But after Eric Roth, who edited "Forrest Gump", took the knife, the story has changed drastically and turned into a fable of time. Benjamin Button, played by Brad Pitt, became a character in stories similar to "Man Will Always Die" and "Orlando", and lived his life in a way that violates all the laws of science. . In addition to the name and core, the only Fitzgerald element that may remain in the movie is the eternal American South. David Fincher changed Barton's hometown from Baltimore to New Orleans, and the protagonist Barton is still a wealthy family, even if his real home is in a nursing home where death is like a visitor. Daisy, played by Cate Blanchett, who was dying in the hospital bed, recalled Barton and her life just before Hurricane Katrina arrived. Both the mode of telling the story and the magical story itself are quite reminiscent of Calvino and Borges.
In the early stages of planning for this film, Robert Zemeckis, who has directed "Forrest Gump", was also considered as a director, but he is more suitable for shaping those simple, sunny, and upright people after all. The characters, like Patton, seem to be incompatible with his aura. But if the evil Tim Burton (Tim Burton) is allowed to direct, I am afraid it will blow away the southern charm that has enveloped Fitzgerald's life, and turn it into a complete fairy tale, which is consistent with the new life of this world. Orleans has nothing to do with it. Thinking about it this way, David Fincher, who restored the atmosphere of the past as if within reach in Zodiac, is indeed the best director for this story.
In Patton's story, people's joys and sorrows, birth, old age, sickness and death are naturally fascinating roles on the stage, and the setting of the stage, New Orleans, is also a more important setting that is hard to detect. Pete and Blanchett spoke with a soft southern accent. In the night fog of New Orleans, one can almost feel the smell of the air coming from the Mississippi River and the water of the Gulf of Mexico. This is what Fitzgerald likes, the taste of the American South, just like Blanchett dancing on the pavilion on a misty night. The beauty and stubbornness of the southern American girl and Scarlett Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind" still reverberate after more than half a century.
In order to tell such a story, special effects are essential. Just as "Forrest Gump" used a lot of digital special effects in the past, it put Forrest Gump into every historical moment to make soy sauce, and it was recorded in the history of film. In order to highlight the magic of time, this film has a great effect on Pete and Blanchett. The hard work of styling has also been regarded as a great technological breakthrough. The soundtrack of "Lust|Caution" Alexander Plat (Alexander Plat) for the film is carefully integrated into every moment of the film, and it is very commendable.
The similarity with "Forrest Gump" is also where the topic lies. Both are incomplete protagonists, both were born in the background of the great era, but Patton always tried to hide in the corner of history. In his life, he would enter the war, and all his brothers on the same ship died in battle, but they were actually only on the edge of the battle group; it is as if Blanchett was once the favorite dancer of the dance master Balanchine, but because Leaving the stage in a car accident. Forrest Gump is set to be the person who always appears next to the big shots in historical photos. Forrest has the directness of the plains of Alabama, while Patton is full of the exquisiteness of southern whites, always hesitating to speak, and his eyes are deep. In the novel, Patton was born after the Civil War, and the movie turns his birthday into the day when the First World War ended. Only in this way can we see David Finch’s New Orleans, a city that was almost destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and suffered countless people who love jazz. Some people may think that this arrangement is a coincidence, but after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans does need a movie that took place there to recall the glory of the past. Borrowing a story from Fitzgerald, the endorsement writer of the jazz age, and placing it in the jazz capital of New Orleans, what could be more appropriate than this?
"Some people were born and raised by the river, some people were struck by lightning, some people have extraordinary talent for music, some are artists, some swim, some know how to make buttons, some know Shakespeare, and some It's a mother, and some people can dance." At the end of the movie, Patton in the narration said so. Like all these people, he is just a passerby of life. Their lives may be humble or unremarkable, but in the movie, through the eyes of Patton, they can see their souls. This may be David Fincher's greatest movie to date.
--------------It is said that science students don't like this film (correction~~some science students don't like this film~~~), I have to admit that I am a liberal arts student. What I like the most is the atmosphere inside and the exquisiteness of the American South. These things are hard to tell. People who don't like this kind of film don't like it. However, it is my big love~
: P found that most of the messages in the comments are about arts and sciences. . I'm wrong. . In fact, friends who have studied science said this, and there is no meaning of contempt and prejudice.
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