Rant Rant Rant

I just read Forrest Gump, the book, and like I was told years ago, it is NOTHING like Forrest Gump, the movie. The movie, I gotta say, caused me to become nauseous and filled with hate.
All it is, is a right-wing revisionist take on the politics and events of the 60's.
And well may them fascists say the left has controlled Vietnam-the-Concept since the 60's, we have and rightfully so. It was a fucking disaster. Even Robert whatsisname said so, that feller, the foreign policy maestro, y'know, The Fog Of War. Pointless war, brutal outcomes, suffering millions etc - but Gump-the-Movie went ahead and rewrote that, damning the protestors - thro Jenny-as-Symbol - as sexually loose (therefore AIDS-punished) and lauding the military, thro Forrest-as-Symbol.
In the book Forrest goes into a kind of super hero frenzy of rage at a protest and semi-kills an official by flinging his Congressional Medal of Honour at the Clerk of the Senate.
Also, he tells whoever wants to know that the war is a "bunch of shit".
The fucking awful Gump-the-Movie kinda forgot that whole perspective.
There should be a law about adapting books for the screen, the opposite law for plays.
Be faithful to the book.
Walk away from the play.

posted by Annie B @ 1:22 PM