{"id":9347,"date":"2010-10-09T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2010-10-09T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T13:02:38","slug":"the-backwards-score-of-benjamin-button-fincher-desplat-palindrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/09\/the-backwards-score-of-benjamin-button-fincher-desplat-palindrome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backwards Score of Benjamin Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001KZBKD0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B001KZBKD0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9348\" title=\"Alexandre Desplat and David Fincher at the scoring sessions for Benjamin Button\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Alexandre-Desplat-and-David-Fincher-at-the-scoring-sessions-for-Benjamin-Button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After watching David Fincher&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0421715\/\">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/a><\/strong> for the first time, there was something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001KZBKD0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B001KZBKD0\">Alexandre Desplat&#8217;s score<\/a> that stayed with me.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure exactly what this was until reading that the score contains musical\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palindrome\">palindromes<\/a>: many of the themes can be played backwards, which mirrors the central story of a man ageing in reverse.<\/p>\n<p>The composer explains more in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99156444\">interview with NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/v2\/?i=99156444&#38;m=99162497&#38;t=audio\" height=\"386\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" base=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0421715\/\">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_Desplat\">Find out more about Alexandre Desplat<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001KZBKD0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B001KZBKD0\">Buy Alexandre Desplat&#8217;s score from Amazon UK<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoringsessions.com\/sessions\/29813\/\">Photos of the scoring session from August 2008<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Desplat&#8217;s score for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button contains musical palindromes that mirror the central story of a man ageing in reverse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,621],"tags":[1588,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}