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What did Forest say when they unplugged his mic? According to Tom Hanks he said, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all.
It never fails to get me that people always ask why Jenny never told Forrest about his son. How would she have told him? He spent three years running across the country. The movie made it pretty clear that she got in contact as soon as he had stopped and was back home.
It's usually reactors that grew up after cell phones were invented that can't comprehend that there was no way to contact someone if they weren't home back when there were no cell phones.
In the speech in Washington DC Forrest says “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t come at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
Gary Sinise's life was forever changed by his roll as Lt. Dan. Following the film Sinise became very popular with veterans and began getting requests for him to appear before various veteran's groups to give motivational speeches. Sinise formed _The Lt. Dan Band_ which has performed for soldiers and veterans at USO shows around the world. If you get a chance his story is very inspiring. They are still performing and he is still very active with veterans today.
he said "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all." in his speech on that stage,directly quoted by Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump is the one of the most emotional films I’ve seen. Tom hanks killed his role so well. Anyone who hasn’t watched this film needs to right away!
Mikey Show Presents is the ONLY reaction channel I've seen that got almost every reference in the movie. The only one they kind of missed was Abbie Hoffman and George Wallace, though they didn't miss them entirely.
Well, yea. Its kind of easy to miss if you know none of their songs. Reading your comment is the only reason i know about it now and ive seen this movie multiple times throughout the years. 😂😂
They don't have the history of the times, either.. They NEVER get the Midnight Cowboy reference. They never notice that Lt Dan is engaged to a woman who he would have killed in the war. They never notice that Lt Dan never calls Gump by his first name until he goes to the wedding, then says, Hello Forrest.
@@rcpsammy7186Yeah…I had to roll my eyes all the way across the room at the Miss Congeniality comment. I don’t think anyone in my life has ever pointed out that Lt Dan is marrying an Asian woman, but I’ve also considered maybe they feel like it’d be racist? But it is a huge character development moment, along with calling him Forrest. He’s let go of his anger and his past, and softened.
Also, if you guys didn’t know, in Toy Story 2, Slinky Dog says “I may not be a smart dog, but I know what roadkill is.” That was a reference to Forrest Gump which also starred Tom Hanks
"I'm walking here" was a line from the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). Dustin Hoffman says it to a cab driver who accidentally drove on set and almost hit him and they left it in the movie.
The "I'm walkin' here!" line was an homage to Midnight Cowboy, the first X-rated movie to win an Oscar. Dustin Hoffman is crossing a street, and almost got run over for real by a car that drove through the shot. He punched the hood of the car and yelled "I'm walkin' here!" and it stayed in the movie. Midnight Cowboy was set at the same location and time period as the scene with Forrest and Lt Dan.
One of my favorite stories after this film was about Gary Sinese, he was helping out at Veterans events and had put a Band together to play at one, they asked what the name of the Band called, he told them they didn't have one. Someone suggested they call themselves the Lieutenant Dan's Band. Now the Lieutenant Dan's Band plays at different Veteran's events.
This is the greatest American odyssey ever told. It’s beautiful. And some of the content such as racism, sexism, drugs, political unrest, etc… was brilliantly told through the eyes of a mentally challenged person. No bias, no opinions about it, just objective view into the past through his eyes.
Multimillionaire shrimp tycoon, decorated war hero, and international ping-pong celebrity decides to start running lapse across a continent... and the news reports him as "a gardener from Alabama"...
People tend to be immediately protective of Forrest without realizing that, unlike Jenny, he has always been lucky. He always had caring people by his side (his mother, Lt. Dan, Booba...). Jenny, for her part, has always been abused by those who were supposed to love her (her father, her boyfriends...). She only felt sufficiently safe in Forrest's presence (she went to sleep at his house when she was little, she slept for a long time after coming back). But she didn't want to contaminate Forrest with the darkness that was inside her, because of what she suffered; which explains her flight (the only defense she knows).
@@kuhpunkt And people condemn her for not wanting to be with Forrest or for always running away; without taking the time to understand the reasons that push her to do so.
@@kuhpunkt I say he was lucky because he was always well surrounded; which was never the case for Jenny. Concerning the journalists, with the means available to the media at the time, I very much doubt that it will always be the same ones who follow Forrest on his journey. And in these times, media contact details must not be that easy to obtain.
This is one of a very small list of movies that I simply cannot get through without crying. Grown 30 year old man but when Forrest talks to Jenny's grave and tears up at how smart their son is... waterworks. Every. Time.
The part that really gets to me is near the end, when Forrest is talking to Jenny at her gravesite, and he says "If there's anything you need, I won't be far away." Even after she's gone, Forrest's undying love is still taking care of her.
27:44 "...I'm walking here!": the line is iconic, and, originally from "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. 🚶🏻♂️🚕🚶🏽♀️🚕🚶🏼🚕🚶🏽♀️🚕🚶🏻♂️
For a quizillionaire, Forest still sleeps in the same single bed he slept in as a young kid. I'm not sure if I would. I mean, mansion, super yacht, you know?
At the anti-war rally he says: “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. That’s all I have to say about that.” It´s in the book.
23:20 through 24:14 The man wearing the American flag outfit (an illegal act, at that time) is Abbie Hoffman, a legendary anti-Vietnam War Activist. 🇺🇸 ☮️ 🇺🇸 ☮️ 🇺🇸 ☮️ 🇺🇸 ☮️ 🇺🇸
Letters were returned because Jenny had no residence while traveling the country. So she probably never saw a single letter sent to her. Cell phones weren't a thing and Forrest was running for many years, so how could Jenny even tell him?
38:50 in the book which the movie is based off of, I believe it’s implied she developed hepatitis, from all the “activities” she was up to. With the movie coming out in the early 90s, it was changed to hiv/aids to bring awareness to the epidemic of the time
Hanks won the Academy Award the previous year for his portrayal of an AIDS victim in Philadephia, co-starring Denzel Washington. His Oscar-winning portrayal here of a man whose wife ultimately dies of AIDS -- is it destiny or a feather in the wind?
38:15 she couldn't tell him . Forrest had been running for over 3 years! She had no way to tell him and she didn't want to tell her via a letter. 38:36 me too, Jen! 41:32 I saw this in the theater with my mom when I was 17. It's definitely a top 10 movie for me. Loved your reaction to this 90's movie!
