Benjamin Button
Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a drama fantasy movie starring Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, a man who is different from any other man in the world. At age 50 strange things happened to him. Instead of aging his life is aging backward. And his life becomes more complicated when he falls in love with a woman of 30. This movie is inspired by a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Maybe the right way to look at this isn’t to say that the movie takes Fitzgerald’s short story and adds all sorts of extraneous material to make it fill a feature film. Maybe the answer, instead, is that Fincher and Roth will truly explore an idea that Fitzgerald was content to merely toy with. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fun little read that only hints at some moving, disturbing implications, but the movie looks like it will actually realize them. In that sense, the short story will truly be the “inspiration” for the film.
More adaptations should take that approach.
The film adaptation of the story starring Brad Pitt (as Benjamin Button) and directed by David Fincher (who also directed Pitt in Fight Club and Seven) opens on December 19, 2008. This adaptation will allow fans of the film to experience the original source material in a fresh and fun graphic-novel format.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 film loosely adapted from the 1922 short story of the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is directed by David Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The film will be released December 25, 2008.
Benjamin returns home, and as the years progress he goes from being a moody teenager to being a young boy. As his body grows younger, Button slowly begins to lose his memory of his earlier life. The toys and games that he spurned as a newborn begin to interest him. As he reaches the end of his life he becomes a baby, and his nanny takes him for walks and teaches him to say words.
Pictures and Paramount Pictures joined to co-finance the project, with Paramount Pictures marketing the film in foreign territories and Warner Bros. In the same month, director David Fincher entered negotiations to replace Ross in directing the film.
The latest cooperation between David Fincher and Brad Pitt is finishing it’s shooting with an 8 day stint in Montreal. The movie, which has already been shooting for half a year in New Orleans and Los Angeles, is causing quite a stir in the city.
Parts of old Montreal are being made to look like 1940′ Paris and Montreal, and there is going to be a large shipment of fake snow coming to the Canadian city over the coming weekend. Pitt will play Button, while Blanchett is taking the role of the woman who loves him.
Pitt was supposed to arrive for the shoot yesterday, flying in from Cannes, while Blacnhett has already been in Montreal for a few days.
Canadian screenwriter Alex Epstein lives in one of the Montreal streets where shooting is taking place on the new Brad Pitt/David Fincher movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. When he looks out of his window, he doesn’t see Montreal, he sees 1940’s Paris.
And indeed, the trailer suggests something epic and larger-than-life, something resembling Forrest Gump in scale. Benjamin apparently globe-hops, since parts seem set in Russia. Fincher has conceptualized Benjamin’s anti-aging in a way that makes some visual sense: he’s born baby-sized but shriveled, becomes a diminutive old man, then finally begins to resemble Brad Pitt. In the story, Benjamin apparently pops out of his mother fully grown.) The romance has obviously become the heart of the story.
