![]() And he was sitting on the bench waiting for her to have lunch and all of a sudden the building behind him blows up. ![]() She taught nursery school at a government building in Oklahoma City. And the big event in that, which you could see was diminished only in tragedy, I guess, because it's the same tragedy, but every day he'd go wait for his Native American partner. "He meets on a bus a Native American woman and finds his calling, as a bingo caller on a reservation. Simpson's White Ford Bronco during the infamous chase seen round the world.Īs if all that weren't enough, Roth also included the Oklahoma City bombing in the script: ![]() I'm not exactly sure what's "funny" about that sequence, but hey, what do I know? Other tidbits from Roth's script included Forrest becoming a ballroom dancer, and dancing with Princess Diana and Forrest somehow ending up in the back of O.J. He offers a very different view on the life of the main character compared to the original novel plot of Winston Groom. We had a funny sequence where they were busing in Florida at the same time, so people were angry about either the busing, or kids having to go to school with the kid who had AIDS. Eric Roth, listed in the movie credits as screenplay writer (who was awarded the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Forrest Gump ), rewrote quite a few of the novel’s qualities for dramatic and cinematic purposes. ![]() ![]() "And people wouldn't go to class with him in Florida. "It was gonna start with little boy having AIDS," said Roth. In the video interview above, Roth lays out some details about his script, none of which sound very good. ![]()
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