1 00:03:17,970 --> 00:03:19,220 Hello. 2 00:03:20,180 --> 00:03:22,850 My name's Forrest. Forrest Gump. 3 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,440 Do you want a chocolate? 4 00:03:33,030 --> 00:03:36,450 I could eat about a million and a half of these. 5 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:42,830 My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. 6 00:03:44,830 --> 00:03:47,710 You never know what you're gonna get. 7 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,460 Those must be comfortable shoes. 8 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,510 I'll bet you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. 9 00:04:05,730 --> 00:04:08,190 I wish I had shoes like that. 10 00:04:08,850 --> 00:04:10,390 My feet hurt. 11 00:04:11,610 --> 00:04:13,280 Mama always said there's an awful lot 12 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,570 you could tell about a person by their shoes: 13 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,660 where they're going, where they've been. 14 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,960 I've worn lots of shoes. 15 00:04:33,090 --> 00:04:37,890 I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. 16 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,430 Mama said they'd take me anywhere. 17 00:04:44,220 --> 00:04:46,850 She said they was my magic shoes. 18 00:04:46,930 --> 00:04:50,100 All right, Forrest, you can open your eyes now. 19 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,860 Let's take a little walk around. 20 00:05:06,660 --> 00:05:08,450 How do those feel? 21 00:05:11,420 --> 00:05:13,590 His legs are strong, Mrs. Gump, 22 00:05:13,670 --> 00:05:16,170 as strong as I've ever seen, 23 00:05:16,260 --> 00:05:19,640 but his back is as crooked as a politician. 24 00:05:20,930 --> 00:05:24,020 But we're gonna straighten him right up, now, aren't we, Forrest? 25 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:25,230 Forrest! 26 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,930 Now, when I was a baby, 27 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:30,860 Mama named me after the great Civil War hero, 28 00:05:30,940 --> 00:05:33,360 General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 29 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,650 She said we was related to him in some way. 30 00:05:35,730 --> 00:05:37,110 And what he did was, 31 00:05:37,190 --> 00:05:41,450 he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. 32 00:05:41,530 --> 00:05:44,870 They'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets 33 00:05:44,950 --> 00:05:49,290 and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. 34 00:05:49,370 --> 00:05:53,250 They'd even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around. 35 00:05:53,330 --> 00:05:56,380 And anyway, that's how I got my name, 36 00:05:56,460 --> 00:05:57,880 Forrest Gump. 37 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:59,710 Mama said that the "Forrest" part 38 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,350 was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, 39 00:06:03,430 --> 00:06:06,220 well, just don't make no sense. 40 00:06:11,890 --> 00:06:15,390 Okay... Get it, get it... 41 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,440 Wait, is it this way? Hold on. 42 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:20,860 All right... 43 00:06:21,450 --> 00:06:23,120 What are you all staring at? 44 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,660 Haven't you ever seen a little boy with braces on his legs before? 45 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,910 Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest. 46 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,590 If God intended everybody to be the same, 47 00:06:35,670 --> 00:06:37,800 he'd have given us all braces on our legs. 48 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:39,590 Mama always had a way of explaining things 49 00:06:39,670 --> 00:06:41,670 so I could understand them. 50 00:06:43,130 --> 00:06:46,630 We lived about a quarter mile off Route 17, 51 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,770 about a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama. 52 00:06:49,850 --> 00:06:52,600 That's in the county of Greenbow. 53 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,100 Our house had been in Mama's family since her grandpa's grandpa's grandpa 54 00:06:57,190 --> 00:06:59,110 had come across the ocean about 1,000 years ago, 55 00:06:59,190 --> 00:07:01,110 something like that. 56 00:07:01,190 --> 00:07:03,900 Since it was just me and Mama and we had all these empty rooms, 57 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:06,740 Mama decided to let those rooms out, 58 00:07:06,820 --> 00:07:08,780 mostly to people passing through, 59 00:07:08,870 --> 00:07:12,830 like from, oh, Mobile, Montgomery, places like that. 60 00:07:12,910 --> 00:07:15,620 That's how me and Mama got money. 61 00:07:15,710 --> 00:07:18,460 Mama was a real smart lady. 62 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:23,550 Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody else is. 63 00:07:26,050 --> 00:07:28,430 Did you hear what I said, Forrest? 64 00:07:28,510 --> 00:07:32,680 You're the same as everybody else. You are no different. 65 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:37,640 Your boy's different, Mrs. Gump. 66 00:07:37,730 --> 00:07:39,940 Now, his IQ is 75. 67 00:07:40,730 --> 00:07:43,860 Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock. 68 00:07:47,450 --> 00:07:49,490 She wanted me to have the finest education, 69 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:53,500 so she took me to the Greenbow County Central School. 70 00:07:53,580 --> 00:07:55,830 I met the principal and all. 71 00:07:56,330 --> 00:07:59,210 I want to show you something, Mrs. Gump. 72 00:07:59,670 --> 00:08:02,550 Now, this is normal. 73 00:08:03,050 --> 00:08:06,350 Forrest is right here. 74 00:08:07,180 --> 00:08:12,730 The state requires a minimum IQ of 80 to attend public school, Mrs. Gump. 75 00:08:13,220 --> 00:08:16,100 He's gonna have to go to a special school. 76 00:08:16,190 --> 00:08:18,320 Now, he'll be just fine. 77 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,190 What does "normal" mean, anyway? 78 00:08:21,270 --> 00:08:24,650 He might be a bit on the slow side, 79 00:08:25,780 --> 00:08:27,530 but my boy Forrest is gonna get 80 00:08:27,610 --> 00:08:30,150 the same opportunities as everyone else. 81 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,040 He's not going to some special school to learn how to re-tread tires. 82 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,290 We're talking about five little points here. 83 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,630 There must be something can be done. 84 00:08:43,210 --> 00:08:45,670 We're a progressive school system. 85 00:08:46,510 --> 00:08:49,430 We don't want to see anybody left behind. 86 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:53,760 Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump? 87 00:08:57,020 --> 00:08:58,900 He's on vacation. 88 00:09:16,370 --> 00:09:20,170 Well, your mama sure does care about your schooling, son. 89 00:09:25,670 --> 00:09:28,130 You don't say much, do you? 90 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,600 "Finally, he had to try. 91 00:09:41,690 --> 00:09:43,650 "It looked easy, but, 92 00:09:44,860 --> 00:09:47,200 "oh, what happened. 93 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,280 - "First, there..." - Mama, what's "vacation" mean? 94 00:09:50,820 --> 00:09:53,410 - Vacation? - Where Daddy went. 95 00:09:56,030 --> 00:09:58,740 Vacation's when you go somewhere 96 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,460 and you don't ever come back. 97 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,600 Anyway, I guess you could say me and Mama was on our own. 98 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,430 But we didn't mind. Our house was never empty. 99 00:10:16,510 --> 00:10:19,100 There was always folks coming and going. 100 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:20,270 Supper. 101 00:10:20,350 --> 00:10:23,770 - It's supper, everyone. Forrest... - My, my. That sure looks special. 102 00:10:23,850 --> 00:10:26,390 Sometimes we had so many people staying with us 103 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,150 that every room was filled with travelers. 104 00:10:29,230 --> 00:10:32,860 You know, folks living out of their suitcases 105 00:10:32,950 --> 00:10:35,910 and hat cases and sample cases. 106 00:10:35,990 --> 00:10:39,410 Forrest Gump, it's suppertime! Forrest... 107 00:10:39,490 --> 00:10:42,040 One time, a young man was staying with us, 108 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,750 and he had him a guitar case. 109 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,720 Forrest! I told you not to bother this nice young man. 110 00:11:03,810 --> 00:11:05,150 Oh, no, that's all right, ma'am. 111 00:11:05,230 --> 00:11:08,070 I was just showing him a thing or two on the guitar here. 112 00:11:08,150 --> 00:11:11,110 All right, but your supper's ready if y'all want to eat. 113 00:11:11,190 --> 00:11:14,150 Yeah, that sounds good. Thank you, ma'am. 114 00:11:14,820 --> 00:11:18,410 Say, man, show me that crazy little walk you just did there. 115 00:11:18,490 --> 00:11:20,370 Slow it down some. 116 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:24,420 I liked that guitar. 117 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,830 It sounded good. 118 00:11:28,630 --> 00:11:32,800 I started moving around to the music, 119 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,720 swinging my hips. 120 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:39,840 This one night, me and Mama was out shopping, 121 00:11:39,930 --> 00:11:42,930 and we walked right by Benson's furniture and appliance store, 122 00:11:43,020 --> 00:11:44,610 and guess what? 123 00:11:56,950 --> 00:11:59,790 This is not for children's eyes. 124 00:12:02,330 --> 00:12:04,120 Some years later, that handsome young man 125 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,740 who they called "The King," 126 00:12:06,830 --> 00:12:09,170 well, he'd sung too many songs, 127 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,380 had himself a heart attack, or something. 128 00:12:13,460 --> 00:12:15,630 Must be hard being a king. 129 00:12:19,930 --> 00:12:22,770 You know, it's funny how you remember some things, but some things you can't. 130 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,400 - You do your very best now, Forrest. - I sure will, Mama. 131 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:33,690 I remember the bus ride on the first day of school very well. 132 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,950 Are you coming along? 133 00:12:39,030 --> 00:12:42,530 Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers. 134 00:12:42,620 --> 00:12:44,790 This is the bus to school. 135 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:50,000 I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump. 136 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,960 - I'm Dorothy Harris. - Well, now we ain't strangers anymore. 137 00:13:07,980 --> 00:13:09,770 This seat's taken. 138 00:13:12,230 --> 00:13:13,730 It's taken! 139 00:13:21,620 --> 00:13:23,500 You can't sit here. 140 00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:29,080 You know, it's funny what a young man recollects, 141 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,540 'cause I don't remember being born. 142 00:13:33,170 --> 00:13:35,340 I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas, 143 00:13:35,420 --> 00:13:38,510 and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. 144 00:13:38,590 --> 00:13:43,300 But I do remember the first time I heard 145 00:13:43,390 --> 00:13:46,230 the sweetest voice in the wide world. 146 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,100 You can sit here if you want. 147 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:55,900 I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. 148 00:13:56,610 --> 00:13:58,700 She was like an angel. 149 00:13:58,780 --> 00:14:01,700 Well, are you gonna sit down, or aren't you? 150 00:14:06,660 --> 00:14:08,450 What's wrong with your legs? 151 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:12,790 Nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy. 152 00:14:13,710 --> 00:14:15,880 I just sat next to her on that bus 153 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,050 and had a conversation all the way to school. 154 00:14:18,130 --> 00:14:20,840 ...my back's crooked like a question mark. 155 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,090 These are going to make me... 156 00:14:22,180 --> 00:14:26,940 And next to Mama, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions. 157 00:14:27,470 --> 00:14:29,430 Are you stupid or something? 158 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,520 Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does." 159 00:14:34,150 --> 00:14:37,820 - I'm Jenny. - I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump. 160 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,320 From that day on, we was always together. 161 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,240 Jenny and me was like peas and carrots. 162 00:14:46,830 --> 00:14:48,460 She taught me how to climb. 163 00:14:48,540 --> 00:14:51,250 Come on, Forrest, you can do it. 164 00:14:51,330 --> 00:14:53,960 I showed her how to dangle. 165 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,080 "...a good little monkey and..." 166 00:14:56,170 --> 00:15:01,090 She helped me learn how to read, and I showed her how to swing. 167 00:15:03,430 --> 00:15:07,180 Sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for the stars. 168 00:15:07,260 --> 00:15:12,180 - Mama's gonna worry about me. - Just stay a little longer. 169 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,190 For some reason, Jenny didn't never want to go home. 170 00:15:17,270 --> 00:15:19,360 Okay, Jenny, I'll stay. 171 00:15:20,190 --> 00:15:22,940 She was my most special friend. 172 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,030 My only friend. 173 00:15:31,830 --> 00:15:35,630 Now, my mama always told me that miracles happen every day. 174 00:15:35,710 --> 00:15:38,090 Some people don't think so, but they do. 175 00:15:41,130 --> 00:15:42,720 Hey, dummy! 176 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:45,760 Are you retarded, or just plain stupid? 177 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,340 - "Look, I'm Forrest Gimp." - Just run away, Forrest. 178 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,770 Run, Forrest! Run away! Hurry! 179 00:15:53,850 --> 00:15:57,100 - Get the bikes! - Hurry up! Let's get him! 180 00:15:57,190 --> 00:15:59,730 - Come on! - Look out, dummy, here we come! 181 00:15:59,810 --> 00:16:01,650 We're gonna get you! 182 00:16:02,610 --> 00:16:06,360 Run, Forrest, run! Run, Forrest! 183 00:16:08,070 --> 00:16:09,990 Come back here, you! 184 00:16:23,630 --> 00:16:26,090 Run, Forrest! 185 00:16:26,170 --> 00:16:27,590 Run! 186 00:16:58,790 --> 00:17:01,670 Now, you wouldn't believe it if I told you, 187 00:17:02,790 --> 00:17:05,290 but I can run like the wind blows. 