观 Run, Forrest Run 有感 写给北京二号
你在《美语世界》论坛贴的英语朗诵《每日一篇新概念》，鼓励着大家。不少的网友都在默默地跟读，也有的网友受你的感染，在《美语世界》论坛贴他们的英语朗诵作品。你的英语朗诵可所谓是“一日千里”，你的好学的精神，你的坚持精神，是我们大家学习的楷模。
正如《美语世界》论坛网友爱笑的土豆送给你的文章里写道的，我摘录如下：
（请点击欣赏送北京二号：阿甘，Run）
“喜欢阿甘Run那一幕，没有特殊的理由，没有特殊的目标，却拥有可贵的执着。所以也拥有了追随他的同行者。阿甘从不在意别人的猜测，误解，抑或赞美，阿甘 just run!
看见你每天的新贴，不禁惭愧，自己竟很难坚持日日跟听，追不上阿甘前行的脚步。但很高兴看见总有跟着你飞跑的朋友，新朋不断！
俺也自我安慰：虽然咱跑不动，跑不快，但俺可以默默喜欢阿甘，在精神上跟跑。
阿甘，Run!
－－－爱笑的土豆”
说来惭愧，我没有完整地看过《Forrest Gump》这部电影。昨天晚上在家里看了你贴的Video《Run, Forrest run! 》，颇受启迪。（请点击欣赏：Run, Forrest Run ）
Forrest Gump坐在rocking chair上，若有所思，戴上冒子，陡然地从rocking chair站起来，开始了他的奔跑。。。。。。
他跑呀，跑呀，跑过了多少的大小城镇，趟过了多少的河流山川，经历了无数的日升日落，尝过了数不尽的夕阳晨露。满身尘土，头发也长了。然而，这一幕让我动容：Forrest Gump突然停下来，回过头来，怔怔地望着一路来跟随着他奔跑的人群：真是：“此处无声胜有声。”也让我想起了昨天晚上念亲贴的那首歌曲：《离家的路》，歌中唱到“请你等我回来循着当初离家的路。”（请点击欣赏：离家的路）
我刚刚又去网上查了电影《Forrest Gump 》相关的介绍，受益匪浅。Tom Hanks的在影片里精湛的表演，真是令人叹服。想起了林清玄写过的一篇散文《生命的化妆》，他在文章中引用了一位化妆师的话：“化妆的最高境界可以用两个字形容，就是‘自然’。我想，演戏亦如此，我感觉Tom Hanks就是Forrest Gump，忘记他是在演电影了。Tom Hanks因这部影片而获得奥斯卡最佳男演员真是当之无愧。
北京二号，我知道你对这个电影已经是耳熟能详了。 还是忍不住和你分享，我在网上查到的Memorable quotes for《Forrest Gump》。
Beijing #2, I have to stop here now. Today is my little Tony's seventh birthday. Tell you what? A few days before his birthday, he constantly reminds me: " Mommy, there are six days left, three days, one day left." lol...
We are going to take him out to celebrate his birthday party in a restaurant which has delicious food to eat and fun games for kids to play after the meal. Then we will have a party at home for him, too. Happy 7th birthday to my little Tony.
北京二号，我永远地为你加油和喝彩。
愿你和你的家人度过一个快乐的周末，
林贝卡
11/15/2008 秋 于美国
Memorable Quotes For Forrest Gump
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Mrs. Gump: You have to do the best with what God gave you.
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Forrest Gump: You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and 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.
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Jenny Curran: Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest Gump: Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.
Jenny Curran: I wish I could've been there with you.
Forrest Gump: You were.
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Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.
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Forrest Gump: That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going.
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Forrest Gump: I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both.
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Jenny Curran: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Forrest Gump: Who I'm gonna be?
Jenny Curran: Yeah.
Forrest Gump: Aren't-aren't I going to be me?
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Forrest Gump
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forrest Gump is a 1994 comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groomand the name of the title character of both. 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 20th century while being largely unaware of their significance, due to his low intelligence. The film differs substantially from the book on which it was based.
The film begins with a feather falling to the feet of Forrest Gump, who is sitting at a bus stop in Savannah. Forrest picks up the feather and puts it in the book Curious George, then tells the story of his life to a woman seated next to him. The listeners at the bus stop change regularly throughout his narration, each showing a different reaction to his narration ranging from disbelief and indifference to rapt veneration.
On his first day of school, he meets a girl named Jenny Curran, who, according to Forrest, has the most beautiful name in the world. Her life is followed in parallel to Forrest's at times. One day after school, Forrest is being threatened by a group of bullies because of his leg braces. Jenny tells him to run, and he does so, losing his leg braces in the process. Having discarded his leg braces, his ability to run at lightning speed becomes his favored method of travel. During his senior year in high school, threatened by the same group of bullies, he runs through a football field and it gets him into college on a football scholarship playing for Paul "Bear" Bryant at the University of Alabama. He excels at football so much that he becomes an All-American, and meets John F. Kennedy.
After his college graduation, he enlists in the United States Army. In boot camp, Forrest makes fast friends with a man named Bubba Blue (Mykelti Williamson), who convinces Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him when the war is over. Forrest excels in training and after finishing boot camp, Bubba and Forrest are assigned to the same platoon in Vietnam. As soon as they arrive with their new platoon, they meet their new platoon leader, Second Lieutenant Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise). Dan came from a military family and had lost an ancestor in every American war. Later while on patrol, Forrest's platoon is ambushed. Though Forrest rescues many of the men including Dan, whose legs were severely injured and are later amputated, Bubba is killed in action.
While Forrest is in recovery for a bullet shot to his buttocks, he discovers his uncanny ability for ping-pong, eventually gaining popularity and rising to celebrity status; later playing ping-pong in China. Forrest is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the ambush, is promoted to Sergeant, and meets Lyndon B. Johnson at his award ceremony.
After meeting Abbie Hoffman at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., Forrest reunites with Jenny, who has been living a hippie counterculture life. He also encounters Dan, who has become a bitter alcoholic, having felt that it was his destiny to die on the battlefield in Vietnam. Forrest celebrates New Year's Eve with Dan, who is initially hostile and uses Forrest as a means of obtaining alcohol. When Forrest tells of his and Bubba's plan to buy a shrimping boat, Dan mocks Forrest and sarcastically promises that he will become first mate of the ship. However, Dan later finds empathy with the fact that Forrest has been discriminated against in the past because of his perceived low IQ, likening it to his own experience of disability.
After Forrest inadvertently triggers the Watergate scandal, he is honorably discharged from the army and returns home to Alabama. He finds that his mother has endorsed a company that makes ping-pong paddles, earning himself $25,000, which he uses to buy a shrimping boat, a new hair cut, a new suit, fancy dinner for his mother, a bus ticket and three Dr Pepper soft drinks (spending a total of $24,000 on the boat) fulfilling his promise to Bubba. Lieutenant Dan returns to fulfill his earlier promise and becomes first mate of the boat. Forrest and Dan fail to pull in much shrimp at first. During Hurricane Carmen, both men stay out in the middle of the ocean with the boat, and by fate, theirs is the only shrimping boat in the area to survive. The lack of competition helps Dan and Forrest to catch huge amounts of shrimp. Dan invests the money in Apple Computer, "some kind of fruit company", and Forrest is financially secure for the rest of his life. Forrest names his company Bubba Gump, which has inspired an actual shrimp restaurant. Returning home, Forrest finds out that his mother has cancer and she later dies.
One day, Jenny returns to visit Forrest, and he proposes marriage to her. She declines, though feels obliged to prove her love to him by sleeping with him. She leaves early the next morning. On a whim, Forrest elects to go for a run. Seemingly capriciously, he decides to keep running across the country several times, over some three and a half years, becoming famous in the process. During his run, Forrest unwittingly inspires two separate entrepreneurs to create Smiley Face/"Have a Nice Day" T-shirts and "Shit Happens" bumper stickers.
In the present, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he had received a letter from Jenny, who, having seen him run on television, asks him to visit her. Once he is reunited with Jenny, Forrest discovers that she has a young son, of whom Forrest is the father. Jenny tells Forrest she is suffering from a virus (possibly AIDS, though this is never definitively stated).[1][2][3] Together the three move back to Greenbow, Alabama. Jenny and Forrest finally marry, with Dan arriving for the wedding (now able to walk on two legs with the use of prosthetic limbs) along with his fiancée. However, Jenny dies soon afterward.
The film ends with father and son waiting for the school bus on little Forrest's first day of school. Opening the book his son is taking to school, the white feather from the beginning of the movie is seen to fall from within the pages. As the bus pulls away, the white feather is caught on a breeze and drifts skyward.
