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Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump	comment	Forrest Gump is a 1994 Epic Historical Comedy-Drama film starring Tom Hanks, directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Eric Roth, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom.The film tells the tale of Forrest Gump, a good-natured but simple-minded man from Greenbow, Alabama, telling his life story to other people while waiting at a bus stop. As the story continues, you find Forrest touching important events and people from the 1950s to the 1980s (ranging from Elvis Presley to several Presidents), rising to his own measure of fame and fortune in the process, mostly by just being himself. Because he is so simple-minded, he doesn't fully understand the significance of everything that he has done and just sees himself as an average person just living his life. But he's forever pining for his childhood sweetheart Jenny (played by Hanna Hall and Robin Wright).Forrest's journey takes him from his native Alabama to the jungles of Vietnam, from walking in corrective leg-braces to running across North America, from misunderstood country boy to college football star to war hero to champion ping-pong player to shrimp tycoon, without ever quite losing the undying optimism of the era. On the other hand, Jenny's life takes her from a Catholic Schoolgirl to being in one of the early issues of Playboy, from a flower child of the '60s to a hippie protester of the '70s. Between her and Forrest, they cover all the significant cultural emblems of that time period, all the while their lives intersect with each other's repeatedly.Forrest Gump was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, winning for Best Picture, Actor (Hanks), Director (Zemeckis), Adapted Screenplay (Roth), Editing (Arthur Schmidt), and Visual Effects. It's worth noting that this film, along with Philadelphia, was largely responsible for audiences seeing Hanks as more than just a comedic actor, and led to a long string of critically acclaimed performances in dramas which continues to this day. This genre transition even inspired a trope in its likeness on this site, fittingly named Tom Hanks Syndrome.Groom published a sequel to the original novel, Gump & Co., in 1995, but due to Hollywood Accounting cheating him out of his fair share of royalties from the film's smash success (Paramount claimed the film, despite grossing $660 million on a $55 million budget, was still $62 million out of profit due to marketing, distribution, and interest), refused to license the rights to an adaptation, snarking that "I cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure". Producers went ahead with sequel plans anyway, with a draft script by Roth being handed in on September 10, 2001. When 9/11 happened one day later, the film's very '90s approach to referencing and commenting on past events instantly became dated, and all sequel plans were dropped. As a result, Forrest Gump is one of the most successful films in modern history to never receive a sequel.There's an Indian adaptation called Laal Singh Chaddha, made with Paramount's involvement, which was released in South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia on August 11, 2022.
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Forrest Gump / int_1002c67d	type	"Have a Nice Day" Smile
Forrest Gump / int_1002c67d	comment	"Have a Nice Day" Smile: According to the film, Forrest is the originator of the design. He got splashed by mud, wiped his face on a yellow shirt, and the person who handed him the shirt saw the design in the negative space left behind by his eyes and mouth.
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Forrest Gump / int_1078bba8	type	"Mister Sandman" Sequence
Forrest Gump / int_1078bba8	comment	"Mister Sandman" Sequence: Since the film is set around the Vietnam War, there's multiple instances of shots of the culture of America in the Sixties and Seventies, including the Civil Rights Movement and the Million Man March.
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Forrest Gump / int_13e693f4	type	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
Forrest Gump / int_13e693f4	comment	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: Forrest announces this while meeting John F. Kennedy, of all people. Kennedy asks "How do you feel?", as in, winning an award and meeting him, the President. Forrest, being Forrest, says "I gotta pee" because he drank too much soda beforehand.
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Forrest Gump / int_145490c6	type	Still Wearing the Old Colors
Forrest Gump / int_145490c6	comment	Still Wearing the Old Colors: Forrest meets some anti-Vietnam activists who mostly wear their old uniforms, but made into Non Uniform Uniforms.
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Forrest Gump / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Forrest Gump / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate:
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Forrest Gump / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
Forrest Gump / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Jenny is suffering from some sort of viral disease, which hasn't been identified, and for which there's no treatment. Even invokedWord of God can't seem to agree on what the disease is: Winston Groom, the source novel's author, confirms it as hepatitis C in the sequel novel Gump and Co., but screenwriter Eric Roth identified it as HIV/AIDS in the script for the since-shelved sequel. Both diseases would not be properly identified until later in the 1980s.
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Forrest Gump / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Forrest Gump / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Played straight for laughs, and for drama. The naive Forrest incorrectly describes events he witnesses through his life. Examples: He believes that Charlie was someone the Army was looking for, as opposed to the codename for the Vietcong; and that Apple (Computers) was a fruit company. A few darker examples occur, as well — like describing Jenny's father as "a very loving man," unaware that what he witnessed were signs of sexual abuse. The novel ends with the iconic image of Forrest sitting on a park bench in Savannah, GA, not long after an encounter much like the one with the incredulous man in the movie ("Boy, I've heard some whoppers in my time..."), leaving open the possibility that Forrest is nothing more than a halfwit telling tall tales to strangers on a park bench. Consider the story from that perspective for a moment...
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Forrest Gump / int_1a183344	type	Honorable Warrior's Death
Forrest Gump / int_1a183344	comment	Honorable Warrior's Death: Lt. Dan's family has a long and proud history of serving (and dying) in every major American war. He's absolutely crushed that instead of joining that tradition and dying on the battlefield, Gump saved him and Dan survived, but crippled.
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Forrest Gump / int_1b2546f2	type	Bait-and-Switch Suicide
Forrest Gump / int_1b2546f2	comment	Bait-and-Switch Suicide: Lieutenant Dan jumps off the shrimp boat, but it turns out he was only going for a swim.
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Forrest Gump / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Forrest Gump / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Jenny's sisters are spoken of but never seen. note which raises a question - where did they go when Jenny was taken to live with her grandmother?
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Forrest Gump / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Forrest Gump / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Many have interpreted Jenny's death from a disease that might be AIDS as being symbolic of the death of the 1960s/1970s counterculture in the early 1980s.
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Forrest Gump / int_1bf0adc6	type	Did You Think I Can't Feel?
Forrest Gump / int_1bf0adc6	comment	Did You Think I Can't Feel?: A variation is used as a Call-Back. Before shipping off to fight in Vietnam, Forrest drags Jenny out of a strip club, and when she asks why he did it, he responds by saying he loves her, Jenny snaps at him, saying he doesn't know what love is. Years later, when Jenny grows tired of her hard partying lifestyle she stays with Forrest when this exchange happens:
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Forrest Gump / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Forrest Gump / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Forrest and Jenny went to school together, though the romance is unrequited by Jenny until they are adults.
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Forrest Gump / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Forrest Gump / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Most of the movie is Forrest telling his life's story to people at a bus stop.
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Forrest Gump / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Forrest Gump / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Abbie Hoffman's reaction to Forrest's cut-off speech.
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Forrest Gump / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Forrest Gump / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Jenny becomes this in her adulthood: drugs, sex, you name it.
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Forrest Gump / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
Forrest Gump / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: Implied with Dorothy Harris, the bus driver. When she's first seen in the 1950s, she's smoking a cigarette. Thirty years later, she's chewing gum, suggesting she quit smoking at some point.
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Forrest Gump / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Forrest Gump / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Most of the film takes place in Greenbow, Alabama, "where the skies are so blue!"
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Forrest Gump / int_21e810f2	type	Chore Character Exploration
Forrest Gump / int_21e810f2	comment	Chore Character Exploration: Forrest Gump and Bubba Blue have the overnight watch while the rest of the squad dozes. While the two are back-to-back, Bubba expounds about taking Forrest on as first mate aboard a shrimp boat, forming a 50-50 partnership in what is destined to become the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Forrest, being a simpleton, says little except to go along.
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Forrest Gump / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Forrest Gump / int_222dc873	comment	This, though it's Black Comedy at best, and how silently Forrest sits beside Jenny as she cries after angrily throwing rocks at her father's old house seems to imply he understands a lot more than he did as a child:
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Forrest Gump / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Forrest Gump / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Zigzagged. When Forrest finds out that he has a son with Jenny, he asks if he's smart or dumb (he can't bring himself to say it, he just places his hand on his chest to indicate himself). Jenny reassures him that Forrest Jr. is one of the smartest in his class. Played straight in the final scene. When Forrest Jr. is getting on the bus to school, he is, like Forrest himself in several earlier scenes, wearing a blue and white plaid shirt; he also introduces himself to the same bus driver, Dorothy Harris, in more or less the same way that Forrest did. As well as, of course, the fact they both have the same first name.
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Forrest Gump / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Forrest Gump / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Bubba's mother being served lunch by a white lady, using the exact same shot as the Imagine Spot of Bubba's mother's ancestors doing the same thing for their white employers. "...and so they shot him" is sort of one as well, considering the famous people Forrest has met (does the man have a death god following him?). A less straightforward example is when Forrest's mother had to sleep with the principal just to allow Forrest to have a regular school environment instead of a special needs environment. During the mom and the principal's..."pleasure time", The Principal is faintly heard panting from outside. When the Principal afterwards asks Forrest whether he says anything at all, Forrest's response is to mime said panting (without realizing what it meant). Early in the movie, after beating up the people who tried to grab Jenny on stage, she angrily chews him out and says he "doesn't know what love is" when he says that's why he keeps trying to protect her. Later in the movie when he asks her to marry him and she rather dejectedly says he doesn't truly want to marry her, likely due to shame over the person she's been, he says that he's not a smart man, "But I know what love is" before leaving.
