Age backwards with Hollywood's sexiest activist dad in David Fincher's adaptation of the short story The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. The film follows a strange birth, where the baby starts out as an old man and proceeds to age backwards. So while all the other seven-year-olds look like chubby cherubs running around, Benjamin, played by Brad Pitt, looks about 70. See Pitt through the years in our Button's gallery and take a guess what age each version of Button is on the inside.

Who doesn't want to grow old backwards with Brad Pitt? It's kind of creepy how much he looks like Robert Redford, but even stranger is the old man baby, yikes. The short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald has Button being born as an old man with a long white beard, but only about 3 feet tall. I wonder is the old man baby the beginning or the end of his life? I tend to think the beginning, because his surrogate family still appears to be very young when they are handed the bundle.

Also in the short story, Button's mind gets changed by his age: when he was older and in a child-like form he regressed into the mind of a baby. From the sound of the trailers it doesn't sound like his mind changes. So he looks like a baby but has the mind of an old man. Which brings it much closer to Andrew Sean Greer's classic novel The Confessions Of Max Tivoli.

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• Beginning Or The End: In the short story little baby Benjamin Button starts off as an old man with a beard down to his knees. This little baby appears to be an old man, and the TV trailer says he's actually an 81-year-old man. So is this the beginning or the end of Benjamin? I'd like to think the beginning because his family still looks pretty young
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• Age 7: Confined to a wheelchair, Benjamin wheels himself about.
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• Age 7: Benjamin takes his first steps at the ripe age of 7.
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• Age 11: Look at those rosy cheeks and playful smile that's a pre-teen if ever I saw one.
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• Age 14: Muscle growth for Benjamin! What's really creepy is right now that looks like the face of old man Brad Pitt on a boy's body.
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• Age 17: With a full head of gray hair Benjamin sets off to get a job and see the world.
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• Age 17
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• Age 22: Benjamin reads letters while afloat around the world. I say he's 22-19 here, still pretty old but starting to get taller and bulk up.
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• Age 25: Look at those come hither eyes, Ben is back and randy.
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• Age 29: Ben's got a softer (but still a little wrinkled face) but a lot more hair, lookin' a little like Robert Redford, no?
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• Age 32: His hair is getting honey colored with only hints of gray now.
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• Age 33: Hello the beginning of washboard abs.
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• Age 44: My guess is he spent a good portion of his 40s looking like this
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• Age 45
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• Age 59: Teen-looking Benjamin
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• Age 76: Little toddler Benjamin wouldn't of had that many more years left at this age before he went back to his baby days.

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