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| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
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| Directed by | David Fincher |
| Produced by | Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall |
| Written by | Screenplay: Eric Roth Screen story: Eric Roth Robin Swicord Short story: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Starring | Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Taraji P. Henson Julia Ormond Tilda Swinton Mahershalalhashbaz Ali Jared Harris Jason Flemyng |
| Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
| Cinematography | Claudio Miranda |
| Editing by | Kirk Baxter Angus Wall |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (USA) Warner Bros. (international) |
| Release date(s) | December 25, 2008 |
| Running time | 166 min.[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150,000,000[2] |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American film whose main character is adapted from a 1921 short story of the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was directed by David Fincher, written by Eric Roth, and stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The film was released on December 25, 2008.
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Plot
The elderly Daisy (Cate Blanchett) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans, Louisiana hospital, just as Hurricane Katrina approaches the Gulf South on August 29, 2005. She is accompanied by her daughter, Caroline (Julia Ormond), and a nurse at the hospital. The television news broadcasts that a hurricane is approaching the region. As the storm outside intensifies, Daisy asks her daughter to read aloud from a diary containing photographs and postcards written by Benjamin Button. Caroline begins to read, and the story is then told from the point of view of Benjamin in his own voice. The preface of the movie tells the story of a blind clockmaker whose son was killed in battle in World War I. Wishing to reverse time, the clockmaker constructs the clock so that its hands travel backward. The memorial clock is installed in Grand Central Station in New York, its unveiling attended by President Theodore Roosevelt. Afterwards, the clockmaker closes his shop and is never heard from again.
On November 11, 1918, just as the people of New Orleans are celebrating the end of the Great War, a baby boy is born with the appearance and physical limitations of a man who is 85 years old. The mother of the baby dies shortly after giving birth, and his father, Thomas Button, takes the baby and abandons him on the porch of a nursing home close to the docks, leaving $18 in his blanket. Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) and Tizzy (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) find the baby, as they are departing the nursing home. Queenie, who is unable to conceive, decides to take the baby in as her own, against Tizzy's wishes. Queenie brings the baby into the old age home and gives the baby the name of "Benjamin" (Brad Pitt).
Over the course of the story, Benjamin begins to physically grow younger. In 1930, while appearing to be an old man, he meets a young girl, Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the home. Daisy visits the nursing home often and points out how different Benjamin is, despite the appearance of his old age. Daisy's grandmother reads bedtime stories out of a picture storybook for both Benjamin and Daisy. Benjamin and Daisy also play as children, but this is frowned upon by Daisy's grandmother due to the appearance of age differences.
Benjamin starts to work on a tug boat on the docks of New Orleans for a Captain Mike (Jared Harris). Benjamin then finally learns to drink alcohol, visit bars and a brothel with Captain Mike. He also meets Thomas Button, not knowing that this is his father. Later, Benjamin departs New Orleans with the tugboat crew for a long-term work engagement. Before he leaves, Daisy makes him promise to write to her from "everywhere". In Russia, Benjamin meets a British woman by the name of Elizabeth Abbott (Tilda Swinton) in the hotel where they are both staying and falls in love with her. Since Elizabeth is already married, with her husband working as a spy for the British government, they carry on their affair at night in the hotel. One day, on the morning of December 8, 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, Elizabeth leaves unexpectedly and leaves a note behind: "It was nice to have met you."
Benjamin soon gets caught up in World War II, as Captain Mike's boat and crew are enlisted by the US Navy. During a battle, the tugboat rams and sinks a German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the sailors on board the tugboat, including Captain Mike, die of gunshot wounds. After the battle, Benjamin sees a hummingbird way out to sea and mourns painfully for the men on the tugboat, and now sees death in a different way, as opposed to the retirement home where death seemed more natural.
After the war, Benjamin returns to New Orleans, and again meets Thomas Button, who reveals to Benjamin that he is his real father. A dying Thomas Button bequeaths all of his assets to Benjamin, including the house and the button factory that the family ran and owned. Benjamin Button is the last kin in the family. Queenie appears unimpressed by the sudden appearance of Benjamin's real father, referring to the $18 that he left with Benjamin on the nursing home's porch.
