Newsman: The US Ping Pong Team met with President Nixon. today at a ...
Forrest: And wouldn’t you know it, a few months later, they invited me and the ping pong team t visit the White House, so I went, again. And I met the president of the United States, again. Only this time they didn’t get us rooms in real fancy hotels.
Nixon: So are you enjoying yourself in our nation’s capital young man?
Gump: Yes, sir.
Nixon: Well where are you staying.
Gump: It’s called the Hotel Ebot.
Nixon: No, no, no. I know a much nicer hotel, it’s brand new, very modern. I’ll have my people take care of it for you.
(that night)
Man on telephone: Security, Frank Wells.
Gump: Yes, 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 fusebox or something ‘cause them flashlights, they’re keeping me awake.... Thank you.
(later)
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...
Officer: Private Gump!
Gump: Yes, sir.
Officer: As you were. I have your discharge papers. Your service is up son.
Gump: Does this mean I can’t play ping pong no more?
Officer: For the army it does.
Forrest: And just like that, my service in the United States Army was over. So I went home.
Gump: I’m home, Mama.
Mrs.Gump: I know, I know.
Forrest: Now, when I got home, I had no idea, but mama had 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 $25,000 if you’d be agreeable to saying you like using their paddle.
Gump: Oh, mama, I only like using my own paddle. Hi, Miss Louise.
Mrs.GUmp: I know that. I know that. But it’s $25,000, Forrest. I thought maybe you could hold it for a while. See if it grows on you.
Forrest: That mama. She sure was right. It’s funny how things work out. I didn’t stay home for long because I’d made a promise to Bubba and I always got to keep my promise. So I went on down to Bialabatry to meet Bubba’s family and make their introduction.
Mrs.Blue: Are you crazy or just plain stupid?
Gump: Stupid is as stupid, Mrs.Blue.
Mrs.Blue: I guess.
Gump: And of course, I paid my respects to Bubba himself.
Gump: Hey, Bubba. It’s me, Forrest Gump. I remember everything you said and I got it all figured out. I’m taking the $24,562.47 that I got, that’s left after a new haircut and a new suit and took mama out to a real fancy dinner and I bought a bus ticket and three Doctor Peppers.
Boat Salesman: Tell me something. Are you stupid or something?
Gump: Stupid is as stupid does, sir... That’s’ what’s left after me saying “When I was in China on the All-American Ping Pong team. I just loved playing ping pong with my Flexolite ping pong paddle” Which everyone knows isn’t but mama said it was just a little white lie so it wouldn’t hurt nobody. So anyway, I’m putting all that on gas, ropes, new nets, a brand new shrimpin’boat.
Forrest: Now, Bubba told me everything he knew about shrimpin’ but you know what I found out? Shrimpin’ is tough.
Gump: I only caught five.
Boat Salesman: A couple more and you can have yourself a cocktail. Hey you don’t thinkabout naming that boat? It’s bad luck to have a boat without a name.
Forrest: I’d never named a boat before, but there was only one I could think of, the most beautiful name in the wide world. Now I hadn’t heard from Jenny in a long while, but I thought about her a lot and I hoped that whatever she was doing made her happy. (Jenny almost commits suicide) I thought about Jenny all the time.
Gump: Lieutenant Dan! What are you doing here?
Dan: Well, I thought I’d try out my sea-legs.
Gump: You ain’t got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.
Dan: 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 ever a shrimp boat captain, that I’d be your first mate. Well, here I am. I am a man of my word.
Gump: OK.
Dan: Yeah, but don’t you be thinking that I’m going to be calling you sir.
Gump: No, sir... (Crash!) That’s my boat.
Dan: I have a feeling if we head due East, we’ll find some shrimp, so take a left.
Gump: Which way?
Dan: Over there. They’re over there. Get on the wheel and take a left.
Gump: OK.
Dan: Gump. What are you doing? Left! Take a left! That’s where we’re going to find those shrimp my boy! Ha ha! That’s where we’ll find ‘em.
Gump: Still no shrimp, Lieutenant Dan.
Dan: OK, so I was wrong.
Gump: How we gunna find them?
Dan: Maybe you should just pray for shrimp.
Forrest: So I went to church every Sunday. Sometimes Lieutenant Dan went too, but I think he left the praying up to me.
Gump: No shrimp.
Dan: Where the hell is this God of yours?
Forrest: It’s funny Lieutenant Dan said that, because right then, God showed up. Now, me, I was scared, but Lieutenant Dan, he was mad.
Dan: Come on! You call this a storm? C’mon you son-of-a-bitch, it’s time for a showdown: you and me. I’m right here. Come and get me. You’ll never sink this boat.
Newsman: Hurricane Carmen? came through here yesterday, destroying nearly everything in it’s path, and as in other towns up and down the coast, Bialabatry’s entire shrimping industry has fallen victim to Carmen as has been left in utter ruin. Speaking with local officials, this reporter has learned in fact only one shrimping boat actually survived the storm.
Mrs.Gump: Louise. Louise, there’s Forrest.
Forrest: After that shrimpin’ was easy. Since people still needed them shrimps for shrimp cocktails and barbecues and all and we were the only boat left standing, Bubba Gump shrimp is what they got. We got a whole bunch of boats. Twelve Jennys. A big old warehouse. We even have hats that say Bubba Gump on them. Bubba Gump Shrimp. It’s a household name.
Listener: Hold on there, boy. Are you tellin’ me that you’re the owner of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Corporation?
Forrest: Yes, sir. We got more money then Davey Crocket.
