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Forrest Gump
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EXT. A SAVANNAH STREET -
DAY - 1981
A feather floats through
the air.
The falling feather. A city,
Savannah, is revealed in the background.
The feather floats down toward the
city below.
The feather drops down
toward the street below, as people walk past and
cars drive by, and nearly lands on a
man's shoulder. He walks across the
street, causing the feather to be whisked back on
its journey.
The feather floats above
a stopped car. The car drives off right as the
feather floats down toward the street.
The feather floats under a passing
car, then is sent flying back up in
the air.
A MAN sits on a bus bench.
The feather floats above the ground and
finally lands on the man's mud-soaked
shoe. The man reached down and
picks
up the feather.
His name is FORREST
GUMP. He looks at the feather oddly, moves aside a
box of chocolates from an old
suitcase, then opens the case. Inside the
old suitcase are an assortment of
clothes, a ping-pong paddle, toothpaste
and other personal items. Forrest
pulls out a book titled
George,
suitcase. Something in his eyes
reveals that Forrest may not be all
there. Forrest looks right as the sound of an
arriving bus is heard.
A bus pulls up.
Forrest remains on the bus bench as the bus
continues on.
A BLACK WOMAN in a
nurse's outfit steps up and sits down at the bus
bench
next to Forrest. The nurse
begins to read a magazine as Forrest looks at
her.
Forrest: Hello.
My name's Forrest Gump.
He opens a box
of chocolates and holds it out for the nurse.
Forrest: You want a chocolate?
The nurse shakes her head, a bit
apprehensive about this strange man next
to her.
Forrest: I
could eat about a million and a half of these. My
momma
always said,
know what you're gonna
get.
Forrest eats a chocolate as he
looks down at the nurse's shoes.
Forrest: Those must be comfortable shoes. I'll bet
you could walk
all day
in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I
had shoes like that.
Black Woman: My feet hurt.
Forrest: Momma always says
there's an awful lot you could tell
about a person by their shoes. Where they're
going. Where
they've
been.
The black woman stares at
Forrest as he looks down at his own shoes.
Forrest: I've worn lots of
shoes. I bet if I think about it real
hard I could remember my first pair of shoes.
Forrest closes his eyes tightly.
Forrest: Momma said they'd take
my anywhere.
INT. COUNTRY DOCTOR'S
OFFICE - GREENBOW, ALABAMA - DAY - 1951
A little boy closes his eyes tightly.
It is young Forrest as he sits in a
doctor's office.
Forrest:
(voice-over) She said they was my magic shoes.
Forrest has been fitted with
orthopedic shoes and metal leg braces.
Doctor: All right, Forrest, you
can open your eyes now. Let's take
a little walk around.
The
doctor sets Forrest down on its feet. Forrest
walks around stiffly.
Forrest's
mother, MRS. GUMP, watches him as he clanks around
the room
awkwardly.
Doctor: How do those feel? His legs are strong,
Mrs. Gump. As
strong as
I've ever seen. But his back is as crooked as a
politician.
Forrest walks foreground past the doctor and Mrs.
Gump.
Doctor: But we're gonna
straighten him rihgt up now, won't we,
Forrest?
A loud thud is heard as,
outside, Forrest falls.
Mrs. Gump:
Forest!
EXT. GREENBOW, ALABAMA
Mrs. Gump and young Forrest walk
across the street. Forrest walks stiffly
next to his mother.
Forrest: Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me
after the great
Civil
War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest...
EXT. RURAL ALABAMA
A black
and white photo of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The photo
turns into live action as
the General dons a hooded sheet over his head.
The General is in full Ku Klux Klan
garb, including his horse. The
General
rides off, followed by a large group of Klan
members dressed in
full uniform.
Forrest: (voice-over) She said
we was related to him in some way.
And, what he did was, he started up this club
called the
Ku Klux
Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their
bedsheets and act like
a bunch of ghosts or spooks or
something. They'd even put bedsheets on their
horses and
ride around.
And anyway, that's how I got my name. Forrest
Gump.
EXT.
GREENBOW
Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk
across the street.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Momma said that the Forrest part was
to
remind me that
sometimes we all do things that, well, just
don't make no sense.
Forrest stops suddenly as his brace
gets stuck.
Forrest's brace is caught
in a gutter grate. Mrs. Gump bends down and
tries to free Forrest. Two old cronies
sit in front of a barber shop and
watch.
Mrs. Gump: Just wait, let
me get it.
Mrs. Gump struggles to pull
the stuck brace from the grate.
Mrs. Gump: Let me get it. Wait, get it this way.
Hold on.
Forrest pulls his foot out of
the grate.
Mrs. Gump: All right.
Mrs. Gump helps Forrest up onto the
sidewalk. She looks up and notices
the
two old man.
Mrs. Gump: Oooh. All
right. What are you all staring at? Haven't you
ever seen a little boy
with braces on his legs before?
Mrs.
Gump and Forrest walk along the sidwalk past the
two old men. Mrs.
Gump holds tightly
onto Forrest's hand.
Mrs. Gump:
Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better
than you,
Forrest. If
God intended everybody to be the same, he'd
have given us all
braces on our legs.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Momma always had a way of explaining
things
so I could
understand them.
EXT. OAK ALLEY/THE
GUMP BOARDING HOUSE
Mrs. Gump and
Forrest walk along a dirt road. A row of mailboxes
stands
left.
Forrest: (voice-over) We lived about a quarter
mile of Route 17,
about
a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama.
That's in the county of
Greenbow. Our house had been in
Momma's family since her grandpa's grandpa's
grandpa had
come across
the ocean about a thousand years ago.
Something like that.
Mrs. Gump and
Forrest walk along the Gump Boarding House
driveway.
Forrest: (voice-over)
Since it was just me and Momma and we had all
these empty rooms,
Momma decided to let those rooms out.
Mostly to people passing through. Like from, oh,
Mobile,
Montgomery,
place like that. That's how me and Mommy got
money. Mommy was a real
smart lady.
Mrs. Gump: Remember
what I told you, Forrest. You're no different
than anybody else is.
Mrs. Gump heads Forrest to the porch.
She bends down to look Forrest in
the
eye.
Mrs. Gump: Did you hear what
I said, Forrest? You're the same as
everybody else. You are no different.
INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE - DAY
- 1954
Principal: Your boy's...
different, Mrs. Gump. Now, his I.Q. is
seventy-five.
Mrs. Gump: Well,
we're all different, Mr. Hancock.
The
principal sighs, then stands up.
INT.
HALLWAY
Forrest sits outside the
principal's office and waits.
Forrest: (voice-over) She wanted me to have the
finest education,
so
she took me to the Greenbow County Central School.
I
met the principal and
all.
The principal stands in front of
Mrs. Gump. Forrest, sitting left,
listens.
Principal: I want to show
you something, Mrs. Gump. Now, this is
normal.
The principal holds up a chart
with a designations according to I.Q. and
points to the center of the graph,
labeled
normal area is labeled
section below the acceptance line
labeled
Principal: Forrest is
right here. The state requires a minimum I.Q.
of eighty to attend
public school, Mrs. Gump. He's gonna
have to go to a special school. Now, he'll be just
fine.
Mrs. Gump: What does normal
mean, anyway? He might be a bit on the
slow side, but my boy Forrest is going to get the
same
opportunities as
everyone else. He's not going to some
special school to learn to how to re-tread tires.
We're
talking about
five little points here. There must be
something can be done.
INT. HALLWAY
Forrest sits outside the principal's
office.
Principal: We're a
progressive school system. We don't want to see
anybody left behind.
INT. PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
Principal: Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump?
Mrs. Gump: He's on vacation.
EXT. GUMP BOARDING HOUSE - NIGHT
Forrest sits on a swing outside the
house. Loud organic male grunts are
heard coming from inside the house.
Forrest sits on the swing as the grunts continue.
The principal steps out of the Gump
House and wipes the sweat from his
face. Forrest is sitting on the porch.
Principal: Well, your momma sure does care about
your schooling, son.
Mm-mm-mm.
The principal wipes the
sweat from his neck, then looks back at Forrest.
Principal: You don't say much, do
you?
Forrest grunts, imitating him.
The principal, embarrassed, turns and
walks away.
INT. GUMP BOARDING
HOUSE/FORREST'S BEDROOM
Mrs. Gump
reads from the book
and listens.
Mrs. Gump:
happened. First there...
Forrest:
Momma, what's vacation mean?
Mrs.
Gump: Vacation?
Forrest: Where
Daddy went?
Mrs. Gump: Vacation's
when you go somewhere, and you don't ever come
back.
Forrest lies down on his bed and looks up.
Forrest: (voice-over) Anyway, I
guess you could say me and Momma
was on our own.
EXT. GUMP BOARDING
HOUSE - DAY
A cab driver closes the
trunk of the car as two women walk toward the
house. A milkman steps down from the
porch.
Forrest: (voice-over) But
we didn't mind. Our house was never
empty. There was always folks comin' and goin'.
Mrs. Gump: (voice-over) Suppa.
INT. GUMP BOARDING HOUSE
Mrs. Gump steps forward and speaks to all the
boarders.
Mrs. Gump: It's suppa,
everyone. Forrest...
A MAN WITH A CANE
steps left across the hall.
Man With
Cane: My, my. That sure looks special.
Mrs. Gump looks into a sitting room and informs
the boarders about
dinner.
Mrs. Gump: Gentlemen, would you care to join us
for supper? Hurry up
and get it before the flies do. I prefer you don't
smoke
that cigar so
close to mealtime.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Sometimes we had so many people
stayin' with
us that
every room was filled with travelers. You know,
folks livin' out of
their suitcases, and hat cases, and
sample cases.
Mrs. Gump: Well, you
go ahead and start. I cant find Forrest.
Mrs. Gump walks up the stairs.
Mrs. Gump: Forrest... Forrest...
Forrest: (voice-over) One time a
young man was staying with us, and
he had him a guitar case.
Mrs. Gump
looks into Forrest's room. She hears singing
coming from
another room and walks
over to a closed door. Mrs. Gump opens the door,
revealing a young man with long
sideburns as he plays the guitar and
sings. Forrest holds onto a broom and dances
oddly. The young man is
ELVIS PRESLEY.
Elvis Presley: (sings)
ain't no friend of mine.
Forrest's legs
rock back and forth to the guitar.
Mrs. Gump: Forrest! I told you not to bother this
nice young man.
Elvis: Oh, no,
that's all right, ma'am. I was just showin' him a
thing or two on the
guitar here.
Mrs. Gump: All right,
but your supper's ready if y'all want to eat.
