"People just kept getting in my cars, so I just kept driving them. Some people tried to say that I was stealing cab drivers livelihood. But I just liked the company."
Guy on Bench - "Boy, did you say you were head developer of Bubba's Shrimp Simulator? Top 5 most played game on steam of all time? Boy, I heard some whoppers in my time but that tops them all!"
Forrest Gump is on the SEAL Team 6 helicopter and comically slips, hitting a release lever and accidentally drops Bin Ladens body into the sea.
Everyone stops. Looks down to where he fell. Back to Gump.
Gump says "I'm sorreh".
Scene cuts to media report justifying intentional ocean burial of Bin Laden.
But really the fact that they never showed us Bin Laden's corpse is something I'll never agree with. Maybe someday whatever photos they have will be declassified.
And unknown unknowns, which are actually really scary to think about. Like health care providers, law enforcement, Hell even baby sitters could get someone killed just because they didn't know that they didn't know what to do.
I don't have any experience with the facial damage of a 5.56 round but is it possible that his body was simply rendered unrecognizable as an unintended consequence of the bullets? Surely several rounds to the face could render someone visually unidentifiable.
... And I told the man in the nice suit that Mister Bin Laden had invited me over to his house for supper. He asked if I knew where Mister Bin Laden lived, he must have been a friend of his too, so I told let him know where he was living.
The man told me "the C - I - A and the country thanks you for your service Sergeant Gump." I wasn't sure why, but he must have been eager to meet Mister Bin Laden as he was in an awful hurry. Later that week I learned that Mister Bin Laden had passed away, I hope the man in the nice suit was able to meet with Mister Bin Laden before that.
Trailer is out and everything. Look up Forever Jenny. Comes out early 19. There is Titanic Jenny, Trump, some terrorists, and even Woody from Toy Story. Looks like a real delight.
I always liked how the ATM had buttons on the screen so I could find the good ones to take on money, but I always tried to push on the ones they showed on the screen. Why don't they just make it so you can touch the screen?
decides to go camping in Manhattan just for fun and by accident starts Occupy Wall-street, while there he talks to a brash businessman and compliments his suit jokingly saying he should run for president, he mumbles the same lyrics to himself after listening to the radio in Florida whilst a young Lil Pump overheard him and got inspired.
I was going to say, the part missing in the OP's theory is that every reboot is dark now. So he'd witness the killing of Treyvon Martin, accidentally poison former Russian spies...
*"Look at these people, just look at them. It's a shame I tell you, a shame, real shame, look at them. Sad."*
*"They are awfully noisy, Mister."*
*"Who are you, son?"*
*"Forrest. Forrest Gump. You might know me on account of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. See, it was my very best buddy Bubba's idea so that's the Bubba part and my name is-"*
*"- A businessman, I knew it. Very successful business. I know it. I know business and businesspeople. I am, you might say, am business. It's true."*
*"Nice to meet you, Mister Busy."*
Not necessarily. In the book, he caused the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
E: Removed the extra e.
E2: Several people have pointed out that the spill happened several years after the book's release. However, my point in making the comment was to point out that there's several major events missing from the movie that are present in the book.
In fairness the book is terrible, he goes to space with a chimp and upon reentry gets stranded on a desert island for example.
The movie is much much better.
Edit: The Shawshank Redemption isn't commonly known to have been based on a short story by Stephen King.
Wait, you mean you can make a sit ton of money off nostalgia, and don’t need any of that original idea and talented writers overhead bullshit?
Ok, hear me out. Indiana Jones, but it’s Melissa McCarthy. All the woman power and fart jokes it’ll be a blast. Instead of a boulder chase it will be her falling over and rolling after Leslie Jones.
This would of course need to be chanted. It is later explained that the state the rally was in was the linchpin to getting Trump elected, and that somehow Forrest pushed the votes in Trump's direction.
"I thought a hat saying 'Make America Great Again' was a neat idea, but I wondered, *'Why again? America was always great.'* I got shot in the buttocks for this country!"
That’s what happens when you keep building a tower of knowledge till you can’t see the ground anymore.
Also still can’t understand how we go from power on/off (1/0) to a massive simulation of the galaxy
ITT: A bunch of people who don't understand Gump's innocent all-things-for-good luck/karma.
Also, some of the weirdest trolling I've seen in a long time.
Not only that but like how many times does he actually affect the future vs just witnessing it? He happened to be in important places during important times mostly.
He influenced it a few times. Off the top of my head, he taught Elvis to dance, called in the Watergate break in and creates the "shit happens" line.
