Forrest Gump: Book vs. Movie Written in 1986 by Winston Groom, Forrest Gump was made into a movie in 1994 and actually won an Academy Award, which is cool.
Both the book and its film have the title character in it, is a man who goes through many obstacles and a number of signifigant historical events around the world. Although both works explore the character of Forrest Gump and his lifelong journeys, the original book has many different things that go on in it.
The film portrays Forrest Gump as a sweet, mentally challenged man who brightens up the people around him, and the world itself, through his numerous encounters with celebrities, his brushes with key historical events, and more importantly through his down to earth attitude. The tone …show more content…
The Authors’ Gump actually likes marijuana. At the end he does make his living from the shrimp business, he gives this business over to his crew, deciding, at the end of the book to leave them to be a street performer. In the book Forrest can solve hard math equations and is a musical genius and a really good chess player.
A few of important characters die throughout the course of the movie. Although, this develops Forrest Gump as a character, and shows his maturity, these characters do not die in the novel. Forrest's love, Jenny, and his mother, both live on at the close of the novel. Forrest's father is actually a dock worker rather than a white supremacist, like the movie said. In addition, important characters were left out of the film, including
Forrest's college roommate Curtis, and a monkey named Sue, who Forrest befriends on his mission to space in the book.
Although Forrest takes part in historical events in both the movie and the book, a few of these events were changed, taken out completely, or made up for the movie. The book has 26 chapters, the film however only uses the first 11 chapters and certain events from the book's last few chapters, cancelling out a bunch of material.
Both the book and its film have the title character in it, is a man who goes through many obstacles and a number of signifigant historical events around the world. Although both works explore the character of Forrest Gump and his lifelong journeys, the original book has many different things that go on in it.
The film portrays Forrest Gump as a sweet, mentally challenged man who brightens up the people around him, and the world itself, through his numerous encounters with celebrities, his brushes with key historical events, and more importantly through his down to earth attitude. The tone …show more content…
The Authors’ Gump actually likes marijuana. At the end he does make his living from the shrimp business, he gives this business over to his crew, deciding, at the end of the book to leave them to be a street performer. In the book Forrest can solve hard math equations and is a musical genius and a really good chess player.
A few of important characters die throughout the course of the movie. Although, this develops Forrest Gump as a character, and shows his maturity, these characters do not die in the novel. Forrest's love, Jenny, and his mother, both live on at the close of the novel. Forrest's father is actually a dock worker rather than a white supremacist, like the movie said. In addition, important characters were left out of the film, including
Forrest's college roommate Curtis, and a monkey named Sue, who Forrest befriends on his mission to space in the book.
Although Forrest takes part in historical events in both the movie and the book, a few of these events were changed, taken out completely, or made up for the movie. The book has 26 chapters, the film however only uses the first 11 chapters and certain events from the book's last few chapters, cancelling out a bunch of material.