![]() ![]() Billy Crystal and Robin Williams wrote some dialogue for Forrest's anti-Vietnam rally speech. In his 1994 review, Roger Ebert gave Forrest Gump four stars and called it “a magical movie,” whereas Entertainment Weekly gave it a “C” rating and said it “reduced the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of Disney’s America.” In 2014, LA Weekly revisited the movie and said, “The film is so afraid to dredge up debate that when Abbie Hoffman hands Forrest the microphone at an anti-war rally, someone unplugs the speakers so we can’t hear him-fitting for a movie with nothing to say.” Ouch. The movie holds the #12 position on IMDb’s Top 250 movie chart, but many critics either loved the movie or really hated it. I probably went too crazy, and Bob started taking back what he thought was too much." 5. Dan always with a cloud over his head, like it's going to rain. I had Jenny always with angels wings, which is a little much. "I pushed the envelope with certain things," Roth told Yahoo! Entertainment. Knowing that the movie would be effects-heavy, screenwriter Eric Roth incorporated a handful of visual elements into the script that never made it to the screen. The script planned for many more special effects to be used. Also, in the book Forrest is described being 6'6" tall and weighing 240 pounds, which is why Groom wanted John Goodman to play Forrest in the movie. ![]() In the book, Forrest ends up going into space, smoking weed, working with Raquel Welch, confronting cannibals, running for the United States Senate (his campaign slogan is “I Got to Pee”), and playing in a chess tournament. ![]() There are big differences between Forrest in the book and Forrest in the movie. And it's a movie in which the great moments that resonate are going to change depending on when you’re watching it." 3. "It’s a really crazy, unique motion picture without a doubt. "It was an absolute crapshoot," Hanks said. Tom Hanks spoke with USA Today for the movie's 25th anniversary and admitted that the film really could have gone either way in terms of the audience's acceptance of it and its main character. Tom Hanks said the movie was "a crapshoot." The cookbook existed before the restaurant chain and has no affiliation with it. Cookbook was released, with a foreword written by Groom. In 1995 Groom wrote a sequel, Gump & Co., and in 1994 The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. When it came out it sold a modest 30,000 copies in hardback, but by 1995-after the success of the film adaptation-it had sold 1.6 million copies in paperback. Novelist Winston Groom published Forrest Gump the book in 1986. Forrest Gump was adapted from a Winston Groom novel, and the book's sales skyrocketed after the movie was released. The Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks as a lovable lummox entered the name “Forrest Gump” into the zeitgeist, and generated the simile catchphrase, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” In honor of Forrest Gump's 25th birthday, here are a few things you might not have known about the Robert Zemeckis classic. ![]() On July 6, 1994, Forrest Gump arrived in theaters and became a box office behemoth (almost $1 billion worldwide in today’s dollars). ![]()
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