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Forrest Gump / int_2472c017	type	Abuse Discretion Shot
Forrest Gump / int_2472c017	comment	Abuse Discretion Shot: Jenny's childhood abuse by her father is never shown, but she is seen running out the back door, hiding in a cornfield, and asking Forrest to help her pray that God will turn her into a bird so she can fly away, while the man continually screams in anger for her to get back in the house. Forrest describes him as "a very loving man," implying that, in his innocence, he doesn't know signs of sexual abuse when he sees them.
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Forrest Gump / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
Forrest Gump / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Lieutenant Dan rides out Hurricane Carmen clinging to the mast of a small boat, challenging the lightning and waves to kill him while giving God the middle finger. Which, according to Forrest after, results in Dan's religious epiphany.
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Forrest Gump / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Forrest Gump / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: After Forrest runs through dog crap, we see several of his followers jump out of the way of it.
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Forrest Gump / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Forrest Gump / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: Zemeckis used the paintings of Norman Rockwell as the visual inspiration for Greenbow, Alabama. The scene where Forrest sits in the hallway of his school while his mother talks to the principal is a direct re-creation of Girl with a Black Eye.
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Forrest Gump / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Forrest Gump / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Forrest's father is never seen, and is only mentioned twice when Forrest is a child. His absence is hand-waved immediately as being "on vacation," which Mama describes as "when you go somewhere and never come back."
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Forrest Gump / int_295b6800	type	Real Footage Re-creation
Forrest Gump / int_295b6800	comment	Real Footage Re-creation: In addition to digitally altering historical footage to insert Tom Hanks, the film also makes extensive use of recreating historical scenes in the traditional sense, namely George Wallace's 1963 Schoolhouse Door speech and the 1967 March on the Pentagon rally, as well as Dick Cavett's interview of John Lennon (with the former starring As Himself).
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Forrest Gump / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Forrest Gump / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded by Forrest: "So I went [to the White House]... again. And I met the President of the United States... again."
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Forrest Gump / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Forrest Gump / int_2cc5703c	comment	When about to meet JFK, Forrest drinks fifteen Dr Peppers and ends up suffering a Potty Emergency. Luckily, he is able to meet JFK and make it to the bathroom in time.
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Forrest Gump / int_2edc82a0	type	Accidental Athlete
Forrest Gump / int_2edc82a0	comment	Accidental Athlete: Forrest ends up as a running back on Paul "Bear" Bryant's University of Alabama team when a couple of bullies chase him and he ends up running through the school field when the team was practicing. It helps when you consider exactly who he was seen by. For those of you unaware, Bryant is universally considered to be one of the greatest American football coaches of all time.
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Forrest Gump / int_2eee045f	type	Significant Birth Date
Forrest Gump / int_2eee045f	comment	Significant Birthdate: Jenny's date of birth (which can be seen on her tombstone) is July 16, 1945, the date of the Trinity test in New Mexico, the world's first successful test of the atomic bomb. Her date of death, March 22, 1982, is also the date that the Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 3rd mission (STS-3)... which landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The latter would at first glance seem not so significant within the film's context as the Columbia disaster happened long after the film's release. However, the backup commander for mission STS-3 was Ken Mattingly, who was portrayed by Gary Sinise (Lt. Dan) in Apollo 13, which also starred Tom Hanks.
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Forrest Gump / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Forrest Gump / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Forrest ends up with a beard on his cross-country jogging spree. Shaving wasn't on his list of priorities at the time. Lieutenant Dan also has a beard when he first meets Forrest again after the war, when he is bitter and dissillusioned about being "cheated out of his destiny". He shaves it off eventually.
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Forrest Gump / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Forrest Gump / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Forrest doesn't seem too impressed by the "fruit company" Lt. Dan suggested he invest in (at least not until Lt. Dan tells him they won't have to worry about money anymore), which we see is really Apple Computers, now Apple Inc.
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Forrest Gump / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Forrest Gump / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Jenny's abusive hippie boyfriend is not happy when she brings Forrest to the Black Panther meeting because he's a soldier, despite Jenny trying to reassure him he's not like the other "baby-killers". Then Forrest nearly gets in hot water with the Black Panthers when he beats up the boyfriend for slapping Jenny.
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Forrest Gump / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Forrest Gump / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: According to Forrest, Abbie Hoffman enjoyed using the f-word at the Vietnam War protest rally, and that everyone at the rally enjoyed hearing this. Being a PG-13 movie, however, we only hear one instance of the word, if you don't count a preceding one that is obscured by Hoffman's microphone feedback.
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Forrest Gump / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
Forrest Gump / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Forrest is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving four members of his platoon in Vietnam and getting Shot in the Ass in the process.
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Forrest Gump / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
Forrest Gump / int_38bf28e3	comment	Engineered Public Confession: Inverted. During Forrest's stump speech during an anti-Vietnam rally that he was pulled into, a large percentage of the speech involving things he was going to admit to the people about his experiences in Vietnam during the speech actually ended up missed because a pro-Vietnam military officer pulled the plug on the mike, and the mike's sound output was only restored right when Forrest finishes up the statements. According to Tom Hanks, the actual censored portion of the speech was "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they donâ€™t go home at all. Thatâ€™s a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that." Arguably, seeing Abbie Hoffman (who was standing next to him and heard the whole thing) moved to tears by Gump's speech was effective enough.
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Forrest Gump / int_38bf2f22	type	Narration Echo
Forrest Gump / int_38bf2f22	comment	As mentioned above in Narration Echo, Forrest narrating things that people have said to him, followed immediately by them saying it on-screen.
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Forrest Gump / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Forrest Gump / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: It may take place in a cynical and hostile world, but Forrest's kind nature, sweet heart, and belief in the best of humanity, makes this movie incredibly idealistic.
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Forrest Gump / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Forrest Gump / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Lieutenant Dan is clearly a Shell-Shocked Veteran at first, spitefully hating Forrest for an Unwanted Rescue as Dan thinks that he needed to die in a blaze of glory but was denied the chance. As time goes on, Dan finds something to live for, and apologizes to Forrest for snapping at him. Jenny consistently tries to do something great, but consistently fails because of her Fatal Flaw of running away from her problems every time things get hard. She also hates being seen as a Damsel in Distress, snapping at Forrest whenever he tries to show her affection. As time passes, Jenny realizes that Forrest has been the one thing in her life which has been both consistent and helpful.
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Forrest Gump / int_3b497d31	type	Historical Figures in Archival Media
Forrest Gump / int_3b497d31	comment	Historical Figures in Archival Media: Almost all of the historical figures and celebrities appear in the film as footage of themselves.note With the exception of Dick Cavett, who played himself under deaging makeup. Elvis Presley was played by an uncredited Kurt Russell in the scene where he stays at the Gump house, but the real Elvis does still appear in archival footage once he becomes famous.
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Forrest Gump / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Forrest Gump / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Forrest's speech during the Vietnam protests, lost to everyone except those standing near him because the microphones have been sabotaged, but it moves those people to tears. According to Tom Hanks, it goes something like this: Bubba's montage where he talks about the many ways that shrimp can be cooked ends with him and Forrest scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes, which is a punishment. Why Bubba and Forrest were punished is never explained, although some think it was because Bubba was rambling too much to Forrest about shrimp, and it was distracting them from their duties.
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Forrest Gump / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Forrest Gump / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: Played for tears, in the scene where Forrest holds a dying Bubba in his arms:
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Forrest Gump / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Forrest Gump / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Played for Laughs, no less: Forrest jumps off his boat and swims over to Lt. Dan. The unmanned Jenny promptly slams into a dock. When about to meet JFK, Forrest drinks fifteen Dr Peppers and ends up suffering a Potty Emergency. Luckily, he is able to meet JFK and make it to the bathroom in time.
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Forrest Gump / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Forrest Gump / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Lieutenant Dan is initially mad at Gump for saving his life, in part because he had his legs blown off and feels like life isn't worth living anymore. He eventually gets better.
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Forrest Gump / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Forrest Gump / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Lieutenant Dan finds the strength to live and love again, Jenny has a son with Forrest, and Forrest's dream of being with Jenny finally comes true as they get married. But shortly after, Jenny dies and leaves their son in Forrest's care, with Forrest passing on his torch to Junior and raising him.
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Forrest Gump / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Forrest Gump / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The novel concludes with the familiar image of Forrest sitting on a park bench in Savannah, GA, not long after an encounter with a passerby with whom he has just shared much of his life story. In a scene very similar to one in the film, in which a man scoffs at Forrest's claim to own the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Forrest's story is regarded as simply unbelievable, leaving the reader to wonder whether the story is true or if Forrest is an Unreliable Narrator who likes to sit on a park bench and tell tall tales to strangers.
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Forrest Gump / int_428fef0b	type	"Pan from the Sky" Beginning
Forrest Gump / int_428fef0b	comment	"Pan from the Sky" Beginning: It opens with a Long Take of a bird feather falling from the skies (with the camera initially pointing at the clouds) and eventually landing at the title character's feet.
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Forrest Gump / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Forrest Gump / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: From '50s rockabilly through '60s jangle pop, psychedelic & acid rock up to '70s Southern rock & soft rock.
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Forrest Gump / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Forrest Gump / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Lt. Dan started off as this as his main goal was to die with honor, and was appalled at surviving as a cripple. Eventually he came to terms with this and became grateful that Forrest saved him.
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Forrest Gump / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Forrest Gump / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Lieutenant Dan in the movie is a rude hardass, but also a patriot who wants to be the only casualty in his group. Perhaps surprisingly to some, Forrest in the original novel was more violent than the one in the film.
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Forrest Gump / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Forrest Gump / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Forrest's mother and Jenny die during the events of the film, but not in the novel. Forrest's mother dies between the ending of the novel and its sequel Gump and Co., and Jenny dies in the beginning of Gump and Co.