Back in the nursing home, Benjamin meets Daisy again, and learns that she has a successful dancing career in New York City. Daisy attempts to seduce Benjamin, but Benjamin refuses. Benjamin later travels to New York to meet Daisy unannounced at a performance. Daisy has fallen in love with a fellow dancer, and Benjamin states that he was there to "sweep" her away. Later, Daisy falls victim to a car accident during a dance tour in Paris, causing her to lose her ability to dance. Benjamin receives notice of this by telegram from one of her friends, and immediately travels to Paris to find her. Daisy's first comment upon seeing Benjamin is "you're perfect," – referring to his youthful appearance, but then she turns Benjamin away, telling him to get out of her life. Later, Daisy regains the ability to walk through intense physical therapy and daily swimming.
In 1962, Benjamin returns to New Orleans and meets Daisy again and the two eventually fall deeply in love as their ages become similar to each other. Benjamin sells the house he had inherited from Thomas Button and moves into a duplex apartment with Daisy. Daisy starts a dance studio for young girls called "Esplanade", presumably for the street address on Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans. Daisy also gets physical therapy treatments from a physiotherapist who lives as their neighbor. The story continues with Daisy and Benjamin struggling to deal with the issue of one growing younger while the other grows older. In a local swimming pool four blocks away from their home, Daisy confesses her desire to become younger. A couple of years pass and Daisy gives birth to a girl, Caroline. Benjamin, realizing he can no longer stay with Daisy due to his youthful appearance and his inability to be a "real father," decides when Caroline is a year old to leave Daisy behind with his possessions and assets.
While reading this, Caroline learns Benjamin Button is her real father. She becomes upset at the fact that Daisy took such a long time to inform her about her father, but in turn finds that in the diary she reads about her father, he has left her a postcard from everywhere for each of her birthdays telling her how he feels about his wonderful daughter. This makes her feel special and she cries as she reads the cards.
Benjamin becomes younger, travels the world, spends time in various third-world countries. Sometime during the 1980s, he returns once again, now under the appearance of a teenager, to meet Daisy in her dance studio. At this point, Daisy has grown older and is married to a widower, and has brought up their daughter Caroline, who is now twelve years old and unaware of Benjamin's past relationship with her mother. Daisy introduces Benjamin to her husband and daughter as a long-time family friend. Daisy and Benjamin then meet privately in Benjamin's hotel where they share their passion for each other, while realizing that Daisy has become too old for Benjamin. Benjamin departs and continues to grow younger until he develops Alzheimer's and dementia as a pre-teen and becomes a young child who has no memory of the past. Daisy, who is now significantly older, spends time with Benjamin and takes care of him as he becomes a younger, more confused 10-year-old boy with a growing youthful temper. At one point Daisy cuddles with the childlike Benjamin as a young child and reads out of the same storybook that her grandmother read to both Daisy and Benjamin when they were young.
In 2002, the train station's clock is replaced with a new digital clock. Sometime after that, Benjamin eventually becomes an infant, and he dies in Daisy's arms. At the moment before Benjamin dies, Daisy claims to have seen through his eyes that he still remembers her, despite the fact that Benjamin has no other way to communicate with her.
The movie ends back in the 2005 hospital room shortly before the power of the hospital was cut due to Hurricane Katrina. When the power goes out, Caroline leaves the room while Daisy passes away as a hummingbird is seen outside the window with air sirens sounding in the background. In the final scene, the reversed clock sits in storage as it continues to tick backwards as the floodwaters enter the room.
Cast
- Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button
- Cate Blanchett as Daisy
- Taraji P. Henson as Queenie
- Julia Ormond as Caroline
- Jason Flemyng as Thomas Button
- Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as Tizzy
- Jared Harris as Captain Mike
- Elias Koteas as Monsieur Gateau
- Ed Metzger as Theodore Roosevelt
- Phyllis Somerville as Grandma Fuller
- Josh Stewart as Pleasant Curtis
- Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth Abbott
- Spencer Daniels as Benjamin Button - Age 12
- Elle Fanning as Daisy - Age 7
- Madisen Beaty as Daisy - Age 10