I love this movie so much. I was 23 when this came out, two years before joining the Navy. I grew up watching Tom Hanks in his comedy films and I loved his transition to more dramatic roles. I loved the characters of Forrest, his mama, Jenny and Bubba, but it was Lt. Dan's journey that, as a Veteran, really hit me. When he shows up at the wedding with his magic legs never fails to make me tear up. Playing that role also changed the life of Gary Sinise in so many ways. He wrote about that in his book Grateful American. I got to shake his hand while in the Navy. I read the book Forrest Gump; Winston Groom became one of my favorite authors after this movie. His first book was a fictional novel about the Vietnam War called Better Times Than These; he started writing it when he got home from Vietnam. Later in his life, he switched from fiction to more historical novels.
the dude that plays LT Dan now tours in a band called Lt Dan Band and they mainly play at military bases, I used to set up for them at Great Lakes Navy Base
Today, she would likely be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). She really fits it, sadly. Psychology channels here on TH-cam reference her as a media example of BPD.
after all the times i've watched this movie over the years it always makes me smile that Jenny asked Forest to pray with her and she was asking God to make her a Bird so she can Fly far far away then it hit me that when Forest walked away from her Grave that the flock of Birds flew right by as well as the Feather that falls out and the ending from the Book such small details but its beautiful when you think about it.
Omg these comments. Discussing Jenny's trauma is not "making excuses". It's not an attempt to justify hurting people, it's delving into the root of her actions. Life is not as straightforward as good people vs bad people and you're all looking like naive children And I would argue on several occasions she warned Forrest she was damaged, so 🤷🏻♀️
Jenny had no way of letting Forrest know about his son since he left running across the United States. He ran for over 3 years. At that time, there was no email yet and the use of the telephone was not yet sufficiently developed.
@@kuhpunktyou think the media is going to pass that along. You think that's the media's place to pass on that information. Never mind that by the time the media reported that he was in their area he would be gone again because he never stopped running. They wouldn't even know where he was going next since he was just running from his emotions and not some pu lic feat of endurance. I'm gunna assume your young enough not to know what phone calls used to be like back before cell phones. Even if you wanted to phone someone at their own home you could completely miss them and not get ahold of them. I tried to call my parents when i was in the Marine Corps 20 years ago and it was more often misses because they never got a cell phone and they'd miss the ohone ringing even if they were home. Basically, your claim is dumb.
When Forrest meets his son. "Is he smart or is he..." And he holds his hand to his own chest is such a powerful sign of self awareness. He understands that though he was a simple man, he was viewed as stupid. And his immediate worry is that his son would be viewed in the same light and have to live the kind of childhood he had. Such a powerful and touching scene.
Forrest was simple minded. He excelled at simple tasks and when he was told what to do. He didn’t overthink things. He excelled in the army because u are told what to do and how to do it.
One of the best films ever made and one of my faves. Hanks is beyond iconic as Forrest (someone we all should try to strive for in life - making the most of what you have and inspiring others) with strong support from Field as his mom (IRL she's only a few yrs. older than him and actually co-starred with him in an earlier film PUNCHLINE as his lover!), Sinise (who since this film has started a philanthropical endeavor for veterans who are disabled, & particularly Wright as Jenny - who is always made to be someone who doesn't love/appreciate Forrest or is selfishly unaware of his love for her - the reality is her abused childhood totally scarred her for life (and she actually gives Forrest the best advice for his stint in Vietnam to simply run away!) - and to finally realize she does love Forrest too as much as he did even if it seems too late. The visual f/x still hold up (incorporating real archival footage of the historical figures) - fun fact - that's Kurt Russell providing Elvis Presley's voice (helps since he played The King in a TV movie directed by John Carpenter). If you are not crying by the end of this film you are simply soulless and I don't want to know you. Glad Jen decided to re-watch w/her bestie (who btw has some seriously lovely hair :D) Also - Hanks finally nailed his speaking mannerisms after watching the young actor playing him as a child who had a natural Southern accent.
Forrest speaking at Jenny's grave hits me every single time. I've seen the movie 30+ times and I've never gotten through it without tearing up. The "is he smart or is he" scene also hits hard.
Forrest Gump is just the saddest movie I've ever seen. I really like sad movies and Forrest Gump is one of the reasons why I write sad stories, I want to make the world cry lol. This movie is such an inspiration, I'm so glad Jen showed it to Natalie.
AIDS hadn't made it to the public consciousness until like a year after the setting in the book. When the movie came out we all just thought it was AIDS because it had dominated public consciousness by that point.
@@Xonslaught1 yes in the book's sequel, it's revealed as Hep C, & in the movie, they didn't want to say either hiv, aids, or hep because it doesn't matter, so they just left it out
Thank you Jen and Nat. You guys were adorable. Forrest showed us what a good man is like. Generous, kind, compassionate, stands by his principles. I love this film because as you pointed out Forrest was mentally slow, but he was wise. He had a lot of wisdom pasted down by his mom. Robin Wright portrayed Jenny amazingly. The story shows you Jenny always did love Forrest. I understood the difference between her and Forrest. Forrest was raised with love and Jenny wasn't. Nat was right saying Forrest did understand love more than Jenny. I think Jenny was more scared that she didn't deserve Forrest, but what she failed to understand he loved Jenny not just for looks, but she had kind heart and soul. Jenny gave Forrest one of the greatest blessing a woman can give a man. A child. She was his first and best friend, even above Bubba. A good man loves the soul of his woman, just as a good woman loves the soul of her man. This story hit home at bit because my mother was orphan, and my father was gentle bear...they loved each other deeply. Even so much as my mom called my dad her angel and my father called my mother the love of his life. I loved your all reaction when Forrest said, "Because you're my girl." The way you clasped your chests. Said it all. Yes, everybody man or woman wants to feel they have the special someone that has their back no matter what. But what good woman doesn't want to her that from a good man. LOL.
If you were wondering what inspired the part when forest meets up with Lt Dan after the hospital, my best guess would be the fil, 'Midnight Cowboy" that takes place in the seedy parts of NYC in the early 70s
@17:21 The three you're talking about is "Nuts, butts and pits"... But it's in regard to desert hygiene; not jungle... In jungle, your pits are never staying clean but you 100% need to watch your feet.
I don't know if you alredy have watched it, but Life is Beautiful (La vita e' bella) with Roberto Benigni kinda has the same vibe, comedy and drama. I think you will love it.
