text/[United States] Eric Rose
Translated/Cao Yixin
Everything started in the dark. Eyes blinked and opened. Blue eyes. The first thing I saw was a woman who was nearly 40 years old, standing there, looking out the window, listening to the rattling of a window as the wind blew.
Woman (voice-over): What are you looking at?
Caroline: It's the wind, mom... I heard that the hurricane is coming... You just fell asleep... I'm waiting for you to wake up...
1. Interior view, New Orleans, hospital ward, early in the morning, now
it's a In hospital wards, the layers of white paint can’t conceal its age... An old woman, over eighty years old, wrinkled, but still noble, with a green headscarf wrapped around her bald head and underneath. With pillows on, blue eyes look out from the bed...with intravenous nutritional support and morphine drips...her name is Daisy Fuller. He spoke with a southern accent when he spoke.
Daisy: Without a hurricane, there would be no stormy season.
Caroline: I have forgotten what the weather is like here. I have lived a life with four distinct seasons for many years.
A young black woman, a paramedic, Dorothy Baker, she was in the corner, flipping through a magazine, her eyes looking out the window at any time...
Dorothy Baker: The newspaper said there might be trouble...
Daisy: In 1928, they used corpses to block the embankment of a dam-bursting river like a pile of firewood.
But at this time, Daisy's heart is different... She muttered to herself...
Daisy: Everything is coming... Like finger painting... I feel like I'm on a boat. , Floating...
Caroline (softly): Can I do something for you, mother? Make you more comfortable?
Daisy: There is nothing to do, Caroline. I just... feel that my eyes are getting more and more difficult to open... My mouth seems to be stuffed with cotton...
Anxiously, feeling like being imprisoned, she tore her pajamas as if they were glued to her body... She began to undress... Dorothy stood up and smoothed her clothes.
Dorothy Baker: Relax, Mrs. Daisy...you'll scratch yourself... (to Caroline) I'm going to let go... (in the end) maybe it's today.
Caroline knows it very well, but these words, these near death notices, make everything more realistic...
Caroline: Do you want more medicine, mother? The doctor said you can use as much as you want.
Daisy calmed down and stared into the distance. Caroline sat down on the bed, beside Daisy, she began to cry. Daisy stretched out her thin arms to hug her daughter to comfort her.
Caroline (continued): A friend told me that she would never have a chance to say goodbye to her mother. (She appreciates this opportunity) I always want to thank you, mother, for bringing me into this world. Let me grow up. I have always wanted to tell you how important you are to me. I will miss you very much...
They hug each other... After a while they separate... It is embarrassing that the two people stop talking... There is nothing to talk to each other... A dilemma between mother and daughter... Carlo Lin used an eternal topic to make up for it...
Caroline (continued): Are you afraid?
Daisy: Just curious. What's going to happen next...
She convulsed from the pain in her body.
Dorothy Baker: Her pain will become stronger and stronger... her breathing will soon weaken... she won't suffer anymore...
Dorothy increases the dose of morphine... Daisy closes her eyes... Under the influence, she gradually became trance... Missing, dreams, and voices passed through her mind... She said...
Daisy: They built the railway station in 1918. Your father was there the day it was completed... He said a tuba band was playing... Oh, Dad—Dad...
2. Location, New Orleans, the newly completed train station, 1918, the
tuba band was playing during the day , The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on the opposite side of the steps of the new railway station...
Daisy: Oh, dad—dad...the best watchmaker in the south made the big clock...
3. Interior view, New Orleans, watch shop, 1917, at night,
an old shop in a French residential area was full Row after row of table clocks and watches...
Daisy (voice-over): His name is Mr. Gato... Mr. Keck.
4. Interior view, New Orleans, hospital ward, early in the morning, now a
very faint smile across Daisy’s lips... She said to herself "Mr. Keck..."
5. Interior view, watch shop, New Orleans In 1917, in the early morning of 1917,
a short man with small and slender hands, wearing a tuxedo coat, "Mr. Keck' was working in the workshop downstairs. Several table clocks rang midnight, a dignified and fit man The Creole woman walked in...
Daisy (voice-over): He married a Creole from the parish of Evangeline, and they had a son.
Taking his arm, she helped him stand up and take Walked him to his bed.
Daisy (voice-over, continue): Did I say that Mr. Keck was completely blind in both eyes since birth.
6. Interior view, New Orleans, watch shop, 1917, At night, the
watchmaker’s slender hands worked groping.
Daisy (voice-over): After their son grew up, he joined the army like all boys. At the old train station, they watched him embark on a journey.
7 .Exterior view, New Orleans, old train station, 1917,
an old wooden carport during the day . Their son, hugging his parents, then boarded a flat train packed with soldiers, and left... Mr. Keck, waving blindly His hat, saying goodbye to his son...
Daisy (voice-over): In the next few months, he worked hard and did nothing except rush to make the big clock for the train station.
8. Interior view, watchmaker In the workshop downstairs, in 1918,
all kinds of clocks were ticking at night. Mr. Keck was working...
Daisy (voice-over): One day they received a letter...
Blanche walked into the workshop... with a letter in her hand... She read it to her blind husband.
Blanche Devereux: "I am very sorry to inform you that your son died for his country in the Battle of the Marne. The death of Sergeant Martin Gato made me lose one of my most trusted friends. Dang When I informed my comrades of Martin’s sacrifice, everyone’s face was filled with sadness... We prayed that the Lord Jesus would let him return to his hometown with us... But it’s not possible anymore. I took his pants, The shirt, the cavalry badge, the square scarf and the comb are sent back together."
Daisy (voice-over): Mr. Gato, worked all night, and then went back to bed.
Mr. Gato fumbled and climbed upstairs.
Daisy (voice-over): After that, their son went home.
9. Location, New Orleans, old train station, 1918, during the day
Mr. Keck wearing the familiar hat, supported by his wife, standing among the rows of coffins.
Daisy (voice-over): They put their son to rest in the cemetery where the Gato family has been buried for 107 years.
10. Location, New Orleans, cemetery, 1918,
an old cemetery in New Orleans during the day , with winding vines in the cemetery.
Daisy (voice-over): Mr. Keck continues to make watches... Hard work...
11. Interior, New Orleans, watch shop workshop, 1918, late at night
, Mr. Keck fumbled to install the last curl behind the clock …And you’re done…
Daisy (voice-over): It was an early morning that is worth remembering… Dad said, it was crowded with people everywhere…
12. Interior, New Orleans, New Railway Station, 1918,
a large group of people during the day Gathering together, looking at the big clock that has not yet been unveiled. Police, citizens, and people like thieves...
Daisy (voice-over): Even Teddy Roosevelt is here.
