Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button is the main character of the film The Curious case of Benjamin Button released in 2008. He was portrayed by Brad Pitt in the movie.

History
Benjamin was born in 1918 at the end of WW1. However his mother died giving birth to him and he was born with the physical appearance and afflictions of an elderly man. When his father Thomas Button discovered this he was terrified, quickly taking the newborn and leaving him on the front porch of a nursing home, where he was discovered by Queenie and Mr. "Tizzy" Weathers. Queenie then decided to raise Benjamin in the nursing home, believing he would not live for very long.

To Queenie and everyone elses disbelief, Benjamin survives the next seven years of his life, finally standing and walking for the first time at a church service, where the minister dies of a heart attack.

In 1930, Benjamin meets the six year old-Daisy Fuller, and the two become good friends. Benjamin soon comes into the service of captain Mike Clark, working aboard his tugboat, doing the most menial of jobs such as mopping and scrubbing the decks. His commitment to earning some pay impresses Clark, and he takes Benjamin to a brothel in the city, where Benjamin supposedly loses his virginity.

In 1935, a 17 year old Benjamin leaves home and works out to sea with the captain and his crew. Then in 1939, Benjamin and his crew began their involvement in World War II. Over the next five years, Benjamin physically ages backwards, becoming taller and stronger physically, something Captain Clark is amazed by, but Benjamin explains it away by him drinking too much. Benjamin and Clark's crew spent a number of months in the city Murmansk, Russia, where Benjamin would eventually meet Elizabeth Abbott, the wife of the British Trade Minister. Benjamin and Elizabeth soon began an affair, using strict rules and precautions to avoid her husband discovering it. However, Elizabeth and her husband soon returned to London, with Elizabeth leaving one note under Benjamin's room, reading "it was nice to have met you".

In the Spring of 2003, Benjamin dies, physically an infant but 84 years old, after looking at Daisy one last time. On her deathbed, Daisy sees a hummingbird outside the hospital window, saying goodnight to Benjamin