188 00:17:08,550 --> 00:17:11,640 From that day on, if I was going somewhere, 189 00:17:12,470 --> 00:17:13,760 I was running! 190 00:17:13,850 --> 00:17:16,230 He's getting away! Stop him! 191 00:17:47,670 --> 00:17:50,670 That boy sure is a running fool. 192 00:17:54,890 --> 00:17:56,270 Now, remember how I told you that 193 00:17:56,350 --> 00:17:59,270 Jenny never seemed to want to go home? 194 00:17:59,350 --> 00:18:02,440 Well, she lived in a house that was as old as Alabama. 195 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,690 Her mama had gone up to heaven when she was five, 196 00:18:04,770 --> 00:18:08,110 and her daddy was some kind of a farmer. 197 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:10,980 Jenny? 198 00:18:11,070 --> 00:18:13,240 He was a very loving man. 199 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:17,950 He was always kissing and touching her and her sisters. 200 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:24,120 And then this one time, Jenny wasn't on the bus to go to school. 201 00:18:25,290 --> 00:18:27,250 Jenny, why didn't you come to school today? 202 00:18:28,420 --> 00:18:30,300 Daddy's taking a nap. 203 00:18:30,380 --> 00:18:32,090 - Jenny! - Come on! 204 00:18:33,550 --> 00:18:36,090 Jenny, where'd you run to? 205 00:18:37,430 --> 00:18:40,100 You'd better get back here, girl! 206 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,230 Where you at? 207 00:18:46,610 --> 00:18:49,910 Jenny! Jenny! Where you at? 208 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:54,240 Jenny! 209 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,280 Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me. 210 00:18:57,410 --> 00:18:58,540 Jenny! 211 00:18:58,620 --> 00:19:01,830 Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, 212 00:19:01,910 --> 00:19:03,660 far, far away from here. 213 00:19:03,750 --> 00:19:07,420 Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, 214 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:08,630 far, far away from here. 215 00:19:08,750 --> 00:19:11,800 Mama always said that God is mysterious. 216 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:13,050 Jenny! 217 00:19:13,130 --> 00:19:15,470 He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day. 218 00:19:15,590 --> 00:19:16,680 You'd better get back here! 219 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,260 Instead, 220 00:19:18,930 --> 00:19:23,480 he had the police say Jenny didn't have to stay in that house no more. 221 00:19:23,940 --> 00:19:27,650 She went to live with her grandma just over on Creekmore Avenue, 222 00:19:27,770 --> 00:19:30,940 which made me happy, 'cause she was so close. 223 00:19:33,530 --> 00:19:38,580 Some nights, Jenny would sneak out and come on over to my house, 224 00:19:38,660 --> 00:19:41,790 just 'cause she said she was scared. 225 00:19:41,870 --> 00:19:44,330 Scared of what, I don't know, 226 00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:47,670 but I think it was her grandma's dog. 227 00:19:47,790 --> 00:19:49,540 He was a mean dog. 228 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:53,010 Anyway, Jenny and me was best friends 229 00:19:53,090 --> 00:19:54,380 all the way up through high school. 230 00:19:56,340 --> 00:19:58,380 - Hey, stupid! - Quit it! 231 00:19:59,510 --> 00:20:01,800 - Run, Forrest, run! - Hey, 232 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:03,980 did you hear me, stupid? 233 00:20:04,060 --> 00:20:05,270 - Run, Forrest! - Come on, get in the truck! 234 00:20:05,350 --> 00:20:07,480 Get in the truck! Let's move it! 235 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,310 Come on, he's getting away! Move it! 236 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,570 Run, Forrest! Run! 237 00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:16,200 - You better be running, stupid! - Come on, dummy! 238 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,660 - Haul ass, dummy! - Yeah, you better get running! 239 00:20:24,660 --> 00:20:26,330 Jack rabbit! 240 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,010 Yeah! 241 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,010 Go! Go! Go! 242 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,350 Run, Forrest! 243 00:20:45,350 --> 00:20:48,940 Now, it used to be, I ran to get where I was going, 244 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,020 I never thought it would take me anywhere. 245 00:21:22,050 --> 00:21:26,220 - Who in the hell is that? - That there is Forrest Gump, Coach. 246 00:21:27,230 --> 00:21:29,070 Just a local idiot. 247 00:21:29,730 --> 00:21:33,230 And can you believe it? I got to go to college, too. 248 00:21:39,820 --> 00:21:42,450 Forrest! Forrest! Run! 249 00:21:42,570 --> 00:21:44,160 - Okay! - Run! 250 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,790 Run, you stupid son of a bitch! Run! 251 00:21:59,260 --> 00:22:02,810 You son of a bitch! Run! Go! Run! 252 00:22:05,180 --> 00:22:07,930 No! Turn! Go! 253 00:22:19,150 --> 00:22:22,780 He must be the stupidest son of a bitch alive, 254 00:22:22,860 --> 00:22:24,740 but he sure is fast! 255 00:22:27,790 --> 00:22:32,800 Now, maybe it's just me, but college was very confusing times. 256 00:22:34,130 --> 00:22:36,050 Federal troops enforcing a court order 257 00:22:36,130 --> 00:22:39,130 integrated the University of Alabama today. 258 00:22:39,210 --> 00:22:40,420 Two negroes were admitted, 259 00:22:40,510 --> 00:22:43,810 but only after Governor George Wallace had carried out his symbolic threat 260 00:22:43,890 --> 00:22:45,430 to stand in the school house door. 261 00:22:45,510 --> 00:22:50,180 Governor Wallace, I take it from that statement, that... 262 00:22:50,310 --> 00:22:52,310 Earl, what's going on? 263 00:22:52,390 --> 00:22:55,730 - Coons are trying to get into school. - Coons? 264 00:22:55,810 --> 00:22:57,480 When raccoons try to get on our back porch, 265 00:22:57,570 --> 00:22:59,360 Mama just chase them off with a broom. 266 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,980 Not raccoons, you idiot, niggers, and they want to go to school with us. 267 00:23:04,490 --> 00:23:06,530 With us? They do? 268 00:23:07,490 --> 00:23:09,990 Shortly after Governor Wallace had carried out his promise 269 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,290 to block the doorway, 270 00:23:11,370 --> 00:23:13,330 President Kennedy ordered the Secretary of Defense 271 00:23:13,410 --> 00:23:15,410 then to use military force. 272 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:18,210 Here, by videotape, is the encounter by General Graham, 273 00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:21,590 commander of the National Guard, and Governor Wallace. 274 00:23:21,670 --> 00:23:25,380 ...because these National Guardsmen are here today 275 00:23:25,470 --> 00:23:28,010 as federal soldiers for Alabamans. 276 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:32,020 They live within our borders, they are all our brothers. 277 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:34,520 We are winning in this fight, 278 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,600 because we are awakening the American people 279 00:23:37,690 --> 00:23:41,030 to the dangers that we have spoken about so many times, 280 00:23:41,110 --> 00:23:47,410 just so evident today, the trend towards military dictatorship in this country. 281 00:23:50,870 --> 00:23:53,330 And so, at day's end, the University of Alabama 282 00:23:53,410 --> 00:23:55,700 in Tuscaloosa had been desegregated 283 00:23:55,790 --> 00:23:58,790 and students Jimmy Hood and Vivian Malone 284 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,970 had been signed up for summer classes. 285 00:24:04,550 --> 00:24:07,390 Ma'am, you dropped your book. Ma'am... 286 00:24:07,930 --> 00:24:09,890 Governor Wallace did what he promised to do. 287 00:24:09,970 --> 00:24:13,520 By being on the Tuscaloosa campus, he kept the mob from gathering... 288 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,730 Say, wasn't that Gump? 289 00:24:15,810 --> 00:24:19,900 - Nah, that couldn't be. - It sure as hell was. 290 00:24:24,650 --> 00:24:26,490 A few years later, that angry little man 291 00:24:26,570 --> 00:24:29,070 at the school house door thought it would be a good idea 292 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,330 and ran for president. 293 00:24:34,410 --> 00:24:37,080 But somebody thought that it wasn't. 294 00:24:38,790 --> 00:24:40,830 But he didn't die. 295 00:24:45,420 --> 00:24:47,090 My bus is here. 296 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,930 - Is it the number nine? - No, it's the number four. 297 00:24:51,930 --> 00:24:54,100 It was nice talking to you. 298 00:24:57,020 --> 00:25:01,110 I remember when that happened, when Wallace got shot. 299 00:25:01,980 --> 00:25:03,440 I was in college. 300 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:04,730 Did you go to a girls' college, 301 00:25:04,820 --> 00:25:06,660 or to a girls-and-boys-together college? 302 00:25:06,780 --> 00:25:07,780 It was co-ed. 303 00:25:07,860 --> 00:25:10,570 'Cause Jenny went to a college I couldn't go to. 304 00:25:10,660 --> 00:25:13,000 It was a college just for girls. 305 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:16,290 But I'd go and visit her every chance I got. 306 00:25:47,030 --> 00:25:48,660 That hurts. 307 00:25:59,410 --> 00:26:01,580 Forrest! Forrest! 308 00:26:03,830 --> 00:26:06,750 - Forrest, stop it! Stop it! - Jesus! 309 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:07,970 What are you doing? 310 00:26:08,050 --> 00:26:09,720 - He was hurting you. - What the hell is going on here? 311 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,510 - No, he's not! Get over there! - Who is that? Who is that? 312 00:26:13,590 --> 00:26:14,680 - Billy, I'm sorry. - What the hell? 313 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,350 - Just get away from me! - Don't... 314 00:26:17,430 --> 00:26:20,390 - Don't go! Billy, wait a second! - Get away from me. 315 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,690 He doesn't know any better! 316 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,110 Forrest, why did you do that? 317 00:26:30,070 --> 00:26:33,030 I brought you some chocolate. 318 00:26:33,410 --> 00:26:35,120 I'm sorry. 319 00:26:37,290 --> 00:26:40,580 - I'll go back to my college now. - Forrest... 320 00:26:44,290 --> 00:26:45,870 Look at you. 321 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,050 Come on. Come on. 322 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,440 - Is this your room? - Shh! 323 00:27:03,890 --> 00:27:06,140 Do you ever dream, Forrest, 324 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,320 about who you're gonna be? 325 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,190 - Who I'm gonna be? - Yeah. 326 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,160 Aren't I going to be me? 327 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,910 Well, you'll always be you, just another kind of you. 328 00:27:18,830 --> 00:27:22,080 You know? I want to be famous. 329 00:27:23,790 --> 00:27:26,590 I want to be a singer like Joan Baez. 330 00:27:27,790 --> 00:27:30,920 I just want to be on an empty stage 331 00:27:31,010 --> 00:27:33,300 with my guitar, my voice. 332 00:27:35,130 --> 00:27:36,590 Just me. 333 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:41,440 And I want to reach people on the personal level. 334 00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:47,440 I want to be able to say things, just one-to-one. 335 00:27:54,950 --> 00:27:57,830 Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest? 336 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,120 I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time. 337 00:28:32,070 --> 00:28:34,490 - I'm... Sorry. - It's okay. 338 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,750 It's all right. 339 00:28:47,580 --> 00:28:49,750 - It's okay. - Oh, I'm dizzy. 340 00:28:58,430 --> 00:29:01,180 I bet that never happened in Home Ec. 341 00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:07,190 No. 342 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,530 I think I ruined your roommate's bathrobe. 343 00:29:16,610 --> 00:29:18,650 I don't care. I don't like her, anyway. 344 00:29:18,740 --> 00:29:22,120 Run! Run! Run! 345 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,710 - Run! Run! Run! - Run! Run! Run! 346 00:29:34,630 --> 00:29:38,840 College ran by real fast, 'cause I played so much football. 347 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,170 They even put me on a thing called the All-America Team, 348 00:29:42,260 --> 00:29:46,060 where you get to meet the President of the United States. 349 00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:47,730 President Kennedy met with the Collegiate 350 00:29:47,810 --> 00:29:51,400 All-American Football Team at the Oval Office today. 351 00:29:51,980 --> 00:29:53,980 Now, the really good thing about meeting 352 00:29:54,060 --> 00:29:57,860 the President of the United States is the food. 353 00:29:57,940 --> 00:30:00,650 They put you in this little room with just about anything 354 00:30:00,740 --> 00:30:03,240 you'd want to eat or drink. 355 00:30:03,740 --> 00:30:07,200 And since, number one, I wasn't hungry, but thirsty, 356 00:30:07,290 --> 00:30:09,960 and number two, they was free, 357 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,130 I must have drank me about 15 Dr. Peppers. 358 00:30:16,090 --> 00:30:18,220 Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American? 359 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:20,050 It's an honor, sir. 360 00:30:20,130 --> 00:30:22,220 Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American? 361 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:23,930 Very good, sir. 362 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,180 Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American? 363 00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:29,010 Very good, sir. 364 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,770 - Congratulations. How do you feel? - I gotta pee. 365 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,730 I believe he said he had to "go pee." 366 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,840 Sometime later, for no particular reason, 367 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,340 somebody shot that nice young President, 368 00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:58,840 when he was riding in his car. 369 00:30:59,460 --> 00:31:03,590 And a few years after that, somebody shot his little brother, too, 370 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,810 only he was in a hotel kitchen. 371 00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:09,680 It must be hard being brothers. 372 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:11,890 I wouldn't know. 373 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:13,860 Forrest Gump. 374 00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:15,230 Now can you believe it? 375 00:31:15,310 --> 00:31:19,230 After only five years of playing football, I got a college degree. 376 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,320 Congratulations, son. 377 00:31:22,110 --> 00:31:24,150 Mama was so proud. 378 00:31:25,490 --> 00:31:29,330 Forrest, I'm so proud of you. Here, I'll hold this for you. 379 00:31:29,450 --> 00:31:31,540 Congratulations, son. 380 00:31:31,660 --> 00:31:34,660 Have you given any thought to your future? 