While Gump eventually achieves the majority of the things he hoped to throughout the movie, it proved a much more difficult task to win the heart of his life-long friend Jenny Curran. The movie is centered on Forrest Gump and the incidences that occur during his life, but during each period in his lifetime he thinks back of Jenny and how important she is to him. Although the two characters grew up together and shared a very close friendship, as the movie progresses they grow apart.
This upsets Gump who cares immensely for the girl who had a rough start in life, and it seems the two always end up back in each other's lives, often in extraordinary ways like meeting in the Reflection Pond in D. Even though Gump is the main character of the film, it similarly tells the story of Curran and the hardships she faces.
Slow-witted Forrest Gump has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother, he leads anything but a restricted life. Whether dominating on the gridiron as a college football star, fighting in Vietnam or captaining a shrimp boat, Forrest inspires people with his childlike optimism. But one person Forrest cares about most may be the most difficult to save -- his childhood love, the sweet but troubled Jenny.
Forrest Gump, an innocent and kind-hearted Alabama boy, has been dealing with other people's unkindness nearly all his life. Having grown up with beautiful Jenny, his only friend, Forrest yearns to learn all about the ways of the world and embarks on a mission to find his true purpose in life.
Thrust into downright extraordinary situations, Forrest finds himself present at some of the most pivotal events in the second half of the 20th century, rubbing shoulders with influential and historical figures, including John F.
Throughout his existence, Forrest has been encountering life's randomness; however, in this earth, no one is insignificant. With his presence alone, one builds his own place in this world, unknowingly changing the flow of things, while fate floats like a feather in the wind. After hitting it big with his shrimp company, Forrest begins to yearn for a simple life and sacrifices the company to Bubba's family before hitting the road as a one-man band.
Lieutenant Dan doesn't play a part in the company, nor does he inherit it after Forrest leaves. Not Kurt Russell. Throughout the Forrest Gump film, Forrest travels through multiple historical events , experiences a variety of weird and wonderful adventures, and takes on a number of unexpected vocations.
From becoming a champion football player and a war hero to establishing a multi-million dollar corporation and even emerging as a world-renowned Ping-Pong master, Forrest ends up leading quite the storied existence. However, the book included even more for Forrest to do, and some of his in-print exploits were downright bizarre. One accomplishment of Forrest's that was omitted from the movie was his proclivity for chess. In the book, Forrest's aforementioned higher IQ allows him to master the game and become a world-class player.
This was ultimately removed from the film largely for reasons of length and pacing, with more emphasis instead being placed on Forrest's Ping-Pong career. One of the book's most notorious plotlines involved Forrest Gump becoming an astronaut and venturing into outer space alongside an orangutan named Sue. Unsurprisingly, this concept was dropped for being a bit too ridiculous.
Throughout all of Forest Gump's various misadventures, high points, and low points, his guiding light remains Jenny, the girl he has been desperately in love with since his childhood.
After being inspirable as kids, the two ventured on different life paths, with Forrest leaving school to join the army and Jenny ultimately succumbing to a life of drug and alcohol abuse. In the film, after years of intermittent separation and heartbreak, Forrest discovers that Jenny has given birth to his son , and the three finally come together as a family until Jenny passes away a year later. As sad as this ending is, the book takes an even more upsetting turn. While Jenny ultimately gets to live, she ends up taking Forrest's son away from him so that she can run off with another man.
August 12, : Forrest purchases a shrimping boat and names it Jenny. Meanwhile, in California, Jenny almost commits suicide after taking drugs. August 13, : Lt. Dan joins Forrest on his shrimping boat. After several failed attempts, Lt. Dan sarcastically tells Forrest to pray for the shrimp, which he does. August 29, : Forrest and Lt. Dan steer through Hurricane Carmen. Early September, : Forrest and Lt.
Dan catch hundreds of shrimp, obtaining a monopoly in the shrimp industry. They are subsequently featured on hats and magazines. April 10, : Forrest visits his dying mother. April 15, : Mrs. Gump dies of cancer, and Forrest retires from shrimping, leaving his proceeds to Lt. Meanwhile, the Greenbow City Council gives Forrest a job mowing lawns. April 12, : Lt. Dan invests his and Forrest's money in Apple Computers, and the two become wealthy.
May 1, : Construction on a church funded by Forrest begins. May 2, : The Gump Medical Center opens. May 25, : Forrest and Jenny Curran reunite. July 4, : While watching the United States Bicentennial fireworks, Forrest asks Jenny to marry him, but she refuses. Later that night, they make love, conceiving Forrest Gump Jr. July 5, : Jenny leaves Forrest again, while he goes out for a "little run". Eventually, he runs across America four times. March, : Forrest Gump Jr is born. September 19, : Forrest stops jogging throughout the country for the first time in three years.
March 31, : Forrest receives a letter from Jenny while watching the news covering Ronald Reagan's attempted assassination. April 1, : Forrest Gump sits on a bench, relaying his story to others, including a nurse, a woman with a baby, an overweight man, and an elderly woman. The elderly woman tells Forrest where Jenny's house is. He meets Jenny and her son, Young Forrest, and Jenny tells him that he's his father. April 2, : Jenny tells Forrest about her unknown disease.
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