WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Created and Encoded by -- Bokutox -- of www.YIFY-TORRENTS.com. The Best 720p/1080p/3d movies with the lowest file size on the internet. 2 00:02:55.450 --> 00:02:57.117 (BUS APPROACHING) 3 00:03:19.349 --> 00:03:20.599 Hello. 4 00:03:21.559 --> 00:03:24.228 My name's Forrest. Forrest Gump. 5 00:03:29.776 --> 00:03:31.819 Do you want a chocolate? 6 00:03:34.405 --> 00:03:37.825 I could eat about a million and a half of these. 7 00:03:38.993 --> 00:03:44.206 My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. 8 00:03:46.209 --> 00:03:49.086 You never know what you're gonna get. 9 00:03:56.302 --> 00:03:58.846 Those must be comfortable shoes. 10 00:04:00.223 --> 00:04:04.893 I'll bet you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. 11 00:04:07.105 --> 00:04:09.565 I wish I had shoes like that. 12 00:04:10.232 --> 00:04:11.774 My feet hurt. 13 00:04:12.985 --> 00:04:14.652 Mama always said there's an awful lot 14 00:04:14.736 --> 00:04:17.947 you could tell about a person by their shoes: 15 00:04:19.074 --> 00:04:22.034 Where they're going, where they've been. 16 00:04:29.293 --> 00:04:31.335 I've worn lots of shoes. 17 00:04:34.464 --> 00:04:39.260 I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. 18 00:04:42.181 --> 00:04:44.807 Mama said they'd take me anywhere. 19 00:04:45.601 --> 00:04:48.227 She said they was my magic shoes. 20 00:04:48.312 --> 00:04:51.480 All right, Forrest, you can open your eyes now. 21 00:04:58.780 --> 00:05:01.240 Let's take a little walk around. 22 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:09.832 How do those feel? 23 00:05:12.794 --> 00:05:14.962 His legs are strong, Mrs. Gump, 24 00:05:15.047 --> 00:05:17.548 as strong as I've ever seen, 25 00:05:17.633 --> 00:05:21.010 but his back is as crooked as a politician. 26 00:05:22.304 --> 00:05:25.389 But we're gonna straighten him right up, now, aren't we, Forrest? 27 00:05:25.474 --> 00:05:26.599 Forrest! 28 00:05:28.101 --> 00:05:29.310 FORREST: Now, when I was a baby, 29 00:05:29.394 --> 00:05:32.230 Mama named me after the great Civil War hero, 30 00:05:32.314 --> 00:05:34.732 General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 31 00:05:34.816 --> 00:05:37.026 She said we was related to him in some way. 32 00:05:37.110 --> 00:05:38.486 And what he did was, 33 00:05:38.570 --> 00:05:42.823 he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. 34 00:05:42.908 --> 00:05:46.244 They'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets 35 00:05:46.328 --> 00:05:50.665 and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. 36 00:05:50.749 --> 00:05:54.627 They'd even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around. 37 00:05:54.711 --> 00:05:57.755 And anyway, that's how I got my name, 38 00:05:57.839 --> 00:05:59.257 Forrest Gump. 39 00:05:59.341 --> 00:06:01.092 Mama said that the "Forrest" part 40 00:06:01.176 --> 00:06:04.720 was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, 41 00:06:04.805 --> 00:06:07.598 well, just don't make no sense. 42 00:06:08.058 --> 00:06:09.058 (CLANG) 43 00:06:13.272 --> 00:06:16.774 Okay... Get it, get it... 44 00:06:16.858 --> 00:06:19.819 Wait, is it this way? Hold on. 45 00:06:20.737 --> 00:06:22.238 All right... 46 00:06:22.823 --> 00:06:24.490 What are you all staring at? 47 00:06:24.574 --> 00:06:29.036 Haven't you ever seen a little boy with braces on his legs before? 48 00:06:30.580 --> 00:06:34.292 Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest. 49 00:06:34.376 --> 00:06:36.961 If God intended everybody to be the same, 50 00:06:37.045 --> 00:06:39.170 he'd have given us all braces on our legs. 51 00:06:39.255 --> 00:06:40.964 FORREST: Mama always had a way of explaining things 52 00:06:41.048 --> 00:06:43.049 so I could understand them. 53 00:06:44.510 --> 00:06:48.013 We lived about a quarter mile off Route 17, 54 00:06:48.097 --> 00:06:51.141 about a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama. 55 00:06:51.225 --> 00:06:53.977 That's in the county of Greenbow. 56 00:06:54.061 --> 00:06:58.481 Our house had been in Mama's family since her grandpa's grandpa's grandpa 57 00:06:58.566 --> 00:07:00.483 had come across the ocean about 1,000 years ago, 58 00:07:00.568 --> 00:07:02.485 something like that. 59 00:07:02.570 --> 00:07:05.280 Since it was just me and Mama and we had all these empty rooms, 60 00:07:05.364 --> 00:07:08.116 Mama decided to let those rooms out, 61 00:07:08.200 --> 00:07:10.160 mostly to people passing through, 62 00:07:10.244 --> 00:07:14.205 like from, oh, Mobile, Montgomery, places like that. 63 00:07:14.290 --> 00:07:17.000 That's how me and Mama got money. 64 00:07:17.084 --> 00:07:19.836 Mama was a real smart lady. 65 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:24.924 Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody else is. 66 00:07:27.428 --> 00:07:29.804 Did you hear what I said, Forrest? 67 00:07:29.889 --> 00:07:34.059 You're the same as everybody else. You are no different. 68 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.022 Your boy's different, Mrs. Gump. 69 00:07:39.106 --> 00:07:41.316 Now, his IQ is 75. 70 00:07:42.109 --> 00:07:45.236 Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock. 71 00:07:48.824 --> 00:07:50.867 FORREST: She wanted me to have the finest education, 72 00:07:50.951 --> 00:07:54.871 so she took me to the Greenbow County Central School. 73 00:07:54.955 --> 00:07:57.207 I met the principal and all. 74 00:07:57.708 --> 00:08:00.585 I want to show you something, Mrs. Gump. 75 00:08:01.045 --> 00:08:03.922 Now, this is normal. 76 00:08:04.423 --> 00:08:07.717 Forrest is right here. 77 00:08:08.552 --> 00:08:14.099 The state requires a minimum IQ of 80 to attend public school, Mrs. Gump. 78 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.477 He's gonna have to go to a special school. 79 00:08:17.561 --> 00:08:19.687 Now, he'll be just fine. 80 00:08:20.481 --> 00:08:22.565 What does "normal" mean, anyway? 81 00:08:22.650 --> 00:08:26.027 He might be a bit on the slow side, 82 00:08:27.154 --> 00:08:28.905 but my boy Forrest is gonna get 83 00:08:28.989 --> 00:08:31.533 the same opportunities as everyone else. 84 00:08:31.617 --> 00:08:35.412 He's not going to some special school to learn how to re-tread tires. 85 00:08:35.496 --> 00:08:38.665 We're talking about five little points here. 86 00:08:40.376 --> 00:08:43.002 There must be something can be done. 87 00:08:44.588 --> 00:08:47.048 We're a progressive school system. 88 00:08:47.883 --> 00:08:50.802 We don't want to see anybody left behind. 89 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.140 Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump? 90 00:08:58.394 --> 00:09:00.270 He's on vacation. 91 00:09:01.272 --> 00:09:04.023 (GASPING AND PANTING) 92 00:09:17.745 --> 00:09:21.540 Well, your mama sure does care about your schooling, son. 93 00:09:27.046 --> 00:09:29.506 You don't say much, do you? 94 00:09:32.886 --> 00:09:36.054 (GASPING AND PANTING) 95 00:09:41.019 --> 00:09:42.978 "Finally, he had to try. 96 00:09:43.062 --> 00:09:45.022 "It looked easy, but, 97 00:09:46.232 --> 00:09:48.567 "oh, what happened. 98 00:09:48.651 --> 00:09:51.653 - "First, there..." - Mama, what's "vacation" mean? 99 00:09:52.197 --> 00:09:54.781 - Vacation? - Where Daddy went. 100 00:09:57.410 --> 00:10:00.120 Vacation's when you go somewhere 101 00:10:02.499 --> 00:10:04.833 and you don't ever come back. 102 00:10:09.172 --> 00:10:12.966 FORREST: Anyway, I guess you could say me and Mama was on our own. 103 00:10:14.177 --> 00:10:17.804 But we didn't mind. Our house was never empty. 104 00:10:17.889 --> 00:10:20.474 There was always folks coming and going. 105 00:10:20.558 --> 00:10:21.642 MRS. GUMP: Supper. 106 00:10:21.726 --> 00:10:25.145 - It's supper, everyone. Forrest... - My, my. That sure looks special. 107 00:10:25.230 --> 00:10:27.773 FORREST: Sometimes we had so many people staying with us 108 00:10:27.857 --> 00:10:30.526 that every room was filled with travelers. 109 00:10:30.610 --> 00:10:34.238 You know, folks living out of their suitcases 110 00:10:34.322 --> 00:10:37.282 and hat cases and sample cases. 111 00:10:37.367 --> 00:10:40.786 Forrest Gump, it's suppertime! Forrest... 112 00:10:40.870 --> 00:10:43.413 One time, a young man was staying with us, 113 00:10:43.498 --> 00:10:47.125 and he had him a guitar case. 114 00:10:55.260 --> 00:10:58.095 (SINGING HOUND DOG) 115 00:11:01.099 --> 00:11:05.102 Forrest! I told you not to bother this nice young man. 116 00:11:05.186 --> 00:11:06.520 ELVIS PRESLEY: Oh, no, that's all right, ma'am. 117 00:11:06.604 --> 00:11:09.439 I was just showing him a thing or two on the guitar here. 118 00:11:09.524 --> 00:11:12.484 All right, but your supper's ready if y'all want to eat. 119 00:11:12.569 --> 00:11:15.529 Yeah, that sounds good. Thank you, ma'am. 120 00:11:16.197 --> 00:11:19.783 Say, man, show me that crazy little walk you just did there. 121 00:11:19.867 --> 00:11:21.743 Slow it down some. 122 00:11:21.953 --> 00:11:23.787 (SINGING HOUND DOG) 123 00:11:23.871 --> 00:11:25.789 FORREST: I liked that guitar. 124 00:11:26.457 --> 00:11:28.208 It sounded good. 125 00:11:30.003 --> 00:11:34.172 I started moving around to the music, 126 00:11:34.257 --> 00:11:36.090 swinging my hips. 127 00:11:38.677 --> 00:11:41.220 This one night, me and Mama was out shopping, 128 00:11:41.305 --> 00:11:44.307 and we walked right by Benson's furniture and appliance store, 129 00:11:44.391 --> 00:11:45.975 and guess what? 130 00:11:47.436 --> 00:11:50.730 (SINGING HOUND DOG) 131 00:11:58.322 --> 00:12:01.157 This is not for children's eyes. 132 00:12:03.702 --> 00:12:05.494 Some years later, that handsome young man 133 00:12:05.579 --> 00:12:08.122 who they called "The King," 134 00:12:08.206 --> 00:12:10.541 well, he'd sung too many songs, 135 00:12:11.209 --> 00:12:13.753 had himself a heart attack, or something. 136 00:12:14.838 --> 00:12:17.006 Must be hard being a king. 137 00:12:21.303 --> 00:12:24.138 You know, it's funny how you remember some things, but some things you can't. 138 00:12:24.890 --> 00:12:28.768 - You do your very best now, Forrest. - I sure will, Mama. 139 00:12:30.479 --> 00:12:35.066 FORREST: I remember the bus ride on the first day of school very well. 140 00:12:38.612 --> 00:12:40.321 Are you coming along? 141 00:12:40.405 --> 00:12:43.908 Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers. 142 00:12:43.992 --> 00:12:46.160 This is the bus to school. 143 00:12:49.122 --> 00:12:51.374 I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump. 144 00:12:52.334 --> 00:12:56.337 - I'm Dorothy Harris. - Well, now we ain't strangers anymore. 145 00:13:09.351 --> 00:13:11.143 This seat's taken. 146 00:13:13.605 --> 00:13:15.106 It's taken! 147 00:13:22.989 --> 00:13:24.865 You can't sit here. 148 00:13:27.035 --> 00:13:30.454 FORREST: You know, it's funny what a young man recollects, 149 00:13:30.539 --> 00:13:32.915 'cause I don't remember being born. 150 00:13:34.543 --> 00:13:36.711 I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas, 151 00:13:36.795 --> 00:13:39.880 and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. 152 00:13:39.965 --> 00:13:44.677 But I do remember the first time I heard 153 00:13:44.761 --> 00:13:47.596 the sweetest voice in the wide world. 154 00:13:48.098 --> 00:13:50.474 JENNY: You can sit here if you want. 155 00:13:53.395 --> 00:13:57.273 I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. 156 00:13:57.983 --> 00:14:00.067 She was like an angel. 157 00:14:00.152 --> 00:14:03.069 Well, are you gonna sit down, or aren't you? 158 00:14:08.033 --> 00:14:09.826 What's wrong with your legs? 159 00:14:09.910 --> 00:14:14.164 Nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy. 160 00:14:15.082 --> 00:14:17.250 I just sat next to her on that bus 161 00:14:17.334 --> 00:14:19.419 and had a conversation all the way to school. 162 00:14:19.503 --> 00:14:22.213 ...my back's crooked like a question mark. 163 00:14:22.298 --> 00:14:23.465 These are going to make me... 164 00:14:23.549 --> 00:14:28.303 And next to Mama, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions. 165 00:14:28.846 --> 00:14:30.805 Are you stupid or something? 166 00:14:30.890 --> 00:14:33.892 Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does." 167 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.189 - I'm Jenny. - I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump. 168 00:14:39.857 --> 00:14:41.691 From that day on, we was always together. 169 00:14:41.776 --> 00:14:44.611 Jenny and me was like peas and carrots. 170 00:14:48.199 --> 00:14:49.824 She taught me how to climb. 171 00:14:49.909 --> 00:14:52.619 Come on, Forrest, you can do it. 172 00:14:52.703 --> 00:14:55.330 I showed her how to dangle. 173 00:14:55.414 --> 00:14:57.457 "...a good little monkey and..." 174 00:14:57.541 --> 00:15:02.462 She helped me learn how to read, and I showed her how to swing. 175 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.551 Sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for the stars. 176 00:15:08.636 --> 00:15:13.556 - Mama's gonna worry about me. - Just stay a little longer. 177 00:15:14.809 --> 00:15:18.561 For some reason, Jenny didn't never want to go home. 178 00:15:18.646 --> 00:15:20.730 Okay, Jenny, I'll stay. 179 00:15:21.565 --> 00:15:24.317 She was my most special friend. 180 00:15:27.738 --> 00:15:29.405 My only friend. 181 00:15:33.202 --> 00:15:36.996 Now, my mama always told me that miracles happen every day. 182 00:15:37.081 --> 00:15:39.457 Some people don't think so, but they do. 183 00:15:42.503 --> 00:15:44.087 Hey, dummy! 184 00:15:45.047 --> 00:15:47.131 Are you retarded, orjust plain stupid? 185 00:15:47.216 --> 00:15:50.718 - "Look, I'm Forrest Gimp." - JENNY: Just run away, Forrest. 186 00:15:52.054 --> 00:15:55.139 Run, Forrest! Run away! Hurry! 187 00:15:55.224 --> 00:15:58.476 - Get the bikes! - BOY 1: Hurry up! Let's get him! 188 00:15:58.561 --> 00:16:01.104 - Come on! - Look out, dummy, here we come! 189 00:16:01.188 --> 00:16:03.022 We're gonna get you! 190 00:16:03.983 --> 00:16:07.735 Run, Forrest, run! Run, Forrest! 191 00:16:09.446 --> 00:16:11.364 Come back here, you! 192 00:16:25.004 --> 00:16:27.463 Run, Forrest! 193 00:16:27.548 --> 00:16:28.965 Run! 194 00:17:00.163 --> 00:17:03.040 FORREST: Now, you wouldn't believe it if I told you, 195 00:17:04.167 --> 00:17:06.668 but I can run like the wind blows. 196 00:17:09.923 --> 00:17:13.008 From that day on, if I was going somewhere, 197 00:17:13.843 --> 00:17:15.135 I was running! 