The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

...Plot == This is the interesting thing about the movie, the plot it was made me want to watch this film anyway. Benjamin Button begins his life at the end of his life, he is born and looks like an 80 year old man, and has to deal with not only learning new things like beginning to talk, walk etc, but also dealing with arthritis and the fact that his organs were failing. The film follows Benjamin as he grows older through the years, but his appearance ...
...the story begins. Benjamin has to live his life get younger, whilst those around him get younger. ==The Cast == Brad Pitt plays Benjamin Button This is the performance of his life, by far. Pitt plays Benjamin, he was born as a baby in an old mans body. As he grows, he begins to get younger, beginning the story of his life. Pitt plays Benjamin from when he was about 7 looking like an old man, through till what should be about 60 where he looks like ...

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...epic of time. It tells the tale of a child born suffering the weaknesses of old age who lives his life backwards, growing younger with every year that passes. A long line of screenwriters have attempted to put this story to film but Eric Roth takes the famous author's premise and creates a more elaborate, beautiful narrative than the short story could ever convey. The film is set in New Orleans, a city known for its endless colour, gentle ways and ...
...sees how disfigured and withered the child's appearance is. Unable to cope with the image in front of him he relinquishes the child on the steps of a rest home where the lovely Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), a loyal and loving black employee takes him in. Among the old folks Queenie brings the child up and he is not out of place with the other patrons. Bent, half-deaf, losing his hair, sat in a wheelchair and covered in age spots, the doctor is convinced ...

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...defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss". ----------------------------------------------- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the worse case scenario for the professional film critic, which isn't me, of course. Its not that it's particularly bad or anything but what it represents. It's strategically released around the awards season in February so the movie press can go along to the freebie junkets and parties and pick up their ...
...stuff about it, and with the studios full PR machine behind the film low-and-behold it gets loads of nominations! Everyone in the business knows it's a very average movie but it cynically fits all the nomination criteria - painstakingly long, dressed with at least two huge A-List stars and intelligent enough to smugly alienate the proletariat to make the Academy feel cleverer than their public by picking it. This is nothing new of course and we have ...

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...circumstances; he was born into the body of an old man with aching joints and wrinkled skin and blindness, an ailment which led to his parents leaving him on the doorstep of a local borstal. After a wild night out a young woman finds the crying baby and decides to offer him a place to stay with her as well as her love, despite being told by doctors that he will surely die within weeks. However, the baby grows stronger everyday and appears to be getting ...
...his life can never be the same as others and it takes on its own very unique twists and turns. The Curious case of Benjamin Button is an example of that rare thing in Hollywood; it is a great piece of story-telling. It takes an unusual premise and runs with it, creating a magical and emotional journey that charms, intrigues and moves in equal measure. It is gorgeously rendered, perfectly acted-out and sumptuously written with a huge amount of heart ...

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...just how caring he was. The older I got the younger his looks got. We had a wonderful friendship and as we talked we shared stories of memories that we both had. He used to work on a boat and his adventures were fascinating. He watched many of his friends die and yet he still lived. He had a lonely life, but through it all he kept his faith. I was born to dance and unfortunately our paths separated for some time until one day a terrible accident ...
...is a short synopsis of the plot, but I don't want to carry on and spoil it for you. I feel after watching the film that I have actually got to know Benjamin personally and each character shared their life with the viewer. This is a heart warming and lovely film the kind of film that only comes along once in a life time. I feel very privileged to have watched it. I watched it on DVD, but was sad to see there was no special features. It would have ...

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...I had high hopes for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Firstly Brad Pitt was in it (how could it possibly be anything but great) and secondly it has been nominated for so many awards that I was really looking forward to seeing it. Unfortunately, although I found it good, it?s not a film I would go and see again and would not really describe it as a classic in my opinion. The film is a love story, that much is certain, a love story across the ...
...found relationships and friendships across the ages. I think the reason why I didn?t love it is because to me nothing really happened, the film just sort of moved along with nothing much to the story and at times dragged a bit I thought and was probably a little bit too long. At one stage my husband and I turned to each other and just sort of felt a bit bored. That?s not to say however that the film was not wonderfully made and well presented. The ...

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Since catching the trailer during mid 2008, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button became one of my personal must see movies. Initially expected to arrive on UK shores at Christmas the movie was delayed slightly for a February 2009 launch, this struck me as being quite odd because it certainly is one of those movies that on initial glimpses oozes Christmas cheer, under the direction of David Fincher (Alien 3, Zodiac, Se7en) this was bound to be a movie ...
...of the movie is that for its lead character Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) he begins life at its end and moves backwards (or forwards if you wish) through to the state a normal person would be at birth. The product born of tragedy, Benjamin arrives in the world with elastic skin, severe arthritis, failure of several organs, and blindness. Unwanted by his father Thomas (Jason Flemyng) he dumps Benjamin on the doorstep of an old people home, a home run ...

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...Henson (Queenie) The story, adapted from a 1921 story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, begins with Caroline standing vigil over her elderly mother as she lay dying in her hospital bed. Outside, the weather is frightening with hurricane Katrina bashing against the shores of New Orleans. Daisy, who is fighting to stay awake regardless of the pain, asks her daughter to fetch a book from her suitcase. Caroline does as requested, and removes a diary from her mother's ...
...from the book... the first sentence of the book is; "I was born under unusual circumstances." As Caroline reads the diary, we are transported back to 1918, just at the end of WWI--Benjamin Button is brought into the world--seconds later, his mother leaves it. Benjamin's father, Thomas Button, who is a wealthy New Orleans factory owner, takes one look at Benjamin's tiny, wrinkled and extremely old face, and turns away in horror. All he sees is a monster. ...

