The Hudsucker Proxy
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Directed by	Joel Coen Ethan Coen
Produced by	Ethan Coen Silver Pictures Working Title Films
Written by	Ethan Coen Joel Coen Sam Raimi
Starring	Tim Robbins Jennifer Jason Leigh Paul Newman Bruce Campbell
Music by	Carter Burwell
Cinematography	Roger Deakins
Editing by	Thom Noble
Distributed by	Warner Bros. (USA) PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (non-USA) Rank Film Organization (UK)
Release date(s)	March 11, 1994
Running time	111 min.
Language	English
Budget	$25,000,000
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) is a screwball comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, telling a fictitious story about the rise and fall of a naive executive and the invention of the hula hoop. It stars Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. One of the film's narrative devices is repeated reference to the Wheel of Fortune. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (525x755, 107 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... Silver Pictures is a movie production company founded by Hollywood producer Joel Silver In 1987. ... Current company logo, introduced in 1999. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Tim Robbins at Cannes, 2001 Height: 6 ft 4 in / 1. ... Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films. ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. ... For the former baseball player of the same name, see Bruce Campbell (baseball). ... Carter Burwell (born November 18, 1955, in New York) is a composer of film soundtracks. ... Roger Deakins (born May 24, 1949 Torquay, Devon, England) is a cinematographer. ... Thom Noble is an Academy Award winning film editor. ... Warner Bros. ... PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) was a London-based film studio, founded in 1991 as a European competitor to Hollywood, but eventually sold and merged with Universal Pictures in 1999. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... The screwball comedy is a subgenre of the comedy film genre. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... Joel and Ethan Coen at Cannes 2001 Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly known as The Coen Brothers have written and directed numerous successful films, such as comedies O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski, as well as darker film noir dramas such as Fargo, Millers... Children playing with hula hoops. ... Tim Robbins at Cannes, 2001 Height: 6 ft 4 in / 1. ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. ... Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films. ... Wheel of Fortune (X) Wheel of Fortune (X) is a Major Arcana Tarot card. ...

Plot summary

Waring Hudsucker commits suicide by jumping through the board room window.

It is New Years Eve, 1958. Everyone all over New York City is out celebrating except Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), the president of Hudsucker Industries, who is standing outside his window at the top of the building, ready to jump. Image File history File links Husucker3e3. ... Image File history File links Husucker3e3. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Tim Robbins at Cannes, 2001 Height: 6 ft 4 in / 1. ...

One month earlier, Norville is a college graduate who arrives in New York City looking for a job in business. The only problem is he can not find one because he has no experience. The only job he can take is as a mailroom clerk at Hudsucker Industries.

Meanwhile, the company founder and president of Hudsucker Industries, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), commits suicide by jumping through a window on the forty-fourth floor during a board meeting (mimicking the death of Eli M. Black in 1975). It is after this that Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman), a ruthless member of the board of directors, mounts a scheme to buy up the controlling interest in the company's stock before Hudsucker's shares are made available to buy for the public. Hoping to temporarily depress the stock price, Mussburger wants to install "some jerk" as a proxy for the deceased president. Charles Durning Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923 in Highland Falls, New York) is an American actor of stage and screen, born to an impoverished Irish American Catholic family, which he left as soon as possible to ease the financial pressure on his mother. ... Mayor of Leipzig, Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ... Eli M. Black (1922?-February 3, 1975) was an American businessman who controlled the United Brands Company. ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. ... In relation to a company, a director is an officer (that is, someone who works for the company) charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Later, Norville is sent up stairs to deliver a Blue Letter (an intra-company communication of the highest urgency) to Mussburger, but Norville decides to first show Mussburger his invention he has been working on. He shows him a drawing of a circle and Mussburger takes Norville as an idiot and hires him as president.

"Out of hope. Out of rope. Out of time."

Across town, Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a reporter for the Manhattan Argus, is assigned to write a story about the previously-unknown newcomer. She disguises herself as a girl from Muncie, Indiana looking for a job. Norville, who went to college in Muncie, sings the school song to her and hires her as his secretary. One night, Amy lurks around the building to find clues and meets Moses (Bill Cobbs), a man who runs the building's giant clock. Moses, who knows "just about anything if it concerns Hudsucker", tells Amy the board's plot for Norville. Amy takes the story back to her boss, but he does not believe it. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Warner Bros. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Warner Bros. ... Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films. ... Muncie (IPA: ) is a city in Delaware County in east central Indiana, best known as the home of Ball State University and the birthplace of the Ball Corporation. ... Bill Cobbs (born June 16, 1935) is an African-American film actor. ...

Norville's invention turns out to become the hula-hoop. His new toy brings the company greater success, but later, Norville has no more ideas. Aloysius (Harry Bugin), who scrapes and paints the names on the doors, discovers Amy's true identity and informs Sidney. Sidney then gets the board to believe that Norville is "nuts" and to have him sent to the sanitarium.

