The Speech A Significant Scene
‘Forrest Gump’ was the movie full of significant scenes. One of those was the famous speech Forrest Gump gave in front of an anti-war audience in a rally in Washington, D.C. Of course, we didn’t hear his speech because the microphone plug was pulled out, but the speech actually did happen, and Forrest said these words: “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
A Mishap
Probably the only mistake in the movie occured in a timeline in the running scene. Forrest Gump said that he was running for three years and two months. But he actually started running the day President Carter collapsed from heat in October 1, 1979, and ran until he got Jenny’s letter the day President Regan’s assassination attempt was all over the news. Between the first and the second event, only a year and a half had passed.
