46.623 --> 00:27:50.752
After only five years of playing football,
I got a college degree.
00:27:50.835 --> 00:27:52.837
Congratulations, son.
00:27:53.630 --> 00:27:55.548
Mama was so proud.
00:27:56.883 --> 00:28:00.720
Forrest, I'm so proud of you.
Here, I'll hold this for you.
00:28:00.845 --> 00:28:02.972
Congratulations, son.
00:28:03.098 --> 00:28:06.059
Have you given any thought
to your future?
00:28:07.894 --> 00:28:09.229
Thought?
00:28:10.689 --> 00:28:12.524
Hello, I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.
00:28:12.649 --> 00:28:15.610
Nobody gives a hunk of shit
who you are, fuzzball!
00:28:15.735 --> 00:28:18.363
You're not even a low-life,
scum-sucking maggot!
00:28:18.488 --> 00:28:22.409
Get your faggotty ass on the bus.
You're in the Army now!
00:28:22.742 --> 00:28:24.536
This seat's taken.
00:28:26.413 --> 00:28:27.789
Taken.
00:28:30.625 --> 00:28:33.420
At first, it seemed like I made a mistake,
00:28:33.503 --> 00:28:35.547
seeing how it was only
my induction day
00:28:35.672 --> 00:28:38.383
and I was already getting yelled at.
00:28:41.469 --> 00:28:43.722
You can sit down if you want to.
00:28:43.847 --> 00:28:47.684
I didn't know who I might meet,
or what they might ask.
00:28:47.809 --> 00:28:50.603
You ever been on a real shrimp boat?
00:28:51.104 --> 00:28:54.733
No, but I been on a real big boat.
00:28:55.525 --> 00:28:58.319
I'm talking about
a shrimp-catching boat.
00:28:58.403 --> 00:29:00.905
I've been working
on shrimp boats all my life.
00:29:01.030 --> 00:29:03.658
I started out on my uncle's boat,
that's my mama's brother,
00:29:03.783 --> 00:29:05.869
when I was about maybe nine.
00:29:05.952 --> 00:29:10.081
I was just looking into buying a boat
of my own and got drafted.
00:29:10.915 --> 00:29:15.795
My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue.
People call me Bubba.
00:29:16.463 --> 00:29:20.091
Just like one of them old redneck boys.
Can you believe that?
00:29:20.216 --> 00:29:23.887
My name's Forrest Gump.
People call me Forrest Gump.
00:29:24.804 --> 00:29:27.265
So, Bubba was from
Bayou La Batre, Alabama,
00:29:27.348 --> 00:29:29.267
and his mama cooked shrimp,
00:29:31.478 --> 00:29:34.355
and her mama before her
cooked shrimp,
00:29:34.481 --> 00:29:37.358
and her mama before her mama
cooked shrimp, too.
00:29:37.442 --> 00:29:38.651
Bubba's family knew everything
00:29:38.735 --> 00:29:41.362
there was to know
about the shrimping business.
00:29:41.446 --> 00:29:44.491
I know everything there is to know
about the shrimping business.
00:29:44.574 --> 00:29:47.577
Matter of fact, I'm going into
the shrimping business for myself
00:29:47.702 --> 00:29:50.038
after I get out the Army.
00:29:52.707 --> 00:29:53.750
Okay.
00:29:53.958 --> 00:29:58.046
Gump! What's your sole purpose
in this Army?
00:29:58.129 --> 00:30:00.673
To do whatever you tell me,
Drill Sergeant!
00:30:00.757 --> 00:30:04.135
God damn it, Gump!
You're a goddamn genius!
00:30:04.302 --> 00:30:06.596
That's the most outstanding answer
I've ever heard.
00:30:06.721 --> 00:30:09.349
You must have a goddamn IQ of 160!
00:30:09.474 --> 00:30:12.477
You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump!
00:30:13.478 --> 00:30:15.313
Listen up, people!
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:19.651
Now, for some reason, I fit in the Army
like one of them round pegs.
00:30:19.734 --> 00:30:20.985
It's not really hard.
00:30:21.069 --> 00:30:24.656
You just make your bed real neat
and remember to stand up straight,
00:30:24.823 --> 00:30:28.785
and always answer every question
with, "Yes, Drill Sergeant!"
00:30:28.827 --> 00:30:30.328
Is that clear?
00:30:30.411 --> 00:30:32.497
- Yes, Drill Sergeant!
- Yes, Drill Sergeant!
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:36.334
What you do is, you just drag
your nets along the bottom.
00:30:36.417 --> 00:30:40.171
On a good day, you can catch over
100 pounds of shrimp.
00:30:40.255 --> 00:30:43.550
If everything goes all right,
two men shrimping 10 hours,
00:30:43.675 --> 00:30:46.344
less what you spend on gas, you can...
00:30:46.427 --> 00:30:49.430
- Done, Drill Sergeant!
- Gump!
00:30:51.808 --> 00:30:54.561
Why did you put that weapon
together so quickly, Gump?
00:30:54.644 --> 00:30:56.312
You told me to, Drill Sergeant.
00:30:56.437 --> 00:30:59.858
Jesus H. Christ,
this is a new company record.
00:30:59.983 --> 00:31:02.443
If it wouldn't be a waste
of such a damn fine enlisted man,
00:31:02.527 --> 00:31:04.821
I'd recommend you for OCS,
Private Gump.
00:31:04.946 --> 00:31:06.781
You are gonna be
a general some day, Gump.
00:31:06.865 --> 00:31:09.951
Now, disassemble your weapon
and continue!
00:31:12.036 --> 00:31:15.707
Anyway, like I was saying,
shrimp is the fruit of the sea.
00:31:15.832 --> 00:31:20.545
You can barbecue it,
boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it.
00:31:20.670 --> 00:31:23.673
There's shrimp kebabs, shrimp Creole...
00:31:23.965 --> 00:31:28.803
...shrimp gumbo, pan fried,
deep fried, stir fried.
00:31:29.137 --> 00:31:32.682
There's pineapple shrimp,
lemon shrimp,
00:31:32.724 --> 00:31:35.059
coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp...
00:31:35.393 --> 00:31:41.399
...shrimp soup, shrimp stew,
shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes,
00:31:41.482 --> 00:31:44.527
shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich...
00:31:47.113 --> 00:31:49.532
That's... That's about it.
00:31:53.244 --> 00:31:56.205
Night time in the Army is a lonely time.
00:31:57.081 --> 00:32:00.710
We'd lay there in our bunks
and I'd miss my mama.
00:32:01.294 --> 00:32:03.796
And I'd miss Jenny.
00:32:06.257 --> 00:32:08.176
You can't keep doing this, Forrest.
00:32:08.259 --> 00:32:10.345
You can't keep trying
to rescue me all the time.
00:32:10.428 --> 00:32:14.515
- They was trying to grab you.
- A lot of people try to grab me.
00:32:15.433 --> 00:32:18.561
Just... You can't keep
doing this all the time.
00:32:19.062 --> 00:32:22.231
I can't help it. I love you.
00:32:23.191 --> 00:32:26.653
Forrest, you don't know what love is.
00:32:33.952 --> 00:32:36.955
You remember that time
we prayed, Forrest?
00:32:37.872 --> 00:32:42.251
We prayed for God to turn me
into a bird so I could fly far, far away?
00:32:44.212 --> 00:32:45.588
Yes, I do.
00:32:49.592 --> 00:32:51.552
You think I could fly off this bridge?
00:32:54.639 --> 00:32:56.808
What do you mean, Jenny?
00:33:00.687 --> 00:33:02.188
Nothing.
00:33:05.191 --> 00:33:07.193
I gotta get out of here.
00:33:09.362 --> 00:33:10.488
Wait, Jenny...
00:33:10.530 --> 00:33:15.201
Forrest, you stay away from me, okay?
You just stay away from me, please.
00:33:15.326 --> 00:33:16.577
Can I have a ride?
00:33:16.703 --> 00:33:18.204
- Where you going?
- I don't care.
00:33:18.329 --> 00:33:19.706
Get in the truck.
00:33:19.747 --> 00:33:21.582
So, bye-bye, Jenny.
00:33:24.127 --> 00:33:26.421
They sending me to Vietnam.
00:33:29.215 --> 00:33:31.592
It's this whole other country.
00:33:34.137 --> 00:33:36.097
Just hang on a minute.
00:33:37.557 --> 00:33:40.560
Listen, you promise me
something, okay?
00:33:40.685 --> 00:33:43.896
Just, if you're ever in trouble,
don't try to be brave. You just run, okay?
00:33:44.063 --> 00:33:45.606
Just run away.
00:33:46.858 --> 00:33:48.192
Okay.
00:33:53.072 --> 00:33:54.407
Jenny.
00:33:56.284 --> 00:33:58.578
I'll write you all the time.
00:34:07.712 --> 00:34:10.715
And just like that, she was gone.
00:35:00.139 --> 00:35:04.310
Now, they told us that Vietnam
was gonna be very different
00:35:04.393 --> 00:35:07.271
from the United States of America.
00:35:07.355 --> 00:35:12.318
And except for all the beer cans
and the barbecue, it was.
00:35:22.411 --> 00:35:25.540
Hey, I bet there's shrimp
all in these waters.
00:35:25.581 --> 00:35:28.751
They tell me these Vietnams
is good shrimpers.
00:35:28.876 --> 00:35:32.380
You know, after we win this war,
and we take over everything,
00:35:32.505 --> 00:35:33.714
we can get American shrimpers
00:35:33.756 --> 00:35:35.550
to come out here
and shrimp these waters.
00:35:35.591 --> 00:35:37.176
We'll just shrimp all the time, man.
00:35:37.260 --> 00:35:40.429
So much shrimp, why,
you wouldn't believe it.
00:35:41.055 --> 00:35:42.932
You must be my FNGs.
00:35:43.057 --> 00:35:44.267
- Morning, sir!
- Morning, sir!
00:35:44.350 --> 00:35:46.978
Get your hands down! Do not salute me.
00:35:47.061 --> 00:35:49.188
There's goddamn snipers
all around this area
00:35:49.272 --> 00:35:52.108
who would love to grease an officer.
00:35:52.191 --> 00:35:55.695
I'm Lieutenant Dan Taylor.
Welcome to Fourth Platoon.
00:35:56.571 --> 00:35:58.990
What's wrong with your lip?
00:35:59.073 --> 00:36:01.450
I was born with big gums, sir.
00:36:01.534 --> 00:36:06.455
Yeah, well, you better tuck that in.
Gonna get that caught on a trip wire.
00:36:07.623 --> 00:36:09.000
Where you boys from in the world?
00:36:09.083 --> 00:36:11.419
- Alabama, sir!
- Alabama, sir!
00:36:12.170 --> 00:36:13.671
You twins?
00:36:15.631 --> 00:36:18.092
No, we are not relations, sir.
00:36:20.303 --> 00:36:23.264
Look, it's pretty basic here.
00:36:24.056 --> 00:36:26.475
If you stick with me
and learn from the guys
00:36:26.601 --> 00:36:29.270
who've been in country a while,
you'll be all right.
00:36:29.312 --> 00:36:31.272
There is one item of GI gear
00:36:31.314 --> 00:36:35.484
that can be the difference between
a live grunt and a dead grunt.
00:36:35.818 --> 00:36:38.988
Socks. Cushion sole, OD green.
00:36:39.113 --> 00:36:40.406
Try and keep your feet dry.