381 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:37,840 Thought? 382 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:41,140 Hello, I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump. 383 00:31:41,210 --> 00:31:44,210 Nobody gives a hunk of shit who you are, fuzzball! 384 00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:46,970 You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! 385 00:31:47,050 --> 00:31:51,010 Get your faggotty ass on the bus. You're in the Army now! 386 00:31:51,350 --> 00:31:53,140 This seat's taken. 387 00:31:55,020 --> 00:31:56,400 Taken. 388 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,110 At first, it seemed like I made a mistake, 389 00:32:02,190 --> 00:32:04,230 seeing how it was only my induction day 390 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,070 and I was already getting yelled at. 391 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,410 You can sit down if you want to. 392 00:32:12,540 --> 00:32:16,380 I didn't know who I might meet, or what they might ask. 393 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,090 You ever been on a real shrimp boat? 394 00:32:19,590 --> 00:32:23,220 No, but I been on a real big boat. 395 00:32:24,010 --> 00:32:26,800 I'm talking about a shrimp-catching boat. 396 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,380 I've been working on shrimp boats all my life. 397 00:32:29,510 --> 00:32:32,260 I started out on my uncle's boat, that's my mama's brother, 398 00:32:32,390 --> 00:32:34,430 when I was about maybe nine. 399 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,690 I was just looking into buying a boat of my own and got drafted. 400 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,400 My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me Bubba. 401 00:32:45,070 --> 00:32:48,700 Just like one of them old redneck boys. Can you believe that? 402 00:32:48,780 --> 00:32:52,450 My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump. 403 00:32:53,410 --> 00:32:55,830 So, Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 404 00:32:55,910 --> 00:32:57,830 and his mama cooked shrimp, 405 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,960 and her mama before her cooked shrimp, 406 00:33:03,090 --> 00:33:06,050 and her mama before her mama cooked shrimp, too. 407 00:33:06,130 --> 00:33:07,340 Bubba's family knew everything 408 00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:10,050 there was to know about the shrimping business. 409 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:13,190 I know everything there is to know about the shrimping business. 410 00:33:13,260 --> 00:33:16,260 Matter of fact, I'm going into the shrimping business for myself 411 00:33:16,390 --> 00:33:18,730 after I get out the Army. 412 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:22,440 Okay. 413 00:33:22,650 --> 00:33:26,740 Gump! What's your sole purpose in this Army? 414 00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:29,360 To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant! 415 00:33:29,450 --> 00:33:32,830 God damn it, Gump! You're a goddamn genius! 416 00:33:32,950 --> 00:33:35,290 That's the most outstanding answer I've ever heard. 417 00:33:35,410 --> 00:33:38,160 You must have a goddamn IQ of 160! 418 00:33:38,290 --> 00:33:41,250 You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump! 419 00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:44,130 Listen up, people! 420 00:33:44,250 --> 00:33:48,420 Now, for some reason, I fit in the Army like one of them round pegs. 421 00:33:48,510 --> 00:33:49,760 It's not really hard. 422 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,470 You just make your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight, 423 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,560 and always answer every question with, "Yes, Drill Sergeant!" 424 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,100 Is that clear? 425 00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:01,310 - Yes, Drill Sergeant! - Yes, Drill Sergeant! 426 00:34:01,810 --> 00:34:05,110 What you do is, you just drag your nets along the bottom. 427 00:34:05,190 --> 00:34:08,940 On a good day, you can catch over 100 pounds of shrimp. 428 00:34:09,030 --> 00:34:12,450 If everything goes all right, two men shrimping 10 hours, 429 00:34:12,530 --> 00:34:15,240 less what you spend on gas, you can... 430 00:34:15,330 --> 00:34:18,130 - Done, Drill Sergeant! - Gump! 431 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:23,250 Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump? 432 00:34:23,330 --> 00:34:25,000 You told me to, Drill Sergeant. 433 00:34:25,130 --> 00:34:28,550 Jesus H. Christ, this is a new company record. 434 00:34:28,670 --> 00:34:31,130 If it wouldn't be a waste of such a damn fine enlisted man, 435 00:34:31,220 --> 00:34:33,510 I'd recommend you for OCS, Private Gump. 436 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,480 You are gonna be a general some day, Gump. 437 00:34:35,550 --> 00:34:38,640 Now, disassemble your weapon and continue! 438 00:34:40,730 --> 00:34:44,530 Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. 439 00:34:44,610 --> 00:34:49,360 You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. 440 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,440 There's shrimp kebabs, shrimp Creole... 441 00:34:52,740 --> 00:34:57,580 ...shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. 442 00:34:57,910 --> 00:35:01,460 There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, 443 00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:03,880 coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp... 444 00:35:04,210 --> 00:35:10,170 ...shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, 445 00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:13,310 shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... 446 00:35:15,890 --> 00:35:18,230 That's... That's about it. 447 00:35:21,930 --> 00:35:24,890 Night time in the Army is a lonely time. 448 00:35:25,770 --> 00:35:29,400 We'd lay there in our bunks and I'd miss my mama. 449 00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:32,480 And I'd miss Jenny. 450 00:35:36,410 --> 00:35:40,290 Hey, Gump, get a load of the tits on her! 451 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,890 Turns out, Jenny had gotten into some trouble over 452 00:35:56,970 --> 00:36:00,310 some photos of her in her college sweater, 453 00:36:00,430 --> 00:36:02,980 and she was thrown out of school. 454 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,730 But that wasn't a bad thing, 455 00:36:08,810 --> 00:36:12,400 because a man who owns a theater in Memphis, Tennessee, 456 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:17,530 saw those photos and offered Jenny a job singing in a show. 457 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,160 The first chance I got, 458 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,950 I took the bus up to Memphis to see her perform in that show. 459 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,540 That was Amber, Amber Flame. 460 00:36:25,620 --> 00:36:28,080 Give her a big hand, guys. Good job, Amber. 461 00:36:28,170 --> 00:36:30,920 And now, for your listening and viewing pleasure, 462 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,840 direct from Hollywood, California, our very own beatnik beauty, 463 00:36:34,970 --> 00:36:38,640 let's give a big round of applause to the luscious Bobbi Dylan. 464 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,050 - All right! - Bobbi! 465 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,090 Her dream had come true. 466 00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:11,330 She was a folk singer. 467 00:37:20,590 --> 00:37:22,840 Come on, baby. Shake it up. Shake it up, now. 468 00:37:22,930 --> 00:37:24,430 Hey, buddy, get her a harmonica. 469 00:37:28,190 --> 00:37:30,230 Hey, honey, this ain't Captain Kangaroo. 470 00:37:30,350 --> 00:37:32,890 Hey, honey, I got something here for you. 471 00:37:33,940 --> 00:37:37,690 - God damn it! - Hey! Hey! Stupid jerk! 472 00:37:37,780 --> 00:37:40,240 I'm singing a song here. 473 00:37:42,570 --> 00:37:44,990 Polly, get out here! 474 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,790 - Shut up, there! - Don't be so shy, honey. 475 00:37:46,870 --> 00:37:48,410 Oh, shut up! 476 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,830 Forrest, what are you doing here? 477 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,630 - What are you doing? - Hey! 478 00:37:55,710 --> 00:37:57,090 - Come on. - What are you doing? 479 00:37:57,210 --> 00:37:59,210 Forrest, let me down! 480 00:38:05,060 --> 00:38:06,980 You can't keep doing this, Forrest. 481 00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:09,150 You can't keep trying to rescue me all the time. 482 00:38:09,230 --> 00:38:13,320 - They was trying to grab you. - A lot of people try to grab me. 483 00:38:14,230 --> 00:38:17,400 Just... You can't keep doing this all the time. 484 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:20,820 I can't help it. I love you. 485 00:38:21,780 --> 00:38:25,280 Forrest, you don't know what love is. 486 00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:35,580 You remember that time we prayed, Forrest? 487 00:38:36,460 --> 00:38:40,970 We prayed for God to turn me into a bird so I could fly far, far away? 488 00:38:42,930 --> 00:38:44,310 Yes, I do. 489 00:38:48,270 --> 00:38:51,110 You think I could fly off this bridge? 490 00:38:57,770 --> 00:38:59,940 What do you mean, Jenny? 491 00:39:03,820 --> 00:39:05,320 Nothing. 492 00:39:08,290 --> 00:39:10,330 I gotta get out of here. 493 00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:13,710 Wait, Jenny... 494 00:39:13,790 --> 00:39:18,250 Forrest, you stay away from me, okay? You just stay away from me, please. 495 00:39:18,340 --> 00:39:19,630 Can I have a ride? 496 00:39:19,710 --> 00:39:21,250 - Where you going? - I don't care. 497 00:39:21,340 --> 00:39:22,720 Get in the truck. 498 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,640 So, bye-bye, Jenny. 499 00:39:27,140 --> 00:39:29,480 They sending me to Vietnam. 500 00:39:32,230 --> 00:39:34,650 It's this whole other country. 501 00:39:37,150 --> 00:39:39,150 Just hang on a minute. 502 00:39:40,570 --> 00:39:43,620 Listen, you promise me something, okay? 503 00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:47,040 Just, if you're ever in trouble, don't try to be brave. You just run, okay? 504 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,750 Just run away. 505 00:39:49,990 --> 00:39:51,330 Okay. 506 00:39:56,210 --> 00:39:57,540 Jenny. 507 00:39:59,420 --> 00:40:01,710 I'll write you all the time. 508 00:40:10,850 --> 00:40:13,850 And just like that, she was gone. 509 00:40:29,950 --> 00:40:33,290 You come back safe to me, do you hear? 510 00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:20,540 Now, they told us that Vietnam was gonna be very different 511 00:41:20,630 --> 00:41:23,510 from the United States of America. 512 00:41:23,590 --> 00:41:28,640 And except for all the beer cans and the barbecue, it was. 513 00:41:38,770 --> 00:41:41,860 Hey, I bet there's shrimp all in these waters. 514 00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:45,110 They tell me these Vietnams is good shrimpers. 515 00:41:45,190 --> 00:41:48,740 You know, after we win this war, and we take over everything, 516 00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:50,030 we can get American shrimpers 517 00:41:50,110 --> 00:41:51,860 to come out here and shrimp these waters. 518 00:41:51,950 --> 00:41:53,490 We'll just shrimp all the time, man. 519 00:41:53,620 --> 00:41:56,790 So much shrimp, why, you wouldn't believe it. 520 00:41:57,450 --> 00:41:59,370 You must be my FNGs. 521 00:41:59,460 --> 00:42:00,710 - Morning, sir! - Morning, sir! 522 00:42:00,790 --> 00:42:03,420 Get your hands down! Do not salute me. 523 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:05,630 There's goddamn snipers all around this area 524 00:42:05,710 --> 00:42:08,550 who would love to grease an officer. 525 00:42:08,630 --> 00:42:12,130 I'm Lieutenant Dan Taylor. Welcome to Fourth Platoon. 526 00:42:13,010 --> 00:42:15,430 What's wrong with your lip? 527 00:42:15,510 --> 00:42:17,890 I was born with big gums, sir. 528 00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:22,680 Yeah, well, you better tuck that in. Gonna get that caught on a trip wire. 529 00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:25,240 Where you boys from in the world? 530 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,700 - Alabama, sir! - Alabama, sir! 531 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:29,900 You twins? 532 00:42:31,990 --> 00:42:34,410 No, we are not relations, sir. 533 00:42:36,660 --> 00:42:39,580 Look, it's pretty basic here. 534 00:42:40,370 --> 00:42:42,830 If you stick with me and learn from the guys 535 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,590 who've been in country a while, you'll be all right. 536 00:42:45,670 --> 00:42:47,590 There is one item of GI gear 537 00:42:47,670 --> 00:42:51,840 that can be the difference between a live grunt and a dead grunt. 538 00:42:52,180 --> 00:42:55,350 Socks. Cushion sole, OD green. 539 00:42:55,430 --> 00:42:56,720 Try and keep your feet dry. 540 00:42:56,850 --> 00:42:58,270 When we're out humping, I want you boys to remember 541 00:42:58,350 --> 00:43:00,810 to change your socks whenever we stop. 542 00:43:00,890 --> 00:43:03,850 The Mekong will eat a grunt's feet right off his legs. 543 00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:06,230 Sergeant Sims, God damn it, 544 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:07,780 where is that sling rope I told you to order? 545 00:43:07,860 --> 00:43:09,780 I put in the requisitions at Battalion. 546 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:11,860 Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, you call those sons of bitches again... 547 00:43:11,950 --> 00:43:14,490 Lieutenant Dan sure knew his stuff. 548 00:43:14,570 --> 00:43:16,860 I felt real lucky he was my lieutenant. 549 00:43:17,620 --> 00:43:21,080 He was from a long, great military tradition. 550 00:43:21,290 --> 00:43:24,380 Somebody in his family had fought and died 551 00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:29,630 in every single American war. 552 00:43:30,550 --> 00:43:32,550 - God damn it, kick some ass! - I'm on it, Lieutenant. 553 00:43:32,630 --> 00:43:33,760 Get on it! 554 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,220 I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to. 555 00:43:38,930 --> 00:43:43,770 So, you boys are from Arkansas, huh? Well, I've been through there. 556 00:43:43,890 --> 00:43:46,060 Little Rock's a fine town. 557 00:43:46,730 --> 00:43:50,320 Now, go shake down your gear, see the platoon sergeant, 558 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,860 draw what you need for the field. 559 00:43:52,940 --> 00:43:56,900 If you boys are hungry, we got steaks burning right over here. 560 00:43:56,990 --> 00:43:59,870 Two standing orders in this platoon: 561 00:43:59,950 --> 00:44:02,620 one, take good care of your feet, 562 00:44:02,750 --> 00:44:07,800 two, try not to do anything stupid, like getting yourself killed. 563 00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:16,350 I sure hope I don't let him down. 564 00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:30,440 I got to see a lot of the countryside. 