1. The music royalties alone must have cost a small fortune🤑🤑🤑🤑 2. Kurt Russell did the voice for Elvis. 3. Typically, boats/ships need a female name. 4. Having gotten his degree Forrest would have gone into the Army as an officer like Lt. Dan. Not a recruit. His ASVAB kills that. 5. He actually saved Lt Dan twice. Once in the field and again to get him out of his post war funk and Dan turned his life around. 6. Normally an enlisted Army person would be fully aware of his/her separation date. 7. Jenny did indeed give him the best gift ever (it wasn't the shoes)😈 8. Jenny died of Hep-C from dirty needles when she was in Caliphony.. 9. It's ironic that Lt. Dan told the guys to take care of their feet because he loses his. 10. At the rally Forrest says, "There's only one thing I can say about Vietnam. 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. That's all I have to say about that." 11. You have had a ride through recent US history and culture. From Elvis, John Lennon, Abby Hoffman to Vietnam and Watergate. Even the jogging craze of the 70's. About the only thing left out was streaking. 12. Observation: Bubba's not a small dude. Forrest carries him with a bullet in his ass.😲 13. Sometimes, I guess there're just aren't enough rocks"🥺 14. Haley Joel Osmentt/Forrest Jr. steals the show in "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis.🤩 15. When he's finishing a segment about death, he ends it by saying "That's all I have to say about that" 16 Keep in mind if Jenny wasn't wasting her life seeking men like her father and was with Forrest he/we wouldn't have had this incredible journey.
Hep-C in the book, but AIDS in the movie. We start the movie sitting on the bench and a bus goes by with the year 1981 on it. HEP-C wasn't discovered until 1989. AIDS became more known early 80s.
must consider that he went for his run right after Jenny left and she would have no way of contacting him for the first 3 years of their sons life.....not saying she tried to or not ..
God I really love this film, I must of watched a dozen of times since I was a kid, and growing up and re-watching it I always learned something new and at 36yo still makes me cry.
Did you notice Jenny waitressing at 36:29 as the TV showed Forrest running? She was getting her life together to make herself worthy of Forrest's love, in her mind.
Forrest never “thought he was dumb.” But he always knew he was slow. His resolve made it so that it never got in his way but at the end of the movie when he asks if little Forrest is “like him” he confirms that he knows that he’s off. He was aware every single time someone commented on his intelligence. But it never got in his way.
FYI- "I'm walkin here!" is a famous line that was improved by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Midnight Cowboy(1969). It has since been referenced or parodied many times, including this movie and Miss Congeniality.
38:15 Jenny never told Forrest about his son because Forrest HAD BEEN RUNNING ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR THREE YEARS. There was no way for Jenny to contact him. No cell phones, no internet, no drones delivering messages....
To me, the thing that made forest so great was due to his "5 points lower IQ". I feel that those couple of points were a persons type of ego. its difficult to explain, "or im just having a difficult time finding the correct way to word it". but whatever it was that Forest was missing, it allowed him to do what he did, to just do something and do it how it should be done. personally I feel that we as a people would be better off if we were all missing that same "thing".
Oh, how the turntables have turned. Mrs. Whose To Say? Is now the one keeping secrets after years of giving Holden dirty looks when he says, "Whose to say?"
So here's my thing with ienny. First and foremost she is a victim of child abuse from her father. That caused her to have a warped view of what love is. She keeps running away from forrest because she doesn't think she deserves him and because she's terrified that she'd be taking advantage of him the same way her dad did to her if she were to allow him into her life like that. There's a great video by cinema therapy that breaks down why jenny is a broken person but not an evil or bad one. The reason she didn't tell forrest about his son is because he started his years long run right after he got her pregnant and she had no way to contact him until he stopped running. At that point she had a 3 year old forrest jr.
And here's my rebuttal: People are the sum total of the actions they take of their own free will. Jenny is not absolved of guilt for how she treated Forrest. Past abuse or not. 1) People want to feel empathy for Jenny, especially women, because women choose to insert themselves into her character (instead of, for instance, his Mother Mrs. Gump). It's a matter of perspective. *IF A "JENNY" WANTED TO DATE A WOMAN'S RICH, "SPECIAL" SON, they would tell him to DNA test Forrest Jr.* 2) For some strange reason, people have no problem *_telling men_* what I said above ("You are responsible for your actions, not your abusive dad."). Culture's "understanding" only seems to be extended to _women._ If Forrest Gump was about a "special" woman who charmed the world over with lessons of love and friendship, but a man (who was abused as a boy) came in and out of her life willy-nilly and gave her a baby, no one would be talking about this movie all these years later. (Look at the controversy over the movie called "Poor Things" starring Emma Stone). In short, *NO ONE WOULD HAVE EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY FOR A "MALE JENNY".* Jenny Gump is a Thanos-level movie villain. Actually, she's worse. *Because most people don't **_CONDONE, DEFEND OR EXCUSE_** what Thanos did.*
@@TheBestPill-no2xp "Jenny Gump is a Thanos-level movie villain. Actually, she's worse. Because most people don't CONDONE, DEFEND OR EXCUSE what Thanos did." Is this a shit post? Didn't Thanos kill a lot of people? ....Jenny's worse? What? "People want to feel empathy for Jenny" I mean getting molested as a child by a parent male or female would get empathy from most people....... "For some strange reason, people have no problem telling men what I said above ("You are responsible for your actions, not your abusive dad.")." Who are these people? Show me these people that are not caring about boys being abused? Double standard my ass. Also people(you) apparently have no problem blaming Jenny calling her a Villain just because she makes bad decisions brought on by her shit childhood. Also bringing up modern movies & comparing them to 90's movies is dumb. " If Forrest Gump was about a "special" woman who charmed the world over with lessons of love and friendship, but a man (who was abused as a boy) came in and out of her life willy-nilly and gave her a baby, no one would be talking about this movie all these years later" Bud it would still get the same reaction. Jenny is mostly hated by most of the audience but they understand why she makes bad decisions which makes her a good character, yet you're acting like people would be ok with Jenny killing people. No one thinks Jenny is the hero of the story they just feel sorry for her but still hate her actions, If Jenny was male they'd still feel sorry for him because they understand how he got to that point. Audiences feel for male villains all the time. Also Jenny didn't know she was pregnant when she left Forrest after having sex with him, so if Jenny was male he wouldn't know girl Forrest was pregnant so he'd be the 1 not knowing of a kid so that's something that wouldn't be the same, also since the film is based in real life & a lot of sexism 60 years ago I doubt you'll see Girl Forrest being a war hero & shrimp boat captain & getting a scholarship for football, so yea people wouldn't be talking about it because it wouldn't make any sesne. .
