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Forrest : Hello. My name's Forrest Gump.<br> He opens a box of chocolates and holds it out for the nurse.<br>Forrest : You want a chocolate?<br> The nurse shakes her head, a bit apprehensive about this strange man next <br> to her.<br>Forrest : I could eat about a million and a half of these. My momma always <br> said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna <br> get."<br> Forrest eats a chocolate as he looks down at the nurse's shoes.<br>Forrest : Those must be comfortable shoes. I'll bet you could walk all day <br> in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.<br>Black Woman : My feet hurt.<br>Forrest : Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a <br> person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.<br> The black woman stares at Forrest as he looks down at his own shoes.<br>Forrest : I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard I <br> could remember my first pair of shoes.<br> Forrest closes his eyes tightly.<br>Forrest : Momma said they'd take my anywhere.<br><br> INT. COUNTRY DOCTOR'S OFFICE - GREENBOW, ALABAMA - DAY - 1951 A little boy<br> closes his eyes tightly. It is young Forrest as he sits in a doctor's office.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) She said they was my magic shoes.<br> Forrest has been fitted with orthopedic shoes and metal leg braces.<br>Doctor : All right, Forrest, you can open your eyes now. Let's take a little<br> walk around.<br> The doctor sets Forrest down on its feet. Forrest walks around stiffly. For<br> rest's mother, MRS. GUMP, watches him as he clanks around the room awkwardly.<br>Doctor : How do those feel? His legs are strong, Mrs. Gump. As strong as I've<br> ever seen. But his back is as crooked as a politician.<br> Forrest walks foreground past the doctor and Mrs. Gump.<br>Doctor : But we're gonna straighten him rihgt up now, won't we, Forrest?<br> A loud thud is heard as, outside, Forrest falls.<br>Mrs. Gump : Forest!<br><br> EXT. GREENBOW, ALABAMA Mrs. Gump and young Forrest walk across the street.<br> Forrest walks stiffly next to his mother.<br>Forrest : Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War <br> hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest...<br> EXT. RURAL ALABAMA A black and white photo of General Nathan Bedford Forre<br> st. The photo turns into live action as the General dons a hooded sheet over<br> his head. The General is in full Ku Klux Klan garb, including his horse. The<br> General rides off, followed by a large group of Klan members dressed in full <br> uniform.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) She said we was related to him in some way. And, what<br> he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress <br> up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks <br> or something. They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around. And <br> anyway, that's how I got my name. Forrest Gump.<br> EXT. GREENBOW Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk across the street.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that <br> sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.<br> Forrest stops suddenly as his brace gets stuck. Forrest's brace is caught <br> in a gutter grate. Mrs. Gump bends down and tries to free Forrest. Two old <br> cronies sit in front of a barber shop and watch.<br>Mrs. Gump : Just wait, let me get it.<br> Mrs. Gump struggles to pull the stuck brace from the grate.<br>Mrs. Gump : Let me get it. Wait, get it this way. Hold on.<br> Forrest pulls his foot out of the grate.<br>Mrs. Gump : All right.<br>Mrs. Gump helps Forrest up onto the sidewalk. She looks up and notices the two<br> old man.<br>Mrs. Gump : Oooh. All right. What are you all staring at? Haven't you ever seen<br> a little boy with braces on his legs before?<br>Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk along the sidwalk past the two old men. Mrs. Gump<br> holds tightly onto Forrest's hand.<br>Mrs. Gump : Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest.<br> If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on<br> our legs.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could <br> understand them.<br> EXT. OAK ALLEY/THE GUMP BOARDING HOUSE Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk along a <br> dirt road. A row of mailboxes stands left.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) We lived about a quarter mile of Route 17, about a half<br> mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama. That's in the county of Greenbow. Our<br> house had been in Momma's family since her grandpa's grandpa's grandpa had come<br> across the ocean about a thousand years ago. Something like that.<br> Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk along the Gump Boarding House driveway.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) Since it was just me and Momma and we had all these <br> empty rooms, Momma decided to let those rooms out. Mostly to people passing <br> through. Like from, oh, Mobile, Montgomery, place like that. That's how me and<br> Mommy got money. Mommy was a real smart lady.<br>Mrs. Gump : Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody<br> else is.<br> Mrs. Gump heads Forrest to the porch. She bends down to look Forrest in the <br> eye.<br>Mrs. Gump : Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You're the same as everybody <br> else. You are no different.<br> INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE - DAY - 1954<br>rincipal : Your boy's... different, Mrs. Gump. Now, his I.Q. is seventy-five.<br>Mrs. Gump : Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock.<br> The principal sighs, then stands up. INT. HALLWAY Forrest sits outside the<br> principal's office and waits.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) She wanted me to have the finest education, so she took<br> me to the Greenbow County Central School. I met the principal and all.<br> The principal stands in front of Mrs. Gump. Forrest, sitting left, listens.<br><br>rincipal : I want to show you something, Mrs. Gump. Now, this is normal.<br> The principal holds up a chart with a designations according to I.Q. and <br> points to the center of the graph, labeled "Normal." A red line below the <br> normal area is labeled "State Acceptance." The principal points to the section <br> below the acceptance line labeled "Below."<br>rincipal : Forrest is right here. The state requires a minimum I.Q. of eighty<br> to attend public school, Mrs. Gump. He's gonna have to go to a special school.<br> Now, he'll be just fine.<br>Mrs. Gump : What does normal mean, anyway? He might be a bit on the slow side, <br> but my boy Forrest is going to get the same opportunities as everyone else. <br> He's not going to some special school to learn to how to re-tread tires. <br> We're talking about five little points here. There must be something can be <br> done.<br> INT. HALLWAY Forrest sits outside the principal's office.<br>rincipal : We're a progressive school system. We don't want to see anybody <br> left behind.<br> INT. PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE<br>rincipal : Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump?<br>Mrs. Gump : He's on vacation.<br> EXT. GUMP BOARDING HOUSE - NIGHT Forrest sits on a swing outside the house<br>. Loud organic male grunts are heard coming from inside the house. Forrest <br> sits on the swing as the grunts continue. The principal steps out of the Gump<br> House and wipes the sweat from his face. Forrest is sitting on the porch.<br><br>Principal : Well, your momma sure does care about your schooling, son. Mm-mm-mm.<br> The principal wipes the sweat from his neck, then looks back at Forrest.<br>Principal : You don't say much, do you?<br> Forrest grunts, imitating him. The principal, embarrassed, turns and walks <br>away. <br> INT. GUMP BOARDING HOUSE/FORREST'S BEDROOM Mrs. Gump reads from the book <br> "Curious George" as Forrest sits on the bed and listens.<br>Mrs. Gump : "Finally, he had to try it. It looked easy, but, oh, what happened.<br> First there..."<br>Forrest : Momma, what's vacation mean?<br>Mrs. Gump : Vacation?<br>Forrest : Where Daddy went?<br>Mrs. Gump : Vacation's when you go somewhere, and you don't ever come back.<br> Forrest lies down on his bed and looks up.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) Anyway, I guess you could say me and Momma was on our<br> own.<br> EXT. GUMP BOARDING HOUSE - DAY A cab driver closes the trunk of the car as<br> two women walk toward the house. A milkman steps down from the porch.<br>Forrest : (voice-over) But we didn't mind. Our house was never empty. There <br> was always folks comin' and goin'.<br>Mrs. Gump : (voice-over) Suppa.<br><br> |
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