I was browsing a few websites, looking for new books to review and found a new edition
of Fitzgerald stories is being released in August and it's because there is a movie based on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" coming out this Christmas starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.For those not familiar with the story, it is one of Fitzgerald's less common fantasy stories. The idea for the story originated from a comment that Mark Twain once made about it being a shame that the best part of life was at the beginning and the worst part the end. So the story is part joke, yet melodramatic as it tells the story of a man who is born old and grows younger and younger. He falls in love but while she ages normally, he continues to get younger.
Enough chit-chat, here's the trailer.
I think it's going to be strange, creepy, and fascinating. More than that, I think it's a great opportunity for those less familiar with Fitzgerald's work to give the new edition of short stories a chance. While I was searching for the trailer I even found a website where you can read the story (and other stories from Tales of the Jazz Age) in it's entirety.
What do you think? Will it be good, bad? Maybe you don't care; what movie are you looking forward to?
I work at a theater and I didn't even know it was being made. I'm not familiar with the book but from what the trailer shows its going to be quite interesting to say the least.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think of all Fitzgerald stories, this is probably the strangest to make a movie from, that's probably why they did it though.
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