Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now, when I got home, I had no idea, but Mama'd
had all sorts of visitors.
Mrs. Gump: We've had all sorts of visitors, Forrest. Everybody wants you to
use their ping-pong stuff. One man even left a check for twenty five thousand
dollars if you'd be agreeable to sayin' you like using their paddle.
Forrest Gump: Oh, Momma. I only like using my own paddle. Hi, Miss Louise.
Louise: Hey, Forrest.
Mrs. Gump: I know that. I know that. But it's twenty five thousand dollars,
Forrest. I thought maybe you could hold it for a while, see if it grows on
you.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I didn't stay home for long because I'd made a
promise to Bubba, and I always try to keep my promise, so I went on down to
Bayou La Batre to meet Bubba's family and make their introduction.
Mrs. Blue: Are you crazy or just plain stupid?
Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does, Mrs Blue.
Mrs. Blue: I guess.
[Forrest visits Bubba's grave and reads from the notes he's taken out of his
pocket]
Forrest Gump: Hey, Bubba. It's me, Forrest Gump. I remember everything you
said, and I got it all figured out. I'm taking the twenty-four thousand, five
hundred and six-two dollars and forty-seven cents that I got…well, that's-
that's left after a new haircut and a new suit and I took Mama out to a real
fancy dinner, and I bought a bus ticket, and three Dr Peppers.
[Forrest continues talking at Bubba’s grave]
Forrest Gump: That's what's left after me saying, "When I was in China on the
All-America ping-pong team, I just loved playing ping-pong with my Flex-o-
lite ping-pong paddle," which everybody knows isn't true, but Mama said it's
just a little white lie so it wouldn't hurt nobody. So anyway, I'm putting
all that on gas, ropes, and new nets and a brand-new shrimping boat.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now, Bubba had told me everything he knew about
shrimpin', but you know what I found out? Shrimpin' is tough.
[Forrest pulls a couple of shrimps out of a bucket]
Forrest Gump: I only caught five.
Old Shrimper Man: A couple more, you can have yourself a cocktail.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I thought about Jenny all the time.
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here?
Lt. Dan Taylor: Well, I thought I'd try out my sea legs.
Forrest Gump: Well, you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Yes, I know that. You wrote me a letter, you idiot. Well,
well. Captain Forrest Gump. I had to see this for myself. And I told you if
you were ever a shrimp boat captain, that I'd be your first mate. Well, here
I am. I'm a man of my word.
Forrest Gump: Okay.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Yeah, but don't you be thinking that I'm going to be calling
you "Sir."
Forrest Gump: No, sir.
[Forrest empties the net with their “catch” and debris falls to the deck]
Forrest Gump: Still no shrimp, Lieutenant Dan.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Okay, so I was wrong.
Forrest Gump: Well, how are we going to find them?
Lt. Dan Taylor: Well, maybe you should just pray for shrimp.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] So I went to church every Sunday. Sometimes
Lieutenant Dan came too, though I think he left the praying up to me.
[another catch of junk is dumped onto the deck]
Forrest Gump: [dejected] No shrimp.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Where the hell's this God of yours?
Forrest Gump: [voice over] It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, 'cause right
then God showed up.
[on the boat deck during a hurricane]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now, me, I was scared, but Lieutenant Dan, he was
mad.
[shouting to sky]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Come on! You call this a storm? Blow, you son of a bitch!
Blow! It's time for a showdown! You and me! I'm right here! Come and get me!
You'll never sink this boat!
[we then see news footage on TV shows hurricane Carmen came had hit the
coast, Bayou La Batre's entire shrimping industry]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] After that, shrimpin' was easy.
Forrest Gump: And since people still needed them shrimps for shrimp cocktails
and barbecues and all, and we were the only boat left standing "Bubba-Gump"
shrimp's what they got. We got a whole bunch of boats. Twelve Jenny's, big
ol' warehouse, we even have hats that says "Bubba-Gump" on them. "Bubba-Gump
Shrimp". It's a household name.
[cut to Forrest sitting on bus bench with man sitting next to Forrest
listening]
Man at bus bench: Hold on there, boy. Are you telling me you're the owner of
the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Corporation?
Forrest Gump: Yes. We got more money than Davy Crockett.
Man at bus bench: Boy, I heard some whoppers in my time, but that tops them
all. We were sitting next to a millionaire!
[the man laughs as he walks away]
[Forrest and Lt. Dan are working on the boat]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Forrest, I never thanked you for saving my life.
[Lt. Dan pulls himself out of his chair to the railing and jumps into the
water]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] He never actually said so, but I think he made his
peace with God.
Forrest Gump: What's the matter, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: I'm dying, Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.
Forrest Gump: Why are you dying, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid,
sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. Something we're all destined to do.
I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your mama. I did the best I could.
Forrest Gump: You did good.
Mrs. Gump: Well, I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to
do the best with what God gave you.
Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box
of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna to get.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Mama always had a way of explaining things so I
could understand them.
Mrs. Gump: I will miss you, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I
bought her a new hat with little flowers on it.
[back on the bus bench where the elderly woman sitting next to Forrest is
crying]
Forrest Gump: And that's all I have to say about that.
Forrest Gump: Now, because I had been a football star and a war hero and a
national celebrity and a shrimpin' boat captain and a college graduate, the
city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a
fine job. So I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan.
[we see Forrest riding a lawn tractor cutting the football field grass]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He
got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from
him saying we don't have to worry about money no more, and I said, "That's
good. One less thing." Now, Mama said there's only so much fortune a man
really needs, and the rest is just for showing off. So I gave a whole bunch
of it to the Four Square Gospel Church. And I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou
La Batre fishing hospital. And even though Bubba was dead and Lieutenant Dan
said I was nuts, I gave Bubba's mama Bubba's share. You know what? She didn't
have to work in nobody's kitchen no more.
[we see Forrest opening a letter from Apple Computers]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And 'cause I was a gozillionaire and I liked doing
it so much, I cut that grass for free. But at night-time when there was
nothing to do and the house was all empty, and the house was all empty, I'd
always think of Jenny. And then, she was there.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Jenny came back and stayed with me. Maybe it was
because she had nowhere else to go, or maybe it was because she was so tired,
'cause she went to bed and slept and slept, like she hadn't slept in years.
It was wonderful having her home.
[Jenny and Forrest walk up to Jenny old house where she had lived with her
father. Jenny suddenly heaves a rock angrily at the house]
Jenny Curran: [shouting] How could you do this?
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Sometimes I guess there just aren't enough rocks.
I never really knew why she came back, but I didn't care. It was like olden
times. We was like peas and carrots again.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And well, we was like family, Jenny and me…and
it was the happiest time in my life.
Forrest Gump: Will you marry me? I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
[Jenny turns and looks at him]
Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: But you won't marry me.
Jenny Curran: [sadly] You don't want to marry me.
Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
[Jenny says nothing]
Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man…but I know what love is.
[Forrest lies in his bed the door opens and Jenny gets into bed next to
Forrest]
Forrest Gump: Jenny?
Jenny Curran: Forrest, I do love you.
[Jenny and Forrest kiss and they make love]
[after Forrest discovers Jenny has left]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] That day, for no particular reason, I decided to
go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road, and when I got there, I
thought maybe I'd run to the end of town.
[three men in barbershop are sitting watching TV when Forrest runs through
the main street of town]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run
across Greenbow County. Now, thinking since I'd run this far, maybe I'd just
run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear
across Alabama. No particular reason. I just kept on going. I ran clear to
the ocean. And when I got there, I figured since I'd gone this far, might as
well turn around, just keep on going. And when I got to another ocean, I
figured since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back and keep
right on going. When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I
had to go…you know… I went.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I'd think a lot about Momma and Bubba, and
Lieutenant Dan, but most of all, I thought about Jenny. I thought about her a
lot.
[three men in the barber shop watch the news about Forrest on TV]
TV Newscaster: For more than two years now, a man named Forrest Gump, a
gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, stopping only to sleep, has been running
across America. Charles Cooper brings us this report.
[reporters ask Forrest his reasons for running all this time]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] They just couldn't believe that somebody would do
all that running for no reason.
Reporter: Why are you doing this?
Forrest Gump: I just felt like running.
[young man starts running and following Forrest]
Young Man: I mean, it was like an alarm went off in my head, you know. I
said, here's a guy that's got his act together. Here's somebody who's got it,
all figured out. Here's somebody who has the answer. I'll follow you
anywhere, Mr. Gump.
[running after Forrest]
Aging Hippie: Hey, man, hey, listen. I was wondering if you might help me,
huh? Listen, I'm in the bumper sticker business and I've been trying to think
up a good slogan. And since you have been such a big inspiration to the
people around here, I thought you might be able to help me jump into… Whoa!
Man, you just ran through a big pile of dogshit!
Forrest Gump: It happens.
Aging Hippie: What, shit?
Forrest Gump: Sometimes.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And some years later, I heard that that fella did
come up with a bumper sticker slogan and he made a lot of money off of it.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Another time, I was running along, somebody who'd
lost all his money in the T-shirt business, and he wanted to put my face on a
T-shirt, but he couldn't draw that well, and he didn't have a camera.
Wild Eyed Man: Here, use this one. Nobody likes that color anyway.
[Forrest wipes his face on the T-shirt and hands it back to the man]
Forrest Gump: Have a nice day.
[the man looks at the T-shirt, holding up displaying the “Happy Face”]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And some years later, I found out that that man
did come up with an idea for a T-shirt. He made a lot of money off of it.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company.
My Mama always said you got to put the past behind you before you can move
on. And I think that's what my running was all about. I had run for three
years, two months, fourteen days, and sixteen hours.
[Forrest stops running and the group running behind him stops waiting
expectantly]
Young Man: Quiet. Quiet. He's going to say something.
[Forrest pauses for a moment before speaking]
Forrest Gump: I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now.
[Forrest turns and the group parts for Forrest as he walks down the middle of
the road]
Young Man: Now what are we supposed to do?
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And just like that, my runnin' days was over. So I
went home to Alabama.
[back on the bus bench an Elderly Woman is listening to Forrest’s story]
Forrest Gump: And one day, out of the blue clear sky, I got a letter from
Jenny wondering if I could come down to Savannah and see her, and that's what
I'm doing here. She saw me on TV, running. I'm supposed to go on the number
nine bus to Richmond Street and get off and go one block left to 1-9-4-7
Henry Street, apartment 4.
Elderly Woman: Why, you don't need to take a bus. Henry Street is just five
or six blocks down that way.
Jenny Curran: Listen, Forrest, I don't know how to say this. I just I want to
apologize for anything that I ever did to you 'cause I was messed up for a
long time, and…
Jenny Curran: There. Listen, Forrest. I don't know how to say this. Um, I
just…I want to apologize for anything that I ever did to you, 'cause I was
messed up for a long time, and…
Forrest Gump: You're a mama, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: I'm a mama. His name is Forrest.
Forrest Gump: Like me!
Jenny Curran: I named him after his daddy.
Forrest Gump: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?
Jenny Curran: You're his daddy, Forrest.
[Forrest then looks frightened and starts to back away]
Jenny Curran: Hey, Forrest, look at me. Look at me, Forrest. There's nothing
you need to do. Okay? You didn't do anything wrong. Okay? Isn't he beautiful?
Forrest Gump: He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But…is, is he
smart? Or is he…
Jenny Curran: He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class. Yeah,
it's okay. Go talk to him.
Jenny Curran: Forrest, I'm sick.
Forrest Gump: What, do you have a cough due to a cold?
Jenny Curran: I have some kind virus. And the doctors don't, they don't know
what it is. And there isn't anything they can do about it.
Forrest Gump: You could come home with me. Jenny, you and little Forrest
could come stay at my house in Greenbow. I'll take care of you if you're
sick.
Jenny Curran: Would you marry me, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: [pause] Okay.
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Hello, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: You got new legs. [to Jenny] New legs!
Lt. Dan Taylor: Yeah. I got new legs. Custom-made titanium alloy. It's what
they use on the space shuttle.
Forrest Gump: Magic legs.
Lt. Dan Taylor: This is my fiancée, Susan.
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan!
Susan: Hi, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan, this is my Jenny.
Jenny Curran: Hi. It's nice to meet you finally.
Jenny Curran: Hey, Forrest, were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest Gump: Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long
enough for the stars to come out. And then it was nice. It was like just
before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was over a million
sparkles on the water. Like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny. It
looked like there were two skies, one on top of the other. And then in the
desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the
earth began. It was so beautiful.
Jenny Curran: I wish I could've been there with you.
Forrest Gump: You were.
Jenny Curran: I love you.
[Forrest stands under the old oak tree where Jenny’s been buried]
Forrest Gump: You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under
our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Mama
always said that dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little
Forrest is doing just fine. About to start school again soon, and I make his
breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and
brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really
good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny.
You'd be so proud of him. I am. He wrote you a letter. And he says I can't
read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you.
[Forrest places the letter down at the grave marker]
Forrest Gump: Jenny, I don't know if mama was right or if it's Lieutenant
Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating
around accidental-like on a breeze. But I…I think maybe it's both. Maybe
both is happening at the same time. But I miss you, Jenny. If there's
anything you need, I won't be far away.
[Forrest is waiting with Forrest Jr. for the school bus on little Forrest's
first day of
school in Greenbow, the bus arrives and little Forrest is about to board it]
Forrest Gump: Hey, Forrest. Don't… I wanted to tell you I love you.
Forrest Gump Jr.: I love you, too, Daddy.
Forrest Gump: I'll be right here when you get back.
[last lines]
Dorothy Harris: You understand this is the bus to the school now, don't you?
Forrest Gump Jr.: Of course, and you're Dorothy Harris and I'm Forrest Gump.
[Forrest Jr. gets on the bus, the bus pulls away. Forrest stands next to the
mailbox then sits down, we see the same feather from the beginning of the
movie lying at Forrest's feet and a gust of wind picks it up and it floats up
in the air]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Two standing orders in this platoon. One, take good care of
your feet. Two, try not to do anything stupid, like getting yourself killed.
[Bubba and Forrest look at each other]
Forrest Gump: I sure hope I don't let him down.
[describing Vietnam]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I got to see a lot of countryside. We would take
these real long walks. And we were always lookin' for this guy named Charlie.
[Forrest’s unit walking along a dirt road in Vietnam following Lt. Dan]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] It wasn't always fun. Lieutenant Dan was always
getting these funny feelings about a rock or a trail or the road, so he'd
tell us to "get down, shut up!"
Lt. Dan Taylor: Get down! Shut up!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] So we did.
[describing the men in his platoon]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now, I don't know much about anything, but I think
some of America's best young men served in this war. There was Dallas from
Phoenix. Cleveland, he was from Detroit.
Cleveland: Hey, Tex. Hey Tex. Man, what the hell's going on?
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And Tex was…well, I don't remember where Tex
come from.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for
four months. We've been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty
stinging rain…and big old fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And
sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it
even rained at night.
[it's raining heavily on the men of the platoon as they sit in a camp, Bubba
sits down next to Forrest leaning his back up against Forrest's back]
Bubba: Hey, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: 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're
a good partnership, Forrest? 'Cause we be watching out for one another, like
brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest, somethin' I 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 Gump: Okay.
Bubba: Man, I tell you what. I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of
shrimp will 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 telling
you, fifty-fifty. And, hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.
Forrest Gump: That's a fine idea.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Bubba did have a fine idea. I even wrote Jenny and
told her all about it.
Forrest Gump: [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.
[while being ambushed]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Goddammit, Mac! Get that pig unfucked and get it in the
treeline!
[talks into the radio]
Lt. Dan Taylor: [to his men] Pull back! Pull back!
Bubba: Forrest! Run! Run, Forrest!
Lt. Dan Taylor: Pull back!
Bubba: Forrest! Run! Run, Forrest! Run! Run!
Lt. Dan: Pull back, Gump! Run, goddamn it! Run!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I ran and ran just like Jenny told me to. I ran so
far and so fast that pretty soon I was all by myself, which was a bad thing.
Forrest Gump: Bubba!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Bubba was my best good friend. I had to make sure
he was okay.
[Forrest runs back into the jungle to look for Bubba. He can hear soldiers
shouting to each other. He stops]
Forrest Gump: Bubba!
[he turns and sees wounded soldier has put up his hand]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And on my way back to find Bubba, well there was
this boy laying on the ground.
Forrest Gump: Tex! Okay.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I couldn't let him lay there all alone and scared
the way he was, so I grabbed him up and run him out of there. And every time
I went back looking for Bubba, somebody else was saying, "Help me, Forrest,
help me!"
[Forrest runs back towards the jungle and keeps encountering wounded soldiers
from his platoon]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I started to get scared that I might never find
Bubba.
[Forrest tries to pick up Lt. Dan, who tries to push Forrest away]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Goddamn it! What are you doing? You leave me here! Get away.
Just leave me here! Get out! Oh God, I said leave me here, Goddamn it!
[Forrest pulls Lt. Dan over his shoulder and runs through the jungle]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Then it felt like something just jumped up and bit
me.
Forrest Gump: Ah…something bit me!
[shouting and shooting into the jungle]
Lt. Dan Taylor: You dink son of a bitch! [to Forrest] 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? Gump, damn it, put me down. Get your ass out
of here. I didn't ask you to pull me out of there, God damn you!
[Forrest drops Lt. Dan down at the bank, next to the other wounded soldiers]
Lt. Dan Taylor: [angrily] Where do you think you're going?
Forrest Gump: To get Bubba.
Lt. Dan Taylor: I got an air strike inbound right now. They're going to nape
the whole area. Gump, you stay here, goddammit! That's an order!
[Forrest runs back through the jungle searching for Bubba]
Forrest Gump: I gotta find Bubba!
[Forrest finds Bubba who has been wounded, his chest has been blown open]
Bubba: I'm okay, Forrest. I'm okay.
Forrest Gump: Oh, Bubba, no!
Bubba: Naw, I'm gonna be all right.
Forrest Gump: Come on. Come on. Come here…
Bubba: I'm okay, Forrest. I'm Okay. I'm fine.
[Forrest carries Bubba to the bank of the river. Lt. Dan and the other
wounded soldiers]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] If I'd have known this was going to be the last
time me and Bubba was gonna talk, I'd of thought of something better to say.
Forrest Gump: Hey, Bubba.
Bubba: Hey, Forrest. Forrest, why did this happen?
Forrest Gump: You got shot.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Then Bubba said something I won't ever forget.
Bubba: I wanna go home.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know
that ain't somethin' 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.
[back on the bus bench]
Forrest Gump: That's all I have to say about that.
[a man is sitting next Forrest on the Bus Bench now listening to his story]
Man at bus bench: It was a bullet, wasn't it?
Forrest Gump: A bullet?
Man at bus bench: That jumped up and bit you.
Forrest Gump: Oh Yes, sir. Bit me directly in the but-tocks. 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 but-
tocks…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, his butt sticks up and
is bandaged, Lt. Dan is lying on the bed next to Forrest's]
Forrest Gump: 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]
Male Nurse: It's time for your bath, Lieutenant.
[the male nurse picks up Lt. Dan, whose legs have been amputated]
[Forrest is watching “Gomer Pyle” on the TV]
Solider: Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? Turn it off.
[Forrest is hit on the back of his head by a ping pong]
Soldier: Good catch, Gump. You know how to play this? Come on. Let me show
you. Now the secret to this game is, no matter what happens, never, ever take
your eye off the ball. [starts hitting the ping pong back and forth, Forrest
keeps his eyes on the ball]
Soldier: Alright.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] For some reason, ping-pong came very natural to
me.
Soldier: See? Any idiot can play.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] So I started playing it all the time. I played
ping-pong even when I didn't have anyone to play ping-pong with. 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. I played ping-pong
so much, I even played it in my sleep.
[Forrest lies in his bed asleep when suddenly Lt. Dan pulls Forrest to the
floor, and holds Forrest down]
Lt. Dan Taylor: 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 goddamn 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 Gump: Ye-yes, sir, I do.
Lt. Dan Taylor: 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 Taylor.
Forrest Gump: Yo-you're still Lieutenant Dan.
[Lt. Dan sits up]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Look at me. What am I going to do now? What am I going to do
now?
[TV news reel shows Forrest is being awarded the Medal of Honor by President
Johnson]
President Lyndon B. Johnson: America owes you a debt of gratitude, son. I
understand you were wounded. Where were you hit?
Forrest Gump: In the but-tocks, sir.
President Lyndon B. Johnson: Well, that must be a sight.
[Whispering to Forrest]
President Lyndon B. Johnson: I'd like to see that.
[Forrest drops his pants, bends over and shows the bullet wound on his bare
buttocks, President Johnson looks down, smiles and walks away shaking his
head]
President Lyndon B. Johnson: Goddamn, son!
[Forrest is walking by the Lincoln Memorial and gets caught up in an anti-war
rally led by activist Abbie Hoffman]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] There was this man giving a little talk. And for
some reason, he was wearing an American flag for a shirt. And he liked to say
the "F" Word. A lot. "F" This and "F" That. And every time he said the "F"
Word, people, for some reason, well, they'd cheer.
[on the stage Abbie Hoffmann steps up to Forrest]
Abbie Hoffman: Tell us a little bit about the war, man.
Forrest Gump: The war in Vietnam?
[into the microphone]
Abbie Hoffman: The war in Viet-fucking-nam!
[audience cheers]
[after Forrest have given his speech about Vietnam war]
Abbie Hoffman: That's so right on, man. You said it all. What's your name,
man?
Forrest Gump: My name is Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Abbie Hoffman: Forrest Gump.
Crowd: Gump!
Jenny Curran: [shouting] Forrest! Forrest!
Forrest Gump: Jenny!
[Forrest sees Jenny in the crowd and jumps into the crowd to run towards her.
They both run through the water in the reflection pool. The crowd cheers once
they embrace]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] It was the happiest moment of my life. Jenny and
me were just like peas and carrots again. She showed me around and even
introduced me to some of her new friends.
[Jenny has taken him to the Black Panther Headquarters]
[to Forrest at the Black Panther Headquarters]
Ruben: Shut that blind, man. And get your white ass away from that window.
Don't you know we in war here?
[Forrest tackles Wesley, Jenny's boyfriend, when he has hit Jenny across the
face]
Jenny Curran: Forrest! Stop it! Stop it!
Wesley: I shouldn't have brought you here. I should have known it was going
to be some bullshit hassle!
Forrest Gump: He should not be hitting you, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: Come on, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.
Jenny Curran: He doesn't mean it when he does things like this. He doesn't
Forrest Gump: I would never hurt you, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: I know you wouldn't, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: I wanted to be your boyfriend.
[they walk in silence]
Jenny Curran: That uniform is a trip, Forrest. You look handsome in it. You
do.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] We walked around all night, Jenny and me, just
talkin'. She told me about all the traveling she'd done and how she
discovered ways to expand her mind and learn how to live in harmony, which
must be out west somewhere, 'cause she made it all the way to California.
[Jenny is preparing to board a bus back to Berkeley]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] It was a very special night for the two of us. I
didn't want it to end.
Forrest Gump: Wish you wouldn't go, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: I have to, Forrest.
Wesley: Jenny? Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that
lying son of a bitch Johnson and…I would never hurt you. You know that.
Forrest Gump: Know what I think? I think you should go home to Greenbow,
Alabama!
Jenny Curran: Forrest, we have very different lives, you know.
Forrest Gump: I want you to have this.
[he places his Medal of Honor in Jenny’s hand]
Jenny Curran: Forrest, I can't keep this.
Forrest Gump: I got it just by doing what you told me to do.
Jenny Curran: Why are you so good to me?
Forrest Gump: You're my girl.
Jenny Curran: I'll always be your girl.
[they embrace and Jenny boards onto the bus with Wesley]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And just like that, she was gone out of my life
again.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead
they decided the best way for me to fight the communists was to play ping-
pong, so I was in the Special Services, traveling around the country,
cheering up all them wounded veterans and showing 'em how to play ping-pong.
I was so good that some years later the Army decided that I should be on the
All-American ping-pong team. We were the first Americans to visit the land of
China in like a million years or something like that, and somebody said world
peace was in our hands, but all I did was play ping-pong. When I got home I
was a national celebrity. Famouser even than Captain Kangaroo.
[Forrest being interviewed on the Dick Cavett show]
Forrest Gump: In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
John Lennon: No possessions?
Forrest Gump: And in China they never go to church.
John Lennon: No religion too?
Dick Cavett: Oh. Hard to imagine.
John Lennon: Well it's easy if you try, Dick.
[Forrest sees Lt. Dan. outside the TV studio, he's in a wheelchair looking
dirty with long hair]
Lt. Dan Taylor: They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir. They surely did.
Lt. Dan Taylor: They gave you, an imbecile, a moron who goes on television
and makes a fool out of himself in front of the whole damn country, the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Well, then, that's just perfect! Yeah, well, I just got one
thing to say to that. Goddamn bless America.
[Lt. Dan's wheelchair begins to slide down the ramp and spins crashing at the
bottom of the ramp]
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Lieutenant Dan said he was living in a hotel. And
because he didn't have no legs, he spent most of his time exercising his
arms.
Forrest Gump: What do you do here in New York, Lt. Dan?
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I am living off the government tit! Sucking it dry!
Lt. Dan Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.
[Lt. Dan chuckles]
Lt. Dan Taylor: That's all these cripples at the VA, that's all they ever
talk about. Jesus this and Jesus that. Have I found Jesus? They even had a
priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening, but I have to help
myself. Now, if I accept Jesus into my heart, I'll get to walk beside him in
the kingdom of heaven.
[he becomes enraged as he throws the bottle and looks at Forrest]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of
heaven. Well, kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of shit.
Forrest Gump: I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Oh? Ah, well, before you go, why don't you get your ass down
to the corner and get us another bottle of ripple.
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir.
Lt. Dan Taylor: What the hell is in Bayou La Batre?
Forrest Gump: Shrimpin' boats.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Shrimping boats? Who gives a shit about shrimping boats?
Forrest Gump: I gotta buy me one of them shrimpin' boats as soon as I have
some money. I made me a promise to Bubba in Vietnam, that as soon as the war
was over, we'd go in partners. He'd be the captain of the shrimpin' boat and
I'd be his first mate. But now that he's dead, that means I gotta be the
captain.
Lt. Dan Taylor: A shrimp boat captain.
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir. A promise is a promise, Lieutenant Dan.
[Lt. Dan starts to chuckle and shouts]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Now hear this! Private Gump here is gonna be a shrimp boat
captain. Well, I tell you what, Gilligan. The day that you are a shrimp boat
captain, I will come and be your first mate.
Forrest Gump: Okay.
Lt. Dan Taylor: If you're ever a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an
astronaut!
Lenore: Mr Hot Wheels. Who's your friend?
Forrest Gump: My name is Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Lt. Dan Taylor: This is Cunning Carla and Long-limbs Lenore.
[Forrest is back in Lt. Dan's hotel room. Lenore leaps on him and begins to
kiss him and grabbing his crotch. Forrest stands up nervously, causing Lenore
to fall down on the floor]
Lenore: [angrily] What are you, stupid or something? What's your problem?
What's his problem? Did you lose your pecker in the war or something?
Carla: Is your friend stupid or something?
Lt. Dan Taylor: What did you say?
Carla: I said is your friend stupid or something?
Lt. Dan Taylor: Hey! Don't call him stupid!
Lenore: Hey, don't push her!
Lt. Dan Taylor: You shut up! Don't you ever call him stupid!
Carla: What's the matter, baby? Why you so upset?
Lt. Dan Taylor: Get the hell out of here!
Lenore: You stupid gimp. You belong in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not."
Lt. Dan Taylor: Get your goddamn clothes and get the hell out of here!
Lenore: You should be in a sideshow. You're so pathetic!
Lt. Dan Taylor: Get out of here!
Carla: You retard!
Lenore: Loser. You freak!
Forrest Gump: I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan.
She tastes like cigarettes.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I guess Lieutenant Dan figured there's some things
you can't change. He didn't want to be called crippled just, like I didn't
want to be called stupid.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Happy New Year, Gump.
[President Nixon awarding Forest U.S table tennis tournament medal in 1972]
President Richard M. Nixon: So are you enjoying yourself in our nation's
capital, young man?
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir.
President Richard M. Nixon: Well, where are you staying?
Forrest Gump: It's called the Hotel Ebbott.
President Richard M. Nixon: Oh, no, no, no, no. I know of a much nicer hotel.
It's brand new. Very modern. I'll have my people take care of it for you.
[in the Watergate hotel on phone with security]
Forrest Gump: Yeah. Sir…You might want to send a maintenance man over to
that office across the way. The lights are off and they must be looking for a
fuse box, 'cause them flashlights they're… they're keeping me awake.
Security: Okay, sir. I'll check it out.
Forrest Gump: Thank you.
Security: No Problem.
Forrest Gump: Good night.
[Forrest hangs up the phone and by the phone is the hotel stationary, which
reads "The Watergate Hotel"]
[President Nixon making his resignation speech on TV]
President Richard M. Nixon: Therefore, I shall resign the presidency
effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President
at that hour in this office.
[Forrest is playing ping-pong by himself at the gymnasium. An officer steps
up to him]
Officer: Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump: Yes, sir!
Officer: As you were. I have your discharge papers. Service is up, son.
Forrest Gump: Does this mean I can't play ping-pong no more?
Officer: For the Army, it does.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And just like that, my service in the United
States Army was over. So I went home.
[a feather floats through the air and finally lands on Forrest's muddy
trainers. He picks up the feather and places it in his book]
[first lines]
Forrest Gump: Hello. My name's Forrest, Forrest Gump. [he opens a box of
chocolates and holds it out to a nurse sat next to him]
Forrest Gump: You want a chocolate?
Forrest Gump: My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You
never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump: Those must be comfortable shoes, I bet you could walk all day
in shoes like those and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.
Nurse at Bus Bench: My feet hurt.
Forrest Gump: Mama always said there's an awful lot you can tell about a
person by their shoes. Where they're going, where they've been. I've worn
lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first
pair of shoes. Mama said they'd take me anywhere. She said they was my magic
shoes.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after the
great Civil War hero General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we was related
to him in some way. What he did was he started up this club called the Ku
Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act
like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something'. They'd even put bed sheets on
their horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest
Gump. Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do
things that, well, just don't make no sense.
[to young Forrest]
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 Gump: [voice over] Mama always had a way of explaining things so I
could understand them.
[to young Forrest]
Mrs. Gump: Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than
anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You're the same as
everybody else. You are no different.
[in the school Principal’s office]
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 holds up a I.Q chart and points to the center of the graph,
labeled "Normal"]
Principal: I want to show you something, Mrs Gump. Now, this is normal.
Forrest is right here. The state requires a minimum I.Q. of eighty to attend
public school Mrs Gump. He's going to 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 gonna get the same opportunities as everyone else. He's
not going to some special school to learn how to retread tyres. We're talking
about five little points here. There must be somethin' can be done.
Principal: We're a progressive school system. We don't want to see anybody
left behind. Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump?
Mrs. Gump: He's on vacation.
[Forrest sitting outside his house, he can hear loud male grunts coming from
inside the house. Then the school principal steps out and wipes the sweat
from his face]
Principal: Well, your mama sure does care about your schooling, son.
[Forrest remains quiet]
Principal: You don't say much, do you?
[Forrest imitates the noises he had just heard]
Young Forrest Gump: eh, eh, eh, eh, eh…
Young Forrest Gump: Mama, what's vacation mean?
Mrs. Gump: Vacation?
Young Forrest Gump: Where daddy went?
Mrs. Gump: Vacation's when you go somewhere…and you don't ever come back.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I remember the bus ride on the first day of school
very well.
[the school bus driver opens the door, Forrest steps on to the bus and looks
at the driver]
Dorothy Harris: Are you coming along?
Young Forrest Gump: Mama said not to be takin' rides from strangers.
Dorothy Harris: This is the bus to school.
Young Forrest Gump: I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.
Dorothy Harris: I'm Dorothy Harris.
Young Forrest Gump: Well, now we ain't strangers anymore.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] You know, it's funny what a young man recollects,
'cause I don't remember being born. 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 sweetest voice in the wide world.
[back on the school bus a young girl about Forrest’s age speaks up]
Young Jenny Curran: You can sit here if you want.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life.
She was like an angel.
Young Jenny Curran: Well, are you going to sit down or aren't ya?
[Forrest sits down next to her]
Young Jenny Curran: What's wrong with your legs?
Young Forrest Gump: Nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and
dandy.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I just sat next to her on that bus and had a
conversation all the way to school.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Next to Mama, no one ever talked to me or asked me
questions.
Young Jenny Curran: Are you stupid or something?
Young Forrest Gump: Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does."
Young Jenny Curran: I'm Jenny.
Young Forrest Gump: I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] From that day on, we was always together. Jenny
and me was like peas and carrots. She taught me how to climb…
[Jenny is sitting on a tree branch]
Young Jenny Curran: Come on, Forrest, you can do it.
Forrest Gump: [voice over]…I showed her how to dangle. She helped me learn
how to read, and I showed her how to swing. Sometimes, we'd just sit out and
wait for the stars.
[referring to his friendship with Jenny]
Forrest Gump: [voice over]She was my most special friend. My only friend.
[talking to the nurse on the bench who doesn't seem to be listening as she
reads her magazine]
Forrest Gump: My Mama always told me that miracles happen every day. Some
people don't think so, but they do.
Boy 1: Hey, dummy!
Boy 2: Are you retarded, or just plain stupid?
Boy 3: Look, I'm Forrest Gump.
Young Jenny Curran: Just run away, Forrest. Run, Forrest! Run away! Hurry!
[when bullies from school start chasing young Forrest]
Young Jenny Curran: Run, Forrest, run! Run, Forrest!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now, you wouldn't believe it if I told you, but I
can run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I
was running.
[young Forrest running away from the bullies runs across the street where two
old men siting in a barber shop notice him]
Old man in barbershop: That boy sure is a runnin' fool!
[young Jenny's father is chasing her through the fields to beat her when she
stops and hides in the corn field]
Young Jenny Curran: Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me. 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…
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Mama always said God is mysterious. He didn't turn
Jenny into a bird that day. Instead, he had the po-lice say Jenny didn't have
to stay in that house no more. She was to live with her grandma, just over on
Creekmore Avenue, which made me happy, 'cause she was so close. Some nights,
Jenny'd sneak out and come on over to my house, just 'cause she said she was
scared. Scared of what, I don't know. But I think it was her grandma's dog.
He was a mean dog. Anyway, Jenny and me was best friends all the way up
through high school.
[back on the bus bench Forrest continues his story]
Forrest Gump: Now, it used to be, I ran to get where I was goin'. I never
thought it would take me anywhere.
[a grown Forrest running away from the local bullies runs across the high
school football field during a football scrimmage]
Football Coach: Who in the hell is that?
Assistant Football Coach: That there is Forrest Gump, coach. Just a local
idiot.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And can you believe it? I got to go to college,
too.
[Forrest is in the University of Alabama football team and one of his
teammates runs over and hands him the ball]
Coach Bryant: Run, you stupid son of a bitch! Run!
[Forrest runs across the field getting past everyone scoring a touch down but
continues to run, smashing through the band members, then all the way toward
the team tunnel]
Coach Bryant: He must be the stupidest son of a bitch alive, but he sure is
fast!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now, maybe it's just me, but college was very
confusing times.
[in Jenny’s college dorm room]
Jenny Curran: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Forrest Gump: Who I'm gonna be?
Jenny Curran: Yeah.
Forrest Gump: Aren't I gonna to be me?
Jenny Curran: You'll always be you, just another kind of you. You know? I
want to be
famous. I want to be a singer like Joan Baez. I just want to be on an empty
stage with my guitar, my voice. Just me. And I want to reach people on a
personal level. I want to be able to say things, just one to one.
[Jenny has taken off her slip and sits on the bed next to Forrest with only
her bra and panties. Forrest looks at her nervously]
Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: [nervously] I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all
the time.
[Jenny removes her bra and takes his hand and guides it up to her breast,
Forrest looks at Jenny's breasts then shudders as he has an orgasm]
Forrest Gump: Ohh…Oh…I'm sorry. Sorry.
Jenny Curran: It's okay.
Forrest Gump: Sorry.
Jenny Curran: It's all right. It's okay.
Forrest Gump: Oh…I'm dizzy.
Jenny Curran: I'll bet that never happened in Home Ec.
Forrest Gump: No. I think I ruined your roommate's bathrobe.
Jenny Curran: I don't care. I don't like her, anyway.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] College ran by real fast 'cause I played so much
football. They even put me on a thing called the All-America team where you
get to meet the President of the United States.
[Forrest is at the White House Standing in front of a food table with a large
spread of
food and soda]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] The really good thing about meeting the President
of the United States is the food. They put you in this little room with just
about anything you'd want to eat or drink. But since, number one, I wasn't
hungry, but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must have drank me
about fifteen Dr. Peppers.
[Black and white news reel footage shows President Kennedy shaking hands with
the All-American football players, Forrest steps up to the President to shake
his hand]
President Kennedy: Congratulations. How do you feel?
Forrest Gump: I gotta pee.
[President Kennedy turns and smiles to the camera]
President Kennedy: I believe he said he had to pee.
[Forrest has just graduated from college]
Military Recruit Officer: Congratulations, son. Have you given any thought to
your future?
[Forrest looks a the military pamphlet the recruit officer has just handed to
him]
Forrest Gump: "Thought"?
Forrest Gump: Hello. I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Army Bus Driver: Nobody gives a horse's shit who you are, fuzzballl! You're
not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! Get your maggoty ass on the bus!
You're in the army now!
Forrest Gump: [voice over] At first it seemed like I made a mistake seeing
how it was only my induction day, and I was getting yelled at.
[Forrest steps forward, looking much like he did on his first bus ride to
school years ago when no one would let him sit next to them]
Bubba: Sit down if you want to.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I didn't know who I might meet or what they might
ask.
[Bubba has just offered Forrest the seat next to him on the army bus]
Bubba: You ever been on a real shrimp boat?
Forrest Gump: No. But I been on a real big boat.
Bubba: I'm talkin' about a shrimp catchin' boat. I been working on shrimp
boats all my life. I started out on my uncle's boat, that's my mama's
brother, when I was about maybe nine. I was just lookin' into buyin' my own
boat and got drafted. My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me
Bubba, just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?
Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] So Bubba was from Bayou la Batre, Alabama, and his
mama cooked shrimp. And her mama before her cooked shrimp, and her mama
before her mama cooked shrimp, too. Bubba's family knew everything 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 by myself after I get
out of the army.
Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?
Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!
Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump, you're a goddamn genius. That's the most
outstanding answer I've ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of a hundred
and sixty! You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump.
Forrest Gump: [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, and always answer every question with "Yes,
drill sergeant."
Drill Sergeant: …Is that clear?
Forrest Gump: [shouts] Yes, drill sergeant!
[the recruits are assembling their rifles]
Bubba: What you do is you just drag your nets along 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 has finished assembling his rifle]
Forrest Gump: DONE, DRILL SERGEANT!
Drill Sergeant: GUUUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly,
Gump?
Forrest Gump: [confused] You told me to, Drill Sergeant?
Drill Sergeant: Jesus H. Christ! [looks at stopwatch] This is a new company
record! If it wouldn't be such a waste of a damn-fine enlisted man I'd
recommend you for OCS! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump, now
disassemble your weapon and continue!
[Bubba continues talking about shrimp to Forrest]
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's uh, shrimp kabobs,
shrimp creole…
[the next day Bubba continues when their shining their shoes]
Bubba: …shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple
shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp…
[the next day Bubba continues when they are on their hands and knees
scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes]
Bubba: …shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp in potatoes, shrimp
burger, shrimp sandwich. That-that's about it.
[Forrest visits Jenny in the night club she's working at, she's sitting on a
stool on the stage naked and begins to play her guitar and sing]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Her dream had come true. She was a folk singer.
[after Forrest has carried Jenny away from the stage in the night club where
she was singing topless]
Jenny Curran: You can't keep doing this, Forrest. You can't keep tryin' to
rescue me all the time.
Forrest Gump: They was tryin' to grab you.
Jenny Curran: A lot of people try to grab me. You…you can't keep doing this
all the time.
Forrest Gump: I can't help it. I love you.
Jenny Curran: Forrest, you don't know what love is.
[Jenny turns and looks over the bridge]
Jenny Curran: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 Gump: Yes, I do.
Jenny Curran: You think I could fly off this bridge?
Forrest Gump: What do you mean, Jenny?
Jenny Curran: Nothing.
Forrest Gump: They sending me to Vietnam. It's this whole other country.
[to the driver]
Jenny Curran: Just hang on a minute.
[to Forrest]
Jenny Curran: 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 Gump: Okay. Jenny, I'll write you all the time.
[Jenny takes a last look at Forrest, then climbs into the truck which drives
away]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] And just like that, she was gone.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Now. they told us that Vietnam was going to be
very different from the United States of America. Except for all the beer
cans and the barbecues, it was.
[to Forrest]
Bubba: Y'know I'll bet there's shrimp all in these waters. They tell me these
Vietnams is good shrimp. After we win this war and we take over everything,
we can get American shrimpers to come out here and shrimp these waters. We'll
just shrimp all the time, man.
[Forrest and Bubba salute Lt. Dan]
Lt. Dan Taylor: Ho! Get your hands down. Do not salute me. There are goddamn
snipers all around this area who'd love to grease an officer. I'm Lieutenant
Dan Taylor. Welcome to Fort Platoon.
[Lt. Dan looks at Bubba]
Lt. Dan Taylor: What's wrong with your lip?
Bubba: I was born with big gums, sir.
Lt. Dan Taylor: Well, you better tuck that in. Gonna get that caught on a
trip wire. Where are you boys from in the world?
Bubba, Forrest Gump: Alabama, sir!
Lt. Dan Taylor: You twins?
[Forrest and Bubba look at each other oddly not getting the joke]
Forrest Gump: No. We are not relations, sir.
Forrest Gump: [voice over] Lieutenant 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.
[we see 3 different settings where distant relatives of Lt. Dan are fighting
in major American wars]
Forrest Gump: [voice over] I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to.