Forrest's fearful inquiry as to Little Forrest's intelligence leads Jenny to quickly assert that he is completely normal. Once he was free of them, Forrest was able to run incredibly fast. He runs all the way to the Santa Monica Pier, then back across the country to the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Maine. Forrest, Jenny and Little Forrest only have a year together as a family before Jenny would die on a Saturday. As Forrest struggled to run, his leg braces broke apart.
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Forrest starts running, and keeps going for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours.
Forrest eventually decides "maybe it's both, maybe both are happening at the same time."
One day, a group of bullies was throwing rocks at Forrest, and one of them cut his forehead. Forrest smiles and says, "You were there with me".
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Jenny told Forrest, "Run Forrest run!
Other changes from the novel to the film include the deaths of Forrest's mother and his wife, Jenny, neither of whom died in the book.
She asks him to marry her and he accepts. Forrest attracts media coverage, and eventually, dozens of followers initiating and inspiring what would become the Back to the present (the "present" in the film being 1981, as seen from a car and on a bus, and televised footage of Forrest and Jenny are happy to see each other. Forrest apologizes to Dan for ruining his party, to which Dan replied by simply wishing Forrest Happy New Year.
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She stares transfixed for a moment, and then starts throwing every rock she can find at it, before collapsing in despair, and now Forrest truly understands the ordeal she had been through as a child. Forrest is last seen outside his home, sitting where he and his mother sat waiting for the bus, seeing Little Forrest off on his bus ride to school, telling him that he loves him and that he will be waiting for him. He exudes a compassionate, optimistic, and tenacious attitude in the face of countless setbacks and strives to help ever He also states that while running in Oregon, it looked as if there were two skies and two mountains (since there was a lake in front of the mountain). In famous Forrest Gump quotes, running has been mentioned many times. Later Forrest was visited by Lieutenant Dan who, just as he said he would do on New Year's Eve of 1971, had come to be Forrest's first mate. Among the attendees is Lieutenant Dan, who has titanium prosthetic legs (claiming to be made of the same material as the Space Shuttle), with his Vietnamese fiancée Susan.
", which he did, only to prompt the bullies to chase him on their bikes. After her death, Forrest stays and leaves his shrimping industry in the hands of Lieutenant Dan and retired to mowing and cutting grass and lawns, as he apparently enjoys doing it. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Dan participated in a substantial investment into what Forrest says to be "some kind of fruit company". He crossed the country a couple of times and on his way, he gained a group of followers.
Forrest replies with, "Why don't you love me Jenny? In reality, the company was the fledgling Jenny returned to Greenbow and moves in with Forrest. Forrest described their relationship saying, "Jenny and me was like peas and carrots." The two became close friends, often playing around a large nearby tree. He responded by saying that it was nice, and when it stopped raining, it would be quiet and peaceful.
However, things changed when the area was hit by Forrest returned home to Greenbow in September 1975 when he learned his mother was dying of cancer. The desert road, as well as the stunning panoramic view where he stops, are near the Utah-Arizona border in the United States. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Forrest has her buried under the tree where they played as children, then buys her childhood home (where her father had abused her) and has it bulldozed.
At his mother's insistence, Forrest made $25,000 endorsing a brand of ping-pong paddles, and used most of the money to travel to Bubba's hometown of Bayou La Batre and purchase a boat. Forrest and Jenny's wedding is a quiet, intimate ceremony attended only by a handful of family and friends.
In the film, Forrest is a philanthropist and a war veteran, businessman, and college football player who bears witness to various significant occurrences in the 20th century. Forrest also states that while running in the desert, when the sun was rising, it was the most beautiful sight ever. Forrest's new-found loneliness leads him to take a run "for no particular reason". When someone pointed out it was bad luck to have a boat without a name, Forrest names his boat after Jenny, which he calls, "The most beautiful name in the whole wide world." Forrest learns that Jenny is sick from an unknown virus (implied to be either HIV or Hepatitis C, as both were unknown diseases at that time) which has no known cure.
Though he misses Jenny terribly, Forrest becomes a good father to Little Forrest. In the novel, Forrest is shown to be somewhat cynical and abrasive, while in the film, he is more placid and naïve. He invites her and Little Forrest to come home and stay with him. To find the exact filming location read on or click on the map pointer in the image section above. However, Jenny's home life was not nearly as happy as Forrest's: her mother had died when she was five and her father was an abusive alcoholic who molested and beat his children (until Jenny was taken away to live with her grandmother), and Forrest's friendship offered her an escape. Whilst the film has him running around the country for over three long years, the novel sends him rocketing into space and later crash-landing in New Guinea and being captured by a tribe of cannibals. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Forrest Gump Running animated GIFs to your conversations.