We clearly saw Roosevelt's figure, wearing a large cloak and a top hat, with the burden of war on his shoulders. We saw Mr. Keck, with the help of his assistants, climbed up the scaffolding and climbed towards his big clock covered with velvet...He stood there for a while, then lightly opened it, revealing the purple clock face... …People were amazed at this magnificent timepiece...Mr. Keck wound up the string, and then sounded a harmonious bell. Under the impetus of the angel, the second hand opened its eternal journey...turning...everyone was there Cheers...until they find that the pointer is going in the wrong direction...time is reversing...a man yelled: "It's turned the other way!"
Mr. Gato: I just want it to go like this... Maybe this is the only way, those in the war Only the boys who lost their lives in the game can stand up again and return to their homes...
13. Location, battlefield, in 1918, during the day
we saw... the bullets left the soldiers’ bodies, flew back to the rifles that shot them... the limbs, changed again To be complete, the shells fired by the cannon flew back to the barrel...The fallen man stood up again, gained life, and breathed again.
Mr. Gato (painted with polonium):...Back to the farm, start working, have children, live a hundred years, happy...
14. Interior view, New Orleans, new train station, 1918, daytime
Teddy Roosevelt, desolately, took off his hat...
Mr. Gato: Maybe, my own son could also return to his hometown...
15. Location, New Orleans, New Train Station, some day
and then, we saw his The son, Martin, once again got off the train with great vigor and returned to the land where he first embarked on the journey... Back to the arms of his parents who loved him...
16. Interior, New Orleans, New Railway Station, 1918 ,
Mr. Daytime Gato: I'm sorry that I might offend someone. I hope you like my clock.
His wife took him by the arm, and Mr. Gato walked through the waiting hall towards the exit...the people stayed there. Everyone looked at Teddy Roosevelt and waited for him to speak... But he just put on his hat and left with his entourage...
Daisy (voice-over): Never saw Mr. Keck again. Some people say he died of a broken heart. Some people say he went to the sea...
17. Exterior view, Mississippi River,
Mr. Keck would be exhausted in one day , rowing the boat blankly...
gradually away...
18. Interior view, New Orleans, hospital ward, now,
Daisy in the morning : He just rowed the boat, rowed the boat... The
wind was blowing desperately against the windows... They turned around to look...
Dorothy Baker: Do you mind if I make a private call? Someone is looking after my son.
Caroline: Of course, please... The
room is quiet, Caroline sits on the bed to accompany her dying mother... The wind beats the window... After a while-
Caroline (continued): Mom, I hope I haven't let you down.
Daisy: Oh, baby, you will never let me down.
Caroline: I hope I can perform better. I know you want a grandson. And my life is not... normal...
seems to feel that the words are not so appropriate... She tried to make it clear...
Caroline (continued): I either go forward... or back...
Daisy: What is normal. Is the hat full of sand?
Caroline: What?
Daisy (continued): I want my brown suitcase... that paper bag...
Caroline: Paper bag?
Caroline walked to a suitcase beside the bed as her mother ordered...opened it...a paper bag was hidden in a pile of clothes and souvenirs.
Caroline (continued): Is it this?
Daisy: I want to read it a thousand times... but I don't have that determination...
Caroline: What do you mean?
Daisy: Read it to me.
Daisy closed her eyes... Caroline took out the paper in the envelope... It was some handwritten diary... A few pages had fallen off... Some small pieces of paper, even tissues...
Daisy (continued, muttering Dao): I just want to hear your voice...
For mother, she started to read... She didn’t have any special interest, just like reading recipes on the menu for others...
Caroline: It says "1985 , April 4th", "New Orleans" (pause for a moment) "This is my last will" (attracting her from here) "I don't have much left...no property, no money...I will I left it the way I came into this world, alone, empty-handed." (She finds herself attracted) "All I have is my story... Write it all down while my memory is still alive. ..."
She was very interested. Caroline looked at her mother. Daisy's eyes were still closed...
Caroline (continued): "My name is Benjamin..."
Caroline's voice changed to that of a young man.
Man (voice-over): "Benjamin Button...I was born in an extraordinary age."
19. Location, New Orleans, 1918,
loud fireworks explosions at night .
Benjamin Button (voice-over): The days of ending war with war are over.
The streets of New Orleans are full of drunks and singing revellers...the cobblestone roads are full of cars, people kissing each other and shouting happily...Another firework blooms.
Benjamin Button (voice-over, continue): Someone told me that it was great to be born that night...
In the light of fireworks, a young man in his early 30s, Thomas Button, ran towards the door of a fashionable apartment. He almost ran into a pastor who came at the same time. Thomas ran past him and up the steps.
20. Interior, New Orleans, Barton Residence, 1918. At night,
he passed by a solemn woman, ran up the long stairs, and rushed into the master bedroom.
21. Interior view, Barton's apartment, master bedroom, 1918. At night,
a young woman was lying on a blood-stained bed. A doctor and several servants were taking care of her nervously... The priest walked in...
Thomas Barton (Looking at him): Why are you here?
Doctor: Thomas, she's probably going to die...
Then the priest bent down and prayed the last prayer for the beautiful lady...The servants brought the sheets and replaced the blood-stained bedding under her in vain.
Thomas Button: Enough! ……you!
They left the room... Thomas knelt beside his wife... She was pale, her soft brown eyes were full of fear, and he held her hand...
Thomas Button (continued): I'm back as soon as possible... Sorry for the delay For so long, people are everywhere on the street... As
if to score his words, the fireworks bloom again...
Thomas Barton (continued): You will be fine soon, my dearest... I won't let you Anything...
His young wife: Promise me, Thomas...
She was interrupted by the sudden cry of a baby. But Thomas couldn't look away from his wife who was about to die.
His young wife (continued): Assure me that he will have a home...
He doesn't understand... She looked up at him... She held him tightly... Then, she passed away... Doctor After listening to her pulse...cover her with a sheet...everything is so quiet...the priest murmured prayers...the servants were crying...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): She took her life Give me...I am always grateful for this...
Thomas, still holding her hand tightly, couldn't let go... the baby's crying sounded again... But this sound was not normal, it was not the cry of the baby seeking help, nor the cry of ordinary lung capacity exercise... it It was a deep, disturbing cry from a primitive soul... They all turned around, and the room fell silent... People listened to the baby's constant mourning and crying. Only Thomas got up to respond to it...The baby was in a basket, wrapped in a thick sheet, and the clothes were over its face...Thomas opened the clothes and looked at its face...
Servant: Mr. Patton...
He lifted it. Undressing... he stepped back suddenly... he saw something terrifying... he made a very low voice, whispering "Oh, oh". Suddenly, he grabbed the baby in the swaddle-and rushed out of the room with it...downstairs...going out...
22. Location, New Orleans, 1918, night
...Thomas burst into tears, holding his crying baby , Crossing the street... squeezing through the crowd...
23. Exterior, New Orleans, on the bridge, 1918, at night,
he walked along the ancient bridge across the waterway... The dignified air was filled with the mist of fireworks... the color of water Dim...heartbroken, he raised the baby to throw it into the water...just when he raised it above his head, despite the grief, he couldn't let go...and then put the newborn back in the cradle...
