convergence model of communication related to the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

THE MODEL USED IN RELATION WITH THE MOVIE:

The Convergence Model by Rogers and Kincaid in 1981.

The consonance/dissonance model is especially suited to analyzing situations of potential change based on disagreement and conflict. However, much communication takes place under conditions of potential agreement or increasing consensus and consonance and increasing commonality between participants can be considered as one definition of communication. The conflict or propaganda situation represented by an election campaign is not typical. More often, the interests of senders and receivers of messages are potentially consistent, as in many public information and mobilization campaigns.

The model depicts the relationship between participant A and participant B in a communicative interaction. There is a cyclical process of moving towards greater mutual understanding based on the giving and receiving of information. Several cycles of information exchange occur before mutual understanding is reached and this does not have to be complete. In this model, the communication process is presumed to have already begun before we can start to observe it.

THE MOVIE USED IN RELATION WITH THE MODEL:

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins “Benjamin Button”, adapted from the classic 1920’s story by Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end if the World War I in 1981, into the 21^st century, lowing his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Pincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda Swinton, Taraji Henson, Jsason Hemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond. “Benjamin Button” is a time traveler’s tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what last beyond time.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American drama film, inspired by the 1921 short story of the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was directed by David Fincher, written by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, and stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The film was released in the United States on December 25, 2008.

The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson. It won three Oscars for Art Direction, Makeup, and Visual Effects, and has tied the record for the most nominated film not to win the Academy Award for Best Picture with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Mary Poppins and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

THE RELATION OF THE CONVERGENCE MODEL OF COMMUNICATION TO THE MOVIE “THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON” :

The model being used in relation to the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, is the Convergence Model of Communication by Rogers and Kincaid in 1981. Its because the model is very much suited in the love story in the movie. Though Benjamin Button is quite weird and unusual person as what he portrays in the movie, still, Daisy Fuller loved him inspite and despite of his “unusuality”. The process of the model can be seen even from the start they knew each other. They begin to know each other well, and so as liked each other. Benjamin went away but he continue to have communication with Daisy by writing her a postcard everywhere he went. Benjamin met so many women along his journey but only Daisy is the reason why he came back. They have so many affairs before with other people but because they have the “mutual understanding”, they love each other and with or without commitment, they are still made for each other until Benjamin’s death, he died confidently in Daisy’s arms with relief.