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Forrest Gump / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Forrest Gump / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Many shots in Alabama are beautiful to look at. When Forrest decides to go running you see marvelous natural landscapes in various places in the USA. Of particular note is when Forrest stops running. He's standing in front of Monument Valley, one of the most iconic landscapes in America thanks to the work of John Ford.
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Forrest Gump / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Forrest Gump / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Jenny reveals a shocking one about herself.
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Forrest Gump / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Forrest Gump / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In the first shot of Lieutenant Dan in the military hospital, he is so depressed and angry that he takes the ice cream Forrest offers him and wordlessly disposes of it in a bedpan. The next shot shows why he's so depressed and angry: Due to his battle injuries, both of his legs were amputated.
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Forrest Gump / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
Forrest Gump / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: Though no one would call Tom Hanks "ugly", his hairstyle in this film is not the most flattering, and his everyman looks are frequently mentioned, whereas the novel Gump was described as being 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 242 pounds, covered in muscles. At one point, he's put before a crowd shirtless and literally called "Adonis". A recurring theme is his physical attractiveness and muscles helping him get away with things others with his mental troubles and abrasive personality wouldn't, and getting him jobs like stuntman, astronaut, and pro wrestler.
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Forrest Gump / int_4f362a27	type	Implied Rape
Forrest Gump / int_4f362a27	comment	Implied Rape: Although not outright stated, this is why when Forrest and Jenny were best friends in elementary school, she asked him to help her hide in the cornfield from her father, as Forrest mentions that her father was a loving man who was always "kissing and touching" Jenny and her sisters. He later gets arrested and has his children taken away. Later, when Jenny briefly comes back after giving up her hedonistic life, she throws rocks at her old abandoned house, and breaks down crying, and though Forrest doesn't know what exactly happened in that house, he knows it's bad. After Jenny dies, he pays for her father's house to be bulldozed, as he only knows that it brought her bad memories.
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Forrest Gump / int_51974a43	type	Storefront Television Display
Forrest Gump / int_51974a43	comment	Storefront Television Display: Played for laughs. Not too long after young Forrest teaches Elvis what becomes the singer's signature hip-swinging moves, Forrest and his Momma are walking past an appliance store & see Elvis performing on one of the tv sets in the window. Momma covers Forrest's eyes with her hand, saying such a thing isn't fit for children to see.
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Forrest Gump / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Forrest Gump / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: It's heavily implied that Jenny and her sisters were sexually abused by her father.
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Forrest Gump / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Forrest Gump / int_5313c266	comment	The film opens and closes with a shot of a floating feather.
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Forrest Gump / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
Forrest Gump / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Mostly averted, as Forrest is almost seamlessly integrated into the historical footage, but they did a much better job digitally erasing Gary Sinise's legs. In fact, there's only one scene in the entire movie where the digital erasure of Sinise's legs fails: when he's picking himself up after the party girls leave on New Year's Eve. Watch carefully and you can see Sinise is clearly propping himself up on supposedly nonexistent legs (which isn't exactly a failure of the effects; they look good, but you can't change the physical fact of the weight and mass of those legs).
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Forrest Gump / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Forrest Gump / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Forrest is so dense that he routinely attempts things other people wouldn't even consider, and so single-minded that he puts his maximum effort into everything he does. As a result, he meets spectacular success while the skeptics are left scratching their heads.
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Forrest Gump / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Forrest Gump / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Forrest in the book has savant syndrome. In the film, his natural talent is running but he's also really good at putting guns together. He also develops a talent for ping pong.
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Forrest Gump / int_591d8e01	type	Hippie Van
Forrest Gump / int_591d8e01	comment	Hippie Van: Jenny's radical friends pick her up in such a vehicle.
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Forrest Gump / int_59b571c	type	Destroy the Abusive Home
Forrest Gump / int_59b571c	comment	Destroy the Abusive Home: Jenny throws rocks at her abandoned childhood home, then her shoes, then can't find anything else to throw and collapses sobbing. After her death, Forrest does her a favor by having her abusive home demolished.
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Forrest Gump / int_5be919ae	type	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario
Forrest Gump / int_5be919ae	comment	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Jenny leaves Forrest several times and each of these is shown to be a mistake. Coming back to him are the few instances where she is truly happy.
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Forrest Gump / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Forrest Gump / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Ultimately, life has many twists-&-turns neither you nor others ever really sees coming. But it's how one handles those twists-&-turns that really matters, for better or for worse. Related to above, American Life has drastically changed with every decade after World War II, and nobody really knows how to fit into the times.
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Forrest Gump / int_5f49ac76	type	Single-Target Sexuality
Forrest Gump / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: Forrest has eyes for Jenny. No one else.
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Forrest Gump / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Forrest Gump / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Bubba's montage where he talks about the many ways that shrimp can be cooked ends with him and Forrest scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes, which is a punishment. Why Bubba and Forrest were punished is never explained, although some think it was because Bubba was rambling too much to Forrest about shrimp, and it was distracting them from their duties.
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Forrest Gump / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Forrest Gump / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: While the screenplay stays fairly close to the novel's structure (mostly as it relates to Forrest getting involved in life events), the character of Forrest is, in the novel, fairly smart; he just has extreme difficulty articulating his thoughts. The book is also rather dark and mean-spirited in several instances, overall being more cynical and satirical compared to the movie being idealistic and sentimental bordering on glurge.
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Forrest Gump / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Forrest Gump / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: At one point, the jaded, legless Lt. Dan mocks Forrest's ambitions: "If you're ever a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an astronaut!" Years later, after the two have made a fortune as shrimp boat captains, Lt. Dan attends Forrest's wedding wearing titanium prosthetics, "the same stuff they use on the space shuttle."
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Forrest Gump / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Forrest Gump / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When we first see Forrest's platoon in action, they are walking through a rice paddy. You can see plumes of smoke behind, indicating they torched a village on the way over.
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Forrest Gump / int_63387043	type	Glorious Death
Forrest Gump / int_63387043	comment	Glorious Death: Lt. Dan Taylor is from a long line of military heroes and aspires to be the next in his line to be killed in battle. He even screams at Forrest NOT to rescue him after being severely injured when their platoon is ambushed, so he can die with his men. Later he berates Forrest for cheating him out of his destiny. But eventually, he's glad Forrest DID save him.
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Forrest Gump / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Forrest Gump / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: None of the kids, except Jenny, would let Forrest sit next to them on the school bus. Three in particular made a hobby of chasing Forrest around after school and throwing rocks at him, all the way until senior year.
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Forrest Gump / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Forrest Gump / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Played with, as the drill sergeant frequently praises Forrest for his dedication and obedience...in the exact same tone of voice typically used to berate anyone else. Truth in Television: This is how a Drill Sergeant is supposed to act — having a favorite may inspire people to turn on them, destabilizing the team. The Drill Sergeant is just letting them know that Forrest is getting it right, but at the same time lets the team know nobody's getting any slack.
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Forrest Gump / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Forrest Gump / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: Bubba's mother and female ancestors had served as cooks for wealthy white people. When Forrest gives her and her family riches from Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, she becomes wealthy enough to hire a white woman to cook for her.
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Forrest Gump / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Forrest Gump / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Forrest is uncharacteristically expressive to Jenny, as she's about to leave with her radical boyfriend:
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Forrest Gump / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Forrest Gump / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Lt. Dan tries to be this to a T, as he gives Forrest and Bubba advice on how to survive Vietnam (concluding the mentor part) and then tries to die fighting in the war, believing that it was his destiny. However, he didn't count on Forrest to defy that.
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Forrest Gump / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Forrest Gump / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Forrest tells Jenny he loves her, she annoyingly tells him he doesn't know what love is. Years later, he proposes to her, but she declines, telling him he doesn't really want to marry her. His response: "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." The "Run, Forrest, run" scene is repeated with Jenny and Forrest as teenagers. The first time saw Forrest overcoming the issue with his legs in order to walk (or rather, run) properly. The second time saw just how fast Forrest could run. Rather appropriately, this got the attention of a football coach...
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Forrest Gump / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Forrest Gump / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: In an innuendo, the invalid Lt. Dan tells Forrest that since he doesn't have legs anymore, he spends much of his time "exercising his arms".
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Forrest Gump / int_6d6dfca1	type	Wearing a Flag on Your Head
Forrest Gump / int_6d6dfca1	comment	Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Abbie Hoffman wears an American flag-patterned shirt at the Vietnam protest rally.
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Forrest Gump / int_6e65655f	type	Rejected Marriage Proposal
Forrest Gump / int_6e65655f	comment	Rejected Marriage Proposal: Jenny turns down Forrest when he asks her to marry him, saying he doesn't want to marry her. In response, Forrest says he'd make a good husband and that even though he isn't "a smart man", he does know what love is, referencing Jenny telling him he didn't understand love when he first confessed his feelings to her years earlier. It's implied that Jenny refuses to marry Forrest despite being happy with him because she thinks she isn't worthy of love (especially considering her background involving an abusive father and a string of horrible boyfriends have given her a warped view of herself). Several years later, after Jenny and Forrest are reunited and she reveals he's the father of her child, she asks him to marry her and Forrest accepts; they're briefly Happily Married until Jenny succumbs to illness.
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Forrest Gump / int_6eaff95	type	Leno Device
Forrest Gump / int_6eaff95	comment	Leno Device: Forrest appears on the Dick Cavett Show (alongside John Lennon) in the wake of his ping pong success.
