Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump in my mind is a historical movie, it tells the life of Forrest and his encounters with people, places and things that make up history and there are two accounts that I know of that we've talked about in class that actually make an appearance in Forrest Gump.

In the beginning of the movie Forrest talks about who he was named after, I thought it was his grandfather but he never really says that, this is the entire quote from that scene:

Forrest Gump: [voice over] 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. 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. And anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest Gump...

Another scene I remember that had to do with something we talked about today in class was the Black Panthers, they were also in the movie for a short period of time, Forrest and Jenny are in the Black Panther headquarters where one of them shoves Forrest aside and closes the blind and start to talk to him about what the Black Panthers represent and he says it proudly.

The Black Panthers aren't in the movie for a long period, much like everything else it's mostly just a glance but it's still important because it is apart of history and it is fairly accurate to what was going on at the time.