If you haven't seen it, Road to Perdition is the Tom Hanks movie I saw that really cemented in my mind that Tom Hanks can act in any kind of movie. Such a departure from what you normally see him in. Great reaction!
Forest Gump is probably my most quoted movie ever. i probably say a line from it every 2=3 days. One of the best "easter eggs" is when LT dan tells Forest that "the day you become a shrimp boat captain, i'll be an astronaut" Gary Sinise and Tom Hanks would both play astronauts in Apollo 13 released the next year.
From Elvis to AIDS (or Hep C in the book) Forrest Gump is the story of an entire generation, the historical touchstones, the music, the traumas, and the philosophical questions that we wrestled with. Jenny's life is ruled by her childhood trauma. She constantly tries to fly away from it. When she is up on the balcony the background music is the guitar solo from the song Free Bird, and as Forrest walks away from her grave a flock of birds fly free. Her trauma caused her to feel that she wasn't worthy of love, which is why she pushes him away for decades until she can come to grips with it. Lieutenant Dan reacts to his trauma with anger and slowly with Forrest's help comes to a point where, as Forrest put it, 'he made his peace' with it. I always enjoy seeing which particular historical touchstones people recognize and which ones (like the opening of China, the very brief view of bicentennial fireworks, and the beginning of the running craze) are being lost to the passage of time.
I could never wrap my head around the fact that Forrest's mother is basically the best mother in the world and a good person... but also named Forrest after their ancestor who founded the KKK.
In his speech at the capital he 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. That’s all I have to say about that."
I was working in the theater when this movie came out. The hurricane was always SO loud. It would shake the whole building. To this day I quote this movie all the time. Second best soundtrack only behind Dazed and Confused.
The I’m Walking Here line Lt Dan does with the cab driver was actually paying homage to Al Pacino in Midnight Cowboy. The song playing in the background of that scene was Everybody’s Talkin by Harry Nilsson that was also a big part of Midnight Cowboy.
23:56 Hanks said this is what 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. That’s all I have to say about that.”
I see you wearing your Johnny Cash t-shirt. True funny story… I used to travel in my job. I would get up early and head to the airport to head to whatever city I would work in that week. I had a daughter who LOVED Whitney Houston. Every morning she would go into shower and hit play on her CD player with a Whitney Houston CD in it. For a year we have heard the same Whitney lyrics over and over every morning. One morning as I am getting ready to head to the airport at 5am I switch out Whitney with Johnny Cash. My daughter was furious with my wife about the switch, my wife clueless but amused about the switch, and my daughter came to realize that she actually liked Johnny Cash. Never got my CD back.
People often don't understand what "intelligence" actually means. Low intelligence doesn't necessarily mean that a person is stupid, and certainly not that they are incompetent. A person with low intelligence has trouble finding a "solution" to an unknown situation on their own. But when someone else presents them with a solution or instructions, they have no problem "applying" it. Paradoxically, they often apply it more consistently and precisely, because people with higher intelligence tend to make more mistakes because they are "using their intelligence", so they modify the solution or come up with something completely their own, or sometimes they don't listen to instructions carefully, because they believe they will be able to deduct any "missing" information.
People always call jenny the real villain of this story when her biggest fault was struggling with relationships after she was molested by her father, quite frankly she's an angel for someone with that troubled history
IMO, this is ONE of the best movies ever made. I've said that about, I think 5 or six movies. And this movie is either 5 or 6. Great Post, Ladies. Thanx for sharing this with us. 👍👍
@kuhpunkt and that's why she couldn't tell him that she had a baby! They didn't have cellphones in the year this supposedly took place...no way to reach him!
@@SusieAnderson-ds7dq As if people didn't have a way to reach others back then. She could have called the local news station. They have connections. They followed him already.
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What did Forest say when they unplugged his mic? According to Tom Hanks he said, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all.
“Is he smart or is he…” guts me every single time.
Shows how self aware he was the whole time and all the shit he took was with a smile.
It never fails to get me that people always ask why Jenny never told Forrest about his son. How would she have told him? He spent three years running across the country. The movie made it pretty clear that she got in contact as soon as he had stopped and was back home.
It's usually reactors that grew up after cell phones were invented that can't comprehend that there was no way to contact someone if they weren't home back when there were no cell phones.
I understood it as she sent him the letter but he looked at his mail once he returned home.
Agree !! She didn’t do it on purpose ! She kept clippings and a scrapbook to show she was following him on his journey til he returned home . ⭐️💫✨☑️
Hahaha for real, reactors ALWAYS forget that Forrest wasn't available. 😂
Funny, she only decided to tell him about his son after she found out she was dying and he was a millionaire. 🤔🤣🤣
In the speech in Washington DC Forrest says “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t come at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
Gary Sinise's life was forever changed by his roll as Lt. Dan. Following the film Sinise became very popular with veterans and began getting requests for him to appear before various veteran's groups to give motivational speeches. Sinise formed _The Lt. Dan Band_ which has performed for soldiers and veterans at USO shows around the world. If you get a chance his story is very inspiring. They are still performing and he is still very active with veterans today.
He pops up on Reddit every once in a while with some fun posts
he said "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all." in his speech on that stage,directly quoted by Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump is the one of the most emotional films I’ve seen. Tom hanks killed his role so well. Anyone who hasn’t watched this film needs to right away!
then you need to read a book
@@ArturZmienko what does reading books have to do with them finding this movie emotional? Maybe take your own advice, and get some perspective.
I feel like most reactors miss that Forrest wrote Imagine for John Lennon.
Mikey Show Presents is the ONLY reaction channel I've seen that got almost every reference in the movie. The only one they kind of missed was Abbie Hoffman and George Wallace, though they didn't miss them entirely.
Well, yea. Its kind of easy to miss if you know none of their songs. Reading your comment is the only reason i know about it now and ive seen this movie multiple times throughout the years. 😂😂
@sugarbomb1346 Imagine is a John Lennon song, there is no "thier". I'm just surprised most reactors miss it.
They don't have the history of the times, either..
They NEVER get the Midnight Cowboy reference.
They never notice that Lt Dan is engaged to a woman who he would have killed in the war.
They never notice that Lt Dan never calls Gump by his first name until he goes to the wedding, then says, Hello Forrest.
@@rcpsammy7186Yeah…I had to roll my eyes all the way across the room at the Miss Congeniality comment. I don’t think anyone in my life has ever pointed out that Lt Dan is marrying an Asian woman, but I’ve also considered maybe they feel like it’d be racist? But it is a huge character development moment, along with calling him Forrest. He’s let go of his anger and his past, and softened.
