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

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I will not go see this movie because the idea for this film was stolen from "The confessions of Max Tivoli" without the author's permission. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.216.254 (talk) 12:22, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Very similar premise to a book called "The Confessions of Max Tivoli".Wikifried (talk) 08:29, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Sour is the writer but is now gay he is in webdesign.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.144.60.175 (talk) 15:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Complete Overhaul

I basically did quick overhaul of the page. I greatly lengthened the summary and added the info box. I don't have time to carefully comb over it for typos, but it should be reasonably error-free. --Jesse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.97.90.184 (talk) 18:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Origins, Mark Twain

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)[reply]