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Forrest Gump
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Forrest Gump is a 1994 comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was a huge commercial success, earning US$677 million worldwide during its theatrical run making it the top grossing film in North America released that year. The film garnered a total of thirteen Academy Award nominations, of which it won six, including Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks).
The film tells the story of a man and his epic journey through life meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture and experiencing first-hand historic events of the late 20th century while being largely unaware of their significance, due to his borderline intellectual disability. The film differs substantially from the book on which it was based.
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Forrest Gump 01
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Forrest:
Hello. My name’s Forrest. Forrest Gump. Do you want a chocolate? I could eat about a million and a half of these. My mama always said “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” Those must be comfortable shoes. I bet* you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.
Woman: My feet hurt.
Forrest:
Mama always said “There’s an awful lot* you can tell about a person by their shoes. “Where they’re going. Where they’ve been.” I’ve worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they would take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes.
Doctor:
Alright, Forrest. Open your eyes now. Let’s take a little walk around. How do those feel? His legs are strong, Mrs. Gump, as strong as I’ve ever seen. But his back is as crooked* as a politician. But we’re going to straighten him right up now, aren’t we, Forrest?
Mrs.Gump: Forrest!
Forrest:
Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after* the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we was related to him in some way and what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan*. They’d all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks* or something. They’d even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around. Anyway, that’s how I got my name,
Forrest Gump. Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don’t make no sense.
Mrs.Gump:
What are y’all starin’ at? Haven’t you ever seen a little boy with braces on his legs before? Don’t ever let anybody tell you that they’re better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he’d have given us all braces on our legs.
Forrest:
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. We lived about a quarter mile off Route 17, about a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama. That’s in the country of Greenbow. Our house had been in mama’s family since her grandpa’s grandpa’s grandpa had come across the ocean about a thousand years ago, something like that. Since it was just me and mama and we had all these empty rooms, mama decided to let those rooms out*, mostly to people passin’ through like, oh, from Mobile, Montgomery, places like that. That’s how me and mama got money. Mama was a real smart Lady.
Mrs.Gump:
Remember what I told you Forrest. You’re no different than anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You are the same as everybody else. You are no different .
Mr.Hillcock:
Your boy’s different, Mrs.Gump. His I.Q*. is 75. Mrs.Gump: Well, we’re all different, Mr.Hillcock.
Forrest:
She wanted me to have the finest education so she took me to the Greenbow County Central School. I met the principal and all.
Mr.Hillcock:
I want to show you something, Mrs.Gump. Now this is normal. Forrest is right here. The state requires a minimum I.Q. of 80 to attend public school, Mrs.Gump. He’s going to have to go to a special school. He’ll be just fine.
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* I bet: 日常用語，我肯定，我敢說
* an awful lot:相當多的
* crooked: 彎曲的，不誠實的
* name after: 以……來命名
* Ku Klux Klan: 三K黨
* spook: 幽靈
* lent out/rent out: 出租（房屋）等
* I.Q.: 智商
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Forrest Gump 02
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Mrs.Gump:
What does normal mean, anyway? He might be a bit on the slow side. But my boy, Forrest, is going to get the same opportunities as everyone else. He’s not going to some special school to learn how to retread* tires. We’re talking about five little points here. There must be something can be done.
Mr.Hillcock:
We’re a progressive school system. We don’t want to see anybody left behind. Is there a ...Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump?
Mrs.Gump: He’s on vacation.
Mr.Hillcock: Eee,Eee,Eee… Your mama sure does care about your schooling, son. You don’t say much, do you?
Gump: Eee,Eee,Eee…
Mrs.Gump: (reading to Forrest) Finally, he had to try. It looked easy but... oh, what happened?
Gump: Mama, what’s “vacation” mean?
Mrs.Gump: Vacation?
Gump: Where daddy went?
Mrs.Gump: Vacation is when you go somewhere and you don’t ever come back.
Forrest:
Anyway, I guess you could say me and mama was on our own. But we didn’t mind. Our house was never empty. There was always folks coming and going. Sometimes we had so many people staying with us that every room was filled with travelers. You know, folks livin’ out of their suitcases and hat cases, and sample cases. One time a young man was staying with us and he had him a guitar case.
(Forrest Dances as the traveler sings “Hound Dog”)
Mrs.Gump: Forrest, I told you not to bother this nice young man.
Elvis Presley: No, that’s alright Ma’am. I was just showing him a thing or two on the guitar here.
Mrs.Gump: Alright. Supper’s ready if y’all want to eat.
