Film Analysis Story vs. Film - Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Through characterisation, the author is able to express the main idea of disempowerment and also allowing us as readers to feel discontented and upset towards the main character.

When directors choose to adapt a novel or short story to fit the silverscreen, they often face the arduous task of keeping the author’s original plot in tow as well as, putting forth a believable product. In the case of Scotts Fitzgerald’s short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director, David Fincher and screenwriter, Eric Roth chose to scrap the original framework of the story and start anew. Although Fincher and Roth keeps the basic idea of Benjamin Button’s existence the same, their screen adaption tells a more sincere version of how it would feel to live life in reverse. However, both the director and screenwriter acknowledge that Benjamin’s tale cannot be told without giving the audience an explanation for why he is born

Benjamin learns a great deal about life and society through the story. Such as learning to deal with judgement and comments from society and also learning more about himself as a person. This made me realise that I should also focus less about what others judge me on and focus more on how I can challenge myself and grow bigger as a person.

The nursing home that Benjamin knew as a boy always welcomed him back home. Benjamin returned to New Orleans in 1945 and back to his mother Queenie. Daisy visits with him after his return; both are nearing the same age in appearance. At this point Daisy tries to seduce Benjamin but Benjamin refuses her efforts. Its as though Benjamin is aware of his own age, Scheidt (2017) mentions that during middle age

Characters: Although there were a reasonable amount of characters in the story, there were only two that were important and consistent throughout the book. The others didn’t have much of an impact into the story.

Benjamin is obviously not your typical baby, not that long after he is born he starts to sneak his father’s Havana cigars and reads the encyclopedia. His father tries setting him up on play dates, which he does not like. Benjamin best friend for the beginning part of his life is his grand father because no one else would talk to him. His parents try sending him to kindergarten and he is kicked out for he keeps falling asleep. Ultimately no matter how hard Mr. Button believes his son is normal which he is not and has fatuous “silent agreement with himself to believe in his son’s normality” (Fitzgerald

All three of these characters struggle with improper parent figures and have to develop ways to be their own individual. The books display how harmful society and those contain within it can be affected. They example how improper teachings, the perspective

Near the end of the novel the narrator realises the limitations in the depiction of character and event:

The obligation, superiority and tragic flaw are shown by the main character because they are explained thoroughly through the book, therefore making them facts. The goodness and realization aspects are assumed by some readers based

In 2008, David Fincher made a movie adapted from the short story “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both the movie and the book follow the life of the main character Benjamin Button. The theme of the story remains the same; man who is born old and ages backwards. The movie differs from the short story immensely because Benjamin is introduced differently, has a different love interest and a different child.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the phenomenal book known as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. David Fincher directed the accolade-winning movie adaptation. I inspected and analyzed the two forms of media thoroughly on Benjamin Button, for this book report. The book and the movie elucidated the life of Benjamin Button and his difficult condition. His age was regressing! This is an inherent problem that consumes him. Later, we see how Benjamin Button with full knowledge of his affliction, lived life to the fullest before his death. In this report, I will compare and contrast the book and movie. Although the book and the movie were parallel stories, they were two different entities.

Shown in the story Benjamin has a faint line of support from his father, and unconditional love from his grandfather as they reminisce over happy days. Benjamin Button’s father tries to persuade himself that his son's condition is normal to go on with his life. Proved by this quote shown in the story “ Roger Buttons silent agreement with himself to believe his sons normality.” As shown in the movie Ben's father ran in fear due to the reputation and responsibility facing him, dropping him off at the doorstep of a nursing home with a new mother called by the name Queenie. Benjamin Button faced neglect at the time Yale College denied his right to earn a education.

The success of literary works depends greatly on the quality of its characters, which is why it is essential to have characters, both major and minor, with distinct and contrasting personalities. Not only are minor characters used as foils for the major characters by emphasizing their important character traits, but in many cases they furthermore play a crucial role in the advancement of the plot. In the three novels that were examined this year, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner, and The Handmaids Tale, the minor character had a pivotal role in the development of the plot. In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is not only the narrator but he is the image of order in a society of disorder. In The Kite Runner, Rahim Khan is the moral center

The second character that I found interesting was Kurtz. At a first glance, Kurtz seems to be like the guy that everyone looks up to. Throughout the story, it becomes clear that he is very manipulative though. Despinte his charisma and the bright light he is viewed in, he uses that to the loss of knowledge of others. That is, Kurtz is a great writer, but instead of using that talent to inform people about the wrong that is happening in Africa, he pads all of his words so that people can not see the true gruesome deeds being done there. Kurtz plays an important role in the conclusion of the story. He dies leaving behind a complicated construct of injustice, corruption, and intrigue. His actions caused nothing good and were more or less intended to degradingly exploit the African natives.

Set apart from the parameters of normal human society, Benjamin Button, a man who was born to age backwards, falls in love with a young girl, Daisy, who ages forwards. Benjamin’s story is read aloud to Daisy by Caroline, her daughter, as she lay on her deathbed.  In scenes set with peculiar curiosity and subtle fantasy, Benjamin embarks on an unusual journey to grasp the meaning of life and find his own sense of identity. Benjamin and Daisy’s paths cross many times before their unorthodox romance reaches fate and picks up in the middle.  As he grows younger and Daisy slows with age, Benjamin discovers the rich futility of love as time causes the two to fall out of sync once again. Although its final plot ends like any other love story, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is arguably the next great cinematic breakthrough with its unique emotional paradoxes, ingenuitive digital effects, and complex subplots. This movie was challenging to evaluate because never before has a film combined subplot ingenuity so seamlessly with the delicate techniques of innovative film making and traditional cinematic endings.