![]() ![]() ![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Story by Chris Morgan Jul 11 Auto Rotation On Full screen 1 of 21 Photos in Gallery ©Paramount Pictures 20 fact you might not know about Forrest Gump Forrest Gump. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. But he returned to fiction nearly two decades later with "El Paso," another book in which the main character interacts and reckons with history.Ĭopyright © 2020 NPR. LIMBONG: So he wrote histories of wars, generals and Alabama football. GROOM: After the commercial success of "Forrest Gump," I didn't really have any ideas that really grabbed me. Groom tried fiction a few more times, but his heart really wasn't in it. LIMBONG: Groom then worked as a reporter for a while but always wanted to be a novelist, so he mined his time in Vietnam for inspiration for his first novel, "Better Times Than These." "Forrest Gump" was published in 1986 and sold well enough until, of course, the movie came out and made the book a bestseller. WINSTON GROOM: It was like being in a year-long car wreck. After college, he joined the Army and did a year in Vietnam, as he told NPR in 2016. ![]() LIMBONG: Author Winston Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but he was raised in Mobile, Ala. UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: (Reading) So whatever ails old General Forrest done, starting up that Klan thing was not a good idea. LIMBONG: What's played for a brief joke in the movie is, in the book, an almost William Faulkner-like metaphor for Southern history and familial baggage. Director Robert Zemeckis' adored adaptation of Winston Gloom's 1986 novel proved the Back to the Future director was one of the most prestigious filmmakers of the late 20th century, and it. And even my grandmama say they's a bunch of no-goods. And he was a great man, she'd say, except when he started up the Ku Klux Klan after the war was over. UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: (Reading) Mama always said we was kin to General Forrest's family some way. Forrest Alexander Gump is a fictional character and the title protagonist of the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, Robert Zemeckis ' 1994 film of the same name, and Gump and Co., the written sequel to Groom's novel. In the audio book, listen to the way the character reckons with his namesake, the notorious Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. NPR's Andrew Limbong has this appreciation.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: The Forrest Gump from the book is bigger, burlier, a little rougher around the edges than Tom Hanks in the movie. TOM HANKS: (As Forrest Gump) My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get.ĬORNISH: Winston Groom died Wednesday in Fairhope, Ala., where he was remembered by the city's mayor as well as the state's governor. Before he served in Vietnam, author Winston Groom says he wanted to write but didnt have anything to write about. He wrote the novel "Forrest Gump," which of course eventually became the Oscar-winning hit movie starring Tom Hanks. ![]()
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