The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) on Netflix
PG-1320082h 46mDramaFantasyRomance
Born with the body of an old man, Benjamin Button ages backward as the years pass. Raised in a New Orleans nursing home, he meets Daisy, and their lives keep crossing.
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Plot summary
During Hurricane Katrina, elderly Daisy lies dying in a New Orleans hospital and asks her daughter Caroline to read from the diary of Benjamin Button. Benjamin is born on November 11, 1918, with the ailments of an old man, and his mother dies in childbirth. Thomas Button, his father, leaves the baby outside a nursing home, where the caretaker Queenie raises him. His body grows younger while his mind moves forward. Daisy's grandmother lives at that home, and the two meet when she is seven. He later takes work on a tugboat and travels, sending her postcards while she wins a place in a New York ballet company.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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- In a 2014 interview with Empire, Peter Jackson claimed to have been offered the film "five or six years" before Fincher, but turned it down.
- Additional time was needed at visual effects house Digital Domain to make the effects for the metamorphosis of Brad Pitt's character to the infant stage. The director used a camera system called Contour, developed by Steve Perlman, to capture facial deformation data from live-action performances.
- Several digital environments were created by Matte World Digital, including multiple shots of the interior of the New Orleans train station showing architectural alterations and deterioration throughout different eras. The station was built as a 3D model using Next Limit's Maxwell rendering software, an architectural visualization tool.
- The score was written by French composer Alexandre Desplat, who recorded it with an 87-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.
