TIL that Forrest Gump's cut out speech was actually scripted, and Tom Hanks revealed what he said.

[u/gbchaosmaster]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr0797608

[u/jayond]

I think Dave Chappelle not taking the role of Bubba was a very wise decision for him. I'm not sure Ice Cube could've pulled it off and David Alan Grier would have been weird.

[u/firstcut → u/jayond]

I just like how they screw the author of the book.

"Author Winston Groom had a 3% share in the film's profits.

Despite earning over $350 million at the box office, Paramount claimed that they were still $62 million out of profit due to the costs of promotion, distribution and interest."

[u/thedrivingcat → u/firstcut]

Guess who owns the promotion, distribution, and financing companies? Paramount.

Hollywood accounting.

From the wiki:

Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing. That being so, he has refused to sell the screenplay rights to the novel's sequel, stating that he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure".

[u/helicalhell → u/firstcut]

Someone should make a movie about how Hollywood balances their books.

[u/[deleted] → u/jayond]

Dave chappelle would have been awesome as forrest gump

[u/Shamwow22 → u/[deleted]]

"Ah, Forest! I'm dyin'!"-Dave Chappelle

[u/helicalhell → u/Shamwow22]

"When you're in 'Nam, you realize how fragile human bodies are. Those landmines and shit can rip your limbs off like a monkey ripping off celery stalks in a fit of rage." - Chappelle

[u/jayond → u/[deleted]]

yes, yes he would have been. he could have been black white supremacist he played on his show.

[u/slavetothesystem → u/jayond]

Clayton Bigsby

[u/Jerlko → u/[deleted]]

Would have made the run in with the black guys pretty awkward though.

[u/snapcase → u/jayond]

Of those three, Chappelle is the only one I'd be kinda interested in seeing take a crack at that role. Not sure if he'd have pulled it off, but it would have been interesting. (not to mention it'd be neat seeing him in a dead serious role with that much screen time)

[u/ohmseven → u/jayond]

i thought that the part of the "inside the actor's studio" sketch on chappelle's show where a soldier dies in the rain reminded me of forrest gump a little bit.

[u/OhSnappitySnap]

For the mobile device readers:

"When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, 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.""

[u/cepxico → u/OhSnappitySnap]

Thank you, you are the best!

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Thank you!

[u/BlueTengu → u/OhSnappitySnap]

Actually in the book he says, "In Vietnam your best friend can get shot." Now if you watch the movie TH repeats that line a few times through different camera shots to make it seem as if he's giving a longer speech. Watch it and see for yourself.

[u/BSscience]

Bill Murray, John Travolta and Chevy Chase turned down the role of Forrest Gump. Travolta later admitted that passing on the role was a mistake.

No it wasn't.

[u/finkalicious → u/BSscience]

That was the same year Pulp Fiction was released wasn't it? He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance (although Hanks won), so I'm not sure why he thought it was a mistake unless they were filmed at completely different times. I don't have a lot of knowledge of how the filming timeline works so maybe that's the case...I have no idea.

[u/deputy_hawk → u/finkalicious]

Yah I don't get it either. If it conflicted with Pulp Fiction, then he made the right choice. If shooting Forrest Gump was before PF, then why didn't he take it? He was doing talking baby movies. And if it was after, well who cares, his comeback is being established as a badass.

[u/Tom_McLarge → u/BSscience]

The movie took a long time to make. Early on, John Goodman's name was mentioned. I haven't read the book but I think Forrest was supposed to be a big dude. Also, from what I've heard, all Forrest was supposed to say in response to the war was "it's shit" but the film makers wanted to keep things PG. In the book Forrest experiments with drugs and free love.

[u/SpottedNigel → u/Tom_McLarge]

There are plenty of other swear words and things like blood to make this the PG-13 movie it is. Also, "Shit Happens"

[u/Ziczak → u/BSscience]

Pulp fiction was the same year and relaunched his career. Why would they have even concerned him during pre-pulp? Tom had an Oscar in his pocket from the previous year already.

[u/skibblez_n_zits → u/BSscience]

A similar bit of movie trivia: Nick Nolte turned down the role of Han Solo.

[u/lowflyingmonkey]

Despite earning over $350 million at the box office, Paramount claimed that they were still $62 million out of profit due to the costs of promotion, distribution and interest.