Thomas: I'm sorry... I'm sorry...
A beam of light shone on his face... A policeman came over here...
Policeman: What are you doing?
The baby started crying...
Police (continued): What are you holding?
Thomas began to run away...the police chased after...Thomas was holding the crying baby and ran farther and farther...
23A. Location, New Orleans, Garden District, 1918, at night
Thomas holding the crying baby, passing by those magnificent, The back porch and stairs of the old, crumbling pre-war house fled hurriedly from the narrow streets.
24. Exterior view, New Orleans, behind an old house, 1918, night
He came to an old three-story building with screened verandas, and there was a voice from inside...people were talking and laughing... the soft yellow light, music, and the house itself comforted the baby—it Stop crying. Thomas stopped and held his breath... He looked into the back corridor... A voice came from there... Thomas gently placed the baby on the stairs in the back corridor. He took out all his money and stuffed it into the baby's blanket... Just two figures came out of the room... Thomas knocked on the weather-proof screen door... Then, turned around resolutely and left the room. A house, leaving his children behind.
Woman (Voiceover): I bet someone knocked on the door...
a young black woman in a green dress walking towards the porch...slim and charming, in her 20s, with sexy eyes like a street singer Eye-she is Queenie. Followed by a handsome black man, Mr. Weathers-everyone called him Tiz. She looked out the door, but found nothing...
Queeny: I guess no one...
She stood there still, breathing the night air...
Queeny (continued): The air is very fresh...
She started to sing for herself... It was an old song...
Tiz: You look so beautiful tonight, Miss Queenie, I have never seen you so charming... The green clothes match your eyes so well...
Queenie (fingers over the dress): Not every day is the end of the war, Mr. Weathers. We should do something for today...Don't let yourself be so listless.
He smiled and took off his hat... two people stood there quietly.
Tiz: Umber has returned to the city... Lost his legs, but he finally came back... We are going to celebrate for him... so that he can be strong... (Pause) I know, you used to be quite Like him...
Queeny: Not just like...You said he lost his legs? "Everything is unpredictable."
At this moment, an elderly white woman poked her head out...
Old woman: Mrs. Simone made a mess of herself...
Queenie: Don't do this again, she should change her diaper again...I'll come here, Mrs. Jameson.
The woman disappeared inside the house. Queenie was not in a hurry to leave...
Queeny (continued): It's really great outside, Mr.
Weathers ... Tiz: It's really great , Miss Queen...Come out for a while and let the past come from you My heart walks away...
He pushes the screen door in the corridor...
Queeny (smiling): Just a moment...
He stretched out his hand...She held it...He took her hand and withdrew from the house, just in time Standing on the step where the baby was, the baby cried, and Tiz staggered and almost fell...
Tiz: God...!
Queenie: What is that? A fish climbed from the river to the shore?
She walked towards it... uncovered the blanket and froze there.
Queenie (continued): My God!
This is the first time we have actually seen a baby-a bald head like all newborns... But its face is covered with wrinkles and a pair of lifeless eyes, like an old man. In fact, if we didn’t know it was a baby, we would really think of it as a wrinkled, aging, melancholy old man...
Queeny (continued): My God, what did you do?
Tiz: It looks like a milk cart... It ran back and forth on its face...
None of them moved and didn't know what to do...
Tiz (continued): I really didn't see it. Lying here... I hope I didn't hurt it... The foot just now... The
baby didn't stop crying
sadly ... Tiz (continued): We'd better give it to the police, I'll go...
Queeny hesitated …There is a certain expectation in the eyes.
Queenie: No one will want it then...
She made up her mind and suddenly picked up the crying baby and brought it into the house to... Tiz, muttering something anxiously, then walked into the house. go with.
25. Interior view, New Orleans, Nolan Apartment, 1918, the
piano is playing pop music at night , people are singing... many dark rooms... heavy furniture and carpets... lived here and passed away a long time ago The various items of the people...The living room is crowded with elderly people, ranging in age from 60 to 90, with different health conditions, and various facilities allow them to "cope with ease". A home for the elderly. Queenie, walked quietly across the promenade with the baby so as not to be seen. Tiz, following her, whispered to her anxiously.
Woman (voice-over): Where are you, Queenie?
Queenie: I'll pour you water... (to Tiz) Go and see them...
He does what she tells him to do. She hurriedly took the baby into a small room, just under the stairs, which looked like a mouse hole...
26. Interior view, New Orleans, Nolan Apartment, Queen's Room, 1918,
a hidden room at night The small room under the stairs...
woman (voice-over): Queenie Apple...she made a mess of herself again...
Queeny: Jane Childress would bathe her...just leave it to you Be yourself, Mrs. Doprey, you will be messed up in time...
Someone knocked on Queenie's door.
Woman (voice-over): Someone stole my pearl necklace...
Queeny: I'll find it for you soon, Miss Hollister.
She comforted the baby softly. Looking for a place to put him, she opened the drawer of the chest of drawers.
Queenie (continued): Although you are as ugly as an old man... but you are still a child of God.
Woman (voice-over): Queenie, Apple... Without you, she would not take a bath.
Queenie: I'll go over here.
She said, putting the baby in the top drawer of the chest of drawers...with her underwear...Queeny closed the drawer and left a gap so that he could breathe... She turned around. An old woman, she looked very anxious, was peeping into the room...
Hollister: Those pearls were given to me by my sister... I can't find them anywhere... Someone stole my baby!
Queenie: They are right here, Mrs. Hollister, hanging around your white neck... (supporting her) Let's go... the
door bell rang.
Woman (Voiceover): Dr. Rose is here...
Queeny looked back at the baby with concern and hit the door...The camera stayed behind the door for a moment, and there was a smell of lilac powder in Queen's underwear drawer. A baby with the face of an old man lay inside...Looking up at the silver moonlight spilling into the wardrobe...
27. Interior view, New Orleans, Nolan apartment, living room, 1918, night
doctor, a man in an old suit I can’t remember how long I have been in this business. I just checked one of the elderly residents. He put things in the medical box. Queenie came in and stood beside him and said something.
28. Interior view, Queen's room, 1918. The
baby was lying on Queen's bed that night ... Dr. Rose, with a stethoscope around his neck, was washing his hands in the sink.
Dr. Rose: Cataracts. His eyes are basically blind. I'm not sure if he can hear the sound. The bones show that he has severe arthritis, his skin has completely lost its elasticity, his hands and feet are also stiff... The whole body is aging, weak and sick, no Like a newborn, but like an 80-year-old man about to enter the coffin.
Queenie: You mean he is going to die?
Dr. Rose: Old man. Before the beginning of life, his body was declining.
They stood there in silence, looking at the strange baby.
Dr. Rose (continued): Where did he come from?
Queenie (pause): It's my sister's child... from Lafitte. She had an unfortunate experience. (Whispering) The poor child made her worse... she was born with fair skin...