Listener: Boy, I’ve heard some whoppers? in my time but that tops them all. We were sittin’ next to a millionaire.
Woman: Well, I thought it was a very lovely story and you tell it so well, with such enthusiasm.
Forrest: Would you like to see what Lieutenant Dan looks like?
Woman: Yes, I would.
Forrest: That’s him right there, and let me tell you something about Lieutenant Dan.
Dan: Forrest, I never thanked you for saving my life.
Forrest: He never actually said so, but I think he made his peace with God.
Margo: Base to Jenny One. Base to Jenny One.
Dan: Jenny One, go Margo.
Margo: Forrest has a phone call.
Dan: Well, you’ll have to tell them to call him back. He is indisposed at the moment.
Margo: His mama’s sick.
Gump: Where’s mama?
Louise: She’s upstairs.
Mrs.GUmp: Hi, Forrest.
Doctor: I’ll see you tomorrow. Sure got you straitened out, didn’t we, boy?
Gump: What’s the matter, mama?
Mrs.Gump: I’m dyin’, Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.
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 are all destined to do. I didn’t know it, but I was destrined to be your mama. I did the best I could.
Gump: You did good, mama.
Mrs.GUmp: Well, I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to the best with what God gave you.
Gump: What’s my distiny mom?
Mrs.Gump: You’re going to have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re going to get.
Forrest: Mama always had a way of explaining things so that I could understand them.
Mrs.Gump: I will miss you, Forrest.
Forrest: She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that’s all I have to say about that. Didn’t you say you were waiting for the number seven bus?
Woman: They’ll be another one along shortly.
Forrest: Now because I’d been a football star and a war hero and a national celebrity and shrimpin’boat captain and a college graduate, the city of Greenbow, Alabama decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, though he did take care of my Bubba Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company (Apple Computer) so they I got a call form 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 showin’off so, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Four Square Gospel Church 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 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 I would always think of Jenny... And then, she was there.
Jenny: Hello, Forrest.
Gump: Hello, Jenny.
Forrest: Jenny came back and stayed with me. Maybe it was because she had no where 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. Everyday, we’d take a walk and I’d jabber on like a monkey in a tree and she’d listen about ping ponging and shrimping and mama makin’a trip up to heaven. I did all the talking. Jenny most of the time was real quiet... 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. Everyday, I’d pick pretty flowers and put them in her room for her. And she gave me the best gift anyone could ever get in the wide world. And she even showed me how to dance. And well, we was like family, Jenny and me, and it was the happiest time of my life.
Jenny: Are you done watching it?
Gump: Will you marry me? I’d make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny: You would, Forrest.
Gump: But you don’t want to marry me.
Jenny: You don’t want to marry me.
Gump: Why don’t you love me, Jenny? I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is .( later) Jenny?
Jenny: Forrest, I do love you.
Man: Where are you runnin’ off to?
Jenny: I’m not runnin’.
Forrest: That day, for no particular reason. I decided to 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 the town and when I got there, I thought, maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. And I figured since I run this far, maybe I’ll just run across the great state of Alabama. And that’s what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean, and when I got there, I figured since I gone this far, I might as well turn around and keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured since I’ve gone this far, I might as well turn back and keep right on going. When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate and when I had to go, you know, I went.
Woman: And so, you just ran.
Forrest: Yeah, I’d think a lot, about mama, and Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. But most of all, I thought about Jenny. I thought about her a lot.
Newsman: For more than two years now, a man named Forrest Gump, from Greenbow Alabama, stopping only to sleep has been running across America....
Newsman: For the fourth time on his journey across America. Forrest Gump, a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama is about to cross the Mississippi River again today....
Woman: I’ll be damned.
Newsman: Sir, why are you running?
Newswoman: Are you doing this for world peace?
Newsman: Are you doing this for the homeless?
Newsman: Are you running for woman’s rights?
Newsman: Or for the environment? Or for animals.
Forrest: They just couldn’t believe that someone would do all that running for no particular reason.
Newswoman: Why are you doing this?
Gump: I just felt like running.
Forrest: I just felt like running.
Jogger: It’s you! I can’t believe it’s really you.
Forrest: Now for some reason what I was doing seemed to make sense to people.
Jogger: I mean, it’s like an alarm went off in my head, you know. I said, here’s a guy who’s got his act together. Here’s somebody who’s got it all figured out. Here’s someone who has the answer. I’ll follow you anywhere, Mr.Gump.
Forrest: So, I got company. And after that, I got more company, and then, even more people joined in. Somebody later told me it gave people hope. Now, I don’t know anything about that but some of those people asked me if I could help them out.
Man: Hey man. Hey, listen, I was wondering if you might help me. 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 you. I thought you might be able to... Whoa! Man, you just ran through a big pile of dogshit!
Gump: It happens.
Man: What? Shit?
Gump: Sometimes.
Forrest: 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. Another time I was running along and somebody who had lost all his money in the T-shirt business. He wanted to put my face on a T-shirt, but he couldn’t draw that well and he didn’t have a camera.
Man: Here use this. Nobody likes that color anyway.
Gump: Have a nice day.
Forrest: Some years later, I found out that that man did comp up with an idea for a T-shirt. He made a lot of money off of it. Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company. My mama always said, you’ve 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 ran for. Three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours.
Runner: Quiet. Quiet. He’s going to say something.
Gump: I’m pretty tired. I think I’ll go home now.
Runner: Now what are we supposed to do?
Forrest: And just like that, my runnin’ days was over. So I went home to Alabama.
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