Elvis: Yeah, that sounds good. Thank you, Ma’am. Say, man, show me that crazy little walk you just did there. Slow it down some. “You ain’t* nothing but a hound dog...”
Forrest:
I liked that guitar. It sounded good. I started moving around to the music, swingin’ my hips. This night, me and mama was out shoppin’ and we walked right by Pitsey’s Furniture and Appliance store. Guess what.?.. (Elvis was on TV Dancing the way that Forrest taught him)
Mrs.Gump: This is not for children’s eyes.
Forrest:
Some years later, that handsome young man who they called “The King”, well, he sang too many songs, had himself a heart attack or something. Must be hard being the king... You know it’s funny how you remember some things. But some things you can’t.
Mrs.Gump: You do your very best now, Forrest.
Gump: I sure will, mama.
Forrest: I remember the bus ride on the first day of school very well.
Dorothy: Are you coming along?
Gump: Mama said not to be taken rides from strangers.
Dorothy: This is the bus to school.
Gump: I’m Forrest, Forrest Gump.
Dorothy: I’m Dorothy Harris.
Gump: Well, now we ain’t strangers anymore. Kid: This seat’s taken.
Other Kids: Taken. Different Kid: You can’t sit here.
Forrest:
You know it’s funny what a young man recollects*. ‘Cause I don’t remember being born. I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas. I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.
Little Jenny: You can sit here if you want.
Forrest: I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.
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* retread: 更換輪胎，給（舊輪胎）裝新胎麵
* ain’t: 僅用於口語，表示係動詞和助動詞的否定
* recollect: 回憶
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Forrest Gump 03
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Little Jenny: Well, are you going to sit down or aren’t you? What’s wrong with your legs?
Gump: Nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and Dandy*.
Forrest: I just sat next to her on that bus and had a conversation all the way to school.
Gump: The doctor says my back’s crooked like a question mark. These are going to make me as straight as an arrow.
Forrest: Next to* mama, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions.
Little Jenny: Are you stupid or something?
Gump: Mama says “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Little Jenny: I’m Jenny. Gump: I’m Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Forrest: From that day on, we were always together. Jenny and me were like peas and carrots*. She taught me how to climb. I showed her how to Dangle. She helped me learn how to read, and I showed her how to swing. Sometimes we’d just sit out and wait for the stars.
Gump: Mama’s going to worry about me.
Little Jenny: Just stay a little longer.
Forrest: For some reason, Jenny didn’t ever want to go home.
Gump: OK, Jenny. I’ll stay.
Forrest: She was my most special friend... My only friend. Now, my mama always told me that miracles happen everyday. Some people don’t think so.But they do.
Bully1: Hey, dummy*! Are you dumb, or just plain stupid?
Bully2: Look, I’m Forrest Gump.
Little Jenny: Just run away, Forrest. Run, Forrest. Run away.Hurry!
Bully2: Get the bikes. Hurry up.
Bully1: Look out, dummy, here we come. Gonna get you!
Little Jenny: Run, Forrest. Run, Forrest.
Bully1: Come back here, you!
Little Jenny: Run, Forrest, Run!
Forrest:
Now, You wouldn’t believe it if I told you. But I can run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running! Man in store: That boy sure is a run fool.
Forrest: Now, remember how I told you that Jenny never seemed to want to go home? Well, she lived in a house that was as old as Alabama. Her mama had gone up to heaven when she was five and her daddy was some kind of a farmer.
Gump: (knock on the door) Jenny?
Forrest: He was a very loving man. He was always kissin’ and touchin’ her and her sisters. And then this one time, Jenny wasn’t on the bus to go to school.
Gump: Jenny, why didn’t you come to school today?
Little Jenny: Shh! Daddy’s taking a nap.
Father: Jenny!
Little Jenny: C’mon!
Father: Jenny! Where’d you run to? You’d better get back here, girl. Jenny? Where you at?
Little Jenny: Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me. Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far far away from here. Dear God, make me a bird...So I can fly far…
Forrest:
Mama always said that God is mysterious. He didn’t turn Jenny into a bird that day. Instead, he had the police say that Jenny didn’t have to stay in that house no more. She went to live with her grandma, just over on Greekmore Ave., which made me happy ‘cause she was so close. Some nights, Jenny would sneak out* and come on over to my house, just’ cause she said she was scared. Scared of what? I don’t know.But I think it was her grandma’s dog. He was a mean* dog. Anyway, Jenny and me was best friends all the way up through high school.
