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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Resettling the story in Lousiana allowed to woven Hurricane Katrina (which happened less than three years before filming) into the plot.
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In 1918, on the very eve that America celebrates the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, a baby boy is born to wealthy entrepeneur Thomas Button and his wife Caroline, and his is a very curious case indeed. He is born as an infant with the physiology and all the ailments of an elderly, shrunken man and his mother, having lost too much blood, dies during childbirth. His agonized and grieving father abandons the baby on the steps of a nearby nursing home where he is discovered by Queenie (Creator/TarajiPHenson), a kind hearted worker at the home, who decides to raise the child as her own and names him Benjamin.
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In 1918, on the very eve that America celebrates the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, a baby boy is born to wealthy entrepeneur Thomas Button and his wife Caroline, and his is a very curious case indeed. He is born as an infant with the physiology and all the ailments of an elderly, shrunken man and his mother, having lost too much blood, dies during childbirth. His agonized and grieving father abandons the baby on the steps of a nearby nursing home where he is discovered by Queenie (Creator/TarajiPHenson), a kind hearted kind-hearted worker at the home, who decides to raise the child as her own and names him Benjamin.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Both Benjamin's love interests - Daisy and Elizabeth - are red-haired.
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!!''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' provides examples of:
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!!''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' provides contains examples of:
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->''"Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people — '''dance'''."''
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Fitzgerald's story is a satire. The movie retains nothing of the story except for the title and the idea of a man ageing backwards.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Fitzgerald's story is a satire. The movie retains nothing of the story except for the title and the idea of a man ageing aging backwards.
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* TruthInTelevision: Developing aspects of ageing at a young age is an actual genetic condition called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria progeria]]. However, it's not as severe as shown in the movie, with a child born resembling an old man, and people with the condition age forwards rather than backwards.
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* TruthInTelevision: Developing aspects of ageing aging at a young age is an actual genetic condition called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria progeria]]. However, it's not as severe as shown in the movie, with a child born resembling an old man, and people with the condition age forwards rather than backwards.
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--> '''Benjamin:''' I'm gonna take you home with me. I wanna look after you.
--> '''Daisy:''' I'm not going back to New Orleans.
--> '''Benjamin:''' I'll stay here in Paris.
--> '''Daisy:''' Don't you understand, I don't want your help! I know I'm feeling sorry for myself, but I don't want to be with you... I tried to tell you that in New York, ''you don't'' listen.
--> '''Benjamin:''' You might change your mind.
--> '''Daisy:''' We are not little children anymore, Benjamin. Just... stay out of my life!
--> '''Daisy:''' I'm not going back to New Orleans.
--> '''Benjamin:''' I'll stay here in Paris.
--> '''Daisy:''' Don't you understand, I don't want your help! I know I'm feeling sorry for myself, but I don't want to be with you... I tried to tell you that in New York, ''you don't'' listen.
--> '''Benjamin:''' You might change your mind.
--> '''Daisy:''' We are not little children anymore, Benjamin. Just... stay out of my life!
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--> '''Benjamin:''' I'm gonna take you home with me. I wanna look after you.
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'''Daisy:''' I'm not going back to NewOrleans.
-->Orleans.\\
'''Benjamin:''' I'll stay here inParis.
-->Paris.\\
'''Daisy:''' Don't you understand, I don't want your help! I know I'm feeling sorry for myself, but I don't want to be with you... I tried to tell you that in New York, ''you don't''listen.
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'''Benjamin:''' You might change yourmind.
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'''Daisy:''' We are not little children anymore, Benjamin. Just... stay out of my life!
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'''Daisy:''' Don't you understand, I don't want your help! I know I'm feeling sorry for myself, but I don't want to be with you... I tried to tell you that in New York, ''you don't''
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'''Daisy:''' We are not little children anymore, Benjamin. Just... stay out of my life!
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