565 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,860 We would take these real long walks. 566 00:44:41,330 --> 00:44:45,460 And we were always looking for this guy named Charlie. 567 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:55,550 - Hold it up! - Hold up, boys! 568 00:44:58,390 --> 00:45:00,730 It wasn't always fun. 569 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,100 Lieutenant Dan was always getting these funny feelings about a rock, 570 00:45:05,180 --> 00:45:10,270 or a trail, or the road, so he'd tell us to get down, shut up... 571 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,360 Get down! Shut up! 572 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,780 ...so we did. 573 00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:34,510 Now, I don't know much about anything, 574 00:45:34,590 --> 00:45:38,430 but I think some of America's best young men served in this war. 575 00:45:38,510 --> 00:45:41,220 There was Dallas, from Phoenix, 576 00:45:42,930 --> 00:45:45,720 Cleveland, he was from Detroit. 577 00:45:45,850 --> 00:45:48,230 Hey, Tex. Hey, Tex. 578 00:45:48,350 --> 00:45:50,520 Man, what the hell's going on? 579 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,940 And Tex was... Well, I don't remember where Tex come from. 580 00:45:55,020 --> 00:45:56,560 Nothing. 581 00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:03,200 Fourth Platoon, on your feet. 582 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,990 Still got 10 klicks to go to that river. Move out. 583 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:08,870 Come on, move out. 584 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,340 Step it up. Look alive out there. 585 00:46:13,420 --> 00:46:17,760 The good thing about Vietnam is there was always some place to go. 586 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,260 Fire in the hole! 587 00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,060 Gump, check out that hole. 588 00:46:25,140 --> 00:46:28,140 And there was always something to do. 589 00:46:28,220 --> 00:46:31,390 - Mount them up. - Spread out! Cover his back. 590 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:42,070 One day, it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. 591 00:46:43,070 --> 00:46:45,950 We'd been through every kind of rain there is: 592 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,630 little bitty stinging rain, 593 00:46:49,330 --> 00:46:52,000 and big old fat rain, 594 00:46:52,460 --> 00:46:55,170 rain that flew in sideways. 595 00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:59,300 And sometimes, rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. 596 00:47:01,090 --> 00:47:03,470 Shoot, it even rained at night. 597 00:47:04,510 --> 00:47:06,970 - Hey, Forrest. - Hey, Bubba. 598 00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:10,400 I'm gonna lean up against you. You just lean right back against me. 599 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,320 This way, we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud. 600 00:47:15,270 --> 00:47:18,730 You know why we a good partnership, Forrest? 601 00:47:18,820 --> 00:47:21,320 'Cause we be watching out for one another, 602 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,320 like brothers and stuff. 603 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,950 Hey, Forrest, there's something I've been thinking about. 604 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,040 I got a very important question to ask you. 605 00:47:33,670 --> 00:47:37,630 How would you like to go into the shrimping business with me? 606 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,430 Okay. 607 00:47:40,510 --> 00:47:43,970 Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. 608 00:47:44,050 --> 00:47:46,840 So many pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, 609 00:47:46,970 --> 00:47:50,270 so many pounds for gas, we can just live right on the boat. 610 00:47:50,350 --> 00:47:52,640 We ain't got to pay no rent. 611 00:47:52,730 --> 00:47:54,820 I'll be the captain, we can just work it together, 612 00:47:54,890 --> 00:47:59,140 split everything right down the middle. Man, I'm telling you, 50-50. 613 00:47:59,230 --> 00:48:02,820 And, hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat. 614 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,150 That's a fine idea. 615 00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:09,370 Bubba did have a fine idea. 616 00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,250 I even wrote Jenny and told her all about it. 617 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,250 I sent her letters, not every day, but almost. 618 00:48:20,340 --> 00:48:25,350 I told her what I was doing and asked her what she was doing, 619 00:48:25,430 --> 00:48:28,180 and told her how I thought about her always, 620 00:48:29,510 --> 00:48:32,470 and how I was looking forward to getting a letter from her 621 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,060 just as soon as she had the time. 622 00:48:36,940 --> 00:48:39,440 I'd always let her know that I was okay. 623 00:48:40,730 --> 00:48:45,900 Then, I'd sign each letter, "Love, Forrest Gump." 624 00:49:00,750 --> 00:49:04,500 This one day, we was out walking, like always, 625 00:49:04,590 --> 00:49:07,550 and then, just like that, 626 00:49:08,470 --> 00:49:11,890 somebody turned off the rain and the sun come out. 627 00:49:14,890 --> 00:49:16,730 Ambush! 628 00:49:17,230 --> 00:49:18,610 Take cover! 629 00:49:22,230 --> 00:49:23,400 Get down! 630 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:24,940 Get the sixty! 631 00:49:28,110 --> 00:49:30,200 Get that pig up here, God damn it! 632 00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,410 Forrest, you okay? 633 00:49:35,620 --> 00:49:38,250 Strongarm! Strongarm! Be advised, Strongarm! 634 00:49:38,790 --> 00:49:41,210 Medic, we got a man down! 635 00:49:41,290 --> 00:49:44,250 Strongarm, this is Leg Lima 6, over! 636 00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,300 Roger, Strongarm, be advised we have incoming from the tree line 637 00:49:48,420 --> 00:49:51,920 at points blue plus two. AKs and rockets... 638 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,390 Misfire! Misfire! 639 00:49:56,770 --> 00:49:58,770 God damn it! Mac! 640 00:49:59,730 --> 00:50:03,150 Get that thing... Fuck it, get it in the tree line! 641 00:50:04,110 --> 00:50:05,280 Jesus! 642 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,610 My unit is down hard and hurting! 643 00:50:07,740 --> 00:50:11,290 Six are pulling back to Blue Line, Leg Lima 6 out. 644 00:50:12,070 --> 00:50:14,030 Pull back! Pull back! 645 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,250 Run! Run, Forrest! 646 00:50:16,330 --> 00:50:18,670 - Pull back! - Forrest, Forrest! 647 00:50:18,790 --> 00:50:21,380 Run, man! Run! 648 00:50:21,460 --> 00:50:23,250 Pull back! Run! 649 00:50:25,090 --> 00:50:27,300 Run, God damn it, run! 650 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:53,110 Medic! Can I get a medic? 651 00:50:53,490 --> 00:50:56,830 I ran and ran, just like Jenny told me to. 652 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,410 I ran so far and so fast that pretty soon I was all by myself, 653 00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:06,460 which was a bad thing. 654 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,540 Bubba! 655 00:51:10,670 --> 00:51:14,470 Bubba was my best good friend. I had to make sure that he was okay. 656 00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:20,220 Any friendlies out there? 657 00:51:21,180 --> 00:51:23,350 Yeah, I've got three over here. 658 00:51:23,980 --> 00:51:25,980 Where the hell are you? 659 00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:27,900 Bubba? 660 00:51:28,980 --> 00:51:31,690 And on my way back to find Bubba, 661 00:51:31,820 --> 00:51:34,620 well, there was this boy laying on the ground. 662 00:51:34,700 --> 00:51:35,910 Tex! 663 00:51:37,990 --> 00:51:38,990 Okay. 664 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,040 I couldn't just let him lay there all alone, scared the way he was, 665 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:47,040 so I grabbed him up and run him out of there. 666 00:52:02,180 --> 00:52:04,600 And every time I went back looking for Bubba, 667 00:52:04,730 --> 00:52:08,230 somebody else was saying, "Help me, Forrest. Help me." 668 00:52:15,910 --> 00:52:17,790 Can't hear... Can't hear... 669 00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,370 No sweat, man. Just lay back. 670 00:52:21,450 --> 00:52:23,950 You'll be okay. You'll be okay. 671 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,000 I started to get scared that I might never find Bubba. 672 00:52:29,090 --> 00:52:30,340 ...over. 673 00:52:30,420 --> 00:52:33,720 Roger, Strongarm, I know my position is danger close. 674 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,640 We got Charlie all over this area. 675 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,050 I gotta have those fast movers in here now. Over. 676 00:52:38,140 --> 00:52:41,520 - Six, Strongarm, we want... - Lieutenant Dan, Coleman's dead! 677 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:42,810 I know he's dead! 678 00:52:42,930 --> 00:52:45,770 My whole goddamn platoon is wiped out! 679 00:52:45,890 --> 00:52:47,230 - Leg Lima 6, Leg Lima 6. - God damn it! 680 00:52:47,310 --> 00:52:50,020 - Copy this transmission. Over. - What are you doing? 681 00:52:50,110 --> 00:52:53,450 Just leave me here! Get away. Just leave me here! Get out! 682 00:52:53,570 --> 00:52:55,860 Leg Lima 6, Strongarm. How copy this? Over. 683 00:52:55,950 --> 00:52:58,580 God, I said leave me here, God damn it! 684 00:52:58,660 --> 00:53:01,830 Leg Lima 6, Leg Lima 6, this is Strongarm, be advised 685 00:53:01,950 --> 00:53:03,910 your fast movers are inbound at this time, over. 686 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,420 Then, it felt like something just jumped up and bit me. 687 00:53:08,290 --> 00:53:09,960 Something bit me! 688 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:18,970 You chink son of a bitch! 689 00:53:21,470 --> 00:53:23,470 I can't leave the platoon. 690 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,520 I told you to leave me there, Gump. Forget about me. Get yourself out! 691 00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,770 Did you hear what I said? 692 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,440 God damn it, put me down! 693 00:53:34,150 --> 00:53:36,190 Get your ass out of here! 694 00:53:39,490 --> 00:53:42,080 I didn't ask you to pull me out of there, God damn you! 695 00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:43,490 Where the hell do you think you're going? 696 00:53:43,620 --> 00:53:44,700 To get Bubba. 697 00:53:44,830 --> 00:53:48,670 I got an air strike inbound right now. They're gonna nape the whole area. 698 00:53:48,790 --> 00:53:51,170 Gump, you stay here, God damn it! That's an order! 699 00:53:51,290 --> 00:53:53,710 I gotta find Bubba! 700 00:54:09,690 --> 00:54:11,150 Forrest. 701 00:54:18,900 --> 00:54:21,570 - Bubba. - I'm okay, Forrest. 702 00:54:22,370 --> 00:54:24,040 I'm okay. 703 00:54:31,870 --> 00:54:33,710 Oh, Bubba, no... 704 00:54:33,830 --> 00:54:36,040 Nah, I'm gonna be all right. 705 00:54:44,220 --> 00:54:46,890 Come on. Come on. Come on. 706 00:54:51,890 --> 00:54:53,390 I'm okay, Forrest. 707 00:54:54,730 --> 00:54:57,570 I'm okay, man. I'm fine. 708 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,730 Helo's inbound. Top smoke, get it out there! 709 00:55:38,770 --> 00:55:43,280 If I'd a known this was gonna be the last time me and Bubba was gonna talk, 710 00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,690 I'd of thought of something better to say. 711 00:55:45,780 --> 00:55:47,280 Hey, Bubba. 712 00:55:48,410 --> 00:55:49,790 Hey, Forrest. 713 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,330 Forrest, why'd this happen? 714 00:55:56,670 --> 00:55:58,460 You got shot. 715 00:56:00,170 --> 00:56:04,340 Then Bubba said something I won't ever forget. 716 00:56:05,130 --> 00:56:06,800 I wanna go home. 717 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,840 Bubba was my best good friend. 718 00:56:11,810 --> 00:56:16,360 And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. 719 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,570 Bubba was gonna be a shrimping boat captain, 720 00:56:19,650 --> 00:56:23,610 but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam. 721 00:56:29,330 --> 00:56:31,620 That's all I have to say about that. 722 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,170 It was a bullet, wasn't it? 723 00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:41,170 - A bullet? - That jumped up and bit you. 724 00:56:43,550 --> 00:56:45,640 Oh, yes, sir. 725 00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:48,850 Bit me directly in the buttocks. 726 00:56:48,970 --> 00:56:54,230 They said it was a million-dollar wound, but the Army must keep that money, 727 00:56:54,350 --> 00:56:58,190 'cause I still ain't seen a nickel of that million dollars. 728 00:56:59,020 --> 00:57:02,520 The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks 729 00:57:02,650 --> 00:57:04,360 is the ice cream. 730 00:57:04,490 --> 00:57:07,080 They gave me all the ice cream I could eat. 731 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,490 And guess what? 732 00:57:08,570 --> 00:57:11,700 A good friend of mine was in the bed right next door. 733 00:57:13,910 --> 00:57:17,000 Lieutenant Dan, I got you some ice cream. 734 00:57:19,380 --> 00:57:21,550 Lieutenant Dan, ice cream. 735 00:57:33,260 --> 00:57:35,550 It's time for your bath, Lieutenant. 736 00:57:44,070 --> 00:57:45,410 Harper! 737 00:57:48,610 --> 00:57:51,070 Cooper, Larson, 738 00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:54,610 Webster, 739 00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,540 - Gump. Gump. - I'm Forrest Gump. 740 00:58:03,090 --> 00:58:06,390 Kyle, Nichols, 741 00:58:08,590 --> 00:58:14,550 McMill, Johnson, Tyler, 742 00:58:15,890 --> 00:58:17,270 Holiday... 743 00:58:24,020 --> 00:58:26,270 Surprise, surprise, surprise! 744 00:58:29,610 --> 00:58:32,110 Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? 745 00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:33,780 - From the DMZ to the Delta... - Turn it off! 746 00:58:33,870 --> 00:58:37,120 ...you are tuned to the American Forces Vietnam Network. 747 00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,580 This is Channel 6, Saigon. 748 00:58:42,290 --> 00:58:43,960 Good catch, Gump. 749 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,090 You know how to play this? 750 00:58:49,380 --> 00:58:51,470 Come on, let me show you. Here. 751 00:58:53,550 --> 00:58:55,890 Now, the secret to this game is, 752 00:58:55,970 --> 00:59:01,810 no matter what happens, never ever take your eye off the ball. 753 00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:06,740 All right. 754 00:59:10,070 --> 00:59:13,740 For some reason, Ping-Pong came very natural to me. 755 00:59:14,070 --> 00:59:16,990 See? Any idiot can play. 756 00:59:17,490 --> 00:59:20,240 So, I started playing it all the time. 757 00:59:21,410 --> 00:59:22,750 I played Ping-Pong 758 00:59:22,830 --> 00:59:26,130 even when I didn't have anyone to play Ping-Pong with. 759 00:59:34,180 --> 00:59:38,850 The hospital's people said it made me look like a duck in water, 760 00:59:38,970 --> 00:59:40,810 whatever that means. 