La fin du film s’écarte considérablement de celle du roman. Dans le cas de Forrest Gump, cependant, ces modifications furent extrêmes, puisque le gentil idiot poli du film est radicalement différent du Forrest du roman. À chaque fois qu’un roman est adapté et que ses personnages migrent de la page à l’écran, leur entité littéraire est nécessairement altérée pour correspondre aux spécifications du nouveau medium. puisqu’elle ne figure même pas dans le roman. “Cours, Forrest, cours!” : cette célèbre citation du film à succès de Robert Zemeckis est d’une certaine manière emblématique des multiples transformations que subit le personnage éponyme du récit à la première personne de Winston Groom au cours du processus de son adaptation pour le cinéma….
In this paper, I shall be concentrating on some of these obvious differences in the characterisation of Forrest without making value judgments on the perceived quality of the film or the novel, but by attempting to find out the reasons why the screenwriter and the director chose that very particular reading. The endings of the film and the novel also differ considerably, the sour sweet and conventional filmic closure fundamentally departing from the rather sad open ending of the picaresque novel. In the case of Forrest Gump however these alterations were quite extreme, for the nice, kind idiot of the film is radically different from the Forrest of the novel. Whenever novels are adapted and their characters migrate from the pages of the book onto the silver screen, their literary entity is necessarily altered to fit in with the requirements of the new medium. “ Run, Forrest, run!”: this famous quotation from Robert Zemeckis’ hugely successful Forrest Gump is in a way emblematic of the many transformations undergone by the original eponymous character in Winston Groom’s first person narrative in the process of adapting it for the cinema… since it does not even appear in the novel.
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