I read Forrest Gump, which is a lot different from the movie.

[JVS]

And I'm just going to tell you that you might not be able to handle it. Especially if you're from Nebraska and don't like being called a "corn shucker jackoff". Forrest was definitely sanitized for the big screen. Anyone else care to discuss this?

[redgreenandblue]

1. I'm curious what they left out for the movie.

I'd be interested in some more details.

[JVS]

4. They added all kinds of new stuff. They left out some things.

The movie tries to paint Forrest as apolitical. In the book he clearly expresses that he thinks the war in Vietnam is a bunch of shit. Lt. Dan only meets Forrest when they are hospitalized together in Vietnam. Dan in the book does not have a family tradition of getting killed in wars. He's also a lot more of a free spirit than in the movie.

The movie portrays Jenny being hit by her activist boyfriend. This doesn't happen in the book. In fact in the book Jenny is not a victim of molestation. The scene in the movie where Jenny is being manhandled in her car is also a fabrication. In the book Forrest finds her in the car willingly engaged in coitus with a banjo player in her band. Jenny also doesn't get addicted to drugs (in fact she gets mad at Forrest for being too much of a pothead) or get HIV. Basically the whole Jenny as victim theme is exclusive to the movie and does not exist in the book.

Bubba from the film is an amalgamation of Forrest's football room-mate Curtis from Alabama's football team (who also has an IQ of circa 70 and Forrest finds difficult to get along with) and a friend Bubba meets at University of Alabama who shows Forrest how to play harmonica. The book Bubba has the level of intelligence normal for a college student.

They also leave out Forrest's Orangutan companion.

[Lars39]

2. Did you read the sequel, too?

Poor Forrest.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Is it still like a box of chocolates?...

[JVS]

5. 1st sentence is "Let me say this: Bein a idiot is no box of chocolates" [sic]

The screenwriters are fucking with us with that "Life is like a box of chocolates" routine.

[unblock]

6. john nance garner is quoted as saying the vice-presidency wasn't worth a bucket of warm spit.

only when garner actually said it, it wasn't "spit".

[NaturalHigh]

7. I didn't know that there was a book.

It was never one of my favorite movies, so I never really looked to see if there was a book.

That said, most movies are very different from the books they are based on in my opinion. I remember reading Gone With The Wind after seeing the movie, and I basically just had to put the movie out of my mind completely. By the way, as good as the movie is, the book is so much better. The advantage of seeing the movie first for me was that I was able to picture Rhett Butler as looking and sounding like Clark Gable.

[In_The_Wind]

8. I've only seen the movie

[GOLGO 13]

9. I love harmonicas.

I got me a half a dozen or so real purty Mississippi saxophones.