198 00:17:15.219 --> 00:17:17.596 BOY 1: He's getting away! Stop him! 199 00:17:49.045 --> 00:17:52.047 That boy sure is a running fool. 200 00:17:56.260 --> 00:17:57.636 Now, remember how I told you that 201 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.639 Jenny never seemed to want to go home? 202 00:18:00.723 --> 00:18:03.809 Well, she lived in a house that was as old as Alabama. 203 00:18:03.893 --> 00:18:06.061 Her mama had gone up to heaven when she was five, 204 00:18:06.145 --> 00:18:09.481 and her daddy was some kind of a farmer. 205 00:18:11.317 --> 00:18:12.359 Jenny? 206 00:18:12.443 --> 00:18:14.611 He was a very loving man. 207 00:18:15.071 --> 00:18:19.324 He was always kissing and touching her and her sisters. 208 00:18:21.077 --> 00:18:25.497 And then this one time, Jenny wasn't on the bus to go to school. 209 00:18:26.666 --> 00:18:28.625 Jenny, why didn't you come to school today? 210 00:18:28.710 --> 00:18:29.710 (SHUSHES) 211 00:18:29.794 --> 00:18:31.670 Daddy's taking a nap. 212 00:18:31.754 --> 00:18:33.463 - MR. CURRAN: Jenny! - Come on! 213 00:18:34.924 --> 00:18:37.467 MR. CURRAN: Jenny, where'd you run to? 214 00:18:38.803 --> 00:18:41.471 You'd better get back here, girl! 215 00:18:42.932 --> 00:18:44.599 Where you at? 216 00:18:47.979 --> 00:18:51.273 Jenny! Jenny! Where you at? 217 00:18:54.277 --> 00:18:55.610 Jenny! 218 00:18:55.695 --> 00:18:58.655 Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me. 219 00:18:58.781 --> 00:18:59.905 MR. CURRAN: Jenny! 220 00:18:59.990 --> 00:19:03.200 Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, 221 00:19:03.285 --> 00:19:05.036 far, far away from here. 222 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:08.789 Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, 223 00:19:08.874 --> 00:19:09.999 far, far away from here. 224 00:19:10.125 --> 00:19:13.169 Mama always said that God is mysterious. 225 00:19:13.295 --> 00:19:14.420 Jenny! 226 00:19:14.504 --> 00:19:16.839 He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day. 227 00:19:16.965 --> 00:19:18.049 You'd better get back here! 228 00:19:18.133 --> 00:19:19.633 Instead, 229 00:19:20.302 --> 00:19:24.847 he had the police say Jenny didn't have to stay in that house no more. 230 00:19:25.307 --> 00:19:29.018 She went to live with her grandma just over on Creekmore Avenue, 231 00:19:29.144 --> 00:19:32.313 which made me happy, 'cause she was so close. 232 00:19:34.900 --> 00:19:39.945 Some nights, Jenny would sneak out and come on over to my house, 233 00:19:40.030 --> 00:19:43.157 just 'cause she said she was scared. 234 00:19:43.241 --> 00:19:45.701 Scared of what, I don't know, 235 00:19:45.827 --> 00:19:49.038 but I think it was her grandma's dog. 236 00:19:49.164 --> 00:19:50.915 He was a mean dog. 237 00:19:51.666 --> 00:19:54.376 Anyway, Jenny and me was best friends 238 00:19:54.461 --> 00:19:55.753 all the way up through high school. 239 00:19:57.714 --> 00:19:59.757 - Hey, stupid! - Quit it! 240 00:20:00.884 --> 00:20:03.177 - Run, Forrest, run! - Hey, 241 00:20:03.887 --> 00:20:05.346 did you hear me, stupid? 242 00:20:05.430 --> 00:20:06.639 - Run, Forrest! - Come on, get in the truck! 243 00:20:06.723 --> 00:20:08.849 BOY 1: Get in the truck! Let's move it! 244 00:20:08.934 --> 00:20:11.685 Come on, he's getting away! Move it! 245 00:20:11.770 --> 00:20:13.938 Run, Forrest! Run! 246 00:20:14.022 --> 00:20:17.566 BOY 2: You better be running, stupid! BOY 1: Come on, dummy! 247 00:20:19.528 --> 00:20:23.030 - Haul ass, dummy! - Yeah, you better get running! 248 00:20:26.034 --> 00:20:27.701 Jack rabbit! 249 00:20:34.376 --> 00:20:36.043 (BOYS LAUGHING) 250 00:20:36.128 --> 00:20:37.378 Yeah! 251 00:20:38.213 --> 00:20:40.381 Go! Go! Go! 252 00:20:42.092 --> 00:20:43.717 Run, Forrest! 253 00:20:46.721 --> 00:20:50.307 Now, it used to be, I ran to get where I was going, 254 00:20:51.893 --> 00:20:54.395 I never thought it would take me anywhere. 255 00:20:57.274 --> 00:20:59.859 (BOYS WHOOPING) 256 00:21:23.425 --> 00:21:27.595 - Who in the hell is that? - That there is Forrest Gump, Coach. 257 00:21:28.596 --> 00:21:30.430 Just a local idiot. 258 00:21:31.098 --> 00:21:34.601 FORREST: And can you believe it? I got to go to college, too. 259 00:21:41.192 --> 00:21:43.818 Forrest! Forrest! Run! 260 00:21:43.944 --> 00:21:45.528 - Okay! - Run! 261 00:21:45.613 --> 00:21:49.157 Run, you stupid son of a bitch! Run! 262 00:22:00.628 --> 00:22:04.172 You son of a bitch! Run! Go! Run! 263 00:22:06.550 --> 00:22:09.302 No! Turn! Go! 264 00:22:20.522 --> 00:22:24.150 He must be the stupidest son of a bitch alive, 265 00:22:24.235 --> 00:22:26.110 but he sure is fast! 266 00:22:26.195 --> 00:22:27.779 (ALL CHEERING) 267 00:22:29.156 --> 00:22:34.160 FORREST: Now, maybe it's just me, but college was very confusing times. 268 00:22:35.496 --> 00:22:37.413 Federal troops enforcing a court order 269 00:22:37.498 --> 00:22:40.500 integrated the University of Alabama today. 270 00:22:40.584 --> 00:22:41.793 Two negroes were admitted, 271 00:22:41.877 --> 00:22:45.171 but only after Governor George Wallace had carried out his symbolic threat 272 00:22:45.256 --> 00:22:46.798 to stand in the school house door. 273 00:22:46.882 --> 00:22:51.552 KATZENBACH: Governor Wallace, I take it from that statement, that... 274 00:22:51.679 --> 00:22:53.680 Earl, what's going on? 275 00:22:53.764 --> 00:22:57.100 - Coons are trying to get into school. - Coons? 276 00:22:57.184 --> 00:22:58.851 When raccoons try to get on our back porch, 277 00:22:58.936 --> 00:23:00.728 Mama just chase them off with a broom. 278 00:23:00.854 --> 00:23:05.358 Not raccoons, you idiot, niggers, and they want to go to school with us. 279 00:23:05.859 --> 00:23:07.902 With us? They do? 280 00:23:08.862 --> 00:23:11.364 REPORTER: Shortly after Governor Wallace had carried out his promise 281 00:23:11.448 --> 00:23:12.657 to block the doorway, 282 00:23:12.741 --> 00:23:14.701 President Kennedy ordered the Secretary of Defense 283 00:23:14.785 --> 00:23:16.786 then to use military force. 284 00:23:16.870 --> 00:23:19.580 Here, by videotape, is the encounter by General Graham, 285 00:23:19.707 --> 00:23:22.959 commander of the National Guard, and Governor Wallace. 286 00:23:23.043 --> 00:23:26.754 ...because these National Guardsmen are here today 287 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.382 as federal soldiers for Alabamans. 288 00:23:29.466 --> 00:23:33.386 They live within our borders, they are all our brothers. 289 00:23:33.470 --> 00:23:35.888 We are winning in this fight, 290 00:23:35.973 --> 00:23:38.975 because we are awakening the American people 291 00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:42.395 to the dangers that we have spoken about so many times, 292 00:23:42.479 --> 00:23:48.776 just so evident today, the trend towards military dictatorship in this country. 293 00:23:52.239 --> 00:23:54.699 REPORTER: And so, at day's end, the University of Alabama 294 00:23:54.783 --> 00:23:57.075 in Tuscaloosa had been desegregated 295 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.162 and students Jimmy Hood and Vivian Malone 296 00:24:00.246 --> 00:24:03.332 had been signed up for summer classes. 297 00:24:05.918 --> 00:24:08.754 Ma'am, you dropped your book. Ma'am... 298 00:24:09.297 --> 00:24:11.256 HUNTLEY: Governor Wallace did what he promised to do. 299 00:24:11.341 --> 00:24:14.885 By being on the Tuscaloosa campus, he kept the mob from gathering... 300 00:24:14.969 --> 00:24:17.095 Say, wasn't that Gump? 301 00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:21.266 - Nah, that couldn't be. - It sure as hell was. 302 00:24:26.022 --> 00:24:27.856 FORREST: A few years later, that angry little man 303 00:24:27.940 --> 00:24:30.442 at the school house door thought it would be a good idea 304 00:24:30.526 --> 00:24:32.694 and ran for president. 305 00:24:32.820 --> 00:24:34.071 (GUNSHOTS FIRING) 306 00:24:35.782 --> 00:24:38.450 But somebody thought that it wasn't. 307 00:24:40.161 --> 00:24:42.204 But he didn't die. 308 00:24:46.793 --> 00:24:48.460 My bus is here. 309 00:24:49.170 --> 00:24:52.297 - Is it the number nine? - No, it's the number four. 310 00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:55.467 It was nice talking to you. 311 00:24:58.388 --> 00:25:02.474 I remember when that happened, when Wallace got shot. 312 00:25:03.351 --> 00:25:04.810 I was in college. 313 00:25:04.894 --> 00:25:06.103 Did you go to a girls' college, 314 00:25:06.187 --> 00:25:08.021 or to a girls-and-boys-together college? 315 00:25:08.147 --> 00:25:09.147 It was co-ed. 316 00:25:09.232 --> 00:25:11.942 'Cause Jenny went to a college I couldn't go to. 317 00:25:12.026 --> 00:25:14.361 It was a college just for girls. 318 00:25:14.487 --> 00:25:17.656 But I'd go and visit her every chance I got. 319 00:25:47.353 --> 00:25:48.311 (JENNY EXCLAIMS) 320 00:25:48.396 --> 00:25:50.021 That hurts. 321 00:26:00.783 --> 00:26:02.951 Forrest! Forrest! 322 00:26:05.204 --> 00:26:08.123 - Forrest, stop it! Stop it! - BILLY: Jesus! 323 00:26:08.207 --> 00:26:09.332 What are you doing? 324 00:26:09.417 --> 00:26:11.084 - He was hurting you. - What the hell is going on here? 325 00:26:11.210 --> 00:26:14.880 - No, he's not! Get over there! - Who is that? Who is that? 326 00:26:14.964 --> 00:26:16.047 - Billy, I'm sorry. - What the hell? 327 00:26:16.132 --> 00:26:18.717 - Just get away from me! - Don't... 328 00:26:18.801 --> 00:26:21.761 - Don't go! Billy, wait a second! - Get away from me. 329 00:26:21.888 --> 00:26:24.055 He doesn't know any better! 330 00:26:25.807 --> 00:26:28.476 Forrest, why did you do that? 331 00:26:31.438 --> 00:26:34.398 I brought you some chocolate. 332 00:26:34.774 --> 00:26:36.484 I'm sorry. 333 00:26:38.653 --> 00:26:41.947 - I'll go back to my college now. - Forrest... 334 00:26:45.660 --> 00:26:47.244 Look at you. 335 00:26:49.331 --> 00:26:51.415 Come on. Come on. 336 00:26:58.924 --> 00:27:00.799 - Is this your room? - Shh! 337 00:27:05.263 --> 00:27:07.515 Do you ever dream, Forrest, 338 00:27:08.850 --> 00:27:11.685 about who you're gonna be? 339 00:27:11.770 --> 00:27:13.562 - Who I'm gonna be? - Yeah. 340 00:27:13.647 --> 00:27:15.523 Aren't I going to be me? 341 00:27:15.607 --> 00:27:19.276 Well, you'll always be you, just another kind of you. 342 00:27:20.195 --> 00:27:23.447 You know? I want to be famous. 343 00:27:25.158 --> 00:27:27.952 I want to be a singer like Joan Baez. 344 00:27:29.162 --> 00:27:32.289 I just want to be on an empty stage 345 00:27:32.374 --> 00:27:34.667 with my guitar, my voice. 346 00:27:36.503 --> 00:27:37.962 Just me. 347 00:27:39.464 --> 00:27:42.800 And I want to reach people on the personal level. 348 00:27:45.470 --> 00:27:48.806 I want to be able to say things, just one-to-one. 349 00:27:56.314 --> 00:27:59.191 Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest? 350 00:28:00.652 --> 00:28:04.488 I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time. 351 00:28:30.015 --> 00:28:31.849 (EXCLAIMING) 352 00:28:33.435 --> 00:28:35.853 - I'm... Sorry. - It's okay. 353 00:28:44.404 --> 00:28:46.113 It's all right. 354 00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:51.118 - It's okay. - Oh, I'm dizzy. 355 00:28:59.793 --> 00:29:02.545 I bet that never happened in Home Ec. 356 00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:07.300 (LAUGHING) 357 00:29:07.384 --> 00:29:08.551 No. 358 00:29:14.767 --> 00:29:17.894 I think I ruined your roommate's bathrobe. 359 00:29:17.978 --> 00:29:20.021 (WHISPERING) I don't care. I don't like her, anyway. 360 00:29:20.105 --> 00:29:23.483 CROWD: Run! Run! Run! 361 00:29:23.567 --> 00:29:28.071 - Run! Run! Run! - Run! Run! Run! 362 00:29:35.996 --> 00:29:40.208 FORREST: College ran by real fast, 'cause I played so much football. 363 00:29:40.292 --> 00:29:43.544 They even put me on a thing called the All-America Team, 364 00:29:43.629 --> 00:29:47.423 where you get to meet the President of the United States. 365 00:29:47.508 --> 00:29:49.092 REPORTER: President Kennedy met with the Collegiate 366 00:29:49.176 --> 00:29:52.762 All-American Football Team at the Oval Office today. 367 00:29:53.347 --> 00:29:55.348 FORREST: Now, the really good thing about meeting 368 00:29:55.432 --> 00:29:59.227 the President of the United States is the food. 369 00:29:59.311 --> 00:30:02.021 They put you in this little room with just about anything 370 00:30:02.106 --> 00:30:04.607 you'd want to eat or drink. 371 00:30:05.109 --> 00:30:08.569 And since, number one, I wasn't hungry, but thirsty, 372 00:30:08.654 --> 00:30:11.322 and number two, they was free, 373 00:30:11.448 --> 00:30:14.492 I must have drank me about 15 Dr. Peppers. 374 00:30:15.285 --> 00:30:16.285 (BURPS) 375 00:30:17.454 --> 00:30:19.580 KENNEDY: Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American? 376 00:30:19.665 --> 00:30:21.416 PLAYER 1: It's an honor, sir. 377 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:23.584 KENNEDY: Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American? 378 00:30:23.669 --> 00:30:25.294 PLAYER 2: Very good, sir. 379 00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:28.548 Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American? 380 00:30:28.632 --> 00:30:30.383 Very good, sir. 381 00:30:30.467 --> 00:30:34.137 - Congratulations. How do you feel? - I gotta pee. 382 00:30:34.805 --> 00:30:37.098 (CHUCKLING) I believe he said he had to "go pee." 383 00:30:52.322 --> 00:30:55.199 FORREST: Sometime later, for no particular reason, 384 00:30:55.325 --> 00:30:57.702 somebody shot that nice young President, 385 00:30:57.828 --> 00:31:00.204 when he was riding in his car. 386 00:31:00.831 --> 00:31:04.959 And a few years after that, somebody shot his little brother, too, 387 00:31:05.043 --> 00:31:07.170 only he was in a hotel kitchen. 388 00:31:08.630 --> 00:31:11.048 It must be hard being brothers. 389 00:31:12.050 --> 00:31:13.259 I wouldn't know. 390 00:31:13.844 --> 00:31:15.219 Forrest Gump. 391 00:31:15.345 --> 00:31:16.596 FORREST: Now can you believe it? 392 00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:20.600 After only five years of playing football, I got a college degree. 393 00:31:20.684 --> 00:31:22.684 Congratulations, son. 394 00:31:23.478 --> 00:31:25.520 Mama was so proud. 395 00:31:26.856 --> 00:31:30.692 Forrest, I'm so proud of you. Here, I'll hold this for you. 396 00:31:30.818 --> 00:31:32.903 Congratulations, son. 397 00:31:33.029 --> 00:31:36.031 Have you given any thought to your future? 398 00:31:37.867 --> 00:31:39.201 Thought? 399 00:31:40.661 --> 00:31:42.496 Hello, I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump. 400 00:31:42.580 --> 00:31:45.582 Nobody gives a hunk of shit who you are, fuzzball! 