The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or Mork and Mindy: The Movie
Click to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button trailer at Zuguide.com
Besides the fact that Brad Pitt doesn’t play an alien, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is pretty much a straight rip off of the popular 1970s television show Mork and Mindy. Mork, played by Robin Williams, was a reverse-aging alien who came to earth, fell in love with a woman and pretty much made her life a nightmare with his bizarre behavior, zany voices and innumerable misunderstandings. Benjamin, in comparison, is a reverse-aging man who’s born on earth, falls in love with a woman and complicates the crap out of her life with his bizarre behavior and a fair share of misunderstandings (and I’m sure his voice changes at some point, too). Now, I don’t know if Benjamin Button can drink through his finger or imitate Richard Nixon, but the fact that he ages backwards and creates problems for his lady friend makes him very Mork-ish. I’m sure there’s more to Benjamin’s story, but there’s no denying the facts.
In the trailer, Benjamin begins his life looking like a wrinkly, hairless baby mouse. He gets slightly less hideous as the years go by and eventually turns into Brad Pitt. Along the way he sails the high seas, dates ballerinas and cruises around on his motorcycle. After getting over the difficulties of being an 80-year-old toddler, it seems as though Benjamin’s affliction actually works in his favor. As the years go by, he gets younger and stronger while gaining life experience. The major conflict comes into play when Benjamin falls in love with Cate Blanchett. Though their ages match up for a time, eventually they become a May-December romance the likes of which has never been seen before. My favorite part of the trailer comes at the end when Blanchett, as an elderly old woman, walks baby Benjamin down the sidewalk and pauses for a moment to give him a little kiss. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opens on December 19, 2008. Check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button trailer at Zuguide.com.
Methinks Mork’s folks had to get the idea from the Benjamin Button story rather than the reverse unless time is indeed running in the reverse direction. The movie is based on an old Fitzgerald short story of the same name (loosely, they’ve reinterpreted the idea considerably) that was written many decades ago (long before Mork arrived on Earth) and that in turn was based on a famous comment by the even older Mark Twain – something about how it would be better if we were born old and then grew younger. The Twain comment could also have been the origin of the Orkian aging process, of course. Or perhaps they imagined the idea independently, as the only way to work Jonathon Winters into the plotline! Nanu, nanu y’all.
jwoolman
10 Dec 08 at 2:26 am
You’re 100% correct, but I still like to imagine that the studio hired a team of screenwriters to crank out a big screen version of Mork and Mindy and somehow this happened.
What’s the over/under on how long it takes someone to create a Benjamin Button/Mork and Mindy trailer mashup?
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