761 00:59:41,270 --> 00:59:44,520 Even Lieutenant Dan would come and watch me play. 762 00:59:50,030 --> 00:59:53,910 I played Ping-Pong so much, I even played it in my sleep. 763 01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:06,790 Now, you listen to me. We all have a destiny. 764 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,930 Nothing just happens, it's all part of a plan. 765 01:00:10,050 --> 01:00:12,720 I should have died out there with my men, 766 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:16,800 but now I'm nothing but a goddamn cripple, 767 01:00:16,890 --> 01:00:20,520 a legless freak! Look! Look! Look at me! 768 01:00:21,270 --> 01:00:22,350 Do you see that? 769 01:00:22,430 --> 01:00:26,230 Do you know what it's like not to be able to use your legs? 770 01:00:29,570 --> 01:00:31,200 Yes, sir, I do. 771 01:00:34,860 --> 01:00:36,900 Did you hear what I said? 772 01:00:37,780 --> 01:00:39,530 You cheated me. 773 01:00:39,620 --> 01:00:40,790 I had a destiny. 774 01:00:40,870 --> 01:00:44,420 I was supposed to die in the field, with honor! 775 01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:49,130 That was my destiny, and you cheated me out of it! 776 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,470 Do you understand what I'm saying, Gump? 777 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,980 This wasn't supposed to happen, not to me. 778 01:01:09,610 --> 01:01:11,280 I had a destiny. 779 01:01:13,230 --> 01:01:17,610 I was Lieutenant Dan Taylor. 780 01:01:23,790 --> 01:01:26,130 You're still Lieutenant Dan. 781 01:01:49,350 --> 01:01:50,850 Look at me. 782 01:01:52,190 --> 01:01:54,150 What am I gonna do now? 783 01:01:57,820 --> 01:01:59,860 What am I gonna do now? 784 01:02:10,250 --> 01:02:11,710 PFC Gump? 785 01:02:13,250 --> 01:02:14,670 Yes, sir! 786 01:02:15,340 --> 01:02:16,840 As you were. 787 01:02:17,340 --> 01:02:21,180 Son, you've been awarded the Medal of Honor. 788 01:02:22,220 --> 01:02:25,850 Guess what, Lieutenant Dan, they want to give me a... 789 01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:36,350 Ma'am, what'd they do with Lieutenant Dan? 790 01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,070 They sent him home. 791 01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,830 Two weeks later, I left Vietnam. 792 01:02:48,870 --> 01:02:52,420 The ceremony was kicked off with a candid speech by the President 793 01:02:52,500 --> 01:02:55,880 regarding the need for further escalation of the war in Vietnam. 794 01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,090 President Johnson awarded four Medals of Honor 795 01:02:58,170 --> 01:02:59,840 to men from each of the Armed Services. 796 01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:02,840 America owes you a debt of gratitude, son. 797 01:03:04,850 --> 01:03:08,650 I understand you were wounded. Where were you hit? 798 01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,890 - In the buttocks, sir. - That must be a sight. 799 01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:14,930 I'd kind of like to see that. 800 01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:30,540 God damn, son. 801 01:03:32,660 --> 01:03:36,500 After that, Mama went to the hotel to lay down, 802 01:03:36,590 --> 01:03:40,090 so I went out for a walk to see our nation's capital. 803 01:03:40,170 --> 01:03:41,710 Hilary, all right, I've got the vets, 804 01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,300 what do you want me to do with them? 805 01:03:43,380 --> 01:03:45,130 What are you doing here so late? 806 01:03:45,220 --> 01:03:49,270 It's a good thing Mama was resting, 'cause the streets was awful crowded 807 01:03:49,350 --> 01:03:52,520 with people looking at all the statues and monuments, 808 01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:55,230 and some of them people were loud and pushy. 809 01:03:55,310 --> 01:03:58,270 Okay, follow me! Come on. Let's move it out. 810 01:03:59,110 --> 01:04:02,070 Everywhere I went, I had to stand in line. 811 01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:06,860 Follow me, let's go! 812 01:04:08,660 --> 01:04:10,290 Come on. Let's go. 813 01:04:16,330 --> 01:04:17,920 Stand here. 814 01:04:20,380 --> 01:04:23,550 Hey, you're a good man for doing this. Good! 815 01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:25,970 Okay. 816 01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,140 There was this man giving a little talk. 817 01:04:30,220 --> 01:04:33,720 And for some reason, he was wearing an American flag for a shirt. 818 01:04:33,810 --> 01:04:35,270 Now, I'm gonna bring up some soldiers... 819 01:04:35,350 --> 01:04:38,140 And he liked to say the "F" word. 820 01:04:38,230 --> 01:04:41,610 A lot."F" this and "F" that. 821 01:04:41,690 --> 01:04:44,030 And every time he said the "F" word, 822 01:04:44,110 --> 01:04:46,860 people, for some reason, well, they'd cheer. 823 01:04:46,950 --> 01:04:49,580 ...where to stick this fucking war! Yeah! 824 01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:53,420 Yeah! Yeah! 825 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,500 Come on, man, come up here, man. 826 01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:00,260 Come on. Come on. Yeah, you! Come on. Move, move, move. 827 01:05:01,250 --> 01:05:04,670 You can do it. Just get up there. Go on. That's it. 828 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,030 Tell us a little bit about the war, man. 829 01:05:20,110 --> 01:05:21,860 The war in Vietnam? 830 01:05:21,940 --> 01:05:24,860 - The war in Viet-fucking-nam! - Yeah! 831 01:05:45,210 --> 01:05:46,300 Peace! 832 01:05:46,670 --> 01:05:48,050 Come on, man, go! 833 01:05:48,340 --> 01:05:50,300 - Come on! - Peace! 834 01:05:50,390 --> 01:05:51,430 Well... 835 01:05:51,510 --> 01:05:54,970 There was only one thing I could say about the war in Vietnam. 836 01:05:55,060 --> 01:05:59,900 ...there's only one thing I can say about the war in Vietnam. 837 01:06:03,690 --> 01:06:07,490 In Vietnam, your... 838 01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:18,340 Hey, what the hell are you... 839 01:06:18,410 --> 01:06:21,160 I'll beat your head in, you goddamn oinker! 840 01:06:21,250 --> 01:06:23,750 Jesus Christ, what'd they do with this? 841 01:06:25,170 --> 01:06:26,840 We can't hear you! 842 01:06:28,550 --> 01:06:30,550 We can't hear anything! 843 01:06:31,260 --> 01:06:33,760 - This one! This one! Give me that! - Turn it up! 844 01:06:33,850 --> 01:06:35,270 Speak up! 845 01:06:36,060 --> 01:06:37,520 That's it! 846 01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:41,440 ...and that's all I have to say about that. 847 01:06:48,740 --> 01:06:51,700 That's so right on, man. You said it all. 848 01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,700 What's your name, man? 849 01:06:55,780 --> 01:06:58,410 My name is Forrest. Forrest Gump. 850 01:06:59,620 --> 01:07:00,790 Forrest Gump! 851 01:07:00,910 --> 01:07:02,290 - Gump! - Gump! 852 01:07:03,790 --> 01:07:07,540 Forrest! Forrest! 853 01:07:11,590 --> 01:07:13,970 - Jenny! - Forrest! 854 01:07:30,740 --> 01:07:33,410 Hey! Hey! 855 01:07:41,500 --> 01:07:44,630 It was the happiest moment of my life. 856 01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:50,340 Jenny and me were just like peas and carrots again. 857 01:07:51,670 --> 01:07:53,260 She showed me around, 858 01:07:53,340 --> 01:07:55,930 and even introduced me to some of her new friends. 859 01:07:56,010 --> 01:07:57,340 Shut that blind, man. 860 01:07:57,470 --> 01:07:59,680 And get your white ass away from that window. 861 01:07:59,770 --> 01:08:01,860 Don't you know we in a war here? 862 01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:04,100 Hey, man, he's cool. He's cool. He's one of us. 863 01:08:04,190 --> 01:08:06,110 - Let me tell you about us. - Where the hell have you been? 864 01:08:06,190 --> 01:08:08,280 Our purpose here is to protect our black leaders 865 01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,110 from the racial onslaught of the pig 866 01:08:10,190 --> 01:08:12,280 who wishes to brutalize our black leaders, 867 01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,700 rape our women, and destroy our black communities. 868 01:08:18,620 --> 01:08:20,540 Who's the baby killer? 869 01:08:20,660 --> 01:08:23,370 This is my good friend I told you about. This is Forrest Gump. 870 01:08:23,460 --> 01:08:25,210 Forrest, this is Wesley. 871 01:08:25,290 --> 01:08:26,580 Wesley and I lived together in Berkeley, 872 01:08:26,670 --> 01:08:29,300 and he's the president of the Berkeley chapter of SDS. 873 01:08:29,380 --> 01:08:30,800 Let me tell you something else. 874 01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:35,130 We are here to offer protection and help for all of those who need our help, 875 01:08:35,220 --> 01:08:38,810 because we, the Black Panthers, are against the war in Vietnam. 876 01:08:38,890 --> 01:08:42,560 Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers are sent to the frontline 877 01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,560 to die for a country that hates them. 878 01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:47,810 Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers go to fight 879 01:08:47,900 --> 01:08:50,990 and come to be brutalized and killed in their own communities 880 01:08:51,070 --> 01:08:52,660 as they sleep in their beds at night. 881 01:08:52,730 --> 01:08:53,900 You are a fucking asshole! 882 01:08:53,990 --> 01:08:57,370 Yes, we are against all these racist and imperial dog acts. 883 01:09:06,670 --> 01:09:09,880 Forrest! Quit it! Quit it! 884 01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:13,090 Forrest! 885 01:09:13,670 --> 01:09:15,420 Stop it! Stop it! 886 01:09:22,060 --> 01:09:23,440 Oh, God... 887 01:09:24,270 --> 01:09:26,690 I shouldn't have brought you here. 888 01:09:26,770 --> 01:09:30,400 I should have known it was just gonna be some bullshit hassle. 889 01:09:31,570 --> 01:09:34,200 He should not be hitting you, Jenny. 890 01:09:39,110 --> 01:09:40,860 Come on, Forrest. 891 01:09:46,580 --> 01:09:50,580 Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther party. 892 01:09:53,460 --> 01:09:55,800 He doesn't mean it when he does things like this. He doesn't. 893 01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,220 I would never hurt you, Jenny. 894 01:10:00,050 --> 01:10:02,300 I know you wouldn't, Forrest. 895 01:10:04,220 --> 01:10:06,810 I wanted to be your boyfriend. 896 01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:19,740 That uniform is a trip, Forrest. 897 01:10:21,110 --> 01:10:24,320 You look handsome in it. You do. 898 01:10:28,410 --> 01:10:30,330 - You know what? - What? 899 01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:37,590 I'm glad we were here together in our nation's capital. 900 01:10:39,170 --> 01:10:40,920 Me, too, Forrest. 901 01:10:41,010 --> 01:10:45,680 We walked around all night, Jenny and me, just talking. 902 01:10:47,770 --> 01:10:50,940 She told me about all the traveling she'd done. 903 01:10:51,020 --> 01:10:55,610 And how she'd discovered ways to expand her mind 904 01:10:55,690 --> 01:10:58,780 and learn how to live in harmony, 905 01:10:58,860 --> 01:11:01,200 which must be out west somewhere, 906 01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:03,620 'cause she made it all the way to California. 907 01:11:03,700 --> 01:11:05,950 Try to love one another right now 908 01:11:06,030 --> 01:11:07,200 Hey! 909 01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,700 Anybody want to go to San Francisco? 910 01:11:10,790 --> 01:11:12,670 - I'll go. - Far out. 911 01:11:14,130 --> 01:11:17,300 It was a very special night for the two of us. 912 01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:20,970 I didn't want it to end. 913 01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,180 I wish you wouldn't go, Jenny. 914 01:11:25,180 --> 01:11:26,970 I have to, Forrest. 915 01:11:27,970 --> 01:11:29,220 Jenny? 916 01:11:31,390 --> 01:11:33,980 Things got a little out of hand. 917 01:11:34,060 --> 01:11:37,900 It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson! 918 01:11:39,570 --> 01:11:42,370 I would never hurt you, you know that. 919 01:11:45,490 --> 01:11:47,490 You know what I think? 920 01:11:48,990 --> 01:11:54,250 I think you should go home to Greenbow, Alabama! 921 01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:09,850 Forrest, we have very different lives, you know. 922 01:12:19,270 --> 01:12:22,440 I want you to have this. 923 01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:29,290 Forrest, I can't keep this. 924 01:12:30,950 --> 01:12:35,200 I got it just by doing what you told me to do. 925 01:12:37,250 --> 01:12:39,420 Why are you so good to me? 926 01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,460 You're my girl. 927 01:12:44,470 --> 01:12:46,600 I'll always be your girl. 928 01:13:27,010 --> 01:13:31,850 And just like that, she was gone, out of my life again. 929 01:13:33,350 --> 01:13:35,690 That's one small step for man, 930 01:13:37,690 --> 01:13:40,530 one giant leap for mankind. 931 01:13:46,190 --> 01:13:48,690 I thought I was going back to Vietnam, 932 01:13:48,820 --> 01:13:52,030 but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists 933 01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:53,750 was to play Ping-Pong. 934 01:13:53,830 --> 01:13:56,120 So, I was in the Special Services, 935 01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:59,450 traveling around the country cheering up all them wounded veterans 936 01:13:59,540 --> 01:14:01,960 and showing them how to play Ping-Pong. 937 01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:03,960 I was so good that some years later 938 01:14:04,050 --> 01:14:07,680 the Army decided that I should be on the All-American Ping-Pong team. 939 01:14:08,300 --> 01:14:10,720 We were the first Americans to visit the land of China 940 01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:13,220 in like a million years, or something like that. 941 01:14:13,350 --> 01:14:16,770 Somebody said world peace was in our hands, 942 01:14:16,850 --> 01:14:19,640 but all I did was play Ping-Pong. 943 01:14:19,730 --> 01:14:22,820 When I got home, I was a national celebrity. 944 01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,810 Famouser even than Captain Kangaroo. 945 01:14:25,900 --> 01:14:28,570 Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here. 946 01:14:35,330 --> 01:14:37,080 Mr. Gump, have a seat. 947 01:14:39,580 --> 01:14:41,750 Forrest Gump, John Lennon. 948 01:14:42,420 --> 01:14:43,670 - Welcome home. - You had quite a trip. 949 01:14:43,750 --> 01:14:47,090 Can you tell us, what was China like? 950 01:14:50,340 --> 01:14:55,600 In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all. 951 01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:57,270 No possessions? 952 01:14:59,890 --> 01:15:03,100 And in China, they never go to church. 