401 00:31:45.708 --> 00:31:48.335 You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! 402 00:31:48.419 --> 00:31:52.380 Get your faggotty ass on the bus. You're in the Army now! 403 00:31:52.715 --> 00:31:54.508 This seat's taken. 404 00:31:56.385 --> 00:31:57.761 Taken. 405 00:32:00.681 --> 00:32:03.475 FORREST: At first, it seemed like I made a mistake, 406 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:05.602 seeing how it was only my induction day 407 00:32:05.728 --> 00:32:08.438 and I was already getting yelled at. 408 00:32:11.526 --> 00:32:13.777 You can sit down if you want to. 409 00:32:13.903 --> 00:32:17.739 I didn't know who I might meet, or what they might ask. 410 00:32:17.865 --> 00:32:20.450 You ever been on a real shrimp boat? 411 00:32:20.952 --> 00:32:24.579 No, but I been on a real big boat. 412 00:32:25.373 --> 00:32:28.166 I'm talking about a shrimp-catching boat. 413 00:32:28.251 --> 00:32:30.752 I've been working on shrimp boats all my life. 414 00:32:30.878 --> 00:32:33.630 I started out on my uncle's boat, that's my mama's brother, 415 00:32:33.756 --> 00:32:35.799 when I was about maybe nine. 416 00:32:35.925 --> 00:32:40.053 I was just looking into buying a boat of my own and got drafted. 417 00:32:40.888 --> 00:32:45.767 My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me Bubba. 418 00:32:46.435 --> 00:32:50.063 Just like one of them old redneck boys. Can you believe that? 419 00:32:50.147 --> 00:32:53.817 My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump. 420 00:32:54.777 --> 00:32:57.195 FORREST: So, Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 421 00:32:57.280 --> 00:32:59.197 and his mama cooked shrimp, 422 00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:04.327 and her mama before her cooked shrimp, 423 00:33:04.453 --> 00:33:07.414 and her mama before her mama cooked shrimp, too. 424 00:33:07.498 --> 00:33:08.707 Bubba's family knew everything 425 00:33:08.791 --> 00:33:11.418 there was to know about the shrimping business. 426 00:33:11.502 --> 00:33:14.546 I know everything there is to know about the shrimping business. 427 00:33:14.630 --> 00:33:17.632 Matter of fact, I'm going into the shrimping business for myself 428 00:33:17.758 --> 00:33:20.093 after I get out the Army. 429 00:33:22.763 --> 00:33:23.805 Okay. 430 00:33:24.015 --> 00:33:28.101 Gump! What's your sole purpose in this Army? 431 00:33:28.185 --> 00:33:30.729 To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant! 432 00:33:30.813 --> 00:33:34.190 God damn it, Gump! You're a goddamn genius! 433 00:33:34.317 --> 00:33:36.651 That's the most outstanding answer I've ever heard. 434 00:33:36.777 --> 00:33:39.529 You must have a goddamn IQ of 160! 435 00:33:39.655 --> 00:33:42.616 You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump! 436 00:33:43.618 --> 00:33:45.493 Listen up, people! 437 00:33:45.620 --> 00:33:49.788 FORREST: Now, for some reason, I fit in the Army like one of them round pegs. 438 00:33:49.873 --> 00:33:51.123 It's not really hard. 439 00:33:51.207 --> 00:33:54.835 You just make your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight, 440 00:33:54.961 --> 00:33:58.923 and always answer every question with, "Yes, Drill Sergeant!" 441 00:33:59.007 --> 00:34:00.466 DRILL SERGEANT: Is that clear? 442 00:34:00.550 --> 00:34:02.676 - Yes, Drill Sergeant! - Yes, Drill Sergeant! 443 00:34:03.178 --> 00:34:06.472 What you do is, you just drag your nets along the bottom. 444 00:34:06.556 --> 00:34:10.309 On a good day, you can catch over 100 pounds of shrimp. 445 00:34:10.393 --> 00:34:13.812 If everything goes all right, two men shrimping 10 hours, 446 00:34:13.897 --> 00:34:16.607 less what you spend on gas, you can... 447 00:34:16.691 --> 00:34:19.485 - Done, Drill Sergeant! - Gump! 448 00:34:21.863 --> 00:34:24.615 Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump? 449 00:34:24.699 --> 00:34:26.367 You told me to, Drill Sergeant. 450 00:34:26.493 --> 00:34:29.912 Jesus H. Christ, this is a new company record. 451 00:34:30.038 --> 00:34:32.498 If it wouldn't be a waste of such a damn fine enlisted man, 452 00:34:32.582 --> 00:34:34.875 I'd recommend you for OCS, Private Gump. 453 00:34:35.001 --> 00:34:36.835 You are gonna be a general some day, Gump. 454 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.005 Now, disassemble your weapon and continue! 455 00:34:42.092 --> 00:34:45.886 Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. 456 00:34:45.971 --> 00:34:50.724 You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. 457 00:34:50.809 --> 00:34:53.811 There's shrimp kebabs, shrimp Creole... 458 00:34:54.104 --> 00:34:58.941 ...shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. 459 00:34:59.275 --> 00:35:02.820 There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, 460 00:35:02.904 --> 00:35:05.239 coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp... 461 00:35:05.573 --> 00:35:11.537 ...shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, 462 00:35:11.621 --> 00:35:14.665 shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... 463 00:35:17.252 --> 00:35:19.586 That's... That's about it. 464 00:35:23.299 --> 00:35:26.260 FORREST: Night time in the Army is a lonely time. 465 00:35:27.137 --> 00:35:30.764 We'd lay there in our bunks and I'd miss my mama. 466 00:35:31.349 --> 00:35:33.851 And I'd miss Jenny. 467 00:35:37.772 --> 00:35:41.650 Hey, Gump, get a load of the tits on her! 468 00:35:55.123 --> 00:35:58.250 Turns out, Jenny had gotten into some trouble over 469 00:35:58.334 --> 00:36:01.670 some photos of her in her college sweater, 470 00:36:01.796 --> 00:36:04.339 and she was thrown out of school. 471 00:36:07.886 --> 00:36:10.095 But that wasn't a bad thing, 472 00:36:10.180 --> 00:36:13.766 because a man who owns a theater in Memphis, Tennessee, 473 00:36:13.850 --> 00:36:18.895 saw those photos and offered Jenny a job singing in a show. 474 00:36:19.688 --> 00:36:21.522 The first chance I got, 475 00:36:21.648 --> 00:36:25.318 I took the bus up to Memphis to see her perform in that show. 476 00:36:25.402 --> 00:36:26.903 That was Amber, Amber Flame. 477 00:36:26.987 --> 00:36:29.447 Give her a big hand, guys. Good job, Amber. 478 00:36:29.531 --> 00:36:32.283 And now, for your listening and viewing pleasure, 479 00:36:32.367 --> 00:36:36.204 direct from Hollywood, California, our very own beatnik beauty, 480 00:36:36.330 --> 00:36:39.999 let's give a big round of applause to the luscious Bobbi Dylan. 481 00:36:40.250 --> 00:36:42.085 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 482 00:36:42.169 --> 00:36:44.420 MAN 1: All right! MAN 2: Bobbi! 483 00:36:49.301 --> 00:36:53.971 (SINGING BLOWIN' IN THE WIND) 484 00:37:07.361 --> 00:37:09.445 Her dream had come true. 485 00:37:10.697 --> 00:37:12.698 She was a folk singer. 486 00:37:21.959 --> 00:37:24.210 MAN 3: Come on, baby. Shake it up. Shake it up, now. 487 00:37:24.294 --> 00:37:25.795 MAN 4: Hey, buddy, get her a harmonica. 488 00:37:26.004 --> 00:37:27.588 (CROWD LAUGHING) 489 00:37:29.550 --> 00:37:31.592 MAN 1: Hey, honey, this ain't Captain Kangaroo. 490 00:37:31.718 --> 00:37:34.262 Hey, honey, I got something here for you. 491 00:37:35.305 --> 00:37:39.058 - God damn it! - Hey! Hey! Stupid jerk! 492 00:37:39.143 --> 00:37:41.602 I'm singing a song here. 493 00:37:43.939 --> 00:37:46.357 Polly, get out here! 494 00:37:46.441 --> 00:37:48.151 - Shut up, there! - MAN 2: Don't be so shy, honey. 495 00:37:48.235 --> 00:37:49.777 JENNY: Oh, shut up! 496 00:37:52.447 --> 00:37:55.199 Forrest, what are you doing here? 497 00:37:55.284 --> 00:37:56.993 - What are you doing? - MAN 3: Hey! 498 00:37:57.077 --> 00:37:58.452 - Come on. - What are you doing? 499 00:37:58.579 --> 00:38:00.580 Forrest, let me down! 500 00:38:01.915 --> 00:38:02.915 (CROWD EXCLAIMING) 501 00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:08.337 You can't keep doing this, Forrest. 502 00:38:08.422 --> 00:38:10.506 You can't keep trying to rescue me all the time. 503 00:38:10.591 --> 00:38:14.677 - They was trying to grab you. - A lot of people try to grab me. 504 00:38:15.596 --> 00:38:18.764 Just... You can't keep doing this all the time. 505 00:38:19.266 --> 00:38:22.185 I can't help it. I love you. 506 00:38:23.145 --> 00:38:26.647 Forrest, you don't know what love is. 507 00:38:33.947 --> 00:38:36.949 You remember that time we prayed, Forrest? 508 00:38:37.826 --> 00:38:42.330 We prayed for God to turn me into a bird so I could fly far, far away? 509 00:38:44.291 --> 00:38:45.666 Yes, I do. 510 00:38:49.629 --> 00:38:52.464 You think I could fly off this bridge? 511 00:38:59.138 --> 00:39:01.306 What do you mean, Jenny? 512 00:39:05.186 --> 00:39:06.686 Nothing. 513 00:39:09.649 --> 00:39:11.691 I gotta get out of here. 514 00:39:13.986 --> 00:39:15.070 Wait, Jenny... 515 00:39:15.154 --> 00:39:19.616 Forrest, you stay away from me, okay? You just stay away from me, please. 516 00:39:19.700 --> 00:39:20.992 Can I have a ride? 517 00:39:21.077 --> 00:39:22.619 - MAN: Where you going? - I don't care. 518 00:39:22.703 --> 00:39:24.079 Get in the truck. 519 00:39:24.163 --> 00:39:25.997 So, bye-bye, Jenny. 520 00:39:28.501 --> 00:39:30.835 They sending me to Vietnam. 521 00:39:33.589 --> 00:39:36.007 It's this whole other country. 522 00:39:38.511 --> 00:39:40.512 Just hang on a minute. 523 00:39:41.931 --> 00:39:44.975 Listen, you promise me something, okay? 524 00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:48.395 Just, if you're ever in trouble, don't try to be brave. You just run, okay? 525 00:39:48.521 --> 00:39:50.105 Just run away. 526 00:39:51.357 --> 00:39:52.691 Okay. 527 00:39:57.571 --> 00:39:58.905 Jenny. 528 00:40:00.783 --> 00:40:03.076 I'll write you all the time. 529 00:40:12.211 --> 00:40:15.213 FORREST: And just like that, she was gone. 530 00:40:31.314 --> 00:40:34.649 You come back safe to me, do you hear? 531 00:41:17.942 --> 00:41:21.904 Now, they told us that Vietnam was gonna be very different 532 00:41:21.988 --> 00:41:24.865 from the United States of America. 533 00:41:24.949 --> 00:41:29.995 And except for all the beer cans and the barbecue, it was. 534 00:41:40.131 --> 00:41:43.217 Hey, I bet there's shrimp all in these waters. 535 00:41:43.301 --> 00:41:46.470 They tell me these Vietnams is good shrimpers. 536 00:41:46.554 --> 00:41:50.099 You know, after we win this war, and we take over everything, 537 00:41:50.183 --> 00:41:51.392 we can get American shrimpers 538 00:41:51.476 --> 00:41:53.227 to come out here and shrimp these waters. 539 00:41:53.311 --> 00:41:54.853 We'll just shrimp all the time, man. 540 00:41:54.979 --> 00:41:58.148 So much shrimp, why, you wouldn't believe it. 541 00:41:58.817 --> 00:42:00.734 You must be my FNGs. 542 00:42:00.819 --> 00:42:02.069 - Morning, sir! - Morning, sir! 543 00:42:02.153 --> 00:42:04.780 Get your hands down! Do not salute me. 544 00:42:04.864 --> 00:42:06.990 There's goddamn snipers all around this area 545 00:42:07.075 --> 00:42:09.910 who would love to grease an officer. 546 00:42:09.994 --> 00:42:13.497 I'm Lieutenant Dan Taylor. Welcome to Fourth Platoon. 547 00:42:14.374 --> 00:42:16.792 What's wrong with your lip? 548 00:42:16.876 --> 00:42:19.253 I was born with big gums, sir. 549 00:42:19.337 --> 00:42:24.049 Yeah, well, you better tuck that in. Gonna get that caught on a trip wire. 550 00:42:25.218 --> 00:42:26.593 Where you boys from in the world? 551 00:42:26.678 --> 00:42:29.054 - Alabama, sir! - Alabama, sir! 552 00:42:29.764 --> 00:42:31.265 You twins? 553 00:42:33.351 --> 00:42:35.769 No, we are not relations, sir. 554 00:42:38.022 --> 00:42:40.941 Look, it's pretty basic here. 555 00:42:41.734 --> 00:42:44.194 If you stick with me and learn from the guys 556 00:42:44.279 --> 00:42:46.947 who've been in country a while, you'll be all right. 557 00:42:47.031 --> 00:42:48.949 There is one item of GI gear 558 00:42:49.033 --> 00:42:53.203 that can be the difference between a live grunt and a dead grunt. 559 00:42:53.538 --> 00:42:56.707 Socks. Cushion sole, OD green. 560 00:42:56.791 --> 00:42:58.083 Try and keep your feet dry. 561 00:42:58.209 --> 00:42:59.626 When we're out humping, I want you boys to remember 562 00:42:59.711 --> 00:43:02.171 to change your socks whenever we stop. 563 00:43:02.255 --> 00:43:05.215 The Mekong will eat a grunt's feet right off his legs. 564 00:43:05.300 --> 00:43:07.593 Sergeant Sims, God damn it, 565 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:09.136 where is that sling rope I told you to order? 566 00:43:09.220 --> 00:43:11.138 I put in the requisitions at Battalion. 567 00:43:11.222 --> 00:43:13.223 DAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, you call those sons of bitches again... 568 00:43:13.308 --> 00:43:15.851 FORREST: Lieutenant Dan sure knew his stuff. 569 00:43:15.935 --> 00:43:18.228 I felt real lucky he was my lieutenant. 570 00:43:18.980 --> 00:43:22.441 He was from a long, great military tradition. 571 00:43:22.650 --> 00:43:25.736 Somebody in his family had fought and died 572 00:43:26.738 --> 00:43:30.991 in every single American war. 573 00:43:31.910 --> 00:43:33.911 - God damn it, kick some ass! - I'm on it, Lieutenant. 574 00:43:33.995 --> 00:43:35.120 Get on it! 575 00:43:35.246 --> 00:43:38.582 I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to. 576 00:43:40.293 --> 00:43:45.129 So, you boys are from Arkansas, huh? Well, I've been through there. 577 00:43:45.255 --> 00:43:47.423 Little Rock's a fine town. 578 00:43:48.091 --> 00:43:51.677 Now, go shake down your gear, see the platoon sergeant, 579 00:43:51.762 --> 00:43:54.222 draw what you need for the field. 580 00:43:54.306 --> 00:43:58.267 If you boys are hungry, we got steaks burning right over here. 581 00:43:58.352 --> 00:44:01.229 Two standing orders in this platoon: 582 00:44:01.313 --> 00:44:03.981 One, take good care of your feet, 583 00:44:04.107 --> 00:44:09.153 two, try not to do anything stupid, like getting yourself killed. 584 00:44:15.619 --> 00:44:17.703 I sure hope I don't let him down. 585 00:44:29.299 --> 00:44:31.801 FORREST: I got to see a lot of the countryside. 586 00:44:31.885 --> 00:44:34.220 We would take these real long walks. 587 00:44:42.688 --> 00:44:46.816 And we were always looking for this guy named Charlie. 588 00:44:54.658 --> 00:44:56.909 DAN: Hold it up! SOLDIER: Hold up, boys! 589 00:44:59.746 --> 00:45:02.081 It wasn't always fun. 590 00:45:02.165 --> 00:45:06.460 Lieutenant Dan was always getting these funny feelings about a rock, 591 00:45:06.545 --> 00:45:11.632 or a trail, or the road, so he'd tell us to get down, shut up... 592 00:45:11.717 --> 00:45:13.718 Get down! Shut up! 593 00:45:14.678 --> 00:45:16.137 (WHISPERING)... so we did. 594 00:45:33.697 --> 00:45:35.865 Now, I don't know much about anything, 595 00:45:35.949 --> 00:45:39.785 but I think some of America's best young men served in this war. 596 00:45:39.870 --> 00:45:42.580 There was Dallas, from Phoenix, 597 00:45:44.291 --> 00:45:47.084 Cleveland, he was from Detroit. 