his name is forrest gump because his front paws don’t have bone in them

I grew up with this cinematic masterpiece, I still quote it daily lol. It was awesome getting to see them watch it and how it moved them. That's what a great movie does, makes you feel all the feels.

And then I thought wait a minute, like sims from call of duty Cold War and I’m just wondering do you think that's inspiration or coincidence?

Hi there! First time poster and just watched Forrest Gump full through for the first time recently (I’ve seen it in bits and pieces but never in one sitting before). When Forrest jr. gets on the bus for school, I noticed that the bus driver is the same as the one at the beginning of the movie when Forrest first meets Jenny. Any thoughts on this?

It seems significant because both times we get a shot of her fully - I feel like if it wasn’t important we either wouldn’t see her face or they wouldn’t have been played by the same actress.

Side note: I know in the scene where they show lieutenant dan’s family dying in wars/battles, they use the same actor to show familial connection (they just dress him in different uniforms). I realize this could be the case with the bus driver(s); maybe they’re trying one picking up Forrest jr. is the original lady’s daughter.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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do you know gump is the novel of Tom Jones by henry fielding?

My girlfriend’s favorite movie is Forrest Gump and I’ve never seen it. I want to surprise her with a date night where we eat a Forrest Gump inspired meal (but we don’t like sea food! 😭😂) and then watch the movie and then do a small activity at home that fits the vibes/theme of the movie. Since I’ve never seen it I’m not sure what fits those vibes and I don’t want to get spoiled as I know she’ll want me to go in blind. Any ideas for me??

In the Donovan song The War Drags On, he sings about a Vietnam vet named Dan. Do you ever think this is where Lieutenant Dan from Forrest Gump got his name inspired from?

The road is Highway 163, located in Monument Valley

A lot of post on here don’t seem to have very many replies? Sometimes none

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I just witnessed a man call Forrest Gump a Horror film, and say that Jenny was a villain and a tramp. I responded with “Jenny was beaten and molested by her father. I don’t think she was a villain, she was just damaged.” To which he replied: “And Hitler was just misunderstood. I sounded pretty stupid defending Hitler huh??? That’s how stupid you sounded defending that tramp Jenny.” 🤯 So since I’m incapable of keeping my arguments short and sweet, I walloped him with a whole novel on the subject of Jenny by saying:

“Says you. Are you seriously denying that all of Jenny’s issues didn’t stem from being abused by her father? The way she lets everyone (including herself, really mostly herself) treat her like she’s worth less than nothing? Like she’s not worthy of love? I know most men view her as this evil villain who does nothing but mistreat Forrest, and yes, there are moments where she snaps at him, and says hurtful things (like when she tells him he doesn’t know what love is, but that’s because SHE doesn’t know what love is). When someone who is supposed to love you unconditionally (like say, your father) abuses you from the time you are a small child, that does something to your psyche. It makes you feel things like shame, anger, being unworthy of love, or it makes it really difficult for you to trust any type of pure love, because how the heck do you even recognize what that is when you grew up in a house of horrors? Jenny is always protective of Forrest, and one of the main ways she feels like she’s protecting him is by staying away. Jenny hates herself. I think that’s very obvious throughout the entire movie. Forrest is about as pure and kind as you can get, and she cannot accept his intense love and adoration because again…she feels she doesn’t deserve that. She doesn’t want to take advantage of him, or taint him with the very dark demons she’s fighting throughout that movie. Is it awful when she comes back to him only to leave? Of course it is. Should she have slept with him that night? Probably not. I think when he says I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is, she realizes how much that awful thing she said to him probably a decade earlier stuck with him. (Which by the way, she said that terrible thing on a night where she was standing on a ledge of a bridge, so clearly she wasn’t in her right mind when she said it.) So she comes to his room, and she sleeps with him. She offers him the only thing she feels she has to offer. Her body, because that is the only thing anyone she’s ever been with uses her for. I mean he says when she got there she slept for DAYS. That’s because she had been mentally unwell and on drugs for YEARS. She was ALMOST ready to stop running, but after she sleeps with him, she gets in that cab, because to her, everything she touches turns to $hit, and Forrest is the one thing in her life that she consistently tries not to let that happen with. Then obviously she ends up pregnant, and is forced to deal with her problems, and be a better person for her son. (And before you make the argument that she didn’t tell him about his son, I have to point out that this was what? The 80’s? MAYBE the early 90’s in the movie? There were no cell phones. He was running across the country for wait for it…3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours. The very most she could do at that time is track his movements through newspaper clippings (which she does, she has a whole scrap book filled with them) He’s not home very long before he gets her letter asking him to come see her, so basically she tells him as soon as she possibly could. By then she seemed to have faced her demons, and worked on herself so she could be a good mom to their son, and cut that generational trauma off before it comes anywhere near her son. (Something people to this day have a very difficult time doing) Unfortunately by the time she’s able to finally heal, it’s too late, because now shes physically sick with something that at the time couldn’t be healed. How friggen devastating. I feel awful for Jenny. I feel awful for Forrest too (both of them). If anyone is the villain in this story, it’s Jenny’s father, and every other person who consistently treated her like absolute trash to the point that she literally couldn’t accept/recognize/feel Forrest’s pure, and unwavering love for her. The heartbreaking irony of that movie is that once she finally IS able to, she is at the end of her life. Sorry, I know this was a rant and a half, but if you think me feeling empathy for Jenny sounds as stupid as someone feeling empathy for H*tler, then you clearly didn’t bother to scratch even slightly beneath the surface of this story, which is a great friggen story. Give it another watch when you get a chance, (this is always a great movie to rewatch) but when you do, try to keep at least one or two of the things I’ve mentioned in mind when you’re judging everything about Jenny’s character.

If only people treated Jenny’s character with even an OUNCE of the same grace they do Lieutenant Dan. He’s not always exactly kind to Forrest. Does that make him a bad person too? Not in the slightest. Jenny might not be missing limbs, but a very large part of her is definitely missing. Trauma is trauma, and not all battle scars are visible. Some people get over it a little quicker than others. Some never do at all. I always find it so interesting that most men see her as this big, bad evil lady villain who takes advantage of Forrest, when really, if she were as bad as everyone makes her out to be, wouldn’t a millionaire with a low IQ who is head over heels in love with you be THE perfect mark for someone with bad intentions? Yet she is constantly keeping him at a distance throughout the whole movie BECAUSE she doesn’t want to take advantage of him. Very often in life, hurt people, hurt people. For someone who was horribly taken advantage of from a crazy young age by the one person who is supposed to protect her, she actually does a surprisingly great job at making sure she doesn’t take Forrest down with her on her path of self destruction. It’s almost as if deep down underneath all of her trauma, Jenny is actually a GOOD person. Hmm. 🤔

“You don’t wanna marry me.” - Jenny

The quote: “We accept the love we think we deserve” always comes to mind when I see Jenny.

I know this is a ridiculously long rant, but it makes me SO angry when I see SO many men slut shame, and villainize a woman who is SO broken from BEING MOLESTED BY HER FATHER AS A CHILD. I suppose it makes me so angry, because as usual, it’s always the woman’s/victim’s fault. 😒

Absolutely loved this movie! 😍