The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2. American romanticfantasydrama film directed by David Fincher.
The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1. F. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life. The film was released in North America on December 2. The film went on to receive thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P.
Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects. In 2. 00. 5, elderly Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches; she asks her daughter, Caroline, to read aloud from the diary of Benjamin Button. From the reading, it is revealed that on the evening of November 1. The baby's mother died after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, abandons the infant on the porch of a nursing home. On Thanksgiving 1.
The film is a case of lost in translation, with the Telugu dubbed version making it tedious to connect with the milieu. Perry Mason is on the case in this early version of the enduring series. In this often humorous outing, he is dabbling in gourmet cooking as an amateur chef in San Francisco restaurant. With Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Claire Dodd. Perry interrupts his vacation plans when an ex-girlfriend, now newly married, asks him to help her with murder and bigamy charges.
Benjamin meets seven- year- old Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. He and Daisy become good friends. Later, he accepts work on a tugboat captained by Mike Clark.
Benjamin also meets Thomas Button, who does not reveal that he is Benjamin's father. In Autumn 1. 93. 6, Benjamin leaves New Orleans for a long- term work engagement with the tugboat crew; Daisy later is accepted into a dance company in New York City under choreographer George Balanchine. In 1. 94. 1, Benjamin is in Murmansk, where he begins having an affair with Elizabeth Abbott, wife of the British Trade Minister.
That December, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting the United States into World War II. Mike volunteers the boat for the U.
S. Navy; the crew is assigned to salvage duties. During a patrol, the tugboat finds a sunken U. S. A German submarine surfaces; Mike steers the tugboat full speed towards it while a German gunner fires on the tugboat, killing most of the crew, including Mike. The tugboat rams the submarine, causing it to explode, sinking both vessels. Benjamin and another crewman are rescued by U. S. Navy ships the next day.
In May 1. 94. 5, Benjamin returns to New Orleans and reunites with Queenie. A few weeks later, he reunites with Daisy; they go out for dinner. Upon failing to seduce him afterward, she departs. Benjamin later reunites with Thomas Button, who, terminally ill, reveals he is Benjamin's father and wills Benjamin his button company and his estate.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by. Rating is available when the video has been rented. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button full movie (HD. We accept walk-ins for nearly all of our services. Visit us today ICYC - In Case You're Curious. Teen-Friendly Health Services; Teen Patient Frequently Asked Questions; Health Info Online; ICYC - In Case.
In 1. 94. 7, Benjamin visits Daisy in New York unannounced but departs upon seeing that she has fallen in love with someone else. In 1. 95. 4, Daisy's dancing career ends when her leg is crushed in an automobile accident in Paris. When Benjamin visits her, Daisy is amazed by his youthful appearance, but, frustrated by her injuries, she tells him to stay out of her life. In spring 1. 96. 2, Daisy returns to New Orleans and reunites with Benjamin. Now of comparable physical age, they fall in love and go sailing together. They return to learn that Queenie has died, then move in together.
In 1. 96. 7, Daisy, who has opened a ballet studio, tells Benjamin that she is pregnant; she gives birth to a girl, Caroline, in the spring of 1. Believing he can not be a proper father to his daughter due to his reverse aging, Benjamin departs after selling his belongings, leaving a bank account book holding the proceeds behind for Daisy and Caroline; he travels alone during the 1.
Benjamin returns to Daisy in 1. Now married, Daisy introduces him, as a family friend, to her husband and daughter. Daisy admits that he was right to leave; she could not have coped otherwise. She later visits Benjamin at his hotel, where they again share their passion for each other, then part once more. In 1. 99. 0, widowed Daisy is contacted by social workers who have found Benjamin. When she arrives, they explain that he was living in a condemned building and was taken to the hospital in poor physical condition, and that they found her name in his diary. The bewildered social workers also say he is displaying early signs of dementia.
Daisy moves into the nursing home in 1. Benjamin for the rest of his life. In the spring of 2. Benjamin dies in Daisy's arms, physically an infant but chronologically 8. Having finally revealed the story of Caroline's father to her, Daisy dies as Hurricane Katrina approaches. Production. The first choice to direct it was Frank Oz, with Martin Short attached for the title role, but Oz could not work out how to make the story work.
The film was optioned in 1. Steven Spielberg, with Tom Cruise attached for the lead role, but Spielberg left the project to direct Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. Other directors attached were Patrick Read Johnson and Agnieszka Holland. Stark eventually sold the rights to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, who took the film to Paramount Pictures, with Universal Pictures still on as a co- production partner. By summer 1. 99. 4, Maryland Film Office chief Jack Gerbes was approached with the possibility of making the film in Baltimore.
In October 1. 99. Robin Swicord wrote for director Ron Howard an adapted screenplay of the short story, a project which would potentially star actor John Travolta. The studio also attached director Spike Jonze to helm the project.
Henson entered negotiations to be cast into the film. He co- starred with Ormond in Legends of the Fall, with Flemyng in Snatch, with Harris in Ocean's Twelve, with Blanchett in Babel and with Swinton in Burn After Reading. Filming. In January 2. Blanchett joined the shoot. Principal photography was targeted to last a total of 1.
Additional time was needed at visual effects house Digital Domain to make the visual effects for the metamorphosis of Brad Pitt's character to the infant stage. The train station was built as a 3. D model and lighting and aging effects were added, using Next Limit's Maxwell rendering software. The film has come to gross $1. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 7. Movies reported the film received a B+ average score from critical consensus, based on 1.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button suggests an addendum: a life lived backwards can be far more enriching. Scott of The New York Times states: . Fincher has added a dimension of delicacy and grace to digital filmmaking. What's less clear is whether it entirely earns its own inflated sense of self- importance. I didn't buy it for a second. It's a gimmick that goes on for nearly three hours. It's Forrest Gump goes backwards.
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