Movie Name: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Year: 2003
In 1981, Forrest Gump, a man with below-average intelligence, watches a feather fall from the sky at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia.
As he sits down on a bench, he removes a copy of The Adventures of Curious George from his suitcase and places the feather inside the pages.
He introduces himself and begins telling his life story to strangers who sit next to him on the bench, recounting his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama.
As a child in the 1950s, Forrest had to wear leg braces for which other children make fun of him.
He lives with his single mother in a very large house outside of town, which they rent rooms to travelers.
His father apparently left and he never knew him.
Despite his limited mental capacity, Mrs. Gump tells her son that "stupid is as stupid does" and also assures him that he is no different from any of the other children.
After graduating, Forrest enlists in the United States Army, where he befriends former shrimp fisherman Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue, and they agree to go into the shrimping business together once they end their service.
Jenny meanwhile had gotten herself thrown out of college after she exposes herself on the cover of Playboy Magazine and "fulfills" her aspirations of becoming a famous folk singer by performing nude at a strip club.
Forrest goes to one of her shows after seeing the cover and intervenes when she is harassed by club patrons.
Forrest discovers an aptitude for ping pong and begins playing for the U.S. Army team, eventually competing against Chinese teams on a goodwill tour. After his return from China, he appears on the The Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon, which after describing his experience in China as best as he can, inspires Lennon to write the song "Imagine". He then encounters Lieutenant Dan, now a wheelchair-bound embittered drunk living on welfare. Dan is scornful of Forrest's plans to enter the shrimping business and mockingly promises to be Forrest's first mate if he ever succeeds. Forrest and Lieutenant Dan spend New Years together. He visits the White House again and meets President Richard Nixon, who provides him a room at the Watergate hotel, where Forrest inadvertently helps expose the Watergate scandal. Forrest is discharged from the military as a sergeant and uses money from a ping pong endorsement to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his wartime promise to Bubba. Lieutenant Dan keeps his own promise and joins Forrest as first mate. They initially have little luck, but after Hurricane Carmen wrecks every other shrimping boat in the region, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company becomes a huge success. Both of them are wealthy. Forrest returns home to care for his mother when she becomes terminally ill and passes away. He leaves the company in the hands of Dan, who invests the proceeds of the company in shares of the recently founded Apple Computers, which Forrest assumes is "some kind of fruit company", making them both more wealthy. He gives most of his money to various causes and continues to live in the house where he grew up.
This brings Forrest to the bus stop where he began telling his story at the start of the film.
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Question: Why does Forrest undertake a three-year marathon?
Answer 1: He wants to find Jenny Answer 2: Upset that Jenny left he decides to go for a run one morning and just keeps running Answer 3: He wants to get back in shape Answer 4: He wants to raise awareness for cancer Answer 5: He wants to travel the country but doesn't want to drive Predicted answer: Question: What is Jenny's father like? Answer 1: He is an apathetic and uncaring man Answer 2: He is an abusive drug addict Answer 3: He is a sweet and caring man Answer 4: Her father isn't around Answer 5: He is an abusive alcoholic Predicted answer: Question: When does Forrest discover that he can run really fast for the first time? Answer 1: While running on a football field Answer 2: While running in a race Answer 3: While running home from school Answer 4: While running away from a swarm of bees Answer 5: While running away from bullies Predicted answer: |