Analysis Of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

As Benjamin transition out of adolescent, he constantly struggles with the decision regarding his future and to find the best way of becoming a man. Ironically, it is his relationship with Mrs. Robinson that helps Benjamin transformation

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

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by Eric Roth and based on a short novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story of an interesting man who lives his life backwards. The movie takes place in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina and is told in a flashback perspective from the love of Benjamin’s life, Daisy and their daughter, Caroline. I have heard many times throughout my life and nursing career, including from myself, “If I could only go back and know what I know now.” Benjamin Button lived this theory, a theory that seems very similar to the Gerotranscedence theory. Scheidt (2017) states in regards to his own aging “I am dealing with the messages of friends and strangers who make me aware almost daily – most often in a

Ben is also a very peculiar character.  The audience first encounters him with the full knowledge that he is dead.  Ben is also the one figure that is able to move freely between the past and the present.  Because Ben represents that which Willy seeks, Willy feels that he can achieve his goal the same way that Ben did and so he believes that "opportunism, cheating and cruelty are success incarnate" (Smith).

The moral of this story is “Can life events cause us to change our priorities?” and the answer to this is yes. All of Tom’s life was change when he got stuck outside the window trying to get a piece of paper. A piece of paper that had 2 months’ work on it. After he gets in, he decides to go find his wife and watch the movie with her. Which I thought was amazing after what happened to tom that

Ben exemplified compassion in many cases, were he would sacrifice himself or his personal trails for someone else troubles. In reality this scene can compare with real life cases in the world today how compassion can be shared with people to impact others. In the movie Ben finds himself falling in love with a girl name Emily, who has an enlarged heart that he later gave his life for her to survive. Ben shared compassion with 6 other people, but given the most compassion to Emily.

Identity typically changes with age, however he changes very little because he does not have full awareness of his identity. “Age identity refers to the inner most experience of a person’s age and aging process” (Jose 2017). Fitzgerald emphasizes Benjamin’s loss of consciousness more in the novel than Fincher does in the film. At a certain point, Benjamin stops struggling to determine who he is and just essentially waits for time to run out. He would play simply games with his grandson when they are both around the age of children beginning kindergarten. Benjamin and his grandson would continue this until he passed away. In contrast, it seems that Benjamin and his wife fight further to the end in the film, and he passes away with her by his side. The relationship between Benjamin and Daisy was stronger in the film than in the novel. His identity is very important to him in the middle of his life when he wants to go to college and enroll in the war, but towards the end he loses awareness of any self-perception he had built and slips into

Now in the literary story Benjamin has a grandfather who at the start was antagonized, became to enjoy his grandson’s company. It is a brief account of his grandfather but a meaningful one as this was the first one who gave him a sense of acceptance. The film version gave him acceptance through Queenie and we never get to know a grandfather; though one could say the patrons at the old folk’s home could have been grandparent surrogates for Benjamin. The patrons at the old folks home taught him many things but his experience living there taught him not to fear death and what loss was about which, in a sense, desensitized the character so that when Queenie passes he is not visibly upset.

Droplets rippled the newly formed puddle, a flurry of mist skimmed down the canvas umbrella as the Bessons reached the steps… and still, he watched. Hands grappled at her arms pulling her urgently into Delivery Room A. Hours later the couple beam over their newborns. “What about names?”, inquired the nurse, “ Eugene after his grandfather, and Myra after my mother.” she replied as the Bessons became locked in each others gaze. The moment was perfect… and still, he watched. The young babies’ hospital stay was prolonged a short while by cause of a small sickness… and he planned. As their time tallied to nearly a week, he took action. Moving swiftly under the dimness of the hour the figure swept in and out of the hospital in a premeditated

During the Film, Benjamin and Elaine reflect this feeling of rebellion for a change. But it’s more noticeable in Ben. “It’s like I’ve been playing a game, but the rules don’t make any sense. They are being made up by all the wrong people”. Benjamin says to Elaine during their date. The protagonist has a constant struggle questioning whether he’s content with his life or miserable with it. He lives in a world consumed by materialism where it has led him to feel empty. Everyone around him is focused on the physical possessions that could improve their lives to the point where this over saturation of material things has created an empty society. This is evidenced by the line when Mr. McGuire, a family friend gives him an advice. “It’s a great

In conclusion, Benjamin could not turn back time and fix the past. It was too late. He may not have known that he was at fault for everything. Maybe one day when Benjamin is living happily at Sugar-candy Mountain with Boxer enjoying their retirement, he will look back at the times when he lived on the Animal Farm and realize that it was not, Napoleon, Boxer, or Squealer that was at fault for the events and actions that happened at the animal farm. It was Benjamin’s

As Tom Benecke dangled from his eleventh-story apartment over Lexington Avenue, reflecting on his life thus far, it became apparent that life’s events can alter personal priorities. At the beginning of the story, Jack Finney depicts a man too preoccupied with unnecessary work to spend time and go out with his wife, despite his internal protestations. To start, through the plot’s progression, the protagonist contemplates his accomplishments. This is first observed when Tom Benecke is suspended just outside of his window in the cool New York City sky after attempting to retrieve his sheet of paper stolen by the wind. He imagines the yellow paper, which contains his exhaustive research, nestled tenaciously within his pocket as he plummets to certain

There have been a lot movies based in World War II.  The one that stands out the most is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  Made in 2008, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is a Holocaust movie filmed from the frame of reference of an eight-year-old boy.  The director-writer, Mark Herman took the story of two boys, written by John Boyne, and developed a masterpiece (The Boy in).  With the use of these two boys, Mark Herman takes the divide of cultural bias and economic injustices and links them together.  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an accomplished film made with incredible character development, heart-warming acting, powerful viewpoint, and a meaningful message.

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” written by Eric Roth and based on a short novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story of an interesting man who lives his life backwards. The movie takes place in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and is told in a flashback perspective from the love of Benjamin’s life, Daisy and their daughter, Caroline. I heard many times throughout my life and nursing career, including from myself, “If I could only go back and know what I know now.” Benjamin Button lived this theory, a theory that seems very similar to the Gerotranscedence theory (Touhy & Jett, 2016, p. 37). Scheidt (2017) states in regards to his own aging “I am dealing with

The short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, written in 1922 by author F. Scott Fitzgerald, does a very good job at showing its audience, the genius loci of Baltimore, Maryland without utilizing many physical descriptions pertaining to the setting. The text instead focuses on social and personal factors that shape a community in order to create the persona behind genius loci.