Dr. Rose: There are institutions to take in children like it "no one wants", Queenie... There is no place to add another one waiting to be fed. Mouth... Nolan Fund, no matter what their kindness, considering this place is so noisy... a baby is here...
Queenie (begging): You said he is running out of time.
Dr. Rose: Queenie, some lives cannot survive.
She looked at the baby and made up her mind.
Queenie: He is a miracle, it must be...though not the miracle that people expect to see.
29. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1918. That night
old people were sitting in the living room, chatting, playing cards...Queeny walked in with the infant baby.
Queenie: Listen,
everyone ... Everyone stopped their activities.
Queenie (continued): There is a guest who will stay with us for a while... My sister has a child, but can't take care of him... His name is... (hesitating how to call him) Benjamin, (she likes this pronunciation) Benjamin... is an unhealthy child... so we have to take good care of him.
Tiz came out of the kitchen and looked at it with a strong dissatisfaction...An old woman said...
Old woman; I have 10 children...There is nothing I can't take care of...Let me see him.
Queenie hesitated and held the baby to her... The old woman uncovered the blanket covering the baby's face... The
old woman (surprised): Oh my God, he looks like my ex-husband...
a laugh.
Queeux: He is declining before he gets old... Dr. Rose said that his time in this world is running out...
Old man: Welcome to join the club!
Everyone laughed. Their laughter seemed to make the baby laugh too... the lonely smile of an old man.
30. Interior view, Queen's room, 1918.
Queenie was unable to sleep late that night . She was lying on the bed and looking out the small window... There was a soft knock on the door... It was Tiz.
Tiz: Umber greets you.
She nodded...the baby started crying...then it went quiet again.
Tiz (continued): Are you crazy? I know you can’t give birth...but it’s not your responsibility to look after him...he is not even human...
Feeling that there is no more to say, he is about to turn and leave...
Queeny (in a low voice): Mr. Weathers, stay tonight.
He slowed down. Queenie calmly. She whispered.
Queenie: "Everything is unpredictable."
Then they hugged each other and started making love; we saw the drawer of the closet-only a gap was left... Benjamin was lying between the underwear, looking out at the world...
Benjamin (voice-over): I found home... …
31. Interior view, New Orleans, hospital ward, now
Caroline has a diary on her lap during the day . Daisy, eyes closed... the wind is getting bigger and bigger, banging on the window frantically...
Caroline: Is this true?
Daisy: Your voice is so nice.
Caroline shrugged. She flipped through the "book".
Caroline: It seems that a few pages have been torn from here.
She found in the diary...
Caroline (continued): Tram ticket souvenir.
She handed it to her mother and asked her to hold the souvenir ticket. But Daisy’s thoughts are elsewhere, her eyes are looking out the window...
Daisy: That clock... keeps going, year after year, year after year...
32. Interior, New Orleans, "New" Railway station, in 1925, one day
the clock of "Mr. Keck", the "pointer" was "moving forward" under the impetus of the little angels, and the time was still reversing... That year was "1925" at that time.
33. Interior view, New Orleans, Nolan apartment, restaurant, 1925, early morning
Benjamin Button (voice-over): I didn’t know I was a kid, I thought I was an old man like everyone else living here. In my "golden time".
The residents are eating dinner. Queenie, wearing a white uniform...with Tiz, he wears a chef's hat and an apron to beat Queenie. The lens crosses the vicissitudes of faces...until it stays on a special face...Although I wear glasses now...but that familiar wrinkled face, let us know...this one is very old The male face of... is Benjamin Button. Normally, he should be about 6 years old. Now, he is sitting in a wheelchair...aging and thin, stooped, and crippled by arthritis... Glasses are furnishings... He also wears a hearing aid, which is a huge instrument for him, stuffed in. In one ear. However, if we look closely, we will find that the newly grown hair on his head...a small strand of white hair...may be the last hair for others...as if it is still growing. When he was eating, he used a fork like a child, beating it to make movement.
Queenie: Stop knocking... (puts the fork in his arthritic hand) This is for eating, not for fun... Please napkin... Mr. Benjamin.
He did as instructed... A staff member helped one of the elderly people and fed him... Benjamin was just another elderly man who ate with his peers.
34. Exterior view, New Orleans, Nolan apartment, corridor, 1925,
a row of old people sitting in wheel rocking chairs at night . Benjamin, like a 6-year-old, boringly turned his wheelchair back and forth between the elderly. Until an old man, fed up with Benjamin, stuck his cane on the brake of Benjamin’s wheelchair and made him stop suddenly... Benjamin, sitting in the corridor with the other old people... The old people shook slightly... There was a sound from outside the wall. Floating...Children are playing, people are talking...
Benjamin Button: What is that?
No one answered him, and people continued to shake. Benjamin, curiously wanting to know, suddenly, he drove his wheelchair and ventured to the edge of the corridor, where the wall is low and you can see the outside scene... The children ran on the street and played... A group of children got out of the carriage to participate. The people at the party... he leaned forward to see more clearly... At this moment, Queenie suddenly caught him...
Queenie: Benjamin! Danger... come back...
Shaking the wheelchair to leave the edge of the corridor, back to the middle of the comfortable old man... The scene of the street disappeared from sight...
35. Interior view, Queen's room, 1925, a
small room at night , a small window. Benjamin sleeps on the floor, Queenie sleeps on her bed...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): I love her very much. She is my mother.
He reached out to shake her hand. She held it gently...just lying there holding hands like this, Queenie was on her bed, her "son" and "old man" were sleeping on the floor...
Benjamin Button: Sometimes, I feel like I am It's not the same as the day before...
Queeny: Everyone feels that they are a little different. We will come to the same destination by different routes... You have your own way, Benjamin...
Benjamin Button: Mom, how long have I lived?
Queenie: Thank you for everything. Live longer than you should.
The door was gently pushed open, and Tiz walked in...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Some nights, I have to sleep alone.
Tiz looked at Benjamin, picked him up, took him out of the room, put him in a wheelchair, Tiz returned to the room with Queenie, the door closed...
36. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1925 , Late at night
an old woman was sleeping soundly in an easy chair with a book on her lap. Benjamin was sitting in a wheelchair alone, listening to the sounds in the house.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): I don't mind. I will listen to the breathing of this house. All people fell asleep. I feel at ease.
Benjamin was still curious about "what's there", he shook his wheelchair and came to the window to look out...Look at the street lamp and the world outside the door...Look at the danger...
He shook the wheelchair and came to the window to look out. Look...Look at the street lights, and the world outside the door...Look at the dangers...
Benjamin Button (voice-over, continue): It's very regular there...Every day at 5:30 in the morning, no matter what season...year The long General Winslow... will raise the national flag.
37. Exterior view, Nolan apartment, outside lawn, 1925, early in the morning,
old Winslow, as mentioned before, raised the national flag in the downpour...just...no clothes. Queenie ran across the lawn and clothed him. There is the sound of someone singing an opera...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Mrs. Sybil Wagner, once a famous opera actor...Of course, she is willing to sing, Wagner...