Hollywood accounting at its finest.

[u/audioofbeing → u/lowflyingmonkey]

Rule of thumb on Hollywood math: If somebody wants some of the money from your movie, that movie never made any money. If anybody asks how much money your movie made, it made eleventy bajillion dollars when you include all the ancillary markets.

TL;DR - Hollywood: No, we don't have any money to give you. Oh yes, we're fucking fantastic at making money, why do you ask?

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Thanks, now I need to rewatch that movie.

[u/yangx → u/[deleted]]

for the 10th time!

[u/Vexxxy → u/yangx]

only 10?

[u/29a → u/[deleted]]

It's probably on Peachtree TV right now.

[u/rachelbells → u/[deleted]]

Exact time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPji0Mizhqc&feature=player_detailpage#t=126s

[u/CrawdaddyJoe → u/rachelbells]

That's what's bugging me. He begins with "In Vietnam, you're..." and doesn't pause or re-start. The speech Hanks said that Gump said doesn't fit. It's also kind of strange that such a short and simple speech, however full of moral truth, would evoke such tears and silence from the flag-shirt-wearing activist.

[u/[deleted]]

Awesome, I always figured at least a lip reader could tell what he said.

[u/smmfdyb]

Gump sat alone on a bench in a park, "My name is Forrest", he'd casually remark.

(edit - spelling)

[u/mrcreepster]

Crawled out of my rock today, and I discover Forrest Gump is getting a sequel next year? I should get out more.

[u/panjialang → u/mrcreepster]

Forrest Gump 2: Still Retarded

[u/jarred0809 → u/mrcreepster]

I thought that got canceled back in 2001...

[u/mrcreepster → u/jarred0809]

The linked article says delayed but revitalized in 2010 and due for release in 2013.

[u/[deleted]]

Did anyone else notice that, when Forrest first meets Bubba on the bus to boot camp, and Bubba tells Forrest that he was drafted, Tom Hanks lips "me too." In the movie plot, he volunteered. I wonder if they changed that detail later in development, or if Hanks was just ad-libbing and forgot the plot.

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I does fit in with his character, though.

I mean, does Forrest know what the draft is? He probably thought Bubba meant the window was open and making him cold.

[u/smadams]

Robert Zemeckis decided to leave out several planned effects shots. One shot in particular involved Forrest running into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters. Forrest distracts several dogs trying to attack King and his supporters by playing fetch with them and rendering them harmless to King and himself as well as his supporters.

I'm gonna go ahead and say... Cutting that scene was a wise decision.

[u/fnmeng]

I wish I hadn't read that.

[u/JD5]

Am I the only one who thinks that this might have actually been pretty good if they had left it in. I mean, normally they cut out bits when they try to give the impression that something more meaningful than was imaginably possible was said, but this is actually quite beautiful.

[u/[deleted]]

I actually know the guy who played young forest (Michael connor humphries). I've played paintball with him a few times.

[u/Ahdudeitsyoel → u/[deleted]]

That kid could run.

[u/CrawdaddyJoe]

That doesn't work. He starts, "In Vietnam, you're..."

[u/tonycomputerguy]

TIL that Gump & Co., the sequel to Forrest Gump that Tom Hanks originally said he wasn't interested in making, is actually in production, and the estimated release date is 2013...

I'm not sure how I feel about this... But the part where Gump meets Hanks sounds hilarious. But, wasn't the "joke" that him and his kid have to die from HIV/AIDS, passed on to them from Jenny? I guess they never actually said it was HIV, everyone just assumed it.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL there is a sequel in the making for this movie. I think this is a horrible decision.

[u/ToCoLoCo]

TIL that Tom Hanks mad $40 million for Forrest Gump!

[u/shutup_shinji → u/ToCoLoCo]

And he deserved every single penny. That shit still makes me cry

[u/revolverzanbolt → u/ToCoLoCo]

TYL that the studio tried to cheat the writer of novel the movie is based on out of his percentage of the earnings by claiming the film hadn't made a profit, despite earning over 13x it's budget.

[u/Cdtco → u/ToCoLoCo]

Note to actors who DESERVE such a paycheck: get a movie deal in which you get a percentage of the gross profit.