Elvis: Yeah, that sounds good.
Thank you, ma'am.
Mrs. Gump leaves and
closes the door. Elvis sits back down. Forrest
stands left, and looks himself in a
mirror.
Elvis: Say, man, show
me that crazy little walk you just did
there. Slow it down some.
Forrest
begins to dance again as Elvis plays the guitar
and sings.
Elvis: (sings)
Forrest: (voice-over) I liked
that guitar.
Forrest dances as he
watches himself in the mirror.
Forrest: (voice-over) It sounded good.
Elvis: (sings)
Forrest rocks up and
down on his braced legs, then begins to step.
Elvis: (sings)
Forrest: (voice-over) I started moving around to
the music,
swinging my
hips. This one night we and Momma...
EXT. GREENBOW - NIGHT
Mrs. Gump and
Forrest walk along a sidewalk. A television inside
a store
window reveals Elvis Presley
as he performs
Forrest: (voice-
over) ...was out shoppin', and we walked right by
Benson's Furniture and
Appliance store, and guess what.
The
television reveals Elvis as he thrusts his hips
and sings.
Elvis: (sings) You
ain't nothin' but a hound dog...
Mrs.
Gump and Forrest watch the television.
Elvis dances around in the same manner Forrest
did. A woman in the
audience screaming
and applauding.
Elvis: (sings)
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog...
Mrs. Gump: This is not children's eyes.
Mrs. Gump walks away, pulling Forrest
with her. Forrest stops and takes
one
last look.
Elvis continues to perform
over the television.
Elvis:
(sings)
ain't no friend
of mine.
Forrest: (voice-over)
Some years later, that handsome young man who
they called
himself a heart attack or something.
EXT. SAVANNAH/BUS BENCH - DAY
Forrest
is still sitting on the bus bench. The black nurse
looks at him.
Forrest: Must be
hard being a king. You know, it's funny how you
remember some things,
but some things you can't.
EXT.
COUNTRY ROAD/ALABAMA - MORNING - 1954
Mrs. Gump and Forrest wait for the school bus. The
bus pulls up as Mrs.
Gump prepares
Forrest for his first day of school.
Mrs. Gump: You do your very best now, Forrest.
Forrest: I sure will, Momma.
Forrest: (voice-over) I remember
the bus ride on the first day of
school very well.
The bus driver opens
the door and looks down. Forrest walks to the
steps
of the bus and looks at the bus
driver. She is smoking a cigarette.
Bus Driver: Are you comin' along?
Forrest: Momma said not to be taking rides from
strangers.
Bus Driver: This is the
bus to school.
Forrest: I'm
Forrest Gump.
Bus Driver: I'm
Dorothy Harris.
Forrest: Well,
now we ain't strangers anymore.
The
bus driver smiles as Forrest steps up into the
bus.
INT. BUS
Forrest
steps up onto the bus. Mrs. Gump waves to Forrest
as the bus
drives away. Forrest begins
to walk down the aisle.
TWO YOUNG BOYS
look up from the seat.
Boy #1:
This seat's taken.
Boy #2: It's
taken!
Forrest looks around. A larger
girl slides over so Forrest can't sit next
to her. She shakes her head. Forrest
looks to the other side where a boy
sits alone on a larger seat. They boy glares up at
Forrest.
Boy #3: You can't sit
here.
Forrest: (voice-over) You
know, it's funny what a young man
recollects. 'Cause I don't remember being born.
EXT. SAVANNAH/BUS BENCH - DAY
Forerst continues talking as he sits
on the bus bench.
Forrest: I,
I... don't recall what I got for my first
Christmas and
I don't
know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But,
I do remember the first
time I heard the sweetiest
voice...
INT. BUS - MORNING (1954)
Young Forrest is still standing in the
aisle on the bus.
Forrest:
(voice-over) ... in the wide world.
Girl: You can sit here if you want.
Forrest looks back at JENNY CURRAN, a young girl
about Forrest's age.
Forrest:
(voice-over) I had never seen anything so
beautiful in my
life.
She was like an angel.
Jenny:
Well, are you gonna sit down, or aren't ya?
Forrest sits down next to Jenny.
Jenny: What's wrong with your
legs?
Forrest: Um, nothing at
all, thank you. My legs are just fine and
dandy.
Forrest: (voice-over) I just sat next to her on
that bus and had
conversation all the way to school.
Jenny: Then why do you have those shoes on?
Forrest: My momma said my back's
crooked like a question mark.
These are going to make me as straight as an
arrow.
They're my magic
shoes.
Forrest: (voice-over) And
next to Momma, no one ever talked to me
or asked me questions.
Jenny: Are you stupid or
something.
Forrest: Mommy says
stupid is as stupid does.
Jenny puts
her hand out toward Forrest. Forrest reaches over
and shakes
her hand.
Jenny: I'm Jenny.
Forrest: I'm
Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump.
Forrest: (voice-over) From that day on, we was
always together.
Jenny
and me was like peas and carrots.
EXT.
OAK TREE - DAY
Young Jenny and Forrest
run toward a large oak tree.
Forrest: (voice-over) She taught me how to
climb...
Jenny sits on a large branch
and calls down to Forrest.
Jenny: Come on, Forrest, you can do it.
Forrest dangles from the branch.
Forrest: (voice-over) ... I
showed her how to dangle.
Jenny and
Forrest sit on a tree branch and read.
Forrest:
Forrest: (voice-over)
She helped me to learn how to read.
Forrest hangs upside down from a branch and swings
back and forth.
Forrest's braces are
wedged in the tree.
Forrest:
(voice-over) And I showed her to swing.
Night. Th silhouete of the oak tree,
Jenny and Forrest as they sit on a
branch.
Forrest: (voice-over)
Sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for thhe
stars.
Forrest: Momma's gonna worry about me.
Jenny puts her hand on Forrest's hand.
Jenny: Just stay a little longer.
Forrest: (voice-over) For some reason, Jenny
didn't never want to
go
home.
Forrest: Okay, Jenny. I'll
stay.
Forrest: (voice-over) She
was my most special friend.
INT.
SAVANNAH/BUS STOP - DAY
Forrest nods
as he remembers.
Forrest: My
only friend.
Forrest continues talking
to the black woman. She doesn't s eem to be
listening as she reads her magazine.
She looks up from her magazine.
Forrest: Now, my Momma always told me that
miracles happen every
day. Some people don't think so, but they do.
EXT. OAK ALLEY - ANOTHER DAY (1954)
Jenny and Forrest walk. A dirt clod
hits Forrest in the back of the head.
Jenny looks as Forrest rubs his head.
THREE YOUNG BOYS get off their bikes and pick up
more rocks.
Boy #1: Hey...
dummy!
Forrest is hit in the eye with
another dirt clod. Forrest falls backward
onto the ground as the boys glare at
him.
Boy #2: Are you retarded,
or just plain stupid?
Boy #3:
Look, I'm Forrest Grum.
Jenny helps
Forrest back up. Boy #1 and Boy #2 throw more dirt
clods at
Forrest.
Jenny: Just run away, Forrest.
Another
dirt clod hits Forrest in the arm.
Jenny: Run, Forrest!
Forrest tries to
run along the road, but his braces makes it
impossible.
He hobbles along as Jenny
yells after him.
Jenny: Run
away! Hurry!
Boy #1 and Boy #2 turn
back toward the bikes.
Boy #2:
Get the bikes!
Boy #3: Hurry
up!
The boys pick up their bikes and
ride after Forrest.
Boy #3:
Let's get him! Come on!
Boy #2:
Look out, dummy, here we come!
The
boys ride after Forrest. Jenny stands and watches.
Boy #2: We're gonna get you!
Jenny: Run, Forrest! Run!
Forrest hobbles along the dirt road.
Jenny: Run, Forrest!
Forrest looks over his shoulder. The
three boys race on their bikes.
Boy #1: Come back here, you!
Forrest
begins to run faster with his braces on.
Forrest continues running as the boys
chase him. Blood drips down from a
cut
on his head.
The boys on the bikes are
gaining on Forrest. Forrest hobbles along. He
begins to gain speed.
Jenny: Run, Forrest! Run!
Slow motion
-- Forrest runs from the chasing room. He looks
over his
shoulder in fear.
The boys on the bikes peddle faster as they gain
on Forrest, running.
Forrest tries to
run even faster to get away. Suddenly his braces
shatter, sending steel and plastic
flying into the air.
Forrest runs and
look down at his legs in surprise.
Forrest continures to run faster as the mtal
breaces and straps fly off
his legs.
Forrest runs free of his braces and
begins to pick up speed.
The chasing
boys ride over the remains of Forrest's braces.
Forrest: (voice-over) Now, you
wouldn't believe it if I told you.
EXT. SAVANNAH/ BUS BENCH - DAY
Forrest: But I can run like the wind blows.
The black woman continues to read her
magazine. Forrest smiles as he
remembers.
Forrest: From that
day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running!
EXT. OAK ALLEY - DAY (1954)
Forrest sprints away from the boys.
The boys stop the chase and watch in
disbelief. Forrest is already at the far end of
the road, clear of the
chasing boys.
Boy #2: He's gettin' away! Stop
him!
Boy #1 throws his bike down in
frustration. Forrest runs across a field.
EXT. COUNTRY ROAD
Forrest
runs past a chain gang in their prison uniforms.
They are cutting
at the weeds on the
side of the road.
EXT. GREENBOW
Forrest runs across the street. THE
TWO OLD MEN sit in front of the
barber
shop.
Old Crony: That boy sure is
a running fool.
EXT. JENNY'S HOUSE
Forrest runs down a driveway toward
Jenny's small house.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Now remember how I told you that
Jenny never
seemed to
want to go home? Well, she lived in a house that
was as old as Alabama.
Her Momma had gone up to heaven
when she was five and her daddy was some kind of a
farmer.
Forrest knocks on Jenny's
door.
Forrest: Jenny? Jenny?
Forrest look around the field at the
left. He notices Jenny and runs
toward
her.
Forrest: (voice-over) He
was a very lovin' man. He was always
kissing and touchin' her and her sisters. And then
this
one time, Jenny
wasn't on the bus to go to school.
Forrest runs to Jenny.
Forrest:
Jenny, why didn't you come to school today?
Jenny: Shh! Daddy's takin' a
nap.
Jenny grabs Forrest's hand and
runs into the field. Jenny's DAD drunk,
steps out onto the porch and shouts.
Jenny's Dad: Jenny!
Jenny: Come on!
