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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Comparison Essay

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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.

In my opinion the birth of Benjamin Button is the most important difference in the story.
In the short story Benjamin is born differently than in the movie. For example, in the book Benjamin is born a talking old man, while in the movie Benjamin is first seen as a crying elderly baby. Although it's odd for Benjamin to both start and end his journey as a baby, I feel it was a better change to the story to have him born as a baby instead of an old man because it is more realistic. …show more content…

For example, in the short story Benjamin falls in love with a girl named Hildergarde,they soon become husband and wife after meeting but are driven apart when Benjamin's age gets in the way. While in the movie Benjamin ends up falling for a girl named Daisy whom he never marries due to him growing younger and her older. I think that changing his love interest was important for the movie because it was dramatic seeing the struggles Benjamin and Daisy were faced with. Although he never married Daisy I feel there love was more evident then in Benjamin's relationship with

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