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re: Ending to Forrest Gump

Posted on 4/4/11 at 4:08 pm to
Posted by Dave Worth
Metairie
Member since Dec 2003
1922 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 4:08 pm to
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looks like Jenny did give him AIDS after all


very nice!

I also don't know about transferring HIV to the fetus, but it's far from a definite that Forrest Sr would have contracted it.

She could have also gotten clean for the pregnancy and relapsed...or just hooked up with an old boyfriend who had it years down the road.

How long does it take (or did it take) for HIV to show up? I would think it's a bit quicker than 4 or 5 years...the age I think little Forrest was when we found out about him and Jenny being sick.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
61977 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 5:06 pm to
quote:

Later on, Forrest becomes an astronaut and crashes on a desert island.

and he becomes friends with a volleyball. pretty sure i've seen this.

is this when he has sex with a mermaid?
Posted by Xenophon
Aspen
Member since Feb 2006
42734 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 5:25 pm to


the last 5 or so post of this thread deserve classic board status..
This post was edited on 4/4/11 at 5:26 pm
Posted by MasonTiger
Mason, Ohio
Member since Jan 2005
18789 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 7:08 pm to
quote:

Later on, Forrest becomes an astronaut and crashes on a desert island.

and he becomes friends with a volleyball. pretty sure i've seen this.
quote:

is this when he has sex with a mermaid?
I think he had sex with the mermaid after he moved out of that airport.
This post was edited on 4/4/11 at 7:10 pm
Posted by Trojandawg
Carrollton
Member since Dec 2008
1787 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 7:45 pm to
Did he take on a volcano at some point as well?
Posted by medtiger
Member since Sep 2003
21990 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 8:41 pm to
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Well, seeing as how AIDS is not a virus, I assume it was HIV. I'm pretty HIV positive that's what she had.


Not sure if serious.
Posted by indytiger
Krotz Springs
Member since Oct 2004
10248 posts
Posted on 4/4/11 at 9:49 pm to
My favorite part is when FG beats the shite outa that hippie frick for slapping jenny.
Posted by zmonsoon
"The LP"
Member since Nov 2007
907 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 3:11 pm to
Later, with the HIV starting to really go to his head, he & Peter Scolari dressed as chicks to get accepted into an affordable apartment complex, and as an added bonus, try to nail Donna Dixon
Posted by GamecockAlum
SC
Member since Dec 2010
7705 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 3:17 pm to
I heard he liked to roam around Europe with Jesus's offspring. But that's after he discovered an a-hole in the Catholic church.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
156462 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 3:19 pm to
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Not sure if serious.

That AIDS is not a virus? Because HIV is the virus...AIDS is a disease.
Posted by cleeveclever
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
2046 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 3:59 pm to
I think the movie is supposed to signify that we're all a little "disabled". Jenny was running from her demons and her past abuses and it led her into drug addiction and eventually a deadly disease. Forrest who was mentally disabled and not expected to amount to much, had amazing encounters and saw the world as a war hero, ping pong champion and successful business man. All the while, all he ever wanted was for Jenny to love him back.
He lived the fuller, more enriching life, but he wouldn't have had any of that, possibly, if it wasn't for Jenny pushing him away all those years and into those experiences.
Posted by WreckinRams05
Houston, Texas
Member since Dec 2005
6394 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 4:32 pm to
don't forget he learned to play a giant piano with his feet and adopted a dog that tore his house up
Posted by GamecockAlum
SC
Member since Dec 2010
7705 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 8:16 pm to
I heard he was also a man from the wild west that befriended a space man.
Posted by drockw1
Member since Jun 2006
9325 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 8:38 pm to
His intellectual inefficiencies also translate to the real estate market...

Apparently, he bought a house that he kept having to sink funds into...

Hopefully it wasn't the money he got from investing in the "fruit company"...
Posted by Zap Rowsdower
MissLou, La
Member since Sep 2010
16152 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 10:10 pm to
If I remember correctly he was the coach of an all women's baseball team... but then he got hit in the head with a foul ball and stayed in coma for about a year dreaming he was a toy cowboy
Posted by Dev
the 361
Member since Dec 2010
4154 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 10:43 pm to
Definitely one of my favorite movies ever

Last summer when we went on a family trip to Universal, we ate at the Bubba Gump restaurant there one night. Our waiter kept trying to stump us with FG trivia but we were getting them all right I forgot the one he finally got us with, though...I think it was the names of both the hookers and we could only remember one.
Posted by Sal Minella
Member since Nov 2006
1951 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 10:52 pm to
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If I remember correctly he was the coach of an all women's baseball team... but then he got hit in the head with a foul ball and stayed in coma for about a year dreaming he was a toy cowboy


When he woke up he was a Corrections Officer on Death Row near a mountain (WTF?) in Louisiana but later became a Texas Congressmen giving Stinger missles to the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
Posted by DieselTiger1
9 Dragon
Member since Oct 2008
13672 posts
Posted on 4/5/11 at 11:02 pm to
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he part where he talks to Jenny's grave and then puts F,Jr's note down gets me.


"he's so smart jenny"
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89598 posts
Posted on 4/6/11 at 12:03 am to
touche i
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
63357 posts
Posted on 4/6/11 at 7:55 am to
Could Jenny have gotten AIDS from this guy?



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