阿甘（汤姆·汉克斯 饰）于二战结束后不久出生在美国南方阿拉巴马州一个闭塞的小镇，他先天弱智，智商只有75，然而他的妈妈是一个性格坚强的女性，她常常鼓励阿甘“傻人有傻福”，要他自强不息。
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 and 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. Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.
当我还是一个婴儿的时候，妈妈用了一位内战英雄的名字给我取名，内森.贝弗.福勒斯特将军。她说我们都是相关的,他在某种程度上,他所做的事情,他开办了这家俱乐部称为三k党Klan。他们会盛装着他们的长袍和床单,表现得像一群鬼或本国或什么的。他们甚至会把床单披在他们的马和骑着到处跑。无论如何,这就是我得到了我的名字,福勒斯特•甘普。妈妈说这位福勒斯特的部分是要提醒我有时候我们都会做出一些,那么就别毫无意义。 ——译文来自: zsyf123