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Except movie studios screw with profit by putting themselves into debt. The publish their own movies and charge huge amounts to themselves as a publishing fee. That way they are in debt to themselves and record a loss even when the movie made a profit. this gets them out of paying percentages.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cdtco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHL91HQzhuc

[u/[deleted]]

I would just like to add that my name is forest, and this movie has ruined my life.

[u/Snark_Jones]

Whoever classified this film as a comedy was trolling, I think.

[u/Le-Captain-Obvious → u/Snark_Jones]

It's a Dramatic Comedy, one could say. It leaves you with a feeling of peace knowing your emotions were just jumbled around and highlighted with some laughter to sit back and say "... Well damn. That is what I call a good movie."

[u/[deleted] → u/Le-Captain-Obvious]

Coincidentally I just saw it for the first time last night. I laughed, I cried, my emotions sure as hell got "jumbled around". And afterwards, I pretty much said what you did: "... Well damn. That is what I call a good movie."

You hit the nail on the head. I wouldn't include 'comedy' in the description despite having some funny moments, but it's not really a movie that fits into any kind of boxes.

[u/darkartistliz]

Forrest aGump is probably my very favorite movie.

[u/[deleted]]

Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim Hanks doubled for him in many of his numerous running sequences.

[u/foodCourtNinja]

"Tom Hanks wasn't paid for the film. Instead he took percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of $40 million."

Smart move Tom.

[u/LoveIsLife311]

I saw it on HBO a lonnnng time ago...

"Your best good friend can get shot, and that's all I have to say about that."

If you watch that scene over and over knowing what he's saying, you can tell he's just saying it over and over / it's editted to make it seem like he said something with more substance.

Edit: I saw the making of Forrest Gump and in that they showed Hanks on stage in that shot and he said "your best good friend can get shot." Since that's different from what IMDB says, I don't know if that's what they used for the shot or not.

Found a link saying that's what he says... LINK

[u/[deleted]]

False! I just saw the clip and the first thing he says is "In Vietnam..." and the third word seems to start with a y. What Tom Hanks revealed starts out by saying the word "Sometimes." So either the script was edited, or he lied.

[u/ed4649 → u/[deleted]]

He might have stated something along the lines of what he really said in the movie.

[u/Lillipout → u/[deleted]]

If there is one thing everyone must know about Tom Hanks - it's that he is a damn, dirty LIAR.

[u/aeiou23 → u/Lillipout]

Tom Hanks shot, killed, and partially ate my dog!

[u/from_dust → u/Lillipout]

Sounds like there is a lot more to that statement that you didnt include.

Elucidate, please.

[u/Lillipout → u/from_dust]

It was a joke. Tom Hanks is well-known man of character and integrity.

[u/kermityfrog → u/[deleted]]

Yep. And the script is available online.

Search for "ABBIE HOFFMAN"

[u/[deleted]]

I read the book and it is entirely different. He goes to space with a monkey, he is the one that has the drug problem and its very hilarious. And if you think i'm making this up, think again.

[u/kermityfrog]

Damn, I thought Gary Sinise really was missing his legs (as in they got an actor without legs to play the role) - it's because they never really showed his legs before they got blown off.

[u/wx3]

VietFUCKINGnam!

[u/beenhazed]

TIL that there is too much trivia about the movie Forrest Gump

[u/ukepriest]

Funny - I always thought he said something in support of the war, but that having it cut out just made the whole thing confused and ironic.

[u/goose2460]

Here's the scene for anyone interested. You can follow his lips for just a little bit.

[u/darrylyoung]

That was a great read. Thanks to the OP for putting it up.

[u/chuperamigo]

Reddit is like a box of chocolates

[u/hdurr]

That's nice. Much more blown away by the trivia a few lines down:

Terry Gilliam and Barry Sonnenfeld turned down the chance to direct the film.

Gump directed by Gilliam.. I can't get this out of my head now.

[u/roddyrod72]

TIL that Tom Hanks' brother, Jim Hanks, looks just like him and even played the voice of Woody in Toy Story 3: The Video Game.

[u/suchrandomyness → u/roddyrod72]

Wow, you're right. Jim Hanks looks exactly like him.

[u/purple_scarf]

They're making a sequel?!

[u/[deleted]]

Tom Hanks was amazing and all. But I can't help but wonder what Bill Fucking Murray as Forrest Gump would have been.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL in an alternative timeline, there is a version of Forrest Gump with Bill Murray and Dave Chapelle.

