:05:00
as strong as I've ever seen.
:05:02
But his back's as
crooked as a politician.
:05:06
But we're going to straighten him
right up, aren't we, Forrest?
:05:09
Forrest!
:05:11
Now, when I was a baby,
:05:13
Mama named me after
the great Civil War hero
:05:16
General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
:05:17
General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
:05:18
She said we was related
to him in some way.
:05:21
What he did was,
:05:23
hetarted up this club
called the Ku Klux Klan.
:05:26
They'd all dress up in their robes
and th eirbed sheets
:05:30
and act like a bunch
of ghosts or spooks or something.
:05:34
They'd even put bed sheets
on their horses and ride around.
:05:38
And, anyway, that'show
I got my name-- Forrest Gump.
:05:42
Mama said the Forrest part
was to remind me
:05:45
that sometimes we all
do things that, well,
:05:48
that just don't make no sense.
:05:59
This way. Hold on. Ugh!
:06:02
All right.
:06:04
What are y'all staring at?
:06:06
Haven't you ever seen
:06:07
a little boy with braces
on his legs before ?
:06:11
Don't ever let anybody
:06:13
tell you they're better
than you, Forrest.
:06:15
If God intended everybody
to be the same,
:06:17
he'd have given us all
braces on our legs.
:06:20
Mama always hada way of explaining
things so I could understand them.
:06:24
We lived about a quarter mile
off Route 17,
:06:28
about a halfmile from the town
of Greenbow, Alabama.
:06:31
That's in the county
of Greenbow.
:06:34
Our house had been
in Mama's family
:06:37
since her grandpa's
grandpa's grandpa
:06:39
had come across the ocean
about a thousand years ago.
:06:42
Since it was just me and Mama
:06:44
and we had all these empty rooms,
:06:46
Mama decided to let those rooms out,
:06:49
mostly to people passing through,
:06:50
Iike from, oh, Mobile,
Montgomery, places like that.
:06:54
That'show me and Mama got money.
:06:57
Mama was a real smart lady.
:06:59
Remember what I told you, Forrest.