Also, if you guys didn’t know, in Toy Story 2, Slinky Dog says “I may not be a smart dog, but I know what roadkill is.” That was a reference to Forrest Gump which also starred Tom Hanks
"does she love him?"
I was expecting Jen to go "whos to say?"
The face said it all. 🤣
"I'm walking here" was a line from the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). Dustin Hoffman says it to a cab driver who accidentally drove on set and almost hit him and they left it in the movie.
The greatest cgi is when you can't even notice the genius and convincing ways they showed Lt. Dan missing legs are insane of for the time.
The "I'm walkin' here!" line was an homage to Midnight Cowboy, the first X-rated movie to win an Oscar. Dustin Hoffman is crossing a street, and almost got run over for real by a car that drove through the shot. He punched the hood of the car and yelled "I'm walkin' here!" and it stayed in the movie. Midnight Cowboy was set at the same location and time period as the scene with Forrest and Lt Dan.
One of my favorite stories after this film was about Gary Sinese, he was helping out at Veterans events and had put a Band together to play at one, they asked what the name of the Band called, he told them they didn't have one. Someone suggested they call themselves the Lieutenant Dan's Band. Now the Lieutenant Dan's Band plays at different Veteran's events.
The synchronised chest grab and heads back after Forrest says “your my girl” was hilarious 😂❤
This is the greatest American odyssey ever told. It’s beautiful. And some of the content such as racism, sexism, drugs, political unrest, etc… was brilliantly told through the eyes of a mentally challenged person. No bias, no opinions about it, just objective view into the past through his eyes.
Which is why this film is considered "problematic" and "right-wing" nowadays.
@ why? Its objective.
@@StoneColdBeard Exactly. That's a big no-no.
Multimillionaire shrimp tycoon, decorated war hero, and international ping-pong celebrity decides to start running lapse across a continent... and the news reports him as "a gardener from Alabama"...
People tend to be immediately protective of Forrest without realizing that, unlike Jenny, he has always been lucky. He always had caring people by his side (his mother, Lt. Dan, Booba...). Jenny, for her part, has always been abused by those who were supposed to love her (her father, her boyfriends...). She only felt sufficiently safe in Forrest's presence (she went to sleep at his house when she was little, she slept for a long time after coming back). But she didn't want to contaminate Forrest with the darkness that was inside her, because of what she suffered; which explains her flight (the only defense she knows).
And?
Plus her mother died when she was 5 years old. People aren't sympathetic enough for what Jenny had to endure as a child.
@@kuhpunkt And people condemn her for not wanting to be with Forrest or for always running away; without taking the time to understand the reasons that push her to do so.
@@elanirinaarmand362 What does this have to do with Forrest being... lucky?! Is he even lucky?
@@kuhpunkt I say he was lucky because he was always well surrounded; which was never the case for Jenny.
Concerning the journalists, with the means available to the media at the time, I very much doubt that it will always be the same ones who follow Forrest on his journey. And in these times, media contact details must not be that easy to obtain.
“Imagine being the same douch bag your entire life” is by far one of the funniest comments I’ve heard in all these your videos 😂😂
17:15 "Feet, Pits, and Dangly Bits". Basically, the bare minimum to keep clean.
This is one of a very small list of movies that I simply cannot get through without crying. Grown 30 year old man but when Forrest talks to Jenny's grave and tears up at how smart their son is... waterworks. Every. Time.
The part that really gets to me is near the end, when Forrest is talking to Jenny at her gravesite, and he says "If there's anything you need, I won't be far away." Even after she's gone, Forrest's undying love is still taking care of her.
Natalie reacted to one of the more overlooked emotional scenes where Lt. Dan thanks Forrest for saving his life.
27:44 "...I'm walking here!": the line is iconic, and, originally from "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
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This is one of my all-time favorite movies growing up! Thank you, girls, for reacting to this! 😢
Great job Jenn introducing your friend to this amazing movie. I cannot wait to see the next movie you have lined up for her
For a quizillionaire, Forest still sleeps in the same single bed he slept in as a young kid. I'm not sure if I would. I mean, mansion, super yacht, you know?
At the anti-war rally he says: “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. That’s all I have to say about that.” It´s in the book.
This movie was groundbreaking technically for the way they integrated Forrest into actual historical footage
Fun fact: the scenes with Forrest running are by Tom's brother, Jim Hanks.
23:20 through 24:14 The man wearing the American flag outfit (an illegal act, at that time) is Abbie Hoffman, a legendary anti-Vietnam War Activist.
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Letters were returned because Jenny had no residence while traveling the country. So she probably never saw a single letter sent to her.
Cell phones weren't a thing and Forrest was running for many years, so how could Jenny even tell him?
She could tell somebody from the media for example. They were following him.
38:50 in the book which the movie is based off of, I believe it’s implied she developed hepatitis, from all the “activities” she was up to. With the movie coming out in the early 90s, it was changed to hiv/aids to bring awareness to the epidemic of the time
Hanks won the Academy Award the previous year for his portrayal of an AIDS victim in Philadephia, co-starring Denzel Washington. His Oscar-winning portrayal here of a man whose wife ultimately dies of AIDS -- is it destiny or a feather in the wind?
@ Lt Dan mentions his prosthetic legs are made from the same material as the space ship. He and Hanks both were in Apollo 13 together
38:15 she couldn't tell him . Forrest had been running for over 3 years! She had no way to tell him and she didn't want to tell her via a letter. 38:36 me too, Jen! 41:32 I saw this in the theater with my mom when I was 17. It's definitely a top 10 movie for me. Loved your reaction to this 90's movie!
I love this movie so much. I was 23 when this came out, two years before joining the Navy. I grew up watching Tom Hanks in his comedy films and I loved his transition to more dramatic roles. I loved the characters of Forrest, his mama, Jenny and Bubba, but it was Lt. Dan's journey that, as a Veteran, really hit me. When he shows up at the wedding with his magic legs never fails to make me tear up. Playing that role also changed the life of Gary Sinise in so many ways. He wrote about that in his book Grateful American. I got to shake his hand while in the Navy. I read the book Forrest Gump; Winston Groom became one of my favorite authors after this movie. His first book was a fictional novel about the Vietnam War called Better Times Than These; he started writing it when he got home from Vietnam. Later in his life, he switched from fiction to more historical novels.
The book is insane. He ends up working at NASA and crash lands in a New Guinea cannibal tribe with an Orangutan.