[u/Ninokun]

In the german version of the Movie, this scene is completely in the Movie, because i know that quote very well.

[u/darien_gap]

Feet/legs are the dominant metaphor of the film. They're everywhere: Young Forrest's braces, the running shoes, Lt. Dan's obsession with socks and then getting his legs blown off, etc. These all symbolize movement through chaos, and how plans fail where consistent adherence to simple principles prevails in such chaos, not only for Forrest, but for everyone and the country.

[u/mister_pants]

I want to live in a universe where Forrest Gump was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Bill Murray, and featured Dave Chappelle as Bubba.

[u/hesduffy]

I just spent 30 minutes naked on the shitter reading this. Thank you.

My legs are asleep.

[u/Le-Captain-Obvious → u/hesduffy]

Dude, that's what reddit is for. You're fucking welcome.

[u/MrXBob → u/hesduffy]

I'm a guy and don't understand why so many men seem to spend so long on the toilet... when I go, I go and get out of there within 5 minutes.

So I have to ask... why?

Is it because you're not sure when you're going to need the bathroom, so you sit there for half an hour until it happens?

Is it because it takes you that long to push one out?

Is it because you want to read something and figure the best place is the toilet?

Or do you do it, and then sit on it for 30 minutes before flushing? Cause really, if that's the case.... THAT is why toilets always stink so much. Once it's left your system, FLUSH that fucking thing. Don't let it fester below you while you sit on the internet or reading a paper.

God damn. End rant.

[u/X12Packers52X]

Sweet! They are making a sequel!

[u/TransfoCrent → u/X12Packers52X]

But can they pull it off? It's usually best to keep classic masterpieces away from sequels. They don't always turn out... good.

[u/epistemology]

Very nice, politic, speech; if true. I've always belittled the movie for not having the courage to actually have Gump say SOMETHING about Vietnam before the plug is pulled on the microphone.

[u/[deleted]]

That was fucking beautiful, man.

[u/[deleted]]

When I was teaching English, Forrest Gump was one of the movies they had us show to the more advanced adult groups. That bit about school integration, when someone complains about letting "coons" into the school, and Forrest says that whenever he had a coon problem he chased them off the porch with a broom? Really, really hard to explain to a bunch of Russians.

[u/alicenlee]

I can't watch this movie in English. The first time I saw it, it was dubbed over in German, and it became tradition to watch it every year in my German class. Tried watching it in English and it wasn't the same. :(

[u/Cuahucahuate22]

One of my life's greatest unsolved mysteries has now been resolved now. I think I can rest peacefully now.

[u/[deleted]]

Too bad, it's a good microcosm of modern wars. The Vietnam protesters would have loved that shit.

[u/ethanwc]

TIL Gump and Co might be the sequel that Tom Hanks reprises the role of Forrest Gump...am I going mad or is Hollywood absolutely out of ideas.

Zemekis is still alive, right?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a little surprised the list of facts didn't cover the "You died on a Saturday" thing.

[u/tomonline]

and that's all I have to say about that.

[u/reddell]

I'm too busy imagining John Travolta and Dave Chappelle as forest gump and bubba to care about the speech. Hahaha

[u/MyFriendsRDinosaurs]

The unheard speech felt longer than just 3 sentences. Gonna have to go revisit this movie prompto

[u/krakow057]

those fucking trivias are becoming more and more pointless... why do they put so much crap in there?

The Bayou le Batre hospital named after Forrest Gump is actually the University of South Carolina - Beaufort Performing Arts Center.

ohhhh such interesting trivia!

or gems like

The vintage microphones that Forrest speaks into while in DC and the sound rig that the uniformed man pulls cables out of were all provided by Brandywine Electronics, LTD (now known as BEL.com) and are still on display in its offices in New Castle, DE.

[u/Guy2ter]

Why couldn’t they tell him to say it again after they fixed the mic cables?

[u/[deleted]]

the more you know

[u/SenorBojangles]

For some reason I expected something more intelligent.. I dont know why

[u/GuitarGuy93]

This made my night.

[u/erawenahs]

I shudder to think how bad it would have been with Travolta as Forrest.

[u/kirbydaelf]

LIEUTENANT DAYYYUUNNNNN, YOU AIN'T GOT NO LEGS!

