Talk:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)

message: What the hell language is this article in, because it sure ain't English!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.194.196.196 (talk) 17:40, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: First of all, this article is not about the movie but about the short story on which it was based.  Second of all, the movie is based on a short story in the 1920s, about 50 years before the author of "The Confessions of Max Tivoli was even born. Lynn25 (talk) Lynn25 (talk) 00:22, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  WTF? 

message: I'm having trouble finding it:  somebody should find the Mark Twain quote that inspired Fitzgerald to write the story.  It's important for understanding the story.  I only found out about the Twain quote in print edition of the Fitzgerald story-- he wrote a short italicized preface quoting Twain and explaining that he decided to write a story based on it.  (The quote is something like "it is a curious and unfortunate fact that we begin our lives young and have to end them while old" or "that the best parts of life are at the beginning, and the worst at the end" or something.)  Furthermore Fitzgerald (or possibly the editor, but I forget) made acknowledgment that Fitzgerald only later learned that a work "The Notebooks" [or something] by a different author had been earlier to explore the same idea of reverse-aging.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.15.230.16 (talk) 03:21, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins, Mark Twain

message: The narrative device of reverse chronology is certainly not new. In addition to F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, Martin Amis wrote a novel titled  Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991). The novel deals with the moral and social implications of interpreting events in reverse chronological order. (Imagine doctors wounding patients who eventually get well enough to sit around waiting rooms for hours before they leave to go home and get better!)
Homage also to Kurt Vonnegut for Slaughterhouse 5 for living events not in reverse order, but random order.
Jongwinsell (talk) 14:42, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Amis and other authors 

message: I am moving this article to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) and redirecting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) for the following reasons:
While I fully acknowledge that the story came first, the article bears no indication that the story itself was particularly notable, more so than any other story by Fitzgerald, for any reason at any time before the film adaptation was announced. The film, on the other hand, has received extremely wide coverage for a variety of reasons, and has been nominated for many of the most prestigious awards that can be bestowed upon an American film.
A look at the incoming links to the title The Curious Case of Benjamin Button indicates that the vast majority of the links are for the film, and a Google search on the title yields similar results. 
When this article was created in July 2006, it was about the film (there was no existing article about the story); it was changed to an article about the short story in November 2006 with, as far as I can tell, absolutely no discussion. In the absence of any apparent discussion since then, in light of the reasons above, and in the interest of the many users who will inevitably be looking for the film's article following this morning's Oscar nominations, I'm being bold and instituting the move. Propaniac (talk) 15:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry about that, I had to leave my computer for a few minutes right before I could add the hatnote to the film article. It's there now. Propaniac (talk) 15:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Disambiguation pages with two entries are fucking pointless. Pick one, move it to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and add a hatnote in that article linking to the other one. WP:2DAB. Skomorokh 02:28, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I did pick one; someone else chose to make this a disambig, apparently with no interest in discussion or consensus, and I didn't bother to protest, but it is stupid to put the story at the main title just because it was written first. IF you want to put the speedy delete back up so that the film article can be moved back to this title, I certainly won't object. Propaniac (talk) 02:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just for the record, I hate disambig pages with only two entries. I agree, they're pointless. I just don't want the entry that nobody wants to look at to be the primary one. Propaniac (talk) 02:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)]] 

message: Why does the article about short story contain the synopsis of the movie and not of the short story? I think that in current version, the "Film adaptation" section should end just after the first paragraph, which summarizes the differences between the book and the film and that's should be it... - Blueshade (talk) 05:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm a teacher trying to figure out what the plot of the story is. Is it the same as the movie? I really don't know and would have loved to discuss it. Now I am not confident and I thought Wikipedia would have the answer and I think it definitely should.37.221.244.23 (talk) 08:15, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  film synopsis? 

message: Is this story a kid's book or an adult's short story? If it is an adult's story, it needs to be put that way in order to prevent confusion between both genres. The same goes for the former. Edward Roussac (talk) 03:45, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rating confusion 

message: Why is it that the article lists the film adaptation but not the actual plot of the story that the article is about?
Unless someone adds a summary, we might as well just merge this with the movie article seeing as how useless this page is.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.197.88.106 (talk) 01:50, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  plot...?