Post by sgev1977 on Aug 27, 2022 15:44:10 GMT
I just saw this mention of the Henry Sugar short story by Wes Anderson himself in this book about the making of The Great Budapest Hotel from 2015(!!!) by Matt Zoller Seitz
IMHO it’s very interesting because when I was reading the short story, I immediately thought in that thing he did at the beginning of The Great Budapest Hotel with the teenage girl visiting the bust of a great unnamed author meanwhile reading his book then you see the old author being interviewed/narrating the story of the book; then you see him at a younger age meeting the subject of his book and then that other old man telling him the main story of his younger self adventures alongside M Gustavo H. A story within a story within a story.
I kinda think that Anderson didn’t adapted three stories of the whole short stories book but centered on the three levels of only the Henry Sugar story. You know, an author telling the story that an accountant told him about the redemption of his dissolute and cheating late boss who one day read a book by an English physician in India about meeting an Indian guy who can see without using his eyes thanks to a guru, etc. That would be the three stories, doesn’t? Also BC probably won’t play multiple characters but Henry Sugar in disguise playing multiple “characters”. Pure speculation, of course, we will see… until next year!
Also there is a scene in Island of Dogs that it’s very reminiscent of the scene in the book in which Henry Sugar sees the organs inside his own body. Anderson clearly loves and really knows the short story apparently making allusion to it in his past work. That’s exciting!
I can cast the characters based in the known cast,
Cumberbatch is Henry Sugar (that’s the only sure thing!)
Rupert Friend is John Cartwright, the doctor (considering it was reported he was the lead in one of the stories)
Dev Patel is Imhrat Khan
Ben Kingsley is the guru Banerjee
Ralph Fiennes is John Winston OR the Roal Dahl prototype listening and writing Winston tale.
Richard Ayoade is Max (I think it’s suggested he is a black man although I think he is also American so we will see)
Now the question would be if there will be women in this! Lol I don’t think there are in the story! Recently they made a theatre adaptation and it seems they made the Doctor female.
EDITED Khan also tells his story to the doctor so that’s another layer!
IMHO it’s very interesting because when I was reading the short story, I immediately thought in that thing he did at the beginning of The Great Budapest Hotel with the teenage girl visiting the bust of a great unnamed author meanwhile reading his book then you see the old author being interviewed/narrating the story of the book; then you see him at a younger age meeting the subject of his book and then that other old man telling him the main story of his younger self adventures alongside M Gustavo H. A story within a story within a story.
I kinda think that Anderson didn’t adapted three stories of the whole short stories book but centered on the three levels of only the Henry Sugar story. You know, an author telling the story that an accountant told him about the redemption of his dissolute and cheating late boss who one day read a book by an English physician in India about meeting an Indian guy who can see without using his eyes thanks to a guru, etc. That would be the three stories, doesn’t? Also BC probably won’t play multiple characters but Henry Sugar in disguise playing multiple “characters”. Pure speculation, of course, we will see… until next year!
Also there is a scene in Island of Dogs that it’s very reminiscent of the scene in the book in which Henry Sugar sees the organs inside his own body. Anderson clearly loves and really knows the short story apparently making allusion to it in his past work. That’s exciting!
I can cast the characters based in the known cast,
Cumberbatch is Henry Sugar (that’s the only sure thing!)
Rupert Friend is John Cartwright, the doctor (considering it was reported he was the lead in one of the stories)
Dev Patel is Imhrat Khan
Ben Kingsley is the guru Banerjee
Ralph Fiennes is John Winston OR the Roal Dahl prototype listening and writing Winston tale.
Richard Ayoade is Max (I think it’s suggested he is a black man although I think he is also American so we will see)
Now the question would be if there will be women in this! Lol I don’t think there are in the story! Recently they made a theatre adaptation and it seems they made the Doctor female.
EDITED Khan also tells his story to the doctor so that’s another layer!