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In Vietnam, your

MAN 4: Hey, what the hell are you

I’ll beat your head in, you goddamn oinker!

Jesus Christ, what’d they do with this?

MAN 5: We can’t hear you!

MAN 6: We can’t hear anything!

This one!

This one!

Give me that!

MAN 7: Turn it up!

WOMAN 2: Speak up!

That’s it!

and that’s all I have to say about that.

That’s so right on, man.

You said it all.

What’s your name, man?

My name is Forrest.

Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump!

Gump!

Gump!

JENNY: Forrest!

Forrest!

Jenny!

Forrest!

Hey!

Hey!

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.

Shut that blind, man.

And get your white ass away from that window.

Don’t you know we in a war here?

Hey, man, he’s cool.

He’s cool.

He’s one of us.

Let me tell you about us.

Where the hell have you been?

Our purpose here is to protect our black leaders from the racial onslaught of the pig who wishes to brutalize our black leaders, rape our women, and destroy our black communities.

Who’s the baby killer?

This is my good friend I told you about.

This is Forrest Gump.

Forrest, this is Wesley.

Wesley and I lived together in Berkeley, and he’s the president of the Berkeley chapter of SDS.

Let me tell you something else.

We are here to offer protection and help for all of those who need our help, because we, the Black Panthers, are against the war in Vietnam.

Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers are sent to the frontline to die for a country that hates them.

Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers go to fight and come to be brutalized and killed in their own communities as they sleep in their beds at night.

You are a fucking asshole!

Yes, we are against all these racist and imperial dog acts.

Forrest!

Quit it!

Quit it!

Forrest!

Stop it!

Stop it!

Oh, God

I shouldn’t have brought you here.

I should have known it was just gonna be some bullshit hassle.

He should not be hitting you, Jenny.

Come on, Forrest.

Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.

He doesn’t mean it when he does things like this.

He doesn’t.

I would never hurt you, Jenny.

I know you wouldn’t, Forrest.

I wanted to be your boyfriend.

That uniform is a trip, Forrest.

You look handsome in it.

You do.

You know what?

What?

I’m glad we were here together in our nation’s capital.

Me, too, Forrest.

We walked around all night, Jenny and me, just talking.

She told me about all the traveling she’d done.

And how she’d 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.

Try to love one another right now

HIPPIE: Hey!

Anybody want to go to San Francisco?

I’ll go.

Far out.

It was a very special night for the two of us.

I didn’t want it to end.

I wish you wouldn’t go, Jenny.

I have to, Forrest.

Jenny?

Things got a little out of hand.

It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson!

I would never hurt you, you know that.

You know what I think?

I think you should go home to Greenbow, Alabama!

Forrest, we have very different lives, you know.

I want you to have this.

Forrest, I can’t keep this.

I got it just by doing what you told me to do.

Why are you so good to me?

You’re my girl.

I’ll always be your girl.

And just like that, she was gone, out of my life again.

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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 them 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.

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.

Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here.

Mr. Gump, have a seat.

Forrest Gump, John Lennon.

Welcome home.

You had quite a trip.

Can you tell us, what was China like?

In the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.

No possessions?

And in China, they never go to church.

No religion, too?

Oh.

Hard to imagine.

Well, it’s easy if you try, Dick.

FORREST: Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs, and for no particular reason at all, somebody shot him.

They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Now, that’s Lieutenant Dan.

Lieutenant Dan!

They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor!

Yes, sir, they surely did.

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.

Yes, sir.

Well, then, that’s just perfect!

Yeah, well, I just got one thing to say to that.

God damn bless America.

Hey!

Oh, God!

Oh, God!

Lieutenant Dan!

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.

DAN: Take a right.

Take a right.

CABBIE: Hey!

Come on, already!

What do you do here in New York, Lieutenant Dan?

I’m living off the government tit.

Sucking it dry!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Are you blind?

I’m walking here!

Get out of the way!

Get out!

Come on, go!

Go!

Go!

I stayed with Lieutenant Dan and celebrated the holidays.

You have a great year.

Hurry home and God bless you.

Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

That’s all these cripples, down 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.

How if I accept Jesus into my heart, I’ll get to walk beside him in the kingdom of heaven.

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.

I’m going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.

Oh?

Well, before you go, why don’t you get your ass down to the corner and get us another bottle of Ripple.

Yes, sir.

We are at approximately 45th Street in New York City at One Astor Plaza.

This is the site of the old Astor Hotel.

DAN: What the hell is in Bayou La Batre?

FORREST: Shrimping boats.

DAN: Shrimping boats?

Who gives a shit about shrimping boats?

FORREST: I gotta buy me one of them shrimping boats, 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 shrimping boat and I’d be his first mate.

But now that he’s dead, that means I gotta be the captain.

A shrimp boat captain.

Yes, sir.

A promise is a promise, Lieutenant Dan.

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.

Okay.

If you’re ever a shrimp boat captain, that’s the day I’m an astronaut.

LENORE: Danny, what are you complaining about?

What are you doing, hon?

Mr. Hot Wheels.

Who’s your friend?

My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump.

This is Cunning Carla and Long-Limbs Lenore.

So, where you been, baby cakes, huh?

Haven’t seen you around lately.

You know, you should have been here for Christmas, ‘cause Tommy bought a round on the house and gave everybody a turkey sandwich.

Well, well, I had company.

Hey, hey!

We was just there.

That’s at Times Square.

Don’t you just love New Year’s?

You get to start all over.

CARLA: Hey, Lenore—

Everybody gets a second chance.

FORREST: It’s funny,

but in the middle of all that fun, I began to think about Jenny, wondering how she was spending her New Year’s night out in California.

CROWD: Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!

Happy New Year!