Of all the movies that are coming out this year, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is definitely in the top 5. I’m a huge fan of David Fincher (Fight Club is one of my very favorite movies) and the story itself just sounds so cool. As it turns out so is Jonathon McNicol, a designer from Connecticut who not only runs Chip Kidd’s website but also is a regular contributor to clusterflock. Jonathon, in all of his excitement, has decided to create a “proofread and nicely (hopefully) typeset” PDF version of the story, one chapter at a time over the next 11 days.

I’ve already read the first chapter and it’s beautifully put together and gets me really excited to see the movie. My only hesitation is that I’ll know hwo the movie ends, but I guess it would be better to stay true and read the book then worry about the movie? Where do my morals stand?! P.S. I put the paper pattern behind the page up there, just so you all didn’t have to stare at an almost blank page.

Bobby

7 Comments »

1. what an inspirational, and educational blog! LOVE

   Comment by wecouldgrowuptogether — June 20, 2008 #

2. Anything set in Scala always look great.

   Comment by Asvetic — June 20, 2008 #

3. Fight Club is my favorite movie! (I wrote multiple papers about it in college… and high school. Dork.) & I am very much looking forward to this Fincher film. And, the excitement continues with this pdf, because it combines two more of my favorites: reading & typography!

   Comment by Maria @ Stickers & Donuts — June 20, 2008 #

4. read half of the book?

   Comment by Coplin — June 21, 2008 #

5. the story has such a literary ending, that I think the movie will have to come up with a slightly different way of closing it. the whole jazz age collection of shorts is pretty great, if you feel compelled to read more F. Scott.

   Comment by Patrick — June 21, 2008 #

6. Read the book, of course. Then you can bitch about how much better it was than the movie ;)

   Comment by sassypants — June 21, 2008 #

7. It seems that the plot of the movie and the short story are very different, I don’t think anything is spoiled by reading the short story. Both versions are very intriguing.

   Comment by nicole — July 6, 2008 #

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