![]() ![]() Forrest described their relationship saying, "Jenny and me was like peas and carrots." Jenny was one of the few people besides his mother to accept Forrest as he was, helping him learn to read and stand up to bullies who harassed him. "I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life," he would later say of her, "she was like an angel." The two became close friends, often playing around a large nearby tree. On the bus ride on Forrest's first day of school, Forrest met Jenny Curran and was instantly taken by her. Forrest liked dancing to Elvis' music and his leg braces gave him a unique dancing style that would inspire Elvis's "hip dancing", for his song " Hound Dog". One of their guests was a young Elvis Presley. They made money by renting out rooms to travelers. Despite his physical and mental challenges, Forrest's mother told him not to let anyone tell him he was different, telling him "stupid is as stupid does".įorrest and his mother lived in a large house just outside the town of Greenbow in the state of Alabama. of 75, which nearly prevented him from being accepted into public school his mother managed to get the principal to reconsider by letting him sleep with her. He was forced to wear leg braces which made walking difficult and running nearly impossible. She intended his name to be a reminder that "sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense".įorrest was born with strong legs but a crooked spine. His mother named Forrest after their ancestor Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Scotch-Irish American and a noted Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. His father was absent during his life, and his mother said he was "on vacation". Fictional character biography Early years įorrest was born near the small town of Greenbow, Alabama, on June 7, 1944. In 2019, Forrest Gump was named the 27th greatest movie character of all time by Empire magazine. ![]() ![]() Tom Hanks portrayed the character in the film and earned his second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance (Hanks won the previous year for Philadelphia), while Michael Conner Humphreys portrayed Forrest as a child. Throughout his life, he maintains a sincere love for his childhood friend Jennifer Curran, whom he affectionately calls Jenny and eventually comes to marry. Thriving from the strong upbringing of his mother, he strives to help every person he meets despite his strong naïveté and some people's negative perception of him due to his lack of intellect. He exudes a compassionate, optimistic, and tenacious attitude in the face of countless setbacks. In the film, Forrest is a college football All-American kick returner, Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, champion international ping pong player, businessman, and philanthropist whose accomplishments and pursuits bring him to experience critical events in the 20th century, and meet various significant people, including Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and U.S. Forrest Alexander Gump is a fictional character and the title protagonist of the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, Robert Zemeckis' 1994 film of the same name, and Gump and Co., the written sequel to Groom's novel. ![]()
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