5/6/2023 0 Comments The blind clockmaker![]() ![]() The woman eventually dies in bed from illness. He does not raise the child through its early years but later makes an appearance. The couple part ways, due to the woman's perceived inability to take care of the man. During their brief time together, they conceive a child. Around this time, his lifelong love returns from her adventures, ready to commit to him. The man comes into considerable wealth through blind luck. At some point he returns to his childhood home, and his mother dies. Our man wanders all around the world, his life brushing up against key historical moments of the 20th century. This salty sailor serves as one of our man's two best male friends the other is a black man who first teaches our man the lessons of friendship before departing forever. The man also spends much time on a small ocean vessel, serving alongside a rowdy, grizzled, hard-drinking man of the sea. During this stint, the man proves at first an indifferent asset, but during his one firefight, he turns out to be very valuable, saving the day single-handedly, while also witnessing the death of one of his best friends. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the man reaches adulthood, and puts in a wartime stint in the U.S. Around this time, he also meets the love of his life, a vivacious girl who grows into a bold woman who parts ways with the man to have her own wild adventures. At a young age, the man learns to walk and sheds his exoskeleton of locomotive aids. His saintly mother believes in his potential anyway. Examples: A white man is born fatherless in the south with birth defects that lead many to think he may never walk nor live a normal life. A number of people have noted the similarities, especially considering the two films were written by Eric Roth. Button abandons the newborn in front of a home for the elderly. One significant difference is that in the story, Benjamin is raised by his parents (his mother does not die in childbirth) and is eventually taken care of by his own son, Roscoe. However, there are minor variations between the short story and movie, e.g., (1) the short story is set in Baltimore the movie in New Orleans, (2) Benjamin's love interest in the movie is named Daisy in the story, her name is Hildegarde, (3) Benjamin has a son in the story in the movie, he has a daughter, and (4) Benjamin is born in a hospital, not at home, and is 70 years old, not 85. He ages backwards, physically as well as mentally. Benjamin Button is born with a long white beard and is barely small enough to cram into a baby crib but is able to speak hours after birth and shows no interest in playing with toys. Both the story and movie are conceptually the same (the basic plots concern a man who ages backwards). ![]()
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