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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Just an aside: I know it wasn't everyone's cup o' joe, but I liked the movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald's *The Curious Case of Bejamin Button*. I'd never read the original, so I got hold of a copy for my reader earlier this month and gave it a whirl. I didn't realise that screenplay source was such a very short story. And I was both amazed and impressed by the imaginative way Fitzgerald's bare-bones idea and cardboard characters were fleshed out for the film. Sometimes, a piece does deserve more than its author has given it (but very, very rarely). N
PS: The original short is free online here: http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10628/ |
Thanks for the link
I quite enjoyed the film. I say quite because some of it seemed a bit slow and laborious to me but the ending was beautiful - really emotional.