The curious case of the “Benjamin Button” trailer
A trailer for the anticipated David Fincher film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” came along with prints of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” (Frank Marshall is the producer for both films.) The atmospheric trailer, with music from the Aquarium movement of Camille Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals,” got movie fans buzzing over the Memorial Day weekend.
But the English-language version of the trailer is nowhere to be found online, and word on the Web is Paramount Pictures forced YouTube and the like to take it down. All that can be found is the Spanish-language version, which for some reason has been spared.
Based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, the film stars Brad Pitt as a man who is born 80 years old and ages backward. The tagline, appropriately enough, is “I was born under unusual circumstances.”
From the looks of the trailer, Cate Blanchett plays his love interest, who gets older as he gets younger. Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton and Jason Flemyng also co-star in the movie, which is getting the first Oscar buzz of the year.
The movie will be the third Fincher and Pitt have made together; the others are “Se7en” and “Fight Club.”
Here’s the Spanish version of the trailer, which doesn’t have too much dialogue in it anyway. Hopefully, the English trailer will be made available soon, since it’s a great preview for a movie I have been itching to see for more than two years.
The film opens Dec. 19.
-BAM
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I didn’t realize that fans were buzzing over this movie. The reaction I heard in the theater went more like this “Huh?” followed by a disinterested “Huh.” If I were them, I wouldn’t exactly count on this movie making money. Now, OSCARs on the other hand, could be a definite possibility.