Didn't he also get into wrestling? Loved the book, but I prefer the movie ending
@jonathanchamberlain9619 I think he wrestled under the name "The Dunce" 😅
the dude that plays LT Dan now tours in a band called Lt Dan Band and they mainly play at military bases, I used to set up for them at Great Lakes Navy Base
Jenny's problem was she felt she didn't deserve someone as great as Forrest.
Today, she would likely be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). She really fits it, sadly. Psychology channels here on TH-cam reference her as a media example of BPD.
after all the times i've watched this movie over the years it always makes me smile that Jenny asked Forest to pray with her and she was asking God to make her a Bird so she can Fly far far away then it hit me that when Forest walked away from her Grave that the flock of Birds flew right by as well as the Feather that falls out and the ending from the Book such small details but its beautiful when you think about it.
I'm still disappointed that Forrest didn't send that guy that hit Jenny on vacation.
Rip would have taken him to the train station. IYKYK
Omg these comments. Discussing Jenny's trauma is not "making excuses". It's not an attempt to justify hurting people, it's delving into the root of her actions. Life is not as straightforward as good people vs bad people and you're all looking like naive children
And I would argue on several occasions she warned Forrest she was damaged, so 🤷🏻♀️
Jenny had no way of letting Forrest know about his son since he left running across the United States. He ran for over 3 years. At that time, there was no email yet and the use of the telephone was not yet sufficiently developed.
You gotta be kidding...
@@kuhpunkt Of course not!
Technically email was around for over 20 years, since 1971. But it was only used in the military until the mid 90s, 94 maybe.
@@elanirinaarmand362 But she could have just called somebody from the media... the guys that followed Forrest.
@@kuhpunktyou think the media is going to pass that along. You think that's the media's place to pass on that information. Never mind that by the time the media reported that he was in their area he would be gone again because he never stopped running. They wouldn't even know where he was going next since he was just running from his emotions and not some pu lic feat of endurance.
I'm gunna assume your young enough not to know what phone calls used to be like back before cell phones. Even if you wanted to phone someone at their own home you could completely miss them and not get ahold of them. I tried to call my parents when i was in the Marine Corps 20 years ago and it was more often misses because they never got a cell phone and they'd miss the ohone ringing even if they were home.
Basically, your claim is dumb.
When Forrest meets his son. "Is he smart or is he..." And he holds his hand to his own chest is such a powerful sign of self awareness. He understands that though he was a simple man, he was viewed as stupid. And his immediate worry is that his son would be viewed in the same light and have to live the kind of childhood he had. Such a powerful and touching scene.
Forrest was simple minded. He excelled at simple tasks and when he was told what to do. He didn’t overthink things. He excelled in the army because u are told what to do and how to do it.
"I'm walking here!" is from Midnight Cowboy (1969). It was an ad-libbed line by Dustin Hoffman when he was almost hit by a cab crossing a street.
You beat me to it!
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One of the best films ever made and one of my faves. Hanks is beyond iconic as Forrest (someone we all should try to strive for in life - making the most of what you have and inspiring others) with strong support from Field as his mom (IRL she's only a few yrs. older than him and actually co-starred with him in an earlier film PUNCHLINE as his lover!), Sinise (who since this film has started a philanthropical endeavor for veterans who are disabled, & particularly Wright as Jenny - who is always made to be someone who doesn't love/appreciate Forrest or is selfishly unaware of his love for her - the reality is her abused childhood totally scarred her for life (and she actually gives Forrest the best advice for his stint in Vietnam to simply run away!) - and to finally realize she does love Forrest too as much as he did even if it seems too late. The visual f/x still hold up (incorporating real archival footage of the historical figures) - fun fact - that's Kurt Russell providing Elvis Presley's voice (helps since he played The King in a TV movie directed by John Carpenter). If you are not crying by the end of this film you are simply soulless and I don't want to know you. Glad Jen decided to re-watch w/her bestie (who btw has some seriously lovely hair :D) Also - Hanks finally nailed his speaking mannerisms after watching the young actor playing him as a child who had a natural Southern accent.
Jenny did not keep his son from him. He ran for most the boys life when he went home she contacted him
Forrest speaking at Jenny's grave hits me every single time. I've seen the movie 30+ times and I've never gotten through it without tearing up. The "is he smart or is he" scene also hits hard.
Forrest Gump is just the saddest movie I've ever seen. I really like sad movies and Forrest Gump is one of the reasons why I write sad stories, I want to make the world cry lol. This movie is such an inspiration, I'm so glad Jen showed it to Natalie.
Some parts were sad, but others very happy.
@3DJapan funny you mean
The part when she said she was sick, that was like about in the early 80's when the AIDS virus hit hard
The filmmakers and the author said she had hepatitis c, which used to be deadly, but now is treatable
The filmmakers and the author said she had hepatitis c, which used to be deadly, but now is treatable
AIDS hadn't made it to the public consciousness until like a year after the setting in the book. When the movie came out we all just thought it was AIDS because it had dominated public consciousness by that point.
@@Xonslaught1 yes in the book's sequel, it's revealed as Hep C,
& in the movie, they didn't want to say either hiv, aids, or hep because it doesn't matter, so they just left it out
You two are great!! 💯
Thank you Jen and Nat. You guys were adorable. Forrest showed us what a good man is like. Generous, kind, compassionate, stands by his principles. I love this film because as you pointed out Forrest was mentally slow, but he was wise. He had a lot of wisdom pasted down by his mom. Robin Wright portrayed Jenny amazingly. The story shows you Jenny always did love Forrest. I understood the difference between her and Forrest. Forrest was raised with love and Jenny wasn't. Nat was right saying Forrest did understand love more than Jenny. I think Jenny was more scared that she didn't deserve Forrest, but what she failed to understand he loved Jenny not just for looks, but she had kind heart and soul. Jenny gave Forrest one of the greatest blessing a woman can give a man. A child. She was his first and best friend, even above Bubba. A good man loves the soul of his woman, just as a good woman loves the soul of her man. This story hit home at bit because my mother was orphan, and my father was gentle bear...they loved each other deeply. Even so much as my mom called my dad her angel and my father called my mother the love of his life.
I loved your all reaction when Forrest said, "Because you're my girl." The way you clasped your chests. Said it all. Yes, everybody man or woman wants to feel they have the special someone that has their back no matter what. But what good woman doesn't want to her that from a good man. LOL.
If you were wondering what inspired the part when forest meets up with Lt Dan after the hospital, my best guess would be the fil, 'Midnight Cowboy" that takes place in the seedy parts of NYC in the early 70s
Forrest asking "Is he smart, or is he...like..." is my favorite Tom Hanks moment.
