When I watch films, I try to pick films that I feel will keep me sucked in to watching them. Every time I pick films and blog about them there is always a correlation that I do not plan at all. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON compared to PLEASANTVILLE is very different but at the same time very similar as well. PLEASANTVILLE is a film about teen brother and sister that live in the 90’s. They are sucked in to a 50’s television show with a special remote that a TV repair man gave them. They ruin a perfectly perfect world that creates change such as color from black and white. The special effects used in this film would be the the discoloration to coloration in objects which was a very essential part of the whole film. This film was unconventional. One big reason for this film being unconventional is the relationship that Betty and George shared. A wife, in this time period, would never cheat on their husband with someone else. Also, it was a woman’s job to cook and have dinner on the table…Betty went against this when she found “her true colors”.
This is a picture of Betty when she realized who she way and was trying to cover up her beauty so her husband wouldn’t think she was a “colored”.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON took a different approach on the plot. This film was about the life a child that was born looking old and would age the opposite of everyone else. TCCOBB was more of a love story between two very different people. The special effects in this movie wasn’t the color, but more so of the visual effects of the aging process for Mr. Button.
This is Benjamin at about 15 years old..
These movies share one thing in common. That they both are displaying the love bonds between man and woman.
PLEASANTVILLE was more about a bond between two individuals that was sort of dissolving because of the disliking of color and personal explorations Betty Parker was finding out about herself. Her husband hated the fact that she was different because she adapted some color into her life..literally. The only solution was for George Parker to find his true colors. TCCOBB was almost completely opposite. TCCOBB focused on the lifetime long relationship between two individuals and how it couldn’t last because of certain factors. Daisy loved Benjamin as did Benjamin loved Daisy but their relationship couldn’t last. The reason for is because Daisy would be old and Benjamin would be young because of his opposite aging. When they were about 30, they met again and cherished what they could before they appearance created a boundary. Daisy wanted to stay with Benjamin forever but he had said to her, “you cant raise the both of us” (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). So in a way..both relationships couldn’t last until certain things were thought about. What I mean is that (George Parker had to find his true happiness in order to become colored and make the relationship work, and how Daisy had to accept that the relationship would never last because of Benjamins backwards aging process..but that doesn’t mean she never stopped loving him.)