598 00:45:47.210 --> 00:45:49.587 (WHISPERING) Hey, Tex. Hey, Tex. 599 00:45:49.713 --> 00:45:51.881 Man, what the hell's going on? 600 00:45:51.965 --> 00:45:56.302 And Tex was... Well, I don't remember where Tex come from. 601 00:45:56.386 --> 00:45:57.928 DAN: Nothing. 602 00:46:02.059 --> 00:46:04.560 Fourth Platoon, on your feet. 603 00:46:04.645 --> 00:46:08.356 Still got 10 klicks to go to that river. Move out. 604 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:10.232 Come on, move out. 605 00:46:12.276 --> 00:46:14.694 Step it up. Look alive out there. 606 00:46:14.779 --> 00:46:19.115 The good thing about Vietnam is there was always some place to go. 607 00:46:19.241 --> 00:46:20.617 DAN: Fire in the hole! 608 00:46:24.080 --> 00:46:26.414 Gump, check out that hole. 609 00:46:26.499 --> 00:46:29.501 And there was always something to do. 610 00:46:29.585 --> 00:46:32.754 - Mount them up. - SOLDIER: Spread out! Cover his back. 611 00:46:37.802 --> 00:46:43.431 One day, it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. 612 00:46:44.433 --> 00:46:47.310 We'd been through every kind of rain there is: 613 00:46:47.436 --> 00:46:49.979 Little bitty stinging rain, 614 00:46:50.690 --> 00:46:53.358 and big old fat rain, 615 00:46:53.818 --> 00:46:56.528 rain that flew in sideways. 616 00:46:56.612 --> 00:47:00.657 And sometimes, rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. 617 00:47:02.451 --> 00:47:04.828 Shoot, it even rained at night. 618 00:47:05.871 --> 00:47:08.331 - Hey, Forrest. - Hey, Bubba. 619 00:47:08.457 --> 00:47:11.751 I'm gonna lean up against you. You just lean right back against me. 620 00:47:11.836 --> 00:47:15.672 This way, we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud. 621 00:47:16.632 --> 00:47:20.093 You know why we a good partnership, Forrest? 622 00:47:20.177 --> 00:47:22.679 'Cause we be watching out for one another, 623 00:47:22.805 --> 00:47:24.681 like brothers and stuff. 624 00:47:26.642 --> 00:47:30.311 Hey, Forrest, there's something I've been thinking about. 625 00:47:30.396 --> 00:47:33.398 I got a very important question to ask you. 626 00:47:35.025 --> 00:47:38.987 How would you like to go into the shrimping business with me? 627 00:47:40.156 --> 00:47:41.781 Okay. 628 00:47:41.866 --> 00:47:45.326 Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. 629 00:47:45.411 --> 00:47:48.204 So many pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, 630 00:47:48.330 --> 00:47:51.624 so many pounds for gas, we can just live right on the boat. 631 00:47:51.709 --> 00:47:54.002 We ain't got to pay no rent. 632 00:47:54.086 --> 00:47:56.171 I'll be the captain, we can just work it together, 633 00:47:56.255 --> 00:48:00.508 split everything right down the middle. Man, I'm telling you, 50-50. 634 00:48:00.593 --> 00:48:04.179 And, hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat. 635 00:48:05.723 --> 00:48:07.515 That's a fine idea. 636 00:48:08.601 --> 00:48:10.727 FORREST: Bubba did have a fine idea. 637 00:48:14.523 --> 00:48:17.609 I even wrote Jenny and told her all about it. 638 00:48:18.402 --> 00:48:21.613 I sent her letters, not every day, but almost. 639 00:48:21.697 --> 00:48:26.701 I told her what I was doing and asked her what she was doing, 640 00:48:26.786 --> 00:48:29.537 and told her how I thought about her always, 641 00:48:30.873 --> 00:48:33.833 and how I was looking forward to getting a letter from her 642 00:48:33.918 --> 00:48:36.419 just as soon as she had the time. 643 00:48:38.297 --> 00:48:40.798 I'd always let her know that I was okay. 644 00:48:42.091 --> 00:48:47.262 Then, I'd sign each letter, "Love, Forrest Gump." 645 00:49:02.111 --> 00:49:05.864 This one day, we was out walking, like always, 646 00:49:05.949 --> 00:49:08.909 and then, just like that, 647 00:49:09.828 --> 00:49:13.247 somebody turned off the rain and the sun come out. 648 00:49:16.251 --> 00:49:18.085 DAN: Ambush! 649 00:49:18.586 --> 00:49:19.962 Take cover! 650 00:49:20.129 --> 00:49:21.505 (GUNS FIRING) 651 00:49:23.591 --> 00:49:24.758 Get down! 652 00:49:24.843 --> 00:49:26.301 Get the sixty! 653 00:49:29.472 --> 00:49:31.557 Get that pig up here, God damn it! 654 00:49:31.641 --> 00:49:33.767 Forrest, you okay? 655 00:49:36.980 --> 00:49:39.606 Strongarm! Strongarm! Be advised, Strongarm! 656 00:49:40.149 --> 00:49:42.568 Medic, we got a man down! 657 00:49:42.652 --> 00:49:45.612 Strongarm, this is Leg Lima 6, over! 658 00:49:46.322 --> 00:49:49.658 Roger, Strongarm, be advised we have incoming from the tree line 659 00:49:49.784 --> 00:49:53.287 at points blue plus two. AKs and rockets... 660 00:49:53.955 --> 00:49:55.747 Misfire! Misfire! 661 00:49:58.126 --> 00:50:00.127 DAN: God damn it! Mac! 662 00:50:01.087 --> 00:50:04.506 Get that thing... Fuck it, get it in the tree line! 663 00:50:05.466 --> 00:50:06.633 Jesus! 664 00:50:06.759 --> 00:50:08.969 My unit is down hard and hurting! 665 00:50:09.095 --> 00:50:12.639 Six are pulling back to Blue Line, Leg Lima 6 out. 666 00:50:13.433 --> 00:50:15.392 Pull back! Pull back! 667 00:50:15.476 --> 00:50:17.603 Run! Run, Forrest! 668 00:50:17.687 --> 00:50:20.022 - Pull back! - BUBBA: Forrest, Forrest! 669 00:50:20.148 --> 00:50:22.733 Run, man! Run! 670 00:50:22.817 --> 00:50:24.610 DAN: Pull back! Run! 671 00:50:26.446 --> 00:50:28.655 Run, God damn it, run! 672 00:50:49.844 --> 00:50:54.473 SOLDIER: Medic! Can I get a medic? 673 00:50:54.849 --> 00:50:58.185 FORREST: I ran and ran, just like Jenny told me to. 674 00:51:01.564 --> 00:51:05.776 I ran so far and so fast that pretty soon I was all by myself, 675 00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:07.818 which was a bad thing. 676 00:51:08.362 --> 00:51:09.904 Bubba! 677 00:51:12.032 --> 00:51:15.826 Bubba was my best good friend. I had to make sure that he was okay. 678 00:51:19.539 --> 00:51:21.582 SOLDIER 1: Any friendlies out there? 679 00:51:22.542 --> 00:51:24.710 SOLDIER 2: Yeah, I've got three over here. 680 00:51:25.337 --> 00:51:27.338 Where the hell are you? 681 00:51:27.923 --> 00:51:29.256 Bubba? 682 00:51:30.342 --> 00:51:33.052 And on my way back to find Bubba, 683 00:51:33.178 --> 00:51:35.972 well, there was this boy laying on the ground. 684 00:51:36.056 --> 00:51:37.264 Tex! 685 00:51:39.351 --> 00:51:40.351 Okay. 686 00:51:40.435 --> 00:51:44.397 I couldn't just let him lay there all alone, scared the way he was, 687 00:51:44.523 --> 00:51:48.401 so I grabbed him up and run him out of there. 688 00:52:03.542 --> 00:52:05.960 And every time I went back looking for Bubba, 689 00:52:06.086 --> 00:52:09.588 somebody else was saying, "Help me, Forrest. Help me." 690 00:52:17.264 --> 00:52:19.140 Can't hear... Can't hear... 691 00:52:21.435 --> 00:52:22.727 SOLDIER: No sweat, man. Just lay back. 692 00:52:22.811 --> 00:52:25.312 You'll be okay. You'll be okay. 693 00:52:27.315 --> 00:52:30.359 I started to get scared that I might never find Bubba. 694 00:52:30.444 --> 00:52:31.694 MAN ON RADIO: Over. 695 00:52:31.778 --> 00:52:35.072 DAN: Roger, Strongarm, I know my position is danger close. 696 00:52:35.157 --> 00:52:36.991 We got Charlie all over this area. 697 00:52:37.117 --> 00:52:39.410 I gotta have those fast movers in here now. Over. 698 00:52:39.494 --> 00:52:42.872 - Six, Strongarm, we want... - Lieutenant Dan, Coleman's dead! 699 00:52:42.956 --> 00:52:44.165 I know he's dead! 700 00:52:44.291 --> 00:52:47.126 My whole goddamn platoon is wiped out! 701 00:52:47.252 --> 00:52:48.586 - Leg Lima 6, Leg Lima 6. - God damn it! 702 00:52:48.670 --> 00:52:51.380 - Copy this transmission. Over. - What are you doing? 703 00:52:51.465 --> 00:52:54.800 Just leave me here! Get away. Just leave me here! Get out! 704 00:52:54.926 --> 00:52:57.219 Leg Lima 6, Strongarm. How copy this? Over. 705 00:52:57.304 --> 00:52:59.930 God, I said leave me here, God damn it! 706 00:53:00.015 --> 00:53:03.184 Leg Lima 6, Leg Lima 6, this is Strongarm, be advised 707 00:53:03.310 --> 00:53:05.269 your fast movers are inbound at this time, over. 708 00:53:05.353 --> 00:53:08.773 FORREST: Then, it felt like something just jumped up and bit me. 709 00:53:09.649 --> 00:53:11.317 Something bit me! 710 00:53:18.200 --> 00:53:20.326 You chink son of a bitch! 711 00:53:22.829 --> 00:53:24.830 I can't leave the platoon. 712 00:53:24.956 --> 00:53:29.877 I told you to leave me there, Gump. Forget about me. Get yourself out! 713 00:53:30.003 --> 00:53:32.129 Did you hear what I said? 714 00:53:32.839 --> 00:53:34.799 God damn it, put me down! 715 00:53:35.509 --> 00:53:37.550 Get your ass out of here! 716 00:53:40.846 --> 00:53:43.431 I didn't ask you to pull me out of there, God damn you! 717 00:53:43.516 --> 00:53:44.849 Where the hell do you think you're going? 718 00:53:44.975 --> 00:53:46.059 To get Bubba. 719 00:53:46.185 --> 00:53:50.021 I got an air strike inbound right now. They're gonna nape the whole area. 720 00:53:50.147 --> 00:53:52.524 Gump, you stay here, God damn it! That's an order! 721 00:53:52.650 --> 00:53:55.068 I gotta find Bubba! 722 00:54:11.043 --> 00:54:12.502 BUBBA: Forrest. 723 00:54:20.261 --> 00:54:22.929 - Bubba. - I'm okay, Forrest. 724 00:54:23.722 --> 00:54:25.390 I'm okay. 725 00:54:33.232 --> 00:54:35.066 Oh, Bubba, no... 726 00:54:35.192 --> 00:54:37.402 Nah, I'm gonna be all right. 727 00:54:39.321 --> 00:54:41.156 (MEN CHATTERING) 728 00:54:45.578 --> 00:54:48.246 Come on. Come on. Come on. 729 00:54:53.252 --> 00:54:54.752 I'm okay, Forrest. 730 00:54:56.088 --> 00:54:58.923 I'm okay, man. I'm fine. 731 00:55:35.961 --> 00:55:39.088 DAN: Helo's inbound. Top smoke, get it out there! 732 00:55:40.132 --> 00:55:44.636 If I'd a known this was gonna be the last time me and Bubba was gonna talk, 733 00:55:44.762 --> 00:55:47.055 I'd of thought of something better to say. 734 00:55:47.139 --> 00:55:48.640 Hey, Bubba. 735 00:55:49.767 --> 00:55:51.142 Hey, Forrest. 736 00:55:53.479 --> 00:55:56.689 Forrest, why'd this happen? 737 00:55:58.025 --> 00:55:59.817 You got shot. 738 00:56:01.528 --> 00:56:05.697 Then Bubba said something I won't ever forget. 739 00:56:06.491 --> 00:56:08.158 I wanna go home. 740 00:56:10.161 --> 00:56:12.204 Bubba was my best good friend. 741 00:56:13.164 --> 00:56:17.709 And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. 742 00:56:17.835 --> 00:56:20.921 Bubba was gonna be a shrimping boat captain, 743 00:56:21.005 --> 00:56:24.967 but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam. 744 00:56:30.682 --> 00:56:32.975 That's all I have to say about that. 745 00:56:35.353 --> 00:56:37.521 It was a bullet, wasn't it? 746 00:56:39.857 --> 00:56:42.526 - A bullet? - That jumped up and bit you. 747 00:56:44.904 --> 00:56:46.989 Oh, yes, sir. 748 00:56:47.073 --> 00:56:50.200 Bit me directly in the buttocks. 749 00:56:50.326 --> 00:56:55.580 They said it was a million-dollar wound, but the Army must keep that money, 750 00:56:55.707 --> 00:56:59.543 'cause I still ain't seen a nickel of that million dollars. 751 00:57:00.378 --> 00:57:03.880 The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks 752 00:57:04.007 --> 00:57:05.716 is the ice cream. 753 00:57:05.842 --> 00:57:08.427 They gave me all the ice cream I could eat. 754 00:57:08.553 --> 00:57:09.845 And guess what? 755 00:57:09.929 --> 00:57:13.056 A good friend of mine was in the bed right next door. 756 00:57:15.268 --> 00:57:18.353 Lieutenant Dan, I got you some ice cream. 757 00:57:20.732 --> 00:57:22.899 Lieutenant Dan, ice cream. 758 00:57:34.620 --> 00:57:36.913 MALE NURSE: It's time for your bath, Lieutenant. 759 00:57:45.423 --> 00:57:46.757 Harper! 760 00:57:49.969 --> 00:57:52.429 Cooper, Larson, 761 00:57:54.640 --> 00:57:55.974 Webster, 762 00:57:57.393 --> 00:58:00.896 - Gump. Gump. - I'm Forrest Gump. 763 00:58:04.442 --> 00:58:07.736 Kyle, Nichols, 764 00:58:09.947 --> 00:58:15.911 McMill, Johnson, Tyler, 765 00:58:17.246 --> 00:58:18.622 Holiday... 766 00:58:25.380 --> 00:58:27.631 MAN ON TV: Surprise, surprise, surprise! 767 00:58:30.968 --> 00:58:33.469 Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? 768 00:58:33.553 --> 00:58:35.137 - From the DMZ to the Delta... - Turn it off! 769 00:58:35.222 --> 00:58:38.474 ...you are tuned to the American Forces Vietnam Network. 770 00:58:38.600 --> 00:58:40.935 This is Channel 6, Saigon. 771 00:58:43.647 --> 00:58:45.314 SOLDIER: Good catch, Gump. 772 00:58:47.275 --> 00:58:49.443 You know how to play this? 773 00:58:50.737 --> 00:58:52.822 Come on, let me show you. Here. 774 00:58:54.908 --> 00:58:57.243 Now, the secret to this game is, 775 00:58:57.327 --> 00:59:03.165 no matter what happens, never ever take your eye off the ball. 776 00:59:06.753 --> 00:59:08.087 All right. 777 00:59:11.425 --> 00:59:15.094 For some reason, Ping-Pong came very natural to me. 778 00:59:15.429 --> 00:59:18.347 See? Any idiot can play. 779 00:59:18.849 --> 00:59:21.600 So, I started playing it all the time. 780 00:59:22.769 --> 00:59:24.103 I played Ping-Pong 781 00:59:24.187 --> 00:59:27.481 even when I didn't have anyone to play Ping-Pong with. 782 00:59:35.532 --> 00:59:40.202 The hospital's people said it made me look like a duck in water, 783 00:59:40.328 --> 00:59:42.163 whatever that means. 784 00:59:42.622 --> 00:59:45.875 Even Lieutenant Dan would come and watch me play. 785 00:59:51.381 --> 00:59:55.259 I played Ping-Pong so much, I even played it in my sleep. 786 01:00:03.059 --> 01:00:08.147 Now, you listen to me. We all have a destiny. 787 01:00:08.231 --> 01:00:11.275 Nothing just happens, it's all part of a plan. 788 01:00:11.401 --> 01:00:14.069 I should have died out there with my men, 789 01:00:14.196 --> 01:00:18.157 but now I'm nothing but a goddamn cripple, 790 01:00:18.241 --> 01:00:21.869 a legless freak! Look! Look! Look at me! 791 01:00:22.621 --> 01:00:23.704 Do you see that? 792 01:00:23.788 --> 01:00:27.583 Do you know what it's like not to be able to use your legs? 793 01:00:30.921 --> 01:00:32.546 Yes, sir, I do. 794 01:00:36.218 --> 01:00:38.260 Did you hear what I said? 795 01:00:39.137 --> 01:00:40.888 You cheated me. 796 01:00:40.972 --> 01:00:42.139 I had a destiny. 797 01:00:42.224 --> 01:00:45.768 I was supposed to die in the field, with honor! 