Jenny's Dad: Jenny,
where'd you run to? You'd better go back here,
girl!
Jenny's dad steps out toward the field. Jenny
leads Forrest into the
thick tobacco
field.
Jenny's dad runs through the
field searching for Jenny with a liquor
bottle in his hand.
Jenny's Dad: Where you at?
Jenny and
Forrest run into a corn field as Jenny's dad tries
to chase
her.
Jenny's
Dad: Jenny! Jenny! Where you at? Jenny!
Jenny drops to her knees and pulls
Forrest down with her.
Jenny:
Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me.
Jenny's Dad: Jenny!
Jenny:
Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far,
far away
from here.
Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far,
far away from here.
Forrest: (voice-over) Momma
always said that God is mysterious.
Jenny's Dad: Jenny! Get back here!
Forrest: (voice-over) He didn't turn Jenny into a
bird that day.
Instead...
EXT. TRAILER PARK/ALABAMA -
DAY (1955)
A police officer escorts
Jenny to her grandmother's trailer. Jenny's
grandmother meets Jenny outside and
leads her toward the trailer.
Forrest: (voice-over) ... he had the police say
Jenny didn't have
to
stay in that house no more. She went to live with
her
grandma just over
on Creekmore Avenue, which made me happy
'cause she was so
close.
EXT. GUMP HOUSE - NIGHT (1955)
Jenny climbs over a second-floor
railing and enters the house.
Forrest: (voice-over) Some nights, Jenny'd sneak
out and come over
to my
house, just 'cause she said she was scared. Scared
of what, I don't
know...
INT. GUMP HOUSE/FORREST'S
BEDROOM
Jenny lies in bed next to
young Forrest. She hugs him.
Forrest: (voice-over) ... but I think it was her
grandma's dog. He
was a
mean dog. Anyway, Jenny and me was best friends...
EXT. GREENBOW/OAK ALLEY - DAY (1961)
Forest and Jenny are teenagers now.
They walk along an oak-lined road.
Forrest: (voice-over) ...all the way to high
school.
Suddenly Forrest
is hit in the back with a rock. Forrest and Jenny
turn
around.
Older Boy #1
: Hey, stupid!
Jenny: Quit it!
A teenage boy throws another rock as a
pickup truck pulls up behind him.
Jenny turns and looks at Forrest.
Jenny: Run, Forrest, run!
Older Boy
#1: Hey. Did you hear me, stupid?
Jenny: Run, Forrest!
Forrest drops his
books and runs down the road.
The
teenage boy jumps into the back of the pickup
truck with another boy
as the truck
speeds after Forrest. Jenny steps left and gets
out of the
way.
Older Boy
#2: Come on, he's getting away! Move it!
Jenny: Run, Forrest! Run!
Older Boy #1: You better be runnin',
stupid.
Forrest runs along the road.
The truck speeds after him.
Older Boy
#2: Come on, dummy!
Older Boy #1:
Haul ass, dummy!
Older Boy throws
rocks at Forrest.
Older Boy #1: Yeah,
you better be runnin'!
INT. TRUCK
Boy: Ya-hoo!
EXT. OAK ALLEY
The boys in the back of
the truck throw rocks at Forrest as they drive up
to him.
Older Boy #1:
Move it, jack rabbit!
The truck
follows right on Forrest's heels. A rebel flag
license plate
adorns the truck's
grill.
Older Boy #1: Come on!
Forrest runs along the road as the
truck chases him. The boys in the back
of the truck pound on the roof as the truck turns
right, after Forrest.
The truck drives
into a field. Forrest runs toward a fence.
Boy: Run! Faster! Yeah! Go!
Go! Come on, Forrest! Yeah!
Jenny: Run, Forrest!
Forrest leaps
over a five-foot fence as the boys try to catch
him.
EXT. SAVANNAH/BUS BENCH - DAY
(1981)
Forrest looks left as he
continues telling his life story.
Forrest: Now, it used to be, I ran to get where I
was goin'. I
never
thought it would take me anywhere.
EXT. HIGH SCHOOL/ROAD - DAY (1961)
Forrest runs along the road in front of the high
school. The truck
continues to chase
him as the boys pound on the roof.
Older Boy: Come on. Whoo-hoo!
The
truck speeds past Forrest as he turns from the
road and runs onto the
high school
football field. Forrest runs across the field
during a
football scrimmage.
In the stands watching the scrimmage
is the legendary University of
Alabama
football coach BEAR BRYANT, wearing his trade mark
plaid hat. A
group of assistant
coaches sit around him, as well as the high shool
football coach.
The
quarterback throws the ball into the air. Forrest
runs past the
quarterback.
The receiver catches the ball. Forrest runs past
the receiver as an
opposing player
tackes the stunned receiver.
The
football coach stands, followed by the assistant
coaches.
Football: Who in the
hell is that?
Coach
High School: That there is Forrest
Gump. Coach. Just a local idiot.
Coach
Forrest runs under the field
goal post and through the end zone.
Forrest: (voice-over) And can you believe it? I
got to go to
college,
too.
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
STADIUM - DAY (1962)
The crowd roars
with excitement as a football is kicked off.
The football players run around on the
field. The crowd of cheering fans
create a huge sign that reads>:
Forrest
is in a University of Alabama football uniform. He
looks up into
the cheering crowd as
his teammate fields the kickoff. The teammate runs
over to Forrest and hands him the
ball.
Football: Okay! Run!
Coach
The football
coach, the assistants, and Alabama players cheer
for
Forrest.
Football: Run, you stupid son-of-a-bitch! Run!
Coach
Forrest runs
across the field. He speeds past the defending
players.
Forrest runs past the
opposite players. The crowd cheers widly, holding
up cards, making a large sign that
reads:
creating the word:
The football coach runs along the sidelines as he
yells.
Football: You stupid son-
of-a-bitch! Run! Go! Run!
Coach
Forrest cuts and runs toward the
sidelines. Two opposing players collide.
The football coach, the assistants and
the players all motion for Forrest
to
run toward the end zone.
Football: Run! Turn! Go!
Coach
Forrest turns up the sidelines and
runs toward the end zone. Some
opposing players fall down.
Forrest
runs along the sidelines. The opposing players try
to catch him.
Forrest runs into the
end zone as an opposing player dives at his feet.
The referee holds up his arm,
singaling a touch down. The crowd cheers
wildly.
Forrest continues
to run, smashing through the band members, then
all the
way toward the team tunnel.
The football coach looks at an
asistant coach.
Football: He must
be the stupidest son-of-a-bitch alive. But he sure
Coach is fast!
Forrest: (voice-over) Now, maybe it was just me
but college was
very
confusing times.
INT. GREENBOW/BARBER
SHOT - BLACK & WHITE TELEVISION (JUNE 11, 1963)
An anchorman named CHET HUNTLEY
appears over the television.
Chet
Huntley: (on TV) Federal troops enforcing a court
order integrated
the
University of Alabama today.
EXT.
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - DAY
Forrest
walks through a crowd of people.
Chet
Huntley : Governor George Wallace had carried out
his symbolic
threat to
stand in the schoolhouse door.
Governor: We hereby denounce and forbid this
illegal and unwarranted
Wallace
action by the central government.
INT.
GREENBOW/BARBER SHOP
A black & white
television reveals George Wallace as he stands in
the
doorway of the schoolhouse.
Katzenbach : (on TV) Governor
Wallace, I take it from that, uh...
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Forrest
steps over to a young man as the crowd looks at
the
demonstration.
Katzenbach : ...statement that you are going to
stand in that door, and
that you are not going to carry out the orders of
this
court, and that
you are going to resist us from doing so.
I would ask you once
again to responsibility step aside
and if you do not, I'm going to assure you...
Forrest : Earl, what's going on?
Earl : Coons are tryin' to get
into school.
Forrest : Coons?
When racoons try to get on our back porch, Momma
just chase 'em off with
a broom.
Earl : Not racoons,
you idiot, niggas. And they want to go to
school with us.
Forrest : With us? They do?
Forrest walks toward the
schoolhouse.
INT. COACHES' OFFICE
A football coach looks at a black and
white television as a newsman
outside
the schoolhouse speaks to the camera.
Newsman : (on TV) ...block the doorway, President
Kennedy ordered
the
Secretary of Defense then to use the military
force.
BLACK AND WHITE FOOTAGE
The footage cuts to Governor Wallace
as he speaks to General Graham.
Newsman : Here by videotape is the encounter by
General Graham,
Commander of the National Guard, and Governor
Wallace.
Forrest stands next to George
Wallace and listens.
Governor: We
must have no violence today, or any other day,
because
Wallace these National
Guardsmen are here today as Federal
Soldiers for Alabamans. And they live within our
borders
and they are
all our brothers. We are winning in this
fight because we are
awakening the American people to the
dangers that we have spoken about so many times,
just so
evident today,
the trend toward military dictatorship in
this country.
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Some of the Alabama policeman and citizens clap
their hands as the
National Guardsmen
stand at attention with their weapons in front of
them. Forrest walks through the crowd.
Two black students were being led
toward the schoolhouse.
Newsman :
And so at day's end the University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa had been
desegregated and students Jimmy Hood
and Vivian Malone had been signed up for summer
classes.
The young black girl drops
one of her books. Forrest notices and steps
past the policeman toward the book on
the ground.
Forrest steps out from the
crowd and picks up the book. He brings it up
to the girl.
Forrest
: Ma'am, you dropped your book. Ma'am.
INT. COACHES' OFFICE - NIGHT (1963)
A
coach looks at the television.
The
television reveals Forrest as he stands at the
schoolhouse door. He
looks around,
then waves.
Chet Huntley : (on TV)
Governor Wallace did what he promised to do. By
being on the Tuscaloosa
campus, he kept the mob from
gathering and prevented violence.
An
assistant coach looks at the television, then at
the other coaches.
Assitant: Say,
wasn't that Gump?
Coach
The football coach and two assistant
coaches look. Forrest dries himself
off with a towel as he steps from the showers.
Chet Huntley : (on TV) NBC News will
present a special program on the
Alabama integration story at 7:30 p.m. tonight...
Assistant: Naw, that couldn't be.
Coach
Football: It sure as hell was.
Coach
Chet Huntley : ...standard
Eastern Daylight Time. Now a word from Anacin.
Forrest steps up to the coaches' area
and grabs a clean towel. The
coaches
turn and stare at Forrest. Forrest gives them one
of his silly
waves, then walks awy.
COLOR FOOTAGE - Governor Wallace waves
to the crowd as he stands behind a
podium with his wife.