953 01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:05,940 No religion, too? 954 01:15:06,020 --> 01:15:07,020 Oh. 955 01:15:08,030 --> 01:15:11,330 - Hard to imagine. - Well, it's easy if you try, Dick. 956 01:15:13,110 --> 01:15:15,490 Some years later, that nice young man from England 957 01:15:15,580 --> 01:15:18,210 was on his way home to see his little boy 958 01:15:18,290 --> 01:15:21,290 and was signing some autographs, 959 01:15:21,410 --> 01:15:25,370 and for no particular reason at all, somebody shot him. 960 01:15:28,420 --> 01:15:32,260 They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor. 961 01:15:33,550 --> 01:15:35,640 Now, that's Lieutenant Dan. 962 01:15:38,430 --> 01:15:40,060 Lieutenant Dan! 963 01:15:40,140 --> 01:15:44,600 They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor! 964 01:15:46,480 --> 01:15:47,980 Yes, sir, they surely did. 965 01:15:48,070 --> 01:15:50,070 They gave you, 966 01:15:50,150 --> 01:15:54,320 an imbecile, a moron who goes on television 967 01:15:54,410 --> 01:15:58,670 and makes a fool out of himself in front of the whole damn country, 968 01:15:59,330 --> 01:16:01,830 the Congressional Medal of Honor. 969 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:04,170 Yes, sir. 970 01:16:06,330 --> 01:16:09,170 Well, then, that's just perfect! 971 01:16:11,090 --> 01:16:13,430 Yeah, well, I just got one thing to say to that. 972 01:16:13,510 --> 01:16:15,760 God damn bless America. 973 01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:17,970 Hey! 974 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:21,100 Oh, God! 975 01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,020 - Oh, God! - Lieutenant Dan! 976 01:16:27,150 --> 01:16:29,900 Lieutenant Dan said he was living in a hotel. 977 01:16:29,980 --> 01:16:31,940 And because he didn't have no legs, 978 01:16:32,030 --> 01:16:35,200 he spent most of his time exercising his arms. 979 01:16:38,070 --> 01:16:40,530 Take a right. Take a right. 980 01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:45,710 Hey! Come on, already! 981 01:16:45,790 --> 01:16:48,580 What do you do here in New York, Lieutenant Dan? 982 01:16:48,670 --> 01:16:51,210 I'm living off the government tit. 983 01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,220 Sucking it dry! 984 01:16:54,300 --> 01:16:56,340 Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you blind? 985 01:16:56,430 --> 01:16:58,140 - I'm walking here! - Get out of the way! 986 01:16:58,220 --> 01:17:00,810 Get out! Come on, go! Go! Go! 987 01:17:07,850 --> 01:17:11,600 I stayed with Lieutenant Dan and celebrated the holidays. 988 01:17:16,030 --> 01:17:19,450 You have a great year. Hurry home and God bless you. 989 01:17:22,450 --> 01:17:25,240 Have you found Jesus yet, Gump? 990 01:17:26,830 --> 01:17:29,500 I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir. 991 01:17:37,090 --> 01:17:40,470 That's all these cripples, down at the VA, 992 01:17:40,550 --> 01:17:42,970 that's all they ever talk about. 993 01:17:44,140 --> 01:17:47,100 Jesus this and Jesus that. 994 01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:50,850 Have I found Jesus? 995 01:17:51,480 --> 01:17:54,480 They even had a priest come and talk to me. 996 01:17:55,360 --> 01:18:00,030 He said God is listening, but I have to help myself. 997 01:18:01,410 --> 01:18:03,700 How if I accept Jesus into my heart, 998 01:18:04,700 --> 01:18:08,500 I'll get to walk beside him in the kingdom of heaven. 999 01:18:08,580 --> 01:18:10,750 Did you hear what I said? 1000 01:18:11,790 --> 01:18:15,790 Walk beside him in the kingdom of heaven. 1001 01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,840 Well, kiss my crippled ass. 1002 01:18:18,930 --> 01:18:22,310 God is listening? What a crock of shit. 1003 01:18:25,970 --> 01:18:28,600 I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan. 1004 01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:31,560 Oh? 1005 01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:37,780 Well, 1006 01:18:40,740 --> 01:18:44,120 before you go, why don't you get your ass down to the corner 1007 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,700 - and get us another bottle of Ripple. - Yes, sir. 1008 01:18:46,790 --> 01:18:51,920 We are at approximately 45th Street in New York City at One Astor Plaza. 1009 01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:53,840 This is the site of the old Astor Hotel. 1010 01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,130 What the hell is in Bayou La Batre? 1011 01:18:56,210 --> 01:18:58,550 - Shrimping boats. - Shrimping boats? 1012 01:18:58,630 --> 01:19:01,050 Who gives a shit about shrimping boats? 1013 01:19:01,130 --> 01:19:02,590 I gotta buy me one of them shrimping boats, 1014 01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:04,220 soon as I have some money. 1015 01:19:04,300 --> 01:19:07,140 I made me a promise to Bubba in Vietnam 1016 01:19:07,220 --> 01:19:09,930 that as soon as the war was over, we'd go in partners. 1017 01:19:10,020 --> 01:19:13,440 He'd be the captain of the shrimping boat and I'd be his first mate. 1018 01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,980 But now that he's dead, that means I gotta be the captain. 1019 01:19:17,070 --> 01:19:19,780 - A shrimp boat captain. - Yes, sir. 1020 01:19:19,860 --> 01:19:22,320 A promise is a promise, Lieutenant Dan. 1021 01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,580 Now hear this! 1022 01:19:27,330 --> 01:19:31,170 Private Gump here is gonna be a shrimp boat captain. 1023 01:19:31,910 --> 01:19:33,330 Well, I tell you what, Gilligan, 1024 01:19:33,420 --> 01:19:35,880 the day that you are a shrimp boat captain, 1025 01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:39,510 - I will come and be your first mate. - Okay. 1026 01:19:39,590 --> 01:19:43,930 If you're ever a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an astronaut. 1027 01:19:44,010 --> 01:19:47,010 Danny, what are you complaining about? 1028 01:19:47,100 --> 01:19:49,690 - What are you doing, hon? - Mr. Hot Wheels. 1029 01:19:49,770 --> 01:19:53,400 - Who's your friend? - My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. 1030 01:19:54,230 --> 01:19:58,440 This is Cunning Carla and Long-Limbs Lenore. 1031 01:19:59,530 --> 01:20:02,740 So, where you been, baby cakes, huh? Haven't seen you around lately. 1032 01:20:02,820 --> 01:20:04,280 You know, you should have been here for Christmas, 1033 01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:05,700 'cause Tommy bought a round on the house 1034 01:20:05,780 --> 01:20:07,280 and gave everybody a turkey sandwich. 1035 01:20:07,370 --> 01:20:10,420 Well, well, I had company. 1036 01:20:11,290 --> 01:20:14,960 Hey, hey! We was just there. That's at Times Square. 1037 01:20:15,580 --> 01:20:19,710 Don't you just love New Year's? You get to start all over. 1038 01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:23,100 - Hey, Lenore... - Everybody gets a second chance. 1039 01:20:23,170 --> 01:20:25,710 It's funny, but in the middle of all that fun, 1040 01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:28,090 I began to think about Jenny, 1041 01:20:29,010 --> 01:20:33,470 wondering how she was spending her New Year's night out in California. 1042 01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:59,580 ...eight, seven, six, five, 1043 01:20:59,710 --> 01:21:03,170 four, three, two, one! 1044 01:21:03,300 --> 01:21:05,970 Happy New Year! 1045 01:21:22,440 --> 01:21:25,150 Happy New Year, Lieutenant Dan! 1046 01:22:00,440 --> 01:22:04,110 What are you, stupid or something? What's your problem? 1047 01:22:04,780 --> 01:22:06,200 What's his problem? 1048 01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,530 Did you lose your pecker in the war or something? 1049 01:22:08,610 --> 01:22:10,650 What, is your friend stupid or something? 1050 01:22:10,740 --> 01:22:11,820 What did you say? 1051 01:22:11,910 --> 01:22:13,330 I said, is your friend stupid or something? 1052 01:22:13,410 --> 01:22:15,580 Hey! Don't call him stupid! 1053 01:22:15,660 --> 01:22:17,620 - Hey, don't you push her! - You shut up! 1054 01:22:17,710 --> 01:22:19,750 - Don't you ever call him stupid! - What's the matter, baby? 1055 01:22:19,830 --> 01:22:21,540 - Why are you so upset? - Just get the hell out of here. 1056 01:22:21,630 --> 01:22:22,710 - Stupid damn... - Get your goddamn clothes... 1057 01:22:22,790 --> 01:22:24,290 You belong in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 1058 01:22:24,380 --> 01:22:26,260 - Get the hell out of here! - You should be in a sideshow! 1059 01:22:26,340 --> 01:22:27,380 Go on! Get out of here! 1060 01:22:27,470 --> 01:22:28,760 Come on, Lenore. We don't need this shit! 1061 01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:30,220 Get out of here! 1062 01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:34,380 - You retard. - Loser. You freak. 1063 01:22:39,770 --> 01:22:40,980 No, no. 1064 01:23:06,130 --> 01:23:10,090 I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. 1065 01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:12,970 She tasted like cigarettes. 1066 01:23:29,150 --> 01:23:30,690 I guess Lieutenant Dan figured 1067 01:23:30,780 --> 01:23:33,620 there's some things you just can't change. 1068 01:23:33,740 --> 01:23:38,870 He didn't want to be called crippled, just like I didn't want to be called stupid. 1069 01:23:44,380 --> 01:23:46,260 Happy New Year, Gump. 1070 01:23:51,050 --> 01:23:52,430 The US Ping-Pong team 1071 01:23:52,510 --> 01:23:54,800 met with President Nixon today at an Oval Office ceremony... 1072 01:23:54,890 --> 01:23:57,640 And wouldn't you know it? A few months later, 1073 01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:01,680 they invited me and the Ping-Pong team to visit the White House. 1074 01:24:01,770 --> 01:24:04,020 So, I went, again. 1075 01:24:04,850 --> 01:24:08,310 And I met the President of the United States, again. 1076 01:24:09,070 --> 01:24:12,030 Only, this time, they didn't get us rooms in a real fancy hotel. 1077 01:24:12,110 --> 01:24:15,490 So, are you enjoying yourself in our nation's capital, young man? 1078 01:24:15,570 --> 01:24:18,570 - Yes, sir. - Well, where are you staying? 1079 01:24:18,660 --> 01:24:21,290 - It's called the Hotel Ebbott. - Oh, no, no, no, no. 1080 01:24:21,370 --> 01:24:24,500 I know of a much nicer hotel. It's brand-new, very modern. 1081 01:24:24,580 --> 01:24:26,580 I'll have my people take care of it for you. 1082 01:24:27,210 --> 01:24:28,340 Security, Frank Wills. 1083 01:24:28,420 --> 01:24:32,010 Yeah, sir, you might want to send a maintenance man 1084 01:24:32,090 --> 01:24:34,760 over to that office across the way. 1085 01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:37,720 The lights are off, and they must be looking for a fuse box or something, 1086 01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,510 'cause them flashlights, they're keeping me awake. 1087 01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:42,230 Okay, sir. I'll check it out. 1088 01:24:42,310 --> 01:24:44,020 - Thank you. - No problem. 1089 01:24:44,100 --> 01:24:46,020 - Good night. - Good night. 1090 01:24:49,650 --> 01:24:55,030 Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. 1091 01:24:55,110 --> 01:24:57,150 Vice President Ford 1092 01:24:57,240 --> 01:25:01,750 will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. 1093 01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:07,920 As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term... 1094 01:25:13,170 --> 01:25:14,710 Sergeant Gump. 1095 01:25:15,220 --> 01:25:17,430 - Yes, sir! - As you were. 1096 01:25:17,510 --> 01:25:20,640 I have your discharge papers. Your service is up, son. 1097 01:25:24,060 --> 01:25:26,810 Does this mean I can't play Ping-Pong no more? 1098 01:25:26,890 --> 01:25:28,850 For the Army it does. 1099 01:25:31,480 --> 01:25:36,360 And just like that, my service in the United States Army was over. 1100 01:25:41,660 --> 01:25:43,450 So, I went home. 1101 01:26:04,930 --> 01:26:08,350 - I'm home, Mama. - I know, I know. 1102 01:26:09,980 --> 01:26:11,520 - Louise, he's here. - Now, when I got home, 1103 01:26:11,610 --> 01:26:15,660 I had no idea, but Mama had had all sorts of visitors. 1104 01:26:15,780 --> 01:26:18,070 We've had all sorts of visitors, Forrest. 1105 01:26:18,150 --> 01:26:21,240 Everybody wants you to use their Ping-Pong stuff. 1106 01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:25,120 One man even left a check for $25,000 1107 01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:28,660 if you'd be agreeable to saying you liked using their paddle. 1108 01:26:28,790 --> 01:26:31,460 Oh, but, Mama, I only like using my own paddle. 1109 01:26:31,540 --> 01:26:33,540 - Hi, Miss Louise. - Hey, Forrest. 1110 01:26:33,630 --> 01:26:36,550 I know that. I know that. 1111 01:26:36,630 --> 01:26:39,300 But it's $25,000, Forrest. 1112 01:26:39,380 --> 01:26:44,050 I thought maybe you could hold it for a while, see if it grows on you. 1113 01:26:44,140 --> 01:26:46,270 - Oh, you look good, Forrest. - That Mama, she sure was right. 1114 01:26:46,350 --> 01:26:48,850 - You look real good. - It's funny how things work out. 1115 01:26:48,980 --> 01:26:52,110 I didn't stay home for long, because I'd made a promise to Bubba, 1116 01:26:52,190 --> 01:26:54,440 and I always try to keep my promise. 1117 01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,060 So, I went on down to Bayou La Batre 1118 01:26:56,150 --> 01:26:59,900 to meet Bubba's family and make their introduction. 1119 01:26:59,990 --> 01:27:03,660 Are you crazy, or just plain stupid? 1120 01:27:04,370 --> 01:27:06,620 Stupid is as stupid does, Mrs. Blue. 1121 01:27:06,700 --> 01:27:08,080 I guess. 1122 01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:12,670 And, of course, I paid my respect to Bubba himself. 1123 01:27:14,670 --> 01:27:17,210 Hey, Bubba, it's me, Forrest Gump. 1124 01:27:20,340 --> 01:27:24,390 I remember everything you said, and I got it all figured out. 1125 01:27:27,180 --> 01:27:33,980 I'm taking the $24,562 and 47 cents that I got... 1126 01:27:35,060 --> 01:27:38,650 Or, that's left after a new hair cut and a new suit, 1127 01:27:38,730 --> 01:27:40,690 and I took Mama out to a real fancy dinner, 1128 01:27:40,780 --> 01:27:44,030 and I bought a bus ticket and three Dr. Peppers. 1129 01:27:44,570 --> 01:27:46,360 Tell me something. 1130 01:27:47,410 --> 01:27:49,540 Are you stupid or something? 1131 01:27:49,620 --> 01:27:51,660 Stupid is as stupid does, sir. 1132 01:27:51,750 --> 01:27:54,710 Well, that's what's left after me saying, 1133 01:27:55,630 --> 01:27:57,760 "When I was in China on the All-America Ping-Pong team, 1134 01:27:57,880 --> 01:28:01,680 "I just loved playing Ping-Pong with my Flex-O-Light Ping-Pong paddle," 1135 01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:03,010 which everybody knows isn't true, 1136 01:28:03,090 --> 01:28:04,470 but Mama says it's just a little white lie 1137 01:28:04,550 --> 01:28:06,720 so it wouldn't hurt nobody. 1138 01:28:08,140 --> 01:28:14,060 So, anyway, I'm putting all that on gas, ropes and new nets 1139 01:28:14,810 --> 01:28:16,560 and a brand-new shrimping boat. 1140 01:28:38,250 --> 01:28:41,500 Now, Bubba had told me everything he knew about shrimping, 1141 01:28:41,590 --> 01:28:43,930 but you know what I found out? 1142 01:28:45,590 --> 01:28:47,930 Shrimping is tough. 1143 01:28:50,140 --> 01:28:51,980 I only caught five. 1144 01:28:52,100 --> 01:28:53,940 A couple more, you could have yourself a cocktail. 1145 01:28:58,770 --> 01:29:00,520 Hey, you ever think about naming this old boat? 1146 01:29:00,610 --> 01:29:03,280 It's bad luck to have a boat without a name. 1147 01:29:05,650 --> 01:29:10,490 I'd never named a boat before, but there was only one I could think of, 1148 01:29:11,660 --> 01:29:14,870 the most beautiful name in the wide world. 