By gibic on Skatehive
Img source I just watched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar on Netflix. It’s a short Wes Anderson film based on a Roald Dahl story, and I really liked it. This is the kind of movie that reminds me why I enjoy Wes Anderson in the first place. He goes all in on his style here and it just works. The whole thing is only 37 minutes. It feels more like watching a play than a regular movie. The actors literally narrate the story word for word from Roald Dahl’s book. They even say things like “he said” and “I replied” out loud, like they’re reading it to us At first, it felt weird and awkward. But then maybe five minutes in, I stopped noticing. The camera starts moving with the dialogue and scenes shift around and it was so pleasing to watch. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Henry Sugar. Henry Sugar is a rich single man who lives off the money he inherited. He spends most of his time gambling. One day, he finds a doctor’s report about a man named Imdad Khan, who claimed he could see without using h