Forrest :
(voice-over) A few years later, that angry little
man at
the schoolhouse
door thought it would be a good idea, and
ran for President.
COLOR FOOTAGE - Governor Wallace
mingles in a crowd. Gunshots are fired,
wounding him. Some men wrestle the
shooter. Wallace lies wounded on the
ground.
Forrest : (voice-over)
But, somebody thought that it wasn't.
EXT. SAVANNAH/BUS BENCH - DAY (1981)
Forrest sits on the bench as the black woman looks
at him. A WHITE WOMAN
with a bay sits
left.
Forrest : But he didn't
die.
A bus pulls up to the bus stop.
The BLACK WOMAN looks down at her watch.
Black Woman : My bus is here.
Forrest : Is it the number 9?
Black Woman : No, it's the number 4.
The Black Woman gets up and steps over
to the bus.
Forrest : It was nice
talkin' to you.
The white woman sits
closer to Forrest.
White Woman : I
remember when that happened, when Wallace got
shot. I
was in college.
Forrest : Did you go to a girls'
college, or to a girls' and boys'
together college?
White Woman : It
was co-ed.
Forrest : 'Cause Jenny
went to a college I couldn't go to. It was a
college just for girls.
EXT, GRLS' COLLEGE/JENNY'S DORM -
NIGHT (1963)
Forrest sits outside
Jenny's dorm in the rain.
Forrest
: (voice-over) But, I'd go and visit her every
chance I got.
A car pulls up. A song
is heard from the radio.
Forrest,
holding a box of chocolates, looks at the car.
The two people inside the car begins
to kiss and embrace each other.
Jenny
is inside the car with a boy. She leans back
against the passenger
side door as
they struggle to get comfortable.
Jenny : Ouch! That hurts.
Forrest gets
up and runs toward the car. He tries to look in
the wondow
as he steps over to the
driver's side door. He opens the door and begins
to punch the boy inside. Jenny jump
out of the car and runs over to
Forrest.
Jenny : Forrest!
Forrest! Forrest, stop it! Stop it!
Billy : Jesus!
Jenny : What are
you doing?
Forrest : He was
hurtin' you.
Jenny's date, named
BILLY, gets out of the car angrily.
Billy : What the hell is going on here?
Jenny : No, he's not!
Billy : Who is that? Who is
that?
Jenny : Get over there!
Jenny turns and looks at Billy. He
shoves Jenny's hands away from him.
Jenny : Billy, I'm sorry.
Billy
: What in the hell, git, would you git away from
me!
Jenny : Don't... Wait a
second!
Billy : Git, just git
away from me!
Jenny : Don't go!
Billy, wait a second!
Billy gets back
into the car.
Jenny : He
doesn't know any better!
Billy puss
away as Jenny steps toward Forrest.
Jenny : Forrest, why'd you do that?
Forrest holds out the box of chocolates.
Forrest : I brought you some
chocolates. I'm sorry. I'll go back to
my college now.
Jenny :
Forrest, look at you! Come on. Come on.
Jenny grabs Forrest hand and leads him
toward the dorm.
INT. JENNY'S
DORM/HALLWAY
Jenny and Forrest sneak
to Jenny's door.
Forrest : Is
this your room?
Jenny : Shh!
Jenny unlocks the door and they step
inside.
INT. JENNY'S DORM ROOM
Jenny pulls a robe off of her sleeping
roommate's bed. Jenny hands the
robe
to Forrest, sitting on Jenny's bed.
Jenny : Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who
you're gonna be?
Forrest : Who
I'm gonna be?
Jenny : Yeah.
Forrest : Aren't I going to be
me?
Jenny: Well, you'll always
be you, just another kind of you. You
know? I want to be famous.
Jenny picks up a towel, then walks back toward
Forrest. Jenny dries the
water from
her hair.
Jenny: I want to be
a singer like Joan Baez. I just want to be an
empty stage with my
guitar, my voice... just me.
Jenny
takes off her slip and sits on the bed next to
him. She is only
wearing her bra and
panties. Forrest looks at Jenny like he's never
seen
a woman in her underwear before.
Jenny: And I want to reach
people on a personal level. I want to
be able to say things, just one-to-one.
Forrest looks down at Jenny's breats.
Jenny realizes that he is looking
at
her.
Jenny: Have you ever been
with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest: I
sit next to them in my home economics class all
the
time.
DJ: (over radio) You're listening to WHHY in
Birmingham, the
clear
A.M. voice of Northern Alabama. I'm Joel Dorn...
Forrest looks at Jenny as she removes
her bra. Forrest looks away, a bit
shamed. Jenny takes his hand and guides it up to
her breast.
DJ: (over
radio) ...coming to you on a night that is
anything
but clear. The
weatherman says that rain's gonna fall all
night long so stay with
us, get warm, get cozy, get under
the covers to the cool sounds of WHHY.
Forrest looks over at Jenny's breasts, the shudder
as he has an orgasm.
Forrest:
Ohh... Oh... I'm sorry. Sorry.
Jenny: It's okay.
DJ: (over
radio) ... 444-6789, with ya till sunrise, playing
the music you want to
hear when you want to hear it. If
you have a request or dedication, give us a call.
We
guarantee you'll
hear your requests within one hour.
Forrest breathes heavily. Jenny puts her bra back
on.
Jenny: It's all right.
Jenny leans over and puts her head on
Forrest's shoulder.
DJ:
(over radio) Candy is on the line tonight. Candy's
answering the phones,
give Candy your request, your
dedication, and ask her why she won't go out with
me,
would you? Here's
more music.
Jenny: It's okay.
Forrest: Oh, I'm dizzy.
A song is coming over the radio. Jenny
hugs Forrest.
Jenny: I bet
that never happened in home ec.
Forrest: No.
Jenny laughs and kisses
Forrest on the cheeck.
Forrest and
Jenny hug on the bed as Jenny's roommate pretends
to be
asleep, but is listening,
horrified, with her eyes open.
Forrest: I think I ruined your roommate's
bathrobe.
Jenny: I don't care.
I don't like her, anyway.
EXT.
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA/FOOTBALL STADIUM - DAY
(1963)
Forrest runs across the field
as the defending team chases him. The crowd
yells for Forrest. They flips a sign
that reads:
Crowd: Run! Run!
Run!
Forrest runs along the field. The
crowd cheers.
Crowd: Run! Run!
Run!
Forrest runs into the end zone.
The band members rush toward Forrest with
their hands up, signaling him to stop.
The crowd flips over cards, creating a
sign that reads
Crowd: Stop!
Forrest stops in the end zone as he
hears the crowd yells. The band
motions for Forrest to stop and stay in the end
zone. A group of
defending players
fall over each toerh in the end zone.
Forrest looks as the crowd cheers wildly.
Forrest: (voice-over) College
ran by real fast 'cause I played so
much football.
BLACK AND WHITE
PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL - DAY (1963)
The
White House with the words
News
Forrest: (voice-over) They
even put me on a thing called the
All-America Team where you get to meet the
President of
the United
States.
BLACK AND WHITE NEWSREEL
PRESIDENT KENNEDY holds an autographed
football as the All-American Teal
stands behind him. Forrest is among the players in
suits.
Announcer: (over newsreel)
President Kennedy met with the Collegiate
All-American Football
Team at the Oval Office today.
INT.
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION AREA - DAY (1963)
The All-American players mingle around
the food table. Forrest steps up
to
the table. A large spread of food and soda is on
the table.
Forrest: (voice-over)
Now, the real good thing about meeting the
President of the United
States is the food.
Forrest takes a
bottle of Dr. Pepper from the buttlet table.
Numerous
bottle of Dr. Pepper are
displayed on the table. A servant opens the
bottle for him.
Forrest: (voice-over) They put you in this little
room with just
about
anything you'd want to eat or drink. And since
number one, I wasn't
hungry, but thirsty...
Forrest begins
to guzzle the Dr. Pepper.
Forrest: (voice-over) ... and number two, they was
free, I musta
drank me
about fifteen Dr. Peppers.
Forrest
sets down an empty Dr. Pepper bottle next to a
large number of
other empty bottles.
Forrest holds his stomach and burps.
BLACK AND WHITE FOOTAGE - President Kennedy shakes
hands with the
All-American football
players.
President:
Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-
American?
Kennedy
1st Player: It's an honor, Sir.
Another player steps up to the President and
shakes the President's hand.
President: Congratulations. How does it feel to be
an All-American?
Kennedy
2nd Player: Very good, Sir.
President: Congratulations. How
does it feel to be an All-American?
Kennedy
3rd Player: Very good, Sir.
The player walks away. Forrest steps
up to the President. The President
shakes his hand.
President:
Congratulations. How do you feel?
Kennedy
Forrest: I gotta pee.
President Kennedy turns and smiles.
President: I believe he said he
had to go pee.
Kennedy
INT. WHITE HOUSE/BATHROOM
Forrest urinates in the bathroom, then lowers the
lid and flashes.
Forrest washes his
hands, then notices an autographed photo from
Marilyn
Monroe and a photo of John
with his brother Bobby.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Sometime later, for no particular
reason,
somebody shot
that nice young President when he was ridin'
in his car.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE - DAY
SLOW MOTION -
President Kennedy rises in a convertible and
smiles.
Forrest: And a few years
after that...
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE
Robert Kennedy stands at a podium as
people around him applaud.
Forrest: (voice-over) ... somebody shot his little
brother, too,
only he
was in a hotel kitchen.
EXT.
SAVANNHA/BUS BENCH - DAY (1981)
Forrest sits on the bench and shakes his head.
Forrest: It must be hard being
brothers. I wouldn't know.
EXT.
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - DAY - GRADUATION DAY
(1966)
Students in their caps and gowns
step forward the podium to receive their
diplomas. Forrest's name iscalled. He
steps up and accepts his diploma.
Dean: Forrest Gump.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Now can you believe it? After only
five years
of playing
football, I got a college degree.
The
dean shakes Forrest's hand vigorously. Forrest
looks out into the
crowd.
Dean: Congratulations, son.
Mrs. Gump,
sitting in the audience, cries.
Forrest: (voice-over) Momma was proud.
Forrest and Mrs. Gump have their picure taken in
front of a large statue.
A military
recruiter spots Forrest and steps up to him.
Mrs. Gump: Forrest, I'm so proud
of you. Here, I'll hold this for
you.
Mrs. Gump takes the diploma from
Forrest. The recruiter slaps Forrest on
the shoulder and hands him some
military literature.
Military:
Congratulations, son. Have you given any thought
to your
Recruiter future?
Forrest: Thought?