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Forrest Gump / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
Forrest Gump / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: When Forrest Gump tries to fulfill Bubba's promise of going into the shrimp business, Lieutenant Dan sarcastically tells him that if Forrest ever becomes a shrimp boat captain, he'd be his first mate. A few years later, after buying a boat with endorsement money from a ping-pong paddle company, Forrest does become a shrimp boat captain. After sending a letter to Lt. Dan telling him about it, Lt. Dan shows up to honor his word: After Forrest becomes a millionaire from shrimping (since Hurricane Carmen destroyed the competition), and from Lt. Dan's investment in Apple Computers, Forrest remembers the promise he made to his late friend, Bubba, to split their earnings down the middle. Thus, despite Lt. Dan telling him he'd be crazy to do so, Forrest gives half of his profits to Bubba's mother, allowing her to retire.
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Forrest Gump / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
Forrest Gump / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: "I got shot in the butt-tocks."
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Forrest Gump / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Forrest Gump / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: In the film, Jenny is a vapid party girl, while in the novel, she winds up pressuring Forrest to stop meandering from one weird occupation to the next and finally settle down. In the novel Forrest is much more crass and outspoken. For example, Forrest refers to The Vietnam War as "a bunch of shit" multiple times in the novel, farts in public, and uses racial epithets toward both blacks and Asians. In the film he is much more innocent and polite.
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Forrest Gump / int_70638525	type	Luke, You Are My Father
Forrest Gump / int_70638525	comment	Luke, You Are My Father: Forrest finds out he has a son via Jenny. Epileptic Trees say this might not be the case, but Forrest is the only reliable parent Jenny can find. invoked
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Forrest Gump / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Forrest Gump / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: While carrying the somewhat heavyset Bubba to the shore in Vietnam, an airstrike is raining bombs down just behind Forrest's heels. The only acknowledgement he gives of the explosions is a slight increase in walking speed near the end of the shot. It's made especially impressive considering he has a fresh bullet wound in his buttocks. Which may sound vaguely humorous, especially remembering Hanks' pronunciation of the word, but just take a moment to think about what it actually means. He either has a bullet or a jagged piece of debris lodged in a part of his body that is moving and flexing around with every step he takes, even more so for the fact that he's running over difficult terrain and he still never even considers stopping. Unflinching indeed.
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Forrest Gump / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
Forrest Gump / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Forrest Gump becomes, among other things, a war hero and a successful shrimp boat captain based on single minded determination and a lack of sense to know that what he's doing is stupid/crazy/dangerous etc.
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Forrest Gump / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Forrest Gump / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: After his myriad accomplishments that leave him a war hero, shaper of history, and gazillionaire, Forrest accepts the prestigious job of groundskeeper at his old high school football field, which he ends up doing for free because he likes it so much.
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Forrest Gump / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Forrest Gump / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Run". Forrest is constantly told to run, and running is a major theme throughout the movie. Specifically, running towards one's problems or running away from them.
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Forrest Gump / int_7719cf90	type	It Began with a Twist of Fate
Forrest Gump / int_7719cf90	comment	It Began with a Twist of Fate: In the original book version, most of Forrest's adventures start with some variation of the following: "So I was just sitting there minding my own business and a guy comes up to me and says 'Do you want to [join the Army/be in a play/play college football/get shot into space/star in a movie/etc.]?' Well, I had nothing else to do that day so I said OK."
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Forrest Gump / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Forrest Gump / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: After coming back from Vietnam, Lt. Dan is told stuff like this. One example is, "If I let Jesus into my heart, then I will walk beside Him in the kingdom of Heaven". He thinks it's bullcrap for a while, but after Hurricane Carmen, the two of them come to an understanding. Forrest notes that he "made his peace with God".
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Forrest Gump / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Forrest Gump / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Forrest is often asked "Are you crazy, or just plain stupid?"
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Forrest Gump / int_78c4e567	type	Prosthetic Limb Reveal
Forrest Gump / int_78c4e567	comment	Prosthetic Limb Reveal: When formerly wheelchair-bound Lt. Dan shows up, walking, to Forrest and Jenny's wedding, Forrest is astonished. Dan lifts his pants leg to reveal one of his prosthetic legs, saying they're made of a titanium-steel alloy, like is used on the space shuttle.
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Forrest Gump / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Forrest Gump / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Forrest runs back and forth in hostile territory and under fire to recover all the injured people from his unit; played with, in that his main objective was to find Bubba.
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Forrest Gump / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Forrest Gump / int_7a143509	comment	Lieutenant Dan is clearly a Shell-Shocked Veteran at first, spitefully hating Forrest for an Unwanted Rescue as Dan thinks that he needed to die in a blaze of glory but was denied the chance. As time goes on, Dan finds something to live for, and apologizes to Forrest for snapping at him.
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Forrest Gump / int_7a6840a1	type	Real Event, Fictional Cause
Forrest Gump / int_7a6840a1	comment	Real Event, Fictional Cause: Forrest is an Accidental Hero who routinely shapes history by being at exactly the right place at the precise time. Who inspired Elvis Presley's hip-shaking stage moves? Gump. Who discovered the Watergate burglary? Gump. Who inspired John Lennon to write "Imagine"? Gump. Who sparked the T-shirt phrase "shit happens?" Gump. Who designed The '60s Smiley Face? Gump. If it's a critical juncture in American history, Forrest Gump went jogging through it.
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Forrest Gump / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Forrest Gump / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Twice. The framing narrative is Forrest talking with people at a bus stop. The flashbacks end when Forrest receives the letter from Jenny, after his three-year cross-country run.
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Forrest Gump / int_80d58c37	type	Hayseed Name
Forrest Gump / int_80d58c37	comment	Hayseed Name: Invoked by Bubba, who notes with bemusement that his nickname is "like one of them redneck boys."
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Forrest Gump / int_8145958b	type	Seemingly Profound Fool
Forrest Gump / int_8145958b	comment	Seemingly Profound Fool: A lot of people take Forrest's words at greater value than he does. The cross-country running, for instance. There's nothing political, social, or philosophical about it; he just "felt like running".
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Forrest Gump / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Forrest Gump / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Jenny's sisters were mentioned exactly once. Were they sent to live with their grandma like Jenny? The bullies who chase Forrest around aren't seen or heard from after Forrest graduates.
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Forrest Gump / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Forrest Gump / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: The storm that took out every ship is considered to be a good thing since it allowed Forrest's shrimping business to thrive. This ignores how many lives the storm would have ruined or possibly ended. Though it is justified by Forrest's stupidity making him unable to consider the effects that the storm had on anyone but himself and those close to him and further Averted in that Forrest himself doesn't regard it as good, but simply observes the outcome, while Lt. Dan is too absorbed in his own misfortunes to care about anyone else.
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Forrest Gump / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Forrest Gump / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Zigzagged. Anytime Forrest reunites with and/or attempts to pursue a relationship with Jenny, he's shot down and loses her again and again. Averted by the end of the movie when Jenny finally settles down from her chaotic lifestyle after having Forrest Jr. and asks Forrest to marry her, then cruelly subverts THAT when Jenny dies not long after their marriage. Basically, Jenny never stays with Forrest for long, no matter what.
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Forrest Gump / int_8b9c057e	type	Ethnic Menial Labor
Forrest Gump / int_8b9c057e	comment	Ethnic Menial Labor: Bubba's mother is depicted as being a cook for an aristocratic white family, from a long line of the same. When Gump cuts her into the profits from the fishing company, she turns the tables and hires a white cook for herself.
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Forrest Gump / int_8cb4b589	type	Symbolic Baptism
Forrest Gump / int_8cb4b589	comment	Symbolic Baptism: Lt. Dan swimming in the ocean after a hurricane almost destroys his and Gump's shrimp boat, where he comes to terms with his PTSD. Forrest believes that's the moment where "he made his peace with God."
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Forrest Gump / int_8d83bed9	type	The Vietnam Vet
Forrest Gump / int_8d83bed9	comment	The Vietnam Vet: Both the eponymous character, and Lt. Dan. For the former it was just a period in his life, whereas for the latter, it ruined much of his life, and he was nothing but a bum until he ran into Forrest who gave him a job as first mate on his vessel.
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Forrest Gump / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Forrest Gump / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Lieutenant Dan's ancestors are all played by Gary Sinise. Forrest's namesake General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan and (according to Forrest's mother) is related "in some way" to Forrest, is played by Tom Hanks. Bubba's mother and her ancestors are played by the same actress.
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Forrest Gump / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Forrest Gump / int_94680696	comment	"My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump." The one time he introduces himself differently (to Bubba), he does so in a spectacular Shaped Like Itself fashion:
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Forrest Gump / int_9519d89a	type	Wealthy Philanthropist
Forrest Gump / int_9519d89a	comment	Wealthy Philanthropist: Forrest Gump's shrimp business really takes off and Lt. Dan wisely invests their money in Apple Computer. Following his mom's philosophy, Forrest starts giving money to various projects in his town and state, like renovating their town church and founding a new hospital department.
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Forrest Gump / int_95df2bc3	type	Big Damn Reunion
Forrest Gump / int_95df2bc3	comment	Big Damn Reunion: After Forrest returns from Vietnam and accidentally finds himself at a hippie rally by the Washington monument, a familiar voice calls out to him as Jenny runs across the Reflecting Pool to show herself to him, and the two share a big hug in front of thousands of applauding on-lookers.