1149 01:29:35,890 --> 01:29:38,730 Now, I hadn't heard from Jenny in a long while, 1150 01:29:38,810 --> 01:29:41,350 but I thought about her a lot, 1151 01:29:41,480 --> 01:29:44,940 and I hoped that whatever she was doing made her happy. 1152 01:31:31,220 --> 01:31:33,760 I thought about Jenny all the time. 1153 01:31:58,410 --> 01:31:59,580 Hey! 1154 01:32:23,440 --> 01:32:28,110 Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here? 1155 01:32:28,190 --> 01:32:32,110 Well, thought I'd try out my sea legs. 1156 01:32:32,190 --> 01:32:35,940 But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan. 1157 01:32:36,030 --> 01:32:38,320 Yes, I know that. 1158 01:32:38,660 --> 01:32:40,700 You wrote me a letter, you idiot. 1159 01:32:40,830 --> 01:32:45,380 Well, well. Captain Forrest Gump. I had to see this for myself. 1160 01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:53,880 And I told you if you were ever a shrimp boat captain 1161 01:32:54,010 --> 01:32:56,600 that I'd be your first mate. Well, here I am. 1162 01:32:56,680 --> 01:32:59,810 - I am a man of my word. - Okay. 1163 01:32:59,890 --> 01:33:03,890 Yeah, but don't you be thinking that I'm going to be calling you "sir." 1164 01:33:04,020 --> 01:33:05,360 No, sir. 1165 01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:16,530 That's my boat. 1166 01:33:19,120 --> 01:33:24,580 I have a feeling if we head due east, we'll find some shrimp, 1167 01:33:24,710 --> 01:33:26,300 so take a left. 1168 01:33:27,710 --> 01:33:30,630 - Take a left! - Which way? 1169 01:33:30,710 --> 01:33:33,380 Over there! They're over there! 1170 01:33:34,050 --> 01:33:37,890 - Get on the wheel and take a left! - Okay. 1171 01:33:39,090 --> 01:33:43,220 Gump, what are you doing? Take a left! Left! 1172 01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:49,230 That's where we're going to find those shrimp, my boy! 1173 01:33:50,810 --> 01:33:52,400 That's where we'll find them. 1174 01:34:05,080 --> 01:34:09,210 - Still no shrimp, Lieutenant Dan. - Okay, so I was wrong. 1175 01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:13,130 How are we going to find them? 1176 01:34:13,250 --> 01:34:15,750 Well, maybe you should just pray for shrimp. 1177 01:34:22,390 --> 01:34:25,060 So, I went to church every Sunday. 1178 01:34:26,310 --> 01:34:28,310 Sometimes Lieutenant Dan came, too, 1179 01:34:28,440 --> 01:34:31,440 though I think he left the praying up to me. 1180 01:34:46,910 --> 01:34:51,290 - No shrimp. - Where the hell's this God of yours? 1181 01:34:52,130 --> 01:34:57,840 It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, 'cause right then, God showed up. 1182 01:35:14,690 --> 01:35:19,530 - You'll never sink this boat! - Now, me, I was scared, 1183 01:35:19,650 --> 01:35:22,690 but Lieutenant Dan, he was mad. 1184 01:35:22,820 --> 01:35:24,150 Come on! 1185 01:35:27,290 --> 01:35:32,500 You call this a storm? Come on, you son of a bitch! 1186 01:35:34,630 --> 01:35:39,010 It's time for a showdown! You and me! 1187 01:35:39,130 --> 01:35:43,010 I'm right here! Come and get me! 1188 01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:48,680 You'll never sink this boat! 1189 01:35:50,730 --> 01:35:52,900 Hurricane Carmen came through here yesterday, 1190 01:35:53,020 --> 01:35:55,570 destroying nearly everything in its path. 1191 01:35:55,690 --> 01:35:58,190 And as in other towns up and down the coast, 1192 01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:00,740 Bayou La Batre's entire shrimping industry 1193 01:36:00,820 --> 01:36:04,700 has fallen victim to Carmen and has been left in utter ruin. 1194 01:36:04,820 --> 01:36:07,950 Speaking with local officials, this reporter has learned, 1195 01:36:08,030 --> 01:36:11,490 in fact, only one shrimping boat actually survived the storm. 1196 01:36:11,870 --> 01:36:14,500 Louise. Louise, there's Forrest. 1197 01:36:15,210 --> 01:36:17,210 After that, shrimping was easy. 1198 01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:26,010 Since people still needed them shrimps for shrimp cocktails 1199 01:36:26,090 --> 01:36:30,220 and barbecues and all, and we were the only boat left standing, 1200 01:36:30,390 --> 01:36:33,640 Bubba-Gump Shrimp's what they got. 1201 01:36:33,730 --> 01:36:38,320 We got a whole bunch of boats, 12 Jennys, 1202 01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:41,900 a big old warehouse. We even have hats that say "Bubba-Gump" on them. 1203 01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:45,540 Bubba-Gump Shrimp. It's a household name. 1204 01:36:45,740 --> 01:36:47,450 Hold on there, boy. 1205 01:36:47,570 --> 01:36:52,120 Are you telling me you're the owner of the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Corporation? 1206 01:36:52,250 --> 01:36:55,250 Yes, sir. We got more money than Davy Crockett. 1207 01:36:56,880 --> 01:37:00,930 Boy, I heard some whoppers in my time, but that tops them all. 1208 01:37:03,630 --> 01:37:06,420 We was sitting next to a millionaire. 1209 01:37:09,930 --> 01:37:14,560 Well, I thought it was a very lovely story, 1210 01:37:14,980 --> 01:37:19,610 and you tell it so well, with such enthusiasm. 1211 01:37:21,320 --> 01:37:23,990 Would you like to see what Lieutenant Dan looks like? 1212 01:37:24,110 --> 01:37:25,610 Well, yes, I would. 1213 01:37:30,620 --> 01:37:32,660 That's him right there. 1214 01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,250 And let me tell you something about Lieutenant Dan... 1215 01:37:38,420 --> 01:37:39,460 Forrest, 1216 01:37:45,010 --> 01:37:47,810 I never thanked you for saving my life. 1217 01:38:13,830 --> 01:38:20,130 He never actually said so, but I think he made his peace with God. 1218 01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:30,010 For the second time in 17 days, 1219 01:38:30,140 --> 01:38:33,600 President Ford escaped possible assassination today. 1220 01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:34,970 Base to Jenny 1. 1221 01:38:35,060 --> 01:38:38,560 - Base to Jenny 1. - Jenny 1. Go, Margo. 1222 01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:40,140 Forrest has a phone call. 1223 01:38:40,230 --> 01:38:42,730 Yeah, well, you'll have to tell them to call him back. 1224 01:38:42,810 --> 01:38:46,190 - He is indisposed at the moment. - His mama's sick. 1225 01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:09,260 - Where's Mama? - She's upstairs. 1226 01:39:12,090 --> 01:39:14,050 Hi, Forrest. 1227 01:39:15,010 --> 01:39:17,550 - I'll see you tomorrow. - All right. 1228 01:39:24,230 --> 01:39:27,400 We sure got you straightened out, didn't we, boy? 1229 01:39:38,750 --> 01:39:42,710 - What's the matter, Mama? - I'm dying, Forrest. 1230 01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:48,420 Come on in, sit down over here. 1231 01:40:02,770 --> 01:40:06,270 - Why are you dying, Mama? - It's my time. 1232 01:40:07,270 --> 01:40:09,150 It's just my time. 1233 01:40:10,610 --> 01:40:14,780 Now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. 1234 01:40:16,410 --> 01:40:18,790 Death is just a part of life, 1235 01:40:19,790 --> 01:40:22,420 something we're all destined to do. 1236 01:40:24,250 --> 01:40:28,630 I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your mama. 1237 01:40:29,460 --> 01:40:33,050 - I did the best I could. - You did good, Mama. 1238 01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:39,010 Well, I happen to believe you make your own destiny. 1239 01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:43,770 You have to do the best with what God gave you. 1240 01:40:47,650 --> 01:40:49,780 What's my destiny, Mama? 1241 01:40:51,940 --> 01:40:55,150 You're going to have to figure that out for yourself. 1242 01:40:56,450 --> 01:40:59,410 Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. 1243 01:40:59,490 --> 01:41:01,660 You never know what you're going to get. 1244 01:41:01,790 --> 01:41:06,170 Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. 1245 01:41:06,250 --> 01:41:08,460 I will miss you, Forrest. 1246 01:41:10,300 --> 01:41:14,350 She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. 1247 01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:19,180 I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. 1248 01:41:22,220 --> 01:41:25,520 And that's all I have to say about that. 1249 01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:34,650 Didn't you say you were waiting for the number seven bus? 1250 01:41:34,740 --> 01:41:37,530 There'll be another one along shortly. 1251 01:41:41,370 --> 01:41:44,960 Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, 1252 01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:48,170 and a national celebrity, and a shrimping boat captain, 1253 01:41:48,670 --> 01:41:51,880 and a college graduate, the city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama 1254 01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:55,210 decided to get together and offered me a fine job. 1255 01:41:56,590 --> 01:42:00,260 So, I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, 1256 01:42:00,390 --> 01:42:03,100 though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. 1257 01:42:03,220 --> 01:42:07,810 He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. 1258 01:42:07,890 --> 01:42:09,480 And so then, I got a call from him saying 1259 01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:13,020 we don't have to worry about money no more, and I said, 1260 01:42:13,110 --> 01:42:15,400 "That's good. One less thing." 1261 01:42:18,450 --> 01:42:22,370 Now, Mama said there's only so much fortune a man really needs, 1262 01:42:23,120 --> 01:42:25,960 and the rest is just for showing off. 1263 01:42:26,040 --> 01:42:29,920 So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare gospel church, 1264 01:42:32,380 --> 01:42:36,550 and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre fishing hospital. 1265 01:42:39,430 --> 01:42:43,980 And even though Bubba was dead and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, 1266 01:42:44,100 --> 01:42:46,730 I gave Bubba's mama Bubba's share. 1267 01:42:50,940 --> 01:42:52,650 You know what? 1268 01:42:53,900 --> 01:42:56,900 She didn't have to work in nobody's kitchen no more. 1269 01:42:56,990 --> 01:42:58,620 That smells wonderful. 1270 01:42:59,450 --> 01:43:03,370 And 'cause I was a gazillionaire and I liked doing it so much, 1271 01:43:03,450 --> 01:43:05,790 I cut that grass for free. 1272 01:43:09,580 --> 01:43:12,460 But at night time when there was nothing to do 1273 01:43:12,540 --> 01:43:14,920 and the house was all empty, 1274 01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:18,300 I'd always think of Jenny. 1275 01:44:21,990 --> 01:44:25,160 And then, she was there. 1276 01:44:58,150 --> 01:45:01,320 - Hello, Forrest. - Hello, Jenny. 1277 01:45:12,870 --> 01:45:15,500 Jenny came back and stayed with me. 1278 01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:20,750 Maybe it was because she had nowhere else to go, 1279 01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:24,590 or maybe it was because she was so tired, 'cause she went to bed 1280 01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:28,680 and slept and slept, like she hadn't slept in years. 1281 01:45:29,930 --> 01:45:32,220 It was wonderful having her home. 1282 01:45:33,560 --> 01:45:38,690 Every day we'd take a walk and I'd jabber on like a monkey in a tree, 1283 01:45:38,770 --> 01:45:41,310 and she'd listen about Ping-Ponging, and shrimping, 1284 01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:45,700 and Mama making a trip up to heaven. I did all the talking. 1285 01:45:45,780 --> 01:45:49,120 Jenny most of the time was real quiet. 1286 01:46:29,280 --> 01:46:32,490 How could you do this? 1287 01:47:09,450 --> 01:47:12,790 Sometimes I guess there just aren't enough rocks. 1288 01:47:14,990 --> 01:47:19,500 I never really knew why she came back, but I didn't care. 1289 01:47:19,660 --> 01:47:23,960 It was like olden times. We was like peas and carrots again. 1290 01:47:26,050 --> 01:47:30,390 Every day, I'd pick pretty flowers and put them in her room for her, 1291 01:47:31,880 --> 01:47:35,470 and she gave me the best gift anyone could ever get in the wide world. 1292 01:47:35,560 --> 01:47:38,400 - New shoes. - They make them just for running. 1293 01:47:43,400 --> 01:47:46,700 And she even showed me how to dance. 1294 01:47:54,870 --> 01:47:59,080 And, well, we was like family, Jenny and me. 1295 01:48:02,830 --> 01:48:05,750 And it was the happiest time in my life. 1296 01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:27,190 ...and this Fourth is witnessing one of the 1297 01:48:27,270 --> 01:48:30,270 largest fireworks displays in the nation's... 1298 01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:33,280 - You done watching it? - ...here in New York Harbor... 1299 01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:35,190 - I'm going to bed. - ...with a spectacular display 1300 01:48:35,280 --> 01:48:38,330 of tall ships earlier. The Statue of Liberty... 1301 01:48:45,370 --> 01:48:47,370 Will you marry me? 1302 01:48:52,300 --> 01:48:55,260 I'd make a good husband, Jenny. 1303 01:48:57,930 --> 01:48:59,970 You would, Forrest. 1304 01:49:01,810 --> 01:49:04,150 But you won't marry me. 1305 01:49:06,440 --> 01:49:08,650 You don't want to marry me. 1306 01:49:12,240 --> 01:49:14,660 Why don't you love me, Jenny? 1307 01:49:19,660 --> 01:49:21,790 I'm not a smart man, 1308 01:49:23,500 --> 01:49:25,920 but I know what love is. 1309 01:50:02,950 --> 01:50:04,200 Jenny. 1310 01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:08,620 Forrest, I do love you. 1311 01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:05,430 - Where are you running off to? - I'm not running. 1312 01:52:37,020 --> 01:52:42,360 That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. 1313 01:52:43,530 --> 01:52:47,950 So, I ran to the end of the road, and when I got there, 1314 01:52:48,030 --> 01:52:49,780 I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. 1315 01:52:49,870 --> 01:52:51,040 President Carter, suffering 1316 01:52:51,120 --> 01:52:53,120 from heat exhaustion, fell into the arms of... 1317 01:52:53,210 --> 01:52:54,880 And when I got there, 1318 01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:59,130 I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. 1319 01:52:59,210 --> 01:53:01,630 And I figured since I'd run this far, 1320 01:53:01,710 --> 01:53:04,960 maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. 1321 01:53:05,050 --> 01:53:06,260 And that's what I did. 1322 01:53:06,890 --> 01:53:09,480 I ran clear across Alabama. 1323 01:53:09,720 --> 01:53:12,890 For no particular reason, I just kept on going. 1324 01:53:14,230 --> 01:53:15,820 I ran clear to the ocean. 1325 01:53:21,690 --> 01:53:24,860 And when I got there, I figured since I'd gone this far, 1326 01:53:25,400 --> 01:53:28,240 might as well turn around and just keep on going. 1327 01:53:31,990 --> 01:53:36,580 And when I got to another ocean, I figured since I'd gone this far, 1328 01:53:38,380 --> 01:53:42,090 I might as well just turn back and keep right on going. 1329 01:53:43,260 --> 01:53:48,100 When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. 1330 01:53:48,180 --> 01:53:51,230 When I had to go, you know... 1331 01:53:52,850 --> 01:53:54,020 I went. 1332 01:53:54,100 --> 01:53:57,100 And so, you just ran. 1333 01:53:58,850 --> 01:53:59,940 Yeah. 1334 01:54:35,220 --> 01:54:40,480 I'd think a lot about Mama and Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. 