Benjamin Button
Millions of babies are born every second, minute, and hour of every day. We never expect anything but a normal, crying little baby who is only a blessing in our lives. What happens when a sudden shock takes over and your baby is not really a “baby?” In the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the movie who was screen played by Eric Roth, The curious Case of Benjamin Button tells a story of a gentleman who happened to be born under unusual circumstances.
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” This is a quote from Mark Twain that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write his short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 1922. The adaption of literature into film was made in 2008, filmed and directed by David Fincher and storyline by Eric Roth. The Movie (as stated) is a very lose adaption of the book, and the two differ greatly. There are any reasons why it took so long to make a film of a human being living life backwards, one being that the technicality was not created yet. The book and the movie hold the same idea of Benjamin’s strange, unusual aging process, but this is the only comparison between the two. I was astonished by how different the two are from each other.
There were many things that stood out in the movie that were different in the book, such as the way Benjamin was born, his family, his love life, and his career. In the movie, Benjamin Button is born in1918, post World War One. To everyone’s disbelief, Benjamin was born with a strange disease that has no name. There is however a disease called Progeria that is an extremely rare genetic disorder where symptoms resemble aspects of aging at a very early age. As there is no known cure for the disease, few people exceed the age of thirteen. There have been to know only about 150 cases in which one was born with this disease, one being The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
In the Movie, Benjamin was born, and abandoned
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” This is a quote from Mark Twain that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write his short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 1922. The adaption of literature into film was made in 2008, filmed and directed by David Fincher and storyline by Eric Roth. The Movie (as stated) is a very lose adaption of the book, and the two differ greatly. There are any reasons why it took so long to make a film of a human being living life backwards, one being that the technicality was not created yet. The book and the movie hold the same idea of Benjamin’s strange, unusual aging process, but this is the only comparison between the two. I was astonished by how different the two are from each other.
There were many things that stood out in the movie that were different in the book, such as the way Benjamin was born, his family, his love life, and his career. In the movie, Benjamin Button is born in1918, post World War One. To everyone’s disbelief, Benjamin was born with a strange disease that has no name. There is however a disease called Progeria that is an extremely rare genetic disorder where symptoms resemble aspects of aging at a very early age. As there is no known cure for the disease, few people exceed the age of thirteen. There have been to know only about 150 cases in which one was born with this disease, one being The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
In the Movie, Benjamin was born, and abandoned