00:36:40.489 --> 00:36:41.991
When we're out humping,
I want you boys to remember
00:36:42.033 --> 00:36:44.452
to change your socks
whenever we stop.
00:36:44.577 --> 00:36:47.496
The Mekong will eat a grunt's feet
right off his legs.
00:36:47.538 --> 00:36:49.790
Sergeant Sims, God damn it,
00:36:49.957 --> 00:36:51.417
where is that sling rope
I told you to order?
00:36:51.417 --> 00:36:53.336
I put in the requisitions at Battalion.
00:36:53.419 --> 00:36:55.463
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well,
you call those sons of bitches again...
00:36:55.504 --> 00:37:00.426
Lieutenant Dan sure knew his stuff.
I felt real lucky he was my lieutenant.
00:37:01.177 --> 00:37:04.639
He was from a long,
great military tradition.
00:37:04.847 --> 00:37:07.934
Somebody in his family
had fought and died
00:37:08.976 --> 00:37:13.189
in every single American war.
00:37:14.148 --> 00:37:16.150
- God damn it, kick some ass!
- I'm on it, Lieutenant.
00:37:16.192 --> 00:37:17.318
Get on it!
00:37:17.443 --> 00:37:20.780
I guess you could say he had
a lot to live up to.
00:37:22.406 --> 00:37:27.245
So, you boys are from Arkansas, huh?
Well, I've been through there.
00:37:27.328 --> 00:37:29.497
Little Rock's a fine town.
00:37:30.164 --> 00:37:33.793
Now, go shake down your gear,
see the platoon sergeant,
00:37:33.876 --> 00:37:36.337
draw what you need for the field.
00:37:36.420 --> 00:37:40.341
If you boys are hungry,
we got steaks burning right over here.
00:37:40.466 --> 00:37:43.344
Two standing orders in this platoon:
00:37:43.427 --> 00:37:46.097
one, take good care of your feet,
00:37:46.180 --> 00:37:51.269
two, try not to do anything stupid,
like getting yourself killed.
00:37:57.608 --> 00:37:59.694
I sure hope I don't let him down.
00:38:11.497 --> 00:38:16.419
I got to see a lot of the countryside.
We would take these real long walks.
00:38:24.885 --> 00:38:28.889
And we were always looking
for this guy named Charlie.
00:38:36.731 --> 00:38:39.025
- Hold it up!
- Hold up, boys!
00:38:41.861 --> 00:38:44.196
It wasn't always fun.
00:38:44.238 --> 00:38:48.576
Lieutenant Dan was always getting
these funny feelings about a rock,
00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:53.748
or a trail, or the road,
so he'd tell us to get down, shut up...
00:38:53.831 --> 00:38:55.791
Get down! Shut up!
00:38:56.751 --> 00:38:58.252
...so we did.
00:39:15.895 --> 00:39:18.064
Now, I don't know much about anything,
00:39:18.147 --> 00:39:21.984
but I think some of America's
best young men served in this war.
00:39:22.109 --> 00:39:24.779
There was Dallas, from Phoenix,
00:39:26.489 --> 00:39:29.283
Cleveland, he was from Detroit.
00:39:29.408 --> 00:39:31.786
Hey, Tex. Hey, Tex.
00:39:31.911 --> 00:39:34.080
Man, what the hell's going on?
00:39:34.163 --> 00:39:38.417
And Tex was... Well, I don't remember
where Tex come from.
00:39:38.459 --> 00:39:40.044
Nothing.
00:39:44.173 --> 00:39:46.634
Fourth Platoon, on your feet.
00:39:46.759 --> 00:39:50.471
Still got 10 klicks to go to that river.
Move out.
00:39:50.554 --> 00:39:52.306
Come on, move out.
00:39:54.392 --> 00:39:56.811
Step it up. Look alive out there.
00:39:56.894 --> 00:40:01.232
The good thing about Vietnam
is there was always some place to go.
00:40:01.315 --> 00:40:02.900
Fire in the hole!
00:40:06.404 --> 00:40:08.614
Gump, check out that hole.
00:40:08.697 --> 00:40:11.700
And there was always something to do.
00:40:11.784 --> 00:40:14.954
- Mount them up.
- Spread out! Cover his back.
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:25.631
One day, it started raining,
and it didn't quit for four months.
00:40:26.632 --> 00:40:29.510
We'd been through
every kind of rain there is:
00:40:29.635 --> 00:40:32.179
little bitty stinging rain,
00:40:32.888 --> 00:40:35.558
and big old fat rain,
00:40:36.016 --> 00:40:38.727
rain that flew in sideways.
00:40:38.811 --> 00:40:42.773
And sometimes, rain even seemed
to come straight up from underneath.
00:40:44.525 --> 00:40:46.902
Shoot, it even rained at night.
00:40:47.987 --> 00:40:50.448
- Hey, Forrest.
- Hey, Bubba.
00:40:50.531 --> 00:40:53.868
I'm gonna lean up against you.
You just lean right back against me.
00:40:53.951 --> 00:40:57.788
This way, we don't have to sleep
with our heads in the mud.
00:40:58.706 --> 00:41:02.376
You know why we a good partnership,
Forrest?
00:41:02.501 --> 00:41:04.962
'Cause we be watching out
for one another,
00:41:05.087 --> 00:41:06.964
like brothers and stuff.
00:41:08.924 --> 00:41:12.595
Hey, Forrest, there's something
I've been thinking about.
00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:15.598
I got a very important question
to ask you.
00:41:17.224 --> 00:41:21.187
How would you like to go
into the shrimping business with me?
00:41:22.396 --> 00:41:23.981
Okay.
00:41:24.064 --> 00:41:27.526
Man, I tell you what,
I got it all figured out, too.
00:41:27.610 --> 00:41:30.404
So many pounds of shrimp
to pay off the boat,
00:41:30.529 --> 00:41:33.824
so many pounds for gas,
we can just live right on the boat.
00:41:33.908 --> 00:41:36.202
We ain't got to pay no rent.
00:41:36.285 --> 00:41:38.370
I'll be the captain,
we can just work it together,
00:41:38.454 --> 00:41:42.708
split everything right down the middle.
Man, I'm telling you, 50-50.
00:41:42.791 --> 00:41:46.378
And, hey, Forrest,
all the shrimp you can eat.
00:41:47.922 --> 00:41:49.590
That's a fine idea.
00:41:50.716 --> 00:41:52.801
Bubba did have a fine idea.
00:41:56.597 --> 00:41:59.725
I even wrote Jenny
and told her all about it.
00:42:00.518 --> 00:42:03.938
I sent her letters,
not every day, but almost.
00:42:03.979 --> 00:42:08.984
I told her what I was doing
and asked her what she was doing,
00:42:09.109 --> 00:42:11.820
and told her
how I thought about her always,
00:42:13.155 --> 00:42:16.116
and how I was looking forward
to getting a letter from her
00:42:16.242 --> 00:42:18.702
just as soon as she had the time.
00:42:20.621 --> 00:42:22.998
I'd always let her know that I was okay.
00:42:24.291 --> 00:42:29.463
Then, I'd sign each letter,
"Love, Forrest Gump."
00:42:44.311 --> 00:42:48.065
This one day, we was out walking,
like always,
00:42:48.148 --> 00:42:51.110
and then, just like that,
00:42:52.027 --> 00:42:55.322
somebody turned off the rain
and the sun come out.
00:42:58.367 --> 00:43:00.160
Ambush!
00:43:00.661 --> 00:43:02.246
Take cover!
00:43:05.874 --> 00:43:07.042
Get down!
00:43:07.167 --> 00:43:08.627
Get the sixty!
00:43:11.797 --> 00:43:13.841
Get that pig up here, God damn it!
00:43:13.966 --> 00:43:16.051
Forrest, you okay?
00:43:19.305 --> 00:43:21.890
Strongarm! Strongarm!
Be advised, Strongarm!
00:43:22.474 --> 00:43:24.852
Medic, we got a man down!
00:43:24.977 --> 00:43:27.896
Strongarm, this is Leg Lima 6, over!
00:43:28.522 --> 00:43:31.859
Roger, Strongarm, be advised
we have incoming from the tree line
00:43:31.984 --> 00:43:35.487
at points blue plus two.
AKs and rockets...
00:43:36.155 --> 00:43:37.948
Misfire! Misfire!
00:43:40.367 --> 00:43:42.328
God damn it! Mac!
00:43:43.287 --> 00:43:46.707
Get that thing...
Fuck it, get it in the tree line!
00:43:47.666 --> 00:43:48.834
Jesus!
00:43:48.959 --> 00:43:51.170
My unit is down hard and hurting!
00:43:51.295 --> 00:43:54.840
Six are pulling back to Blue Line,
Leg Lima 6 out.
00:43:55.633 --> 00:43:57.593
Pull back! Pull back!
00:43:57.676 --> 00:43:59.803
Run! Run, Forrest!
00:43:59.887 --> 00:44:02.348
- Pull back!
- Forrest, Forrest!
00:44:02.473 --> 00:44:05.059
Run, man! Run!
00:44:05.100 --> 00:44:06.894
Pull back! Run!
00:44:08.729 --> 00:44:10.939
Run, God damn it, run!
00:44:32.127 --> 00:44:36.674
Medic! Can I get a medic?
00:44:37.049 --> 00:44:40.386
I ran and ran, just like Jenny told me to.
00:44:43.764 --> 00:44:47.976
I ran so far and so fast
that pretty soon I was all by myself,
00:44:48.060 --> 00:44:50.020
which was a bad thing.
00:44:50.604 --> 00:44:52.106
Bubba!
00:44:54.233 --> 00:44:58.028
Bubba was my best good friend.
I had to make sure that he was okay.
00:45:01.949 --> 00:45:03.992
Any friendlies out there?
00:45:04.952 --> 00:45:07.121
Yeah, I've got three over here.
00:45:07.746 --> 00:45:09.623
Where the hell are you?
00:45:10.249 --> 00:45:11.583
Bubba?
00:45:12.626 --> 00:45:15.337
And on my way back to find Bubba,
00:45:15.462 --> 00:45:18.298
well, there was this boy
laying on the ground.
00:45:18.340 --> 00:45:19.591
Tex!
00:45:21.635 --> 00:45:22.636
Okay.
00:45:22.761 --> 00:45:26.682
I couldn't just let him lay there
all alone, scared the way he was,
00:45:26.807 --> 00:45:30.686
so I grabbed him up
and run him out of there.
00:45:45.743 --> 00:45:48.162
And every time I went back
looking for Bubba,
00:45:48.287 --> 00:45:51.790
somebody else was saying,
"Help me, Forrest. Help me."
00:45:59.506 --> 00:46:01.341
Can't hear... Can't hear...
00:46:03.844 --> 00:46:05.137
No sweat, man. Just lay back.
00:46:05.220 --> 00:46:07.681
You'll be okay. You'll be okay.
00:46:09.725 --> 00:46:12.770
I started to get scared
that I might never find Bubba.
00:46:12.853 --> 00:46:14.104
...over.
00:46:14.188 --> 00:46:17.357
Roger, Strongarm,
I know my position is danger close.
00:46:17.483 --> 00:46:19.318
We got Charlie all over this area.
00:46:19.401 --> 00:46:21.695
I gotta have those fast movers
in here now. Over.
00:46:21.820 --> 00:46:25.199
- Six, Strongarm, we want...
- Lieutenant Dan, Coleman's dead!
00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:26.492
I know he's dead!
00:46:26.617 --> 00:46:29.411
My whole goddamn platoon
is wiped out!
