The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Trailer!
May 23, 2008 by Sherry
There’s a trailer out for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. At the moment it only seems to be available in Spanish, but I’ll update as soon as I find one in English, which I assume would be soon. In the meantime, I don’t mind watching and listening to this trailer because I could sit and listen to people speaking in Spanish all day long. *swoon*
I’ve been very curious (no pun intended!) about this movie ever since I heard the premise. I really look forward to seeing it, what do you think?
(Thanks to everyone who alerted me to this video!)
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How mysteriously cool and artistic! Interesting how BP’s walk is unmistakable…this looks like a perfect blending of many elements to make watching a movie worthwhile.
Magical and Fantastical! I really can’t wait to see this and Changeling. I need to time travel to the fall.
Fortunately, there are new babies, KFP & Wanted to help pass the time.
thanks sherry, can’t wait.
hopefully sherry will have a new thread on shi’s b-day.
on one hand i hope so, too. but on the other hand i really hope the family will be able to enjoy the special day without the pabs.
well at least we could all gratulate Shi on Sherrys thread, if she makes one.
Isn’t it in this movie that we can see Shiloh ?
the trailer is very interesting. it makes you wanna go see it to know what really happened.
That trailer is amazing, the music, cinematography and the fx…everything very positive. Dec hurry up!
The Curious Trailer for Benjamin Button
Source: ComingSoon.net May 23, 2008
Sure to be an Oscar contender alongside Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, Paramount Pictures has debuted the new trailer for David Fincher’s fantasy-drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in theaters with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this weekend.
The film, opening December 19, is adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man (Brad Pitt) who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be.
Co-starring Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “Benjamin Button” is a time traveler’s tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
A Spanish version of the trailer is already online and can be watched using the player below for now, while the official site is up at BenjaminButton.com.
Has anyone read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story?
under mod: See the trailer in English – it’s shown before the Indy Jones movie!
New, long, R-rated Wanted trailer in Russian (fanboys are excited):
http://filmz.ru/pub/1/14256_1.htm
cool new poster of Angie in her black leather outfit
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45400
Full site opened: http://www.wantedmovie.com/
under mod:
New, long, R-rated Wanted trailer in Russian (fanboys are excited); cool new poster of Angie in her black leather outfit.
Offilcial website opened.
Robert de Niro is presenting the Palm D’Or on Sunday. We shouldn’t be surprised if Changeling doesn’t win. Clint has gone 0 for 5 tries. And Cannes prefers arty, independent non-American movies or movies like Fahrenheit 911 & Pulp Fiction – not traditional Hollywood fare.
I saw this with Indiana Jones. Creepy.
The trailer reminded me a little bit of Pan’s Labyrinth with it’s kind of magical realism. That was a little surreal & creepy too, but I loved it anyway.
Thanks Sherry. I saw a glimpse of bedroom scenes, so mysterious and the screen is always dark. Is Shiloh really in this movie too?
Lucy, i think Shi has a cameo appearance in this movie.
i like the fact that brad and cate are teaming again in this movie.
thanks for the trailer
http://www.incentria.com/index.php?ref=nikomilinko
I have a question for those who have been pregnant before:
Is it possible for angie and brad to have sex in this time of angie’s pregnancy? Coz it will be impossible for brad to be on top of her.
Is this the same trailer that was shown in the theaters? I heard that Shiloh is in the trailer shown before Indiana Jones but couldn’t see her here.
YES! Shiloh is in the trailer in the movie theater. If you remember the pictures of Shiloh with Brad on the set (I think in a pink sweater) then you will recognize her right away.
Thanks Sherry for the clip. I don’t need to know Spanish to see Brad Pitt (pardon my drool) body. I agree with who ever it was who said BP’s walk being unmistakable. It’s so true. I love every thing about his acting. He is pretty eye candy but his acting is right up there with the Pacino’s, Hackman, De Niro’s etc. I thought some of his best acting was in Babel. I bawled like a baby during the phone call w/his kids.
Angie on Going for the Gold
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_en_mo/film_cannes_festival_competition;_ylt=AooJE2vFx7xT5cHaOoeudiymG78C
Eastwood’s missing-child drama “Changeling” was among 22 movies in the running for the top honor, the Palme d’Or, on Sunday at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
“Changeling” earned high marks from critics, who raved about Angelina Jolie’s performance.
While such well-known figures as Penn, Helen Mirren and Holly Hunter have won best-acting honors at Cannes, the festival often singles out up-and-coming performers, such as 2007 best-actress winner Do-Yeon Jeon for the South Korean film “Secret Sunshine.”
Jolie, a supporting-actress Oscar winner for “Girl, Interrupted,” said she’s happy to see lesser-known performers take Cannes honors. “If that happens and it goes to somebody that it boosts their career, that’s great,” Jolie said. “Winning is not the important thing. It’s fun to be here with something we are actually very proud of.”
under mod: Angie on Going for the Gold in Cannes
I love Angie’s talent being validated, don’t you?
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2008/05/cannes-compet-1.html?cid=116171816#comment-116171816
Jolie’s performance as Collins is one of her best in years; no doubt channelling some fierce maternal instinct but at the same time dialing things down quite a bit, she very nearly transcends her somewhat otherworldly physical appearance and embodies a classic heroine…Amy Ryan is her usual goods-delivering self as an inmate who hips Collins to the loony bin’s secret purpose, and her exchanges with Jolie flesh out the film’s powerful feminist sub-theme…The directorial mastery here culminates in a genuinely wrenching coda set in a police station, which brought real unashamed tears to my eyes.
