Movie Stuff You Only Now Just Realized - Part 2

[Drizzle]

In Forrest Gump, Jenny dies from AIDS, which she probably contracted before she had sex with Forrest and had Forrest Jr., which means that there's a possibility that she could have passed it to both Forrest and Forrest Jr.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

In Forrest Gump, Jenny dies from AIDS, which she probably contracted before she had sex with Forrest and had Forrest Jr., which means that there's a possibility that she could have passed it to both Forrest and Forrest Jr.

according to wiki it's just "speculation" amongst viewers that she died of AIDS

They eventually got married, but soon afterwards she died of an unspecified virus which reviewers and authors have speculated to be HIV/AIDS

could have been a number of things... to be fair.

i don't think Zemeckis ever came out and answered that one

 

[jacobed]

It is more than likely AIDS. Furthermore she was crazy sexually active thus its a very good chance Forrest Jr. Isn't Forrest's

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Awesome bot!

 

[TheGuy]

It is more than likely AIDS. Furthermore she was crazy sexually active thus its a very good chance Forrest Jr. Isn't Forrest's

Jenny was being honest, IMO. I don't think she's got the heart to tell Forrest such a lie. And she even confessed to him that her life has been a mess and wanted to settle and be with him.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

It is more than likely AIDS. Furthermore she was crazy sexually active thus its a very good chance Forrest Jr. Isn't Forrest's

Well she was also a major druggy too. And it could have just as easily been hep C too..

Typically when its aids, (especially in movies they like to show it) the y tend to show the symptom of spots/rashes/lesions .

She mentions having a disease that the doctors don't know what it is.... But by that point i believe its the 90s. And aids was well known by then with its boom in the 80s. Its easy to see that it could be aids but we really don't know unless a writer or director came forward.


As for forest or her son having it... Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Its not a sure thing 100% of the time actually.

 

[UnknownStuntman]

I wanted this to be true, but according to http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Thomas

"Though largely thought to be the same character as Red the Bum, they are not. According to Bob Gale's commentary on the Back to the Future DVD set, the name of the bum was ad-libbed by Michael J. Fox. Gale also commented that the photo of the mayor in 1955 on the side of the campaign van was that of set decorator Hal Gausman, whereas the bum was played by George "Buck" Flower."

He (George Flower) played another bum in 'They Live,' although that bum eventually sold out humans and got a fancy alien watch for his treason.

 

[Jordacar]

Well she was also a major druggy too. And it could have just as easily been hep C too..

Typically when its aids, (especially in movies they like to show it) the y tend to show the symptom of spots/rashes/lesions .

She mentions having a disease that the doctors don't know what it is.... But by that point i believe its the 90s. And aids was well known by then with its boom in the 80s. Its easy to see that it could be aids but we really don't know unless a writer or director came forward.


As for forest or her son having it... Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Its not a sure thing 100% of the time actually.

I pretty sure the movie concludes in 1981. I'm not sure how I know that but I was dead certain the last time I watched the film. So probably AIDS.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Her gravestone says March 22, 1982.

 

[Jordacar]

^Right, that must've been it.

 

[Balthus Dire]

I never assumed she had AIDS.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I wish I had never read the theories of Forrest and Forrest Jr. possibly having AIDS or Forrest Jr. not actually being Gump's son.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I never assumed she had AIDS.

I always thought that's what they intended, that she'd picked it up during her promiscuous druggie days. Never really gave it a second thought until this thread.

It's actually been a long time since I saw FG, need to watch it again.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Tea Leoni is basically a featured extra in A League of Their Own.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Going off a discussion with my friends last night: We got to talking about Tarantino's Django Unchained, and I noted how it's a "blaxploitation western" which I thought was awesome, and "why did no one think of that before?" My friend noted that the closest thing to a real blaxploitation western is Blazing Saddles.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

Mel Brooks was way ahead of the curve on that one.

 

[Victarion]

They're night and day in terms of tone, from what I heard of Django Unchained.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Doctor Manhattan 's wife Jane Slater is Mina in Alpha TV show.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I wanted this to be true, but according to http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Thomas

"Though largely thought to be the same character as Red the Bum, they are not. According to Bob Gale's commentary on the Back to the Future DVD set, the name of the bum was ad-libbed by Michael J. Fox. Gale also commented that the photo of the mayor in 1955 on the side of the campaign van was that of set decorator Hal Gausman, whereas the bum was played by George "Buck" Flower."

Say wha..? just an ad-lib, that sounds a little coincidental.

 

[chamber-music]

The Usual Suspects line up scene was supposed to be serious but after the actors couldn't stop laughing Bryan Singer just decided to use the funniest cut.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I pretty sure the movie concludes in 1981. I'm not sure how I know that but I was dead certain the last time I watched the film. So probably AIDS.

that'd make sense if it ends in 81. I just always assumed it ended in modern times, since he's retelling his whole life story looking back on it..

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Tea Leoni is basically a featured extra in A League of Their Own.

really? i just watched it last night and don't remember seeing her at all

 

[Jordacar]

that'd make sense if it ends in 81. I just always assumed it ended in modern times, since he's retelling his whole life story looking back on it..

That always confused me as a kid because the math didn't seem to add up, and Forrest didn't look like he was in his 50s yet. It wasn't until I sat down and watched it again years later that I realized that the 80's weren't part of the story and that the novel was probably written well before the movie.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

That always confused me as a kid because the math didn't seem to add up, and Forrest didn't look like he was in his 50s yet. It wasn't until I sat down and watched it again years later that I realized that the 80's weren't part of the story and that the novel was probably written well before the movie.

very true. I need to watch it again as an adult.. it's probably been close to 10-15 years since ive seen it.

 

[Victarion]

Bruce and Bane basically had similar beginnings in that both were rescued from a prison by Ra's Al Ghul. Bruce as the "favored son", so to speak. Yes, I missed that during my first showing.