38. Interior view, Nolan Apartment, Mrs. Wagner In 1925, the
old Victor gramophone was playing music in the early morning . Mrs. Wagner was standing in front of the window in her pajamas, singing to the accompaniment of music... In the corridor, Queenie was bathing Benjamin... Massaging him. Arthritic legs.
Queenie: We hope these crutches will give you a new lease of life... so you can walk.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Breakfast is served in time at 6 o'clock in the morning.
39. Interior view, Nolan apartment, kitchen, 1925, in the early morning
Benjamin was sitting in a wheelchair, under the care of Tiz, learning to cook...At the same time, he was also learning to read.
Tiz: What should we do? what is that?
Benjamin: Biscuit...
Tiz: Biscuit...and...
Benjamin: GRABY...
Tiz: Think again. Not "B", but "V".
Benjamin: GRAVY (marinade).
Tiz: That's right!
The staff came in to take the food from the main course.
Tiz (continued): How many butters do we have?
Benjamin: 4...
Tiz: How many servings of flour?
Benjamin: 2...
Tiz: How much is 4 plus 2?
Benjamin: 6.
Tiz patted the back of his head.
Tiz: You are a functioning adder.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Dinner is served promptly at 6 o'clock.
40. Interior view, Nolan apartment, kitchen, 1925,
Titz was washing dishes at night ... Benjamin worked with him... Canned food is set aside... Benjamin reads the label on it...
Benjamin: Tomato, brown sugar, salt, Sweet sauce...
Tiz hit Benjamin with a dish towel.
Tiz: It's syrup.
He went on to wash the dishes.
Tiz (continued): I was literate when I was 5 years old. My grandfather is a costume designer for a famous actor. He took every script home so that I could read it. (Shakespeare's play) "Good people guarding me, weak old man, let the dying Mortimer rest here. Due to the long-term imprisonment, my limbs are already in pain, like someone who has just been dragged off the torture frame. . My gray hair was tortured during the years of suffering, and it heralds that the death of Ammond Mortimer is just around the corner."
Benjamin was stunned, looking at him with respect, and being stunned by him—this majesty. -Impressed.
Tiz (continued): You used to think I was ignorant, right?
Benjamin never thought about this problem.
Tiz (continued): The actor my grandfather worked for was John Wilkes Booth. It was he who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Everything is unpredictable...
An old man probed in.
Old man: Where is the dessert?
Tiz: Go on when it's time to go. Mr. Li, please sit back with your crumpled ass.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): On Saturday night, I will go to Queeny's church...
41. Interior view, New Orleans, tent church, 1926, Saturday,
a sultry black evangelical church tent at night . Queenie pushed Benjamin in a wheelchair, passing a line of people waiting to be cured, and let him face to face with a burly priest. The priest was sweating and full of passion like fire...
Pastor: I can do it for you What? sisters!
Queenie whispered something to him.
Pastor (continued): There is pain in her body, so she is barren.
The priest put his hand on Queenie's belly.
Pastor: Lord, if you can clearly see and forgive this woman's crimes, please let her belly give birth to life. (Yelling loudly) Damn devil, come out!
He pressed her stomach hard... almost made Queenie fall... A "nurse" in a white linen uniform supported her, Queenie stood still.
Pastor (looking at Benjamin): This old man What's wrong?
Queenie: The devil is on his back... I want him to enter the coffin before the end of the day...
Pastor (touch Benjamin): Go away, devil! Go away, demon! (Pause for a moment) How old are you ? the
he tell the truth.
Benjamin: I was seven years old, but looks can be much older
priest (laughs):! God bless you he has a 7-year-old
party people laughed ......
priest: the man Have an optimistic heart! Believe in his soul! In God’s eyes, we are all children. Now we are going to get you out of a wheelchair... We are going to let you walk... (his hands are placed on Benjamin’s shoulders) In name, stand up!
Benjamin, do what he says, almost impossible, his bent legs tremble...stand up...everyone applauds.
Pastor (continued): Now, God will Take care of your way for the rest of your life... He wants to see this little old man walking without a cane...! He will walk on his own, relying on his faith and God’s blessing...! We will see the devil go away...! Let’s go ......!
Benjamin walked tremblingly two steps, his poor arthritic legs stepped forward... and then fell face to face... the assistants in white nurse uniforms wanted to get on. Help before, but-
pastor (continue): Don't touch him (kneeling to Benjamin) and stand up, old man!
But Benjamin was still lying on the ground... The priest walked towards his feet and stood beside him like a mountain...
Pastor (continued): Stand up, stand up like Lasanlu (Note 1)!
Benjamin was still lying on the ground.
Pastor (continued): I said stand up!
Benjamin, slowly but firmly, stood up...
Pastor (continued): Oh! Hallelujah (Hallelujah!) Let's go. My old friend... keep going!
Benjamin, with his once lame legs, hobbled on the stage...people encouraged him...a series of "Hallelujah"! Queenie joined in and cheered for him.
Queenie: Let God lead you!
Pastor, walking by Benjamin's side, it's not so much walking as it is dancing. He shouted the name of God...Queeny and the pastor accompanied Benjamin across the stage...He finally came to the end... yelling " Amen".
Benjamin (Voiceover): Now, when I look back on all this, it feels like a miracle... But you know, "... God gives us happiness and takes away our pain..."
The burly pastor worshipped God For the gods...
Pastor: Give God the highest praise!
Suddenly it seemed as if he had been hit, and the priest's face was pale...Due to the attack of coronary heart disease, he was lying in the center of the stage, as if dead... "Nurses" in white linen uniforms ran up to help him, poor" "Old" Benjamin looked around helplessly.
42. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1926,
people gather together one day .
Benjamin (Voiceover): There are many birthdays...
a cake with candles was brought in to celebrate Winslow's birthday. He stared at the cake, stood up unhappy, mumbled something... and left. The other old people looked at the cake, without a moment's hesitation, and began to carve it up...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Death is a frequent visitor in our house... People come and go again... Death is so ordinary, I never Never feared it.
43. Exterior view, Nolan Apartment, 1926. Another morning,
Mrs. Wagner's window was open... No singing came out.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): When someone leaves us, you will hear...the house is silent.
44. Location, New Orleans, an old cemetery. In 1926,
a small funeral was being held in the ancient cemetery during the day ... The "Nordic Goddess" (Note 2) was played on the vintage Victor gramophone, and an old man sounded a cymbal. , As the climax of this piece of music...Sybil Wagner, sleeping here, to participate in another choir.
45. Exterior view, Nolan apartment, front porch, 1929, at dusk,
Benjamin, with an unusually vicissitudes of life, sitting in his wheelchair, in the porch with other old people, watching the sunset.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): This is really a good place to grow up. The people here have put aside all the unreasonable things in their lives. I am with them, in a pure state of life...caring about the weather...the temperature of the bath water...and the sunshine when the sun is waning.
One of them, as if to emphasize this point, he fart.