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Forrest Gump / int_963aab4a	type	Speaking Up for Another
Forrest Gump / int_963aab4a	comment	Speaking Up for Another: After Forrest runs into Lt. Dan in D.C., the two spend New Year's Eve with a couple of female friends of Taylor's. They pair off back at the Lt.'s apartment and when Forrest's "date" gets frisky with him, he pushes her away. She starts insulting him and asks, "Are you stupid or somethin'?" Then the other girl joins in, too. Taylor explodes, yelling, "Don't you EVER call him stupid!" and throws both girls out. Forrest realizes that Lt. Dan defended him because, having been called a cripple himself, he knows what it's like to be put down for something he has no control over.
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Forrest Gump / int_964163e9	type	Mistaken for Profound
Forrest Gump / int_964163e9	comment	Mistaken for Profound: When Forrest's runs across America start attracting attention, members of the press assume he's running for a noble cause, even though he isn't. He's just running for the sake of running, and that's it. At one point, Forrest just decides he's done running, which leaves all of his Gump Groupies quite confused.
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Forrest Gump / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Forrest Gump / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: A poor nameless Red Shirt dies of Boom, Headshot! at the start of the ambush that also kills Bubba (who ironically ends up being the last of the squad to die).
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Forrest Gump / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Forrest Gump / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Forrest teaches Elvis Presley his iconic hip-swinging dance, inspires John Lennon to write "Imagine", inadvertently exposes the Watergate scandal, coins the phrase "Shit happens," and creates the design for the smiley face logo.
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Forrest Gump / int_9a8c7632	type	Dumb Is Good
Forrest Gump / int_9a8c7632	comment	Dumb Is Good: Forrest is "stupid is as stupid does", which, in practice, means that he is polite to everyone he meets, and never considers sinister undertones in what he hears or sees.
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Forrest Gump / int_9b1e50bd	type	During the War
Forrest Gump / int_9b1e50bd	comment	During the War: Vietnam.
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Forrest Gump / int_9b2923bc	type	Mooning
Forrest Gump / int_9b2923bc	comment	Mooning: Forrest does this to President Johnson when he is asked to show his "war wound," which required him to drop his pants. See Exact Words for more details.
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Forrest Gump / int_9b57f005	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
Forrest Gump / int_9b57f005	comment	Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Forrest is shot in the but-TOCKS in Vietnam.
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Forrest Gump / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
Forrest Gump / int_9c4003a1	comment	One True Love: Forrest falls in love with Jenny the first time he hears her voice and never even thinks about any other woman. The one and only time any woman comes onto him (one of the women Lt. Dan picks up for them) he's appalled and shoves her away. For Jenny's part, the core of her character arc is coming to terms with the fact that Forrest is the only man who has ever loved her, after a lifetime spent being used and abused.
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Forrest Gump / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Forrest Gump / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "I wanna be up on a stage with just my guitar and my voice..." At the very beginning of the movie, Forrest opens his suitcase and we see not only the Curious George book (which Mama reads to him and Forrest Jr. takes to show-and-tell) but also his Bubba Gump hat and his ping-pong paddle. We also see he's wearing muddy Nikes, like those he wore when he ran for two and a half years. Even the box of chocolates shows up in his story when he gives Jenny a box at college. In one of his first scenes, Lt. Dan tells his men to change their socks regularly, and always look after their feet. He ends up losing both his legs. A subtle example. Lt. Dan pokes fun at Forrest over his aspirations of captaining a shrimping boat, saying, "If you're ever a shrimping boat captain, I'll be an astronaut." Later, Lt. Dan shows up at Forrest and Jenny's wedding, sporting titanium legs which Lt. Dan explains "is what they made the space shuttle out of."
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Forrest Gump / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
Forrest Gump / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Forrest (spine problems and a mental disability) and later Lt. Dan (bilateral leg amputee). Both of them come to terms with their conditions and reach success.
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Forrest Gump / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Forrest Gump / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Lieutenant Dan's Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter antics. Also:
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Forrest Gump / int_9e224dd5	type	Object-Tracking Shot
Forrest Gump / int_9e224dd5	comment	Object-Tracking Shot: The feather book-ending of the movie, symbolically representing Jenny, as she has a reoccurring association with birds throughout the film. It's symbolic in that Jenny is gone, but she's finally free of her pain.
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Forrest Gump / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Forrest Gump / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: The Long List of shrimp recipes and the imagine spots for Lieutenant Dan and Bubba's ancestors.
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Forrest Gump / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Forrest Gump / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Forrest. Jenny abandons him multiple times throughout the film and generally treats him like crap yet he thinks about her a lot and always welcomes her back.
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Forrest Gump / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Forrest Gump / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Invoked in the film, where Jenny climbs into Forrest's bed and the scene fades to black.
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Forrest Gump / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Forrest Gump / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: After getting rich, Bubba's mother hires a (white) housekeeper, and they're implied to have a much friendlier relationship than she did with any of her own employers. Forrest and his mother too are shown to be close with their long-time housemaid Louise, who happily exchanges greetings with Forrest when he returns home from the Army, mourns over his mama getting sick, and has a front row seat to his and Jenny's wedding.
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Forrest Gump / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Forrest Gump / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: When recounting his experiences in Vietnam, Forrest has just described how extreme the jungle's weather is ("Somebody turned off the rain") as we watched the downpour almost comically switch off and be replaced by sudden sunlight... then the soldier next to him goes down in a spray of blood as the Vietcong ambush his unit, kicking off the single most harrowing part of the movie. When Forrest finally reunites with Jenny and meets Forrest Jr. he's possibly the happiest he's ever been in his life... then Jenny tells him that she's sick and dying. Any time Forrest follows up on describing how he met a famous person (JFK, John Lennon) by mentioning how they were killed.
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Forrest Gump / int_a53f784f	type	Appeal to Familial Wisdom
Forrest Gump / int_a53f784f	comment	"Momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'"
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Forrest Gump / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Forrest Gump / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson play themselves posthumously and interact with Forrest through the use of archival footage. The same technology was also used with Richard Nixonnote who died less than three months before the movie was released to theaters, Alabama Governor George Wallace, and John Lennon. (This was before easy computer manipulation, so these scenes where Forrest was integrated were a huge special effects triumph at the time.) A more straight version of this occurs in the Lennon scene, where Dick Cavett plays himself, made to look younger through make-up.
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Forrest Gump / int_a737743c	type	Caged Bird Metaphor
Forrest Gump / int_a737743c	comment	Caged Bird Metaphor: Jenny is associated with birds, from the moment she asks Forrest to pray with her. The prayer itself: This is recalled in a conversation after he sees Jenny performing on stage: Later, we see her contemplating suicide again, ready to jump off a high-riser, with Free Bird's solo wailing in the background. After Forrest finishes talking to Jenny's gravestone, a flock of birds flies out of their tree as he walks away. The film opens and closes with a shot of a floating feather.
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Forrest Gump / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Forrest Gump / int_a7382a73	comment	Bubba's mother being served lunch by a white lady, using the exact same shot as the Imagine Spot of Bubba's mother's ancestors doing the same thing for their white employers.
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Forrest Gump / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Forrest Gump / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Lt. Dan has no legs and he can still work on a shrimp boat and survive a hurricane from a ship's mast.
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Forrest Gump / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Forrest Gump / int_a922f8de	comment	Defied in that Gump ignores Lt. Dan's order not to rescue him and chooses Good over Lawful, which leads to him earning the Medal Of Honor.
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Forrest Gump / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Forrest Gump / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: One of Forrest's classmates casually refers to black people using racial slurs during the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door scene. The bullies who chase 18-year old Forrest have a Confederate flag-license plate on the front of their pick-up truck.
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Forrest Gump / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Forrest Gump / int_aba8065b	comment	Jenny consistently tries to do something great, but consistently fails because of her Fatal Flaw of running away from her problems every time things get hard. She also hates being seen as a Damsel in Distress, snapping at Forrest whenever he tries to show her affection. As time passes, Jenny realizes that Forrest has been the one thing in her life which has been both consistent and helpful.
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Forrest Gump / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Forrest Gump / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Forrest's ability to run very fast allows him to escape from bullies and gets him a place on the football team, but it really pays off in Vietnam when he saves the members of his platoon, but especially Bubba as he has to outrun a friendly airstrike.
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Forrest Gump / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Forrest Gump / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Forrest's whole platoon in Vietnam at the start of the ambush. Forrest when he finally finds Bubba and sees he's critically wounded. Then again when he notices the approaching airstrike.
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Forrest Gump / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Forrest Gump / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lt. Dan has a dry and bitter wit that is all the more apparent next to the plain and literal Forrest.
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Forrest Gump / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Forrest Gump / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Forrest has a lot of these. "My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump." The one time he introduces himself differently (to Bubba), he does so in a spectacular Shaped Like Itself fashion: "Stupid is as stupid does." "Momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'" "...And that's all I have to say about that." "...But most of all, I thought about Jenny."
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Forrest Gump / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Forrest Gump / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Jenny tells Forrest that her dream is to "be up on a stage with just [her] guitar and [her] voice". She gets that dream, but she neglected to mention whether she'd be wearing anything, and when the time comes, she isn't.
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Forrest Gump / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Forrest Gump / int_b11ac9f5	comment	A few darker examples occur, as well — like describing Jenny's father as "a very loving man," unaware that what he witnessed were signs of sexual abuse.
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Forrest Gump / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Forrest Gump / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: It's subtle, but Forrest gets offscreen promotions during his time in the Army; He's a Private in Vietnam, but by the time he is awarded the Medal Of Honor by Lyndon Johnson, he's wearing Corporal stripes, and he's wearing Sergeant stripes when he receives his discharge.
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Forrest Gump / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Forrest Gump / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: Lt. Dan says a variation of this to Forrest after Forrest saves his life, thinking Forrest has robbed him of his destiny and will have to live the rest of his life as a cripple: "What am I gonna do now?" Also happens when Forrest stops running across the country and decides to just walk home from the Nevada desert. One of the runners following him has this reaction out of frustration: "What are we going to do now?"
