The Screenwriter of Forrest Gump - Eric Roth

Eric Roth is a successful screenwriter, and we can't argue that he did an amazing job on Forrest Gump.  However, a lot of people think one his more recent films, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, is really just a rehash of Forrest Gump with a marginally different story.  Here's a comical video which makes the case:

Loosely based on a short story of the same title written by F Scott Fitzgerald, we can see, again, that Roth turned it into a very different work.  But many criticize Roth for the cookie cutter similarities to Gump.

 

Some questions to consider:  what process did Roth go through in order to adapt Forrest Gump to the screen?   Was Winston Groom pleased with the outcome?


Scenes from the Novel that were not shown in the Movie:

• Forrest Gump becomes a professional wrestler
• Forrest spends time in a mental hospital
• He saves Mao-Tse-Tung from drowning
• He journeys into outer space along side an Ape and a woman
• Lives with cannibals for 4 years
• Becomes a very skilled chess player
• Stars in a movie along side co-star Raquel Welch
• He Runs for United States Senate

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