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47B. Interior view, Nolan apartment, kitchen, 1927, one day
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Whenever someone dies, someone else will take their place...
Benjamin enters the kitchen... Tiz Zheng Busy preparing lunch... Benjamin stopped and saw a thin African man with his back to the camera, surrounded by a group of old people standing on the lawn... Benjamin heard him say to others-
Ngonda O Ti: My first wife and I were captured by the neighboring tribes. They are cannibals... The
old people are shrinking back...
Ngonda Oti (continued): I swam across the river and escaped...
An old woman (eyes wide open): You ran away from the cannibals?
Ngonda Oti: My wife, she can't swim and was eaten by cannibals.
Tiz (to Benjamin): That Mr. Otti... is an old acquaintance of mine... He lives in the staff dormitory and stayed with us for a while.
Ngonda Otti (to the old people): The second wife stepped on the Viper and died... (wittily) It is unfortunate to marry Mr. Otti.
Everyone laughed.
Ngonda Oti (continued): I and 6 other people were captured by the Basquill tribe. They sold us to a big white man...
He turned his head instinctively and saw Benjamin standing by the window looking at him. When Mr. Otti spotted him, Benjamin quickly moved away from the window and escaped his sight.
47C. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, in 1927, one day
Benjamin was lying on the floor next to the steps, playing with metal toy soldiers... Mr. Otti’s distinctive laughter floated upstairs... Benjamin , Leaning on crutches, walked over and looked... Mr. Otti was standing in the alcove downstairs, telling the story of his wife... in a completely different tone... mocking the white people and their stupidity.
Ngonda Otti: The big white men brought us to St. Louis. They rebuilt our village at the 1904 World's Fair... and let us live in those little huts, just like we did in Africa... People just stood behind the fence and stared at us... We were told not to look at them... Live our life as usual... The ghosts know what they say...
Everyone laughed.
Ngonda Oti (continued): At night, we were made to look like "savages". We went over the wall to the Sioux territory...drinking and singing until the sun rose again...we became savages again...the
audience nodded and understood...When Mr. Otti felt Benjamin present, he turned around... Benjamin quickly retracted his crutches and went back upstairs.
47D. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1927, another day
Benjamin was sitting at the table in the living room, reading an oversized book "Fictional Life". He felt someone coming... Mr. Otti sat across from him.
Ngonda Oti: I heard that you are not as old as you look. You are just fooling everyone. what happened? Eat Madjembe.
Benjamin: What is that?
Ngonda Oti: A kind of bug.
Benjamin: I don't think so. I was born like this.
Mr. Oti looked at the street outside.
Ngonda Oti: Would you like to drink a bottle of iced sauce (note 3)?
Benjamin (response): It's too dangerous.
Ngonda Oti: Who said that?
He got up to leave. Benjamin hesitated. He could see Queenie leaning out of a window, busy banging on the dust on a carpet.
Ngonda Oti (continued, one last time): Come on, little old man.
Although he knew the consequences, he followed Ngunda out.
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49. Exterior view, New Orleans, Avenue outside Nolan Apartment, 1927,
two people walked out during the day . The children are playing in the street. Seeing Benjamin, they were all shocked... staring at a monster coming out of the old house, followed by another monster... Mr. Otti suddenly ran into the street...
Ngonda Otti: Hurry up...
Benjamin tried his best to keep up with him... Mr. Otti rushed straight to a tram. He shook his arms and the car slammed into the brake.
Ngonda Oti (voice-over, continue): ...another white man came to my hometown and said he wanted to talk to me.
50. Interior view, New Orleans, inside a tram, 1927, during the day the
camera moves along the aisles of the tram cars... all kinds of people.
Ngonda Oti: Then I stayed in the monkey cage in the "Philadelphia Zoological Park". Three thousand people came to watch my first day's exhibition.
Benjamin and Ngonda were sitting behind a movable metal railing at the end of the tram, with the words "People of Color" written on it... Mr. Otti took a sip of wine into a small flat wine bottle... A group of students next to them kept staring at them. Two people watch... Mr. Otti took out his wallet, took out a folded newspaper, and opened it to Benjamin... "Bushmen
live in a cage with a park ape." Benjamin: What does it feel like to live in a cage?
Ngonda Oti: It smells so bad. Those monkeys, they played pranks... I threw the javelin... wrestled with Kowali, she was an orangutan... They made me grind my teeth like a cannibal...
He showed Benjamin his teeth that were sharpened like a cannibal.
Ngonda Otti: When I am not playing with the monkeys-they want me to run along the railing in the cage and scare the children with my teeth...
He suddenly jumped up and barked at the group of children... The children screamed...Otti sat back in his seat and laughed with Benjamin.
50A. Interior/exterior view, New Orleans, streetcar, during the day
Benjamin, ecstatically, put his head out of the car window, Mr. Otti grabbed his butt from behind to prevent him from falling out... Benjamin felt the face head on. The wind blowing, and the city passing by.
51. Exterior view, New Orleans, park, colonnade, 1927,
Benjamin and Otti will sit on the bench of the park colonnade in one day . Benjamin drank his first sip of Coca-Cola in his life, and took a big swig. Coke came out of his nose... Mr. Otti handed him a tissue... Benjamin wiped it clean...
Benjamin: Why don't you go home.
Ngonda Otti: Britain and the Netherlands are at war. The kingdom was hit hard.
Benjamin: So what do you do?
Ngunda Oti: I left the zoo. Come here. Everything is fine. But I am alone.
Benjamin: Have you been alone all the time?
Ngonda Oti: Old man, wait and see, you will face it alone most of the time. Although you are different, you can't escape this luck. Tell you a little secret I discovered. We know that everyone is lonely. Fat people, thin people, tall men, white people... They are as lonely as we are... but they are terribly scared.
He smiled knowingly.
Ngonda Otti (continued): There is no regret about being alone...no one...
he looked into the distance.
Ngonda Oti (continued): I miss the river where I grew up. It would be nice if you could still sit by the river.
He looked at his watch and stood up suddenly.
52. Location, New Orleans, corner of Bourbon Avenue, 1927, at dusk
Benjamin and Mr. Otti walked along the street, the music was loud... They came to the corner, and a tall mulatto woman was waiting there. She smiled openly when she saw Mr. Otti.
Woman: My little man. Here you are, sweetheart!
Ngonda Oti (in his own way, smiling): Coming. Coming. (Introduction) Ferramena, Mr. Benjamin.
Philamena Gilea (respectful to his age): Very nice to meet you.
Ngonda Oti (to Benjamin): You can find your way home, right?
Although not sure, he nodded.
Ngonda Otti (continued): From St... Charles Street to Napoleon... While
talking, he put his arms around Ferramena's waist, the two laughed, and left... Benjamin stood there At the corner of the street...look around...find the direction...then walk along Bourbon Street...a tram approached, jingling bells, passing by him...watching the tram drive away... He clenched his crutches, made up his mind, and walked back... He arched his body and walked along the street one step at a time...
