#i am such a sucker for roald dahl i find his stories so comforting

[waymond-wang]

THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (2023) dir. Wes Anderson

↳ Henry Sugar was forty one years old, unmarried, and rich. He was rich because he had a rich father who was now dead. He was unmarried because he was too selfish to share any of his money with a wife. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall and not perhaps as handsome as he thought he was. He paid a great deal of attention to his clothes. He went to an expensive tailor for his suits, to a shirt-maker for his shirts, and to a boot-maker for his shoes. His hairdresser trimmed his hair once every ten days, and he always took a manicure at the same time. He drove a Ferrari motorcar which cost him about the same as a country cottage. All his friends were rich and he'd never done a day's work in his life. Men like Henry Sugar can be found drifting like seaweed all over the world. They're not particularly bad men but they're not good men either. They're simply a part of the decoration.