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* fine and dandy: 非常好
* next to 除…之外
* peas and carrots: 親密無間
* dummy: 傻瓜，蠢貨，笨蛋
* sneak out: 躡手躡腳地出來，溜出來
* mean: bad-tempered, liking to bite 惡意的，脾氣暴躁的，凶殘的
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Forrest Gump 04
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Bully1: Hey! Stupid.
Jenny: Quit it! Run, Forrest! Run!
Bully1: Hey !Did you hear me, stupid?
Bully2: Get in the truck. Move it. C’mon, he’s getting away.
Jenny: Run, Forrest! Run!
Forrest: Now, it used to be, I ran to get where I was going. I never thought it would take me anywhere.
Football Coach: Who in the hell is that?
Assistant Coach: That there is Forrest Gump, Coach. Just the local idiot.
Forrest: Can you believe it? I got to go to college too.
Football Player: Run! Move it!
Forrest: OK!
Coach: He must be the stupidest son-of-a-bitch* alive, but he sure is fast.
Forrest: Now, maybe it’s just me.But college was a very confusing times.
News man:
Federal troops enforcing a court order integrated* the University of Alabama today. Two negroes were admitted but only after governor George Wallace had carried out his symbolic threat to stand in the schoolhouse door.
Gump: Eart! What’s going on?
Student:: Coons* are trying to get into school.
Gump:
Coons? When raccoons* try to get on our back porch, mama just chases’em off with a broom.
Student:: Not raccoons, you idiot, niggers. And they want to go to school with us.
Gump: With us? They do?
News man:
Shortly after governor Wallace had carried out his promise to block the door way, President Kennedy ordered the Secretary of Defense then to use military force. Here, by video tape is the encounter by General Gram, Commander of the National Guard and governor Wallace... And so it is that the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa had been desegregated* and Student:s Jimmy Hood and Vivian Malone had been signed up for summer classes.
Gump: Ma’am, you dropped your book, Ma’am.
News man: Governor Wallace did what he promised to do by being on the Toscaloosa campus...
Coach 1: Hey, wasn’t that Gump?
Coach 2: No, that couldn’t be.
Coach 3: Sure as hell was.
Forrest:
A few years later, that angry little man at the schoolhouse door thought it’d be a good idea and ran for President. But somebody thought that it wasn’t. But he didn’t die.
Lady: My bus is here.
Gump: Is that the No.9?
Lady: No, it’s the No.4.
Forrest: It was nice talking to you.
Mother: I remember when that happened, when Wallace got shot. I was in college.
Forrest: Did you go to a girls’ college or a girls’ and boys’ together college?
Mother: It was co-ed*.
Forrest: cause Jenny went to a college I couldn’t go to. It was a college just for girls.
But, I’d go and visit her every chance I got.
Jenny: Oh! That hurts.
Jenny: Forrest! Forrest! Stop it! What are you doing?!
Forrest: He’s hurting you . Boy friend: What the hell is going on here? Who is that?
Jenny: Billy, I’m sorry.
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* son of a bitch: 狗崽子（粗口）
* integrate: 取消（種族）隔離，使社區融合（尤指種族間）
* coon: 同raccoon，多見於美式口語中，（諱，俚，貶）黑鬼
* raccoon: 浣熊
* desegregate: 廢除（種族隔離）
* co-ed: co-educational，男女同校
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Forrest Gump 05
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Billy: Just keep away from me.
Jenny: Don’t go. Billy, wait a second. He doesn’t know any better. Forrest! Why’d you do
that?
Forrest: I brought you some chocolate. I’m sorry. I’ll go back to my college now.
Jenny: Forrest, look at you. Come on… Do you ever dream, Forrest, of who you’re going to be?
Forrest: Who I’m going to be?
Jenny: Yeah. Forrest: Ain’t I going to be me?
Jenny:
You’ll always be you, just another kind of you. I want to be famous. I want to be a singer
like Joan Baez. I just want to be on an empty stage with my guitar and my voice. Just me.
And I want to reach people on a personal level. I want to be able to say things, just one to
one... Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest: I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time... Oh, I’m sorry.
Jenny: It’s OK. It’s all right. It’s OK.
Forrest: Oh, I’m dizzy.
Jenny: I bet that never happened in Home Ec*.
Forrest: No. I think I ruined your roommate’s bathrobe.
Jenny: I don’t care. I don’t like her anyway.
Forrest: College ran by real fast ‘cause I played so much football. They even put me on a
thing called the All-American Team, where you get to meet the President of the United
States.
News man: President Kennedy met with the collegiate All-American Football Team at the oval
office today.
Forrest: Now the really good thing about meeting the President of the United States is the
food. They put you in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink.
