Browsing through YouTube, I discovered an upcoming movie starring the ever-so-famous Brad Pitt, called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It has been a VERY long time since I have read anything besides medical books, and since it is actually based on a short story, I decided to download the literature the movie was based on and read it in one sitting.
The story is all about the bizaare life of Benjamin Button, a man borne as an aged 80 year old man who gets younger everyday, as if he was aging in reverse. The short story narrated the many conflicts that the character faced because of the contradictions that came from his age. This story was originally written by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the 27th of May, 1922, and it became part of a compilation of short stories called Tales of the Jazz Age. According to Wikipedia, Fitzgerald’s story was inspired by the remark of Mark Twain, that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.
I watched the entire trailer in YouTube and was amazed at the fabulous make up and effects that were done to show the gradual reverse aging process of Benjamin Button, to the point where we see the beautiful face of the actor who plays him. It’s too bad that the only trailer I saw was dubbed in Spanish for an unknown reason. I became so fascinated with the concept of the reverse aging process so much that I downloaded the original short story from the Internet and read how Benjamin Button grew(?) to be an infant in the end. I leave it to you, dear reader, if you want to read the story as well. But definitely, I would recommend that we see the movie. The bad part is that it doesn’t come out until December of 2008! How dare they make me wait that long…
A very old story has been revived to the enjoyment of today’s youth! A 1922 short story?! What imagination… I’m so glad that the filmmakers decided to make this into a film… The magic of cinema is going to show us something that the creator just imagined in his head all those years… I cannot wait to watch this movie! Plus features of the movie is that it also stars Tilda Swinton, my favorite actress from “Constantine”, and there is buzz that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is also gonna make an appearance in the movie.
This is definitely a movie worth looking forward to, and a short story worth reading.
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