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Forrest Gump / int_b3154762	type	Carload of Cool Kids
Forrest Gump / int_b3154762	comment	Carload of Cool Kids: A group of kids in a pick-up truck torment Forrest, which causes him to run.
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Forrest Gump / int_b4a7756d	type	I Was Just Joking
Forrest Gump / int_b4a7756d	comment	I Was Just Joking: It was strongly implied that LBJ's "desire" to see the wound on Gump's behind was actually intended to be a joke. Forrest, being Forrest, interprets this literally, and proceeds to oblige his "request" on live TV, causing Johnson to chuckle to himself and say "Goddamn, son!" This is actually a historical reference of sorts: LBJ once pulled his shirt up to display a scar from gallbladder surgery to the press, as a way of dispelling a rumor that he had had cancer. Furthermore, behind closed doors LBJ was also famous for such things as taking meetings — in person — while on the toilet, and flopping out his own Johnson. Also, possibly, a Shout-Out to actor Lee Marvin, who served in the USMC in the Pacific War and (by some accounts) was wounded in the buttocks, resulting in a severed sciatic nerve.
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Forrest Gump / int_b61b7b5c	type	This Is My Story
Forrest Gump / int_b61b7b5c	comment	This Is My Story: "Hello, my name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. Would you like a chocolate?"
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Forrest Gump / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Forrest Gump / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Lt. Dan in the storm scene is basically him venting all his frustration about being denied his "destiny" of dying in battle at God.
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Forrest Gump / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
Forrest Gump / int_bb53d08	comment	Tear Jerker: In-universe: The old lady that Forrest is narrating his story to has this reaction, to the point where she sticks around after missing her bus. Forrest's speech when getting his medal also causes this reaction in those that can actually hear him.
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Forrest Gump / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Forrest Gump / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Call post-Vietnam Lieutenant Dan a cripple all you want, but he will hurt you if you dare call Forrest any variety of "stupid."
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Forrest Gump / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Forrest Gump / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: Played with. Forrest ran back into the combat zone to find Bubba, only to be called upon by other soldiers to rescue them, which he did by carrying them to the river. What he did was technically heroic, but he didn't intend to save four others and be awarded the Medal of Honor. On the other hand, he did intend to save Bubba, and he was aware of the danger of the situation.
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Forrest Gump / int_bd335148	type	Actor IS the Title Character
Forrest Gump / int_bd335148	comment	Actor IS the Title Character: Some posters for the film state that "Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump".
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Forrest Gump / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Forrest Gump / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: While not in a supernatural sense, during the Hurricane Carmen scene, Lieutenant Dan raises his middle finger to the sky while cursing God.
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Forrest Gump / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Forrest Gump / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: A positive example occurs when Forrest gives Bubba's mother Bubba's share of his profits. When Bubba's mother receives a large check from the company in the mail, she is so immersed with joy that she faints almost immediately.
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Forrest Gump / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Forrest Gump / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: When Forrest and Bubba meet Lt. Dan for the first time, he specifically tells them not to salute him to avoid this trope:
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Forrest Gump / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
Forrest Gump / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: Lt. Dan is initially furious that Forrest saved his life, rather than leave him to die. He eventually gets over his rage. Later in the film, when Lt. Dan fiercely defends Forrest after their female companions call him "stupid," the implication becomes that while Lt. Dan loses his legs, gets lost in his own misery, and spends decades watching the world fly apart, Forrest is his polar opposite — innocent, kind, confused and, above all, happy. Lt. Dan doesn't want anything to spoil that. Jenny, when Forrest tries to save her from a couple guys harassing her. While stuff like that always happens to her, she tells Forrest he can't keep protecting her.
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Forrest Gump / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Forrest Gump / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Forrest has to outrun a friendly air strike when he rescues Bubba. He just barely manages to avoid getting caught in the blast.
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Forrest Gump / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Forrest Gump / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Forrest! Oh good God and sweet mercy, Forrest! Forrest might be one of the definitive nice guys in film. It's this character trait that makes him the ideal hero for this film because there are few other nice guys. The summary calls him "an innocent in a nation losing its innocence".
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Forrest Gump / int_c60e9e0c	type	Bullying the Disabled
Forrest Gump / int_c60e9e0c	comment	Bullying the Disabled: As a boy, Forrest Gump had to wear leg braces to help him walk after he got sick from polio. When a group of bullies threaten young Forrest and with Jenny's command "Run, Forrest, run!", he flees with such fervor that he shatters his braces and bolts away with astonishing speed. He also has a mental disability and gets called "stupid" for it, which he hates. Lieutenant Dan, who lost both legs from an injury while they both served in Vietnam, flies into a rage over this and being called a "cripple".
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Forrest Gump / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Forrest Gump / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At various times we see archival footage or well known TV series play on TV sets, such as Bob Hope greeting the American troops at New Year's Eve 1971, and Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street. When Forrest is pushing Lt. Dan across a street after they reunite in New York and a cab almost hits them, Dan shouts "Hey! Hey! I'm walkin' here!" Early in the film, the stock footage of the Ku Klux Klan is recycled from The Birth of a Nation.
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Forrest Gump / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
Forrest Gump / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: After Forrest finds success with the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., the city offers him "a fine job": cutting grass. Since Bubba Gump took off, and Lt. Dan successfully invested their profits in "some kind of fruit company", making him wealthy, he decides to cut the city's grass for free - just cause he enjoys doing it so much.
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Forrest Gump / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
Forrest Gump / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Bubba's family ends up very rich because Forrest decided to give them what would've been Bubba's share of the revenue from Bubba-Gump.
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Forrest Gump / int_c8c6a43c	type	Fly-at-the-Camera Ending
Forrest Gump / int_c8c6a43c	comment	Fly-at-the-Camera Ending: The feather, symbolically representing Jenny, as she has a reoccurring association with birds throughout the film. It's symbolic in that Jenny is gone, but she's finally free of her pain.
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Forrest Gump / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
Forrest Gump / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Domestic Abuser: Jenny goes through a bunch of them, in particular the hippie who slaps her and tries to defend his actions as being angered by the Vietnam War and bullies Forrest for being a veteran.
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Forrest Gump / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
Forrest Gump / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: Forrest is a natural runner, a natural table tennis champion, and his drill sergeant is amazed that he can take a gun apart and put it back together so quickly.
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Forrest Gump / int_cd5ceb69	type	Barefoot Suicide
Forrest Gump / int_cd5ceb69	comment	Barefoot Suicide: Subverted. Jenny absentmindedly slips out of one of her shoes while standing by a bridge, asking if she'd fly if she jumped off. Forrest is a little worried to hear her say that. Later on she actually does try to commit suicide, but one slips off her foot and she ultimately decides not to jump.
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Forrest Gump / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Forrest Gump / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: Forrest finds it hard to work up enthusiasm for meeting Nixon, having already met JFK and LBJ on separate occasions.
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Forrest Gump / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Forrest Gump / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: We never actually see "Charlie," only their machine gun fire and explosives as they kill or wound the American soldiers. Truth in Television: this was one of the most devastating psychological aspects of fighting the Viet Cong. They did their best to avoid being seen, because it was scary and demoralizing.
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Forrest Gump / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Forrest Gump / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Forrest's cross-country run builds over time. First he runs to the end of the road. Then he runs across town. Then he runs across the county, and then the state, and then etc., etc.
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Forrest Gump / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Forrest Gump / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Forrest Gump.
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Forrest Gump / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Forrest Gump / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The book is broadly similar but has a darker, more sardonic and cynical tone (particularly during the Vietnam sequence, as the author served in the war) and explicit sex and drug use along with weirder misadventures. Though Jenny doesn't have AIDS at the end. It begins:
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Forrest Gump / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Forrest Gump / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Forrest's revelation that he's the owner of the wildly successful Bubba Gump Shrimp Company sends one listener off in unbelieving hysterics. The old woman was also unbelieving at first, until he shows her a picture of him and Lieutenant Dan on the cover of Fortune.
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Forrest Gump / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Forrest Gump / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Lt. Dan Taylor loses his legs in combat, and eventually gets prosthetics.
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Forrest Gump / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Forrest Gump / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Jenny. Engages in a lot of self-destructive behavior and is very cynical due to her unhappy childhood.
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Forrest Gump / int_d2a8b268	type	Death Montage
Forrest Gump / int_d2a8b268	comment	Death Montage: Forrest explains Lt. Dan was from a long military tradition. Then we see a montage of Gary Sinise (the actor playing Lt. Dan) playing a different ancestor just at the moment of his death, in a different battleground and a different uniform each time, specifically, during the American Revolutionary War, The American Civil War, World War I and World War II. Adding to the... family tradition, all of said ancestors happen to die with the same expression on their faces.
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Forrest Gump / int_d6e495b2	type	Undisclosed Funds
Forrest Gump / int_d6e495b2	comment	Undisclosed Funds: It's not clear how much Forrest and Lt. Dan make from Bubba Gump and their investments, but since Forrest giving the Blue family what would have been Bubba's share of the profits is enough to set them up for life, it's clearly a lot.
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Forrest Gump / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Forrest Gump / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Forrest doesn't see it but Lt. Dan has a lot of anger towards him and generally treats him with contempt. But underneath it is an appreciation that Forrest holds no grudges and will do anything to help a person in need. By the end, there is no doubt they are best friends.
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Forrest Gump / int_d80e9526	type	Sex for Services
Forrest Gump / int_d80e9526	comment	Sex for Services: A rather loose variation, when it comes to Mama Forrest and the school principal.
