Hello. My name's
Do you want a chocolate?
I could eat about a million
My mama always said
Iife was like
You never know what
Those must be
I bet you could walk all day
and not feel a thing.
I wish I had shoes like that.
My feet hurt .
Mama always said
you can tell about
Where they're going,
where they've been.
I've worn lots ofshoes.
I bet if I think
I could remember
Mama said they'd
[Gump]
All right, Forrest,
Let's take a little walk around.
How do those feel?
His legs are strong,
as strong as I've ever seen.
But his back's as
But we're going to straighten him
Forrest!
Now, when I was a baby,
Mama named me after
General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
She said we was related
What he did was,
hetarted up this club
They'd all dress up in their robes
and act like a bunch
They'd even put bed sheets
And, anyway, that'show
Mama said the Forrest part
that sometimes we all
that just don't make no sense.
This way. Hold on. Ugh!
All right.
What are y'all staring at?
Haven't you ever seen
a little boy with braces
Don't ever let anybody
tell you they're better
If God intended everybody
he'd have given us all
Mama always hada way of explaining
We lived about a quarter mile
about a halfmile from the town
That's in the county
Our house had been
since her grandpa's
had come across the ocean
Since it was just me and Mama
and we had all these empty rooms,
Mama decided to let those rooms out,
mostly to people passing through,
Iike from, oh, Mobile,
That'show me and Mama got money.
Forrest--Forrest Gump.
and a half of these.
a box of chocolates.
you're going to get.
comfortable shoes.
in shoes like that
there's an awful lot
a person by their shoes.
about it real hard
my fi rst pair ofshoes.
take me anywhere .
Shesaid th ey was my magic shoes.
Open your eyes now .
Mrs. Gump,
crooked as a politician.
right up, aren't we, Forrest?
the great Civil War hero
to him in some way.
called the Ku Klux Klan.
and th eirbed sheets
of ghosts or spooks or something.
on their horses and ride around.
I got my name-- Forrest Gump.
was to remind me
do things that, well,
on his legs before ?
than you, Forrest.
to be the same,
braces on our legs.
things so I could understand them.
off Route 17,
of Greenbow, Alabama.
of Greenbow.
in Mama's family
grandpa's grandpa
about a thousand years ago.
Montgomery, places like that.