its the same as the movie (except the college part). but even bubba looks the same so it evens out



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12/25/2007 9:04:33 PM

the ping pong thing is different...gump smokes weed...isnt as innocent as he is in the movie...was a wrestler iirc....overall the book is better

12/25/2007 9:05:25 PM

Where the rains drops stingin? or big ol fat rain drops? Did it rain so hard it rained from the ground? Did it rain sideways?

12/25/2007 9:09:02 PM

ah is the ping pong different too, i couldnt remember. we could only think of the book talking about the college experience more

ps this thread is for fighting on christmas about books vs movies.

12/25/2007 9:13:52 PM

hahahaha

post more of that wu tang stuff

12/25/2007 9:14:03 PM

the amount of cursing is a pretty big difference

12/25/2007 9:16:18 PM

i just say its dif. cause gump saves the president of china and the americans are pissed he saved him but the chinks are happy

12/25/2007 9:17:48 PM

its been tooo long since i read that book. i dont even remember 2001, how am i supposed to remember high schoool or whatever!!!1

12/25/2007 9:24:13 PM

I think Bubba is white in the book

also, he doesn't run across the country

also, he is friends with an oranuatang named Sue

12/25/2007 10:03:25 PM

So does he donkey punch the living shit outta Jenny?

12/25/2007 10:43:41 PM

he would never do that

12/25/2007 10:46:55 PM

The movie is on A&E now. Starting again at midnight I believe.

12/25/2007 10:47:59 PM

I read that book back in the day. Doesn't Forrest become an astronaut and fly to the moon and then crash down in the middle of the ocean or something like that?

12/25/2007 10:48:06 PM

yeah, he crashes down in New Guinea and is captured by headhunters who force him to grow cotton

12/25/2007 10:49:16 PM

and plays chess against the chief

12/25/2007 11:13:41 PM

gg

12/25/2007 11:23:41 PM

Yeah its exactly the same as the movie except for

Quote :

" * In reality, the movie only covers the first eleven of the book's twenty-six chapters. The first eleven chapters chronicle Gump's football years, his war experiences, and his activities in the Vietnam Protest. Chapters twelve onwards chronicle his journey into space, his tenure in the cannibal village, his acting, chess, and wrestling careers, and one-man band. The movie seems to pick back up in the later chapters, which deal with Gump's shrimp business and his meeting of Forrest Jr. * Sue the monkey does not appear in the movie. * It is revealed near the beginning of the book that his father (a longshoreman) was killed by a falling crate of bananas (Forrest's father apparently broke up with Forrest's mother in the movie but it is never explained). * The leg braces were not in the book; nor did Forrest's mother have sex with the school principal to get Forrest in the regular school. In the book, Forrest did not do well in the regular school and was put in a special school for mentally challenged children, which he refers to as the 'nut school'. * Forrest failed college and hence did not graduate. * Forrest's mother does not die in the book but does in the movie. Forrest's mother does die in the book's sequel Gump & Co. * The novel's Forrest is described as an idiot savant, with an extraordinary talent in numerical calculation. One memorable example of this is in college, when Forrest receives an A in his physics course (Intermediate Light) and an F in physical education. * In the book Forrest visits Harvard College. * In the book Forrest is a wrestler, appearing under the name "The Dunce". * Gump does not marry Jenny in the book; she instead marries another man, though she joins a band called "The Cracked Eggs" with him at one point. Jenny does not die in the original novel. She does die from unstated causes in the sequel—the book simply states that she and her husband got sick and both ended up dying—with the novel recounting Forrest's subsequent adventures with little Forrest when the boy is sent to live with him. Jenny was also not molested by her father in the book. She had a happy childhood. * In the book, Forrest meets Raquel Welch and appears in a Hollywood movie, but this is not in the film. * Gump and little Forrest do not have the loving relationship that the end of the movie seems to imply. In fact, Little Forrest (who was a teenager at this point in the second book) was mad at his father for not being in his life, and during a pivotal scene in the book calls out Gump for pretending to be his father. Forrest's response is to spank his son, changing their relationship. * Gump does not meet Lt. Dan until he is in the hospital in Vietnam. In the novel, Lt. Dan is not a professional soldier but a drafted teacher. He has no wish to die in combat and is more of a philosopher. Bubba was previously on the football team with Forrest. * Forrest does not actively catch shrimp with a shrimping boat and sell them; rather, he has a small shrimp hatchery and builds success upon that. He learns how to farm shrimp from a friendly Vietnamese; back in Bayou La Batre (Bubba's hometown), Bubba's father helps him get started. * Forrest also has many other adventures in the book that are not mentioned in the movie. During his trip to China, he rescues Chairman Mao from drowning in the Yangtze River (parodying Mao's actual much-publicized swim). * Forrest's run across America never happens in the book. * The movie shows Forrest as a sober-minded man and cuts back scene from scene of Jenny doing a number of drugs. In the book Forrest is a smoker of cannabis and towards the end of the novel smokes tobacco more and thinks about his past and all that he's done in life. At the end, he leaves his crew (which includes many people he has met over the years) to run the business, and goes to live with Lt. Dan and Sue as street musicians. * The book features rather explicit sex between Forrest and Jenny which do not appear in the movie. The movie only contains one implicit sexual encounter between the two. * The book uses much more profanity than the movie. * In the book, Forrest is overweight, whereas in the movie, he was slim and a great runner. "

but besides that, virtually the same

12/25/2007 11:44:46 PM

he learns calculus really good too

and helps some dude with a tire...the guy has 3 tires with 4 bolts and 1 with none so gump is like put one of 4 in the last tire...gives each tire 3...guy is like damn thats genius...gump is like "i'm not smart but i'm def. not stupid"

12/26/2007 2:42:41 AM

after reading all of that, i'd say the movie was a whole lot better.

12/26/2007 2:53:46 AM

dude what ev....the movie would be 3.5 hours if the book was the movie....

12/26/2007 3:00:39 AM

it's really hard to say which is better...they're both bad ass

12/26/2007 8:16:44 PM