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Forrest Gump / int_d83104d2	type	Saved From Their Own Honor
Forrest Gump / int_d83104d2	comment	Saved From Their Own Honor: Every ancestor of Lieutnant Dan Taylor died on a battlefield, and Dan himself intended to keep on this tradition in Vietnam. He was initially distraught Forrest saved him.
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Forrest Gump / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Forrest Gump / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During the live broadcast of the first moon landing, everyone at the Army hospital (except Lt. Dan, who's staring out the window) is watching Forrest play Ping-Pong with himself and no one is watching the TV. When Reagan is shot, the footage is playing on TV but Forrest is not even watching the screen. When we first see Forrest play football, he's just zoned out and unaware of the game he's participating in.
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Forrest Gump / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Lt. Dan after Vietnam. Downplayed in that the movie never outright says he's an atheist, but he's overtly contemptuous of the proselytizers he meets at the V.A. (especially since they keep talking about "walk[ing] with Jesus in the Kingdom of Heaven", when, you know...).
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Forrest Gump / int_daa710c8	type	Try Not to Die
Forrest Gump / int_daa710c8	comment	Try Not to Die: One of Lieutenant Dan's two standing orders for his platoon (the other one is to always, always change your socks for clean ones regularly).
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Forrest Gump / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: A staple of Gump's character, and why he thrives in the Army. Defied in that Gump ignores Lt. Dan's order not to rescue him and chooses Good over Lawful, which leads to him earning the Medal Of Honor.
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Forrest Gump / int_dcc35bb	type	Celebrity Cameo
Forrest Gump / int_dcc35bb	comment	Celebrity Cameo: The Faceless Elvis Presley is played by an uncredited Kurt Russell.
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Forrest Gump / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Forrest Gump / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: So many that not all of them made it to the movie. Forrest inspired and named for a while the trope that is now Been There, Shaped History.
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Forrest Gump / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Forrest Gump / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: A lot of scenes mirror each other. Forrest meets Jenny on the bus, where nobody wants him to sit next to them. Later when he joins the Army by bus the same situation happens again, but this time it's Bubba who allows him to sit next to him. Later, when Forrest's son goes to school by bus, he also introduces himself to the bus driver first. Forrest being chased by bullies with Jenny defending him occurs both when he is a child, as well as when he is a teenager. The only difference is that they chase him by bike as a child and by car as an adult. Forrest's mother dies in bed in his house, mirrored later by Jenny dying in the same bed. Forrest meets a President of the United States three times: Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Lampshaded by Forrest: "So I went [to the White House]... again. And I met the President of the United States... again." Forrest beats up men who mistreat Jenny. Forrest walking or running past the same barbershop.
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Forrest Gump / int_e16cedc6	comment	The Long List: "Shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo..." There's a lot of recipes you can make from shrimp, apparently.
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Forrest Gump / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Forrest Gump / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Forrest has no concept of metaphor. For example, while in Vietnam, he thinks that their platoon is looking for "some guy named Charlie"note "Victor Charlie", or "Charlie" for short, is the phonetic alphabet abbreviation for the Viet Cong. Another example occurs when Lt. Dan shows up after Forrest buys his first shrimping boat:
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Forrest Gump / int_e3d2f2	type	The Fool
Forrest Gump / int_e3d2f2	comment	The Fool: Forrest is good-natured but naturally dim witted, most importantly though, he appears to be quite lucky throughout the film.
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Forrest Gump / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Forrest Gump / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Forrest accidentally forms one merely by jogging across the U.S.A. and growing a giant Charles Manson beard. Only in the seventies.
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Forrest Gump / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Forrest Gump / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Forrest. Once he decides to do something (or someone tells him to), he will do it, no questions asked, end of story, goodbye. Jenny, as a child, tells him to run from a gang of bullies? He runs so fast he breaks out of his leg braces. The Drill Sergeant Nasty tells him to assemble a rifle? He sets a new company record in the process. The President of the United States seems interested in his war wound? He'll get to see it, on national TV, no less. And so on and so forth.
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Forrest Gump / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
Forrest Gump / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Among other things, Forrest doesn't quite understand what the big deal is with desegregation, the war protesters, or the Black Panther Party. Also, he calls Jenny's father a "very loving man" because he was "always touching her".
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Forrest Gump / int_e60bda	type	The Klan
Forrest Gump / int_e60bda	comment	The Klan: Forrest says he was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Forrest Gump / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Forrest Gump / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Forrest gets shot in the buttocks in Vietnam and suffers no long-lasting ill effects. In fact, he gets all the ice cream he can eat at the hospital. Believe it or not, this is actually about the only part of the body where this can realistically happen (thus, why it's called a "million-dollar wound"). It also happens to infantrymen a lot, as one's natural inclination when crawling is to stick your butt in the air. Army training tries to curtail this, but not everyone remembers. This might qualify as a Shout-Out to All Quiet on the Western Front which includes a scene during which one of the experienced squad members places a panicked recruit's helmet over the recruit's raised buttocks, for this reason. This becomes a Deconstructed Trope when the recruit is last seen having sustained a serious wound there, which the more experienced soldiers regard as certainly crippling and probably fatal; one contemplates Mercy Killing but is dissuaded on the grounds that the shelling is over and witnesses are starting to appear.
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Forrest Gump / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: The only reason nine-year old Forrest is able to evade the boys on bikes is being able to reach the safety of his driveway. When they chase him with a pick-up truck nine years later, he starts out making the same mistake, & almost gets run down before finally subverting it by turning left & running across a field. As a football player, he also learns how to zig-zag.
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Forrest Gump / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
Forrest Gump / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: The film has an Ensemble Cast that includes Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, and Sally Field. It also is set from the 1950s to the 1980s and shows Forest's experiences (and accidental influence) on several major events of American history of the time, such as the start of Elvis Presley's career, the Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, The '60s counter-culture, the Cold War and opening relations with Maoist China]], the Watergate scandal, etc. He also meets and interacts with many famous figures from the time period, such as three U.S. Presidents, George Wallace, legendary college football coach Bear Bryant, John Lennon, and many others.
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Forrest Gump / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Forrest Gump / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When he receives the Medal of Honor from Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson jokingly expresses interest in seeing the wound on Gump's butt. Gump interprets this as literal, and... obliges his request. (LBJ, never the most reserved or well-mannered individual, absolutely loves it.) Jenny gets caught by this too, after she tells Forrest "I wanna be up on a stage with just my guitar and my voice..." She later gets that dream. But she never specified whether she'd be wearing clothes at the time, and ends up with just her guitar and her voice. Jenny also tells Forrest that when he's in Vietnam, if he finds himself in danger, she wants him to run. As it happens, he ends up doing just that... running back and forth carrying wounded soldiers to a river bank during an ambush, earning himself the Medal of Honor. Forrest thinks his Vietnam wound was literally worth a million dollars.
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Forrest Gump / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
Forrest Gump / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Forrest just does whatever he feels like doing at the time. At one point, he becomes sort of a running guru and unintentionally leads a group of literal cross-country runners for months. At one point, he stops running ("Listen, he's about to say something!") and he just says "I'm kinda tired. I'm going to go home now," and just walks home (from the Nevada desert).
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Forrest Gump / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Forrest Gump / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Richard Nixon, in a Pet the Dog moment, inquires what hotel Forrest is staying at and instead books him a room at a better one. Unfortunately for him however, he booked Forrest a stay at the Watergate Hotel, and it is Forrest who later reports the break-in (albeit unintentionally) that prompts the Watergate Scandal and Nixon's resignation from the Presidency.
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Forrest Gump / int_ec88c44c	type	Jackhammered Conversation
Forrest Gump / int_ec88c44c	comment	Jackhammered Conversation: During the March on the Pentagon, Forrest claims he only has one thing to say about the war. Then, an Army officer sabotages the speaker system and unplugs the microphones right as Forrest starts talking. By the time the speakers are back up, his speech is over. (Tom Hanks says that Forrest said, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing.") The only person who appears to have heard what Forrest said was Abbie Hoffman, who tearfully replies "That's so right-on, Army man. You said it all."
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Forrest Gump / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Forrest Gump / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Forrest flinches when trying to remember his first pair of shoes, and so the first flashback starts with himself as a child, flinching while the doctor puts his braces on for the first time.
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Forrest Gump / int_ef72a72	type	No Infantile Amnesia
Forrest Gump / int_ef72a72	comment	No Infantile Amnesia: Averted: Forrest explicitly states that he has absolutely no recollection of his birth.
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Forrest Gump / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Forrest Gump / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Lieutenant Dan is mad when Gump saves him and says he wishes he died with honor instead. He eventually grows out of it after enough time has passed.
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Forrest Gump / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Forrest Gump / int_f2877d9e	comment	After giving a guy named Wesley a beating at a meeting of the Black Panthers he and Jenny are sent away. He then apologizes: "I'm sorry I had a fight at your Black Panther party."
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Forrest Gump / int_f38a4690	type	Legacy of Service
Forrest Gump / int_f38a4690	comment	Legacy of Service: Bubba's family has apparently been in service for at least a century. The montage which shows different generations serving seems to imply that they are serving different generations of the same family. In this case, it's treated as a bad thing, since their service originated during the time of slavery. This would be inverted when Forrest gave Bubba's mother what he felt was Bubba's share of his shrimp venture: she was now rich enough to afford a servant of her own.
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Forrest Gump / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Forrest Gump / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: When asked if he is stupid, Forrest replies, "Stupid is as stupid does."
