1、The Curious Case of Benjamin Button返老還童返老還童content1、Protagonists2、Background3、Story line4、Lines5、Questions返老還童Benjamin Button Daisy The main characters in this movie are Benjamin Button and Daisy：返老還童返老還童返老還童 Benjamin Button was born in Baltimore.Strangely,he is a eighty year old baby when he was bo

2、rn.His father abandoned him on the road.Luckly,his foster mother(養母) took him.Benjamin Button seemed to be old and clumsy when he was a child ,so the people who knew of him looked at him with strange eyes.He grew up with the care and guidance from his foster mother Queeney(奎尼) .There was another str

3、ange thing.Hes getting younger and younger when the other people were getting old. He met Daisy when Daisy was six.The sweet and kind girl touched his heart.Then theyre apart until the period just after the Second World War.Daisy was a charming dancer that time. 返老還童 When the Second World War began,

4、Benjamin Button went to England to contribute to the anti fascist war by ship from America like many compatriots(同胞). During this period,he knew about many kinds of people. The British Trade Minister lady Elizabeth Abbott was one of them,and it is Benjamins first section of love life that time.He su

5、rvived the real war,and realized the tragedy of war and life,but also understood the greatness of humanity. Benjamin went back to America after the war,when he wasnt an old person ,and became a handsome and graceful middle-aged person.Fatefully,his dream lover Daisy when he was a child went into his

6、 life again.and she was a beautiful and successful dancer that time.Then the two people went together after they went into a返老還童committed relationship.It was the happiest time they ever had when their age and appearance were all matched.As time went by,the vitality of the others gradually disappeare

7、d with years,but Benjamin was younger and smarter.One morning,he said goodbye to his wife and walked toward the future unknown by himself.More than ten years later,Daisy adopted little Benjamin and he died in her arms as a baby at last. 返老還童 Daisy met Benjamin when she was a little girl had a good i

8、mpression of each other. Then they separated for a while and Daisy became an excellent dancer.She met Benjamin again and married him at last.The whole story was recorded in a diary by Daisy. 返老還童 The story happened in the time after the first world war.A clock maker Mr. Getus son participated the fi

9、rst war and died in the war.So he made a counterclockwise clock for the train station,and wished that if the hour hand was counterclockwise rotation(逆時針旋轉),every second of history would go back,and the war would not happen,and the people died in the war would be alive,and then they could go home,and

10、 work,till(耕種)，marry with children of their own,and death would come after the beautiful life. This film is adapted from the novel with the same title,which was written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.He was one of the greatest American 返老還童writers in the 20th century.He is one of the representative

11、 writers of the Lost Generation,and also called poet laureate(桂冠詩人) of the Jazz Age.The famous novel The Great Gatsby is his work.As one of the representative writers of the Lost Generation he was confused and hesitant about the future,and felt strongly about the spiritual crisis of the war though h

12、e hadnt participated war.He described the classes that he was familiar to show that old dream was like a bubble,and American Dreams didnt exist.All characters in his works experienced frustrations and pain of awakening and disillusion.返老還童A strange baby named Benjamin B utton was abandoned by his bi

13、ological（親生的） parents after birth, because of this, a hitherto(前所未有的) unknown freak（奇異的事物） actually born a man like olden. Fortunately, one kind black woman adopted Button this weird baby. Then he met the second women in his life who completely changed his life, Dasiy, one 6 year old little girl. Th

14、e love between the two peoples heart began to sprout.返老還童Ten years later, the flames of the World War II is more violent burning the whole world. Benjamin Button participated in the war. During this period, he met all kinds of people, met the British Trade Minister Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott, and tasted

15、the first paragraph of life love. 返老還童 Benjamin returned to the United States after World War II. He was out of childhood age, childhood dream lover Daisy who was a dancer with successful career and infinite charm appeared again in his life. After mature communication, they spend a few years togethe

16、r with happiness. Finally, he left the Dasiy to the growth of the daughter.返老還童Im blind in the one eye, I cant hardly hear, I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere, I lose my line of thought, but you know what? God keeps reminding me Im lucky to be alive.我瞎了一個眼睛，幾乎聽不見晨間喧囂，動不動就抽搐，總是丟三落四，上帝卻依然扔下閃電來提醒

17、我，能夠活著已經是樁幸運的事了。There is always something that I should remember for the rest of my life.總有一些事情是我需要銘記一生的。You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went, You can swear, curse the fates, regret everything you ever did but when it comes to the end, You have to let it go.你可以像瘋狗那樣對周圍的一切憤憤不平。你可以詛咒命運，但

18、是等到最后一刻到來之時，你還得平靜的放手而去。 返老還童Everybody feels different about themselves one way or another. Were all going the same way, just taking different roads to get there. 每個人對于自己的感受都不一樣。我們都走向同一個方向，只是走的路不同罷了I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you neve

19、r felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life youre proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.我希望你有時能駐足于這個令你感到驚嘆的世界，體會你從未有過的感覺。我希望你能見到其他與你觀點不同的人們。我希望你能有一個值得自豪的人生。如果你想象的生活不一樣，我希望你能有勇氣重新啟程。返老還童Were meant

20、to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us. 我們命中注定要失去我們所愛之人，不然我們怎么知道他們在我們生命中有多重要。For what its worth, its never too late, or in my case, too early, to be whoever you want to be. Theres no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. Theres

21、no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. And I hope you make the best of it.只要是有意義的事 再晚去做還有意義的（或者對我來說，太早），成為你想成為的人。沒有時間的限制，只要愿意什么時候都可以開始。你能從現在開始改變 也可以一成不變 。這件事沒有規矩可言。你能活出最精彩的自己 也可能搞得一團糟，但我希望 你能活出最精彩的自己。返老還童QUESTION 1:prematurelystrikinglypostcardtwitchesplanadeduplextoereconcileplaymatedementia過早的，先天的顯著地、出奇的明信片抽搐；急拉海濱大道、平坦空地二倍的，復式公寓腳趾；足尖使和解；調停玩伴、游伴癡呆walk oncaught upseem likecrossing the roadcurse the fates返老還童繼續走、走下去抓住、遇上看起來像過馬路詛咒命運Might I say you are looking youthful. Honey, she needs a father, not a .I get and shake