Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

I'll accept that I could be wrong. And that it was other factors that had me half-lidded sitting on the couch. But I'm probably not going to find out for sure.

On Benjamin Button, I just read the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story that it was inspired by. Here is what was kept by the movie:

There was a character named Benjamin Button.
That character was born physically old (though in the short story he was born standing 5'9" and able to talk) and aged physically in reverse.
He was from a wealthy family.

Absolutely everything else in the movie was written from whole cloth and can not be blamed on Fitzgerald (though I'll admit that a faithful filming of the short story would have likely sucked many eggs, but who knows). The love story; the travel; the location (New Orleans in general and the retirement home specifically); the adoption by a black woman; etc.