798 01:00:46.436 --> 01:00:50.481 That was my destiny, and you cheated me out of it! 799 01:01:00.116 --> 01:01:02.825 Do you understand what I'm saying, Gump? 800 01:01:04.954 --> 01:01:08.331 This wasn't supposed to happen, not to me. 801 01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:12.627 I had a destiny. 802 01:01:14.588 --> 01:01:18.967 I was Lieutenant Dan Taylor. 803 01:01:25.140 --> 01:01:27.475 You're still Lieutenant Dan. 804 01:01:50.708 --> 01:01:52.208 Look at me. 805 01:01:53.544 --> 01:02:01.217 What am I gonna do now? 806 01:02:11.604 --> 01:02:13.062 PFC Gump? 807 01:02:14.607 --> 01:02:16.024 Yes, sir! 808 01:02:16.692 --> 01:02:18.192 As you were. 809 01:02:18.694 --> 01:02:22.530 Son, you've been awarded the Medal of Honor. 810 01:02:23.574 --> 01:02:27.201 Guess what, Lieutenant Dan, they want to give me a... 811 01:02:33.959 --> 01:02:37.712 Ma'am, what'd they do with Lieutenant Dan? 812 01:02:38.631 --> 01:02:40.423 They sent him home. 813 01:02:46.430 --> 01:02:49.182 FORREST: Two weeks later, I left Vietnam. 814 01:02:50.225 --> 01:02:53.770 The ceremony was kicked off with a candid speech by the President 815 01:02:53.854 --> 01:02:57.231 regarding the need for further escalation of the war in Vietnam. 816 01:02:57.316 --> 01:02:59.442 President Johnson awarded four Medals of Honor 817 01:02:59.526 --> 01:03:01.194 to men from each of the Armed Services. 818 01:03:01.278 --> 01:03:04.197 America owes you a debt of gratitude, son. 819 01:03:06.200 --> 01:03:09.994 I understand you were wounded. Where were you hit? 820 01:03:10.079 --> 01:03:13.247 - In the buttocks, sir. - That must be a sight. 821 01:03:13.999 --> 01:03:16.292 I'd kind of like to see that. 822 01:03:27.721 --> 01:03:29.013 (CHUCKLING) 823 01:03:30.431 --> 01:03:31.890 God damn, son. 824 01:03:34.018 --> 01:03:37.854 After that, Mama went to the hotel to lay down, 825 01:03:37.939 --> 01:03:41.441 so I went out for a walk to see our nation's capital. 826 01:03:41.526 --> 01:03:43.068 ISABEL: Hilary, all right, I've got the vets, 827 01:03:43.152 --> 01:03:44.653 what do you want me to do with them? 828 01:03:44.737 --> 01:03:46.488 HILARY: What are you doing here so late? 829 01:03:46.572 --> 01:03:50.617 It's a good thing Mama was resting, 'cause the streets was awful crowded 830 01:03:50.702 --> 01:03:53.870 with people looking at all the statues and monuments, 831 01:03:53.955 --> 01:03:56.581 and some of them people were loud and pushy. 832 01:03:56.666 --> 01:03:59.626 Okay, follow me! Come on. Let's move it out. 833 01:04:00.461 --> 01:04:03.422 Everywhere I went, I had to stand in line. 834 01:04:06.676 --> 01:04:08.218 HILARY: Follow me, let's go! 835 01:04:10.012 --> 01:04:11.638 Come on. Let's go. 836 01:04:17.687 --> 01:04:19.271 Stand here. 837 01:04:21.733 --> 01:04:24.901 Hey, you're a good man for doing this. Good! 838 01:04:26.195 --> 01:04:27.320 Okay. 839 01:04:28.114 --> 01:04:31.491 There was this man giving a little talk. 840 01:04:31.576 --> 01:04:35.078 And for some reason, he was wearing an American flag for a shirt. 841 01:04:35.163 --> 01:04:36.621 ABBIE HOFFMAN: Now, I'm gonna bring up some soldiers... 842 01:04:36.706 --> 01:04:39.499 FORREST: And he liked to say the "F" word. 843 01:04:39.584 --> 01:04:42.961 A lot. "F" this and "F" that. 844 01:04:43.045 --> 01:04:45.380 And every time he said the "F" word, 845 01:04:45.465 --> 01:04:48.216 people, for some reason, well, they'd cheer. 846 01:04:48.301 --> 01:04:50.927 ...where to stick this fucking war! Yeah! 847 01:04:51.012 --> 01:04:52.012 (CROWD CHEERING) 848 01:04:52.430 --> 01:04:54.765 Yeah! Yeah! 849 01:04:55.349 --> 01:04:57.851 Come on, man, come up here, man. 850 01:04:58.269 --> 01:05:01.605 Come on. Come on. Yeah, you! Come on. Move, move, move. 851 01:05:02.607 --> 01:05:06.026 You can do it. Just get up there. Go on. That's it. 852 01:05:18.831 --> 01:05:21.374 Tell us a little bit about the war, man. 853 01:05:21.459 --> 01:05:23.210 The war in Vietnam? 854 01:05:23.294 --> 01:05:26.213 - The war in Viet-fucking-nam! - Yeah! 855 01:05:26.297 --> 01:05:27.297 (CROWD CHEERING) 856 01:05:46.567 --> 01:05:47.651 MAN 1: Peace! 857 01:05:48.027 --> 01:05:49.402 MAN 2: Come on, man, go! 858 01:05:49.695 --> 01:05:51.655 MAN 3: Come on! WOMAN 1: Peace! 859 01:05:51.739 --> 01:05:52.781 Well... 860 01:05:52.865 --> 01:05:56.326 FORREST: There was only one thing I could say about the war in Vietnam. 861 01:05:56.410 --> 01:06:01.247 ...there's only one thing I can say about the war in Vietnam. 862 01:06:05.043 --> 01:06:08.838 In Vietnam, your... 863 01:06:09.089 --> 01:06:11.465 (SPEAKERS SCREECHING) 864 01:06:18.598 --> 01:06:19.682 MAN 4: Hey, what the hell are you... 865 01:06:19.766 --> 01:06:22.518 I'll beat your head in, you goddamn oinker! 866 01:06:22.602 --> 01:06:25.104 Jesus Christ, what'd they do with this? 867 01:06:26.523 --> 01:06:28.190 MAN 5: We can't hear you! 868 01:06:29.901 --> 01:06:31.902 MAN 6: We can't hear anything! 869 01:06:32.612 --> 01:06:35.114 - This one! This one! Give me that! - MAN 7: Turn it up! 870 01:06:35.198 --> 01:06:36.615 WOMAN 2: Speak up! 871 01:06:37.409 --> 01:06:38.868 That's it! 872 01:06:39.953 --> 01:06:42.788 ...and that's all I have to say about that. 873 01:06:50.088 --> 01:06:53.048 That's so right on, man. You said it all. 874 01:06:54.551 --> 01:06:57.052 What's your name, man? 875 01:06:57.137 --> 01:06:59.763 My name is Forrest. Forrest Gump. 876 01:07:00.974 --> 01:07:02.141 Forrest Gump! 877 01:07:02.267 --> 01:07:03.642 - Gump! - Gump! 878 01:07:05.145 --> 01:07:08.898 JENNY: Forrest! Forrest! 879 01:07:12.944 --> 01:07:15.321 - Jenny! - Forrest! 880 01:07:32.088 --> 01:07:34.757 Hey! Hey! 881 01:07:42.849 --> 01:07:45.976 It was the happiest moment of my life. 882 01:07:48.313 --> 01:07:51.690 Jenny and me were just like peas and carrots again. 883 01:07:53.026 --> 01:07:54.610 She showed me around, 884 01:07:54.694 --> 01:07:57.279 and even introduced me to some of her new friends. 885 01:07:57.364 --> 01:07:58.697 Shut that blind, man. 886 01:07:58.823 --> 01:08:01.033 And get your white ass away from that window. 887 01:08:01.117 --> 01:08:03.202 Don't you know we in a war here? 888 01:08:04.037 --> 01:08:05.454 Hey, man, he's cool. He's cool. He's one of us. 889 01:08:05.538 --> 01:08:07.456 - Let me tell you about us. - Where the hell have you been? 890 01:08:07.540 --> 01:08:09.625 Our purpose here is to protect our black leaders 891 01:08:09.709 --> 01:08:11.460 from the racial onslaught of the pig 892 01:08:11.544 --> 01:08:13.629 who wishes to brutalize our black leaders, 893 01:08:13.713 --> 01:08:17.049 rape our women, and destroy our black communities. 894 01:08:19.970 --> 01:08:21.887 Who's the baby killer? 895 01:08:22.013 --> 01:08:24.723 This is my good friend I told you about. This is Forrest Gump. 896 01:08:24.808 --> 01:08:26.557 Forrest, this is Wesley. 897 01:08:26.642 --> 01:08:27.934 Wesley and I lived together in Berkeley, 898 01:08:28.018 --> 01:08:30.645 and he's the president of the Berkeley chapter of SDS. 899 01:08:30.729 --> 01:08:32.146 Let me tell you something else. 900 01:08:32.231 --> 01:08:36.484 We are here to offer protection and help for all of those who need our help, 901 01:08:36.568 --> 01:08:40.154 because we, the Black Panthers, are against the war in Vietnam. 902 01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:43.908 Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers are sent to the frontline 903 01:08:43.993 --> 01:08:45.910 to die for a country that hates them. 904 01:08:45.995 --> 01:08:49.163 Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers go to fight 905 01:08:49.248 --> 01:08:52.333 and come to be brutalized and killed in their own communities 906 01:08:52.418 --> 01:08:54.002 as they sleep in their beds at night. 907 01:08:54.086 --> 01:08:55.253 You are a fucking asshole! 908 01:08:55.337 --> 01:08:58.715 Yes, we are against all these racist and imperial dog acts. 909 01:09:08.017 --> 01:09:11.227 JENNY: Forrest! Quit it! Quit it! 910 01:09:13.188 --> 01:09:14.439 Forrest! 911 01:09:15.024 --> 01:09:16.774 Stop it! Stop it! 912 01:09:23.407 --> 01:09:24.782 Oh, God... 913 01:09:25.617 --> 01:09:28.036 I shouldn't have brought you here. 914 01:09:28.120 --> 01:09:31.748 I should have known it was just gonna be some bullshit hassle. 915 01:09:32.916 --> 01:09:35.543 He should not be hitting you, Jenny. 916 01:09:40.466 --> 01:09:42.216 Come on, Forrest. 917 01:09:47.931 --> 01:09:51.934 Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther party. 918 01:09:54.813 --> 01:09:57.148 He doesn't mean it when he does things like this. He doesn't. 919 01:09:57.232 --> 01:09:59.567 I would never hurt you, Jenny. 920 01:10:01.403 --> 01:10:03.654 I know you wouldn't, Forrest. 921 01:10:05.574 --> 01:10:08.159 I wanted to be your boyfriend. 922 01:10:18.670 --> 01:10:21.089 That uniform is a trip, Forrest. 923 01:10:22.466 --> 01:10:25.676 You look handsome in it. You do. 924 01:10:29.765 --> 01:10:31.682 - You know what? - What? 925 01:10:35.312 --> 01:10:38.940 I'm glad we were here together in our nation's capital. 926 01:10:40.526 --> 01:10:42.276 Me, too, Forrest. 927 01:10:42.361 --> 01:10:47.031 We walked around all night, Jenny and me, just talking. 928 01:10:49.118 --> 01:10:52.286 She told me about all the traveling she'd done. 929 01:10:52.371 --> 01:10:56.957 And how she'd discovered ways to expand her mind 930 01:10:57.041 --> 01:11:00.127 and learn how to live in harmony, 931 01:11:00.211 --> 01:11:02.546 which must be out west somewhere, 932 01:11:02.630 --> 01:11:04.965 'cause she made it all the way to California. 933 01:11:05.049 --> 01:11:07.300 (SINGING) Try to love one another right now 934 01:11:07.385 --> 01:11:08.552 HIPPIE: Hey! 935 01:11:09.512 --> 01:11:12.055 Anybody want to go to San Francisco? 936 01:11:12.140 --> 01:11:14.015 - I'll go. - Far out. 937 01:11:15.476 --> 01:11:18.645 It was a very special night for the two of us. 938 01:11:20.231 --> 01:11:22.315 I didn't want it to end. 939 01:11:23.109 --> 01:11:25.527 I wish you wouldn't go, Jenny. 940 01:11:26.529 --> 01:11:28.321 I have to, Forrest. 941 01:11:29.323 --> 01:11:30.574 Jenny? 942 01:11:32.743 --> 01:11:35.328 Things got a little out of hand. 943 01:11:35.413 --> 01:11:39.249 It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson! 944 01:11:40.918 --> 01:11:43.712 I would never hurt you, you know that. 945 01:11:46.841 --> 01:11:48.842 You know what I think? 946 01:11:50.344 --> 01:11:55.599 I think you should go home to Greenbow, Alabama! 947 01:12:06.110 --> 01:12:11.198 Forrest, we have very different lives, you know. 948 01:12:20.625 --> 01:12:23.793 I want you to have this. 949 01:12:28.466 --> 01:12:30.634 Forrest, I can't keep this. 950 01:12:32.303 --> 01:12:36.556 I got it just by doing what you told me to do. 951 01:12:38.601 --> 01:12:40.769 Why are you so good to me? 952 01:12:42.271 --> 01:12:43.813 You're my girl. 953 01:12:45.816 --> 01:12:47.943 I'll always be your girl. 954 01:13:28.358 --> 01:13:33.195 FORREST: And just like that, she was gone, out of my life again. 955 01:13:34.698 --> 01:13:37.032 NEIL ARMSTRONG ON TV: That's one small step for man, 956 01:13:39.035 --> 01:13:41.870 one giant leap for mankind. 957 01:13:47.544 --> 01:13:50.045 FORREST: I thought I was going back to Vietnam, 958 01:13:50.171 --> 01:13:53.382 but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists 959 01:13:53.466 --> 01:13:55.092 was to play Ping-Pong. 960 01:13:55.176 --> 01:13:57.469 So, I was in the Special Services, 961 01:13:57.554 --> 01:14:00.806 traveling around the country cheering up all them wounded veterans 962 01:14:00.890 --> 01:14:03.309 and showing them how to play Ping-Pong. 963 01:14:03.393 --> 01:14:05.311 I was so good that some years later 964 01:14:05.395 --> 01:14:09.023 the Army decided that I should be on the All-American Ping-Pong team. 965 01:14:09.649 --> 01:14:12.067 We were the first Americans to visit the land of China 966 01:14:12.152 --> 01:14:14.570 in like a million years, or something like that. 967 01:14:14.696 --> 01:14:18.115 Somebody said world peace was in our hands, 968 01:14:18.199 --> 01:14:20.993 but all I did was play Ping-Pong. 969 01:14:21.077 --> 01:14:24.163 When I got home, I was a national celebrity. 970 01:14:24.873 --> 01:14:27.166 Famouser even than Captain Kangaroo. 971 01:14:27.250 --> 01:14:29.918 Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here. 972 01:14:36.676 --> 01:14:38.427 Mr. Gump, have a seat. 973 01:14:40.930 --> 01:14:43.098 Forrest Gump, John Lennon. 974 01:14:43.767 --> 01:14:45.017 - Welcome home. - You had quite a trip. 975 01:14:45.101 --> 01:14:48.437 Can you tell us, what was China like? 976 01:14:51.691 --> 01:14:56.945 In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all. 977 01:14:57.030 --> 01:14:58.614 No possessions? 978 01:15:01.242 --> 01:15:04.453 And in China, they never go to church. 979 01:15:05.747 --> 01:15:07.289 No religion, too? 980 01:15:07.374 --> 01:15:08.374 Oh. 981 01:15:09.376 --> 01:15:12.669 - Hard to imagine. - Well, it's easy if you try, Dick. 982 01:15:14.464 --> 01:15:16.840 FORREST: Some years later, that nice young man from England 983 01:15:16.925 --> 01:15:19.551 was on his way home to see his little boy 984 01:15:19.636 --> 01:15:22.638 and was signing some autographs, 985 01:15:22.764 --> 01:15:26.725 and for no particular reason at all, somebody shot him. 986 01:15:29.771 --> 01:15:33.607 They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor. 987 01:15:34.901 --> 01:15:36.985 Now, that's Lieutenant Dan. 988 01:15:39.781 --> 01:15:41.407 Lieutenant Dan! 989 01:15:41.491 --> 01:15:45.953 They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor! 990 01:15:47.831 --> 01:15:49.331 Yes, sir, they surely did. 991 01:15:49.416 --> 01:15:51.416 They gave you, 992 01:15:51.500 --> 01:15:55.670 an imbecile, a moron who goes on television 993 01:15:55.754 --> 01:16:00.007 and makes a fool out of himself in front of the whole damn country, 994 01:16:00.676 --> 01:16:03.177 the Congressional Medal of Honor. 995 01:16:04.346 --> 01:16:05.513 Yes, sir. 996 01:16:07.683 --> 01:16:10.518 Well, then, that's just perfect! 997 01:16:12.438 --> 01:16:14.772 Yeah, well, I just got one thing to say to that. 998 01:16:14.857 --> 01:16:17.108 God damn bless America. 999 01:16:18.026 --> 01:16:19.318 Hey! 1000 01:16:21.113 --> 01:16:22.447 Oh, God! 1001 01:16:24.950 --> 01:16:27.368 - Oh, God! - Lieutenant Dan! 1002 01:16:28.495 --> 01:16:31.247 Lieutenant Dan said he was living in a hotel. 1003 01:16:31.331 --> 01:16:33.291 And because he didn't have no legs, 1004 01:16:33.375 --> 01:16:36.544 he spent most of his time exercising his arms. 1005 01:16:39.423 --> 01:16:41.883 DAN: Take a right. Take a right. 1006 01:16:44.511 --> 01:16:47.054 CABBIE: Hey! Come on, already! 