Forrest looks at a pamphlet with a photo of
ARmy Recruiting
Center.
Forrest: (voice-over)
Hello, I'm Forrest...
INT. ARMY BUS -
DAY (1966)
Forrest steps onto the army
bus. Rain pours outside as the army bus
driver yells at Forrest.
Forrest: ... Forrest Gump.
Army
Bus: Nobody gives a bunk of shit who you are,
fuzzball! You're
Driver not
even a low-life scumsucking maggot! Get your
faggoty
ass on the bus.
You're in the Army now!
Forrest is
about to sit on the first available seat, but the
recruit
sitting there refuses Forrest.
Recruit #1: This seat's taken.
Forrest tries to sit on the next seat,
but the 2nd recruit slides over,
blocking him.
Recruit #2: It's
taken.
Forrest steps forward, looking
much like he did on his first bus ride to
school years ago.
Forrest: (voice-over) At first, it seemed like I
made a mistake.
A large black recruit
with a strange look on his face, much like
Forrest's, looks up from his seat. His
name is BUBBA.
Forrest: (voice-
over) ... seeing how it was my induction day and I
was already gettin'
yelled at.
Bubba moves his case over,
making room for Forrest to sit down.
Bubba: You can sit down... if you want to.
Forrest: (voice-over) I didn't
know who I might meet or what they
might ask.
Bubba hands Forrest a
handkerchief.
Bubba: You ever
been on a real shrimp boat?
Forrest: No, but I been on a real big boat.
Bubba: I'm talkin' about a
shrimp catchin' boat. I've been
workin' on shrimp boats all my life. I started out
my
uncle's boat, that's
my mother's brother, when I was about
maybe nine. I was just lookin' into buyin' a boat
of my
own and got
drafted. My given name is Benjamin Buford
Blue.
Bubba
and Forrest shake hands.
Bubba: People call me Bubba. Just like one of them
of redneck
boys. Can
you believe that?
Forrest: My
name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
Forrest: (voice-over) So Bubba
was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama,
and his momma cooked shrimp.
INT.
LOUISIANA/KITCHEN - DAY (1966)
Bubba's
mother, a robust woman in a cook's uniform,
carries a bowl of
shrimp into a dining
room. She sets it down on a table in front of a
wealthy white man.
Forrest: (voice-over) And her momma before her
cooked shrimp.
INT. SOMEWHERE IN THE
SOUTH/KITCHEN - DAY (EARLY DAYS OF SLAVERY)
Bubba's grandmother carries a bowl of
shrimp into a dining room. She sets
it
down on a table in front of a wealthy white man.
Forrest: (voice-over) And her
momma before her momma cooked shrimp,
too. Bubba's family knew everything...
INT. ARMY BUS - DAY (1966)
Forrest: (voice-over) ... there was to know about
the shrimpin'
business.
Bubba: I know everything there
is to know about the shrimpin'
business. Matter of fact, I'm goin' into the
shrimpin'
business for
myself after I get out the Army.
Forrest: Okay.
INT. BARRACKS - DAY
A DRILL SERGEANT is in Forrest's face
as Forrest stands in line with the
other recruits.
Drill: Gump!
What's your sole purpose in this Army?
Sergeant
Forrest: To do whatever
you tell me, Drill Sergeant!
Drill: Godamnit, Gump! You're a goddamned genius!
That's the most
Sergeant
outstanding answer I've ever heard. You must have
a
godamned I.Q. of a
hundred and sixty! You are godamned
gifted, Private Gump!
The Drill
Sergeant moves down the line to the next man.
Drill: Listen up, people...
Sergeant
Forrest: (voice-over) Now, for some reason, I fit
in the Army like
one of
them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just
make your bed real neat
and remember to stand up straight.
Drill: That is one very intelligent individual!
You lock your
Sergeant scuzzy
bodies up behind that private and do exactly what
he does and you will go
far in this man's army!
Forrest:
(voice-over) And always answer every question with
Drill
Sergeant!
Drill: Is that clear?
Sergeant
Forrest
&: Yes, Drill Sergeant!
Recruits
ANOTHER DAY
The recruits
are sitting at the base of their bunks assembling
their
rifles. Bubba speaks to Forrest.
Bubba: What you do is you just
drag your nets across the bottom.
On a good day, you can catch over a hundred pounds
of
shrimp. If
everything goes all right, two men shrimpin'
ten hours, less what
you spends on gas, you can...
Forrest
finishes assembling his rifle as the other
recruits are still
working on theirs.
Forrest: Done, Drill Sergeant!
Drill: Gump!
Sergeant
The Drill Sergeant rushes up
to Forrest.
Drill: Why did you
put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?
Sergeant
Forrest: You told me to, Drill Seageant.
The Drill Seageant looks at his stop
watch.
Drill: Jesus Christ!
This is a new company record. If it wouldn't
Sergeant be a waste of such a
damn fine enlisted man, I'd
recommended you for O.C.S., Private Gump. You are
gonna be
a General some
day, Gump! Now, disassemble your weapon and
continue!
The Drill Seageant walks away as Forrest begins to
disassemble his rifle.
After the Drill
Sergeant walks past Bubba, Bubba looks up at
Forrest.
Bubba continues talking about
shrimp in his slow southern drawl.
Bubba: Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the
fruit of the sea.
You
can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute
it.
There, uh, shrimp
kabobs, shrimp creole...
ANOTHER DAY
Bubba and Forrest shine their boots.
Bubba: ... shrimp gumbo,
panfried, deep fried, stir fried.
There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut
shrimp,
pepper
shrimp...
ANOTHER DAY
Bubba and Forrest are on their hands and knees as
they scrub the floor
with
toothbrushes.
Bubba: ...
shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and
potatoes, shrimp
burger, shrimp sandwich... that's, that's
about it.
NIGHT
Bubba lies in his bunk and looks
up quietly.
Forrest: (voice-
over) Nighttime in the Army is a lovely time.
Forrest lies in his bunk and looks u.
Forrest: (voice-over) We'd lay
there in our bunks, and I'd miss my
momma. And I'd miss Jenny.
A young
private tosses a Playboy magazine onto Forrest.
Young Private: Hey, Gump. Get a load
of the tits on her!
Forrest pick up
the magazine and turns the page, revealing Jenny
as she
poses with a school sweater on,
and that's all. The pictorial is titled:
Forrest looks up with
shock. He cranes his head up for a closer look.
Forrest: (voice-over) Turns out,
Jenny had gotten into some trouble
over... some photos of her in her college sweater.
And she
was thrown out
of school.
Song:
INT. NASHVILLE/NIGHT CLUB - NIGHT
(1966)
Forrest, in his army uniform,
steps into the foyer of the club.
Forrest: (voice-over) But that wasn't a bad thing.
Because a man
who owns
a theater in Memphis, Tennessee, saw those photo
and offered Jenny a job
singing in a show. The first
chance I got, I took the bus up to Memphis to see
her
perform in that
show.
EMCEE steps out onto the stage.
Emcee: That was Amber, Amber
Flame. Give her a big hand, guys.
Good job, Amber. And now, for your listening and
viewing
pleasure,
direct from Hollywood, California, our very own
beatnik beauty, let's
give a big round of applause to the
luscious Bobbie Dylan.
Crowd:
Bobbie... Bobbie...
The emcee walks
back off the stage and the curtain opens,
revealing Jenny
as she sits on a stool
on the stage. She holds a guitar up and begins to
play. She is topless.
Jenny: (sings)
before
she sleeps in the sand.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Her dream had come true. She was a
folk
singer.
Jenny: (sings)
before they're forever banned.
Man #1: You gotta lose the guitar, darling.
Man #2: Hey, come on, baby.
Shake it up. Shake it up now.
Man #3: Hey, somebody ought to get her a
harmonica.
The men laugh.
Jenny: (sings)
answer
is blowing in...
Man #: ...
skin, honey. This isn't Captain Kangaroo.
Men: Yeah! Come on!
Man #5 reaches up and tries to stick
some money in Jenny's shoe.
Man
#5: Hey, honey, I got something here for you.
Jenny kicks his hand. He yells angrily
as he sits back down, then tosses
his
drink on her.
Man #5:
Goddamnit!
Jenny: Hey! Hey!
Stupid jerk! I'm singing a song here. Polly, get
out here!
Man #: Hey, show us some stuff, honey!
Jenny: Shut up! Oh, shut up!
Forrest
walks up to Man #5 and grabs him and tosses him
down on the
ground. Man #4 tries to
grab Forrest, but Forrest shoves him down too.
Jenny: Forrest, what are you
doing here? What are you doing?
Forrest climbs up onto the stage and picks Jenny
up, guitar and all, and
carries her.
Forrest: Come on.
Jenny: What are you doing? Forrest, let me down!
Jenny struggles and frees herself from
Forrest. Forrest steps back in
surprise. Jenny shoves the guitar at Forrest.
Jenny walks off as Forrest holds the
guitar. He follows after her.
EXT.
MEMPHIS BRIDGE - NIGHT
Forrest follows
Jenny over a bridge outside the night club.
Jenny: You can't keep doing
this, Forrest. You can't keep tryin'
to rescue me all the time.
Forrest: They was tryin' to grab you.
Jenny: A lot of people try to grab me. Just -- you
can't keep
doing this
all the time!
Forrest: I can't
keep it. I love you.
Jenny:
Forrest, you don't know what love is.
Jenny turns and looks over the bridge.
Jenny: You remember that time we prayed, Forrest?
We prayed for
God to
turn me into a bird so I could fly far, far away?
Forrest: Yes, I do.
Jenny: You think I can fly off this bridge?
Forrest: What do you mean,
Jenny?
Jenny: Nothing.
Jenny turns and looks at the light of
an approaching vehicle. She steps
into
the street.
Jenny: I gotta get
outta here.
Jenny runs and flags down
the approaching vehicle.
Forrest: But wait. Jenny!
Jenny: Forrest, you stay away from me, okay? You
just stay away
from me,
please.
A pickup truck pulls over as
Jenny looks at the driver.
Jenny: Can I have a ride?
Driver: Where you going?
Jenny: I don't care.
Driver:
Get in the truck.
Forrest: So
bye-bye, Jenny. They sendin' me to Vietnam. It's
this
whole other
country.
Jenny walks toward Forrest.
She looks at the driver.
Jenny: Just hang on a minute.
Jenny
walks up to Forrest.
Jenny:
Listen, you promise me something, okay? Just if
you're
ever in trouble,
don't try to be brave, you just run,
okay? Just run away.
Forrest:
Okay. Jenny, I'll write you all the time.