53. Exterior view, New Orleans, Nolan Apartment, 1927, late at night
Benjamin returned to the door of the apartment... …We heard—
Queeny: Oh my god, where have you been?
Queenie was standing on the porch, extremely anxious... She saw blisters and blood leaking from Benjamin's hands.
54. Interior view, Nolan apartment, kitchen, Queenie's sink,
Queenie is washing Benjamin's hands at night .
Queenie: I'm going crazy! For you... I am so worried...
Benjamin (voice-over): That was the best day of my life.
55. Interior, New Orleans, hospital ward, early morning, now the
"care worker", Dorothy Baker, is back. She listened to Daisy's pulse and straightened her pillow.
Dorothy Baker: How about breathing?
Caroline: Very shallow.
Dorothy nodded.
Dorothy Baker (pause for a moment): It is said that a storm will come later today... I want to send the child to my sister... They say there is nothing to worry about in the hospital... If you have Whatever you need, the nurses are on call. If there is nothing to do, I will come back in an hour.
Caroline: Okay, no problem...please...
she leaves. It quieted down for a while, and the wind banged on the window... Daisy, pondering...
Daisy: Was it the escort?
Caroline: Dorothy has to go home.
But Daisy's thoughts were elsewhere... She motioned Caroline to continue reading...
Daisy: Caroline...
Caroline moved her gaze to the notebook. Daisy closed her eyes.
Caroline: "On Sunday, visitors will come to the home for the elderly..."
56. Exterior view, Nolan apartment, lawn. In 1930,
residents and their favorite people gathered on the lawn during the day ...an old man, Walking out of the apartment on crutches, came to the grass, through the crowd, we saw that he was Benjamin... He is now on a crutches, which is a bit straighter than before, with eye-lashes, eyelashes and bright white hair. The dignified 70-year-old man, according to his normal age, should be a developing 12-year-old boy.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): It was Thanksgiving in 1930, and I met someone who changed my life.
A car with a driver stopped... A man was standing on the street, looking into the apartment through the door... We recognized him as Thomas Barton... I hope I can take a look at his son... Benjamin instinctively Turned around, but it was too late, his father got back in the car, and the car drove away...
Woman (voice-over): Hi, Benjamin.
He turned around, and an old woman approached.
Benjamin (politely): Oh, hello, Mrs. Fuller.
Grandma Fuller: If you want me to say, you look amazingly young...A crutches and your back looks like a ruler. What kind of panacea did you take?
He laughed loudly... At this
moment, there was the voice that made that day a holiday... A little girl's voice: Grandma, take a look at me...
Benjamin and Grandma Fuller turned to see a little girl, She was less than 8 years old, and she turned her toes on the picnic table, spinning round and round for the old people who admired her... Then she bent her knees deeply and bowed-like an actor on the stage. Burying her head on her chest like that... Then she raised her head and laughed...
Grandma Fuller: Now, it really looks like that... Come here... this is my granddaughter, Daisy... this Yes, Mr. Benjamin, I’m sorry, I forgot what your last name is...
Benjamin: Just call Benjamin...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): For the rest of my life, those blue eyes will be unforgettable...
expressions Absolutely-
Tiz (to everyone): Hello everyone, please have dinner!
57. Interior view, Nolan apartment, restaurant, 1930, Thanksgiving,
a family, together with Ngonda and Ferramena, gathered in the restaurant, they bowed their heads and prayed. Daisy was across from Benjamin... the prayer was over, there was a loud noise.
Ngonda Otti: What we prayed for was Benbe...the creator of all things in the world...After completing all her missions, she retired...
Daisy (do not want others to steal the limelight): Do you know that turkeys are not real birds?
Benjamin: What did you say?
Daisy: They belong to the pheasant family. Can't fly. Don't you think this is miserable? A bird can't fly.
Ngonda Oti: I like birds that can't fly. They...are so delicious.
Queenie (stands up): I have something to tell everyone.
They quieted down.
Queenie (continued): As we thank the Lord for his gift...a miracle has happened to me. (She strokes her belly) The Lord answered my prayer in good time.
Everyone applauded the good news.
Benjamin: What does it mean to "accept her prayer"?
Daisy: She is going to have a baby, idiot. When I was about to have a little brother, that's what my mother told me. However, he did not live long. He breathes abnormally...
We can see that Benjamin's heart is about to break... He looked away, Tiz, and smiled proudly... When Queenie received his blessing... Benjamin looked up at him. Zhang's wrinkled old face looked at her... as if about to cry.
58. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1930,
an abstract black and white picture in the second half of the night . The voice of an old woman.
Woman (voice-over): The picture here is an old kangaroo at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
An old finger pointed at the picture. We saw Benjamin and Daisy sitting close to each other on the sofa. Daisy's grandmother put her arms around them and read to them the "hypothetical story" by Radiyad Kipling (Note 4).
Grandma Fuller: You can see it, it's too late now, because it's dark here...
After reading, Benjamin and Daisy are still sitting there fascinated.
Grandma Fuller: It's time for the old kangaroo to get his beautiful hind legs back, like...I hope I read it right...like Bigno promised. As you can see, it is now 5 o'clock, because Bigno’s pet bell is ringing. (End) Is it interesting?
Benjamin and Daisy said excitedly: "Read it again. Read it again."
Grandma Fuller: Okay, read it again... But (forget Benjamin's age) You two must promise me that you will go to bed soon go with.
59. Interior view, Nolan apartment, a room, 1930, late at night
Benjamin and an old man-Mr. Dawes, sleeping together. The door opened. Daisy, in her nightdress, walked in... She touched Benjamin lightly.
Daisy (whispering): Are you asleep?
He shook his head and said "No".
Daisy (continuing to whisper): Come with me...
She walked out of the room quickly, Benjamin got up, leaned on crutches, followed her...
60. Interior view, Nolan apartment, back stairwell, 1930, an
old house in the middle of the night silence. Daisy crept down the stairs. Benjamin, the crutches touched the steps lightly, following her.
Benjamin (in a low voice): Where are we going?
She said nothing, and led him into the restaurant...
Here, the washed things have been hung up, the sheets and pillowcases, like ghosts, spread out on the dining table, on the smaller table, and bowls. On the cupboard... to dry...
Daisy: Come
down ... She got under a sheet... Benjamin followed her into the "fortress".
Daisy: No one knows except us.
They sat down...a little girl, a mature 10-year-old boy, enjoying their secret hiding place.
Daisy (continued): Can you light it up?
Benjamin: They won't let me use matches.
Daisy: Don’t be silly...
No longer caring about anything, he lit the candle... Candlelight made everything more mysterious...
Daisy (continued): I tell you a secret, you tell me another secret... ( Whispering) I saw my mother kiss another man. Her face was red.
Benjamin didn't know what to say.
Daisy: It's up to you.
Benjamin: I am younger than I look.
Daisy (whispering): You are nothing like... an old man like my grandma... Are you sick?
