Someone Snapped a Pic of the 'Benjamin Button' Poster
Hey look, all that there writin' be backwards!
A couple of you sent me emails telling me there was some artwork for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button online, but that was only some art used at the Apple.com trailer page, but it turns out Defamer scored an image via X-17 Online, but as always on the Internet it's from a digital camera. I have no idea what Paramount is doing with this flick, but they have offered no official stills and have delivered the trailer in high definition as if it wouldn't be squashed down by the massed (self included) to far less attractive Flash format. Last I checked withholding information only makes the online masses frenzied, but it keeps the general public in the dark and with the film set for release on Christmas Day Paramount may want to think about letting people in the "real" world know it is an actual film.
The pic to the right is the largest version available that I can find. Perhaps you can scour X-17 for the larger version, but I'll be damned if that is not one of the most annoying sites I've ever visited.
Of course you will notice the poster features plenty of backwards typeface, playing off the fact Brad Pitt plays a man born somewhere in his eighties and continues to get younger as the film goes on. I have added the trailer below for a small bit of clarification for the uninitiated.
Benjamin Button remains an Oscar pundit's favorite film to assume will be an Oscar classic. In my latest Oscar Update I included new predictions and Button, without being seen by anyone, remains the lead horse in the Best Picture race while both Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett remain in the hunt. That is, in early Oscar speculation terms.
The film is based on the 1922 story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and if you are interested in giving it a read yourself you can check it out at Google Books, just click here and drop down to page 279 or you can go here and download it in PDF format by chapter. If you are worried about reading a long story, don't, the PDF version is 52 pages long while the first version is only 43 and I have a Word doc of it saved on my desktop that is only 21 pages. However, don't think you are spoiling the film, these 21 pages have been turned into what is said to be a two and a half hour film, which you can get more detail on by reading a script review over here.
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