Jenny takes a last look at Forrest,
then climbs into the truck.
Forrest
watches Jenny in the pickup as it drives away.
Forrest: (voice-over) And just
like that.
EXT. GREENBOW/GUMP BOARDING
HOUSE/RIVER - DAY
Forrest, dressed in
his uniform, sits on a log and looks out at a
river.
Forrest: (voice-over) ...
she was gone.
Mrs. Gump walks toward
Forrest and sits down next to him on the log.
Forrest leans down, placing his head
on his mother's shoulder.
Mrs.
Gump: You come back safe to me, do ya hear?
EXT. VIETNAM/MEKONG DELTA - MORNING
(1967)
The shadow of a helicopter over
the rice field below. A soldier is
manning a gun from inside the helicopter. The
solider looks left, Forrest
and Bubba
ride in the helicopter.
EXT.
FIREBASE/4TH PLATOON
The helicopter
circles overhead, then lands at the firebase.
Song:
red, white and blue. And when the band plays
Chief,
me. It ain't me. I ain't no Senator's son, no. It
ain't
me. It ain't
me...
Bubba and Forrest jump out of the
helicopter with their gear/ They walk
and look around oddly.
Forrest:
(voice-over) Now, they told us that Vietnam was
gonna be
very different
from the United Sates of America.
The
soldier places a case of beer on a large stack of
cases. He takes two
beers out and
walks away. In the background, soldiers are
barbecuing
steaks and drinking beer.
Forrest: (voice-over) Except for
all the beer cans and the
barbecue, it was.
Bubba:
Y'know, I bet there's shrimp all in these waters.
They
tell me these
Vietnams is good shrimp. You know, after we
win this war, and we
take over everything we can get
American shrimpers to come on here and shrimp
these
waters. We'll
just shrimp all the time, man. So much
shrimp, why, you wouldn't believe it.
Lieutenant DAN TAYLOR steps out of a tent.
Shirtless, he holds a roll of
toilet
paper in his hand.
Lt. Dan: You
must be my F.N.G.'s.
Bubba:
Morning', sir!
&Forrest
Lt. Dan: Ho! Get your hands
down. Do not salute me. There are
goddamned snipers all around this area who would
love to
grease an
officer. I'm Lieutenant Dan Taylor. Welcome to
Fourth Platoon.
Lt. Dan looks at Bubba.
Lt. Dan: What's wrong with your lips?
Bubba: I was born with big gums, sir.
Lt. Dan: Yeah, well, you better tuck that in.
Gonna get that caught
on a trip wire. Where you boys from in the world?
Bubba &: Alabama, sir!
Forrest
Lt.
Dan: You twins?
Forrest and Bubba look
at each other oddly, they don't get the joke.
Forrest: No, we are not
relations, sir.
Lt. Dan: Look,
it's pretty basic here.
Lt. Dan starts
to walk. Bubba and Forrest grab their gear and
follow him.
Lt. Dan: You stick
with me, you learn from the guys who been in
coyntry a while, you'll
be right. There is one item of
G.I. gear that can be the difference between a
live grunt
and a dead
grunt.
Lt. Dan stops and looks at the
boys.
Lt. Dan: Socks
dry when we're out humpin'. I want you boys to
remember to
change your
socks wherever we stop. The Mekong will eat a
grunt's feet right off
his legs.
Lt. Dan steps over to a
large black solider named SERGEANT SIMS.
Lt. Dan: Sergeant Sims!
Goddamnit, where is that sling-rope I told
you to order.
Sgt. Sims: I put in requisitions
at Battalion.
Lt. Dan: Yeah,
yeah, yeah, well you call those sonabitches again,
call them again and
again and again. I don't care how much
it takes...
Forrest: (voice-
over) Lt. DAn sure knew his stuff. I felt real
lucky he was my
lieutenant. He was from a long, great
military tradition. Somebody in his family had
fought and
died in
every single American war.
EXT. VALLEY
FORGE/THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR - DAY (1778)
A distant relative of Lt. Dan's,
wearing a revolutionary war uniform,
falls dead in the snow.
EXT.
GETTYSBURG/THE CIVIL WAR - DAY (1863)
Anothegr relative, wearing a civil war uniform and
bearing a striking
resemblance to Lt.
Dan, falls down dead.
EXT.
NORMANDY/WORLD WAR II - DAY (1944)
Another relative, wearing a World War II, falls
down dead on the beach at
Normandy.
EXT. VETNAM/MEKONG DELTA/FIEBASE - DAY
(1967)
Lt. Dan: Goddamnit, kick
some ass!
Sgt. Sims: I'm on it,
Lieutenant.
Lt. Dan: Get on it!
Lt. Dan steps back up to Bubba and
Forrest.
Forrest: (voice-over) I
guess you could say he had a lot to live up
to.
Lt. Dan
walks along the walkway and Bubba and Forrest
follow.
Lt. Dan: So, you boys
are from Arkansas, huh? Well, I've been
through there. Little
Rock's a fine town. Now, go shake
down your gear, see the platoon sergeant, draw
what you
need for the
field.
Lt. Dan steps inside the
latrine, still holding the roll of toilet paper.
Lt. Dan: If you boys are hungry,
we got steaks burnin' right here.
Lt.
Dan sits down out of sight in the latrine, then
stands up, looking at
the boys.
Lt. Dan: Two standing orders in
this platoon. One, take good care
of your feet. Two, try not to do anything stupid,
like
gettin' yourself
killed.
Lt. Dan sits back down out of
sight in the latrine. Bubba and Forrest
look at each other.
Forrest: I sure hope I don't let him down.
EXT. RICE FIELD - ANOTHER DAY
Forrest, Bubba, and other soldiers in
the Fourth Platoon walk across the
rice field.
Some Vietnamese rice
farmers are working as the soldiers walk past.
Forrest: (voice-over) I got to
see a lot of countryside. We would
take these real long walks.
EXT.
JUNGLE/DIRT ROAD - ANOTHER DAY
Forrest's unit walks along a dirt road.
Song: And we were always
lookin' for this guy named Charlie.
I can't get no relief.
Suddenly Lt.
Dan holds up his fist, a signal for the unit to
stop. He
motions for them to get down.
Lt. Dan: Hold it up!
Sgt. Sims: Hold up, boys!
Forrest gets
down and looks around.
Forrest:
(voice-over) It wasn't always fun. Lt. Dan always
gettin'
these funny
feelings about a rock or a trail, or the road,
so he'd tell u to get
down, shut up!
Lt. Dan: Get
down! Shut up!
Forrest: (voice-
over) So we did.
Lt. Dan motions for
the lead soldier to get down. Lt. Dan crouches
down.
Lt. Dan looks at the soldiers
and points to his eyes. He lies down on the
dirt road and crawls.
Forrest: (voice-over) Now, I don't know much about
anything, but I
think
some of American's best young men served in this
war. There was Dallas,
from Phoenix. Cleveland, he was
Detroit.
Cleveland: Hey, Tex. Hey,
Tex. Man, what the hell's going on?
Tex holds up his hand, motioning that he doesn't
know.
Forrest: (voice-over) And
Tex was, well, I don't remember where Tex
come from.
Lt. Dan: Ah, nothin'. Fourth Platoon, on your
feet! Still got ten
clicks to go to that river.
Forrest
stands up and begins to walk with the platoon.
Lt. Dan: All right, move out!
Comin' out. Look alive out there.
Forrest: (voice-over) The good thing about Vietnam
is there was
always
someplace to go.
Lt. Dan:
(voice-over) Fire in the hole!
EXT.
VIETNAM/VIET CONG FOXHOLE - ANOTHER DAY
Lt. Dan walks away as Forrest rushe
over, aims two pistols in the hole,
then climbs inside.
Forrest:
(voice-over) And there was always something to do.
Lt. Dan: Mount 'em up.
Sgt. Sims: Spread out! Cover his
back.
ANOTHER DAY - The platoon walks
through a rice paddy, waits deep in
water. It begins to rain.
Forrest: (voice-over) One day it started raining,
and it didn't
quit for
four months.
EXT. JUNGLE
The rain pours down on Forrest and Bubba as they
sit in a foxhole.
Forrest:
(voice-over) We been through every kind of rain
there is.
Little bitty
stingin' rain...
ANOTHER DAY - The
platoon walks through the jungle as rain pours
down on
them.
Forrest: (voice-over) ... and big ol' fat rain.
ANOTHER DAY - The platoon shelters
themself as they walks through the
wind and rain.
Forrest: (voice-
over) Rain that flew in sideways.
ANOTHER DAY - Forrest and other soldiers walk
chest-deep through a river.
The rain
splatters back up from the river, hitting the
soldiers. Forrest
holds his hand up to
protect his face.
Forrest:
(voice-over) And sometimes rain even seemed to
come
staright up from
underneath.
EXT. ENCHAMPMENT - NIGHT
The rain pours down on the men of the
platoon as they sit in a camp.
Bubba
sits down next to Forrest.
Forrest: (voice-over) Shoot, it even rained at
night.
Bubba leans his back up against
Forrest's back.
Bubba: Hey
Forrest...
Forrest: Hey Bubba...
Bubba: I'm gonna lean up
against you, you just lean right back
against me. This way, we don't have to sleep with
our
heads in the mud.
You know why we a good partnership,
Forrest? 'Cause we be watchin' out for one
another. Like
brothers
and stuff. Hey, Forrest, there's somethin' I've
been thinkin' about. I
got a very important question to
ask you. How would you like to go into the
shrimpin'
business with
me?
Forrest: Okay.
Bubba: Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured
out, too. So
many
pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, so many
pounds
for gas, we can
just live right on the boat. We ain't got
to pay no rent. I'll be
the captain; we can just work it
together. Split everything right down the middle.
Man, I'm
tellin' you,
fifty-fifty. And, hey, Forrest, all the
shrimp you can get.
Forrest: That's a fine idea.
Forrest: (voice-over) Bubba did
have a fine idea.
ANOTHER NIGHT
Some soldiers patrol the area. Forrest
lies in a pup tent and writes a
litter
as the rain pours down. He uses his flashlight to
see.
Forrest: (voice-over) I
even wrote Jenny and told her all about it.
I sent her letters. Not
every day, but almost. I told her
what I was doin' and asked her what she was doing,
and I
told her how I
thought about her always.
EXT. Jenny'S
GRANDMOTHER'S TRAILER - DAY
Jenny
steps out of the trailer with a backpack and a
guitar. She hugs a
hippie guy, then
jumps into the back of a Volkswagen bus with
another
guy.
Forrest: (voice-over) And how I was looking
forward to getting a
letter from her just as soon as she had the time
I'd
always let her know
that I was okay.
EXT. VIETNAM - NIGHT
Forrest writes a letter in his tent.
Forrest: (voice-over) Then I'd
sign each letter,
Gump.
EXT. JUNGLE - DAY
The
Fourth Platoon makes their way through the jungle
and rain.
Song:
exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over
there,
telling' me I
got to beware.
Forrest: (voice-
over) This one day, we was out walking, like
always, and then, just
like that, somebody turned off the
rain and the sun come out.
Forrest
looks up as the sun suddenly appears. Forrest's
platoon is
attacked. A bullet kills
the soldier standing next to Forrest. Bombs
explode all around as the soldiers
scramble to the ground.
Lt. Dan:
Take cover!
Forrest crawls over a berm
as bullets fly overhead and explode all around
him. Forrest rolls over and pulls his
pack off Lt. Dan lies next to
Forrest.
Lt. Dan: Get that pig up here,
goddammit!
Bubba: Forrest, you
okay?
Two soldiers with a machine gun
fire into the jungle. Lt. Dan shouts into
the radio.
Forrest begins
firing his weapon into the jungle.
Lt. Dan: ...Strongarm, please be advised...
Two soldiers pull a wounded soldier
into the jungle.
Bubba: Medic,
we got a man down!
Lt. Dan:
Strongarm, this is Leg Lima 6, over! Roger,
Strongarm, be
advised
we have incoming from the treeline at point blue
plus two. A.K's and
rockets...
The machine gunner fires
into the treeline. Another soldier helps him
with the ammunition. The machine gun
jams.
Soldier With: Misfire! Misfire!
Big Machine
Gun
Lt. Dan: Goddammit, Mac! Get
that pig unfucked and get it in the
treeline!
A rocket explodes on the
machine gunner and the other soldier, killing
them.
Forrest looks down
and covers his head as rockets explodes all around
him.
Lt. Dan: (into
radio) Ah, Jesus! My unit is down hard and
hurting!
6 pulling back
to the blue line, Leg Lima 6 out! Pull
back! Pull back!
Bubba:
Forrest! Run! Run, Forrest!
Lt.
Dan: Pull back!
Bubba:
Forrest! Run! Run, Forrest! Run! Run!
Sgt. Sims: Pull back! Let's go!
Lt.
Dan gets up and grabs Forrest by the collar.
Lt. Dan: Run, goddammit, run!
The platoon gets up and runs toward
the cover of the jungle. Rockets
explode all around the field. Forrest runs into
the jungle.
The soldiers run through
the jungle as bullets explode all around. A
soldier is blown up by a rocket.
A soldier runs through the jungle.
Forrest runs past the soldier.
Soldier: Medic! Medic! Jesus, can I get a medic?
Forrest: (voice-over) I ran and
ran, just like Jenny told me to.
Rockets explode in the jungle as Forrest runs out
toward a clearing.
Forrest:
(voice-over) I ran so far and so fast that pretty
soon I
was all by
myself, which was a bad thing.
Forrest: Bubba!
Forrest turns around,
then runs back into the jungle.
Forrest: (voice-over) Bubba was my best good
friend. I had to make
sure he was okay.
Rockets explode in
the jungle. Forrest runs back into the jungle to
look
for Bubba.
1st
Soldier: Any friendlies out there?
2nd Soldier: Yeah, I've got three over there.
1st Soldier: Where the hell are you?
Forrest stops and aims his weapon. He
looks around, scared.
Forrest:
Bubba?
Something moves. Forrest turns
and looks, then rushes over.
Forrest: (voice-over) And on my way back to find
Bubba, well, there
was
this boy laying on the ground.
Forrest: Tex!
Tex lies on the ground,
his face distorted with pain.
Forrest: Okay.
Forrest reaches down
and picks up Tex from the ground. Forrest pulls
Tex
up over his shoulder, then runs.
Forrest: (voice-over) I couldn't
just let him lay there all alone,
scared the way he was, so I grabbed him up and run
him out
of there.
Forrest carries Tex out of the jungle
and into the clearing. He sets Tex
down on the bank of a river, and runs back into
the jungle.
Forrest: (voice-
over) And every time I went back looking for
Bubba,
somebody else
was saying,
Forrest drops another
wounded soldier down at the bank of the river next
to Tex, and then runs back toward the
jungle.
Forrest grabs the third
wounded soldier up from the ground and turns him
over. It is DALLAS.
Dallas: Can't hear... Can't hear...
Dallas is dropped off at the bank next to the
other wounded soldiers.
Forrest turns
to go back to the jungle.
2nd
Wounded: No sweat, man. Just lay back. You're
gonna be okay. You're
Soldier
gonna be okay.
Forrest: (voice-
over) I started to get scared that I might never
find Bubba.
Strongarm: (over radio) You're danger close for
crack air, over.
Forrest trips over
something and falls to the ground. He looks up to
find
two bloody legs. It is Lt. Dan,
who is wounded. He speaks into the radio.
Lt. Dan: (into radio) Roger,
Strongarm, I know my position is
danger close! We got Charlie all over this area! I
gotta
have those fast
movers in here now! Over!
Strongarm: (over radio) Six, Strongarm, we want...
Forrest: Lieutenant Dan,
Coleman's dead!
Lt. Dan: I know
he's dead! My whole goddamned platoon is wiped
out!
Strongarm: (over radio) Leg
Lima 6, Leg Lima 6, how copy you this
transmission? Over.
Forrest tries to
pick up Lt. Dan, who tries to push Forrest away.
Lt. Dan: Goddammit! What are you
doing? Leave me here! Get away.
Just leave me here! Get out!
Forrest
pulls Lt. Dan over his shoulder and runs through
the jungle.
Strongarm: Leg Lima 6,
Leg Lima 6. This is Strongarm, be advised,
your fast movers are
inbound at this time, over.
Forrest: (voice-over) Then it felt like something
just jumped up
and bit
me.
Forrest falls down.
Forrest: Ah, something bit me!
Forrest
gets up as Lt. Dan yells.
Lt. Dan
fires his pistol at the unseen enemy as Forrest
pulls him away.
Lt. Dan: You
dink son-of-a-bitch! I can't leave the platoon! I
told
you to leave me
there, Gump. Forget about me. Get yourself
out! Did you hear what
I said! Goddammit, pull me down!
Get your ass out of here!
Forrest
drops Lt. Dan down at the bank, next to the other
wounded
soldiers. Lt. Dan grabs
Forrest by the shirt, angry.
Lt.
Dan: I didn't ask you to pull me out of there,
goddamn you!
What the
hell do you think you're going?
Forrest: To get Bubba.
Lt. Dan:
I got an air strike inbound right now. They're
gonna nape
the whole
area.
Forrest gets up and runs as Lt.
Dan yells after him.
Lt. Dan:
Gump, you stay here, goddammit! That's an order!
Forrest: I gotta find Bubba!
Forrest runs through the jungle
searching for Bubba.
Forest slows down
and looks around carefully.
Bubba: Forrest...
Forrest:
Bubba...
Bubba looks up as he lies on
the ground.
Bubba: I'm okay.
Bubba holds a palm frond over his
wound. Forrest removes the frond to
look at the wound. Bubba's chest has been blown
open.
Forrest: Oh,
Bubba, no...
Bubba: Naw, I'm
gonna be all right.
Forrest looks around as he hear the voices of the
enemy.
Forrest: Come
on. Come on. Come here...
Forrest carries Bubba through the jungle. The
sound of approaching planes
fills the
air.
Bubba: I'm
okay, Forrest. I'm all right.
The roar of approaching planes is
deafening. Forrest looks up in fear.
Three planes dive down toward the
jungle. They fire napalm as the jungle
explodes with massive fireballs. Forrest runs,
carrying Bubba. The
fireballs explode
behind him. The entire jungle area is in flames as
Forrest runs.
Forrest carries Bubba to the bank of the river.
Lt. Dan and the other
wounded soldiers
wait for a rescue helicopter.
Lt. Dan: Helo's inbound. Top
smoke, get it up there!
Forrest:
(voice-over) If I'd a known this was gonna be the
last
time me and Bubba
was gonna talk, I'd a thought of
something better to say.
Forrest looks down at Bubba. A soldier releases a
smoke canister.
Forrest: Hey, Bubba...
Bubba:
Hey, Forrest. Forrest, why'd this happen?
Forrest: You got shot.
Forrest: (voice-over) Then Bubba
said something I won't even
forget.
Bubba: I wanna go
home.
Forrest: Bubba was my best
good friend. And even I know that ain't
something you can find
just around the corner. Bubba was
gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain, but instead he
died
right there by
that river in Vietnam.
The
helicopter fly overhead.
BUS STATION - DAY
Forrest
continues with his life story. A MAN is sitting
next to Forrest
on the bus bench.
Forrest: That's all
I have to say about that.
Man: It was a bullet, wasn't it?
Forrest: A bullet?
Man: That
jumped up and bit you.
Forrest:
Oh, yes sir. Bit me directly in the buttocks. They
said it
was a million-
dollar wound, but the Army must keep that
money, 'cause I still
ain't seen a nickel of that million
dollars. The only good thing about being wounded
in the
buttocks...
Flashback - INT. US. ARMY
HOSPITAL/VIETNAM - DAY
Forrest holds two ice cream cones in his hands as
he is wheeled on a
rolling stretcher.
Forrest: (voice-
over) ...is the ice cream. They gave me all the
ice
cream I could eat.
And guess what. A good friend of mine
was in the bed right next door.
Forrest, lying on his stomach, is
wheeled to his bed. Forrest's butt
sticks up and is bandaged. Forrest looks at Lt.
Dan lying on the bed.
Forrest holds
out an ice cream cone for Lt. Dan.
Forrest: Lieutenant Dan, I got
you some ice cream. Lieutenant Dan,
ice cream.
Lt. Dan,
annoyed, takes the ice cream cone and drops it
into his bed pan.
Forrest slides
himself onto his bed. A NURSE reaches toward Lt.
Dan.
Male Nurse: It's
time for your bath, Lieutenant.
The male nurse places Lt. Dan's hands
on a pull-up bar, then picks up Lt.
Dan, whose legs have been amputated.
Male Nurse: Harper...
Another nurse wheels the rolling bed
under Lt. Dan. The male nurse sets
Lt.
Dan down on the rolling bed.
Forrest looks up at Lt. Dan as he is
wheeled away. A soldier reads the
names from a pile of letters.
Soldier: Cooper, Larson,
Webster, Gump, Gump...
Forrest:
I'm Forrest Gump.
The
soldier hands Forrest a large pile of letters.
Jenny Curran
Rural Route 2
Greenbow,
Ala. 39902
Forrest looks
down at the pile of letters.
INT. ARMY HOSPITAL/VIETNAM - DAY
A group of wounded
soldiers hang out in the hospital, recuperating.
Forrest sits and watches
Soldier: Gump, how can you watch
that stupid shit? Turn it off!
Announcer: From the D.M.Z. to the Delta, you are
tuned to the
American
Forces Vietnam Network. This is Channel 6,
Saigon.
Forrest turns the TV off and he is hit
on the back of the head by a
ping-pong
ball.
Soldier: Good
catch, Gump. You know how to play this?
Forrest shakes his head.
Soldier: Come on,
let me show you. Here.
The
wounded ping-pong player hands Forrest a paddle.
Forrest and the
wounded ping-pong
player step toward the ping-pong table.
Soldier: Now the
secret to this game is, no matter what happens,
never, never take your
eye off the ball.
He holds
the ball up and moves it back and forth. Forrest
keeps his eyes
on the ball.
Soldier: All
right...
The wounded ping-
pong player tosses the ball down onto the table.
Forrest
begins to hit the ball back to
the other player.
Forrest: (voice-over) For some reason, ping pong
came very natural
to
me.
Soldier: See, any idiot can
play.
Forrest: (voice-over) So I
started playing it all the time.
Forrest hits ping-pong balls.
Forrest: (voice-
over) I played ping-pong even when I didn't have
anyone to play ping-
pong with.
The balls at
land in a bed pan positioned on a chair.
A group of wounded soldier
sit and watch Forrest play with himself.
Forrest hits two balls at a time
against the opposite side of the table.
Forrest: (voice-
over) The hospital's people said it made me look
like a duck in water,
whatever that means. Even Lieutenant
Dan would come and watch me play.
Lt. Dan stares out the window.
Forrest lies in his bed
asleep. A hand reaches and grabs him.
Forrest: (voice-over) I played
ping-pong so much, I even played it
in my sleep.
Lt. Dan pulls
Forrest to the floor, and holds Forrest down.
Lt. Dan: Now, you
listen to me. We all have a destiny. Nothing just
happens, it's all part
of a plan. I should have died out
there with my men! But now, I'm nothing but a
goddamned
cripple! A
legless freak. Look! Look! Look at me! Do you
see that? Do you know
what it's like not to be able to use
your legs?
Forrest: Well... Yes,
sir, I do.
Lt. Dan: Did you hear
what I said? You cheated me. I had a destiny.
I was supposed to die
in the field! With honor! That was
my destiny! And you cheated me out of it! You
understand
what I'm
saying, Gump? This wasn't supposed to happen. Not
to me. I had a destiny.
I was Lieutenant Dan Tyler.
Forrest: Yo-You're still Lieutenant Dan.
Lt. Dan looks at Forrest,
lets go of Forrest and rolls.
Lt. Dan sits up as Forrest looks at
him.
Lt. Dan: Look
at me. What am I gonna do now? What am I gonna do
now?
INT. REC ROOM/VIETNAM HOSPITAL -
ANOTHER DAY
Forrest plays
ping-pong by himself. An OFFICER walks up to him.
Officer: P.F.C.
Gump?
Forrest immediately
grabs the ball and places it down on the table
under
its paddle. Stands at attention.
Forrest: Yes, sir!
Officer: As you were.
The officer holds up an
envelope.
Officer:
Son, you've been awarded the Medal of Honor.
INT. VIETNAM HOSPITAL WARD
Forrest steps up to Lt.
Dan's bed.
Forrest:
Guess what, Lieutenant Dan, they want to give me a
me...
Forrest stops in
mid-sentence as he looks down at the bed. A
heavily
bandaged soldier with
bloodstains lies there. Forrest turns and look at
the NURSE.
Forrest: Ma'am, what'd they do with Lieutenant
Dan?
Nurse: They sent him
home.
Forrest: (voice-over) Two
weeks later, I left Vietnam.
INT. BARBER SHOP/GREENBOW - DAY
Anchorman: (on T.V.)
The ceremony was kicked off with a candid speech
by the President
regarding the need for further escalation
of the war in Vietnam.
President Johnson awarded four
Medals of Honor to men from each of the Armed
Services.
The television
reveals Forrest as he is awarded the Medal of
Honor by
President Johnson.
President: America
owes you a debt of gratitude, son.
Johnson
Color footage
revealing President Johnson as he places the award
around
Forrest's neck and shakes
hands.
President: I
understand you were wounded. Where were you hit?
Johnson
Forrest: In the buttocks, sir.
President: Oh, that must be a sight.
Johnson
President Johnson
leans and whispers into Forrest's ear.
President: I'd kinda like to see
that.
Johnson
INT. BARBER SHOP
The television revealing Forrest as he
drops his pants, bends over and
shows
the bullet wound on his bare buttocks. President
Johnson looks down
and smiles.
The three men in the
barber shop look up in disbelief.
Mrs. Gump looks up in shock.
President: Goddamn,
son.
Johnson
EXT. LINCOLN MEMORIAL - DAY
Forrest walks by the
Lincoln Memorial. A fence surrounds the Memorial,
as
well as armed military guards.
Forrest: (voice-
over) After that, Momma went to the hotel to lay
down, so I went out for
a walk to see our national
capital.
Isabel: Hilary, all
right, I've got the vets, what do you want me
to do with them?
Hilary: What are you doing here
so late?
Forrest takes a
photo of the memorial as a woman named Hilary
gathers
together some veterans against
the Vietnam War.
Hilary: We've been waiting for you for half an
hour, so just get
them
in a line, will you. Hey, hey, come on, pictures
later. You look great.
Oh come on, get in this line, come
on, come on right in line. Come on, let him here,
let him
in here.
Hilary grabs Forrest and
puts him in the line with the other vets against
the war.
Forrest: (voice-over) It's a good thing Momma was
resting, 'cause
the
street was awful crowded with people looking at
all
the statues and
monuments. And some of them people were
loud and pushy.
Hilary leads the line of
vets toward the large anti-Vietnam War rally.
Hilary: Okay,
follow me! Come on.
The
group of vets walk as Forrest tries to take
another picture. A vet
behind him
pushes him along.
Hilary: Let's move it out.
Vet: Hey, buddy, come on. We could use your help.
Forrest walks in the line.
A banner reads
Vietnam.
Forrest: (voice-over) Everywhere
I went, I had to stand in line.
Hilary: Follow me, let's go!
Hilary leads the vets through a crowd
of people outside the rally.
Another
woman, named Isabel, leads the vets toward the
back of a stage.
Isabel: All right, come on, guys.
Hilary: Stand here.
Vet:
Hey, you're a good man for doin' this. Good!
Forrest: Okay.
A man, wearing an American flag shirt,
stands on the stage. He is
anti-war
activist ABBIE HOFFMAN.
Abbie Hoffman: We must declare to that fucking
impostor in the White
House -- Johnson. We ain't going to work on your
farm no
more! Yeah!
Forrest: (voice-over) There was
this man, giving a little talk. And
for some reason, he was wearing an American flag
for a
shirt...
Abbie Hoffman: Now, I'm going to bring
up some soldiers that are going to
talk about the war, man...
Forrest: (voice-over) ... and he liked to say the
Abbie
Hoffman: ... that war has come home, and we have
to stop these
politicians...
Forrest: (voice-
over) ... he said
reason, well, they'd cheer.
Abbie
Hoffman: ... these guys just told Lyndon Johnson
where to stick
this
fucking war! Yeah!
Forrest
looks up at the cheering crowd.
Abbie turns and motions for Forrest to
come up on the stage.
Abbie Hoffman: Come on, man. Come up here, man.
Hilary: Come on. Come on. Yeah,
you!
Hilary pulls Forrest
up onto the stage.
Hilary: Come on, get up there. Come on. Move,
move. Let's go!
Let's
go.
The other vets follow
Forrest pushes onto the stage and push him toward
the microphones.
Vet: Come on, go. You can do
it. Just get up there. Go on.
That's it.
Thousands of
cheering protestors stand around the Washington
Monument.
Forrest looks at
the crowd. Abbie Hoffmann steps up to Forrest.
Abbie Hoffman: Tell us a
little bit about the war, man.
Forrest: The war in Vietnam?
Abbie
Hoffman: The war in Viet-fucking-nam!
Abbie raises his fist as the crowd
cheers wildly.
Forrest: Well...
Forrest:
(voice-over) There was only one thing I could say
about
the war in
Vietnam.
Forrest: ... there was
only one thing I could say about the war in
Vietnam.
Forrest looks at the crowd as he
speaks. A policeman looks around as he
sneaks over to the audio circuit board.
Forrest: In Vietnam
war...
The policeman pulls
the patch cords out of the audio board. Forrest's
amplified voice becomes inaudible.
Forrest continues to speak
into the microphone, even though no one can
hear what he is saying. Hilary looks
over and notices the policeman.
Hilary rushes over toward the audio
board, pushes the policeman away and
grabs his night stick. Another protestor grabs the
policeman and pulls
him away.
Policeman: Hey, what
the hell are you doing?
Hilary:
I'll beat your head in, you goddamned oinker!
Isabel, Hilary and another
protestor try to plug the tangled mess of
wires back into the audio board.
Isabel: Christ,
what'd they do with this?
Forrest continues to speak into the microphone.
The crowd grows restless.
Crowd: We can't hear you! We can't hear anything!
Hilary: This one! This one!
Give me that!
Hilary plugs
in the right patch cord.
Hilary: That's it.
Forrest: ...
and that's all I have to say about that.
Forrest looks at the
massive crowd. They are silent. Abbie Hoffman
steps
over to Forrest and pats him on
the shoulder.
Abbie
Hoffman: That's so right on, man. You said it all.
What's your
name, man?
Forrest: My name is Forrest
Gump. Forrest Gump.
Abbie Hoffman:
Forrest Gump!
Abbie raises
his fist into the air.
Abbie steps away from Forrest. The crowd cheers.
Crowd: Forrest
Gump!
Jenny: (screaming)
Forrest! Forrest!
Jenny
wades out into the reflection pool and waves her
hand into the air.
Forrest
recognizes her.
Forrest: Jenny!
Forrest
rushes off the stage as Jenny makes her way out
into the pool.
Jenny: Forrest!
Forrest
jumps down into the crowd and runs.
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