Forrest Gump Page #17

EXT. VIETNAM - NIGHT

Forrest writes a letter in his tent.

FORREST (V.O.)

Then I'd sign each letter, "Love,

Forrest Gump."

EXT. JUNGLE - DAY

The Fourth Platoon makes their way through the jungle and

rain.

SONG:

"There's something happenin' here.

What it is ain't exactly clear.

There's a man with a gun over there,

telling' me I got to beware."

FORREST (V.O.)

This one day, we was out walking,

like always, and then, just like

that, somebody turned off the rain

and the sun come out.

Forrest looks up as the sun suddenly appears. Forrest's

platoon is attacked. A bullet kills the soldier standing

next to Forrest. Bombs explode all around as the soldiers

scramble to the ground.

LT. DAN

Take cover!

Forrest crawls over a berm as bullets fly overhead and explode

all around him. Forrest rolls over and pulls his pack off

Lt. Dan lies next to Forrest.

LT. DAN

Get that pig up here, goddammit!

BUBBA:

Forrest, you okay?

Two soldiers with a machine gun fire into the jungle. Lt.

Dan shouts into the radio. Forrest begins firing his weapon

into the jungle.

LT. DAN

...Strongarm, please be advised...

Two soldiers pull a wounded soldier into the jungle.

BUBBA:

Medic, we got a man down!

LT. DAN

Strongarm, this is Leg Lima 6, over!

LT. DAN

Roger, Strongarm, be advised we have

incoming from the treeline at point

blue plus two. A.K's and rockets...

The machine gunner fires into the treeline. Another soldier

helps him with the ammunition. The machine gun jams.

SOLDIER WITH BIG MACHINE GUN

Misfire! Misfire!

LT. DAN

Goddammit, Mac! Get that pig unfucked

and get it in the treeline!

A rocket explodes on the machine gunner and the other soldier,

killing them. Forrest looks down and covers his head as

rockets explodes all around him.

LT. DAN

(into radio)

Ah, Jesus! My unit is down hard and

hurting! 6 pulling back to the blue

line, Leg Lima 6 out! Pull back!

Pull back!

BUBBA:

Forrest! Run! Run, Forrest!

LT. DAN

Pull back!

BUBBA:

Forrest! Run! Run, Forrest! Run!

Run!

SGT. SIMS

Pull back! Let's go!

Lt. Dan gets up and grabs Forrest by the collar.

LT. DAN

Run, goddammit, run!

The platoon gets up and runs toward the cover of the jungle.

Rockets explode all around the field. Forrest runs into the

jungle. The soldiers run through the jungle as bullets explode

all around. A soldier is blown up by a rocket. A soldier

runs through the jungle. Forrest runs past the soldier.

SOLDIER:

Medic! Medic! Jesus, can I get a

medic?

FORREST (V.O.)

I ran and ran, just like Jenny told

me to.

Rockets explode in the jungle as Forrest runs out toward a

clearing.

FORREST (V.O.)

I ran so far and so fast that pretty

soon I was all by myself, which was

a bad thing.

FORREST:

Bubba!

Forrest turns around, then runs back into the jungle.

FORREST (V.O.)

Bubba was my best good friend. I had

to make sure he was okay.

Rockets explode in the jungle. Forrest runs back into the

jungle to look for Bubba.

1ST SOLDIER

Any friendlies out there?

2ND SOLDIER

Yeah, I've got three over there.

1ST SOLDIER

Where the hell are you?

Forrest stops and aims his weapon. He looks around, scared.

FORREST:

Bubba?

Something moves. Forrest turns and looks, then rushes over.

FORREST (V.O.)

And on my way back to find Bubba,

well, there was this boy laying on

the ground.

FORREST:

Tex!

Tex lies on the ground, his face distorted with pain.

FORREST:

Okay.

Forrest reaches down and picks up Tex from the ground. Forrest

pulls Tex up over his shoulder, then runs.

FORREST (V.O.)

I couldn't just let him lay there

all alone, scared the way he was, so

I grabbed him up and run him out of

there.

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