@17:21 The three you're talking about is "Nuts, butts and pits"... But it's in regard to desert hygiene; not jungle...
In jungle, your pits are never staying clean but you 100% need to watch your feet.
Forrest=GOAT ✌️
I don't know if you alredy have watched it, but Life is Beautiful (La vita e' bella) with Roberto Benigni kinda has the same vibe, comedy and drama. I think you will love it.
1. The music royalties alone must have cost a small fortune🤑🤑🤑🤑
2. Kurt Russell did the voice for Elvis.
3. Typically, boats/ships need a female name.
4. Having gotten his degree Forrest would have gone into the Army as an officer like Lt. Dan. Not a recruit. His ASVAB kills that.
5. He actually saved Lt Dan twice. Once in the field and again to get him out of his post war funk and Dan turned his life around.
6. Normally an enlisted Army person would be fully aware of his/her separation date.
7. Jenny did indeed give him the best gift ever (it wasn't the shoes)😈
8. Jenny died of Hep-C from dirty needles when she was in Caliphony..
9. It's ironic that Lt. Dan told the guys to take care of their feet because he loses his.
10. At the rally Forrest says, "There's only one thing I can say about Vietnam. 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. That's all I have to say about that."
11. You have had a ride through recent US history and culture. From Elvis, John Lennon, Abby Hoffman to Vietnam and Watergate. Even the jogging craze of the 70's. About the only thing left out was streaking.
12. Observation: Bubba's not a small dude. Forrest carries him with a bullet in his ass.😲
13. Sometimes, I guess there're just aren't enough rocks"🥺
14. Haley Joel Osmentt/Forrest Jr. steals the show in "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis.🤩
15. When he's finishing a segment about death, he ends it by saying "That's all I have to say about that"
16 Keep in mind if Jenny wasn't wasting her life seeking men like her father and was with Forrest he/we wouldn't have had this incredible journey.
Hep-C in the book, but AIDS in the movie. We start the movie sitting on the bench and a bus goes by with the year 1981 on it. HEP-C wasn't discovered until 1989. AIDS became more known early 80s.
@@TheDaringPastry1313 According to Hanks, they didn't want to saddle them with that
The first Tom Hanks movie I ever saw, was I believe Splash, that's a real fun movie, and John Candy is the standout in that movie!
must consider that he went for his run right after Jenny left and she would have no way of contacting him for the first 3 years of their sons life.....not saying she tried to or not ..
as if there is no way...
Tom Hanks performance is outstanding 👏🏿. That's why it's my favorite movie of him ❤.
The look on Jen's face trying to imagine lifting Holden was priceless🤣
God I really love this film, I must of watched a dozen of times since I was a kid, and growing up and re-watching it I always learned something new and at 36yo still makes me cry.
What a wonderful thoughtful reaction to one of my favorite movies. Thank you!
"I'm walking here!" is a line originally from the movie Midnight Cowboy (set in NYC). The background music in that scene is also from Midnight Cowboy.
20:45 Had me rolling "He saved Bubba, I can breathe." " 👀😬" LMAO
36:27 The TV reporter is Sally Field who also played Forrest's momma.
Did you notice Jenny waitressing at 36:29 as the TV showed Forrest running? She was getting her life together to make herself worthy of Forrest's love, in her mind.
Forrest never “thought he was dumb.” But he always knew he was slow. His resolve made it so that it never got in his way but at the end of the movie when he asks if little Forrest is “like him” he confirms that he knows that he’s off. He was aware every single time someone commented on his intelligence. But it never got in his way.
18:46 Jen giving us the classic "Holden Look" here is brilliant.🤣 20:42 🤣🤣🤣😢
FYI- "I'm walkin here!" is a famous line that was improved by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Midnight Cowboy(1969). It has since been referenced or parodied many times, including this movie and Miss Congeniality.
This will forever be one of my favorite movies to watch. One of the greatest films ever made.
38:15 Jenny never told Forrest about his son because Forrest HAD BEEN RUNNING ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR THREE YEARS.
There was no way for Jenny to contact him. No cell phones, no internet, no drones delivering messages....
But he wasn't hard to find. The media followed him for a while... she could have called the local news station.
To me, the thing that made forest so great was due to his "5 points lower IQ". I feel that those couple of points were a persons type of ego. its difficult to explain, "or im just having a difficult time finding the correct way to word it". but whatever it was that Forest was missing, it allowed him to do what he did, to just do something and do it how it should be done. personally I feel that we as a people would be better off if we were all missing that same "thing".
“I’m walking here” comes from a famous New York movie called Midnight Cowboy. Many many movies and tv shows have paid homage to it.
Oh, how the turntables have turned. Mrs. Whose To Say? Is now the one keeping secrets after years of giving Holden dirty looks when he says, "Whose to say?"
So here's my thing with ienny. First and foremost she is a victim of child abuse from her father. That caused her to have a warped view of what love is. She keeps running away from forrest because she doesn't think she deserves him and because she's terrified that she'd be taking advantage of him the same way her dad did to her if she were to allow him into her life like that. There's a great video by cinema therapy that breaks down why jenny is a broken person but not an evil or bad one.
The reason she didn't tell forrest about his son is because he started his years long run right after he got her pregnant and she had no way to contact him until he stopped running. At that point she had a 3 year old forrest jr.
And here's my rebuttal:
People are the sum total of the actions they take of their own free will. Jenny is not absolved of guilt for how she treated Forrest. Past abuse or not.
1) People want to feel empathy for Jenny, especially women, because women choose to insert themselves into her character (instead of, for instance, his Mother Mrs. Gump). It's a matter of perspective. *IF A "JENNY" WANTED TO DATE A WOMAN'S RICH, "SPECIAL" SON, they would tell him to DNA test Forrest Jr.*
2) For some strange reason, people have no problem *_telling men_* what I said above ("You are responsible for your actions, not your abusive dad."). Culture's "understanding" only seems to be extended to _women._ If Forrest Gump was about a "special" woman who charmed the world over with lessons of love and friendship, but a man (who was abused as a boy) came in and out of her life willy-nilly and gave her a baby, no one would be talking about this movie all these years later. (Look at the controversy over the movie called "Poor Things" starring Emma Stone).
