10 Famous Directors Who Completely Changed Style For One Movie

The worlds David Fincher presents in his films are typically cold, dark, and littered with rebellious ideology. It doesn't matter if the story involves home invasions, an FBI manhunt, or the creation of Facebook, it's going to be presented using the same bleak palette.

The sole exception to that rule is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a romantic fantasy drama that goes out of its way to prove that Fincher is capable of giving his audience something that loosely resembles hope for humanity.

A melancholy fable about a man who ages in reverse, Benjamin Button stands outside the rest of David Fincher's filmography by embracing the kind of dewy-eyed sentimentality that you aren't going to find in other Fincher/Pitt collaborations like Se7en or Fight Club.

The visuals are warm, the story is heartening, and the characters lack that proud sense of immorality that tends to worm its way into most portrayals in the Fincher canon.