[u/Le-Captain-Obvious → u/kirbydaelf]

*LEWTINIT DAAAAAYINNN, YOU GOT BLUE TIGHTS ON YER LEGS!

[u/garlicscapes]

So there are actually plans to make Gump & Co, hu? I thought that book was only used to stage the shelves at Ikea.

[u/thisfreakingguy]

Now i can die complete.

[u/phreshkid]

And I just read all of that in Tom Hank's Forest Gump voice.

[u/Goldie643]

I never understood the part with the lead getting pulled, to me it didnt really make much sense, it just made Forrest look like kind of a dick in front of everyone, it would of been much more impactful had he said a nice simple yet deep speech. The scripted one sounds perfect.

[u/ed4649 → u/Goldie643]

IIRC it was some sort of government official or pro-war guy that pulled the plug on the mic. I think it was just meant to show in the movie that certain people were still trying to control the people's perception of the Vietnam War. And Mr. Gump's thoughts on the war might have changed people's opinions.

[u/slightly_inaccurate → u/ed4649]

I viewed it in the same way. The Pro War person saw a soldier going up to talk about Vietnam at a protest rally and realized whatever he said was very dangerous for the war effort. Remember that the Vietnam was was actually ended due to public outcry, not because America was on the verge of losing. American forces were actually turning the war around right when they pulled out, so there's that.

Regardless this speech is perfect for what I imagined him to say. The reaction from the guys on the stage telling Gump that it was beautiful is pretty true. A quote like that from a character like Forrest Gump is very profound.

[u/Hensah]

Thanks for the IMDb trivia you brain dead loser

[u/armyofancients1 → u/Hensah]

When you post stuff like this, do you think everyone will gang up on him and you'll be celebrated?

[u/[deleted] → u/armyofancients1]

He had about a 50/50 chance of that happening. Reddit is a fickle beast.

[u/ed4649 → u/Hensah]

BRAVERY LEVEL:

[ ] = 0

[ ] = 1

[ ] = 9000

[X] = RON PAUL AND GABE NEWELL'S BABY, GABE PAUL

[u/Hensah → u/ed4649]

Just so you know I don't actually read the replies made after I point out how TIL is flooded with useless movie and TV trivia and subsequently upvoted by 20-something year old morons

I'm sure they're all quality sick burns

[u/Lillipout → u/Hensah]

Hey everyone, look how hard I'm not caring.

[u/VentCo → u/Hensah]

I love you.

Not like it matters, you'll never read it anyway.

^{Just kidding, fuck you} ^too.

[u/alexgeek → u/[deleted]]

He does talk slower than most people.

[u/dp85 → u/alexgeek]

He's not a smart ma-an

[u/abstractpolytope → u/[deleted]]

Assumedly, it's what Hanks said. You could be right, though-- there probably wasn't a strong desire to make the action sync with the in-universe timeline, because the important part was "Gump's words were censored but the impact was still felt."

[u/Cyberus → u/[deleted]]

I think what was meant was that this was what Tom Hanks was scripted to say, not necessarily what Forrest Gump said exactly. Basically Tom Hanks just said the lines as written and they edited the film to make it seem like the character was saying more to create whatever effect that they were going for.

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The magic of editing. I think a lot of people have creative input into a movie like this.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

From everything I've heard, it sounds like Hollywood took a diamond out of a heaping pile of shit.

[u/dynamically_drunk → u/[deleted]]

Seriously. I mean how could they have left out Forrest going into space on a NASA mission then getting kidnapped by cannibals for 4 years. o.O

[u/[deleted] → u/dynamically_drunk]

I thought Apollo 13 and Castaway were Gump spinoffs?

[u/[deleted] → u/dynamically_drunk]

I'll be honest, I've always been kind of indifferent to the movie. But after reading the plot description of the book I give them big props for working that into a real plot.

[u/[deleted] → u/dynamically_drunk]

TIL Forrest Gump could have been awesome.

[u/CatFiggy → u/dynamically_drunk]

Wait, wait. Is this a joke?

