Modification
When the film was modified for the big screen, most of the changes were made to Forrest Gump’s character. In the movie, Gump has a lovable, childlike naivety whereas he has more of a wry cynicism in the book. Putting that aside, perhaps the biggest change was made to one of the film’s most iconic lines. The one about how life is like a box of chocolates – that was never in the book and had a totally different tone. The book reads, “Let me say this: bei’n a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks s’posed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you – it ain’t always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interestin’ life, so to speak.”
Modification