00:46:29.536 --> 00:46:30.954
- Leg Lima 6, Leg Lima 6.
- God damn it!
00:46:30.996 --> 00:46:33.707
- Copy this transmission. Over.
- What are you doing?
00:46:33.791 --> 00:46:37.085
Just leave me here! Get away.
Just leave me here! Get out!
00:46:37.211 --> 00:46:39.546
Leg Lima 6, Strongarm.
How copy this? Over.
00:46:39.630 --> 00:46:42.216
God, I said leave me here, God damn it!
00:46:42.341 --> 00:46:45.511
Leg Lima 6, Leg Lima 6,
this is Strongarm, be advised
00:46:45.636 --> 00:46:47.554
your fast movers
are inbound at this time, over.
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.974
Then, it felt like something
just jumped up and bit me.
00:46:51.850 --> 00:46:53.519
Something bit me!
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.528
You chink son of a bitch!
00:47:05.030 --> 00:47:07.032
I can't leave the platoon.
00:47:07.157 --> 00:47:12.079
I told you to leave me there, Gump.
Forget about me. Get yourself out!
00:47:12.204 --> 00:47:14.331
Did you hear what I said?
00:47:15.040 --> 00:47:17.000
God damn it, put me down!
00:47:17.751 --> 00:47:19.753
Get your ass out of here!
00:47:22.923 --> 00:47:25.551
I didn't ask you to pull me out of there,
God damn you!
00:47:25.634 --> 00:47:27.094
Where the hell
do you think you're going?
00:47:27.094 --> 00:47:28.178
To get Bubba.
00:47:28.262 --> 00:47:32.099
I got an air strike inbound right now.
They're gonna nape the whole area.
00:47:32.266 --> 00:47:34.601
Gump, you stay here, God damn it!
That's an order!
00:47:34.768 --> 00:47:37.187
I gotta find Bubba!
00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:54.621
Forrest.
00:48:02.462 --> 00:48:05.132
- Bubba.
- I'm okay, Forrest.
00:48:05.924 --> 00:48:07.593
I'm okay.
00:48:15.434 --> 00:48:17.269
Oh, Bubba, no...
00:48:17.394 --> 00:48:19.605
Nah, I'm gonna be all right.
00:48:27.821 --> 00:48:30.324
Come on. Come on. Come on.
00:48:35.329 --> 00:48:36.830
I'm okay, Forrest.
00:48:38.165 --> 00:48:41.001
I'm okay, man. I'm fine.
00:49:18.163 --> 00:49:21.291
Helo's inbound.
Top smoke, get it out there!
00:49:22.334 --> 00:49:26.838
If I'd a known this was gonna be the
last time me and Bubba was gonna talk,
00:49:26.964 --> 00:49:29.257
I'd of thought of something better to say.
00:49:29.341 --> 00:49:30.842
Hey, Bubba.
00:49:31.969 --> 00:49:33.345
Hey, Forrest.
00:49:35.597 --> 00:49:38.809
Forrest, why'd this happen?
00:49:40.143 --> 00:49:41.895
You got shot.
00:49:43.647 --> 00:49:47.818
Then Bubba said something
I won't ever forget.
00:49:48.610 --> 00:49:50.237
I wanna go home.
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:54.324
Bubba was my best good friend.
00:49:55.242 --> 00:49:59.830
And even I know that ain't something
you can find just around the corner.
00:49:59.913 --> 00:50:03.250
Bubba was gonna be
a shrimping boat captain,
00:50:03.291 --> 00:50:07.254
but instead he died right there
by that river in Vietnam.
00:50:12.926 --> 00:50:15.178
That's all I have to say about that.
00:50:17.556 --> 00:50:19.725
It was a bullet, wasn't it?
00:50:22.060 --> 00:50:24.730
- A bullet?
- That jumped up and bit you.
00:50:27.107 --> 00:50:29.192
Oh, yes, sir.
00:50:29.276 --> 00:50:32.404
Bit me directly in the buttocks.
00:50:32.529 --> 00:50:37.784
They said it was a million-dollar wound,
but the Army must keep that money,
00:50:37.951 --> 00:50:41.621
'cause I still ain't seen a nickel
of that million dollars.
00:50:42.456 --> 00:50:45.959
The only good thing
about being wounded in the buttocks
00:50:46.126 --> 00:50:47.794
is the ice cream.
00:50:47.961 --> 00:50:50.547
They gave me all the ice cream
I could eat.
00:50:50.672 --> 00:50:51.965
And guess what?
00:50:52.049 --> 00:50:55.135
A good friend of mine
was in the bed right next door.
00:50:57.387 --> 00:51:00.474
Lieutenant Dan,
I got you some ice cream.
00:51:03.060 --> 00:51:05.187
Lieutenant Dan, ice cream.
00:51:16.823 --> 00:51:19.117
It's time for your bath, Lieutenant.
00:51:27.626 --> 00:51:28.960
Harper!
00:51:32.172 --> 00:51:34.633
Cooper, Larson,
00:51:36.843 --> 00:51:38.178
Webster,
00:51:39.596 --> 00:51:43.100
- Gump. Gump.
- I'm Forrest Gump.
00:51:46.645 --> 00:51:49.856
Kyle, Nichols,
00:51:52.025 --> 00:51:58.031
McMill, Johnson, Tyler,
00:51:59.366 --> 00:52:00.700
Holiday...
00:52:07.707 --> 00:52:09.918
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
00:52:13.255 --> 00:52:15.757
Gump, how can you watch
that stupid shit?
00:52:15.882 --> 00:52:17.509
- From the DMZ to the Delta...
- Turn it off!
00:52:17.551 --> 00:52:20.762
...you are tuned to the
American Forces Vietnam Network.
00:52:20.887 --> 00:52:23.140
This is Channel 6, Saigon.
00:52:25.892 --> 00:52:27.519
Good catch, Gump.
00:52:29.479 --> 00:52:31.648
You know how to play this?
00:52:32.941 --> 00:52:35.026
Come on, let me show you. Here.
00:52:37.112 --> 00:52:39.447
Now, the secret to this game is,
00:52:39.531 --> 00:52:45.370
no matter what happens,
never ever take your eye off the ball.
00:52:48.957 --> 00:52:50.292
All right.
00:52:53.628 --> 00:52:57.215
For some reason,
Ping-Pong came very natural to me.
00:52:57.549 --> 00:53:00.427
See? Any idiot can play.
00:53:00.969 --> 00:53:03.930
So, I started playing it all the time.
00:53:05.098 --> 00:53:06.433
I played Ping-Pong
00:53:06.474 --> 00:53:09.769
even when I didn't have anyone
to play Ping-Pong with.
00:53:17.819 --> 00:53:22.490
The hospital's people said
it made me look like a duck in water,
00:53:22.616 --> 00:53:24.451
whatever that means.
00:53:24.951 --> 00:53:28.163
Even Lieutenant Dan would come
and watch me play.
00:53:33.585 --> 00:53:37.464
I played Ping-Pong so much,
I even played it in my sleep.
00:53:45.263 --> 00:53:50.352
Now, you listen to me.
We all have a destiny.
00:53:50.435 --> 00:53:53.480
Nothing just happens,
it's all part of a plan.
00:53:53.605 --> 00:53:56.274
I should have died out there
with my men,
00:53:56.399 --> 00:54:00.362
but now I'm nothing
but a goddamn cripple,
00:54:00.445 --> 00:54:04.157
a legless freak! Look! Look! Look at me!
00:54:04.950 --> 00:54:05.992
Do you see that?
00:54:06.117 --> 00:54:09.871
Do you know what it's like
not to be able to use your legs?
00:54:13.250 --> 00:54:14.834
Yes, sir, I do.
00:54:18.505 --> 00:54:20.548
Did you hear what I said?
00:54:21.466 --> 00:54:23.176
You cheated me.
00:54:23.301 --> 00:54:24.469
I had a destiny.
00:54:24.511 --> 00:54:28.056
I was supposed to die in the field,
with honor!
00:54:28.723 --> 00:54:32.811
That was my destiny,
and you cheated me out of it!
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.031
Do you understand
what I'm saying, Gump?
00:54:47.200 --> 00:54:50.537
This wasn't supposed to happen,
not to me.
00:54:53.206 --> 00:54:54.833
I had a destiny.
00:54:56.793 --> 00:55:01.172
I was Lieutenant Dan Taylor.
00:55:07.554 --> 00:55:09.764
You're still Lieutenant Dan.
00:55:33.038 --> 00:55:34.497
Look at me.
00:55:35.874 --> 00:55:37.792
What am I gonna do now?
00:55:41.463 --> 00:55:43.423
What am I gonna do now?
00:55:53.808 --> 00:55:55.268
PFC Gump?
00:55:56.811 --> 00:55:58.229
Yes, sir!
00:55:58.897 --> 00:56:00.398
As you were.
00:56:00.899 --> 00:56:04.944
Son, you've been awarded
the Medal of Honor.
00:56:05.987 --> 00:56:09.616
Guess what, Lieutenant Dan,
they want to give me a...
00:56:16.289 --> 00:56:20.001
Ma'am, what'd they do
with Lieutenant Dan?
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:22.754
They sent him home.
00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:31.471
Two weeks later, I left Vietnam.
00:56:32.514 --> 00:56:36.101
The ceremony was kicked off
with a candid speech by the President
00:56:36.142 --> 00:56:39.521
regarding the need for further escalation
of the war in Vietnam.
00:56:39.646 --> 00:56:41.731
President Johnson awarded
four Medals of Honor
00:56:41.815 --> 00:56:43.483
to men
from each of the Armed Services.
00:56:43.608 --> 00:56:46.486
America owes you
a debt of gratitude, son.
00:56:48.488 --> 00:56:52.200
I understand you were wounded.
Where were you hit?
00:56:52.325 --> 00:56:55.453
- In the buttocks, sir.
- That must be a sight.
00:56:56.204 --> 00:56:58.498
I'd kind of like to see that.
00:57:12.637 --> 00:57:14.097
God damn, son.
00:57:16.224 --> 00:57:20.061
After that,
Mama went to the hotel to lay down,
00:57:20.186 --> 00:57:23.523
so I went out for a walk
to see our nation's capital.
00:57:23.648 --> 00:57:26.734
Hilary, all right, I've got the vets,
what do you want me to do with them?
00:57:26.860 --> 00:57:28.570
What are you doing here so late?
00:57:28.695 --> 00:57:32.699
It's a good thing Mama was resting,
'cause the streets was awful crowded
00:57:32.824 --> 00:57:35.994
with people looking
at all the statues and monuments,
00:57:36.077 --> 00:57:38.705
and some of them people were loud
and pushy.
00:57:38.788 --> 00:57:41.708
Okay, follow me! Come on.
Let's move it out.
00:57:42.542 --> 00:57:45.545
Everywhere I went,
I had to stand in line.
00:57:48.798 --> 00:57:50.341
Follow me, let's go!
00:57:52.135 --> 00:57:53.720
Come on. Let's go.
00:57:59.726 --> 00:58:01.269
Stand here.
00:58:03.938 --> 00:58:07.108
Hey, you're a good man
for doing this. Good!
00:58:08.401 --> 00:58:09.527
Okay.
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:13.698
There was this man giving a little talk.
00:58:13.781 --> 00:58:17.285
And for some reason, he was
wearing an American flag for a shirt.
00:58:17.410 --> 00:58:18.912
Now, I'm gonna
bring up some soldiers...
00:58:18.912 --> 00:58:21.706
And he liked to say the "F" word.
00:58:21.789 --> 00:58:25.168
A lot."F" this and "F" that.
00:58:25.251 --> 00:58:27.587
And every time he said the "F" word,
00:58:27.670 --> 00:58:30.298
people, for some reason,
well, they'd cheer.
00:58:30.423 --> 00:58:33.510
...where to stick this fucking war! Yeah!
00:58:34.552 --> 00:58:36.888
Yeah! Yeah!
00:58:37.430 --> 00:58:39.933
Come on, man, come up here, man.
00:58:40.391 --> 00:58:43.728
Come on. Come on. Yeah, you!
Come on. Move, move, move.
00:58:44.729 --> 00:58:48.107
You can do it. Just get up there.
Go on. That's it.
00:59:00.954 --> 00:59:03.581
Tell us a little bit about the war, man.
00:59:03.665 --> 00:59:05.416
The war in Vietnam?
00:59:05.500 --> 00:59:08.419
- The war in Viet-fucking-nam!
- Yeah!
00:59:28.773 --> 00:59:29.857
Peace!
00:59:30.233 --> 00:59:31.609
Come on, man, go!
00:59:31.901 --> 00:59:33.861
- Come on!
- Peace!
00:59:33.945 --> 00:59:34.988
Well...
00:59:35.071 --> 00:59:38.449
There was only one thing
I could say about the war in Vietnam.
00:59:38.491 --> 00:59:43.329
...there's only one thing
I can say about the war in Vietnam.
00:59:47.166 --> 00:59:50.962
In Vietnam, your...
01:00:00.680 --> 01:00:02.056
Hey, what the hell are you...
01:00:02.056 --> 01:00:04.851
I'll beat your head in,
you goddamn oinker!
01:00:04.892 --> 01:00:07.395
Jesus Christ, what'd they do with this?
01:00:08.855 --> 01:00:10.398
We can't hear you!
01:00:12.108 --> 01:00:14.110
We can't hear anything!
01:00:14.819 --> 01:00:17.322
- This one! This one! Give me that!
- Turn it up!
01:00:17.405 --> 01:00:18.823
Speak up!
01:00:19.616 --> 01:00:21.075
That's it!
01:00:22.160 --> 01:00:24.996
...and that's all I have to say about that.
01:00:32.295 --> 01:00:35.256
That's so right on, man. You said it all.
01:00:36.758 --> 01:00:39.260
What's your name, man?
01:00:39.385 --> 01:00:41.971
My name is Forrest. Forrest Gump.
01:00:43.056 --> 01:00:44.223
Forrest Gump!
01:00:44.390 --> 01:00:45.725
- Gump!
- Gump!
01:00:47.268 --> 01:00:51.022
Forrest! Forrest!
01:00:55.068 --> 01:00:57.403
- Jenny!
- Forrest!
01:01:15.380 --> 01:01:18.758
Jenny and me were just like
peas and carrots again.
01:01:20.093 --> 01:01:21.678
She showed me around,
01:01:21.761 --> 01:01:24.347
and even introduced me
to some of her new friends.
01:01:24.472 --> 01:01:25.765
Shut that blind, man.
01:01:25.890 --> 01:01:28.101
And get your white ass
away from that window.
01:01:28.184 --> 01:01:30.269
Don't you know we in a war here?
01:01:31.104 --> 01:01:32.605
Hey, man, he's cool. He's cool.
He's one of us.
01:01:32.605 --> 01:01:34.482
- Let me tell you about us.
- Where the hell have you been?
01:01:34.482 --> 01:01:36.609
Our purpose here
is to protect our black leaders
01:01:36.651 --> 01:01:38.444
from the racial onslaught of the pig
01:01:38.486 --> 01:01:40.613
who wishes to brutalize
our black leaders,
01:01:40.655 --> 01:01:43.991
rape our women,
and destroy our black communities.
01:01:47.161 --> 01:01:49.038
Who's the baby killer?
01:01:49.163 --> 01:01:51.874
This is my good friend I told you about.
This is Forrest Gump.
01:01:51.999 --> 01:01:53.710
Forrest, this is Wesley.
01:01:53.835 --> 01:01:55.169
Wesley and I lived together in Berkeley,
01:01:55.169 --> 01:01:57.839
and he's the president
of the Berkeley chapter of SDS.
01:01:57.880 --> 01:01:59.340
Let me tell you something else.
01:01:59.424 --> 01:02:03.678
We are here to offer protection and help
for all of those who need our help,
01:02:03.720 --> 01:02:07.348
because we, the Black Panthers,
are against the war in Vietnam.
01:02:07.390 --> 01:02:10.977
Yes, we are against any war where
black soldiers are sent to the frontline
01:02:11.060 --> 01:02:12.979
to die for a country that hates them.
01:02:13.062 --> 01:02:16.232
Yes, we are against any war
where black soldiers go to fight
01:02:16.357 --> 01:02:19.402
and come to be brutalized and killed
in their own communities
01:02:19.527 --> 01:02:21.070
as they sleep in their beds at night.
01:02:21.154 --> 01:02:22.321
You are a fucking asshole!
01:02:22.405 --> 01:02:25.783
Yes, we are against all these racist
and imperial dog acts.
01:02:35.084 --> 01:02:38.296
Forrest! Quit it! Quit it!
01:02:40.256 --> 01:02:41.382
Forrest!
01:02:42.008 --> 01:02:43.718
Stop it! Stop it!
01:02:50.558 --> 01:02:51.934
Oh, God...
01:02:52.769 --> 01:02:55.229
I shouldn't have brought you here.
01:02:55.271 --> 01:02:58.900
I should have known it was just
gonna be some bullshit hassle.
01:03:00.067 --> 01:03:02.737
He should not be hitting you, Jenny.
01:03:07.617 --> 01:03:09.410
Come on, Forrest.
01:03:14.999 --> 01:03:19.003
Sorry I had a fight in the middle
of your Black Panther party.
01:03:21.881 --> 01:03:24.258
He doesn't mean it when
he does things like this. He doesn't.
01:03:24.300 --> 01:03:26.636
I would never hurt you, Jenny.
01:03:28.471 --> 01:03:30.723
I know you wouldn't, Forrest.
01:03:32.642 --> 01:03:35.228
I wanted to be your boyfriend.
01:03:45.738 --> 01:03:48.282
That uniform is a trip, Forrest.
01:03:49.617 --> 01:03:52.829
You look handsome in it. You do.
01:03:56.958 --> 01:03:58.835
- You know what?
- What?
01:04:02.463 --> 01:04:06.133
I'm glad we were here together
in our nation's capital.
01:04:07.718 --> 01:04:09.470
Me, too, Forrest.
01:04:09.554 --> 01:04:14.183
We walked around all night,
Jenny and me, just talking.
01:04:16.310 --> 01:04:19.480
She told me about
all the traveling she'd done.
01:04:19.564 --> 01:04:24.026
And how she'd discovered ways
to expand her mind
01:04:24.110 --> 01:04:27.196
and learn how to live in harmony,
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:29.615
which must be out west somewhere,
01:04:29.699 --> 01:04:32.034
'cause she made it
all the way to California.
01:04:32.118 --> 01:04:34.370
Try to love one another right now
01:04:34.495 --> 01:04:35.621
Hey!
01:04:36.581 --> 01:04:39.125
Anybody want to go to San Francisco?
01:04:39.208 --> 01:04:41.085
- I'll go.
- Far out.
01:04:42.545 --> 01:04:45.715
It was a very special night
for the two of us.
01:04:47.508 --> 01:04:49.594
I didn't want it to end.
01:04:50.303 --> 01:04:52.805
I wish you wouldn't go, Jenny.
01:04:53.806 --> 01:04:55.516
I have to, Forrest.
01:04:56.517 --> 01:04:57.727
Jenny?
01:04:59.896 --> 01:05:02.523
Things got a little out of hand.
01:05:02.607 --> 01:05:06.402
It's just this war
and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson!
01:05:08.070 --> 01:05:10.865
I would never hurt you, you know that.
01:05:14.035 --> 01:05:16.037
You know what I think?
01:05:17.538 --> 01:05:22.752
I think you should go home
to Greenbow, Alabama!
01:05:33.179 --> 01:05:38.267
Forrest, we have very different lives,
you know.
01:05:47.902 --> 01:05:51.072
I want you to have this.
01:05:52.490 --> 01:05:54.659
Forrest, I can't keep this.
01:05:56.327 --> 01:06:00.498
I got it just by doing
what you told me to do.
01:06:02.500 --> 01:06:04.669
Why are you so good to me?
01:06:06.170 --> 01:06:07.713
You're my girl.
01:06:09.715 --> 01:06:11.842
I'll always be your girl.
01:06:44.542 --> 01:06:49.380
And just like that, she was gone,
out of my life again.
01:06:50.923 --> 01:06:53.217
That's one small step for man,
01:06:55.219 --> 01:06:57.930
one giant leap for mankind.
01:07:03.644 --> 01:07:06.105
I thought I was going back to Vietnam,
01:07:06.272 --> 01:07:09.442
but instead, they decided the best way
for me to fight the Communists
01:07:09.567 --> 01:07:11.152
was to play Ping-Pong.
01:07:11.277 --> 01:07:13.571
So, I was in the Special Services,
01:07:13.654 --> 01:07:16.907
traveling around the country
cheering up all them wounded veterans
01:07:16.949 --> 01:07:19.410
and showing them
how to play Ping-Pong.
01:07:19.452 --> 01:07:21.412
I was so good that some years later
01:07:21.454 --> 01:07:25.124
the Army decided that I should be
on the All-American Ping-Pong team.
01:07:25.750 --> 01:07:28.127
We were the first Americans
to visit the land of China
01:07:28.252 --> 01:07:30.546
in like a million years,
or something like that.
01:07:30.671 --> 01:07:34.133
Somebody said world peace
was in our hands,
01:07:34.175 --> 01:07:37.178
but all I did was play Ping-Pong.
01:07:37.261 --> 01:07:40.347
When I got home,
I was a national celebrity.
01:07:41.057 --> 01:07:43.350
Famouser even than Captain Kangaroo.
01:07:43.434 --> 01:07:46.103
Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here.
01:07:52.860 --> 01:07:54.612
Mr. Gump, have a seat.
01:07:57.114 --> 01:07:59.283
Forrest Gump, John Lennon.
01:07:59.992 --> 01:08:01.285
- Welcome home.
- You had quite a trip.
01:08:01.285 --> 01:08:04.497
Can you tell us, what was China like?
01:08:07.792 --> 01:08:13.005
In the land of China,
people hardly got nothing at all.
01:08:13.130 --> 01:08:14.673
No possessions?
01:08:17.343 --> 01:08:20.513
And in China, they never go to church.
01:08:21.847 --> 01:08:23.516
No religion, too?
01:08:25.476 --> 01:08:28.771
- Hard to imagine.
- Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.
01:08:30.523 --> 01:08:32.900
Some years later,
that nice young man from England
01:08:33.025 --> 01:08:35.861
was on his way home
to see his little boy
01:08:35.945 --> 01:08:38.823
and was signing some autographs,
01:08:38.948 --> 01:08:42.910
and for no particular reason at all,
somebody shot him.
01:08:45.955 --> 01:08:49.792
They gave you
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
01:08:51.085 --> 01:08:53.170
Now, that's Lieutenant Dan.
01:08:55.965 --> 01:08:57.591
Lieutenant Dan!
01:08:57.675 --> 01:09:02.138
They gave you
the Congressional Medal of Honor!
01:09:04.056 --> 01:09:05.516
Yes, sir, they surely did.
01:09:05.599 --> 01:09:07.601
They gave you,
01:09:07.685 --> 01:09:11.730
an imbecile,
a moron who goes on television
01:09:11.856 --> 01:09:16.068
and makes a fool out of himself
in front of the whole damn country,
01:09:16.777 --> 01:09:19.238
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
01:09:20.406 --> 01:09:21.574
Yes, sir.
01:09:23.784 --> 01:09:26.579
Well, then, that's just perfect!
01:09:28.539 --> 01:09:30.875
Yeah, well,
I just got one thing to say to that.
01:09:30.958 --> 01:09:33.210
God damn bless America.
01:09:34.086 --> 01:09:35.421
Hey!
01:09:37.423 --> 01:09:38.757
Oh, God!
01:09:41.260 --> 01:09:43.554
- Oh, God!
- Lieutenant Dan!
01:09:44.513 --> 01:09:46.974
Take a right. Take a right.
01:09:49.602 --> 01:09:52.146
Hey! Come on, already!
01:09:52.229 --> 01:09:55.024
What do you do here in New York,
Lieutenant Dan?
01:09:55.107 --> 01:09:57.651
I'm living off the government tit.
01:09:59.278 --> 01:10:00.654
Sucking it dry!
01:10:00.738 --> 01:10:02.781
Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you blind?
01:10:02.865 --> 01:10:04.575
- I'm walking here!
- Get out of the way!
01:10:04.658 --> 01:10:07.161
Get out! Come on, go! Go! Go!
01:10:14.210 --> 01:10:17.922
I stayed with Lieutenant Dan
and celebrated the holidays.
01:10:22.384 --> 01:10:26.013
You have a great year.
Hurry home and God bless you.
01:10:29.016 --> 01:10:31.769
Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
01:10:33.395 --> 01:10:37.066
I didn't know I was supposed to be
looking for him, sir.
01:10:43.530 --> 01:10:46.909
That's all these cripples,
down at the VA,
01:10:46.992 --> 01:10:49.411
that's all they ever talk about.
01:10:50.579 --> 01:10:53.540
Jesus this and Jesus that.
01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:57.294
Have I found Jesus?
01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:00.923
They even had a priest come
and talk to me.
01:11:01.799 --> 01:11:06.470
He said God is listening,
but I have to help myself.
01:11:07.846 --> 01:11:10.140
How if I accept Jesus into my heart,
01:11:11.141 --> 01:11:14.853
I'll get to walk beside him
in the kingdom of heaven.
01:11:14.937 --> 01:11:17.106
Did you hear what I said?
01:11:18.107 --> 01:11:22.111
Walk beside him
in the kingdom of heaven.
01:11:22.236 --> 01:11:25.406
Well, kiss my crippled ass.
01:11:25.447 --> 01:11:28.826
God is listening? What a crock of shit.
01:11:32.496 --> 01:11:35.124
I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.
01:11:37.084 --> 01:11:38.127
Oh?
01:11:42.965 --> 01:11:44.300
Well,
01:11:47.177 --> 01:11:50.556
before you go, why don't you get
your ass down to the corner
01:11:50.639 --> 01:11:53.142
- and get us another bottle of Ripple.
- Yes, sir.
01:11:53.225 --> 01:11:56.603
But now that he's dead,
that means I gotta be the captain.
01:11:56.687 --> 01:11:59.606
- A shrimp boat captain.
- Yes, sir.
01:11:59.648 --> 01:12:02.443
A promise is a promise, Lieutenant Dan.
01:12:03.944 --> 01:12:06.405
Now hear this!
01:12:07.114 --> 01:12:10.951
Private Gump here
is gonna be a shrimp boat captain.
01:12:11.744 --> 01:12:13.120
Well, I tell you what, Gilligan,
01:12:13.245 --> 01:12:15.664
the day that you are
a shrimp boat captain,
01:12:15.789 --> 01:12:19.293
- I will come and be your first mate.
- Okay.
01:12:19.418 --> 01:12:23.756
If you're ever a shrimp boat captain,
that's the day I'm an astronaut.
01:12:23.797 --> 01:12:26.717
Danny, what are
you complaining about?
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:29.386
- What are you doing, hon?
- Mr. Hot Wheels.
01:12:29.470 --> 01:12:33.098
- Who's your friend?
- My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump.
01:12:33.932 --> 01:12:38.145
This is Cunning Carla
and Long-Limbs Lenore.
01:12:39.229 --> 01:12:42.441
So, where you been, baby cakes, huh?
Haven't seen you around lately.
01:12:42.524 --> 01:12:44.068
You know, you should have
been here for Christmas,
01:12:44.068 --> 01:12:45.486
'cause Tommy bought a round
on the house
01:12:45.486 --> 01:12:46.987
and gave everybody a turkey sandwich.
01:12:47.071 --> 01:12:50.115
Well, well, I had company.
01:12:50.991 --> 01:12:54.661
Hey, hey! We was just there.
That's at Times Square.
01:12:55.329 --> 01:12:59.625
Don't you just love New Year's?
You get to start all over.
01:12:59.666 --> 01:13:02.878
- Hey, Lenore...
- Everybody gets a second chance.
01:13:03.003 --> 01:13:05.506
It's funny,
but in the middle of all that fun,
01:13:05.631 --> 01:13:07.758
I began to think about Jenny,
01:13:23.607 --> 01:13:27.111
...eight, seven, six, five,
01:13:27.236 --> 01:13:30.697
four, three, two, one!
01:13:30.823 --> 01:13:33.492
Happy New Year!
01:13:42.376 --> 01:13:43.585
No, no.
01:14:08.735 --> 01:14:12.573
I'm sorry I ruined your
New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan.
01:14:13.157 --> 01:14:15.451
She tasted like cigarettes.
01:14:31.633 --> 01:14:36.138
I guess Lieutenant Dan figured there's
some things you just can't change.
01:14:36.221 --> 01:14:41.351
He didn't want to be called crippled,
just like I didn't want to be called stupid.
01:14:46.773 --> 01:14:48.650
Happy New Year, Gump.
01:14:53.447 --> 01:14:54.823
The US Ping-Pong team
01:14:54.907 --> 01:14:57.242
met with President Nixon today
at an Oval Office ceremony...
01:14:57.284 --> 01:14:59.995
And wouldn't you know it?
A few months later,
01:15:00.120 --> 01:15:04.082
they invited me and the Ping-Pong team
to visit the White House.
01:15:04.166 --> 01:15:06.376
So, I went, again.
01:15:07.252 --> 01:15:10.672
And I met the President
of the United States, again.
01:15:11.465 --> 01:15:14.426
Only, this time, they didn't get us rooms
in a real fancy hotel.
01:15:14.510 --> 01:15:17.763
So, are you enjoying yourself
in our nation's capital, young man?
01:15:17.846 --> 01:15:21.058
- Yes, sir.
- Well, where are you staying?
01:15:21.141 --> 01:15:23.769
- It's called the Hotel Ebbott.
- Oh, no, no, no, no.
01:15:23.852 --> 01:15:26.980
I know of a much nicer hotel.
It's brand-new, very modern.
01:15:27.064 --> 01:15:29.066
I'll have my people
take care of it for you.
01:15:29.691 --> 01:15:30.817
Security, Frank Wills.
01:15:30.901 --> 01:15:34.488
Yeah, sir, you might want
to send a maintenance man
01:15:34.571 --> 01:15:37.241
over to that office across the way.
01:15:37.366 --> 01:15:40.202
The lights are off, and they must be
looking for a fuse box or something,
01:15:40.285 --> 01:15:42.996
'cause them flashlights,
they're keeping me awake.
01:15:43.080 --> 01:15:44.706
Okay, sir. I'll check it out.
01:15:44.790 --> 01:15:46.500
- Thank you.
- No problem.
01:15:46.583 --> 01:15:48.502
- Good night.
- Good night.
01:15:52.047 --> 01:15:57.386
Therefore, I shall resign the presidency
effective at noon tomorrow.
01:15:57.511 --> 01:15:59.555
Vice President Ford
01:15:59.638 --> 01:16:04.101
will be sworn in as president
at that hour in this office.
01:16:05.519 --> 01:16:10.315
As I recall the high hopes for America
with which we began this second term...
01:16:15.571 --> 01:16:17.072
Sergeant Gump.
01:16:17.573 --> 01:16:19.825
- Yes, sir!
- As you were.
01:16:19.908 --> 01:16:23.120
I have your discharge papers.
Your service is up, son.
01:16:26.582 --> 01:16:29.293
Does this mean
I can't play Ping-Pong no more?
01:16:29.418 --> 01:16:31.336
For the Army it does.
01:16:33.964 --> 01:16:38.844
And just like that, my service
in the United States Army was over.
01:16:44.141 --> 01:16:45.934
So, I went home.
01:17:07.331 --> 01:17:10.751
- I'm home, Mama.
- I know, I know.
01:17:10.959 --> 01:17:12.294
- Louise, he's here.
- Now, when I got home,
01:17:12.294 --> 01:17:16.381
I had no idea,
but Mama had had all sorts of visitors.
01:17:16.465 --> 01:17:18.967
We've had all sorts of visitors, Forrest.
01:17:19.092 --> 01:17:22.137
Everybody wants you
to use their Ping-Pong stuff.
01:17:22.262 --> 01:17:26.016
One man even left a check for $25,000
01:17:26.141 --> 01:17:29.478
if you'd be agreeable to saying
you liked using their paddle.
01:17:29.603 --> 01:17:32.272
Oh, but, Mama,
I only like using my own paddle.
01:17:32.356 --> 01:17:34.358
- Hi, Miss Louise.
- Hey, Forrest.
01:17:34.441 --> 01:17:37.361
I know that. I know that.
01:17:37.444 --> 01:17:40.113
But it's $25,000, Forrest.
01:17:40.197 --> 01:17:44.868
I thought maybe you could hold it
for a while, see if it grows on you.
01:17:44.993 --> 01:17:47.162
- Oh, you look good, Forrest.
- That Mama, she sure was right.
01:17:47.162 --> 01:17:49.665
- You look real good.
- It's funny how things work out.
01:17:49.831 --> 01:17:52.918
I didn't stay home for long,
because I'd made a promise to Bubba,
01:17:53.001 --> 01:17:55.253
and I always try to keep my promise.
01:17:55.337 --> 01:17:56.880
So, I went on down to Bayou La Batre
01:17:57.005 --> 01:18:00.717
to meet Bubba's family
and make their introduction.
01:18:00.801 --> 01:18:04.346
Are you crazy, or just plain stupid?
01:18:05.097 --> 01:18:07.349
Stupid is as stupid does, Mrs. Blue.
01:18:07.432 --> 01:18:08.809
I guess.
01:18:09.810 --> 01:18:13.355
And, of course,
I paid my respect to Bubba himself.
01:18:15.357 --> 01:18:17.943
Hey, Bubba, it's me, Forrest Gump.
01:18:21.238 --> 01:18:25.325
I remember everything you said,
and I got it all figured out.
01:18:28.120 --> 01:18:34.793
I'm taking the $24,562
and 47 cents that I got...
01:18:35.877 --> 01:18:39.464
Or, that's left after a new hair cut
and a new suit,
01:18:39.548 --> 01:18:41.508
and I took Mama out
to a real fancy dinner,
01:18:41.591 --> 01:18:44.845
and I bought a bus ticket
and three Dr. Peppers.
01:18:45.387 --> 01:18:47.180
Tell me something.
01:18:48.223 --> 01:18:50.350
Are you stupid or something?
01:18:50.434 --> 01:18:52.477
Stupid is as stupid does, sir.
01:18:52.561 --> 01:18:55.522
Well, that's what's left after me saying,
01:18:56.440 --> 01:18:58.608
"When I was in China
on the All-America Ping-Pong team,
01:18:58.692 --> 01:19:02.487
"I just loved playing Ping-Pong with
my Flex-O-Light Ping-Pong paddle,"
01:19:02.571 --> 01:19:03.905
which everybody knows isn't true,
01:19:03.905 --> 01:19:05.365
but Mama says it's just a little white lie
01:19:05.365 --> 01:19:07.534
so it wouldn't hurt nobody.
01:19:08.869 --> 01:19:14.750
So, anyway, I'm putting all that on gas,
ropes and new nets
01:19:15.542 --> 01:19:17.252
and a brand-new shrimping boat.
01:19:39.191 --> 01:19:42.319
Now, Bubba had told me everything
he knew about shrimping,
01:19:42.402 --> 01:19:44.738
but you know what I found out?
01:19:46.406 --> 01:19:48.742
Shrimping is tough.
01:19:50.952 --> 01:19:52.788
I only caught five.
01:19:52.954 --> 01:19:56.249
A couple more,
you could have yourself a cocktail.
01:19:59.586 --> 01:20:01.421
Hey, you ever think
about naming this old boat?
01:20:01.421 --> 01:20:04.090
It's bad luck
to have a boat without a name.
01:20:06.468 --> 01:20:11.306
I'd never named a boat before,
but there was only one I could think of,
01:20:12.474 --> 01:20:15.602
the most beautiful name
in the wide world.
01:20:19.773 --> 01:20:23.235
and I hoped that whatever
she was doing made her happy.
01:21:56.411 --> 01:21:58.955
I thought about Jenny all the time.
01:22:23.605 --> 01:22:24.773
Hey!
01:22:48.755 --> 01:22:53.426
Lieutenant Dan,
what are you doing here?
01:22:53.510 --> 01:22:57.430
Well, thought I'd try out my sea legs.
01:22:57.514 --> 01:23:01.142
But you ain't got no legs,
Lieutenant Dan.
01:23:01.267 --> 01:23:03.520
Yes, I know that.
01:23:03.853 --> 01:23:05.939
You wrote me a letter, you idiot.
01:23:06.022 --> 01:23:10.610
Well, well. Captain Forrest Gump.
I had to see this for myself.
01:23:12.195 --> 01:23:19.077
And I told you if you were ever
a shrimp boat captain
01:23:19.202 --> 01:23:21.830
that I'd be your first mate.
Well, here I am.
01:23:21.871 --> 01:23:25.000
- I am a man of my word.
- Okay.
01:23:25.125 --> 01:23:29.087
Yeah, but don't you be thinking that
I'm going to be calling you "sir."
01:23:29.212 --> 01:23:30.547
No, sir.
01:23:39.347 --> 01:23:41.641
That's my boat.
01:23:44.227 --> 01:23:49.691
I have a feeling if we head due east,
we'll find some shrimp,
01:23:49.816 --> 01:23:51.401
so take a left.
01:23:52.819 --> 01:23:55.739
- Take a left!
- Which way?
01:23:55.822 --> 01:23:58.491
Over there! They're over there!
01:23:59.159 --> 01:24:02.996
- Get on the wheel and take a left!
- Okay.
01:24:04.205 --> 01:24:08.209
Gump, what are you doing?
Take a left! Left!
01:24:10.628 --> 01:24:14.215
That's where we're going
to find those shrimp, my boy!
01:24:15.842 --> 01:24:17.385
That's where we'll find them.
01:24:30.065 --> 01:24:34.235
- Still no shrimp, Lieutenant Dan.
- Okay, so I was wrong.
01:24:34.903 --> 01:24:38.156
How are we going to find them?
01:24:38.239 --> 01:24:40.658
Well, maybe you should
just pray for shrimp.
01:24:47.499 --> 01:24:50.168
So, I went to church every Sunday.
01:24:51.419 --> 01:24:53.421
Sometimes Lieutenant Dan came, too,
01:24:53.588 --> 01:24:56.549
though I think
he left the praying up to me.
01:25:12.023 --> 01:25:16.277
- No shrimp.
- Where the hell's this God of yours?
01:25:17.112 --> 01:25:22.867
It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that,
'cause right then, God showed up.
01:25:39.717 --> 01:25:44.764
- You'll never sink this boat!
- Now, me, I was scared,
01:25:44.889 --> 01:25:47.809
but Lieutenant Dan, he was mad.
01:25:47.934 --> 01:25:49.269
Come on!
01:25:52.397 --> 01:25:57.610
You call this a storm?
Come on, you son of a bitch!
01:25:59.737 --> 01:26:04.117
It's time for a showdown! You and me!
01:26:04.242 --> 01:26:08.121
I'm right here! Come and get me!
01:26:09.914 --> 01:26:13.793
You'll never sink this boat!
01:26:15.837 --> 01:26:18.006
Hurricane Carmen
came through here yesterday,
01:26:18.131 --> 01:26:20.592
destroying nearly everything in its path.
01:26:20.717 --> 01:26:23.178
And as in other towns
up and down the coast,
01:26:23.344 --> 01:26:25.722
Bayou La Batre's
entire shrimping industry
01:26:25.847 --> 01:26:29.684
has fallen victim to Carmen
and has been left in utter ruin.
01:26:29.851 --> 01:26:32.979
Speaking with local officials,
this reporter has learned,
01:26:33.021 --> 01:26:36.524
in fact, only one shrimping boat
actually survived the storm.
01:26:36.858 --> 01:26:39.527
Louise. Louise, there's Forrest.
01:26:40.195 --> 01:26:42.197
After that, shrimping was easy.
01:26:48.077 --> 01:26:51.206
Since people still needed
them shrimps for shrimp cocktails
01:26:51.331 --> 01:26:55.335
and barbecues and all,
and we were the only boat left standing,
01:26:55.501 --> 01:26:58.755
Bubba-Gump Shrimp's what they got.
01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:03.426
We got a whole bunch of boats,
12 Jennys,
01:27:03.509 --> 01:27:07.013
a big old warehouse. We even have
hats that say "Bubba-Gump" on them.
01:27:07.347 --> 01:27:10.642
Bubba-Gump Shrimp.
It's a household name.
01:27:10.892 --> 01:27:12.560
Hold on there, boy.
01:27:12.727 --> 01:27:17.232
Are you telling me you're the owner of
the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Corporation?
01:27:17.357 --> 01:27:20.360
Yes, sir. We got more money
than Davy Crockett.
01:27:21.986 --> 01:27:26.032
Boy, I heard some whoppers in my time,
but that tops them all.
01:27:28.660 --> 01:27:31.412
We was sitting next to a millionaire.
01:27:34.916 --> 01:27:39.587
Well, I thought it was a very lovely story,
01:27:40.004 --> 01:27:44.801
and you tell it so well,
with such enthusiasm.
01:27:46.552 --> 01:27:49.222
Would you like to see
what Lieutenant Dan looks like?
01:27:49.305 --> 01:27:50.807
Well, yes, I would.
01:27:56.062 --> 01:27:58.106
That's him right there.
01:28:00.108 --> 01:28:02.360
And let me tell you something
about Lieutenant Dan...
01:28:03.528 --> 01:28:04.570
Forrest,
01:28:10.118 --> 01:28:12.912
I never thanked you for saving my life.
01:28:38.855 --> 01:28:45.320
He never actually said so,
but I think he made his peace with God.
01:28:52.994 --> 01:28:55.204
For the second time in 17 days,
01:28:55.330 --> 01:28:58.833
President Ford escaped
possible assassination today.
01:28:58.916 --> 01:29:00.168
Base to Jenny 1.
01:29:00.293 --> 01:29:03.755
- Base to Jenny 1.
- Jenny 1. Go, Margo.
01:29:03.838 --> 01:29:05.340
Forrest has a phone call.
01:29:05.465 --> 01:29:07.842
Yeah, well, you'll have to tell them
to call him back.
01:29:07.925 --> 01:29:11.304
- He is indisposed at the moment.
- His mama's sick.
01:29:32.033 --> 01:29:34.369
- Where's Mama?
- She's upstairs.
01:29:37.205 --> 01:29:39.082
Hi, Forrest.
01:29:40.041 --> 01:29:42.543
- I'll see you tomorrow.
- All right.
01:29:49.425 --> 01:29:52.595
We sure got you straightened out,
didn't we, boy?
01:30:03.981 --> 01:30:07.902
- What's the matter, Mama?
- I'm dying, Forrest.
01:30:11.239 --> 01:30:13.533
Come on in, sit down over here.
01:30:27.922 --> 01:30:31.384
- Why are you dying, Mama?
- It's my time.
01:30:32.385 --> 01:30:34.262
It's just my time.
01:30:35.721 --> 01:30:39.892
Now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart.
01:30:41.519 --> 01:30:44.105
Death is just a part of life,
01:30:45.106 --> 01:30:47.608
something we're all destined to do.
01:30:49.444 --> 01:30:53.823
I didn't know it,
but I was destined to be your mama.
01:30:54.657 --> 01:30:58.286
- I did the best I could.
- You did good, Mama.
01:30:59.078 --> 01:31:04.250
Well, I happen to believe
you make your own destiny.
01:31:05.751 --> 01:31:08.963
You have to do the best
with what God gave you.
01:31:12.842 --> 01:31:14.969
What's my destiny, Mama?
01:31:17.138 --> 01:31:20.266
You're going to have
to figure that out for yourself.
01:31:21.559 --> 01:31:24.520
Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest.
01:31:24.604 --> 01:31:26.772
You never know
what you're going to get.
01:31:26.898 --> 01:31:31.277
Mama always had a way of explaining
things so I could understand them.
01:31:31.360 --> 01:31:33.571
I will miss you, Forrest.
01:31:35.406 --> 01:31:39.452
She had got the cancer
and died on a Tuesday.
01:31:40.995 --> 01:31:44.499
I bought her a new hat
with little flowers on it.
01:31:47.543 --> 01:31:50.838
And that's all I have to say about that.
01:31:57.553 --> 01:31:59.847
Didn't you say you were waiting
for the number seven bus?
01:31:59.972 --> 01:32:02.725
There'll be another one along shortly.
01:32:06.562 --> 01:32:10.191
Now, because I had been a football star,
and a war hero,
01:32:10.274 --> 01:32:13.361
and a national celebrity,
and a shrimping boat captain,
01:32:13.861 --> 01:32:17.073
and a college graduate,
the city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama
01:32:17.198 --> 01:32:20.409
decided to get together
and offered me a fine job.
01:32:21.827 --> 01:32:25.498
So, I never went back to work
for Lieutenant Dan,
01:32:25.581 --> 01:32:28.209
though he did take care
of my Bubba-Gump money.
01:32:28.334 --> 01:32:32.922
He got me invested
in some kind of fruit company.
01:32:33.047 --> 01:32:34.674
And so then, I got a call from him saying
01:32:34.674 --> 01:32:38.135
we don't have to worry about money
no more, and I said,
01:32:38.219 --> 01:32:40.513
"That's good. One less thing."
01:32:43.766 --> 01:32:47.144
Now, Mama said there's only
so much fortune a man really needs,
01:32:48.396 --> 01:32:51.232
and the rest is just for showing off.