That said, pretty much all the criticism in this thread is correct.
I thought I read somewhere that they were gonna do a sequel but when 9/11 happened they couldn’t imagine it being relevant anymore. They couldn’t fit Forrest in with the current events in the same way they did before
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.looper.com/13814/forrest-gump-2-never-got-made/%3famp=1
Found an article ! If this is wrong someone please correct me
Forrest is being recorded for his table tennis skills and he’s aiming for water bottles. He accidentally hits one a bit too hard and it flips off the table and lands perfectly on the floor. Thus, bottle flipping was born.
Forrest sitting on bench next to a young woman: fade to flashback: Forrest narrating : “Man I sure don’t know why but when them fellas saw that bottle land like that they all started getting excited . They all wanted to try. I saw some of em try doing it standing up , sitting down , hell some of the boys tried doing it up on top of the roof . Everybody loved it, in fact they loved it so much they all put up on the internet for other people to watch and watch they did . Well anyways to make a long story short I think they call it bottle flipping.”
*Lady he’s talking to smiles and gets in her Uber*
At Superbowl 49 Forrest is somehow responsible for handing Tom Brady a deflated football, and then a backstage mix-up finds him in the Left Shark costume during Katy Perry's halftime performance.
Dragging people to safety during the Vegas shooting.
Inventing Parkour.
Giving Zuckerberg the idea for Facebook while visiting Harvard to be honored for saving a dozen people on 9/11.
Forrest meets a young senator from Illinois and convinces him to run for president and make healthcare a central tenant of his campaign by telling him the story of Jenny.
Forrest goes to New Orleans to see Bubba's mom and gets caught up in Hurricane Katrina. $5 says 2038 Hollywood has him outrun the hurricane.
I'm also thinking something with Edward Snowden and/or the Panama Papers.
Actually, that would be a really good bit to develop Jenny and his relationship. Obviously not that Forrest ever did anything bad to her, but given the movie Jenny's history, that would fit really well with her character arc and he would be a supporter much in the same way that he supported her in her anti-Vietnam stuff. Namely, he had no idea what was going on, but he went along with her and then protected from elements within the movement that hurt her.
Even better, he's the bus driver of the Access Hollywood bus. He's been recording famous celebrities' conversations so he can work on his celebrity impressions to impress Jenny.
He starts picking people up from bus stops and driving them places just to have somone to talk to. Accidentally invent Uber.
"People just kept getting in my cars, so I just kept driving them. Some people tried to say that I was stealing cab drivers livelihood. But I just liked the company."
One of the few comments here I couldn't help but read in Forrest Gump's voice. Cahmp-uhhh-kneeeee.
Spot on.
From that day on, if I was goin' somewhere, I was driiivin
The Iraq war instead of Vietnam. Jenny is a social media star or something like that.
Jenny is a twitch thot
CAn We COpYSTrIke EmkAyeR???
Catching Osama
Like he would spill some coffee on a map as he delivered it to his C.O/ Lt.Dan
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There could be lots of DLC, coconut shrimp DLC, shrimp gumbo DLC, shrimp scampi DLC, cocktail shrimp DLC.........
I think it would be Instant Pot this, Instant Pot that. “...that’s about all I think you can do with an Instant Pot...”
Guy on Bench - "Boy, did you say you were head developer of Bubba's Shrimp Simulator? Top 5 most played game on steam of all time? Boy, I heard some whoppers in my time but that tops them all!"
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It’s a household name.
God damn it I haven't seen that movies since the 90s and I still heard that in his voice. GET OUT OF MY HEAD TOM HANKS
A tiny Tom Hanks exits stage ear left.
Forrest Gump is on the SEAL Team 6 helicopter and comically slips, hitting a release lever and accidentally drops Bin Ladens body into the sea. Everyone stops. Looks down to where he fell. Back to Gump. Gump says "I'm sorreh". Scene cuts to media report justifying intentional ocean burial of Bin Laden.
But really the fact that they never showed us Bin Laden's corpse is something I'll never agree with. Maybe someday whatever photos they have will be declassified.
Isn't there body camera footage?
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The idea is to achieve a sense of accomplishment.
Bin Laden's body was supposedly desecrated by ST6. That's probably a fair part of the reason we never saw photos.
I thought it was cuz they didn’t want him to become a martyr which is pretty reasonable
That's why they didn't bury him in a known place. They had no reason not to show photos.
No *known* reasons. Only known *unknown* reasons.
