Father Scott Fitzgerald, the Real Benjamin Button. So sad.

It is obvious that one of the biggest movies of this movie season has been Brad Pitt’s The Curious Benjamin Button Case. With the exception of maybe those weird guys that always wore black in school and liked horror movies, most moviegoers found this movie to be incredibly endearing. Who knows? Maybe some of the horror movie fans would like it, too, but it is doubtful that they saw it.

The Curious Benjamin Button Case is about a man named (you guessed it!) Benjamin Button, but the movie is not, as many of us had suspected, a courtroom drama. In actuality, the ‘case’ is a medical case, a famous one, one that was considered curious by medical people of the time because Benjamin Button was the first person to be recognized as even having this disease, so that’s why it’s famous. Instead of being born a baby and growing old like everyone else, Benjamin Button has a disease that causes him to be born an old person and age backwards. When his mom dies giving birth to Benjamin, his dad realizes how hard being a single dad would be, so he takes the baby to an orphanage for elderly people. The rest of the movie is about the rest of his entire life, basically.

Brad Pitt based his movie on the true life of a man named Father Scott Fitzgerald, whose life story was published in the 1920’s (although he changed the character’s name from his own to Benjamin Button, I think it can still be considered an autograph). Mr. Pitt has updated Father Fitzgerald’s life story to include modern times because it’s doubtless movie goers would want to see an entire movie set in olden times. The movie also doesn’t mention anything about him becoming a priest, but I suppose Mr. Pitt wanted to focus more on the disease itself, the effects of it on the individual and those who love him, and not have a movie about praying and beads.

Brad Pitt Tells Older Actress How To Do Her Scene

Mr. Pitt takes on the role of Benjamin and plays him from an old man to a child. He’s not all that handsome as the old Benjamin, but he does get cuter as the movie goes on. Oh, and he does take his shirt off, so that’s worth waiting for, too. An older actress, Cate Blanchett, plays the woman Brad Pitt marries and then leaves because she is getting older and he is still hot. She sort of narrates the movie in that she talks over the movie while it’s playing. Unfortunately, she is the one person you can’t turn around to in the theater and go ‘Shhhhh’.

X-Man

From the beginning, it is evident that Benjamin Button has some pretty amazing powers. For one, he can’t be killed as evidenced by him surviving wars, motorcycle speeding, storms and sleeping with hookers. I was wondering if Benjamin’s having powers was because of how popular Hugh Jackson’s character X-Man has been on so many movie websites, that maybe Brad Pitt used this theme as a way to attract the super hero fans. The only way Benjamin Button can get more power to stay alive, though, (and this was the saddest part of the movie, in my opinion) is to suck out the life of someone nearby. He has to kill his mom when he is born in order to live, then he has to kill a priest in order to get enough power to walk, then he has to kill his boat friends* in order to survive an attack by a submarine army and so on and so on. Mr. Pitt’s Benjamin spends the entire movie managing to stay one step ahead of the police, so that he doesn’t go to jail for his crimes.

My only real complaints about the movie aren’t technical like, ‘oh, the lighting was bad’ or ‘those shoes are the wrong decade’ or ‘there’s too much butter on this,’ they’re just things I thought to myself or overheard other people say that I thought sounded right. Firstly, I wished Mr. Pitt would have focused a little attention on the policemen who were, more likely than not, chasing what they thought was a serial killer. It would have been interesting to see their reaction when, after decades of chasing Brad Pitt, they finally catch up with him and he’s a baby and then they can’t arrest him because he’s in diapers! Secondly, I would liked to have had the movie focus more on Benjamin’s later life when Mr. Pitt was handsome and less about his being old because I think it is harder for most movie audiences to even like the main character if they are old.

Brad Pitt Plays As An Old Man Baby

Mr. Pitt is really passionate about causes and I think Benjamin Button was made as a way of saying, although it can be cute sometimes, this disease is real and we should do something to find a cure because the babies that look old aren’t very cute.

I give Benjamin Button 4 out of 5 winks.

*NOTE – It wasn’t until seeing this movie that I learned that tattoos have been around since my grandparents’ time. That’s so cool!

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