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Posted by: crazyfoomandude

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Forrest Jr. was conceived when they had sax that one time in the house right after Forrest told what's-her-face "I know what love is".

no, she didn't get pregnant from that one time

sorry


Yes she did, idiot. -_-

Where's your proof?
Where's your proof that Forrest got her pregnant?

  • 01.06.2013 10:19 AM PDT
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Where's your proof. Obv my take on what happened is just a theory, as is the one of Forrest Jr. actually being his son. brb while I dive into the Forrest Gump universe and make sure Jenny actually got pregnant from Forrest /sarcasm

and chill with the insults, dude

  • 01.06.2013 10:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Needler Rifle
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Posted by: Needler Rifle
Right after Jenny tricks Forrest into thinking Forrest Jr. is his son, what TV show is Forrest Jr. watching in his playroom?

Why would Jenny trick Forest? I don't remember that in the film.

she's a deceitful -blam!- who had no other way to raise her son so she pawned him on forrest


Isn't he actually his son? I thought he was...

  • 01.06.2013 10:20 AM PDT
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You know, I was doing some thinking the other day, about Quantum Mechanics. And if I remember correctly, there's a law or something somewhere that states there is an extremely tiny chance that something ridiculous can happen in the universe, but the odds are waaaaaay out there.

So then I got to thinking, what if, one day, life wasn't a box of chocolates, but a box of dicks?

  • 01.06.2013 10:21 AM PDT

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  • 01.06.2013 10:21 AM PDT

man i get an erection just lookin at my girl lol and i dnt hide it i mean she realy doesnt mind she actually likes it lol also it shoes you dont have ED problems (i think)

Truer words were never spoken

I really wanna know how Forrest doesn't have AIDS...

  • 01.06.2013 10:22 AM PDT

BE HUMAN

Fight for Earth. Fight for Humanity.

He IS Forrest's son...

-_-

Seriously, what 'proof' so you have besides 'she's a deceitful -blam!-.'

That's not at all proof, that's your misinterpretation.

  • 01.06.2013 10:22 AM PDT


Posted by: Rahm Emanuel
I really wanna know how Forrest doesn't have AIDS...
She didn't have AIDS.

  • 01.06.2013 10:22 AM PDT

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Posted by: Rahm Emanuel
I really wanna know how Forrest doesn't have AIDS...


That's easy, Jenny caught it after giving birth to Forrest Jr.

  • 01.06.2013 10:22 AM PDT
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Right after Jenny tricks Forrest into thinking Forrest Jr. is his son
My life is a lie.

  • 01.06.2013 10:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: crazyfoomandude
He IS Forrest's son...

-_-

Seriously, what 'proof' so you have besides 'she's a deceitful -blam!-.'

That's not at all proof, that's your misinterpretation.

I'll make the best case I can that the child is not Forrest's because Jenny was already pregnant when she slept with him -- and she knew it.

She was possibly already sick, noting that Forrest says, "She just sleeps, and sleeps like she hasn't slept for days." As noted, this could be caused by depression, or drug withdrawal, or early signs of AIDS (less likely, given that if she's already experiencing strong symptoms she likely wouldn't live another 6 years).

But I see this as our first and best clue that it's NOT Forrest's baby; she sleeps so much because she's already in the first trimester of pregnancy and is experiencing a typical symptom: constant fatigue.

Consistent with this explanation, the very reason she leaves her old lifestyle is because she's realized she's pregnant and needs to clean up her act. She goes to Forrest because he's the only person she knows who can give her a safe place to escape her old life.

OK, so why does she sleep with him? Is it pity, some sort of sisterly love, a mood swing driven by pregnancy? Under the most cynical view possible, it's part of a quickly conceived but coldly rational plan to protect her unborn child. Sleeping with Forrest and naming the baby after him gives her a future out, letting her plausibly claim he is the father -- the timing works out to within a few months because she makes it work out -- and then get his support in case she isn't able or doesn't want to care for the child in the future. Presumably she believes Forrest would make a much better and more reliable parent than whoever actually knocked her up. When she does get sick, she waits until she knows she is dying to pull her trump card, and Forrest comes through like she knew he would.