But since, number one, I wasn’t hungry but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must
have drank me about fifteen Doctor Peppers*.
Kennedy: Congratulations. How does it feel to be in All-American?
Athlete1: It’s an honor, sir.
Kennedy: Congratulations. How does it feel to be an All-American?
Athlete2: Very good, sir.
Kennedy: Congratulations. How do you feel?
Forrest: I gotta pee*.
Kennedy: I believe he said he had to go pee.
Forrest:
Some time later, for no particular reason, somebody shot that nice young President when he
was riding in his car. And a few years after that, somebody shot his little brother, too.
Only he was in a hotel kitchen. Must be hard being brothers. I wouldn’t know.
MC*: Forrest Gump.
Forrest: Now can you believe it? After only five years of playing football, I got a college
degree.
MC: Congratulations, son.
Forrest: Mama was so proud.
Mrs.Gump: Forrest, I’m so proud of you. Here I’ll hold this for you.
Recruiting officer: Congratulations, son. Have you given any thought to your future?
Forrest: Thought?
PARTTWO,MILITARY SERVICE(I):FORREST IN VIETNAM
(Later, on the bus to basic training)
Forrest: Hello, I’m Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Bus Driver: Nobody gives a horse’s shit who you are, puss ball. You’re not even a lowlife,
scum-sucking maggot*. Get your maggoty ass on the bus. you’re in the army now.
Soldier1: Seat’s taken.
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* Home Ec: 家政學
* Doctor Peppers: 一種汽水的商標
* pee: 小便
* MC: master of ceremony 司儀
* maggot: 蛆
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Forrest Gump 06
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Soldier2: Taken.
Forrest: At first, it seemed like I’d made a mistake. Seeing how it was only my induction day and I was already gettin’ yelled at.
Bubba: Sit down if you want to.
Forrest: I didn’t know who I might meet or what they might ask.
Bubba: You ever been on a real shrimp boat?
Forrest: No. But I’ve been on a real big boat.
Bubba:
I’m talking about a shrimp catching boat. I’ve been working on shrimp boats all my life. I started out on my uncle’s boat, that’s my mama’s brother, when I was about maybe nine. I was just lookin’ into buying a boat of my own and got drafted*. My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me Bubba. Just like one of them old redneck boys. Can you believe that?
Forrest: My name’s Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
Forrest: So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama and his mama cooked shrimp, and her mama before her cooked shrimp, and her mama before her mama cooked shrimp too. Bubba’s family knew everything there was to know about the shrumpin business.
Bubba: I know everything there is to know about the shrimpin’ business. (As a) matter of fact I’m going into the shrimpin’ business for myself, after I get out of the army.
Forrest: OK.
(In training)
Drill Seargent: Gump! What’s your sole purpose in this army?
Forrest: To do whatever you tell me, Drill Surgent!
Drill Sergent: Goddamn it! Gump. You’re a goddamn genius. That is the most outstanding answer I’ve ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump. Listen up, people...
Forrest:
Now for some reason, I fit in the army like one of them round pegs. It’s not really hard.
You just make your bed real neat* and remember to stand up straight. And always, answer every question with “Yes, Drill Sergeant.”
Drill Sergeant: Is that clear?
All Soldiers: Yes, Drill Sergeant! Bubba: What you do is drag your nets along the bottom. On a good day, you can catch over a hundred pounds of shrimp. Everything goes all right, two men shrimpin’ ten hour...less what you spend on gas . Forrest: Done! Drill Sergeant.
Drill Sergeant: Gump! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?
Forrest: You told me to, Drill Sergeant.
Drill Sergeant:
Jesus H. Christ! This is a new company record. If it wouldn’t be a waste of such a damn fine enlisted man, I would recommend you for OCS*, Private* Gump. You are going to be a general, someday, Gump. Now, disassemble your weapon and continue.
Bubba:
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it, shrimp kakabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried, there’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp in potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... that’s about it.
Forrest:
Nighttime in the army is a lonely time. We’d lay there in our bunks*, and I’d miss my mama and I’d miss Jenny.
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* got drafted: 被征兵
* neat: 幹淨的，整潔的
* OCS: Officer Candidate School 美國的軍官預備學校
* private: 列兵，美國士兵中的最低軍銜
* bunk: 上下鋪
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Forrest Gump 07
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(In Vietnam)
Song: Some guys were born to wave to the flag
Ooh, they’re red, white, and blue.
And when the band plays “Hail To The Chiep”
Ooh, they’ll point the cannon at you
It ain’t me.It ain’t me
I ain’t no senaton’s son
Forrest: Now they told us that Vietnam was going to be very different from the Untied States of America. Except for all the beer cans and the barbecue*, it was.
Bubba:
I bet there’s shrimp all in these waters. They tell me these Vietnams is good shrimp. After we win this war, and we take over something, we can get American shrimpers to come out and shrimp these waters. Just shrimp all the time, man. So much shrimp...
Dan: You must be my FNGs*.
Gump and Bubba: Morning, Sir! (saluting Dan)
Dan: Get your hands down. Do not salute me. There are goddam snipers* all around this area who would love to grease* an officer. I’m Lieutenant Dan Tayler. Welcome to 4th Platoon.* What’s wrong with your lip?
Bubba: I was born with big gums, sir.
Dan: Yeah, well you better tuck that in*. You’re going to get that caught on a tripwire*. Where are you boys from in the world?
Gump and Bubba: Alabama, sir!
Dan: You twins?
Gump: No, we are not relations, sir.
Dan:
Look, it’s pretty basic here. Stick with me, and you learn from the guys who have been in country for a while. You’ll be all right. There is one item of GI* gear* that can be the difference between a live grunt* and dead grunt, socks. Cushion sole, OD green*. Try and keep your feet dry. When we’re out humpin’ I want you boys to remember to change your socks whenever we stop. The Mekong* will eat a grunt’s feet right off his legs.
Supply officer: Seargent Sams.
Dan: Goddamnit! Where is that sling rope I told you to order?
Supply officer: I put in the requisition at batallion
Dan: Yeah, yeah well you call those sons-of-bitches*.
Gump:
Lieutenant Dan sure knew his stuff. I felt real lucky he was my lieutenant. He was from a long, great, military tradition. Somebody in his family had fought, and died, in every single American war.
Dan: Goddamit, kick some ass!
Gump: I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to.
Dan:
So, you boys from Arkansas, huh? Well, I’ve been through there. Little Rock is a fine town. Now, go shake down your gear. See a platoon Seargent. Draw what you need for the field. If you boys are hungry, we’ve got steaks burning right over here. Two standing orders in this platoon, one: take good care of your feet, two: try not to do anything stupid like getting yourself killed.
Gump: I sure hope I don’t let him down.
Forrest:
I got to see a lot of the countryside. We would take these real long walks and we were always looking for this guy named Charlie It wasn’t always fun. Lieutenant Dan was always getting these funny feelings about a rock or a trail or the road. So he’d tell us to “Get down!” “Shut up!” So we did. Now I don’t know much about anything, but I think some of America’s best young men served in this war. There was Dallas. Form Phoenix. Cleveland, he was from Detroit. And Tex... well, I don’t remember where Tex comes from.
Dan: Ah, it was nothin’. 4th Platoon on your feet. You’ve got 10 klicks* to go ‘til that river. Move out.
Forrest: The good thing about Vietnam is there was always some place to go.
Dan: Fire in the hole! Now, check out that hole.
Forrest:
And there was always something to do. One day, it started raining. And it didn’t quit for four months. We’ve been through every kind of rain there is. A little bit of stinging* rain. And big old fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot*! It even rained at night.
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* barbecue: 燒烤
* FNG:Fucking New Guy （軍俚）新兵
* snipers: 狙擊手
* grease: (軍俚)射擊,擊斃
* Platoon: 排
* tuck in: 收進去，掖進去
* tripwire: 地雷的引線
* GI: general infantry，美國兵，尤指步兵
* gear: 裝備
* grunt: 大兵，尤指越戰時的步兵
* OD green: olive drab green 橄欖綠
* Mekong: 湄公河
* Sons-of-bitches: 亦作SOB，（粗口）狗崽子
* klicks: （俚）公裏
* stinging: 帶刺的
* shoot: 此處同shit
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Forrest Gump 08
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Bubba: Hey, Forrest?
Gump: Hey, Bubba.
Bubba:
I’m going to lean against you. You just lean right back against me. This way, we don’t have to sleep with our heads on the mud. You know why we’re a good partnership, Forrest? ‘Cause we be watchin’ out for one another. Like brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest. There’s somethin’ I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout. I’ve got a very important question to ask you. How would you like to go into the shrimpin’ business with me?
Gump: OK.
Bubba:
Man, I’ll tell you what. I’ve got it all figured out too. So many pounds of shrimp to pay-off the boat. So many pounds for gas. We can just live right on the boat. We ain’t got to pay no rent. I’ll be the captain and we can just work it together. Split everything right down the middle. Man, I’m telling you, 50-50. Now hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.
Gump: That’s a fine idea.
Forrest:
Bubba did have a fine idea. I even wrote Jenny and told her all about it. I sent her letters, not everyday, but almost. I told her what I was doing, and asked her what she was doing. And told her how I thought about her always, and how I was looking forward to getting a letter from her, just as soon as she had the time. I’d always let her know that I was OK. Then I signed each letter “Love, Forrest Gump” .. One day, we was out walking, like always and then, just like that, somebody turned off the rain and the sun come out.
(fighting in the jungle)
Dan: Run, goddammit! Run!
Forrest:
I ran and ran, just like Jenny told me to. I ran so far so fast, that pretty soon, I was all by myself, which was a bad thing. Bubba was my best good friend, I had to make sure that he was OK. And on my way back to find Bubba, well there was this boy lying on the ground. I couldn’t just let him lay there all alone, scared the way he was, so I grabbed him up and run him out of there. And every time I went back looking for Bubba, somebody else was saying “Help me, Forrest. Help me.” I started to get scared that I might never find Bubba.
Dan: I know my position. There’s Danger close. We got Charlie all over this area. I got to have those fast-movers*in there now, over.
Gump: Lieutenant Dan, Coleman is dead.
Dan: I know he’s dead. My whole goddamm platoon is wiped out. Gaddamn it! What are you doing? You leave me here. Get away. Get out. I said leave me here, goddammit!
Radio: This is Strongarm. Your first movers are inbound*at this time, over.
Forrest: Then, it felt like somethin’ just jumped up and bit me.
Dan: I can’t leave the platoon. I told you to leave me there, Gump! Forget about me. Get yourself out. Did you hear what I said? GodDanmit, put me down. Get your ass out of here. I didn’t ask you to pull me out of there, goddamn you. Where the hell do you think you’re going?
Gump: To get Bubba.
Dan: I’ve got an airstrike inbound right now. They’re going to napalm*the whole area. Gump, you stay here, goddammit. That’s’ an order!
Gump: I gotta find Bubba!
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*stinging: 帶刺的
*shoot: 此處同shit
*fast-movers: 轟炸機
*inbound: 進入指定區域
*napalm: 用固體燃燒汽油彈轟炸
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Forrest Gump 09
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Bubba: Hey, Forrest?
Gump: Hey, Bubba.
Bubba:
I’m going to lean against you. You just lean right back against me. This way, we don’t have to sleep with our heads on the mud. You know why we’re a good partnership, Forrest? ‘Cause we be watchin’ out for one another. Like brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest. There’s somethin’ I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout. I’ve got a very important question to ask you. How would you like to go into the shrimpin’ business with me?
Gump: OK.
Bubba:
Man, I’ll tell you what. I’ve got it all figured out too. So many pounds of shrimp to pay-off the boat. So many pounds for gas. We can just live right on the boat. We ain’t got to pay no rent. I’ll be the captain and we can just work it together. Split everything right down the middle. Man, I’m telling you, 50-50. Now hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.
Gump: That’s a fine idea.
Forrest:
Bubba did have a fine idea. I even wrote Jenny and told her all about it. I sent her letters, not everyday, but almost. I told her what I was doing, and asked her what she was doing. And told her how I thought about her always, and how I was looking forward to getting a letter from her, just as soon as she had the time. I’d always let her know that I was OK. Then I signed each letter “Love, Forrest Gump” .. One day, we was out walking, like always and then, just like that, somebody turned off the rain and the sun come out.
(fighting in the jungle)
Dan: Run, goddammit! Run!
Forrest:
I ran and ran, just like Jenny told me to. I ran so far so fast, that pretty soon, I was all by myself, which was a bad thing. Bubba was my best good friend, I had to make sure that he was OK. And on my way back to find Bubba, well there was this boy lying on the ground. I couldn’t just let him lay there all alone, scared the way he was, so I grabbed him up and run him out of there. And every time I went back looking for Bubba, somebody else was saying “Help me, Forrest. Help me.” I started to get scared that I might never find Bubba.
Dan: I know my position. There’s Danger close. We got Charlie all over this area. I got to have those fast-movers*in there now, over.
Gump: Lieutenant Dan, Coleman is dead.
Dan: I know he’s dead. My whole goddamm platoon is wiped out. Gaddamn it! What are you doing? You leave me here. Get away. Get out. I said leave me here, goddammit!
Radio: This is Strongarm. Your first movers are inbound*at this time, over.
Forrest: Then, it felt like somethin’ just jumped up and bit me.
Dan: I can’t leave the platoon. I told you to leave me there, Gump! Forget about me. Get yourself out. Did you hear what I said? GodDanmit, put me down. Get your ass out of here. I didn’t ask you to pull me out of there, goddamn you. Where the hell do you think you’re going?
Gump: To get Bubba.
Dan: I’ve got an airstrike inbound right now. They’re going to napalm*the whole area. Gump, you stay here, goddammit. That’s’ an order!
Gump: I gotta find Bubba!
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*stinging: 帶刺的
*shoot: 此處同shit
*fast-movers: 轟炸機
*inbound: 進入指定區域
*napalm: 用固體燃燒汽油彈轟炸
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Forrest Gump 10
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Bubba: Forrest. OK, Forrest. I’m OK.
Gump: Oh, Bubba. No.
Bubba: I’ll be alright.
Forrest: If I had known this was going to be the last time me and Bubba was going to talk, I’d have thought of something better to say.
Gump: Hey, Bubba.
Bubba: Hey, Forrest. Forrest? Why did this happen?
Gump: You got shot.
Forrest: Then, Bubba said somethin’ I won’t never forget.
Bubba: I want to go home.
Forrest:
Bubba was my best good friend, and even I know that ain’t somethin’ you can find just around the corner. Bubba, was going to be a shrimpin’ boat captain. But instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam. That’s all I have to say about that. Man: It was a bullet, wasn’t it? Forrest: A bullet?
Man: That jumped up and bit ya.
Forrest:
Oh, yes sir. It bit me directly in the buttocks*. They said it was a million dollar wound but the army must keep that money because I still haven’t seen a nickel of that million dollars. The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks is the ice cream. They gave me all the ice cream I could eat. And guess what? A good friend of mine was in the bed, right next door.
Gump: Lieutenant Dan. I got you some ice cream. Lieutenant Dan, Ice cream!
Nurse: It’s time for your bath lieutenant.
Dan: Harper ,Cooper ,Larson. Webster. Gump. Gump.
Gump: I’m Forrest Gump.
Dan: Pile, Nichols Maclviill . Johnson.
(Forrest received all the returned letters that he wrote to Jenny.)
Soldier:
Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? Turn it off .Good. Catch! Gump. You know how to play this? C’mon, let me show you. Now the secret to this game is, no matter what happens, never, ever take your eye off the ball. All right.
Forrest:
For some reason, Ping-pong came very natural to me. So I started playing it all the time. I played Ping-pong even when I didn’t have anyone to play Ping-pong with. The hospital people said, it make me look like a duck in water, whatever that means. Even Lieutenant Dan would come and watch me play. I played Ping-pong so much, I even played it in my sleep.
Dan:
You listen to me. We all have a destiny*. Nothing just happens, it’s all part of a plan. I should have died out there with my men. But now, I’m nothing but a goddamn cripple. A legless freak*. Look. Look at me. Do you know what it’s like not to be able to use your legs?
Gump: Yes, sir. I do.
Dan:
Did you hear what I said? You cheated me. I had a destiny. I was supposed to die in the field, with honor. That was my destiny and you cheated me out of it. Do you understand what I’m saying, Gump. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Not to me. I had a destiny. I was Lieutenant Dan Taylor.
Gump: You still Lieutenant Dan.
Dan: Look at me. What am I going to do now? What am I going to do now?
Officer: PVT* Gump.
Gump: Yes, sir!
Officer: As you were. Son, you’ve been awarded the medal of honor.
Gump: Guess what, Lieutenant Dan. They want to give me.... Ma’am, what did they do with Lieutenant Dan?
Nurse: They sent him home.
Forrest: Two weeks later, I left Vietnam.
PARTTHREE MILITARYSERVICE(II):NATIONAL CELEBRITY
Newsman:
The ceremony was kicked off with a candid* speech by the President, regarding the need for further escalation* of the War in Vietnam. President Johnson awarded for medals of honor* to men from each of the armed services.
Johnson:
America owes you a debt of gratitude*, son. I understand you were wounded. Where were you hit?
Gump: In the buttocks, sir. Johnson: That must be a sight. I’d kinda like to see that. ... Goddamn, son.
Forrest:
After that, mama went to a hotel to lay down, so I went out for a walk to see our nation’s capital. It’s a good thing mama was restin’ ‘ cause the streets were awfully crowded with people looking at all the statues and monuments* and some of them people were loud and pushy. Everywhere I went, I had to stand in line.
President: Hey, you’re a good man for doing this. Do it!
Forrest: There was this man givin’ a little talk, now for some reason, he was wearing an American flag for a shirt. And he liked to say the F word a lot. F this and F that. And every time he said the F word, people for some reason, well, they cheered.
President: Yeah! Yeah! Come on, man. Come up there. Tell us a little bit about the war, man.
Gump: The war in Vietnam?
Proteser: The war in Viet-Fuckin’-Nam! (The crowd cheers)
Forrest: There was only one thing I could say about the war in Vietnam.
Gump: Well, there’s only one thing I can say about the war in Vietnam. In Vietnam ...
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* candid: 公正的，坦白的，率直的
* escalation: （戰爭）升級
* medals of honor: 榮譽勳章
* gratitude: 感謝
* monument: 紀念碑
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《阿甘正傳》（Forrest Gump），是一部根據同名小說改編的美國電影，榮獲1994年度奧斯卡最佳影片獎、奧斯卡最佳男主角獎、奧斯卡最佳導演獎等6項大獎。
故事情節
阿甘出生在美國南方阿拉巴馬州一個小城市，和他的母親相依為命。他從小就因為背部彎曲的問題而需要將矯形支架安裝在腿部。阿甘的智商隻有75，按入學標準隻能上為弱智兒童設立的特殊學校，這些都使阿甘和同齡人顯得那麽的不同。所幸阿甘有一個愛他的母親，她知道阿甘有種種缺陷，但對阿甘抱著殷切的期望，希望他接受正常的教育，過和其它人一樣的生活。阿甘有非凡的運動天賦，在他的成長過程中逐漸顯露出來，並使他能夠上大學，能夠在越戰中立功，能夠參加國家乒乓球球隊，能夠攢下一筆存款讓他開始捕蝦生意去實現他對死去戰友的諾言。阿甘智商雖低，但他單純善良、信念堅定，做到了很多正常人想不到、做不到的事，在運動、戰場、商場都取得了非凡的成就。阿甘的人生曆程中穿插著美國戰後的一些重大事件，如貓王、披頭士樂隊、種族問題、越戰與反戰、水門事件、乒乓外交、愛滋病(AIDS)等等。阿甘的故事像一麵多棱鏡一樣折射出生活的各個方麵，引發觀眾對自己生活的思考。
與原著小說的不同
基於小說阿甘正傳的電影，都是圍繞主角阿甘而展開的故事，但電影更側重於小說的開始11章，改變了成立阿布·阿甘養蝦公司、最後成為流浪街頭的大富翁的結局。更沒有提到中間阿甘當太空人，落到食人部落中生活，跟猩猩成為好友，成為國際象棋以及摔跤明星的過程。而阿甘的女友珍也沒有因絕症(AIDS)而死去，而是在懷孕後當上了護士，在阿甘流浪街頭的時候還見到了他智商超群的兒子小阿甘。阿甘在中國的經曆也被大大簡化，完全沒有幽默的劇情。
然而電影卻增加了一些劇情，例如給他的腿裝了支架以及後來跑遍全美國的事情。
阿甘的核心特征和性格也在電影中被改變，小說中阿甘總不能如己所願卻有出人意料的福氣，而且大智若愚才華橫溢，視財富為糞土，崇尚自由主義；而電影中的阿甘更顯得有堅持不懈精神，終獲成功，甚至頗有組織能力。有報道稱原作者溫斯頓.葛魯姆(Winston Groom)曾為此改變而表示厭煩。
批評
雖然此片人氣非常高，但並不是人見人愛，尤其是美國之外的地區對其有各種批評。在一些認為美國人天真、無知、幼稚的地區（比如歐洲），很多人覺得這部電影過分讚揚“無知便是福”的人生觀，將殘酷的真實生活解決得過於簡單。很多影評人也指岀，阿甘雖然堅強、單純，但他從來沒有自己主動選擇過人生道路，不曾自己獨立思索，從小就是別人告訴他應該如何生活、工作、打仗；相反，在小說原著裏的思想獨立、敢於抗爭、奮力爭取自由的珍妮卻被寫得失魂落魄最後去世。
其他
這部電影有一句名言，至今仍為人津津樂道，這是由阿甘的母親所說的:“人生有如一盒巧克力，你永遠不知道你將嚐到哪種味道。”
除了有趣的故事情節外，本片應用了初步成熟的電腦合成特效也在當時成為話題，電影的特效製作小組維妙維肖的將阿甘的影像合成到約翰·肯尼迪、林登·約翰遜、理查德·尼克森與約翰·列儂的記錄片中，幾可亂真的特效既獲得了一致讚賞，也預告了好萊塢電腦特效時代的來臨。