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...He is at home amongst the elderly because he has much of their attributes. As he grows though, he seems to get younger and younger. By the time he is 17, although he looks in his 50s, he decides to leave home, promising to write to childhood friend Daisy from every port of call. Soon, he falls in love and forgets about Daisy, but on returning home after the War, he finds her there, all grown up and beautiful. They eventually embark on a love affair, ...
...Benjamin Button. I don't think the role demands all that much of him; obviously he is aged at first and grows gradually younger (until he is so young that the role is taken on by a child actor), but apart from that, this is very much a story of someone's life and Pitt isn't required to show all that much emotion. Nevertheless, he still does very well and definitely endears himself to the audience - he reminded me very much of Tom Hanks in Forrest ...

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...gets older. When I saw the trailers I was not impressed, but I was baffled as to how, or even why someone would go about making this film. Before you see the film, it really is hard to imagine. Story As an old woman lies dying, and a storm is brewing, her daughter begins reading her a kind of diary written by the man who started his life looking like an elderly man on his deathbed. His story starts in the early twentieth century, when his mother ...
...him at a care home. The nurse there found him and thinking he would not live long, brought him in. Day by day he seemed rather than getting worse, to be getting better. The diary documents all his childhood memories and the key things that happened to shape his life as he "grows," the people he meets and his experience of watching others growing old and dying. I could probably say more, but I won't. With this sort of film it may actually be better ...

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Somewhere in the midst of this film, our protagonists, Benjamin and Daisy are just like any other couple. Daisy (Cate Blanchett) is a dance teacher, Benjamin (Brad Pitt) the inheritor of a button empire fortune; the pair have just bought their own house and spend hours watching TV and generally enjoying each other's company. This, though, is just a snapshot of a moment - and it tells very little of their true story. The pair first met when Benjamin ...
...into the body of an old man, Benjamin is growing younger by the day, meaning the pair's ages have been slowly converging until these few years in the sixties when their life-clocks join up, each in their early forties. Both know, however, that while this brief window has given them a long-awaited opportunity to be together, time will gradually pull them apart once more. As Daisy grows older, the years will fall away from Benjamin, he will become ...

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It is 1918 and the place is New Orleans. A husband is rushing home to is wife who has just given birth to a baby boy but the happiness is very short lived as the woman dies. The baby is not normal as he has the ailments of an 80 year old and has not been given long to live. The Father sees the baby as a monster and leaves him on the doorstep of the nursing home. Luckily the baby is taken in and named Benjamin and he is given all the love and care ...
...life span. Benjamin soon defies the Doctors as he sees his 7th Birthday and seems to be making good progress, he learns to walk and starts to have fun. Being surrounded by old people is a challenge for Ben and he longs to be like other children. Things change for Benjamin when a young girl names Daisy comes to visit her Grandmother. Daisy and Benjamin strike up a great friendship and as time goes on she notices how well Benjamin is doing and how ...

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Rumoured to be one of the most powerfully emotionally dramas of the past few years, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of those films I've been 'curious' watch for the past few months. As part of my Lovefilm order, I watched it the other day, and was riveted from start to finish. That having been said, I didn't find it astoundingly amazing, by any means. It is incredibly well shot, acted and presented, but there was nothing in the story ...
...It's essentially a description of the life of Benjamin Button, who was born an old man and lived his life in reverse, progressing backwards through age as we know it. He intersects his life with others around him, and as they come to terms with his curious case, we see the emotional effects this all has on them and on him. Decisions are often hard, as it must be to watch someone grow old as you are growing younger. And then, vice versa, it must be ...

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...nearly 3 hour film. At the 81st Academy Awards, the film won the following nominations: Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects Best Makeup Brad Pitt plays the character Benjamin Button who is born old. Cate Blanchett portrays Daisy Fuller. a naive dancer who dreams of being a famous ballet dancer. ======== PLOT The plot is a very simple story; I think it was foolish to stretch this out into a 3 hour film as it is not strong enough on its own to ...
...with disgust that he leaves the baby on the steps of the residential home for old people. He's adopted by a kind soul who comes across the baby. But as he lives longer, the younger he ages. This story is essentially about him getting younger and the effect it has on people who have come to bond with him, especially with the character of Daisy Fuller. The interaction between Button and Fuller is quite touching and poignant in parts. The differences ...

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...I first envisaged. It’s not the sort of thing you really give much thought to unless of course your name happens to be Benjamin Button ( Brad Pitt ). When he was born Benjamin was not your usual fresh-faced child, he was wrinkled old and some would say ugly. I personally have no problem with looking old we all have it to come whether we want it or not. I can’t say I’m looking forward with glee to being wrinkled, but hey if that’s part of it then ...
...his father somewhat ashamed of the way his new son looked life didn’t look like it had much of a future for Benjamin. Everyone shied away from him, no-0ne particularly wanted to be close to him, except that is for Queenie, ( Taraji P. Henson ) a lady of ethnic persuasion and one who found love for someone for whom no-one else could. Queenie ran an old folks home and therefore initially only the old people saw Benjamin. As he aged so to speak he was ...

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