1007 01:16:47.139 --> 01:16:49.932 What do you do here in New York, Lieutenant Dan? 1008 01:16:50.017 --> 01:16:52.560 I'm living off the government tit. 1009 01:16:53.061 --> 01:16:54.061 (HORN HONKING) 1010 01:16:54.188 --> 01:16:55.563 Sucking it dry! 1011 01:16:55.647 --> 01:16:57.690 Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you blind? 1012 01:16:57.774 --> 01:16:59.484 - I'm walking here! - Get out of the way! 1013 01:16:59.568 --> 01:17:02.153 Get out! Come on, go! Go! Go! 1014 01:17:09.203 --> 01:17:12.955 I stayed with Lieutenant Dan and celebrated the holidays. 1015 01:17:17.377 --> 01:17:20.796 You have a great year. Hurry home and God bless you. 1016 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:26.594 Have you found Jesus yet, Gump? 1017 01:17:28.180 --> 01:17:30.848 I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir. 1018 01:17:30.933 --> 01:17:33.851 (LAUGHING) 1019 01:17:38.440 --> 01:17:41.817 That's all these cripples, down at the VA, 1020 01:17:41.902 --> 01:17:44.320 that's all they ever talk about. 1021 01:17:45.489 --> 01:17:48.449 Jesus this and Jesus that. 1022 01:17:49.910 --> 01:17:52.203 Have I found Jesus? 1023 01:17:52.829 --> 01:17:55.831 They even had a priest come and talk to me. 1024 01:17:56.708 --> 01:18:01.379 He said God is listening, but I have to help myself. 1025 01:18:02.756 --> 01:18:05.049 How if I accept Jesus into my heart, 1026 01:18:06.051 --> 01:18:09.845 I'll get to walk beside him in the kingdom of heaven. 1027 01:18:09.930 --> 01:18:12.098 Did you hear what I said? 1028 01:18:13.141 --> 01:18:17.144 Walk beside him in the kingdom of heaven. 1029 01:18:17.229 --> 01:18:20.188 Well, kiss my crippled ass. 1030 01:18:20.273 --> 01:18:23.650 God is listening? What a crock of shit. 1031 01:18:27.321 --> 01:18:29.948 I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan. 1032 01:18:31.867 --> 01:18:32.909 Oh? 1033 01:18:37.748 --> 01:18:39.124 Well, 1034 01:18:42.086 --> 01:18:45.463 before you go, why don't you get your ass down to the corner 1035 01:18:45.548 --> 01:18:48.049 - and get us another bottle of Ripple. - Yes, sir. 1036 01:18:48.134 --> 01:18:53.263 We are at approximately 45th Street in New York City at One Astor Plaza. 1037 01:18:53.347 --> 01:18:55.181 This is the site of the old Astor Hotel. 1038 01:18:55.266 --> 01:18:57.475 DAN: What the hell is in Bayou La Batre? 1039 01:18:57.560 --> 01:18:59.894 FORREST: Shrimping boats. DAN: Shrimping boats? 1040 01:18:59.979 --> 01:19:02.397 Who gives a shit about shrimping boats? 1041 01:19:02.481 --> 01:19:03.940 FORREST: I gotta buy me one of them shrimping boats, 1042 01:19:04.025 --> 01:19:05.567 soon as I have some money. 1043 01:19:05.651 --> 01:19:08.486 I made me a promise to Bubba in Vietnam 1044 01:19:08.571 --> 01:19:11.281 that as soon as the war was over, we'd go in partners. 1045 01:19:11.365 --> 01:19:14.784 He'd be the captain of the shrimping boat and I'd be his first mate. 1046 01:19:14.869 --> 01:19:18.330 But now that he's dead, that means I gotta be the captain. 1047 01:19:18.414 --> 01:19:21.124 - A shrimp boat captain. - Yes, sir. 1048 01:19:21.208 --> 01:19:23.668 A promise is a promise, Lieutenant Dan. 1049 01:19:23.753 --> 01:19:25.170 (LAUGHING) 1050 01:19:25.463 --> 01:19:27.922 Now hear this! 1051 01:19:28.674 --> 01:19:32.510 Private Gump here is gonna be a shrimp boat captain. 1052 01:19:33.262 --> 01:19:34.679 Well, I tell you what, Gilligan, 1053 01:19:34.764 --> 01:19:37.223 the day that you are a shrimp boat captain, 1054 01:19:37.308 --> 01:19:40.852 - I will come and be your first mate. - Okay. 1055 01:19:40.936 --> 01:19:45.273 If you're ever a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an astronaut. 1056 01:19:45.358 --> 01:19:48.360 LENORE: Danny, what are you complaining about? 1057 01:19:48.444 --> 01:19:51.029 - What are you doing, hon? - Mr. Hot Wheels. 1058 01:19:51.113 --> 01:19:54.741 - Who's your friend? - My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. 1059 01:19:55.576 --> 01:19:59.788 This is Cunning Carla and Long-Limbs Lenore. 1060 01:20:00.873 --> 01:20:04.084 So, where you been, baby cakes, huh? Haven't seen you around lately. 1061 01:20:04.168 --> 01:20:05.627 You know, you should have been here for Christmas, 1062 01:20:05.711 --> 01:20:07.045 'cause Tommy bought a round on the house 1063 01:20:07.129 --> 01:20:08.630 and gave everybody a turkey sandwich. 1064 01:20:08.714 --> 01:20:11.758 Well, well, I had company. 1065 01:20:12.635 --> 01:20:16.304 Hey, hey! We was just there. That's at Times Square. 1066 01:20:16.931 --> 01:20:21.059 Don't you just love New Year's? You get to start all over. 1067 01:20:21.143 --> 01:20:24.437 - CARLA: Hey, Lenore... - Everybody gets a second chance. 1068 01:20:24.522 --> 01:20:27.065 FORREST: It's funny, but in the middle of all that fun, 1069 01:20:27.149 --> 01:20:29.442 I began to think about Jenny, 1070 01:20:30.361 --> 01:20:34.823 wondering how she was spending her New Year's night out in California. 1071 01:20:57.429 --> 01:21:00.931 CROWD: Eight, seven, six, five, 1072 01:21:01.057 --> 01:21:04.518 four, three, two, one! 1073 01:21:04.644 --> 01:21:07.312 Happy New Year! 1074 01:21:08.356 --> 01:21:10.149 (CROWD CHEERING) 1075 01:21:15.822 --> 01:21:18.699 (CROWD SINGING AULD LANG SYNE) 1076 01:21:23.788 --> 01:21:26.498 Happy New Year, Lieutenant Dan! 1077 01:22:01.785 --> 01:22:05.454 What are you, stupid or something? What's your problem? 1078 01:22:06.122 --> 01:22:07.539 What's his problem? 1079 01:22:07.624 --> 01:22:09.875 Did you lose your pecker in the war or something? 1080 01:22:09.959 --> 01:22:12.002 What, is your friend stupid or something? 1081 01:22:12.086 --> 01:22:13.170 What did you say? 1082 01:22:13.254 --> 01:22:14.671 I said, is your friend stupid or something? 1083 01:22:14.756 --> 01:22:16.924 Hey! Don't call him stupid! 1084 01:22:17.008 --> 01:22:18.967 LENORE: Hey, don't you push her! DAN: You shut up! 1085 01:22:19.052 --> 01:22:21.094 - Don't you ever call him stupid! - CARLA: What's the matter, baby? 1086 01:22:21.179 --> 01:22:22.888 - Why are you so upset? - DAN: Just get the hell out of here. 1087 01:22:22.972 --> 01:22:24.056 - Stupid damn... - Get your goddamn clothes... 1088 01:22:24.140 --> 01:22:25.641 You belong in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 1089 01:22:25.725 --> 01:22:27.601 - Get the hell out of here! - You should be in a sideshow! 1090 01:22:27.685 --> 01:22:28.727 Go on! Get out of here! 1091 01:22:28.812 --> 01:22:30.103 Come on, Lenore. We don't need this shit! 1092 01:22:30.188 --> 01:22:31.563 Get out of here! 1093 01:22:31.731 --> 01:22:33.106 (LAUGHING) 1094 01:22:33.191 --> 01:22:35.734 - You retard. - Loser. You freak. 1095 01:22:41.115 --> 01:22:42.324 No, no. 1096 01:23:07.475 --> 01:23:11.436 I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. 1097 01:23:12.021 --> 01:23:14.314 She tasted like cigarettes. 1098 01:23:30.497 --> 01:23:32.039 FORREST: I guess Lieutenant Dan figured 1099 01:23:32.124 --> 01:23:34.959 there's some things you just can't change. 1100 01:23:35.085 --> 01:23:40.214 He didn't want to be called crippled, just like I didn't want to be called stupid. 1101 01:23:45.721 --> 01:23:47.597 Happy New Year, Gump. 1102 01:23:52.394 --> 01:23:53.769 The US Ping-Pong team 1103 01:23:53.854 --> 01:23:56.147 met with President Nixon today at an Oval Office ceremony... 1104 01:23:56.231 --> 01:23:58.983 And wouldn't you know it? A few months later, 1105 01:23:59.067 --> 01:24:03.029 they invited me and the Ping-Pong team to visit the White House. 1106 01:24:03.113 --> 01:24:05.364 So, I went, again. 1107 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:09.660 And I met the President of the United States, again. 1108 01:24:10.412 --> 01:24:13.372 Only, this time, they didn't get us rooms in a real fancy hotel. 1109 01:24:13.457 --> 01:24:16.834 So, are you enjoying yourself in our nation's capital, young man? 1110 01:24:16.919 --> 01:24:19.921 - Yes, sir. - Well, where are you staying? 1111 01:24:20.005 --> 01:24:22.632 - It's called the Hotel Ebbott. - Oh, no, no, no, no. 1112 01:24:22.716 --> 01:24:25.843 I know of a much nicer hotel. It's brand-new, very modern. 1113 01:24:25.928 --> 01:24:27.929 I'll have my people take care of it for you. 1114 01:24:28.555 --> 01:24:29.680 Security, Frank Wills. 1115 01:24:29.765 --> 01:24:33.351 Yeah, sir, you might want to send a maintenance man 1116 01:24:33.435 --> 01:24:36.103 over to that office across the way. 1117 01:24:36.188 --> 01:24:39.065 The lights are off, and they must be looking for a fuse box or something, 1118 01:24:39.149 --> 01:24:41.859 'cause them flashlights, they're keeping me awake. 1119 01:24:41.944 --> 01:24:43.569 Okay, sir. I'll check it out. 1120 01:24:43.654 --> 01:24:45.363 - Thank you. - No problem. 1121 01:24:45.447 --> 01:24:47.365 - Good night. - Good night. 1122 01:24:50.994 --> 01:24:56.374 Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. 1123 01:24:56.458 --> 01:24:58.501 Vice President Ford 1124 01:24:58.585 --> 01:25:03.089 will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. 1125 01:25:04.466 --> 01:25:09.261 As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term... 1126 01:25:14.518 --> 01:25:16.060 Sergeant Gump. 1127 01:25:16.561 --> 01:25:18.771 - Yes, sir! - As you were. 1128 01:25:18.855 --> 01:25:21.983 I have your discharge papers. Your service is up, son. 1129 01:25:25.404 --> 01:25:28.155 Does this mean I can't play Ping-Pong no more? 1130 01:25:28.240 --> 01:25:30.199 For the Army it does. 1131 01:25:32.828 --> 01:25:37.707 FORREST: And just like that, my service in the United States Army was over. 1132 01:25:43.005 --> 01:25:44.796 So, I went home. 1133 01:26:06.277 --> 01:26:09.696 - I'm home, Mama. - I know, I know. 1134 01:26:11.323 --> 01:26:12.866 - Louise, he's here. - FORREST: Now, when I got home, 1135 01:26:12.950 --> 01:26:16.995 I had no idea, but Mama had had all sorts of visitors. 1136 01:26:17.121 --> 01:26:19.414 We've had all sorts of visitors, Forrest. 1137 01:26:19.498 --> 01:26:22.584 Everybody wants you to use their Ping-Pong stuff. 1138 01:26:22.668 --> 01:26:26.463 One man even left a check for $25,000 1139 01:26:26.547 --> 01:26:30.008 if you'd be agreeable to saying you liked using their paddle. 1140 01:26:30.134 --> 01:26:32.802 Oh, but, Mama, I only like using my own paddle. 1141 01:26:32.887 --> 01:26:34.888 - Hi, Miss Louise. - Hey, Forrest. 1142 01:26:34.972 --> 01:26:37.891 I know that. I know that. 1143 01:26:37.975 --> 01:26:40.643 But it's $25,000, Forrest. 1144 01:26:40.728 --> 01:26:45.398 I thought maybe you could hold it for a while, see if it grows on you. 1145 01:26:45.483 --> 01:26:47.609 - Oh, you look good, Forrest. - That Mama, she sure was right. 1146 01:26:47.693 --> 01:26:50.195 - You look real good. - It's funny how things work out. 1147 01:26:50.321 --> 01:26:53.448 I didn't stay home for long, because I'd made a promise to Bubba, 1148 01:26:53.532 --> 01:26:55.784 and I always try to keep my promise. 1149 01:26:55.868 --> 01:26:57.410 So, I went on down to Bayou La Batre 1150 01:26:57.495 --> 01:27:01.247 to meet Bubba's family and make their introduction. 1151 01:27:01.332 --> 01:27:05.001 Are you crazy, orjust plain stupid? 1152 01:27:05.711 --> 01:27:07.962 Stupid is as stupid does, Mrs. Blue. 1153 01:27:08.047 --> 01:27:09.422 I guess. 1154 01:27:10.424 --> 01:27:14.010 And, of course, I paid my respect to Bubba himself. 1155 01:27:16.013 --> 01:27:18.556 Hey, Bubba, it's me, Forrest Gump. 1156 01:27:21.685 --> 01:27:25.730 I remember everything you said, and I got it all figured out. 1157 01:27:28.526 --> 01:27:35.323 I'm taking the $24,562 and 47 cents that I got... 1158 01:27:36.408 --> 01:27:39.994 Or, that's left after a new hair cut and a new suit, 1159 01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:42.038 and I took Mama out to a real fancy dinner, 1160 01:27:42.123 --> 01:27:45.375 and I bought a bus ticket and three Dr. Peppers. 1161 01:27:45.918 --> 01:27:47.710 Tell me something. 1162 01:27:48.754 --> 01:27:50.880 SHRIMPER: Are you stupid or something? 1163 01:27:50.965 --> 01:27:53.007 Stupid is as stupid does, sir. 1164 01:27:53.092 --> 01:27:56.052 Well, that's what's left after me saying, 1165 01:27:56.971 --> 01:27:59.097 "When I was in China on the All-America Ping-Pong team, 1166 01:27:59.223 --> 01:28:03.017 "I just loved playing Ping-Pong with my Flex-O-Light Ping-Pong paddle," 1167 01:28:03.102 --> 01:28:04.352 which everybody knows isn't true, 1168 01:28:04.436 --> 01:28:05.812 but Mama says it's just a little white lie 1169 01:28:05.896 --> 01:28:08.064 so it wouldn't hurt nobody. 1170 01:28:09.483 --> 01:28:15.404 So, anyway, I'm putting all that on gas, ropes and new nets 1171 01:28:16.156 --> 01:28:17.906 and a brand-new shrimping boat. 1172 01:28:39.596 --> 01:28:42.848 Now, Bubba had told me everything he knew about shrimping, 1173 01:28:42.932 --> 01:28:45.267 but you know what I found out? 1174 01:28:46.936 --> 01:28:49.271 Shrimping is tough. 1175 01:28:51.482 --> 01:28:53.317 I only caught five. 1176 01:28:53.443 --> 01:28:55.277 A couple more, you could have yourself a cocktail. 1177 01:28:55.361 --> 01:28:56.445 (CHUCKLING) 1178 01:29:00.116 --> 01:29:01.867 Hey, you ever think about naming this old boat? 1179 01:29:01.951 --> 01:29:04.620 It's bad luck to have a boat without a name. 1180 01:29:06.998 --> 01:29:11.835 I'd never named a boat before, but there was only one I could think of, 1181 01:29:13.004 --> 01:29:16.215 the most beautiful name in the wide world. 1182 01:29:20.553 --> 01:29:23.764 (GET DOWN TONIGHT PLAYING) 1183 01:29:37.237 --> 01:29:40.072 Now, I hadn't heard from Jenny in a long while, 1184 01:29:40.156 --> 01:29:42.699 but I thought about her a lot, 1185 01:29:42.825 --> 01:29:46.286 and I hoped that whatever she was doing made her happy. 1186 01:31:32.559 --> 01:31:35.102 I thought about Jenny all the time. 1187 01:31:54.623 --> 01:31:55.623 (LAUGHS) 1188 01:31:59.753 --> 01:32:00.920 Hey! 1189 01:32:24.778 --> 01:32:29.448 Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here? 1190 01:32:29.533 --> 01:32:33.452 Well, thought I'd try out my sea legs. 1191 01:32:33.537 --> 01:32:37.289 But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan. 1192 01:32:37.374 --> 01:32:39.667 Yes, I know that. 1193 01:32:40.001 --> 01:32:42.044 You wrote me a letter, you idiot. 1194 01:32:42.170 --> 01:32:46.715 Well, well. Captain Forrest Gump. I had to see this for myself. 