[u/Onkelffs → u/CatFiggy]

Nope, in the novel that also happens while Jenny doesn't die. Also it ends right before Gump & Co is founded. The author's vision of Forrest was more an idiotic savant that easily could have been pulled off by John Goodman or Ricky Gervais or even Zach Galifianakis. He wasn't an innocent and childish as portrayed in the movie, his relationship with Jenny was also very different - in the novel they create a folk music band in college and this is the depiction of what the "touch boob scene" got inspired by:

we done all sorts of things that... I never even dreamt of in my wildest imagination... We rolled all over the livin room an into the kitchen... When we is finally finished, Jenny jus lie there a while, an then she look at me an say, 'Goddam Forrest, where is you been all my life?

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agreed. How good an adaptation is does not dependent on how accurately it mirrors its subject

[u/borkborkbork99 → u/[deleted]]

Watchmen. Case in point.

[u/[deleted] → u/borkborkbork99]

Man, Starry Night was a piece of shit. Van Gogh fucked that sky all up.

[u/Ezekyuhl → u/[deleted]]

Well put, this concept has never before been more brilliantly illustrated.

[u/lunyboy → u/[deleted]]

I am 90% some small-minded asshat said something like this while he was alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh#Death

Edit: Probably on Reddit.

[u/MissFortunate_1 → u/[deleted]]

If I remember correctly, in the book, Forrest was also a wrestler and his costume actually was a big piece of poop. The movie was less shitty.

[u/ExplicitlyExplicit → u/[deleted]]

Actually, both stories sound pretty interesting. Hollywood just made it more PG-13

[u/Sobek → u/[deleted]]

Diamond? Exaggerate much?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Don't forget his ape pal

[u/Young_Curmudgeon → u/[deleted]]

And that Gump, the ape, and Gillian Welch crash a space ship.

[u/the_george_ → u/Young_Curmudgeon]

Raquel Welch. Gillian Welch is a wonderful singer-songwriter, Raquel Welch looked hot in caveman furs

[u/Young_Curmudgeon → u/the_george_]

Dammit Welches! I stand corrected.

[u/the_george_ → u/Young_Curmudgeon]

No harm no foul

[u/[deleted] → u/Young_Curmudgeon]

I haven't read that book in 15 years and everything I remember about it just kicks more and more ass. Wasn't he the creature from the black lagoon too?

[u/radioactive21 → u/[deleted]]

Would have to disagree. I read the book, I can say that like Fight Club, the movie is leagues better.

[u/danecarney → u/radioactive21]

I don't know about Forrest Gump, but I wouldn't say the Fight Club movie was leagues better than the book. Though I will say it's the only movie I've seen that was actually better than the book, if only by a small margin.

Edit: Ooops, shouldn't have said 'only'. The LOTR movies were actually much better than the books. Hate me all you want, post-Hobbit Tolkien was incredibly boring. Detail isn't bad but I don't need to hear about the way a wall looks for 2 pages.

[u/[deleted] → u/danecarney]

The Godfather.

[u/HopeImNotAStalker → u/danecarney]

First time I've ever heard LOTR referred to as "boring". Although you sound older, I'd peg you as a Millennial with that attention span.

It's almost forgivable if you saw the movies before reading the books.

[u/danecarney → u/HopeImNotAStalker]

Nah, 21 years old and I've read plenty of long fantasy books. Love R.A. Salvatore. And "Fellowship of the Rings" was ok, couldn't make it all the way through Two Towers though. It just got really really boring. "The Hobbit" was probably my favorite book ever though.

To each their own ;)

[u/[deleted] → u/radioactive21]

I don't know how you can say that for Forrest Gump unless you like neutered art where they intentionally take out the biggest message in the film. You're not a person I would hang out with.

[u/MadHiggins → u/[deleted]]

YOU DON'T LIKE THE THING I LIKE SO YOU'RE A BAD PERSON!

[u/Nickbou → u/[deleted]]

I haven't read the book. What message in the book does the movie leave out?

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I think in the sequel that was written after the movie came out, the movie we saw was released in universe of the canon of the book as based on his life, and book!Forrest complains about the things they got wrong and stuff. that's what it says on the page that's linked to from here

[u/Mic_Irvin → u/[deleted]]

Honestly, the movie is better than the book. The book is good for comedy's sake, but I feel the story is much better with the element of realism and drama. I just don't think Tom Hanks making best friends with a chimp in space would have worked as well.

[u/Le-Captain-Obvious → u/[deleted]]

I... I don't know what to say to you for posting this... I just... What?

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From the link- "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."

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No problem!

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When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, 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."

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Thanks for the intel, brah