In short, *NO ONE WOULD HAVE EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY FOR A "MALE JENNY".*
Jenny Gump is a Thanos-level movie villain. Actually, she's worse. *Because most people don't **_CONDONE, DEFEND OR EXCUSE_** what Thanos did.*
@@TheBestPill-no2xp "Jenny Gump is a Thanos-level movie villain. Actually, she's worse. Because most people don't CONDONE, DEFEND OR EXCUSE what Thanos did."
Is this a shit post? Didn't Thanos kill a lot of people? ....Jenny's worse? What?
"People want to feel empathy for Jenny"
I mean getting molested as a child by a parent male or female would get empathy from most people.......
"For some strange reason, people have no problem telling men what I said above ("You are responsible for your actions, not your abusive dad.")."
Who are these people? Show me these people that are not caring about boys being abused? Double standard my ass. Also people(you) apparently have no problem blaming Jenny calling her a Villain just because she makes bad decisions brought on by her shit childhood. Also bringing up modern movies & comparing them to 90's movies is dumb.
" If Forrest Gump was about a "special" woman who charmed the world over with lessons of love and friendship, but a man (who was abused as a boy) came in and out of her life willy-nilly and gave her a baby, no one would be talking about this movie all these years later"
Bud it would still get the same reaction. Jenny is mostly hated by most of the audience but they understand why she makes bad decisions which makes her a good character, yet you're acting like people would be ok with Jenny killing people. No one thinks Jenny is the hero of the story they just feel sorry for her but still hate her actions, If Jenny was male they'd still feel sorry for him because they understand how he got to that point. Audiences feel for male villains all the time. Also Jenny didn't know she was pregnant when she left Forrest after having sex with him, so if Jenny was male he wouldn't know girl Forrest was pregnant so he'd be the 1 not knowing of a kid so that's something that wouldn't be the same, also since the film is based in real life & a lot of sexism 60 years ago I doubt you'll see Girl Forrest being a war hero & shrimp boat captain & getting a scholarship for football, so yea people wouldn't be talking about it because it wouldn't make any sesne. .
15:29 The irony is Jenny constantly tells Forrest, he doesn't know what love is. But she's the one who didn't know what love is.
If you haven't seen it, Road to Perdition is the Tom Hanks movie I saw that really cemented in my mind that Tom Hanks can act in any kind of movie. Such a departure from what you normally see him in. Great reaction!
I like the new format for this channel Jen is a good Host
When Jenny found out she was dying, I think that is when she sent the letter Forrest because she needed him to take care of their son.
Forest Gump is probably my most quoted movie ever. i probably say a line from it every 2=3 days. One of the best "easter eggs" is when LT dan tells Forest that "the day you become a shrimp boat captain, i'll be an astronaut" Gary Sinise and Tom Hanks would both play astronauts in Apollo 13 released the next year.
From Elvis to AIDS (or Hep C in the book) Forrest Gump is the story of an entire generation, the historical touchstones, the music, the traumas, and the philosophical questions that we wrestled with. Jenny's life is ruled by her childhood trauma. She constantly tries to fly away from it. When she is up on the balcony the background music is the guitar solo from the song Free Bird, and as Forrest walks away from her grave a flock of birds fly free. Her trauma caused her to feel that she wasn't worthy of love, which is why she pushes him away for decades until she can come to grips with it. Lieutenant Dan reacts to his trauma with anger and slowly with Forrest's help comes to a point where, as Forrest put it, 'he made his peace' with it. I always enjoy seeing which particular historical touchstones people recognize and which ones (like the opening of China, the very brief view of bicentennial fireworks, and the beginning of the running craze) are being lost to the passage of time.
I love that the voice of Elvis Presley was performed by Kurt Russell.
I could never wrap my head around the fact that Forrest's mother is basically the best mother in the world and a good person... but also named Forrest after their ancestor who founded the KKK.
In his speech at the capital he 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. That’s all I have to say about that."
12:18 Jen imitating Holden perfectly. 😂😂😂
I was working in the theater when this movie came out. The hurricane was always SO loud. It would shake the whole building. To this day I quote this movie all the time. Second best soundtrack only behind Dazed and Confused.
The I’m Walking Here line Lt Dan does with the cab driver was actually paying homage to Al Pacino in Midnight Cowboy. The song playing in the background of that scene was Everybody’s Talkin by Harry Nilsson that was also a big part of Midnight Cowboy.
23:56 Hanks said this is what 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. That’s all I have to say about that.”
The music at the wedding scene 39:22 is amazing
I see you wearing your Johnny Cash t-shirt. True funny story… I used to travel in my job. I would get up early and head to the airport to head to whatever city I would work in that week. I had a daughter who LOVED Whitney Houston. Every morning she would go into shower and hit play on her CD player with a Whitney Houston CD in it. For a year we have heard the same Whitney lyrics over and over every morning. One morning as I am getting ready to head to the airport at 5am I switch out Whitney with Johnny Cash. My daughter was furious with my wife about the switch, my wife clueless but amused about the switch, and my daughter came to realize that she actually liked Johnny Cash. Never got my CD back.
Jen saying “who’s to say” ICONIC
People often don't understand what "intelligence" actually means. Low intelligence doesn't necessarily mean that a person is stupid, and certainly not that they are incompetent.
A person with low intelligence has trouble finding a "solution" to an unknown situation on their own. But when someone else presents them with a solution or instructions, they have no problem "applying" it.
Paradoxically, they often apply it more consistently and precisely, because people with higher intelligence tend to make more mistakes because they are "using their intelligence", so they modify the solution or come up with something completely their own, or sometimes they don't listen to instructions carefully, because they believe they will be able to deduct any "missing" information.
People always call jenny the real villain of this story when her biggest fault was struggling with relationships after she was molested by her father, quite frankly she's an angel for someone with that troubled history
Jenny didn't tell him about his son because she couldn't. Forrest was traversing the country with his running for years.
IMO, this is ONE of the best movies ever made. I've said that about, I think 5 or six movies. And this movie is either 5 or 6. Great Post, Ladies. Thanx for sharing this with us. 👍👍
"Your my girl"! Y'all's reaction was worth it! Great fucking reaction ladies!💯🌹💯😎💯😘💯🥰💯
What no one grasps is that she couldn't tell him about the baby...he was running!
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@kuhpunkt and that's why she couldn't tell him that she had a baby! They didn't have cellphones in the year this supposedly took place...no way to reach him!
@@SusieAnderson-ds7dq As if people didn't have a way to reach others back then. She could have called the local news station. They have connections. They followed him already.
I grew up with this movie. I feel like for my generation this is the closest thing youu can get to perfection from a movie.