The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008) y el cuento de F. Scott Fitzgerald, incluido en Tales of the Jazz Age sobre el cual se basa libremente: Ninguna relación entre ambos, a excepción del hecho que el personaje se llama igual y que nace anciano y rejuvenece a medida que pasa el tiempo en las dos historias. El cuento de Fitzgerald está contado de una manera diríase casi humorística, hasta que llega a su final, en que la sencillez de la redacción le confiere toda seriedad y dramatismo al caso: He did not remember clearly whether the milk was warm or cool at his last feeding or how the days passed—there was only his crib and Nana’s familiar presence.  And then he remembered nothing.  When he was hungry he cried—that was all.  Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and darkness. Then it was all dark, and his white crib and the dim faces that moved …