Film News: Director explains why he hired French composer -- "Could the vibes and orchestra bells play softer, please, at bar 48? Then at 52, we come back to our previous dynamic, OK?" Composer Alexandre Desplat is in the middle of his fourth day on the Sony scoring stage, conducting a 75-piece orchestra to perform his delicate, charming music for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Paramount's long-awaited adaptation of an obscure F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages in reverse and the complications that result when he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman.
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