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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a 2023 Short Film (~40 minutes) directed by Wes Anderson and adapted from the Roald Dahl short story of the same name. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival before a limited theatrical release on September 20 and a release on Netflix a week later. It is the first of several Dahl adaptations by Anderson for the streaming service.Roald Dahl (Ralph Fiennes) narrates the story of Henry Sugar (Benedict Cumberbatch) to the audience. Henry is a wealthy bachelor who, by chance, picks up an account by the Indian doctor Z.Z. Chatterjee (Dev Patel) about Imdad Khan (Ben Kingsley), a man who had learned to see without utilizing his eyes after much training. Henry decides to use this method to cheat at gambling and become even richer than he already is. Richard Ayoade rounds out the cast. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Dahl is speaking directly to the audience and looking at the camera while he narrates. In-universe narration is also presented as the actors reading into the camera. | |
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Swiss Bank Account: A benevolent example. Henry's accountant John moves to Switzerland so he can legally handle the money Henry wins from cheating at gambling around the world, which is in turn used to set up several charitable organizations for children. | |
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Money to Throw Away | |
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Money to Throw Away: Upon realizing that using one's enhanced concentration to cheat at cards makes the gambling victories meaningless and empty, Henry takes the 30,000 pounds he's won and makes it rain from his balcony, causing chaos down below. | |
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Time-Passage Beard: To show his obsession with reading cards from the back over the next three years, Henry goes from coiffed dandy to having long, unruly hair and an accompanying wild beard. Also, he's just in his underwear. | |
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction | |
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: The greedy Henry uses his new nigh-psychic abilities to cheat at cards, only to be bummed because there's no thrill in it: | |
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Karmic Twist Ending | |
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Karmic Twist Ending: Discussed but averted. After we follow Henry ripping off casinos for a while, Dahl shows us a possible ending of this type where Henry looks down at himself as he is cashing his chips and sees the beginning of a disease that will ravage his body with his penetrating vision. Then he decides it's too cruel and trite and Henry decides to do something more magnanimous with his scheme. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: Dr. Chatterjee never gets to learn what other ways there are to see without one's eyes, as Imdad Khan dies before he can get his answer. Henry Sugar is a pseudonym and his real name is kept secret from even his biography on request of John Winston and Max Engelman. We never find out his real name, only that he's a member of a famous British family. | |
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Hermit Guru | |
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Hermit Guru: The levitating yogi that taught Imdad Khan how to see without his eyes lived deep in the Indian jungle. | |
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Nested Story | |
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Nested Story: Imdad Khan's story is told to Z.Z. Chatterjee, which is being read by Henry, whose story is in turn being narrated by Roald Dahl. | |
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Matte Shot | |
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Matte Shot: In keeping with the short's vintage aesthetic, the characters often narrate in front of painted backgrounds, and a scene transition will occasionally have a "stagehand" move these backgrounds away. | |
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Adaptation Name Change: Several: Imhrat Khan is now named Imdad Khan. The doctor who did the writeup on Mr. Khan is named Dr. Z.Z. Chatterjee, while in the original he was named John F. Cartwright. Dr. Phillips (one of the three doctors which was with Dr. Cartwright in the break room in the story) is here named Dr. Mitra, likely so that all three doctors have surnames beginning with the letter 'M'. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Max Engelman, Henry Sugar's makeup artist, claims to have loved him, though it's unclear whether it's meant platonically or romantically. | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
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Disguised in Drag: One of the disguises Henry considers while pondering his gambling/philanthropy plan is a blonde woman in a suit. | |
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Legacy of Service | |
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Legacy of Service: The narration mentions that John Winston's father had been the accountant for Henry's grandfather, just as John worked for Henry's father and Henry himself. | |
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