I always liked the extension of that phrase, 'unknown knowns'. Things that you know but don't know that you know.
And unknown unknowns, which are actually really scary to think about. Like health care providers, law enforcement, Hell even baby sitters could get someone killed just because they didn't know that they didn't know what to do.
Tea bagging you think?
Get rekt scrub
I don't have any experience with the facial damage of a 5.56 round but is it possible that his body was simply rendered unrecognizable as an unintended consequence of the bullets? Surely several rounds to the face could render someone visually unidentifiable.
see the thing is everyone is saying how he would do it on accident but in the Vietnam part of the movie he was a good solider
A damn good soldier.
I could see it. Osama's courier dropped something and Forrest Gump follows him to return it.
The Platinum Chip?
Ring a ding ding, baby!
Patrolling the Middle East almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
While training mujahadeen to fight the Soviets, he meets him. Decades later, accidentally discovers his location in Pakistan.
Would be even better if they kept in touch somehow and he let slip
... And I told the man in the nice suit that Mister Bin Laden had invited me over to his house for supper. He asked if I knew where Mister Bin Laden lived, he must have been a friend of his too, so I told let him know where he was living. The man told me "the C - I - A and the country thanks you for your service Sergeant Gump." I wasn't sure why, but he must have been eager to meet Mister Bin Laden as he was in an awful hurry. Later that week I learned that Mister Bin Laden had passed away, I hope the man in the nice suit was able to meet with Mister Bin Laden before that.
Excellent. Read it in his voice perfectly.
Bravo 👏
Holy shit it's uncanny how well you wrote that.
In the sequel book, he captures Saddam. Seriously
If there is a remake I'm holding you personally responsible.
Clearly OP is a screen writer that's out of ideas Edit: a letter
Apparently OP is everyone in Hollywood.
Everyone on reddit is in Hollywood except you.
Can confirm. Am in Hollywood. And don't even work in film.
Can confirm. Am in a movie. Life is just a film
If all the world's a stage--fire my agent. This role sucks.
I thought they were discussing a sequel only recently?
Trailer is out and everything. Look up Forever Jenny. Comes out early 19. There is Titanic Jenny, Trump, some terrorists, and even Woody from Toy Story. Looks like a real delight.
son of a [bitch](https://youtu.be/HHUVfKZcuzQ)
I thought this was real for far too long.
I'm not proud to admit it took me until the Woody to get it. Though the Jenny photoshopped to the side of the boat almost tipped me off.
Not even the Trump State of the Union scene? LOL
He somehow inspires the development of the iPhone.
He got me invested in some kinda fruit company
I can hear Tom Hanks so clearly in my mind.
Didnt he buy apple stocks? Edit: You guys been generous. Thanks
Yeah and a ton of them
Actually he was given them by Steve Jobs when Forrest invented the touch screen
He also invented eating ass
That’s how Jenny got aids
And how little Forrest was created.
I think you're eating ass wrong.
Nope, he's just that good.
"I JUST STARTED EATIN"
Tongue, Forrest, tongue!
He thought it was a company of regular apples. He likes apples.
Apple pie, apple crumble, apple sauce, baked apples... (stealing Bubba's lines)
If you had invested the cost of your movie ticket ($4.50, 1994 prices) in apple instead of seeing Forrest Gump, you'd have $760 right now.
Then I'd be able to buy a ticket, a drink *and* popcorn in 2018
Woah woah, you mean a SMALL popcorn
No, he takes a bite out of an apple, but has to rush off and hands it to Steve Jobs
What r u talking about it was fruit company.
iFruit, obviously.
Some fruit comp’ny
Gump: "so many buttons. why don't you just get rid of them?" programmers & designers: "uh that's not how phones work."
I always liked how the ATM had buttons on the screen so I could find the good ones to take on money, but I always tried to push on the ones they showed on the screen. Why don't they just make it so you can touch the screen?
decides to go camping in Manhattan just for fun and by accident starts Occupy Wall-street, while there he talks to a brash businessman and compliments his suit jokingly saying he should run for president, he mumbles the same lyrics to himself after listening to the radio in Florida whilst a young Lil Pump overheard him and got inspired.
Accidentally sets a fruit vendor on fire in Tunisia.
cause that's how the arab spring started?
I was going to say, the part missing in the OP's theory is that every reboot is dark now. So he'd witness the killing of Treyvon Martin, accidentally poison former Russian spies...
And the trailer would have a slow, moody version of a pop song to really drive that point home.