Crushing as it may be, the adult 1970s Jenny doesn't love Forrest, not even a little, and she doesn't want him in her life except as a desperate fallback. She ignores his letters for years, failing to show the slightest kindness -- if writing a postcard is too hard, would she have sex with him out of kindness? After sleeping with him she leaves without saying goodbye though she knows it will break his heart, perhaps out of guilt for what she's done, but more likely because in panicked pregnant recovering addict mode she doesn't care about his feelings or doesn't believe he has them, and needs to get out of there before her baby bump starts showing. Deep down, he knows he's been used, and that drives him to run.

But the redemptive part of this interpretation is that even though he's been used in the worst way, even though he ends up parenting another man's son, Forrest's story is still a triumph of trust and love -- because he will always see Jenny as the little girl who was kind to him, because he would never doubt her honesty, because an answer as cynical as this one would never occur to him, he will happily love the boy as his own and thus end the loneliness that's haunted him since his mother died and Jenny walked out.

  • 01.06.2013 10:28 AM PDT
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crazyfoo, where's your proof? i'm waiting.

  • 01.06.2013 10:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: Needler Rifle
Posted by: crazyfoomandude
He IS Forrest's son...

-_-

Seriously, what 'proof' so you have besides 'she's a deceitful -blam!-.'

That's not at all proof, that's your misinterpretation.

I'll make the best case I can that the child is not Forrest's because Jenny was already pregnant when she slept with him -- and she knew it.

She was possibly already sick, noting that Forrest says, "She just sleeps, and sleeps like she hasn't slept for days." As noted, this could be caused by depression, or drug withdrawal, or early signs of AIDS (less likely, given that if she's already experiencing strong symptoms she likely wouldn't live another 6 years).

But I see this as our first and best clue that it's NOT Forrest's baby; she sleeps so much because she's already in the first trimester of pregnancy and is experiencing a typical symptom: constant fatigue.

Consistent with this explanation, the very reason she leaves her old lifestyle is because she's realized she's pregnant and needs to clean up her act. She goes to Forrest because he's the only person she knows who can give her a safe place to escape her old life.

OK, so why does she sleep with him? Is it pity, some sort of sisterly love, a mood swing driven by pregnancy? Under the most cynical view possible, it's part of a quickly conceived but coldly rational plan to protect her unborn child. Sleeping with Forrest and naming the baby after him gives her a future out, letting her plausibly claim he is the father -- the timing works out to within a few months because she makes it work out -- and then get his support in case she isn't able or doesn't want to care for the child in the future. Presumably she believes Forrest would make a much better and more reliable parent than whoever actually knocked her up. When she does get sick, she waits until she knows she is dying to pull her trump card, and Forrest comes through like she knew he would.

Crushing as it may be, the adult 1970s Jenny doesn't love Forrest, not even a little, and she doesn't want him in her life except as a desperate fallback. She ignores his letters for years, failing to show the slightest kindness -- if writing a postcard is too hard, would she have sex with him out of kindness? After sleeping with him she leaves without saying goodbye though she knows it will break his heart, perhaps out of guilt for what she's done, but more likely because in panicked pregnant recovering addict mode she doesn't care about his feelings or doesn't believe he has them, and needs to get out of there before her baby bump starts showing. Deep down, he knows he's been used, and that drives him to run.

But the redemptive part of this interpretation is that even though he's been used in the worst way, even though he ends up parenting another man's son, Forrest's story is still a triumph of trust and love -- because he will always see Jenny as the little girl who was kind to him, because he would never doubt her honesty, because an answer as cynical as this one would never occur to him, he will happily love the boy as his own and thus end the loneliness that's haunted him since his mother died and Jenny walked out.


Me gusta. I've always thought Jenny was that kind of person so, although it was confirmed to be his son in the book apparently, this is entirely plausible.

  • 01.06.2013 10:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: Needler Rifle
Right after Jenny tricks Forrest into thinking Forrest Jr. is his son
The fact that I never thought of this in itself blows my mind.
nah he act like him a little too much

  • 01.06.2013 10:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Ruckus 2010

Posted by: Needler Rifle
Posted by: crazyfoomandude
He IS Forrest's son...

-_-

Seriously, what 'proof' so you have besides 'she's a deceitful -blam!-.'

That's not at all proof, that's your misinterpretation.

I'll make the best case I can that the child is not Forrest's because Jenny was already pregnant when she slept with him -- and she knew it.

She was possibly already sick, noting that Forrest says, "She just sleeps, and sleeps like she hasn't slept for days." As noted, this could be caused by depression, or drug withdrawal, or early signs of AIDS (less likely, given that if she's already experiencing strong symptoms she likely wouldn't live another 6 years).

But I see this as our first and best clue that it's NOT Forrest's baby; she sleeps so much because she's already in the first trimester of pregnancy and is experiencing a typical symptom: constant fatigue.

Consistent with this explanation, the very reason she leaves her old lifestyle is because she's realized she's pregnant and needs to clean up her act. She goes to Forrest because he's the only person she knows who can give her a safe place to escape her old life.

OK, so why does she sleep with him? Is it pity, some sort of sisterly love, a mood swing driven by pregnancy? Under the most cynical view possible, it's part of a quickly conceived but coldly rational plan to protect her unborn child. Sleeping with Forrest and naming the baby after him gives her a future out, letting her plausibly claim he is the father -- the timing works out to within a few months because she makes it work out -- and then get his support in case she isn't able or doesn't want to care for the child in the future. Presumably she believes Forrest would make a much better and more reliable parent than whoever actually knocked her up. When she does get sick, she waits until she knows she is dying to pull her trump card, and Forrest comes through like she knew he would.

Crushing as it may be, the adult 1970s Jenny doesn't love Forrest, not even a little, and she doesn't want him in her life except as a desperate fallback. She ignores his letters for years, failing to show the slightest kindness -- if writing a postcard is too hard, would she have sex with him out of kindness? After sleeping with him she leaves without saying goodbye though she knows it will break his heart, perhaps out of guilt for what she's done, but more likely because in panicked pregnant recovering addict mode she doesn't care about his feelings or doesn't believe he has them, and needs to get out of there before her baby bump starts showing. Deep down, he knows he's been used, and that drives him to run.

But the redemptive part of this interpretation is that even though he's been used in the worst way, even though he ends up parenting another man's son, Forrest's story is still a triumph of trust and love -- because he will always see Jenny as the little girl who was kind to him, because he would never doubt her honesty, because an answer as cynical as this one would never occur to him, he will happily love the boy as his own and thus end the loneliness that's haunted him since his mother died and Jenny walked out.


Me gusta. I've always thought Jenny was that kind of person so, although it was confirmed to be his son in the book apparently, this is entirely plausible.


Your statement contradicts itself.

  • 01.06.2013 10:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Ruckus 2010

Posted by: Needler Rifle
Posted by: crazyfoomandude
He IS Forrest's son...

-_-

Seriously, what 'proof' so you have besides 'she's a deceitful -blam!-.'

That's not at all proof, that's your misinterpretation.

I'll make the best case I can that the child is not Forrest's because Jenny was already pregnant when she slept with him -- and she knew it.

She was possibly already sick, noting that Forrest says, "She just sleeps, and sleeps like she hasn't slept for days." As noted, this could be caused by depression, or drug withdrawal, or early signs of AIDS (less likely, given that if she's already experiencing strong symptoms she likely wouldn't live another 6 years).

But I see this as our first and best clue that it's NOT Forrest's baby; she sleeps so much because she's already in the first trimester of pregnancy and is experiencing a typical symptom: constant fatigue.

Consistent with this explanation, the very reason she leaves her old lifestyle is because she's realized she's pregnant and needs to clean up her act. She goes to Forrest because he's the only person she knows who can give her a safe place to escape her old life.

OK, so why does she sleep with him? Is it pity, some sort of sisterly love, a mood swing driven by pregnancy? Under the most cynical view possible, it's part of a quickly conceived but coldly rational plan to protect her unborn child. Sleeping with Forrest and naming the baby after him gives her a future out, letting her plausibly claim he is the father -- the timing works out to within a few months because she makes it work out -- and then get his support in case she isn't able or doesn't want to care for the child in the future. Presumably she believes Forrest would make a much better and more reliable parent than whoever actually knocked her up. When she does get sick, she waits until she knows she is dying to pull her trump card, and Forrest comes through like she knew he would.

Crushing as it may be, the adult 1970s Jenny doesn't love Forrest, not even a little, and she doesn't want him in her life except as a desperate fallback. She ignores his letters for years, failing to show the slightest kindness -- if writing a postcard is too hard, would she have sex with him out of kindness? After sleeping with him she leaves without saying goodbye though she knows it will break his heart, perhaps out of guilt for what she's done, but more likely because in panicked pregnant recovering addict mode she doesn't care about his feelings or doesn't believe he has them, and needs to get out of there before her baby bump starts showing. Deep down, he knows he's been used, and that drives him to run.

But the redemptive part of this interpretation is that even though he's been used in the worst way, even though he ends up parenting another man's son, Forrest's story is still a triumph of trust and love -- because he will always see Jenny as the little girl who was kind to him, because he would never doubt her honesty, because an answer as cynical as this one would never occur to him, he will happily love the boy as his own and thus end the loneliness that's haunted him since his mother died and Jenny walked out.


Me gusta. I've always thought Jenny was that kind of person so, although it was confirmed to be his son in the book apparently, this is entirely plausible.


Your statement contradicts itself.


If you're referring to "although it was confirmed to be his son in the book apparently, this is entirely plausible", then not really. It's pretty clear that I mean that the theory is entirely plausible within the context of the film.

I'm sure you're aware of the massive disconnects between books and their film adaptations.

  • 01.06.2013 10:44 AM PDT

Cool Story bro, tell it again.

Sesame Street. the Burt and Ernie one

  • 01.06.2013 10:44 AM PDT

While I wouldn't put it past Jenny to pull that one last, desperate move, there is one piece of evidence you are completely leaving out.

The cocking of the head from Forrest and little Forrest. They both do it exactly the same, at the same time. The makers of the movie showed this specifically.

  • 01.06.2013 10:44 AM PDT

Posted by: IrIsHmAn04
no its legit, i used coordinates, set weapon timers the works.

OP just finished eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp and the waiter obviously asked his table a question he didn't know.

  • 01.06.2013 10:46 AM PDT

Name's John. I'm a 21-year-old firefighter/EMT from lolhio who doubles as a die-hard Halo fan. I've been enjoying the franchise since 2001. My favorite iteration of Halo would have to be Halo 2 simply because I never got to experience the joy of a full-on Halo: CE LAN.


If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Oh yeah, and boot Zome.


Posted by: xBADMAGIKx
OP just finished eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp and the waiter obviously asked his table a question he didn't know.

>2013
>Not getting 100% on Forrest Gump trivia quizzes at Bubba Gump's

What are they teaching kids in school these days?

  • 01.06.2013 10:48 AM PDT

Posted by: IrIsHmAn04
no its legit, i used coordinates, set weapon timers the works.


Posted by: The Ruckus 2010

Posted by: xBADMAGIKx
OP just finished eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp and the waiter obviously asked his table a question he didn't know.

>2013
>Not getting 100% on Forrest Gump trivia quizzes at Bubba Gump's

What are they teaching kids in school these days?


What does that have to do with school? Oh wait, you're making a desperate attempt to flame bait.

  • 01.06.2013 10:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: AMW Godfather
While I wouldn't put it past Jenny to pull that one last, desperate move, there is one piece of evidence you are completely leaving out.

The cocking of the head from Forrest and little Forrest. They both do it exactly the same, at the same time. The makers of the movie showed this specifically.
You don't have to be related to someone to pick up habits from them.

I do think the kid is his.

  • 01.06.2013 10:51 AM PDT


Posted by: destroys u
Posted by: AMW Godfather
While I wouldn't put it past Jenny to pull that one last, desperate move, there is one piece of evidence you are completely leaving out.

The cocking of the head from Forrest and little Forrest. They both do it exactly the same, at the same time. The makers of the movie showed this specifically.
You don't have to be related to someone to pick up habits from them.

I do think the kid is his.


He does this while they are watching Bert and Ernie together. He had not met his dad until this moment.

  • 01.06.2013 10:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: AMW Godfather
The cocking of the head from Forrest and little Forrest. They both do it exactly the same, at the same time. The makers of the movie showed this specifically.

means nada

  • 01.06.2013 10:53 AM PDT

1LUV

It was his son in the books.
It was his son in the movies.

Get a grip, people. I think if she "tricked" him it would be made a bit more obvious in the plot than just be subject to interpretation.

  • 01.06.2013 10:53 AM PDT

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