When did " Forest Gump " come out ?
Jennifer Hyland Wang argued in a " Cinema Journal " article that Curran 's death to an unnamed virus " ... symbolizes the death of liberal America and the death of the protests that defined a decade She also notes that the film 's screenwriter , Eric Roth , when developing the screenplay from the novel , had " ... transferred all of Gump 's flaws and most of the excesses committed by Americans in the 1960s and 1970s to her [ Curran .