The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[Fire Walk With Me]

I believe that there will be talk about this. Deserved talk.

[crim son]

1. I've seen previews and really want to see it.

Did you? See it, I mean?

[TK421]

2. Still don't know what the hell it's about....details?

I just saw a preview on TV, that's all

[PVnRT]

3. It's about a guy with three penises

[TK421]

4. Can't Hollywood come up with any NEW ideas?

I'm sure this one has been done several times!

[rug]

5. Whose?

[Skittles]

9. can he sport a triple woody?

it's a fair question

[rug]

12. Down, tiger.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. That part is supposed to be a surprise. Way to ruin it, "Darth Vader is Luke's Father" shouter.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttocks"...He only has five asses. He's useless to me.

[MilesColtrane]

17. Yes, based very loosely on the John Cleese novel perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqosS6DBwhA

[Dr. Strange]

6. Try this.

http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=10534

Sounds interesting.

[TK421]

11. Looking at it now, thanks!

[Taverner]

7. Have they ever been able to translate F Scott Fitzgerald to film?

His neuroses seem for print and print alone

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Couldn't tell you, and also, this is from a short story

so the standard "they fucked it up" might well apply.

[pitohui]

16. they're not interested in translating fitz to film

i have a link in my other comment in this thread, the story is slight, the filmmakers have pretty much taken off and created their own idea, including the new orleans setting, and it will probably be a lot more interesting as a result (admittedly i think fitzgerald a god awful bore)

[RetroLounge]

13. Thought This Sounded Familiar

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Max-Tivoli-Novel/dp/0312423810/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230086456&sr=8-1

With a premise straight out of science fiction (or F. Scott Fitzgerald), Greer's second novel plumbs the agonies of misdirected love and the pleasures of nostalgia with gratifying richness. Max Tivoli has aged backwards: born in San Francisco in 1871 looking like a 70-year-old man, he's now nearly 60 and looks 11. Other than this "deformity," the defining feature of Max's life is his epic love for Alice Levy, whom he meets when they are both teens (though he looks 53). Max's middle-aged gentility endears him to Alice's mother and, like an innocent Humbert Humbert, he allows Mrs. Levy to seduce him so that he might be near his love. When he steals a kiss from Alice, the Levys flee. But heartbroken Max gets another chance: when he encounters Alice years later, she does not recognize him, and he lies shamelessly and repeatedly to be near her again. Max's parents, whose marriage is itself another story of Old San Francisco, have advised him to "be what they think you are," and he usually is. But his lifelong friend Hughie Dempsey knows Max's secret, and is intimately connected to the story that unfolds, via Max's written "confessions," in small, explosive revelations. "We are each the love of someone's life," Max begins; it is the implications of that statement, rather than the details of a backward existence, that the novel illuminates. Greer (The Path of Minor Planets) writes marvelously nuanced prose; with its turn-of-the-century lilt and poetic flashes, it is the perfect medium for this weird, mesmerizing and heartbreaking tale.

RL

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. These both likely predate another item with similarities

although this one is more macro:

http://www.biblio.com/Bearing_an_Hourglass-by-Piers_Anthony_-_10301874.html

[pitohui]

15. well my friend's fema trailer had to be edited out of the film, i know that much

actually there is a whole series of videos discussing the making of the film on nola.com for those who are interested

apparently the original short story is pretty skimpy, and most of the material, including the new orleans setting, is original to the movie and comes from finscher not fitzgerald

here is a link:

http://blog.nola.com/mikescott/2008/12/ccbb_day_6.html

there are many days of video about the film so i have not watched them all, in fact, i only watched the first, i don't watch much video but for those into film it is probably quite interesting -- i expect to just watch and see what houses i recognize in the film, other than the obvious, of course, the nolan house which is his house in the film -- they claim to make a point of including 360s and the entire neighborhood -- so -- we shall see!

[Iggo]

18. Granted, I only saw one ad for this flick.

But at first glance: Ew. Just ew.