You're So Young
Upon viewing the entrancing new trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a friend sent an email commenting that “it should be a law that Fincher and Pitt just make movies together all the time.” Typically, I’m against new regulation, but I think this might be a cause I could get behind. I think there’s a compelling case to be made that similar requirements might have saved De Niro. Anyone up for co-authoring a white paper?
I’m at work so I can’t watch this— ok so is it like Merlin, where to everyone else he appears to age normally, but to him he actually lives life backwards— he experiences time back to front (so that when he asks Arthur how long ago they met, and Arthur says “20 minutes ago”, he cries, because he’s only got 20 minutes left with his friend)? Or is it that he’s born old and ages backwards, but is otherwise moving forward in time?
— Lifafa Das · Jun 19, 05:53 PM · #
Lifafa — the second one. I believe it’s that he’s born an old man, and he ages backwards while everything else moves normally.
— Peter Suderman · Jun 19, 06:17 PM · #
Agreed on the law, but only with the corollary that no filmmaker is ever allowed to use Saint-Saens’s “Aquarium” ever again, in a trailer or in a feature. Yes yes, we get it, yours is a tale of tinkly magic and wide-eyed wonder. Now find some new music!
— Sebastian · Jun 20, 05:44 AM · #