Did David Fincher Just Make a Chick Flick?

David Fincher recently relinquish a longer preview for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , a bewitching , Venetian red - snog romance - dramatic event starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett . Camille Saint - Saën ’s wistful , whimsical “ The Aquarium ” scores the recollective cartridge holder ; it ’s a lead that would fit effortlessly into the Tim Burton oeuvre , and surprisingly feels at blank space here too . Yes , this is a radical going for the Fight Club and Zodiac director , who is indeed prostrate to mystery and wonder with regard to pedigree - and - guts — which are prominently missing here , bring through some tasteful Private Ryan - esque interludes . The motion picture , based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story , is about an orphaned man / male child who ages backwards . Fincher devote us a go slideshow of his Pitted wonder : Button as a brittle older man ( call - out to the makeup artist ! ) ; Button weirding - out a fair sex of ill repute ; Button fight back on the frontlines ; Button , topless , checking himself out in the mirror ; and of course Button looking all trounce as he solicit the refined Blanchett . ( Pitt does n’t exude much here , but then if you saw his exaggerated carrying into action in Burn After Reading , regard this sweet mercifulness . ) It terminate gently with a melancholic feeling of sealed doom , a nuance hereto unknown to Fincher — which we welcome since he has n’t gone all Notebook on us . In causa you did n’t realize it , Button also has a pegleg - up in its miniskirt - contender with long - detain The Time Traveler ’s Wife movie about a beau ( Eric Bana ) who leap out around randomly in time , romance his wife ( Rachel McAdams ) at different ages . Of course , Pitt comes out a victor either way , since he stars in Button and his Plan B Entertainment is producing the latter . Meanwhile it ’s looking more and more like we wo n’t be needing a movie based on the lovely , lady - friendly , aging - rearward best - vendor The Confessions of Max Tivoli . Or at least anytime presently .

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