This could be an interesting movie. The question with these book-to-movie adaptations is how much will they mangle the plot for the sake of cinema? How much will they pad the original story for drama and angst. Or will this be worth seeing?
The plot of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is simple (sorta). Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story is of Benjamin Button who is born as an old man, his mind fully intact, his body feeble and withered. As the years go by, Benjamin ages backwards, growing younger, while everyone around him grows older. He lives life in a peculiar manner, moving back through the various stages of experience and mental maturity in reverse of everyone around him, yet at the same time showing how life mirrors itself at either extremes of age and youth.
What affect does this odd life have on his parents? Those he loves? How does he make and keep friends when the gulf of age widens between them?
It’s a very short book (almost a short story, really), and easily read in one or two commutes to work (if you ride the bus like I do). Or you could sneak it in during the stoplights. I don’t think reading the book is going to spoil the movie at all. But will the movie spoil the book for folks? We’ll have to wait and see.
I see that smile.