The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a film that I had heard so many mixed reviews on I thought that it was about time that I watched what everyone was talking about and if it was worthy of the awards that it received.
With Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett playing the main roles in the film, ... Read review
Full grown with a long smoke-coloured beard requiring the services of a cane and fonder ... more
of cigars than warm milk Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here - including "The Cut-Glass Bowl" in which an ill-meant gift haunts a family's misfortunes "The Four Fists" where a man's life shaped by a series of punches to his face and the revelry mobs and anguish of "May Day" - F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.
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"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "A Diamond As Big As The Ritz". People who were unfailingly polite racked their brains for compliments to give to the parents--and finally hit upon the ingenious device of declaring that the baby resembled his grandfather a fact which due to the standard state of decay common to all men of seventy could not be denied. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were not pleased and Benjamin's grandfather was furiously insulted. Benjamin once he left the hospital took life as he found it. Several small boys were brought to see him and he spent a stiff-jointed afternoon trying to work up an interest in tops and marbles--he even managed quite accidentally to break a kitchen window with a stone from a sling shot a feat which secretly delighted his father. Thereafter Benjamin contrived to break something every day but he did these things only because they were expected of him and because he was by nature obliging. When his grandfather's initial antagonism wore off Benjamin and that gentleman took enormous pleasure in one another's
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I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, ... more
adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any mans life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, ... more
adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any mans life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
Adapted from the classic 1920's story by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case Of Benjamin ... more
Buttonstars Brad Pitt asBenjamin Button - a man born in his eighties who agesbackwards! The film follows Benjamin's story, set in New Orleans, from the endof World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, followinghis journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directedby David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett withTilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas andJulia Ormond, "Benjamin Button," is a time traveler's tale of thepeople and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he losesand finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and whatlasts beyond time.
Production Year: 1998 - Drama - Director: Martin Brest - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Jake Weber, Claire Forlani, Jeffrey Tambor
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: great actors Disadvantages: a little long
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a film that I had heard so many mixed reviews on I thought that it was about time that I watched what everyone was talking about and if it was worthy of the awards that it received.
With Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett playing the main roles in the film, they story picks up from 1918 where Brad Pitt plays Benjamin Button, a baby born in an old person's body, who to start looks ugly and struggles ... .../>
A brief summary of the story is a blind man is commissioned to create a clock to hang in a train station, upset by the news of his son's death in WWI, he creates a clock which runs backwards to try and restore all the lives of loved ones.
One day a young mother passes away after giving birth to a baby boy, unfortunately when the father see his baby boy he notices that the boy is not a normal child and the father leaves the baby ... more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a film that I had heard so many mixed reviews on I thought that it was about time that I watched what everyone was talking about and if it was worthy of the awards that it received.
With Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett playing the main roles in the film, they story picks up from 1918 where Brad Pitt plays Benjamin Button, a baby born in an old person's body, who to start looks ugly and struggles with life who then get younger instead of older as a role reversal to everyone else and how their life normally pans out.
A brief summary of the story is a blind man is commissioned to create a clock to hang in a train station, upset by the news of his son's death in WWI, he creates a clock which runs backwards to try and restore all the lives of loved ones.
One day a young mother passes away after giving birth to a baby boy, unfortunately when the father see his baby boy he notices that the boy is not a normal child and the father leaves the baby on the doorstep of an old peoples home where a lovely lady Queenie find him and brings him up as if he were her own, she and her husband name him Benjamin.
Daisy, an elderly women played by Cate Blanchett, who is on her deathbed, she asks her daughter to read from a diary she wrote many years ago. The Diary links Daisy’s life with Benjamin Button’s and how they knew each other and how their paths crossed on many occasions.
This is a great love story that will have you hooked for start to finish and shows that sometimes when you love someone you have to do what is right for everyone, not just what you would like out of life.
The advantages of this film that it was a very detailed script and therefore set the scene and left you without any questions unanswered like some films do. Both Pitt and Blanchett achieve their roles really well and the fact that they can both play the parts as they age is a testament to how great they are. The special effects also did a great job as making Benjamin the elderly man that he was, was clever as he looked life like and hard to believe that special effects have been used.
The disadvantages of this film were that it was over two and a half hours long, in my opinion I feel that this could have been cut down slightly and some of the parts skimmed over instead of going into them in the great detail they went into as it was starting to drag slightly in the middle before Pitt turned into his younger hansom self. The film ending was also a little predictable which sort of spoilt the ending as I like a film with a twist at the end.
A good film, well worth a watch, I will have to try and get a copy of the book and see if it matches up to the film, as I feel the books normally have more detail, but I am not sure about this one as there was so much description in the film. If you are a Brad Pitt fan this is definitely a film for you, you will not be disappointed.
Contains infrequent strong language and moderate violence
Video Category
Feature Film
Country Of Origin
United States of America
Plot
Following on from SEVEN and FIGHT CLUB, director David Fincher and Brad Pitt team up for a third time with this adaptation of a F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. Pitt plays a man who is born 80 years old, but instead of aging, he grows young. Oscar winner Cate Blanchett co-stars, along with Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton.
Release details
DVD Region
Blu-ray
Studio(s)
WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Director's commentary, Featurettes: Pre-Production, Production, Visual Effects, Sound Design, The Scoring of BENJAMIN BUTTON, Costume Design, Tech Scout, Birth, Interview with composer Alexandre Desplat, Easter egg
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital
Professional reviews
Review
Aptly for a film so concerned with time, BUTTON is 13 minutes shy of three hours and just flies by. If this is Fincher selling out, can he sell out more often please? (Empire, 30/04/2009)
Superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date (Hollywood Reporter, 30/04/2009)
Above all, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON is a triumph of technique (New York Times, 30/04/2009)
Naturally, Pitt and Blanchett are outstanding. Fincher's meticulous attention to detail is unerring, down to the light fixtures (Premiere, 30/04/2009)
David Fincher's fable about a man who gets younger as the world grows older is a technical marvel... The make-up and special effects are sensational (The Times, 30/04/2009)
A sprawling, enthralling movie (Time Magazine, 30/04/2009)
This odd, epic tale of a man who ages backwards is presented in an impeccable classical manner, every detail tended to with fastidious devotion... An historic achievement, a masterful piece of cinema (Variety, 30/04/2009)
DVD Description
At once epic in scope and intimate in detail, David Fincher's THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON is certainly the director's most emotional film to date (though FIGHT CLUB and SEVEN don't offer much in the way of competition). Loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this romantic drama tells the tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), born in 1918 in New Orleans as a baby with wrinkles, cataracts, and arthritis. Benjamin will age backwards, getting younger as he watches those around him growing older. Included in that group are his adoptive mother, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), and Daisy (Cate Blanchett), the love of his life whom he meets when she is just a little girl and he is an old man. They age in reverse, but despite Benjamin's globe-trotting adventures, their lives repeatedly intersect. The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few hallmarks in common with his earlier work on FORREST GUMP: both adaptations cross decades and continents. But BENJAMIN's script or even the fine acting aren't its most impressive accomplishment; the technology--both CGI and makeup--used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are remarkable, and makes the film entirely believable, but they're certainly aided by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the beauty of this film and of the love story at its heart.
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