1195 01:32:48.343 --> 01:32:55.224 And I told you if you were ever a shrimp boat captain 1196 01:32:55.350 --> 01:32:57.935 that I'd be your first mate. Well, here I am. 1197 01:32:58.019 --> 01:33:01.147 - I am a man of my word. - Okay. 1198 01:33:01.231 --> 01:33:05.234 Yeah, but don't you be thinking that I'm going to be calling you "sir." 1199 01:33:05.360 --> 01:33:06.694 No, sir. 1200 01:33:15.578 --> 01:33:17.871 That's my boat. 1201 01:33:20.458 --> 01:33:25.920 DAN: I have a feeling if we head due east, we'll find some shrimp, 1202 01:33:26.046 --> 01:33:27.630 so take a left. 1203 01:33:29.049 --> 01:33:31.968 - Take a left! - Which way? 1204 01:33:32.052 --> 01:33:34.721 Over there! They're over there! 1205 01:33:35.389 --> 01:33:39.225 - Get on the wheel and take a left! - Okay. 1206 01:33:40.436 --> 01:33:44.564 Gump, what are you doing? Take a left! Left! 1207 01:33:46.942 --> 01:33:50.570 That's where we're going to find those shrimp, my boy! 1208 01:33:52.156 --> 01:33:53.740 That's where we'll find them. 1209 01:34:06.420 --> 01:34:10.548 - Still no shrimp, Lieutenant Dan. - Okay, so I was wrong. 1210 01:34:11.258 --> 01:34:14.469 How are we going to find them? 1211 01:34:14.595 --> 01:34:17.096 Well, maybe you should just pray for shrimp. 1212 01:34:17.806 --> 01:34:20.808 (SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC) 1213 01:34:23.729 --> 01:34:26.397 FORREST: So, I went to church every Sunday. 1214 01:34:27.650 --> 01:34:29.651 Sometimes Lieutenant Dan came, too, 1215 01:34:29.777 --> 01:34:32.779 though I think he left the praying up to me. 1216 01:34:48.254 --> 01:34:52.632 - No shrimp. - Where the hell's this God of yours? 1217 01:34:53.467 --> 01:34:59.180 It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, 'cause right then, God showed up. 1218 01:35:16.031 --> 01:35:20.868 - DAN: You'll never sink this boat! - Now, me, I was scared, 1219 01:35:20.995 --> 01:35:24.038 but Lieutenant Dan, he was mad. 1220 01:35:24.164 --> 01:35:25.498 Come on! 1221 01:35:28.627 --> 01:35:33.840 You call this a storm? Come on, you son of a bitch! 1222 01:35:35.968 --> 01:35:40.345 It's time for a showdown! You and me! 1223 01:35:40.471 --> 01:35:44.349 I'm right here! Come and get me! 1224 01:35:44.434 --> 01:35:46.018 (CACKLING) 1225 01:35:46.144 --> 01:35:50.022 You'll never sink this boat! 1226 01:35:52.066 --> 01:35:54.234 Hurricane Carmen came through here yesterday, 1227 01:35:54.360 --> 01:35:56.903 destroying nearly everything in its path. 1228 01:35:57.030 --> 01:35:59.531 And as in other towns up and down the coast, 1229 01:35:59.699 --> 01:36:02.075 Bayou La Batre's entire shrimping industry 1230 01:36:02.160 --> 01:36:06.038 has fallen victim to Carmen and has been left in utter ruin. 1231 01:36:06.164 --> 01:36:09.291 Speaking with local officials, this reporter has learned, 1232 01:36:09.375 --> 01:36:12.836 in fact, only one shrimping boat actually survived the storm. 1233 01:36:13.212 --> 01:36:15.839 Louise. Louise, there's Forrest. 1234 01:36:16.549 --> 01:36:18.550 FORREST: After that, shrimping was easy. 1235 01:36:24.223 --> 01:36:27.351 Since people still needed them shrimps for shrimp cocktails 1236 01:36:27.435 --> 01:36:31.563 and barbecues and all, and we were the only boat left standing, 1237 01:36:31.731 --> 01:36:34.983 Bubba-Gump Shrimp's what they got. 1238 01:36:35.068 --> 01:36:39.655 We got a whole bunch of boats, 12 Jennys, 1239 01:36:39.739 --> 01:36:43.241 a big old warehouse. We even have hats that say "Bubba-Gump" on them. 1240 01:36:43.576 --> 01:36:46.870 Bubba-Gump Shrimp. It's a household name. 1241 01:36:47.080 --> 01:36:48.789 Hold on there, boy. 1242 01:36:48.915 --> 01:36:53.460 Are you telling me you're the owner of the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Corporation? 1243 01:36:53.586 --> 01:36:56.588 Yes, sir. We got more money than Davy Crockett. 1244 01:36:56.673 --> 01:36:58.131 (LAUGHING) 1245 01:36:58.216 --> 01:37:02.260 Boy, I heard some whoppers in my time, but that tops them all. 1246 01:37:04.972 --> 01:37:07.766 We was sitting next to a millionaire. 1247 01:37:11.270 --> 01:37:15.899 Well, I thought it was a very lovely story, 1248 01:37:16.317 --> 01:37:20.946 and you tell it so well, with such enthusiasm. 1249 01:37:22.657 --> 01:37:25.325 Would you like to see what Lieutenant Dan looks like? 1250 01:37:25.451 --> 01:37:26.952 Well, yes, I would. 1251 01:37:31.958 --> 01:37:34.000 That's him right there. 1252 01:37:36.337 --> 01:37:38.588 And let me tell you something about Lieutenant Dan... 1253 01:37:39.757 --> 01:37:40.799 Forrest, 1254 01:37:46.347 --> 01:37:49.141 I never thanked you for saving my life. 1255 01:38:15.167 --> 01:38:21.464 FORREST: He never actually said so, but I think he made his peace with God. 1256 01:38:27.345 --> 01:38:28.846 (GUNSHOTS FIRING) 1257 01:38:29.139 --> 01:38:31.348 For the second time in 17 days, 1258 01:38:31.475 --> 01:38:34.935 President Ford escaped possible assassination today. 1259 01:38:35.020 --> 01:38:36.312 MARGO: Base to Jenny 1. 1260 01:38:36.396 --> 01:38:39.899 - Base to Jenny 1. - Jenny 1. Go, Margo. 1261 01:38:39.983 --> 01:38:41.484 Forrest has a phone call. 1262 01:38:41.568 --> 01:38:44.069 Yeah, well, you'll have to tell them to call him back. 1263 01:38:44.154 --> 01:38:47.531 - He is indisposed at the moment. - His mama's sick. 1264 01:39:08.220 --> 01:39:10.596 - Where's Mama? - She's upstairs. 1265 01:39:13.433 --> 01:39:15.392 Hi, Forrest. 1266 01:39:16.353 --> 01:39:18.896 - DOCTOR: I'll see you tomorrow. - All right. 1267 01:39:25.570 --> 01:39:28.739 We sure got you straightened out, didn't we, boy? 1268 01:39:40.085 --> 01:39:44.046 - What's the matter, Mama? - I'm dying, Forrest. 1269 01:39:47.384 --> 01:39:49.760 Come on in, sit down over here. 1270 01:40:04.109 --> 01:40:07.611 - Why are you dying, Mama? - It's my time. 1271 01:40:08.613 --> 01:40:10.489 It's just my time. 1272 01:40:11.950 --> 01:40:16.120 Now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. 1273 01:40:17.747 --> 01:40:20.124 Death is just a part of life, 1274 01:40:21.126 --> 01:40:23.752 something we're all destined to do. 1275 01:40:25.589 --> 01:40:29.967 I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your mama. 1276 01:40:30.802 --> 01:40:34.387 - I did the best I could. - You did good, Mama. 1277 01:40:35.180 --> 01:40:40.351 Well, I happen to believe you make your own destiny. 1278 01:40:41.854 --> 01:40:45.106 You have to do the best with what God gave you. 1279 01:40:48.986 --> 01:40:51.112 What's my destiny, Mama? 1280 01:40:53.282 --> 01:40:56.492 You're going to have to figure that out for yourself. 1281 01:40:57.786 --> 01:41:00.747 Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. 1282 01:41:00.831 --> 01:41:02.999 You never know what you're going to get. 1283 01:41:03.125 --> 01:41:07.503 Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. 1284 01:41:07.588 --> 01:41:09.797 I will miss you, Forrest. 1285 01:41:11.634 --> 01:41:15.678 She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. 1286 01:41:17.181 --> 01:41:20.516 I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. 1287 01:41:23.562 --> 01:41:26.856 And that's all I have to say about that. 1288 01:41:33.697 --> 01:41:35.990 Didn't you say you were waiting for the number seven bus? 1289 01:41:36.075 --> 01:41:38.868 There'll be another one along shortly. 1290 01:41:42.706 --> 01:41:46.292 Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, 1291 01:41:46.377 --> 01:41:49.504 and a national celebrity, and a shrimping boat captain, 1292 01:41:50.005 --> 01:41:53.216 and a college graduate, the city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama 1293 01:41:53.342 --> 01:41:56.552 decided to get together and offered me a fine job. 1294 01:41:57.930 --> 01:42:01.599 So, I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, 1295 01:42:01.725 --> 01:42:04.435 though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. 1296 01:42:04.561 --> 01:42:09.148 He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. 1297 01:42:09.233 --> 01:42:10.817 And so then, I got a call from him saying 1298 01:42:10.901 --> 01:42:14.362 we don't have to worry about money no more, and I said, 1299 01:42:14.446 --> 01:42:16.739 "That's good. One less thing." 1300 01:42:17.241 --> 01:42:19.367 (SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC) 1301 01:42:19.785 --> 01:42:23.705 Now, Mama said there's only so much fortune a man really needs, 1302 01:42:24.456 --> 01:42:27.291 and the rest is just for showing off. 1303 01:42:27.376 --> 01:42:31.254 So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare gospel church, 1304 01:42:33.716 --> 01:42:37.885 and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre fishing hospital. 1305 01:42:40.764 --> 01:42:45.309 And even though Bubba was dead and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, 1306 01:42:45.436 --> 01:42:48.062 I gave Bubba's mama Bubba's share. 1307 01:42:52.276 --> 01:42:53.985 You know what? 1308 01:42:55.237 --> 01:42:58.239 She didn't have to work in nobody's kitchen no more. 1309 01:42:58.323 --> 01:42:59.949 That smells wonderful. 1310 01:43:00.784 --> 01:43:04.703 And 'cause I was a gazillionaire and I liked doing it so much, 1311 01:43:04.787 --> 01:43:07.122 I cut that grass for free. 1312 01:43:10.918 --> 01:43:13.795 But at night time when there was nothing to do 1313 01:43:13.880 --> 01:43:16.256 and the house was all empty, 1314 01:43:17.258 --> 01:43:19.634 I'd always think of Jenny. 1315 01:44:23.324 --> 01:44:26.493 And then, she was there. 1316 01:44:59.485 --> 01:45:02.654 - Hello, Forrest. - Hello, Jenny. 1317 01:45:14.208 --> 01:45:16.835 Jenny came back and stayed with me. 1318 01:45:18.421 --> 01:45:22.090 Maybe it was because she had nowhere else to go, 1319 01:45:22.216 --> 01:45:25.927 or maybe it was because she was so tired, 'cause she went to bed 1320 01:45:26.053 --> 01:45:30.015 and slept and slept, like she hadn't slept in years. 1321 01:45:31.266 --> 01:45:33.559 It was wonderful having her home. 1322 01:45:34.895 --> 01:45:40.024 Every day we'd take a walk and I'd jabber on like a monkey in a tree, 1323 01:45:40.108 --> 01:45:42.651 and she'd listen about Ping-Ponging, and shrimping, 1324 01:45:42.736 --> 01:45:47.031 and Mama making a trip up to heaven. I did all the talking. 1325 01:45:47.115 --> 01:45:50.451 Jenny most of the time was real quiet. 1326 01:46:30.617 --> 01:46:33.827 How could you do this? 1327 01:46:47.133 --> 01:46:49.134 (CRYING) 1328 01:47:10.782 --> 01:47:14.118 Sometimes I guess there just aren't enough rocks. 1329 01:47:16.329 --> 01:47:20.833 I never really knew why she came back, but I didn't care. 1330 01:47:21.001 --> 01:47:25.296 It was like olden times. We was like peas and carrots again. 1331 01:47:27.382 --> 01:47:31.719 Every day, I'd pick pretty flowers and put them in her room for her, 1332 01:47:33.221 --> 01:47:36.807 and she gave me the best gift anyone could ever get in the wide world. 1333 01:47:36.891 --> 01:47:39.727 - New shoes. - They make them just for running. 1334 01:47:44.733 --> 01:47:48.027 And she even showed me how to dance. 1335 01:47:56.202 --> 01:48:00.413 And, well, we was like family, Jenny and me. 1336 01:48:04.168 --> 01:48:07.086 And it was the happiest time in my life. 1337 01:48:26.732 --> 01:48:28.524 MAN ON TV: And this Fourth is witnessing one of the 1338 01:48:28.609 --> 01:48:31.611 largest fireworks displays in the nation's... 1339 01:48:31.695 --> 01:48:34.614 - You done watching it? ...here in New York Harbor... 1340 01:48:34.740 --> 01:48:36.532 - I'm going to bed. ...with a spectacular display 1341 01:48:36.617 --> 01:48:39.660 of tall ships earlier. The Statue of Liberty... 1342 01:48:46.710 --> 01:48:48.711 Will you marry me? 1343 01:48:53.634 --> 01:48:56.594 I'd make a good husband, Jenny. 1344 01:48:59.264 --> 01:49:01.307 You would, Forrest. 1345 01:49:03.143 --> 01:49:05.478 But you won't marry me. 1346 01:49:07.773 --> 01:49:09.982 You don't want to marry me. 1347 01:49:13.570 --> 01:49:15.988 Why don't you love me, Jenny? 1348 01:49:20.994 --> 01:49:23.121 I'm not a smart man, 1349 01:49:24.832 --> 01:49:27.250 but I know what love is. 1350 01:50:04.288 --> 01:50:05.538 Jenny. 1351 01:50:07.458 --> 01:50:09.959 Forrest, I do love you. 1352 01:51:03.095 --> 01:51:06.765 - Where are you running off to? - I'm not running. 1353 01:52:38.357 --> 01:52:43.695 That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. 1354 01:52:44.864 --> 01:52:49.284 So, I ran to the end of the road, and when I got there, 1355 01:52:49.368 --> 01:52:51.119 I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. 1356 01:52:51.203 --> 01:52:52.370 REPORTER: President Carter, suffering 1357 01:52:52.455 --> 01:52:54.456 from heat exhaustion, fell into the arms of... 1358 01:52:54.540 --> 01:52:56.206 FORREST: And when I got there, 1359 01:52:56.291 --> 01:53:00.461 I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. 1360 01:53:00.545 --> 01:53:02.963 And I figured since I'd run this far, 1361 01:53:03.048 --> 01:53:06.300 maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. 1362 01:53:06.384 --> 01:53:07.593 And that's what I did. 1363 01:53:08.219 --> 01:53:10.804 I ran clear across Alabama. 1364 01:53:11.056 --> 01:53:14.224 For no particular reason, I just kept on going. 1365 01:53:15.560 --> 01:53:17.144 I ran clear to the ocean. 1366 01:53:23.026 --> 01:53:26.195 And when I got there, I figured since I'd gone this far, 1367 01:53:26.738 --> 01:53:29.573 might as well turn around and just keep on going. 1368 01:53:33.328 --> 01:53:37.915 And when I got to another ocean, I figured since I'd gone this far, 1369 01:53:39.709 --> 01:53:43.420 I might as well just turn back and keep right on going. 1370 01:53:44.589 --> 01:53:49.426 When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. 1371 01:53:49.511 --> 01:53:52.554 When I had to go, you know... 1372 01:53:54.182 --> 01:53:55.349 I went. 1373 01:53:55.433 --> 01:53:58.435 And so, you just ran. 1374 01:54:00.188 --> 01:54:01.271 Yeah. 1375 01:54:01.356 --> 01:54:04.108 (RUNNING ON EMPTY PLAYING) 1376 01:54:36.558 --> 01:54:41.812 FORREST: I'd think a lot about Mama and Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. 1377 01:54:42.814 --> 01:54:46.316 But most of all, I thought about Jenny. 1378 01:54:47.402 --> 01:54:49.570 I thought about her a lot. 1379 01:54:50.321 --> 01:54:53.407 For more than two years now, a man named Forrest Gump, 1380 01:54:53.491 --> 01:54:56.910 a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, stopping only to sleep, 1381 01:54:56.995 --> 01:54:59.163 has been running across America. 1382 01:54:59.247 --> 01:55:01.248 Charles Cooper brings us this report. 1383 01:55:02.167 --> 01:55:04.585 For the fourth time on his journey across America, 1384 01:55:04.669 --> 01:55:07.504 Forrest Gump, the gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, 1385 01:55:07.630 --> 01:55:10.507 is about to cross the Mississippi River again today. 