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Forrest Gump / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Forrest Gump / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Lt. Dan wanted to die in combat, so naturally, he doesn't take living with amputated legs too well. Watching Forrest receive a Medal of Honor from the President himself made all that worse.
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Forrest Gump / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Forrest Gump / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: It's subtle, but in every photo of Forrest, his eyes are closed. Many celebrities that Forrest met or talked about end up getting killed, most of them getting shot. In the first scene of every transition of Forrest's age, he is always wearing a blue and white plaid shirt. He's also wearing one at the bus stop. As mentioned above in Narration Echo, Forrest narrating things that people have said to him, followed immediately by them saying it on-screen.
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Forrest Gump / int_fa75f33e	comment	Road Apples: During his cross-country run, Forrest steps in a pile of dog poo, which leads to the creation of the "Shit Happens" bumper sticker.
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Forrest Gump / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Forrest Gump / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Forrest is so naÃ¯ve that he regularly misinterprets what is going on around him. When one character uses the name of an animal as a slur to refer to an African-American, Forrest thinks he is talking about said animal rather than a person. He assumes Elvis Presley died "from singing too many songs, or something". He notices Jenny performing as a nude stripper and thinks her dream of becoming a folk singer has come true. After giving a guy named Wesley a beating at a meeting of the Black Panthers he and Jenny are sent away. He then apologizes: "I'm sorry I had a fight at your Black Panther party." During his time in the Vietnam War he notices they were looking for "somebody named Charlie" and assumes that the money of his so-called "million dollar wound" was kept by the Army. Forrest remembers where everyone in his platoon was from. Except Tex. He can't remember what state Tex was fromnote Though to be fair, the last two people were "Dallas, from Phoenix" and "Cleveland from Detroit", so he really just didn't remember exactly where Tex was from. He notices people in the Watergate Hotel keeping him awake with their flashlights, asks the hotel receptionist to do something about it, but never thinks much of it, assuming they're just looking for a fuse box. He assumes Apple is "some kind of fruit company." This, though it's Black Comedy at best, and how silently Forrest sits beside Jenny as she cries after angrily throwing rocks at her father's old house seems to imply he understands a lot more than he did as a child:
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Forrest Gump / int_fca3518f	comment	Gun Stripping: Forrest is shown to be able to strip and assemble an M-14 in record time, to the amazement of his drill sergeant.
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Forrest Gump / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Forrest is the most even-tempered individual you could ever hope to meet, but if you hurt Jenny, he'll beat you. He is also incredibly strong due to being a football star and war hero.
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Forrest Gump / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Forrest Gump / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Bubba's momma (and grand-momma, and great-grandmomma) serving dinner to a white woman in a fancy dining room, then finally being served dinner herself in a fancy dining room by a white woman. At the beginning of the movie, Forrest tries to get to know the bus driver, Dorothy Harris, because his mother has told him not to take rides from strangers and — Forrest being as dense as he is — thinks introducing themselves to one another will mean they're not strangers anymore. At the end, when Forrest Junior is welcomed onto the bus: "You're Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump."
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Forrest Gump / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Forrest Gump / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Forrest's Mama and Jenny look as pretty and healthy on their deathbeds as they have throughout the entire film. However, it is believed to be in the early stages, as the doctor was just leaving his Mama's room after finding out she has cancer.
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Forrest Gump / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Forrest Gump / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Forrest's general Verbal Tic. This leads to a nice Historical In-Joke when he ends up being a shareholder in "some sort of fruit company" (Apple Computers).
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Forrest Gump / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Lt. Dan lost an ancestor in every major American war, and is looking forward to his turn. He gets over it after surviving Hurricane Carmen. In the book's sequel Gump and Co., he gets killed by friendly fire during Operation Desert Storm.
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Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Breaking the Bonds / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Broken Ace / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Bullying the Disabled / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Caged Bird Metaphor / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	California Doubling / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Car Fu / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Career-Ending Injury / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Carload of Cool Kids / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Celebrity Cameo / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Childhood Home Rediscovery / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Childhood Memory Demolition Team / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Chore Character Exploration / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Chroma Key / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Concert Kiss / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Corrupt the Cutie / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Crazy Is Cool / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Cue the Flying Pigs / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Cult Soundtrack / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Cultural Translation / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Death Montage / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Deceptive Legacy / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Deep South / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Delivery Not Desired / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Desperate Plea for Home / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Destroy the Abusive Home / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Diagnosed by the Audience / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Died in Your Arms Tonight / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Discredited Meme / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Don't Call Me "Sir" / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Drill Sergeant Nasty / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Dude, Where's My Respect? / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Dueling Dubs / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Dumb, but Diligent / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Dumb Is Good / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Dunno What's Going On But... / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	During the War / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Eccentric Townsfolk / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Embarrassing Rescue / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Enter Stage Window / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Epic Tracking Shot / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Ethnic Menial Labor / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	False Soulmate / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Famous Ancestor / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Fan-Disliked Explanation / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Fearless Fool / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Feather Motif / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Fishing for Sole / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Flyaway Shot / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Following in Relative's Footsteps / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Framing Device / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Genius Ditz / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Glorious Death / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Glurge / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	God Is Good / int_b1072514
GoldenRaspberryAward	seeAlso	Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Good Ol' Boy / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Gospel Revival Number / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Gratuitous Special Effects / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Gun Stripping / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Half-Witted Hillbilly / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Hard Work Hardly Works / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	"Have a Nice Day" Smile / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Heroes' Frontier Step / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Heroic Lineage / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Hippie Van / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Historical Character's Fictional Relative / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Historical Fiction / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Historical Figures in Archival Media / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Historical In-Joke / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	History with Celebrity / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Hometown Nickname / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Honorable Warrior's Death / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Hourglass Plot / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Hypocritical Heartwarming / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	I Was Just Joking / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	I Will Only Slow You Down / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Iconic Item / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Identical Grandson / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Idiot Houdini / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Idiot Savant / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Imagine Spot / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Implied Rape / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Innocent Inaccurate / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Insecure Love Interest / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Ironic Echo Cut / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	It Began with a Twist of Fate / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	It Will Never Catch On / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Jackhammered Conversation / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Jizzed in My Pants / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Jungle Warfare / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Kindhearted Simpleton / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Last Wish Marriage / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Legacy of Service / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Leno Device / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Loads and Loads of Roles / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Long List / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Looks Like Jesus / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Lost in the Maize / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Lovable Jock / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Luke, You Are My Father / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Mammy / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Mandela Effect / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Match Cut / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Mentor Occupational Hazard / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Mistaken for Profound / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	"Mister Sandman" Sequence / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Mooning / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Music Box Intervals / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Named After Somebody Famous / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Narration Echo / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Network to the Rescue / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	New-Age Retro Hippie / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	New Year Has Come / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	No Communities Were Harmed / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	No Infantile Amnesia / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Non Sequitur, Thud / int_b1072514
NormanRockwell	seeAlso	Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Not Quite Starring / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Not Staying for Breakfast / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Nothing but Hits / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	One-Liner, Name... One-Liner / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Only Friend / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Oscar Bait / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Outrun the Fireball / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Over-the-Shoulder Carry / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	"Pan from the Sky" Beginning / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Parental Blamelessness / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Parting-Words Regret / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Pervert Dad / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Phrase Catcher / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Physical Disability in Media / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Picaresque / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Pinball Protagonist / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Plot-Powered Stamina / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Popular History / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Potty Emergency / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Promiscuity After Rape / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Prosthetic Limb Reveal / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Puppy Love / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Rags to Riches / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Randomized Title Screen / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Real Award, Fictional Character / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Real Event, Fictional Cause / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Rejected Marriage Proposal / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Rhetorical Question Blunder / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Rhetorical Request Blunder / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Road Apples / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Same Language Dub / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Satire / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Saved From Their Own Honor / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Screw Destiny / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Screw the War, We're Partying / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Seen It All / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Sex for Services / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Shaped Like Itself / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Shared Family Quirks / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Shave and a Haircut / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Sickly Child Grew Up Strong / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Significant Birth Date / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	So What Do We Do Now? / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Southern-Fried Private / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Spanner in the Works / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Speaking Up for Another / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Still Wearing the Old Colors / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Storefront Television Display / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Straight for the Commander / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Stupid Good / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Stupidity-Inducing Attack / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Suddenly Shouting / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Surprisingly Mundane Reason / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Symbolic Baptism / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The '50s / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The '60s / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The '70s / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The '80s / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The All-American Boy / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Berserker / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The '80s / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Epic / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_b1072514
TheGoodCripple	seeAlso	Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Grunting Orgasm / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Hedonist / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Klan / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The MÃ¼nchausen / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The Vietnam Vet / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	The World Is Just Awesome / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	There's No Place Like Home / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	This Is My Story / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Throwing Off the Disability / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Time-Passage Beard / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Token Black Friend / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Too Quirky to Lose / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Toothbrush Floor Scrubbing / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Tragic AIDS Story / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Tragic Bromance / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Trend Killer / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Try Not to Die / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Uncanny Family Resemblance / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Understatement / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Undisclosed Funds / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Unflinching Walk / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Unnamed Parent / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Unreliable Voiceover / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Unwanted Rescue / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	V-Sign / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Walking the Earth / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Wealthy Philanthropist / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Wearing a Flag on Your Head / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	What If the Baby Is Like Me / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	When It Rains, It Pours / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Where Is Your X Now? / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Word of Saint Paul / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Worth Living For / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	You Taste Delicious / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Young Future Famous People / int_b1072514
MonkTropesS-Z	seeAlso	Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Scarpia Ultimatum / int_b1072514
Forrest Gump	hasFeature	Unusual Euphemism / int_b1072514

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