See The Movie Trailer For David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Update: We've embedded the International version of the movie trailer in this posting.
Want to see the movie trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? I've heard it's playing in front of most prints of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And word has it that the trailer won't show up online in official form until the end of next week. International trailer below:
So if you haven't seen Indiana Jones 4, you might now have a reason. From what I understand the majority of the trailer has no dialogue and is almost completely cut to music (I'm being told that it uses "Aquarium" section of "The Carnival of the Animals" by the composer Saint-SaÃ"ns). Alex Billington of FirstShowing saw the trailer and is already calling the movie "next year's Best Picture."
"At my local theater nearby, I've gone in and watched this trailer four times just to bask in its brilliance, writes Billington. "I wouldn't be hard-pressed to call it potentially a masterpiece. The music in the trailer is really what makes it extraordinary. It's one of the most emotional, thrilling, and tragic trailers I've seen that encapsulates the entire story in itself. ... I haven't been this affected since I saw the trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 back in at Comic-Con in 2006."
Sure, Mr. Billington tends to get excited easily, but I've gotten a bunch of emails from readers and friends who were also taken away by the surprise trailer. One reader named Andy actually sent us an email about the trailer from his screening. Here are some other reactions:
LiquidFilmmaking: Even if [Indy 4] sucked that is one of the best trailers I've seen. It's up there with the Thin Red Line trailer or the Episode 1 trailer, at least for me.
Steven Cravens: Just from the trailer I can tell Fincher is going to get his nomination. It was epic as hell. I can't wait.JimmiesCoffee: My jaw dropped throughout the entire thing. The best part was that David Fincher never put his name on the screen. Now THATS modesty. Eat your heart out Brett Ratner. Its #1 on my list of movies this year. I cannot wait. WOW.Carson Patrick: This was one of the best trailers I've ever seen. Didn't give too much away, and left you really wondering what it was all about. plus, the imagery and the scope of the movie was amazing and epic. Fincher seems to have really outdone himself with this one. I hope he and Brad get Oscar nominations.HurtsLikeHellFire: Freaking sweet! Great trailer. The fx look worth the long wait. And what beautiful music. I almost didn't notice it I was so engrossed with the images.
I'm very excited about this film. Fincher's Fight Club is one of my all time favorites. Panic Room felt more like a pointless clinical cinematic experiment than anything else, and Zodiac was probably one of the best films of last year films, bad sadly mis-marketed and underrated. Academy Award winner Eric Roth also wrote the screenplays for Forrest Gump, The Horse Whisperer, and Munich. But what is Benjamin Button about? I've included the official plot synopsis below
"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "Benjamin Button," adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, "Benjamin Button," is a time traveler's tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.