1386 01:55:11.134 --> 01:55:13.177 - I'll be damned. Forrest? - Sir, why are you running? 1387 01:55:13.261 --> 01:55:14.344 Why are you running? 1388 01:55:14.429 --> 01:55:16.013 Are you doing this for world peace? 1389 01:55:16.097 --> 01:55:17.431 Are you doing this for the homeless? 1390 01:55:17.515 --> 01:55:20.517 - Are you running for women's rights? - Or for the environment? 1391 01:55:20.602 --> 01:55:21.602 Or for animals? 1392 01:55:21.686 --> 01:55:24.604 FORREST: They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running 1393 01:55:24.688 --> 01:55:26.063 for no particular reason. 1394 01:55:26.148 --> 01:55:28.107 REPORTER: Why are you doing this? 1395 01:55:28.192 --> 01:55:33.196 I just felt like running. 1396 01:55:33.322 --> 01:55:36.532 It's you. I can't believe it's really you. 1397 01:55:37.367 --> 01:55:42.497 Now, for some reason, what I was doing seemed to make sense to people. 1398 01:55:42.664 --> 01:55:44.791 I mean, it was like an alarm went off in my head, you know? 1399 01:55:44.875 --> 01:55:46.709 I said, "Here's a guy that's got his act together. 1400 01:55:46.835 --> 01:55:48.795 "Here's somebody who's got it all figured out. 1401 01:55:48.879 --> 01:55:52.965 "Here's somebody who has the answer." I'll follow you anywhere, Mr. Gump. 1402 01:55:53.050 --> 01:55:54.884 So, I got company. 1403 01:55:56.720 --> 01:56:02.558 And after that, I got more company. And then, even more people joined in. 1404 01:56:05.020 --> 01:56:08.231 Somebody later told me it gave people hope. 1405 01:56:10.025 --> 01:56:13.402 Now... Now, I don't know anything about that, 1406 01:56:14.238 --> 01:56:16.823 but some of those people asked me if I could help them out. 1407 01:56:17.032 --> 01:56:20.284 Hey, man, hey, listen, I was wondering if you might help me, huh? 1408 01:56:20.369 --> 01:56:22.119 Listen, I'm in the bumper sticker business 1409 01:56:22.204 --> 01:56:23.955 and I've been trying to think up a good slogan. 1410 01:56:24.039 --> 01:56:27.166 And since you have been such a big inspiration to the people around here, 1411 01:56:27.251 --> 01:56:29.168 I thought you might be able to help me jump into... 1412 01:56:29.253 --> 01:56:32.880 Whoa, man! You just ran through a big pile of dog shit! 1413 01:56:34.424 --> 01:56:37.093 - It happens. - What, shit? 1414 01:56:38.595 --> 01:56:40.555 Sometimes. 1415 01:56:42.432 --> 01:56:45.101 And some years later, I heard that that fellow 1416 01:56:45.185 --> 01:56:47.019 did come up with a bumper sticker slogan, 1417 01:56:47.104 --> 01:56:50.106 and he made a lot of money off of it. 1418 01:56:51.567 --> 01:56:53.776 Another time, I was running along, 1419 01:56:53.902 --> 01:56:57.196 somebody who had lost all his money in the T-shirt business, 1420 01:56:57.281 --> 01:56:59.323 he wanted to put my face on a T-shirt, 1421 01:56:59.408 --> 01:57:02.368 but he couldn't draw that well, and he didn't have a camera. 1422 01:57:02.452 --> 01:57:05.955 Here, use this one. Nobody likes that color anyway. 1423 01:57:10.794 --> 01:57:12.461 FORREST: Have a nice day. 1424 01:57:14.089 --> 01:57:15.214 Well, some years later, 1425 01:57:15.299 --> 01:57:19.218 I found out that that man did come up with an idea for a T-shirt. 1426 01:57:19.303 --> 01:57:21.679 He made a lot of money off of it. 1427 01:57:24.474 --> 01:57:28.895 Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company. 1428 01:57:30.147 --> 01:57:31.314 My mama always said, 1429 01:57:31.398 --> 01:57:35.818 "You got to put the past behind you before you can move on." 1430 01:57:37.487 --> 01:57:40.823 And I think that's what my running was all about. 1431 01:57:41.658 --> 01:57:45.661 I had run for three years, two months, 1432 01:57:45.913 --> 01:57:48.247 14 days and 16 hours. 1433 01:58:03.930 --> 01:58:06.264 Quiet. Quiet. He's going to say something. 1434 01:58:17.693 --> 01:58:19.444 I'm pretty tired. 1435 01:58:22.281 --> 01:58:24.324 Think I'll go home now. 1436 01:58:42.885 --> 01:58:45.345 Now what are we supposed to do? 1437 01:58:46.305 --> 01:58:50.558 And just like that, my running days was over. 1438 01:58:52.520 --> 01:58:54.270 So, I went home to Alabama. 1439 01:58:55.064 --> 01:58:58.942 REPORTER: Moments ago, at 2:25 p.m., as President Reagan was leaving the... 1440 01:58:59.026 --> 01:59:00.694 (GUNSHOTS FIRING) 1441 01:59:00.987 --> 01:59:05.156 ...five or six gunshots were fired by an unknown would-be assassin. 1442 01:59:05.658 --> 01:59:07.993 The President was shot in the chest, and the assailant... 1443 01:59:08.077 --> 01:59:10.036 I picked up the mail. 1444 01:59:10.830 --> 01:59:14.666 And one day, out of the blue clear sky, I got a letter from Jenny, 1445 01:59:14.750 --> 01:59:19.004 wondering if I could come down to Savannah and see her, 1446 01:59:19.088 --> 01:59:21.673 and that's what I'm doing here. 1447 01:59:21.757 --> 01:59:24.342 She saw me on TV, running. 1448 01:59:24.427 --> 01:59:28.680 I'm supposed to go on the number nine bus to Richmond Street 1449 01:59:28.764 --> 01:59:35.687 and get off and go one block left to 1947 Henry Street, Apartment 4. 1450 01:59:35.771 --> 01:59:39.441 Why, you don't need to take a bus. 1451 01:59:39.567 --> 01:59:44.112 Henry Street is just five or six blocks down that way. 1452 01:59:45.948 --> 01:59:48.283 - Down that way? - Down that way. 1453 01:59:51.287 --> 01:59:53.204 It was nice talking to you. 1454 01:59:53.456 --> 01:59:54.414 (CAR HORN HONKING) 1455 01:59:54.498 --> 01:59:57.125 I hope everything works out for you! 1456 02:00:04.633 --> 02:00:06.301 Hey! 1457 02:00:06.719 --> 02:00:08.386 Forrest! 1458 02:00:08.637 --> 02:00:11.890 How you doing? Come in, come in! 1459 02:00:11.974 --> 02:00:13.183 I got your letter. 1460 02:00:13.267 --> 02:00:15.894 I was wondering about that. 1461 02:00:17.438 --> 02:00:19.230 Is this your house? 1462 02:00:19.315 --> 02:00:22.399 Yeah. It's messy right now. I just got off work. 1463 02:00:22.484 --> 02:00:26.195 It's nice. You got air conditioning. 1464 02:00:33.078 --> 02:00:35.120 - Thank you. - I ate some. 1465 02:00:37.916 --> 02:00:43.337 Hey, I kept a scrapbook of your clippings and everything. 1466 02:00:43.463 --> 02:00:45.089 There you are. 1467 02:00:46.674 --> 02:00:48.050 And this, I got you running. 1468 02:00:51.012 --> 02:00:53.180 I ran a long way, 1469 02:00:53.681 --> 02:00:55.516 for a long time. 1470 02:00:57.727 --> 02:00:59.228 And there... 1471 02:01:05.735 --> 02:01:09.196 Listen, Forrest, I don't know how to say this. 1472 02:01:11.699 --> 02:01:16.036 I just I want to apologize for anything that I ever did to you, 1473 02:01:16.162 --> 02:01:21.416 'cause I was messed up for a long time, and... 1474 02:01:21.751 --> 02:01:22.751 (KNOCKING AT DOOR) 1475 02:01:23.086 --> 02:01:24.086 Yoo-hoo! 1476 02:01:24.212 --> 02:01:25.838 - Hey. - Hi. 1477 02:01:26.047 --> 02:01:27.047 Hey, you. 1478 02:01:28.216 --> 02:01:31.176 - This is an old friend from Alabama. - How do you do? 1479 02:01:31.261 --> 02:01:34.346 JENNY: Listen, next week my schedule changes, so I'll be able to... But thanks... 1480 02:01:34.430 --> 02:01:36.473 No problem. Got to go, Jen, I'm double-parked. 1481 02:01:36.558 --> 02:01:38.433 - Okay. Thanks. - Bye. 1482 02:01:41.896 --> 02:01:44.648 This is my very good friend, Mr. Gump. Can you say hi to him? 1483 02:01:44.732 --> 02:01:47.818 - Hello, Mr. Gump. - Hello. 1484 02:01:47.902 --> 02:01:50.904 - Can I go watch TV now? - Yes, you can. Just keep it low. 1485 02:01:53.741 --> 02:01:57.077 - You're a mama, Jenny. - I'm a mama. 1486 02:01:59.956 --> 02:02:01.790 His name's Forrest. 1487 02:02:02.917 --> 02:02:04.251 Like me. 1488 02:02:05.879 --> 02:02:08.005 I named him after his daddy. 1489 02:02:08.965 --> 02:02:11.425 He got a daddy named Forrest, too? 1490 02:02:12.719 --> 02:02:14.761 You're his daddy, Forrest. 1491 02:02:29.235 --> 02:02:30.444 Hey. 1492 02:02:31.613 --> 02:02:34.489 Forrest, look at me. Look at me, Forrest. 1493 02:02:37.076 --> 02:02:41.205 There's nothing you need to do, okay? You didn't do anything wrong. 1494 02:02:41.748 --> 02:02:43.123 Okay? 1495 02:02:47.462 --> 02:02:49.337 Isn't he beautiful? 1496 02:02:50.339 --> 02:02:53.299 He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. 1497 02:02:57.095 --> 02:02:58.179 But... 1498 02:03:01.850 --> 02:03:04.727 Is he smart, or... 1499 02:03:04.811 --> 02:03:08.814 He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class. 1500 02:03:18.158 --> 02:03:20.618 Yeah, it's okay. Go talk to him. 1501 02:03:29.962 --> 02:03:32.797 - What are you watching? - Bert and Ernie. 1502 02:03:55.904 --> 02:03:57.697 Forrest, 1503 02:03:59.157 --> 02:04:00.700 I'm sick. 1504 02:04:03.370 --> 02:04:06.998 What, do you have a cough due to a cold? 1505 02:04:07.082 --> 02:04:09.458 I have some kind of virus, 1506 02:04:09.543 --> 02:04:12.253 and the doctors don't... They don't know what it is, 1507 02:04:12.379 --> 02:04:15.381 and there isn't anything they can do about it. 1508 02:04:19.761 --> 02:04:22.054 You could come home with me. 1509 02:04:23.724 --> 02:04:29.395 Jenny, you and little Forrest could come stay at my house in Greenbow. 1510 02:04:33.734 --> 02:04:36.527 I'll take care of you if you're sick. 1511 02:04:38.905 --> 02:04:41.198 Would you marry me, Forrest? 1512 02:04:46.455 --> 02:04:47.705 Okay. 1513 02:04:48.749 --> 02:04:50.416 MINISTER: Please take your seats. 1514 02:04:54.254 --> 02:04:56.589 Forrest? It's time to start. 1515 02:05:15.984 --> 02:05:17.567 Hi. 1516 02:05:18.444 --> 02:05:19.944 Your tie. 1517 02:05:32.500 --> 02:05:51.434 Lieutenant Dan. 1518 02:05:52.269 --> 02:05:53.937 Hello, Forrest. 1519 02:05:54.605 --> 02:05:57.273 You got new legs. New legs! 1520 02:05:58.484 --> 02:06:02.278 Yeah. I got new legs. Custom-made. 1521 02:06:02.988 --> 02:06:06.991 Titanium alloy. It's what they use on the space shuttle. 1522 02:06:10.830 --> 02:06:12.330 Magic legs. 1523 02:06:14.333 --> 02:06:18.711 This is my fiancée, Susan. 1524 02:06:21.507 --> 02:06:24.884 - Lieutenant Dan. - Hi, Forrest. 1525 02:06:26.971 --> 02:06:30.181 Lieutenant Dan, this is my Jenny. 1526 02:06:30.558 --> 02:06:33.560 Hey. It's nice to meet you finally. 1527 02:06:43.696 --> 02:06:47.866 MINISTER: Do you, Forrest, take Jenny to be your wife? 1528 02:06:49.743 --> 02:06:53.997 Do you, Jenny, take Forrest to be your husband? 1529 02:06:55.332 --> 02:06:58.710 And so I pronounce you man and wife. 1530 02:07:29.575 --> 02:07:31.451 - Hey. - Hey. 1531 02:07:45.132 --> 02:07:46.924 Hey, Forrest. 1532 02:07:52.263 --> 02:07:54.056 Were you scared in Vietnam? 1533 02:07:55.725 --> 02:07:58.060 Yes. Well, I... 1534 02:07:59.395 --> 02:08:01.104 I don't know. 1535 02:08:01.814 --> 02:08:06.777 Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out. 1536 02:08:09.906 --> 02:08:11.949 And then it was nice. 1537 02:08:15.328 --> 02:08:19.289 It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. 1538 02:08:20.583 --> 02:08:24.461 There was always a million sparkles on the water. 1539 02:08:26.256 --> 02:08:30.175 Like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, 1540 02:08:30.301 --> 02:08:34.888 it looked like there were two skies, one on top of the other. 1541 02:08:37.433 --> 02:08:40.477 And then, in the desert, when the sun comes up, 1542 02:08:42.939 --> 02:08:47.109 I couldn't tell where heaven stopped 1543 02:08:47.652 --> 02:08:50.028 and the earth began. 1544 02:08:51.281 --> 02:08:53.156 It was so beautiful. 1545 02:08:57.870 --> 02:09:00.956 I wish I could've been there with you. 1546 02:09:04.043 --> 02:09:05.460 You were. 1547 02:09:16.180 --> 02:09:17.639 I love you. 1548 02:09:22.020 --> 02:09:25.355 You died on a Saturday morning. 1549 02:09:27.066 --> 02:09:30.819 And I had you placed here under our tree. 1550 02:09:35.700 --> 02:09:40.537 And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. 1551 02:09:44.667 --> 02:09:46.335 Mama 1552 02:09:47.420 --> 02:09:52.424 always said that dying was a part of life. 1553 02:09:55.845 --> 02:09:58.180 I sure wish it wasn't. 1554 02:10:00.850 --> 02:10:04.603 Little Forrest is doing just fine. 1555 02:10:05.938 --> 02:10:07.022 But... 1556 02:10:07.273 --> 02:10:09.941 About to start school again soon, 1557 02:10:11.778 --> 02:10:15.571 and I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. 1558 02:10:17.741 --> 02:10:23.746 I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. 1559 02:10:26.875 --> 02:10:29.460 Teaching him how to play Ping-Pong. 1560 02:10:30.754 --> 02:10:31.796 Okay. 1561 02:10:32.047 --> 02:10:33.214 He's really good. 1562 02:10:33.298 --> 02:10:35.424 Forrest, you go. 1563 02:10:39.638 --> 02:10:41.222 We fish a lot. 1564 02:10:44.768 --> 02:10:48.229 (SOBBING) And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. 1565 02:10:51.483 --> 02:10:53.734 You'd be so proud of him. 1566 02:10:55.445 --> 02:10:56.904 I am. 1567 02:10:57.948 --> 02:11:01.158 He wrote you a letter. 1568 02:11:02.744 --> 02:11:04.787 And he says I can't read it. 1569 02:11:04.913 --> 02:11:08.457 I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. 1570 02:11:24.516 --> 02:11:25.850 Jenny, 1571 02:11:31.648 --> 02:11:34.859 I don't know if Mama was right, 1572 02:11:36.194 --> 02:11:37.695 or if it's Lieutenant Dan. 1573 02:11:37.821 --> 02:11:40.406 I don't know 1574 02:11:40.490 --> 02:11:44.994 if we each have a destiny, 1575 02:11:47.038 --> 02:11:52.168 or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. 1576 02:11:56.673 --> 02:11:58.507 But I think 1577 02:12:00.385 --> 02:12:02.178 maybe it's both. 1578 02:12:06.516 --> 02:12:09.393 Maybe both is happening at the same time. 1579 02:12:15.525 --> 02:12:17.526 But I miss you, Jenny. 1580 02:12:23.909 --> 02:12:28.329 If there's anything you need, I won't be far away. 1581 02:13:03.614 --> 02:13:06.574 Here's your bus. Okay. 1582 02:13:08.244 --> 02:13:11.579 Hey. I know this. 1583 02:13:11.705 --> 02:13:14.582 I'm gonna show that for show-and-tell because 1584 02:13:14.708 --> 02:13:17.377 Grandma used to read it to you. 1585 02:13:17.461 --> 02:13:19.587 My favorite book. 1586 02:13:22.925 --> 02:13:24.425 Here we are. 1587 02:13:24.593 --> 02:13:26.052 Okay. 1588 02:13:27.763 --> 02:13:29.264 Here you go. 1589 02:13:34.144 --> 02:13:36.646 Hey, Forrest, don't... 1590 02:13:40.109 --> 02:13:43.820 - I wanted to tell you, I love you. - I love you, too, Daddy. 1591 02:13:45.823 --> 02:13:48.616 I'll be right here when you get back. 1592 02:13:53.163 --> 02:13:56.416 You understand this is the bus to school, now, don't you? 1593 02:13:56.500 --> 02:14:00.044 Of course, and you are Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump.