Speech!
Recalling the epic scene where Forrest is delivering a powerful speech to the crowd in Washington, D.C. takes but a minute. Unfortunately the microphone cut out and you weren’t able to hear Forrest Gump utter these mighty words, “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas 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.”
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Now here’s a mistake you may not have picked up on in the film. In the scene we see Forrest running and he has been for three years and two months, but there’s a problem. It just doesn’t add up! He started running the same day that President Carter collapsed from heat exhaustion on October 1, 1979. But when he receives Jenny’s letter after the race, President Reagan’s assassination attempt is all over the news. Meaning the run was just a year and a half. Yikes, what a slip up.
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