1335 01:54:41,480 --> 01:54:44,980 But most of all, I thought about Jenny. 1336 01:54:46,070 --> 01:54:48,240 I thought about her a lot. 1337 01:54:48,990 --> 01:54:52,080 For more than two years now, a man named Forrest Gump, 1338 01:54:52,160 --> 01:54:55,580 a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, stopping only to sleep, 1339 01:54:55,660 --> 01:54:57,830 has been running across America. 1340 01:54:57,910 --> 01:54:59,910 Charles Cooper brings us this report. 1341 01:55:00,830 --> 01:55:03,250 For the fourth time on his journey across America, 1342 01:55:03,340 --> 01:55:06,180 Forrest Gump, the gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, 1343 01:55:06,300 --> 01:55:09,180 is about to cross the Mississippi River again today. 1344 01:55:09,800 --> 01:55:11,840 - I'll be damned. Forrest? - Sir, why are you running? 1345 01:55:11,930 --> 01:55:13,020 Why are you running? 1346 01:55:13,100 --> 01:55:14,690 Are you doing this for world peace? 1347 01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:16,100 Are you doing this for the homeless? 1348 01:55:16,180 --> 01:55:19,180 - Are you running for women's rights? - Or for the environment? 1349 01:55:19,270 --> 01:55:20,270 Or for animals? 1350 01:55:20,350 --> 01:55:23,270 They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running 1351 01:55:23,360 --> 01:55:24,740 for no particular reason. 1352 01:55:24,820 --> 01:55:26,780 Why are you doing this? 1353 01:55:26,860 --> 01:55:29,360 I just felt like running. 1354 01:55:29,490 --> 01:55:31,870 I just felt like running. 1355 01:55:31,990 --> 01:55:35,200 It's you. I can't believe it's really you. 1356 01:55:36,040 --> 01:55:41,170 Now, for some reason, what I was doing seemed to make sense to people. 1357 01:55:41,330 --> 01:55:43,460 I mean, it was like an alarm went off in my head, you know? 1358 01:55:43,540 --> 01:55:45,380 I said, "Here's a guy that's got his act together. 1359 01:55:45,500 --> 01:55:47,460 "Here's somebody who's got it all figured out. 1360 01:55:47,550 --> 01:55:51,640 "Here's somebody who has the answer." I'll follow you anywhere, Mr. Gump. 1361 01:55:51,720 --> 01:55:53,560 So, I got company. 1362 01:55:55,390 --> 01:56:01,230 And after that, I got more company. And then, even more people joined in. 1363 01:56:03,690 --> 01:56:06,900 Somebody later told me it gave people hope. 1364 01:56:08,690 --> 01:56:12,070 Now... Now, I don't know anything about that, 1365 01:56:12,910 --> 01:56:15,500 but some of those people asked me if I could help them out. 1366 01:56:15,700 --> 01:56:18,950 Hey, man, hey, listen, I was wondering if you might help me, huh? 1367 01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:20,790 Listen, I'm in the bumper sticker business 1368 01:56:20,870 --> 01:56:22,620 and I've been trying to think up a good slogan. 1369 01:56:22,710 --> 01:56:25,840 And since you have been such a big inspiration to the people around here, 1370 01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:27,840 I thought you might be able to help me jump into... 1371 01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:31,550 Whoa, man! You just ran through a big pile of dog shit! 1372 01:56:33,090 --> 01:56:35,760 - It happens. - What, shit? 1373 01:56:37,260 --> 01:56:39,220 Sometimes. 1374 01:56:41,100 --> 01:56:43,770 And some years later, I heard that that fellow 1375 01:56:43,850 --> 01:56:45,690 did come up with a bumper sticker slogan, 1376 01:56:45,770 --> 01:56:48,770 and he made a lot of money off of it. 1377 01:56:50,230 --> 01:56:52,440 Another time, I was running along, 1378 01:56:52,570 --> 01:56:55,870 somebody who had lost all his money in the T-shirt business, 1379 01:56:55,950 --> 01:56:57,990 he wanted to put my face on a T-shirt, 1380 01:56:58,080 --> 01:57:01,040 but he couldn't draw that well, and he didn't have a camera. 1381 01:57:01,120 --> 01:57:04,620 Here, use this one. Nobody likes that color anyway. 1382 01:57:09,460 --> 01:57:11,130 Have a nice day. 1383 01:57:12,760 --> 01:57:13,890 Well, some years later, 1384 01:57:13,970 --> 01:57:17,890 I found out that that man did come up with an idea for a T-shirt. 1385 01:57:17,970 --> 01:57:20,350 He made a lot of money off of it. 1386 01:57:23,140 --> 01:57:27,560 Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company. 1387 01:57:28,810 --> 01:57:29,980 My mama always said, 1388 01:57:30,070 --> 01:57:34,490 "You got to put the past behind you before you can move on." 1389 01:57:36,160 --> 01:57:39,500 And I think that's what my running was all about. 1390 01:57:40,330 --> 01:57:44,330 I had run for three years, two months, 1391 01:57:44,580 --> 01:57:46,920 14 days and 16 hours. 1392 01:58:02,600 --> 01:58:04,940 Quiet. Quiet. He's going to say something. 1393 01:58:16,360 --> 01:58:18,110 I'm pretty tired. 1394 01:58:20,950 --> 01:58:22,990 Think I'll go home now. 1395 01:58:41,550 --> 01:58:44,010 Now what are we supposed to do? 1396 01:58:44,970 --> 01:58:49,230 And just like that, my running days was over. 1397 01:58:51,190 --> 01:58:52,940 So, I went home to Alabama. 1398 01:58:53,730 --> 01:58:57,610 Moments ago, at 2:25 p.m., as President Reagan was leaving the... 1399 01:58:59,660 --> 01:59:03,830 ...five or six gunshots were fired by an unknown would-be assassin. 1400 01:59:04,330 --> 01:59:06,670 The President was shot in the chest, and the assailant... 1401 01:59:06,750 --> 01:59:08,710 I picked up the mail. 1402 01:59:09,500 --> 01:59:13,340 And one day, out of the blue clear sky, I got a letter from Jenny, 1403 01:59:13,420 --> 01:59:17,680 wondering if I could come down to Savannah and see her, 1404 01:59:17,760 --> 01:59:20,350 and that's what I'm doing here. 1405 01:59:20,430 --> 01:59:23,020 She saw me on TV, running. 1406 01:59:23,100 --> 01:59:27,350 I'm supposed to go on the number nine bus to Richmond Street 1407 01:59:27,430 --> 01:59:34,350 and get off and go one block left to 1947 Henry Street, Apartment 4. 1408 01:59:34,440 --> 01:59:38,110 Why, you don't need to take a bus. 1409 01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:42,790 Henry Street is just five or six blocks down that way. 1410 01:59:44,620 --> 01:59:46,960 - Down that way? - Down that way. 1411 01:59:49,960 --> 01:59:51,880 It was nice talking to you. 1412 01:59:53,170 --> 01:59:55,800 I hope everything works out for you! 1413 02:00:03,300 --> 02:00:04,970 Hey! 1414 02:00:05,390 --> 02:00:07,060 Forrest! 1415 02:00:07,310 --> 02:00:10,560 How you doing? Come in, come in! 1416 02:00:10,640 --> 02:00:11,850 I got your letter. 1417 02:00:11,940 --> 02:00:14,570 I was wondering about that. 1418 02:00:16,110 --> 02:00:17,900 Is this your house? 1419 02:00:17,980 --> 02:00:21,070 Yeah. It's messy right now. I just got off work. 1420 02:00:21,150 --> 02:00:24,860 It's nice. You got air conditioning. 1421 02:00:31,750 --> 02:00:33,790 - Thank you. - I ate some. 1422 02:00:36,590 --> 02:00:42,010 Hey, I kept a scrapbook of your clippings and everything. 1423 02:00:42,130 --> 02:00:43,760 There you are. 1424 02:00:45,340 --> 02:00:46,720 And this, I got you running. 1425 02:00:49,680 --> 02:00:51,850 I ran a long way, 1426 02:00:52,350 --> 02:00:54,190 for a long time. 1427 02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:57,900 And there... 1428 02:01:04,400 --> 02:01:07,860 Listen, Forrest, I don't know how to say this. 1429 02:01:10,370 --> 02:01:14,710 I just I want to apologize for anything that I ever did to you, 1430 02:01:14,830 --> 02:01:20,090 'cause I was messed up for a long time, and... 1431 02:01:21,760 --> 02:01:22,760 Yoo-hoo! 1432 02:01:22,880 --> 02:01:24,510 - Hey. - Hi. 1433 02:01:24,720 --> 02:01:25,720 Hey, you. 1434 02:01:26,890 --> 02:01:29,850 - This is an old friend from Alabama. - How do you do? 1435 02:01:29,930 --> 02:01:33,020 Listen, next week my schedule changes, so I'll be able to... But thanks... 1436 02:01:33,100 --> 02:01:35,140 No problem. Got to go, Jen, I'm double-parked. 1437 02:01:35,230 --> 02:01:37,110 - Okay. Thanks. - Bye. 1438 02:01:40,570 --> 02:01:43,320 This is my very good friend, Mr. Gump. Can you say hi to him? 1439 02:01:43,400 --> 02:01:46,490 - Hello, Mr. Gump. - Hello. 1440 02:01:46,570 --> 02:01:49,570 - Can I go watch TV now? - Yes, you can. Just keep it low. 1441 02:01:52,410 --> 02:01:55,750 - You're a mama, Jenny. - I'm a mama. 1442 02:01:58,630 --> 02:02:00,470 His name's Forrest. 1443 02:02:01,590 --> 02:02:02,930 Like me. 1444 02:02:04,550 --> 02:02:06,680 I named him after his daddy. 1445 02:02:07,630 --> 02:02:10,090 He got a daddy named Forrest, too? 1446 02:02:11,390 --> 02:02:13,430 You're his daddy, Forrest. 1447 02:02:27,900 --> 02:02:29,110 Hey. 1448 02:02:30,280 --> 02:02:33,160 Forrest, look at me. Look at me, Forrest. 1449 02:02:35,750 --> 02:02:39,880 There's nothing you need to do, okay? You didn't do anything wrong. 1450 02:02:40,420 --> 02:02:41,800 Okay? 1451 02:02:46,130 --> 02:02:48,010 Isn't he beautiful? 1452 02:02:49,010 --> 02:02:51,970 He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. 1453 02:02:55,770 --> 02:02:56,850 But... 1454 02:03:00,520 --> 02:03:03,400 Is he smart, or... 1455 02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:07,480 He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class. 1456 02:03:16,830 --> 02:03:19,290 Yeah, it's okay. Go talk to him. 1457 02:03:28,630 --> 02:03:31,470 - What are you watching? - Bert and Ernie. 1458 02:03:54,570 --> 02:03:56,360 Forrest, 1459 02:03:57,830 --> 02:03:59,370 I'm sick. 1460 02:04:02,040 --> 02:04:05,670 What, do you have a cough due to a cold? 1461 02:04:05,750 --> 02:04:08,130 I have some kind of virus, 1462 02:04:08,210 --> 02:04:10,920 and the doctors don't... They don't know what it is, 1463 02:04:11,050 --> 02:04:14,050 and there isn't anything they can do about it. 1464 02:04:18,430 --> 02:04:20,720 You could come home with me. 1465 02:04:22,390 --> 02:04:28,060 Jenny, you and little Forrest could come stay at my house in Greenbow. 1466 02:04:32,400 --> 02:04:35,190 I'll take care of you if you're sick. 1467 02:04:37,580 --> 02:04:39,870 Would you marry me, Forrest? 1468 02:04:45,130 --> 02:04:46,380 Okay. 1469 02:04:47,420 --> 02:04:49,090 Please take your seats. 1470 02:04:52,920 --> 02:04:55,260 Forrest? It's time to start. 1471 02:05:14,650 --> 02:05:16,240 Hi. 1472 02:05:17,120 --> 02:05:18,620 Your tie. 1473 02:05:31,170 --> 02:05:32,800 Lieutenant Dan. 1474 02:05:48,150 --> 02:05:50,110 Lieutenant Dan. 1475 02:05:50,940 --> 02:05:52,610 Hello, Forrest. 1476 02:05:53,280 --> 02:05:55,950 You got new legs. New legs! 1477 02:05:57,160 --> 02:06:00,960 Yeah. I got new legs. Custom-made. 1478 02:06:01,660 --> 02:06:05,660 Titanium alloy. It's what they use on the space shuttle. 1479 02:06:09,500 --> 02:06:11,000 Magic legs. 1480 02:06:13,000 --> 02:06:17,380 This is my fiancée, Susan. 1481 02:06:20,180 --> 02:06:23,560 - Lieutenant Dan. - Hi, Forrest. 1482 02:06:25,640 --> 02:06:28,850 Lieutenant Dan, this is my Jenny. 1483 02:06:29,230 --> 02:06:32,230 Hey. It's nice to meet you finally. 1484 02:06:42,370 --> 02:06:46,540 Do you, Forrest, take Jenny to be your wife? 1485 02:06:48,420 --> 02:06:52,670 Do you, Jenny, take Forrest to be your husband? 1486 02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:57,380 And so I pronounce you man and wife. 1487 02:07:28,250 --> 02:07:30,130 - Hey. - Hey. 1488 02:07:43,800 --> 02:07:45,590 Hey, Forrest. 1489 02:07:50,940 --> 02:07:52,730 Were you scared in Vietnam? 1490 02:07:54,400 --> 02:07:56,740 Yes. Well, I... 1491 02:07:58,070 --> 02:07:59,780 I don't know. 1492 02:08:00,490 --> 02:08:05,450 Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out. 1493 02:08:08,580 --> 02:08:10,620 And then it was nice. 1494 02:08:14,000 --> 02:08:17,960 It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. 1495 02:08:19,260 --> 02:08:23,140 There was always a million sparkles on the water. 1496 02:08:24,930 --> 02:08:28,850 Like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, 1497 02:08:28,970 --> 02:08:33,560 it looked like there were two skies, one on top of the other. 1498 02:08:36,110 --> 02:08:39,150 And then, in the desert, when the sun comes up, 1499 02:08:41,610 --> 02:08:45,780 I couldn't tell where heaven stopped 1500 02:08:46,320 --> 02:08:48,700 and the earth began. 1501 02:08:49,950 --> 02:08:51,830 It was so beautiful. 1502 02:08:56,540 --> 02:08:59,630 I wish I could've been there with you. 1503 02:09:02,720 --> 02:09:04,140 You were. 1504 02:09:14,850 --> 02:09:16,310 I love you. 1505 02:09:20,690 --> 02:09:24,030 You died on a Saturday morning. 1506 02:09:25,740 --> 02:09:29,490 And I had you placed here under our tree. 1507 02:09:34,370 --> 02:09:39,210 And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. 1508 02:09:43,340 --> 02:09:45,010 Mama 1509 02:09:46,090 --> 02:09:51,100 always said that dying was a part of life. 1510 02:09:54,520 --> 02:09:56,860 I sure wish it wasn't. 1511 02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:03,270 Little Forrest is doing just fine. 1512 02:10:04,610 --> 02:10:05,690 But... 1513 02:10:05,950 --> 02:10:08,620 About to start school again soon, 1514 02:10:10,450 --> 02:10:14,250 and I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. 1515 02:10:16,410 --> 02:10:22,420 I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. 1516 02:10:25,550 --> 02:10:28,140 Teaching him how to play Ping-Pong. 1517 02:10:29,430 --> 02:10:30,470 Okay. 1518 02:10:30,720 --> 02:10:31,890 He's really good. 1519 02:10:31,970 --> 02:10:34,100 Forrest, you go. 1520 02:10:38,310 --> 02:10:39,900 We fish a lot. 1521 02:10:43,440 --> 02:10:46,900 And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. 1522 02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:52,410 You'd be so proud of him. 1523 02:10:54,120 --> 02:10:55,580 I am. 1524 02:10:56,620 --> 02:10:59,830 He wrote you a letter. 1525 02:11:01,420 --> 02:11:03,460 And he says I can't read it. 1526 02:11:03,590 --> 02:11:07,140 I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. 1527 02:11:23,190 --> 02:11:24,530 Jenny, 1528 02:11:30,320 --> 02:11:33,530 I don't know if Mama was right, 1529 02:11:34,870 --> 02:11:36,370 or if it's Lieutenant Dan. 1530 02:11:36,490 --> 02:11:39,080 I don't know 1531 02:11:39,160 --> 02:11:43,670 if we each have a destiny, 1532 02:11:45,710 --> 02:11:50,840 or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. 1533 02:11:55,350 --> 02:11:57,190 But I think 1534 02:11:59,060 --> 02:12:00,850 maybe it's both. 1535 02:12:05,190 --> 02:12:08,070 Maybe both is happening at the same time. 1536 02:12:14,200 --> 02:12:16,200 But I miss you, Jenny. 1537 02:12:22,580 --> 02:12:27,000 If there's anything you need, I won't be far away. 1538 02:13:02,290 --> 02:13:05,250 Here's your bus. Okay. 1539 02:13:06,920 --> 02:13:10,260 Hey. I know this. 1540 02:13:10,380 --> 02:13:13,260 I'm gonna show that for show-and-tell because 1541 02:13:13,380 --> 02:13:16,050 Grandma used to read it to you. 1542 02:13:16,140 --> 02:13:18,270 My favorite book. 1543 02:13:21,600 --> 02:13:23,100 Here we are. 1544 02:13:23,270 --> 02:13:24,730 Okay. 1545 02:13:26,440 --> 02:13:27,940 Here you go. 1546 02:13:32,820 --> 02:13:35,320 Hey, Forrest, don't... 1547 02:13:38,780 --> 02:13:42,490 - I wanted to tell you, I love you. - I love you, too, Daddy. 1548 02:13:44,500 --> 02:13:47,290 I'll be right here when you get back. 1549 02:13:51,840 --> 02:13:55,090 You understand this is the bus to school, now, don't you? 1550 02:13:55,170 --> 02:13:58,720 Of course, and you are Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump.