Forrest Gump Meet the President Again
| Forrest Gump | |
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| Forrest Gump graphic symbol | |
 Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in the eponymous film | |
| Showtime appearance | Forrest Gump (1986) |
| Terminal appearance | Gump and Co. (1995) |
| Created past | Winston Groom |
| Portrayed past |
Other:
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| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male person |
| Occupation | Philanthropist Ping-pong thespian (formerly) Shrimping boat captain (formerly) Vietnam War sergeant (formerly) Higher football player (formerly) |
| Family | Mrs. Gump (mother) (deceased) Mr. Gump (on vacation) |
| Spouse | Jennifer "Jenny" Gump (nee Curran) (deceased) |
| Children | Forrest Gump Jr. |
Forrest Alexander Gump is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1986 novel past Winston Groom, Robert Zemeckis's 1994 moving-picture show of the same proper name, and Gump and Co., the written sequel to Groom's novel.
In the moving picture, Forrest is a college football All-American running back, Vietnam veteran and Medal of Laurels recipient, champion international ping pong role player, businessman and philanthropist whose accomplishments and pursuits bring him to experience critical events in the 20th century, and encounter diverse significant people, including Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
He exudes a empathetic, optimistic, and tenacious mental attitude in the face of endless setbacks. Thriving from the strong upbringing of his mother, he strives to aid every person he meets despite his stiff naïveté and some people's negative perception of him due to his lack of intellect. Throughout his life, he maintains a sincere love for his childhood friend Jennifer Curran, whom he affectionately calls Jenny and eventually comes to marry.
Tom Hanks portrayed the character in the film and earned his second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor for his functioning (Hanks won the previous twelvemonth for Philadelphia), while Michael Conner Humphreys portrayed Forrest equally a child.
In 2019, Forrest Gump was named the 27th greatest movie character of all time by Empire magazine.[1]
Fictional graphic symbol biography [edit]
Early years [edit]
Forrest was born near the small boondocks of Greenbow, Alabama, on June 6, 1944. His father was absent during his life, and his mother said he was "on vacation". His mother named Forrest after their ancestor Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Scotch-Irish gaelic American[2] and a noted Confederate general in the American Civil War and the kickoff Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. She intended his name to be a reminder that "sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense".
Forrest was born with strong legs but a crooked spine. He was forced to wear leg braces which made walking difficult and running nigh impossible. This was likely attributed to polio, or "poliomyelitis," a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus. He also had a relatively low I.Q. of 75, which nearly prevented him from existence accepted into public school; his mother managed to get the master to reconsider by letting him sleep with her. Despite his physical and mental challenges, Forrest'due south mother told him non to permit anyone tell him he was different, telling him "stupid is as stupid does".
Forrest and his mother lived in a large house just outside the town of Greenbow in the land of Alabama. They made money by renting out rooms to travelers. One of their guests was a young Elvis Presley. Forrest liked dancing to Elvis' music and his leg braces gave him a unique dancing mode that would inspire Elvis'due south "hip dancing", for his song "Hound Domestic dog".
On the double-decker ride on Forrest'south first day of school, Forrest met Jenny Curran and was instantly taken by her. "I had never seen anything and then beautiful in my life," he would after say of her, "she was like an affections." The two became shut friends, often playing around a large nearby tree. Forrest described their relationship saying, "Jenny and me was similar peas and carrots." Jenny was one of the few people besides his female parent to accept Forrest equally he was, helping him acquire to read and stand upwards to bullies who harassed him. Nonetheless, Jenny's home life was not nearly as happy as Forrest'south: her female parent had died when she was 5 and her male parent was an calumniating alcoholic who molested and beat his children (until Jenny was taken away to alive with her grandmother), and Forrest'southward friendship offered her an escape.
Ane day, a grouping of bullies were throwing rocks at Forrest, and one of them cutting his forehead. Jenny told Forrest, "Run Forrest run!", which he did, only to prompt the bullies to chase him on their bikes. As Forrest struggled to run, his leg braces broke apart. In one case he was free of them, Forrest was able to run incredibly fast. Forrest would never wear leg braces over again, and was able to run anywhere he wanted to later that.
Higher [edit]
Forrest and Jenny remained close friends all the way through high school, though he remained a target for bullies. One solar day, while running from some bullies, he interrupted the local high school's football game practice by running beyond the field faster than all the players. This feat defenseless the attention of Alabama Ruby-red Tide head football charabanc Paul "Bear" Bryant, who was at the practise scouting football players. Subsequently his incredible running ability impressed the passenger vehicle, Forrest received a football scholarship to the University of Alabama, where his speed helped them win several games. He played for five years and wore jersey number 44, which is believed to exist a reference to his nativity year. He was afterward named to the All-American squad and got to meet President John F. Kennedy at the White House. When asked by the President how he felt, Forrest (having consumed nearly 15 Dr Pepper sodas) gave an honest answer: "I gotta pee."
Forrest was besides nowadays at the University when information technology was desegregated and observed Governor George Wallace'southward Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, denouncing the desegregation. While several citizens jeered the black students inbound the campus, Forrest, not entirely agreement the situation, but walked upwards to Vivian Malone and handed her a book she dropped, saying just "Ma'am? You dropped your volume...ma'am?" before following her and James Hood into school, causing his coaches to sentinel the incident in atheism. Forrest later spends time with Jenny in her college dormitory during a rainy twenty-four hours after she had gotten abused by some other college boy.
In the Regular army [edit]
At his college graduation in 1967, Forrest was approached past an army recruiter who asked if he'd "...given whatever thought to his future". Shortly later, Forrest would join the United states Army. On the bus going to kicking army camp, Forrest met Benjamin Buford Blue, a young black man from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, who went by the nickname "Bubba". Bubba told Forrest about his family history of cooking shrimp and how he had planned to buy his ain shrimping gunkhole afterwards getting out of the army. Bubba explains to Forrest that he loves all kinds of shrimp, and makes a long listing of different types, with Forrest being the only one to actually mind to him.
Forrest did well in the army as he followed orders well without distraction; for example, he set a new company tape for assembling his M14 rifle with his drill sergeant, who regularly singled him out equally an example for the other recruits, replying he would be an Army General. Meanwhile, while Jenny was having multiple relationships with different men, having been kicked out of school for wearing her school sweater to pose in Playboy, she had gotten piece of work singing in the nude at a strip club in Memphis, Tennessee nether the stage name 'Bobbie Dylan'. Forrest goes to visit her at the gild, and gets into a fight with some patrons who are harassing her during her performance. During an statement that takes place shortly afterward, Forrest tells Jenny that he loves her, just Jenny replies that he "doesn't know what dearest is". Jenny is angry, merely later becomes concerned when he tells her he was being deployed to Vietnam to serve in the Vietnam War. Jenny tells him non to attempt being brave if he was ever in trouble and to simply run abroad instead.
While in Vietnam, and assigned to company A, two/47th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division,[three] Forrest and Bubba meet their platoon leader Lieutenant Dan Taylor, whom Forrest would refer to equally "Lieutenant Dan". While on patrol, Bubba proposed that he and Forrest get into the shrimping concern together afterward their time in the army was finished, and Forrest agreed.
Afterward several uneventful months, their platoon was ambushed by the Viet Cong and several soldiers were wounded and killed. In the confusion, Forrest initially was ordered to retreat, and was separated from the rest of his platoon, just after becoming concerned for Bubba, he ran dorsum to look for him. Forrest then plant Lieutenant Dan and several other wounded soldiers and carried them to safety before continuing to await for Bubba. Forrest finally institute Bubba desperately wounded and managed to carry him away from the gainsay area before information technology was hit with napalm from an air strike. Sadly, Bubba died of complications from his wounds soon after; his last words were "I wanna go dwelling."
Forrest himself was shot in the buttocks during the firefight and recovered in an regular army medical middle in Saigon. Lieutenant Dan was in the bed side by side to his, having lost his legs considering of his injuries. Lieutenant Dan later became angry at Forrest for cheating him out of his destiny to die in battle with honour (as several of his ancestors had) and rendering him crippled.
Washington, D.C. [edit]
Forrest later receives the Medal of Honor for his bravery in Vietnam. When being awarded, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked where he was hit and when Forrest told him, the President whispered in his ear, saying he'd similar to encounter information technology someday. Forrest promptly lowered his trousers and turned to show him his wound (while on national Goggle box). President Johnson just smiles and walks abroad.
Shortly thereafter, Forrest went out sightseeing in Washington, D.C. and accidentally found himself amid a group of veterans attention an anti-state of war rally led by Abbie Hoffman. While making a spoken language at the rally that was rudely cutting off by a policeman, he was reunited with Jenny, who had since become a hippie. Forrest was less enamored with her new boyfriend Wesley, the president of the SDS at Berkeley, and crush him up later on he saw him hit Jenny during an argument at a Black Panther Party gathering. Forrest and Jenny stayed up all night while Jenny told Forrest of her travels. Before they went their divide ways once again in the morning, Forrest gave Jenny his Medal of Honor, saying "I got information technology just past doing what yous told me to exercise," since Jenny told him to only run away instead of being brave in gainsay.
Ping Pong and New York City [edit]
In 1969, Forrest joined the Army Special Services, where he entertained wounded armed forces veterans with his Ping-Pong skills. His infrequent skills earned him a place in the All-American Ping Pong team, with whom he traveled to China during the Ping Pong Diplomacy period of the early 1970s. Upon his return, Forrest was a national celebrity, "famous-er fifty-fifty than Captain Kangaroo", and was invited to New York City by Dick Cavett to appear on The Dick Cavett Show, where John Lennon was also a guest at the time. Hearing Forrest talking about the Chinese having "no possessions" and "no religion" during his interview with Dick would eventually inspire John Lennon to write the song "Imagine".
Soon later, Forrest reunites and stays with Lieutenant Dan, his platoon leader from Vietnam and now using a wheelchair, over the winter holidays. Dan has since become an alcoholic who has lost all organized religion in God, and was dismayed that such an "imbecile" similar Forrest could earn the Medal of Honor and humiliate himself on national television. During a New year's day's Eve commemoration in 1971, Forrest persuades Lieutenant Dan to join him in the shrimping business as his first mate, in an effort to fulfill his hope made to Bubba earlier in Vietnam. Dan later invites two prostitutes, Carla and Lenore, to his New year's day party, both of whom he eventually kicked out of his apartment for insulting Forrest when Forrest rejected their advances. Forrest apologizes to Dan for ruining his party, simply saying that the prostitutes "smelt like cigarettes", to which Dan replied by simply wishing Forrest Happy New year.
In June 1972, Forrest was invited with the United states Ping Pong team to the White House, where he meets President Richard Nixon, who offers him a room to stay in at Watergate Hotel. That night, Forrest was awakened by a group of people with flashlights breaking into an unlit role. Mistaking it for a power outage, Forrest calls security guard Frank Wills to inform him near the break-in, inadvertently initiating the Watergate Scandal and leading to Richard Nixon's resignation in August 1974. In that same year, Forrest was honorably discharged from the Army with the rank of Sergeant.
Shrimping Boat Helm [edit]
Upon his return in August 1974, Forrest finds his Greenbow house filled with memorabilia capitalizing on his fame as a ping-pong player in Prc. At his mother's insistence, Forrest made $25,000 endorsing a make of ping-pong paddles, and used nearly of the coin to travel to Bubba'southward hometown of Bayou La Batre and buy a gunkhole. When someone pointed out it was bad luck to take a gunkhole without a name, Forrest names his gunkhole after Jenny, which he calls, "The most beautiful proper name in the whole wide world." Unbeknownst to Forrest, Jenny had descended into a life of drugs, burglary and sexual promiscuity at this point, but an event in which she well-nigh slips and falls off a balcony as she "contemplates" suicide while high on drugs in a Los Angeles apartment shakes her to her core.
Afterward Forrest was visited by Lieutenant Dan who, merely every bit he said he would do on New year's Eve of 1971, had come to be Forrest's first mate. For several weeks, the two had no luck catching shrimp. All the same, things changed when the expanse was hit by Hurricane Carmen. Forrest's boat was the only one left continuing and they establish themselves with a monopoly of shrimp. Under the name Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, they soon became very wealthy. Patently having faced his demons during the storm, Lieutenant Dan thanked Forrest for saving his life in Vietnam, and Forrest assumes that Dan (without really proverb and so) made peace with God.
Home in Alabama [edit]
Forrest returned home to Greenbow in September 1975 when he learned his mother was dying of cancer. Subsequently her expiry, Forrest stays and leaves his shrimping industry in the hands of Lieutenant Dan and retired to mowing and cutting grass and lawns, as he apparently enjoys doing it. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Dan participated in a substantial investment into what Forrest says to be "some kind of fruit company". In reality, the company was the fledgling Apple Computer. With the coin he got from the Apple Computer investment, Forrest spent them on renovating the church building he frequents, establishing a medical center at Bubba'south hometown and gave Bubba's family unit Bubba's share of the investment money that is enough for them to never work once again.
Jenny returned to Greenbow and moves in with Forrest. The two spent time together communicable upwards, and Forrest afterwards describes it equally "the happiest time of [his] life once again". One 24-hour interval, they happen to walk past the now abandoned house that had belonged to Jenny'southward father. She stares transfixed for a moment, and so starts throwing every stone she can discover at it, earlier collapsing in despair, and now Forrest truly understands the ordeal she had been through as a child. Some other night, July four, 1976, Forrest asked Jenny to marry him, but she turns him downward, saying "You don't want to ally me." Forrest replies with, "Why don't you love me Jenny? I'k not a smart man, but I know what dearest is." After this substitution, Jenny comes to Forrest'due south bedroom, tells him she loves him, and the two make honey. Wanting to restart on her own, Jenny hails a cab very early the next forenoon and leaves before he wakes up.
Running [edit]
Forrest'southward new-found loneliness leads him to take a run "for no item reason". At get-go, he decides to run to the end of the road, then beyond boondocks, then across the county, then all the style to the Mississippi border. Eventually, he criss-crosses the land several times over a span of three years. Forrest attracts media coverage, and eventually, dozens of followers initiating and inspiring what would become the jogging craze of 1978–81. Meanwhile, Jenny has taken a task equally a waitress in Savannah, Georgia and sees news coverage of Forrest's run on television. During the run, he inspires the phrase "Shit happens" to a bumper-sticker salesman after stepping in a pile of canis familiaris droppings. He likewise uses a xanthous T-shirt provided to him by a shirt designer to wipe off his face later existence splattered by mud from a big rig. In the process, he forms the iconic "Smiley face" logo and tells the human being "Have a nice mean solar day." One twenty-four hours, while running in the Western United States, Forrest suddenly stops; his followers all cease and heed on in anticipation, expecting him to offering words of wisdom, only instead he just announces that he's tired, and so turns around and walks dorsum to Alabama, leaving his followers dumbfounded at his sudden decision.
Back to the present [edit]
Back to the present (the "present" in the film being 1981, every bit seen from a motorcar and on a bus, and televised footage of Ronald Reagan'due south escape from assassination), Forrest tells his latest companion on the demote, an elderly woman, that he had recently received a letter from Jenny asking him to come see her. When told Forrest's destination, the old lady informs him that it is but 5 to 6 blocks away. Thanking her, Forrest sets off on foot towards Jenny's home.
Forrest and Jenny are happy to meet each other. Still, before they can do much communicable up, Forrest is introduced to Jenny's young son, a bright young male child whom she named Forrest after him. Forrest at get-go thinks she met another human named Forrest, until she explains "You're his daddy, Forrest." Forrest's fearful inquiry as to Piffling Forrest's intelligence leads Jenny to quickly assert that he is completely normal. Forrest learns that Jenny is sick from an unknown virus (implied to be either HIV or Hepatitis C, as both were unknown diseases at that fourth dimension) which has no known cure. He invites her and Petty Forrest to come domicile and stay with him. She asks him to marry her and he accepts.
Forrest and Jenny's wedding is a quiet, intimate ceremony attended only by a handful of family and friends. Among the attendees is Lieutenant Dan, who has titanium prosthetic legs (claiming to be made of the same material as the Space Shuttle), with his Vietnamese fiancée Susan. It is the only time Jenny and Dan meet. Forrest, Jenny and Little Forrest only have a yr together as a family earlier Jenny would die on a Sabbatum. Before she dies, she asked Forrest what information technology was like in Vietnam. He responded by proverb that information technology was nice, and when it stopped raining, it would be tranquillity and peaceful. He likewise states that while running in Oregon, it looked every bit if there were 2 skies and two mountains (since in that location was a lake in front of the mount). Forrest also states that while running in the desert, when the sun was rising, it was the nearly beautiful sight ever.
Jenny responds by saying that she wished she was there with him. Forrest smiles and says, "You were there with me". Forrest has her buried under the tree where they played as children, then buys her childhood home (where her father had abused her) and has it bulldozed. Though he misses Jenny terribly, Forrest becomes a good father to Footling Forrest.
Visiting Jenny'due south grave one day in 1982, he reflects on the idea of fate and destiny, wondering if Lieutenant Dan was right nearly people having their own destiny, or if his female parent was right about description of life every bit floating around accidentally like on a breeze. Forrest somewhen decides "possibly information technology'southward both, maybe both are happening at the aforementioned time." He leaves Jenny a letter from Little Forrest and tells her "If there'due south anything you need, I won't be far away."
Forrest is last seen outside his domicile, sitting where he and his mother sat waiting for the bus, seeing Little Forrest off on his bus ride to school, telling him that he loves him and that he volition exist waiting for him.
Differences from the novel [edit]
Forrest Gump brick in front end of the Lucas Theater in Savannah, Georgia, USA
The portrayal of Forrest in the original novel differs from how he was portrayed in the motion picture. In the novel, Forrest is shown to be somewhat cynical and abrasive, while in the film, he is more than placid and naïve. The novel also describes him as being a savant with extraordinary talent in numerical calculation (as shown when he states the verbal amount of time in years, months, days and hours that he spent running across the land). Other changes from the novel to the moving picture include the deaths of Forrest's female parent and his wife, Jenny, neither of whom died in the book. (Although the sequel Gump & Co., written in response to the moving picture, begins with both characters dying off-folio) Whilst the moving picture has him running effectually the state for over three long years, the novel sends him rocketing into infinite and later crash-landing in New Guinea and beingness captured by a tribe of cannibals.
The novel also provides additional backstory on his father. It is revealed that his begetter was a longshoreman who worked for United Fruit Company. He was killed when a crate of bananas being loaded off of a boat fell on top of him, crushing him to death. Forrest goes on a number of different adventures including being an astronaut, playing the harmonica in a band chosen the Croaky Eggs, becoming a professional wrestler ("The Dunce") and running for the U.s.a. Senate (with the campaign slogan "We Got to Pee").
References [edit]
- ^ "100 greatest moving picture characters" on Empire
- ^ "Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forest".
- ^ "Forrest Gump (1994) - IMDb". IMDb.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump_%28character%29
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