01:32:51.357 --> 01:32:55.236
So, I gave a whole bunch of it
to the Foursquare gospel church,
01:32:57.905 --> 01:33:02.285
and I gave a whole bunch to the
Bayou La Batre fishing hospital.
01:33:04.620 --> 01:33:09.208
And even though Bubba was dead
and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts,
01:33:09.333 --> 01:33:11.919
I gave Bubba's mama Bubba's share.
01:33:16.173 --> 01:33:17.883
You know what?
01:33:19.093 --> 01:33:22.096
She didn't have to work
in nobody's kitchen no more.
01:33:22.221 --> 01:33:23.806
That smells wonderful.
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:28.603
And 'cause I was a gazillionaire
and I liked doing it so much,
01:33:28.644 --> 01:33:30.980
I cut that grass for free.
01:33:34.692 --> 01:33:37.570
But at night time
when there was nothing to do
01:33:37.653 --> 01:33:40.031
and the house was all empty,
01:33:41.032 --> 01:33:43.409
I'd always think of Jenny.
01:34:47.098 --> 01:34:50.267
And then, she was there.
01:35:23.175 --> 01:35:26.345
- Hello, Forrest.
- Hello, Jenny.
01:35:29.140 --> 01:35:32.977
Maybe it was because
she had nowhere else to go,
01:35:33.102 --> 01:35:36.731
or maybe it was because she was
so tired, 'cause she went to bed
01:35:36.856 --> 01:35:40.818
and slept and slept,
like she hadn't slept in years.
01:35:42.069 --> 01:35:44.363
It was wonderful having her home.
01:35:45.698 --> 01:35:50.828
Every day we'd take a walk and
I'd jabber on like a monkey in a tree,
01:35:50.911 --> 01:35:53.456
and she'd listen about Ping-Ponging,
and shrimping,
01:35:53.539 --> 01:35:57.835
and Mama making a trip up to heaven.
I did all the talking.
01:35:57.918 --> 01:36:01.255
Jenny most of the time was real quiet.
01:36:41.420 --> 01:36:44.632
How could you do this?
01:37:21.502 --> 01:37:24.839
Sometimes I guess there
just aren't enough rocks.
01:37:27.049 --> 01:37:31.720
I never really knew why she came back,
but I didn't care.
01:37:31.887 --> 01:37:36.225
It was like olden times.
We was like peas and carrots again.
01:37:38.269 --> 01:37:42.606
Every day, I'd pick pretty flowers
and put them in her room for her,
01:37:44.108 --> 01:37:47.611
and she gave me the best gift anyone
could ever get in the wide world.
01:37:47.695 --> 01:37:50.531
- New shoes.
- They make them just for running.
01:38:01.500 --> 01:38:03.335
...and this Fourth is witnessing
one of the
01:38:03.419 --> 01:38:06.380
largest fireworks displays
in the nation's...
01:38:06.505 --> 01:38:09.383
- You done watching it?
- ...here in New York Harbor...
01:38:09.508 --> 01:38:11.385
- I'm going to bed.
- ...with a spectacular display
01:38:11.427 --> 01:38:14.471
of tall ships earlier.
The Statue of Liberty...
01:38:21.395 --> 01:38:23.397
Will you marry me?
01:38:28.360 --> 01:38:31.280
I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
01:38:33.949 --> 01:38:35.993
You would, Forrest.
01:38:37.828 --> 01:38:40.164
But you won't marry me.
01:38:42.458 --> 01:38:44.668
You don't want to marry me.
01:38:48.255 --> 01:38:50.674
Why don't you love me, Jenny?
01:38:55.763 --> 01:38:57.890
I'm not a smart man,
01:38:59.642 --> 01:39:02.061
but I know what love is.
01:39:41.892 --> 01:39:45.562
- Where are you running off to?
- I'm not running.
01:41:17.237 --> 01:41:22.576
That day, for no particular reason,
I decided to go for a little run.
01:41:23.786 --> 01:41:28.207
So, I ran to the end of the road,
and when I got there,
01:41:28.248 --> 01:41:30.042
I thought maybe I'd run
to the end of town.
01:41:30.084 --> 01:41:33.378
President Carter, suffering from heat
exhaustion, fell into the arms of...
01:41:33.420 --> 01:41:35.089
And when I got there,
01:41:35.214 --> 01:41:39.384
I thought maybe I'd just
run across Greenbow County.
01:41:39.426 --> 01:41:41.887
And I figured since I'd run this far,
01:41:41.970 --> 01:41:45.224
maybe I'd just run across
the great state of Alabama.
01:41:45.265 --> 01:41:46.517
And that's what I did.
01:41:47.101 --> 01:41:48.811
I ran clear across Alabama.
01:41:49.895 --> 01:41:53.023
For no particular reason,
I just kept on going.
01:41:54.358 --> 01:41:55.943
I ran clear to the ocean.
01:42:01.824 --> 01:42:04.993
And when I got there,
I figured since I'd gone this far,
01:42:05.536 --> 01:42:08.372
might as well turn around
and just keep on going.
01:42:12.126 --> 01:42:16.713
And when I got to another ocean,
I figured since I'd gone this far,
01:42:18.507 --> 01:42:22.094
I might as well just turn back
and keep right on going.
01:42:23.262 --> 01:42:28.100
When I got tired, I slept.
When I got hungry, I ate.
01:42:28.225 --> 01:42:31.270
When I had to go, you know...
01:42:32.896 --> 01:42:34.064
I went.
01:42:34.106 --> 01:42:37.109
And so, you just ran.
01:42:38.902 --> 01:42:39.945
Yeah.
01:43:15.355 --> 01:43:20.611
I'd think a lot about Mama
and Bubba and Lieutenant Dan.
01:43:21.612 --> 01:43:25.115
But most of all, I thought about Jenny.
01:43:26.200 --> 01:43:28.368
I thought about her a lot.
01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:32.122
For more than two years now,
a man named Forrest Gump,
01:43:32.164 --> 01:43:35.626
a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama,
stopping only to sleep,
01:43:35.709 --> 01:43:37.836
has been running across America.
01:43:37.961 --> 01:43:39.963
Charles Cooper brings us this report.
01:43:40.881 --> 01:43:43.300
For the fourth time
on his journey across America,
01:43:43.342 --> 01:43:46.178
Forrest Gump,
the gardener from Greenbow, Alabama,
01:43:46.345 --> 01:43:49.181
is about to cross
the Mississippi River again today.
01:43:49.848 --> 01:43:51.934
- I'll be damned. Forrest?
- Sir, why are you running?
01:43:51.975 --> 01:43:53.018
Why are you running?
01:43:53.143 --> 01:43:54.686
Are you doing this for world peace?
01:43:54.811 --> 01:43:56.188
Are you doing this for the homeless?
01:43:56.188 --> 01:43:59.399
- Are you running for women's rights?
- Or for the environment?
01:43:59.524 --> 01:44:00.525
Or for animals?
01:44:00.567 --> 01:44:03.403
They just couldn't believe that
somebody would do all that running
01:44:03.487 --> 01:44:04.863
for no particular reason.
01:44:04.947 --> 01:44:06.907
Why are you doing this?
01:44:07.032 --> 01:44:09.493
I just felt like running.
01:44:09.618 --> 01:44:11.995
I just felt like running.
01:44:12.120 --> 01:44:15.332
It's you. I can't believe it's really you.
01:44:16.166 --> 01:44:21.296
Now, for some reason, what I was doing
seemed to make sense to people.
01:44:21.463 --> 01:44:23.674
I mean, it was like an alarm
went off in my head, you know?
01:44:23.674 --> 01:44:25.634
I said,
"Here's a guy that's got his act together.
01:44:25.634 --> 01:44:27.594
"Here's somebody
who's got it all figured out.
01:44:27.678 --> 01:44:31.765
"Here's somebody who has the answer."
I'll follow you anywhere, Mr. Gump.
01:44:31.890 --> 01:44:33.684
So, I got company.
01:44:35.394 --> 01:44:41.233
And after that, I got more company.
And then, even more people joined in.
01:44:43.735 --> 01:44:46.905
Somebody later told me
it gave people hope.
01:44:48.740 --> 01:44:52.077
Now... Now, I don't know
anything about that,
01:44:52.953 --> 01:44:55.539
but some of those people
asked me if I could help them out.
01:44:55.747 --> 01:44:59.167
Hey, man, hey, listen, I was wondering
if you might help me, huh?
01:44:59.251 --> 01:45:01.003
Listen, I'm in the
bumper sticker business
01:45:01.086 --> 01:45:02.921
and I've been trying
to think up a good slogan.
01:45:02.921 --> 01:45:06.091
And since you have been such a big
inspiration to the people around here,
01:45:06.174 --> 01:45:08.135
I thought you might
be able to help me jump into...
01:45:08.176 --> 01:45:11.680
Whoa, man! You just ran through
a big pile of dog shit!
01:45:13.223 --> 01:45:15.892
- It happens.
- What, shit?
01:45:17.394 --> 01:45:19.354
Sometimes.
01:45:21.231 --> 01:45:23.900
And some years later,
I heard that that fellow
01:45:23.984 --> 01:45:25.610
did come up with
a bumper sticker slogan,
01:45:25.694 --> 01:45:28.905
and he made a lot of money off of it.
01:45:30.365 --> 01:45:32.576
Another time, I was running along,
01:45:32.701 --> 01:45:35.996
somebody who had lost all his money
in the T-shirt business,
01:45:36.121 --> 01:45:38.123
he wanted to put my face on a T-shirt,
01:45:38.206 --> 01:45:41.168
but he couldn't draw that well,
and he didn't have a camera.
01:45:41.251 --> 01:45:44.629
Here, use this one.
Nobody likes that color anyway.
01:45:49.468 --> 01:45:51.136
Have a nice day.
01:45:52.804 --> 01:45:53.930
Well, some years later,
01:45:54.014 --> 01:45:57.934
I found out that that man
did come up with an idea for a T-shirt.
01:45:58.018 --> 01:46:00.562
He made a lot of money off of it.
01:46:03.357 --> 01:46:07.819
Anyway, like I was saying,
I had a lot of company.
01:46:09.071 --> 01:46:10.197
My mama always said,
01:46:10.322 --> 01:46:14.701
"You got to put the past behind you
before you can move on."
01:46:16.286 --> 01:46:19.623
And I think that's what
my running was all about.
01:46:20.457 --> 01:46:24.461
I had run for three years, two months,
01:46:24.711 --> 01:46:27.047
14 days and 16 hours.
01:46:42.729 --> 01:46:45.065
Quiet. Quiet.
He's going to say something.
01:46:56.368 --> 01:46:58.370
I'm pretty tired.
01:47:01.206 --> 01:47:03.208
Think I'll go home now.
01:47:21.768 --> 01:47:24.146
Now what are we supposed to do?
01:47:25.105 --> 01:47:29.359
And just like that,
my running days was over.
01:47:31.319 --> 01:47:33.071
So, I went home to Alabama.
01:47:33.864 --> 01:47:38.034
Moments ago, at 2:25 p.m.,
as President Reagan was leaving the...
01:47:39.786 --> 01:47:43.957
...five or six gunshots were fired
by an unknown would-be assassin.
01:47:44.458 --> 01:47:46.793
The President was shot in the chest,
and the assailant...
01:47:46.877 --> 01:47:48.837
I picked up the mail.
01:47:49.629 --> 01:47:53.467
And one day, out of the blue clear sky,
I got a letter from Jenny,
01:47:53.550 --> 01:47:57.721
wondering if I could come down
to Savannah and see her,
01:47:57.762 --> 01:48:00.599
and that's what I'm doing here.