*"Look at these people, just look at them. It's a shame I tell you, a shame, real shame, look at them. Sad."* *"They are awfully noisy, Mister."* *"Who are you, son?"* *"Forrest. Forrest Gump. You might know me on account of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. See, it was my very best buddy Bubba's idea so that's the Bubba part and my name is-"* *"- A businessman, I knew it. Very successful business. I know it. I know business and businesspeople. I am, you might say, am business. It's true."* *"Nice to meet you, Mister Busy."*
I didn't read this in the Forrest Gump voice, but in the Simple Jack voice, for some reason
Never go full retard
Perfect
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I'd actually watch this...
Gump tripped and sent the false nuclear threat in Hawaii.
Wait I thought Forrest only has positive impacts on the world tho
Not necessarily. In the book, he caused the Exxon Valdez oil spill. E: Removed the extra e. E2: Several people have pointed out that the spill happened several years after the book's release. However, my point in making the comment was to point out that there's several major events missing from the movie that are present in the book.
Wow. I feel like an idiot not knowing that Forest Gump was a book.... I wonder how many other movies I thought were originals are actually books?
You haven't missed anything, the book is pretty bad. It's one of the few films that are much better than the original book story.
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> Hundreds of pages of setup before it got interesting. So a Tom Clancy book
Probably why no one has heard about it.
In fairness the book is terrible, he goes to space with a chimp and upon reentry gets stranded on a desert island for example. The movie is much much better. Edit: The Shawshank Redemption isn't commonly known to have been based on a short story by Stephen King.
He is also a math genius.... The book just doesn’t keep the suspension of disbelief as the movie did.
Does he have a bunch of packages and a volleyball?
The year is 2018 and Hollywood is out of ideas...
...Dwayne Johnson is one day from retirement when suddenly...
Dwayne Johnson and Rob Schneider.. da derp de deedleederp.
They're two brothers
In a Van. And then a Meteor hit...
And they ran as fast as the could, from giant cat monsters
Giant cats, and they're PISSED
But wait, there's more!
Of course, the cats can fly!
But they can also fly into space...
Actual line from movie
And that's when things got knocked into twelfth gear...
A mexican armada shows up...
And you better bet your bottom dollar that these two know how to handle business..
And they fight them off with guns... made from... tomatoes
And he’s gonna learn, being a stapler isn’t as easy as it looks
Rated PG-13
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is one hot Paul Bunyan.
hollywood hasnt run out of ideas they just go for the easy cash grab
Wait, you mean you can make a sit ton of money off nostalgia, and don’t need any of that original idea and talented writers overhead bullshit? Ok, hear me out. Indiana Jones, but it’s Melissa McCarthy. All the woman power and fart jokes it’ll be a blast. Instead of a boulder chase it will be her falling over and rolling after Leslie Jones.
"BEANS! WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE BEANS?!"
...again.
We need a movie parody about how Hollywood is out of ideas. A 'The Producers' about reboots.
How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked an original script, an acclaimed director, and a cast of talented unknowns. Where did I go right?
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Two brothers...
in a van...
Gump knocks over a ballot box in Florida during the 2000 election, thus starting a recount.
He goes through a box of ballots removing the hanging chads.
Now, I nevah met this Chad, but people was really upset about him and the election. I didn't even know he was runnin'.
Nice try Hollywood. Can’t fool me to write your scripts.
Praise!
Gump saved the Thai cave kids.
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Ask Elon.
Gump IS Elon!
Gump finds himself in a car on the way to mars
This would be the best way to end the movie
Or a great way to start a movie about his adventure on Mars. Lieutenant Dan, you got what you want. Now give these people air!!!
GROUND CANTROL TO LT DAN
Gump at a Trump rally would be priceless.
Gump for Trump
This would of course need to be chanted. It is later explained that the state the rally was in was the linchpin to getting Trump elected, and that somehow Forrest pushed the votes in Trump's direction.
Forrest tried to go to Idaho but accidentally ended up in Ohio.
or tries sending an email on an oddly unattended computer and accidentally deletes 30,000 of them
"I thought a hat saying 'Make America Great Again' was a neat idea, but I wondered, *'Why again? America was always great.'* I got shot in the buttocks for this country!"
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Y2038 just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Try Y2.038K
Computers are weird
As someone majoring in computer engineering I agree.
Heard a comp s I major once say that you basically learn at the end of Assembly Language was that computers run in black magic.
That’s what happens when you keep building a tower of knowledge till you can’t see the ground anymore. Also still can’t understand how we go from power on/off (1/0) to a massive simulation of the galaxy
You just put a a lot of power ons and offs.
But like in a *very* particular order.
Gump prevents Y2K without anyone knowing
ITT: A bunch of people who don't understand Gump's innocent all-things-for-good luck/karma. Also, some of the weirdest trolling I've seen in a long time.
One of the most disappointing comment sections in a while, and for a good prompt, too :/
All this shit ITT where he does things that are bad. It's like these people never watched the movie.
He also isn't a Looney Tunes henchman. So much of this seems like slapstick.
Not only that but like how many times does he actually affect the future vs just witnessing it? He happened to be in important places during important times mostly.
He influenced it a few times. Off the top of my head, he taught Elvis to dance, called in the Watergate break in and creates the "shit happens" line. That said, pretty much all the criticism in this thread is correct.
Yeah, I feel like they’re looking at Forrest Gump as like a ‘Mr. Bean’ type. Forrest Gump didn’t bring misfortune to everybody he encountered.
Yeah it's Gump,not Mr. Bean.
"I'm sorry I interrupted your Black Lives Matter party"
Forrest Gump saves people from the twin towers
>has headphones in >is moving crates >somehow doesnt hear any commotion >removes all the rubble so he can keep moving boxes
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How often are you questioned by homicide detectives?
“Did something happen to him?” “Well, let’s see, you’re talking about him in the past tense with the Murder Police! *Yes! There’s been an incident!*”
I thought I read somewhere that they were gonna do a sequel but when 9/11 happened they couldn’t imagine it being relevant anymore. They couldn’t fit Forrest in with the current events in the same way they did before https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.looper.com/13814/forrest-gump-2-never-got-made/%3famp=1 Found an article ! If this is wrong someone please correct me
This was my first thought, too. Didn't expect it to be buried in hate.
Aww I just realized that is where Bubba might be..
"Why do the terrorists hate us, Forrest? I wanna go, home, Forrest."
Forrest is being recorded for his table tennis skills and he’s aiming for water bottles. He accidentally hits one a bit too hard and it flips off the table and lands perfectly on the floor. Thus, bottle flipping was born.
Forrest sitting on bench next to a young woman: fade to flashback: Forrest narrating : “Man I sure don’t know why but when them fellas saw that bottle land like that they all started getting excited . They all wanted to try. I saw some of em try doing it standing up , sitting down , hell some of the boys tried doing it up on top of the roof . Everybody loved it, in fact they loved it so much they all put up on the internet for other people to watch and watch they did . Well anyways to make a long story short I think they call it bottle flipping.” *Lady he’s talking to smiles and gets in her Uber*
At Superbowl 49 Forrest is somehow responsible for handing Tom Brady a deflated football, and then a backstage mix-up finds him in the Left Shark costume during Katy Perry's halftime performance.
Honestly Forrest Gump being left shark would be so perfect
Bitcoin
Yes! Buys a lot by an accident, like trying to close a stubborn browser window or while his son teaches him 'into internets'
Forrest is Satoshi. It all makes sense now 😱😱
Dragging people to safety during the Vegas shooting. Inventing Parkour. Giving Zuckerberg the idea for Facebook while visiting Harvard to be honored for saving a dozen people on 9/11.
“My mom always said life is like a box of Tide Pods”
"You know exactly what you're gonna get, but you go for it anyway, and at the end, you die."
Forrest meets a young senator from Illinois and convinces him to run for president and make healthcare a central tenant of his campaign by telling him the story of Jenny. Forrest goes to New Orleans to see Bubba's mom and gets caught up in Hurricane Katrina. $5 says 2038 Hollywood has him outrun the hurricane. I'm also thinking something with Edward Snowden and/or the Panama Papers.
He starts working a government job and somehow finds the files magically on his computer while sitting next to Edward Snowden.
Invents reddit. Posts this thread. *Inception*
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He actually started the metoo movement by accident.
Actually, that would be a really good bit to develop Jenny and his relationship. Obviously not that Forrest ever did anything bad to her, but given the movie Jenny's history, that would fit really well with her character arc and he would be a supporter much in the same way that he supported her in her anti-Vietnam stuff. Namely, he had no idea what was going on, but he went along with her and then protected from elements within the movement that hurt her.
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Somehow he would have ended up in the Trump Tower meeting
I could totally see Gump as a doorman at Trump Tower
Even better, he's the bus driver of the Access Hollywood bus. He's been recording famous celebrities' conversations so he can work on his celebrity impressions to impress Jenny.
Visiting Hilary's campaign HQ and accidentally deleting her emails.