What's the Difference between Forrest Gump the Book and Forrest Gump the Movie?
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
Forrest Gump
|
Forrest Gump
Portrayed by: Tom Hanks
|
Jenny Curran
|
Jenny Curran
Portrayed by: Robin Wright
|
ms gump
|
ms gump
|
This Character does not appear.
|
Yeet
Portrayed by: Veryga
|
The Lorax
|
The Lorax
Portrayed by: Danny DeVito
|
Forrest Gump Book vs Movie
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
|
Forrest meets president Johnson |
Forrest meets president Kennedy |
|
Forrest meets the President as a military hero returned from Viet Nam |
Forrest meets the President because he's a college football 'all star' (an utterly stupid, banal, asinine change to the story)
|
|
Forrest meets Bubba (white guy) on the college (University of Alabama) football team |
Forrest meets Bubba (black guy) in Army Basic Training |
|
Jenny was not a striper |
she becomes a striper
|
|
Forrest has sex with Jenny on several different occasions and never impregnates her, although she does end up pregnant with her husband's child, who gets sent off to Forrest as a teenager when both she and her husband mysteriously die (at the start of the second book). |
Forrest has sex with Jenny just once, and as a result Jenny gives birth to Little Forrest, whom he first sees shortly before Jenny's impending death, and later raises by himself from about Kindergarten age. |