01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:03.268
She saw me on TV, running.
01:48:03.351 --> 01:48:07.606
I'm supposed to go on the
number nine bus to Richmond Street
01:48:07.647 --> 01:48:14.613
and get off and go one block left
to 1947 Henry Street, Apartment 4.
01:48:14.654 --> 01:48:18.325
Why, you don't need to take a bus.
01:48:18.450 --> 01:48:22.996
Henry Street is just five
or six blocks down that way.
01:48:24.831 --> 01:48:27.167
- Down that way?
- Down that way.
01:48:30.128 --> 01:48:32.005
It was nice talking to you.
01:48:33.048 --> 01:48:35.675
I hope everything works out for you!
01:48:43.433 --> 01:48:44.059
Hey!
01:48:44.059 --> 01:48:45.644
How you doing? Come in, come in!
01:48:45.727 --> 01:48:46.937
I got your letter.
01:48:47.020 --> 01:48:49.648
I was wondering about that.
01:48:51.191 --> 01:48:52.984
Is this your house?
01:48:53.276 --> 01:48:56.363
Yeah. It's messy right now.
I just got off work.
01:48:56.446 --> 01:49:00.075
It's nice. You got air conditioning.
01:49:06.957 --> 01:49:08.959
- Thank you.
- I ate some.
01:49:11.795 --> 01:49:17.175
Hey, I kept a scrapbook
of your clippings and everything.
01:49:17.300 --> 01:49:18.969
There you are.
01:49:20.679 --> 01:49:21.805
And this, I got you running.
01:49:24.849 --> 01:49:27.018
I ran a long way,
01:49:27.519 --> 01:49:29.354
for a long time.
01:49:31.481 --> 01:49:32.983
And there...
01:49:39.489 --> 01:49:42.951
Listen, Forrest,
I don't know how to say this.
01:49:45.453 --> 01:49:49.791
I just I want to apologize
for anything that I ever did to you,
01:49:49.916 --> 01:49:55.338
'cause I was messed up
for a long time, and...
01:49:58.174 --> 01:49:59.801
- Hey.
- Hi.
01:50:00.010 --> 01:50:01.011
Hey, you.
01:50:02.178 --> 01:50:05.015
- This is an old friend from Alabama.
- How do you do?
01:50:05.140 --> 01:50:08.184
Listen, next week my schedule changes,
so I'll be able to... But thanks...
01:50:08.310 --> 01:50:10.353
No problem. Got to go, Jen,
I'm double-parked.
01:50:10.437 --> 01:50:12.272
- Okay. Thanks.
- Bye.
01:50:15.734 --> 01:50:18.528
This is my very good friend, Mr. Gump.
Can you say hi to him?
01:50:18.570 --> 01:50:21.698
- Hello, Mr. Gump.
- Hello.
01:50:21.740 --> 01:50:24.743
- Can I go watch TV now?
- Yes, you can. Just keep it low.
01:50:27.579 --> 01:50:30.915
- You're a mama, Jenny.
- I'm a mama.
01:50:33.835 --> 01:50:35.670
His name's Forrest.
01:50:36.755 --> 01:50:38.006
Like me.
01:50:39.633 --> 01:50:41.760
I named him after his daddy.
01:50:42.719 --> 01:50:45.180
He got a daddy named Forrest, too?
01:50:46.473 --> 01:50:48.516
You're his daddy, Forrest.
01:51:03.198 --> 01:51:04.407
Hey.
01:51:05.575 --> 01:51:08.411
Forrest, look at me.
Look at me, Forrest.
01:51:11.039 --> 01:51:15.085
There's nothing you need to do, okay?
You didn't do anything wrong.
01:51:15.585 --> 01:51:16.961
Okay?
01:51:21.341 --> 01:51:23.176
Isn't he beautiful?
01:51:24.219 --> 01:51:27.138
He's the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen.
01:51:30.934 --> 01:51:32.060
But...
01:51:35.730 --> 01:51:38.608
Is he smart, or...
01:51:38.650 --> 01:51:42.654
He's very smart.
He's one of the smartest in his class.
01:51:51.913 --> 01:51:54.374
Yeah, it's okay. Go talk to him.
01:52:03.717 --> 01:52:06.553
- What are you watching?
- Bert and Ernie.
01:52:29.576 --> 01:52:31.327
Forrest,
01:52:32.829 --> 01:52:34.330
I'm sick.
01:52:37.000 --> 01:52:40.670
What, do you have
a cough due to a cold?
01:52:40.754 --> 01:52:43.131
I have some kind of virus,
01:52:43.214 --> 01:52:45.925
and the doctors don't...
They don't know what it is,
01:52:46.009 --> 01:52:49.012
and there isn't anything
they can do about it.
01:52:53.516 --> 01:52:55.810
You could come home with me.
01:52:57.520 --> 01:53:03.151
Jenny, you and little Forrest could
come stay at my house in Greenbow.
01:53:07.530 --> 01:53:10.283
I'll take care of you if you're sick.
01:53:12.660 --> 01:53:14.954
Would you marry me, Forrest?
01:53:20.210 --> 01:53:21.461
Okay.
01:53:22.545 --> 01:53:24.047
Please take your seats.
01:53:27.884 --> 01:53:30.220
Forrest? It's time to start.
01:53:49.656 --> 01:53:51.241
Hi.
01:53:52.075 --> 01:53:53.785
Your tie.
01:54:06.256 --> 01:54:07.882
Lieutenant Dan.
01:54:23.231 --> 01:54:25.191
Lieutenant Dan.
01:54:26.025 --> 01:54:27.694
Hello, Forrest.
01:54:28.361 --> 01:54:31.030
You got new legs. New legs!
01:54:32.115 --> 01:54:35.952
Yeah. I got new legs. Custom-made.
01:54:36.619 --> 01:54:40.623
Titanium alloy.
It's what they use on the space shuttle.
01:54:44.502 --> 01:54:45.962
Magic legs.
01:54:47.964 --> 01:54:52.343
This is my fiancée, Susan.
01:54:55.346 --> 01:54:58.725
- Lieutenant Dan.
- Hi, Forrest.
01:55:00.810 --> 01:55:04.022
Lieutenant Dan, this is my Jenny.
01:55:04.314 --> 01:55:06.733
Hey. It's nice to meet you finally.
01:55:15.491 --> 01:55:19.621
Do you, Forrest,
take Jenny to be your wife?
01:55:21.497 --> 01:55:25.752
Do you, Jenny,
take Forrest to be your husband?
01:55:27.086 --> 01:55:30.465
And so I pronounce you man and wife.
01:56:01.412 --> 01:56:03.289
- Hey.
- Hey.
01:56:16.886 --> 01:56:18.680
Hey, Forrest.
01:56:24.018 --> 01:56:25.812
Were you scared in Vietnam?
01:56:27.480 --> 01:56:29.816
Yes. Well, I...
01:56:31.150 --> 01:56:32.860
I don't know.
01:56:33.569 --> 01:56:38.533
Sometimes it would stop raining long
enough for the stars to come out.
01:56:41.661 --> 01:56:43.579
And then it was nice.
01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:50.920
It was like just before the sun
goes to bed down on the bayou.
01:56:52.422 --> 01:56:56.300
There was always
a million sparkles on the water.
01:56:58.094 --> 01:57:02.056
Like that mountain lake.
It was so clear, Jenny,
01:57:02.140 --> 01:57:06.769
it looked like there were two skies,
one on top of the other.
01:57:09.272 --> 01:57:12.316
And then, in the desert,
when the sun comes up,
01:57:14.777 --> 01:57:18.865
I couldn't tell where heaven stopped
01:57:19.407 --> 01:57:21.784
and the earth began.
01:57:23.036 --> 01:57:24.912
It was so beautiful.
01:57:29.625 --> 01:57:32.712
I wish I could've been there with you.
01:57:35.798 --> 01:57:37.216
You were.
01:57:47.935 --> 01:57:49.312
I love you.
01:57:53.900 --> 01:57:57.195
You died on a Saturday morning.
01:57:58.946 --> 01:58:02.658
And I had you placed
here under our tree.
01:58:07.538 --> 01:58:12.376
And I had that house of your father's
bulldozed to the ground.
01:58:16.506 --> 01:58:18.174
Mama
01:58:19.300 --> 01:58:24.180
always said that dying was a part of life.
01:58:27.600 --> 01:58:29.936
I sure wish it wasn't.
01:58:32.605 --> 01:58:36.359
Little Forrest is doing just fine.
01:58:37.693 --> 01:58:38.778
But...
01:58:39.028 --> 01:58:41.697
About to start school again soon,
01:58:43.533 --> 01:58:47.328
and I make his breakfast, lunch
and dinner every day.
01:58:49.497 --> 01:58:55.711
I make sure he combs his hair
and brushes his teeth every day.
01:58:58.714 --> 01:59:01.342
Teaching him how to play Ping-Pong.
01:59:02.593 --> 01:59:03.678
Okay.
01:59:03.886 --> 01:59:05.054
He's really good.
01:59:05.179 --> 01:59:07.265
Forrest, you go.
01:59:11.519 --> 01:59:13.062
We fish a lot.
01:59:16.607 --> 01:59:20.069
And every night, we read a book.
He's so smart, Jenny.
01:59:23.364 --> 01:59:25.575
You'd be so proud of him.
01:59:27.285 --> 01:59:28.744
I am.
01:59:29.745 --> 01:59:32.915
He wrote you a letter.
01:59:34.500 --> 01:59:36.544
And he says I can't read it.
01:59:36.669 --> 01:59:40.214
I'm not supposed to,
so I'll just leave it here for you.
01:59:56.480 --> 01:59:57.815
Jenny,
02:00:03.487 --> 02:00:06.741
I don't know if Mama was right,
02:00:08.075 --> 02:00:09.535
or if it's Lieutenant Dan.
02:00:09.660 --> 02:00:12.288
I don't know
02:00:12.330 --> 02:00:16.834
if we each have a destiny,
02:00:18.920 --> 02:00:24.008
or if we're all just floating around
accidental-like on a breeze.
02:00:28.512 --> 02:00:30.348
But I think
02:00:32.266 --> 02:00:34.018
maybe it's both.
02:00:38.272 --> 02:00:41.150
Maybe both is happening
at the same time.
02:00:47.281 --> 02:00:49.283
But I miss you, Jenny.
02:00:55.873 --> 02:01:00.294
If there's anything you need,
I won't be far away.
02:01:35.496 --> 02:01:38.416
Here's your bus. Okay.
02:01:40.126 --> 02:01:43.337
Hey. I know this.
02:01:43.462 --> 02:01:46.340
I'm gonna show that
for show-and-tell because
02:01:46.465 --> 02:01:49.135
Grandma used to read it to you.
02:01:49.218 --> 02:01:51.345
My favorite book.
02:01:54.682 --> 02:01:56.183
Here we are.
02:01:56.350 --> 02:01:57.810
Okay.
02:01:59.520 --> 02:02:01.022
Here you go.
02:02:05.901 --> 02:02:08.404
Hey, Forrest, don't...
02:02:11.907 --> 02:02:15.578
- I wanted to tell you, I love you.
- I love you, too, Daddy.
02:02:17.496 --> 02:02:20.249
I'll be right here when you get back.
02:02:24.837 --> 02:02:28.090
You understand this is
the bus to school, now, don't you?
02:02:28.174 --> 02:02:31.719
Of course, and you are Dorothy Harris,
and I'm Forrest Gump.