Clint says Angie like Bette Davis & Katherine Hepburn (only a couple more reviews):
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/23/arts/dupont.php
“Changeling” is the rare Eastwood film with a heroine. Jolie, as Collins, is as fearless as Hilary Swank was in his “Million Dollar Baby.” In “Girl, Interrupted,” Jolie played a young girl in a mental institute, interned for good reason.
“Of course I saw Angelina in “Girl, Interrupted,” said Eastwood. “She’s a tremendous actress. Sometimes she’s taken for granted because you see her in the tabloids. But she’s terribly smart, like a lot of the actresses of the past – Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Susan Hayward – and she’s one of the prettiest women in the world.”
“It was an age when children were seen and not heard. At the dinner table they couldn’t talk; they would be sent to the kitchen so the adults could talk. My father was the first in his family to allow kids – my sister and myself – to participate,” said Eastwood, who was born in 1930.
if you go see indiana jones new movie, they show the trailer for the curious case of benjamin button, it looks GOOD
That’s an interesting trailer. When is the movie supposed to be shown in the US? It might take some time before they show it here in the Phils, but then again, these days we get them shown at the same time as other countries, like Indy is showing here now too. Oh well, I can’t wait. Ligaya, thanks for all those links and interviews.
I’m happy to share them, Isacutie.
Major bummer – tonight hubby & I went to see the trailer & Indy Jones. No trailer! Now I have to call around to see wshere it’s playing.
6/6/08 KUNG FU PANDA
6/27/08 WANTED
11/7/08 CHANGELING
12/19/08 BENJAMIN BUTTON
What an exciting time for us fans, yes? Four movies coming up plus the twins. Shiloh plays Cate Blanchett as a baby in the B.Button movie, according to the IMDB website. She’s not listed in the credits on the site but if you dig deeper, the information is there. Mysterious, just like in the movie!
hi guys have any of you read the story of benjamin button? its a very disturbing little tale and if you want to know the bare bones of it ..its about a baby who is born as a very old man and gets younger as he grows older..its not at all a comedy but very sad as it is hard for his father to accept this elderly man as his child..eventually during his middle age he is the same age as his father and his wife but of course as time goes on they grow old and he grows even younger and eventually he becomes a baby and everyone else is very old..its really an incredibly good story and i have always thought it would make a fabulous film..how excited was i when i heard it was brad starring in it? its going to be amazing and i cant wait..the trailer looks so good.any news on the palme d’or yet ? xx
From festival’s official website (http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html):
61st Festival de Cannes Award to Catherine Deneuve and Clint Eastwood
President Sean Penn awarded a Special Award of this 61st Festival de Cannes to the French actress Catherine Deneuve and director/actor Clint Eastwood.
The Grand Prize was awarded by Roman Polanski to director Matteo Garrone for Gomorrah.
This must be a mistake.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_en_mo/film_cannes_awards: French classroom drama wins Cannes’ top prize.
Under mod: Clint won Special Award, no word on Angelina.
UPDATE: my mistake, the Grand Prize & Palme d’Or are 2 separate prizes. SPECIAL PRIZE FOR CLINT, ANGELINA & CHANGELING SHUT OUT
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_en_mo/film_cannes_awards
French classroom drama wins Cannes’ top prize
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer 15 minutes ago
CANNES, France (AP) — The French film “The Class,” a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Laurent Cantet, “The Class” (”Entre les Murs”) was the first French film to win the main prize, the Palme d’Or, at Cannes since “Under Satan’s Sun” in 1987. The docudrama was shot in a raw,
Benicio Del Toro won the best-actor prize for “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-plus epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. Presented as two films, “Che” follows Guevara and Fidel Castro’s triumphant guerrilla campaign to overthrow Cuba’s government in the late 1950s and Guevara’s downfall and execution after trying to foment a similar rebellion in Bolivia in the 1960s. Del Toro, who co-starred in Penn’s “21 Grams,” also won in a unanimous jury vote, Penn said. “I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara,” said Del Toro. He also thanked Soderbergh, “who got up every day, forced me to this. … He was there pushing it, and he pushed all of us.” Soderbergh directed Del Toro to the supporting-actor Oscar for 2000’s “Traffic.”
Sandra Corveloni was chosen as best actress for “Linha de Passe,” in which she plays the mother of four brothers struggling to make better lives for themselves in a Brazilian slum. It was her first role in a feature film.
The Cannes jury awarded special prizes to Clint Eastwood, who directed the competition film “Changeling,” and Catherine Deneuve, who appeared in two films at Cannes this year. Eastwood was shut out for key prizes with “Changeling,” his warmly received missing-child drama starring Angelina Jolie.
Eastwood, who delivered two best-picture and director Academy Award recipients with “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby,” has never won top honors at Cannes after five times in competition there since 1985. Jury president Penn won the best-actor Oscar for Eastwood’s “Mystic River,” which was shut out for prizes at Cannes five years ago.
Under mod: Cannes final results, Special Award for Clint, Angelina/Changeling shut out.
For those who may not have yet read the short story on which Benjamin Button was based (I’m one of those), here’s a link to it: http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10628/
Got it from one of the forum on B and A in the net.