Benjamin (whispering): I heard Tiz and my mother whisper. They said, I am going to die. (Smiling) But I fooled them for a long time.
Daisy looked at him by the flickering candlelight.
Daisy: You are different from everyone I have met. May I?
She innocently touched the skin on his face to see how it felt... Suddenly, the bed sheet was lifted and Daisy's grandmother stood there.
Grandma Fuller: What are you doing down there? Light a candle, whose idea?
She extinguished the candle angrily... Then, grabbed Daisy's arm...
Grandma Fuller (continued): It's past midnight. Come out for me and go to bed! (To Benjamin, it was for Daisy) You can’t play together! Play with your own peers! (Walk with Daisy) Now, back to your bed, young lady! You are too young to wander at night by yourself... (The last sentence is for Benjamin) You should be ashamed of yourself.
They are gone... Benjamin stayed alone under the sheets. There was a slight noise, and then he saw Queenie, in her pajamas, standing at the door.
Queenie: You are an extraordinary child...a boy. People will not understand how different you are.
Benjamin (bleakly): What did I do wrong, mother?
Queenie: God hasn't said yet. Now, go back to bed, properly!
He climbed up the stairs behind with a cane, and Mr. Otti, sitting like a ghost, was sitting at one end of the steps, smoking a cigar and drinking the wine in his flat bottle. Otti watched Benjamin pass by him.
Ngonda Oti (drinking a sip of wine): You will get used to...Queeny
(voice-over, shouting): Go back to your bed, or I'll punch you in the ass!
Benjamin turned to the entrance hall, then slipped into the bedroom-
61. Interior view, Nolan apartment, bedroom, 1930, late at night
Benjamin climbed into bed and slept with the old man. He turned his back to the old man. Mr. Dawes can't sleep...
Mr. Dawes: Have I told you that I have been struck by lightning 7 times. Once, I was fixing a loophole on the roof.
We saw that on the roof, an old man was struck by lightning.
Mr. Dawes (continued): Another time, I crossed the street to fetch mail...
We just saw an old man calmly crossing a country road to fetch mail. Suddenly, he was struck by lightning...
But Benjamin just lay down There, staring out the window. All he thought of... there was only one thing...
Benjamin Button (voice-over): I will never forget her blue eyes...
62. Interior, New Orleans, hospital ward, daytime,
especially now . . Daisy, with her distinctive blue eyes open, was lying on her dying bed... the window rattled in the wind.
Caroline: How are you, mom?
She nodded.
Caroline (continued): This man. I fell in love with you at first sight.
She said nothing.
Caroline (continued, without mercy): No one has ever loved me like that.
Daisy (urging her): Go on.
Caroline: He crossed out something... and wrote "When..."
Benjamin Button (voice-over): "When the baby arrived, everything changed..."
63. Interior view, Nolan apartment, The kitchen, in 1931, the night
Benjamin wore pajamas and pajamas, quietly walked into the kitchen to find something to eat...but he then slowed down...he saw Queenie, and now he finally had his time, sitting at the dining table. Breastfeed the baby quietly. Benjamin withdrew from her sight backwards and closed the door.
64. Interior view, Nolan apartment, attic, 1931, at night
Benjamin was lying on a small bed in the attic...there were all the debris that had been accumulated all the year round.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): I moved to my room in the attic...I realized that although there are people I love in this house, I am so lonely...
a voice rang. Ngonda Oti stood at the door, carrying a box in his hand.
Ngonda Oti: I'm here to say goodbye. I'm leaving.
Benjamin: gone? where to?
Ngonda Oti: I don't know yet. I will send you a postcard when I get there.
Benjamin: Are you friends? That tall lady?
Ngonda Oti: We are no longer friends. This is the end of socializing with tall people.
He set off to leave.
Benjamin: Goodbye...
Ngunda Oti is gone. Benjamin got up and came to the window. He looked out the window and could see Mr. Ngonda Oti entering the porch. A round of bright moon was in the air. When he left, he took a small proud step with the suitcase in his hand, and then walked out the door, Benjamin watched him disappear into the night.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): That year, I was alone most of the time...
65. Interior view, Nolan apartment, foyer, 1931, one day
Benjamin was sitting at a table, looking like an old man, but actually not By the age of 12, he was tinkering with a few magnets.
Benjamin (Voiceover): Until...
a well-mannered old woman wearing a hat and gloves, with a suitcase on her feet, and an old dog next to her, standing in the front hall...
Benjamin : Hello...
Old woman: I moved in today.
At this time, Queenie appeared, holding the baby in her arms.
Queenie: Welcome... We are looking forward to you. (To Benjamin) Can you take her upstairs? She lives in Mrs. Russo's old house. After a while, I will get you a new towel. (Frowning) We generally don't let dogs enter the room.
Old woman: It's too old. Also blind. Basically you can't go anywhere, it won't bother others.
Benjamin, like all young people, immediately stepped forward to pet the old dog.
Queenie: I hope it won't cause trouble.
Benjamin helped the old woman pick up her luggage and took her upstairs... the old dog followed them faithfully.
Benjamin: My name is Benjamin.
The old woman reported her name...but we couldn't hear it because...
Benjamin (voice-over, after a short pause): No matter how hard I try, I can't remember her name. Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Hartford, or Mrs. Maple. What's interesting is that the person who occupies the least place in our memory often leaves us the deepest impression.
66. Interior view, Nolan apartment, old woman's room, 1931, during the day
Benjamin sat there, petting the old dog, and the old woman placed her belongings.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): I remember she was wearing diamonds... She always dressed beautifully, as if she was ready to go out at any time. Although, she has never gone out, and no one has ever come to visit her.
67. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1931. On the day of the visit,
we saw an old woman dressed beautifully, sitting in a chair and reading a book. She glanced at the people on the grass outside the window, and then continued to read the book.
Benjamin (voice-over): She taught me to play the piano.
68. Interior view, Nolan apartment, living room, 1932. Another day, at night, the
old woman sat with Benjamin and taught him to play the piano...a classic fragment similar to Chopin...Benjamin tried to play...sounds like Pretty bad.
Old woman: It's not about how well you play, but how much you feel about the music you play. (Whispering) Try this.
Then, she played a piece of Ragtime... New Orleans music, a deeply rooted piece... Benjamin tried to play it, and it really happened.
Old woman (continued): You can't help but throw your whole soul into music.
He played with her...a piece he will never forget.
69. Interior view, Nolan apartment, bathroom, 1932,
Benjamin was taking a bath at night . He noticed a strand of gray hair floating on the water.
Benjamin Button (voice-over): Hair started to grow, in various places on the body...
He saw hair under his armpits... Then, he looked under his body again...
Benjamin Button (voice-over, continue): Later, there were other changes ...
Benjamin, naked, looking at his figure in the mirror...like a teenager.
Benjamin Button (voice-over, continue): I think I can do anything, as if I can grow wings.
Then, he
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