Here’s a helpful comparison for understanding why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button really shouldn’t have been made into a movie: Consider Franz Kafka’s ...
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For all its highbrow aspirations, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button remains a gimmick in search of a message. Brad Pitt plays the title character, born near the end of World War I as a prematurely ...
Intermittently throughout "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an elderly man recounts in a worn and quivering voice, "Did I tell you how I was struck by lightning seven times?" Cut to a silent-film ...
"Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand, the film ...
Why it’ll win: “Button” is thematically gripping, viscerally poignant, visually stunning storytelling with a literary backbone in the way of an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story that will appeal to the ...