Forrest Gump

She was 37 years old, She had AIDS.

Bubba Gump is a shrimp company that got its name from the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. In the army, Forrest meets his friend Bubba, who wants to open a shrimp company and fish for shrimp. Bubba dies in the Vietnam War, so Forrest starts the shrimp company with Lieutenant Dan instead.

Bob Dylan - the song is called "Blowin' in the Wind".

The movie "Forrest Gump" spanned more than thirty years, from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. We first meet Forrest when he is about seven years old. We can assume he is roughly the same age as Jenny. We know from her gravestone that she was born in 1945 and died in 1982.

Visual effects with archival footage. His dialogue was probably a voice over.

President Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy (not yet president), Ronald Regan (recovered from his wounds), Governor George Wallace (recovered but crippled). Other notables are Martin Luther King, Jr. and singer John Lennon.

Sally Field

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are two definitions of the word Bubba.

for one it is used to call a person stupid.



Two it is a different way of saying brother. Do not call anyone a bubba. Unless that is his name.


Mostly the name Bubba i used mostly for a name. By mostly bob or something like that.

There was his ping pong paddle, a curious George book, Bubba Gump shrimp hat, newspaper clippings, socks, toothpaste, a shirt, a badge of some sort and a few other bits.

Tom Hanks. He has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards (Oscars) for Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Castaway, winning two consecutive Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.

Here are a few: The feather symbolizes the question whether life is pre-destined or a series of random occurances. The leg braces symbolize confinement. The box of chocolates symbolize the unpredictablity of life.

Abbie Hoffman, a real-life antiwar protester is the character who is wearing the American flag shirt and speaks at the rally in Washington, D.C., in the movie, Forrest Gump (1994). The part is played by Richard D'Alessandro.

Because he is obedient.

It may be Gump in conflict with the world.

Jenny died of AIDS. This was back in the early-to-mid 1980s, when there were no real treatments and the doctors couldn't do much more than keep her as comfortable as possible while she died.

As she says to Forrest (while they're in the park in Savannah and Forrest Jr. is playing on the swings): "Forrest? I'm sick...I have some kind of virus. And the doctors don't...they don't know what it is, and there isn't anything they can do about it."

The movie certainly had it's share of assassinations but I don't think any president was shot in the chest. President JFK was shot in the head. His brother Robert Kennedy was not president but was a candidate for the next presidential race. He was shot serveal times but I believe it was a head wound that killed him. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot but he wasn't president. John Lennon was shot in the chest and Governer George Wallace was also shot but he lived in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

bayou labatre. during the movie, after the hurricane destroyed all the other shrimping boats, there was a t.v. reporter giving a report He said only one boat remained, then forrests boat slides by, and the reporter is reporting from Bayou Labatre.

Like Christianity, Islam permits fighting in self-defense, in defense of religion, or on the part of those who have been expelled forcibly from their homes. It lays down strict rules of combat that include prohibitions against harming civilians and against destroying crops, trees and livestock. As Muslims see it, injustice would be triumphant in the world if good people were not prepared to risk their lives in a righteous cause. One reads in the Qur'an: "Fight in the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress limits. God does not love transgressors." (Qur'an 2:190) "If they seek peace, then you seek peace. And trust in God for He is the One that hears and konws all things." (Qur'an 8:61) War is therefore the last resort, and is subject to the rigorous conditions laid down by the sacred law. The often misunderstood and overused term jihad literally means "struggle" and not "holy war" (a term not found anywhere in the Qur'an). Jihad, as an Islamic concept, can be on a personal level - inner struggle against evil within oneself; struggle for decency and goodness on the social level; and struggle on the battlefield, if and when necessary. The term Holy War was never mentioned in The Quran. For further explanation see:

"What are the ethics of war in Islam?"

Gump seems to face up to fear quite well, in fact we could use him in an example in our own lives.

The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.

David Alan Grier, Ice Cube and Dave Chapelle were all offered the part of Bubba in "Forrest Gump." Chapelle declined because he thought the movie was going to tank, a decision he later regretted. The movie went on to be nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won six, including 'Best Picture'.

Forrest's mother had always told him you can tell a lot about a person by the shoes they're wearing - where they've been, where they're going. The most well known shoes Forrest wore were the Nikes that Jenny gave him as a present. They were white running shoes with the signature swoosh in red.

None of the scenes in the movie Forrest Gump was actually filmed in Vietnam. In fact, none of the movie was filmed outside the U.S. The Viet Nam scenes were filmed on Fripp Island, South Carolina.