On New Year's Eve, Amy finds a drunk Norville trying to buy a martini at a "juice and coffee bar". She apologizes to him, but he storms out of the place mad at her. Outside, Norville is chased down the street by an angry mob to the Hudsucker building. Norville gives up hope and goes up stairs to his office, opens his window and stands on the ledge ready to jump as seen at the beginning of the movie. Aloysius locks Norville out which makes Norville change his mind and he attempts to walk back inside, but slips and falls off the building at the strike of midnight. Suddenly, Moses stops the clock and time freezes. Hudsucker's angel then comes to Norville and tells him that he forgot to deliver the Blue Letter that is still in his pocket. Norville reads the letter and learns that because he is the president he gets all of Hudsucker's shares. Meanwhile, Moses fights and defeats Aloysius inside the clock tower and has Norville fall safely to the ground. Norville returns to the coffee bar and finds Amy and kisses her.

The movie ends with Sidney being arrested and sent to the sanitarium. Norville goes on to "rule with wisdom" and comes up with a new invention: the Frisbee. A Wham-O Professional Frisbee Frisbee redirects here. ...

Cast

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Origins

Amy Archer with "copy" ready.

While trying to sell their feature film debut Blood Simple, the Coen brothers shared a house with filmmaker Sam Raimi and ended up writing The Hudsucker Proxy together. They were reportedly inspired by the films of Preston Sturges, such as Christmas in July (1940) and the Hollywood satire, Sullivan's Travels. The sometimes sentimental tone and decent, ordinary men as heroes was influenced by films of Frank Capra, like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1940), Meet John Doe (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with the fast and furious dialogue in Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940). Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as the fast-talking reporter Amy is reminiscent of Rosalind Russell, in both the physical and vocal mannerisms. Ethan said in an interview, “The script, which contains a lot of traditional genre elements, was marked by a kind of heartwarming fantasy element out of Frank Capra. It also had a lot of verbal comedy, the kind you see in films by Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks, with dialogue delivered in a rapid-fire, machine-gun style. But it was bigger and broader, with physical comedy sequences and a lot of oddball action."^[1] One film critic described the numerous influences this way: "From his infelicitous name to his physical clumsiness, Norville Barnes is a Preston Sturges hero trapped in a Frank Capra story, and never should that twain meet, especially not in a world that seems to have been created by Fritz Lang — the mechanistic monstrousness of the mailroom contrasted with the Bauhaus gigantism of the corporate offices perfectly matches the boss-labour split in Metropolis."^[2] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 36 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Warner Bros. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 36 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Warner Bros. ... Blood Simple is a neo-noir film, the debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, writers and directors of Fargo, The Man Who Wasnt There, and Raising Arizona, among others. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. ... Christmas in July, also Holiday in July in the United States, is an unofficial holiday celebrated by some people (mostly young people) and/or exploited as a marketing opportunity. ... Sullivans Travels is a 1941 American film written and directed by Preston Sturges. ... This article is about the film director. ... Mr. ... Overview Meet John Doe is a 1941 film where a man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said hed be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins. ... Its a Wonderful Life is a 1946 film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story, The Greatest Gift written by Philip Van Doren Stern. ... Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page, itself an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. ... Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films. ... Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film, stage actress. ... Friedrich Christian Anton Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus, Dessau, 2005. ... Metropolis is a silent science fiction film created by the famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang. ...

It took the Coens and Raimi two to three months to write the screenplay. As early as 1985, the Coens were quoted as saying that an upcoming project "takes place in the late Fifties in a skyscraper and is about big business. The characters talk fast and wear sharp clothes."^[3] The first image the Coens conceived of for the film was of the hero, Norville Barnes, about to jump from the window of a skyscraper and then they had to figure out how he got there and how to save him. The Coens liked the script but knew it needed a big budget in order to be made. Joel commented in an interview: “The script was written with Raimi before most of the technology that we used existed. We don’t really think of how we’re going to do it in a technical sense when we’re writing. We were lucky that we couldn’t get the money to do it at the time because the sequences would have been a lot cruder if we had shot it then eight or nine years before."^[4]

They approached Hollywood producer Joel Silver, who had made several successful big budget action films and was interested in working with them. The Coens wanted to make a movie that would get seen by a lot of people. Silver's only input was that he convinced the Coens not to shoot the film in black and white. Silver then pitched the film to Warner Brothers by saying that they would get a film that the critics would like and that everybody would want to see. The studio agreed but only if the Coens cast big stars in the main roles. However, Silver had promised to protect the Coens from the studio and convinced the studio to give them final cut. Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is a successful Hollywood film producer. ... Warner Bros. ...

Recurring theme

Circles and cycles are a recurring theme in the film, including the three inventions in the film (the Hula Hoop, the Bendy Straw, and the Frisbee), as well as the clock itself. The film was filmed so that even though many days pass during the time of the story, the scenes comprise the hours from morning to night, as if taking place over the course of a day, from morning to night. A drink with a pink bendy straw Plastic drinking straws The drinking straw is a device used for transferring a liquid - usually a drink from one location to another (such as from a cup, to your mouth). ...

Principal photography

"You know, for kids!"

The filmmakers wanted to build large sets and use elaborate special effects. They had screened Blade Runner (1982) before making The Hudsucker Proxy, which also used elaborate sets and a large, detailed cityscape. Twenty-seven craftsmen spent three months building a '50s New York skyline, constructing fourteen skyscrapers. The movie's skyline was based on photographs from a book that the film's production designer, Dennis Gassner, found called New York in the Forties and the scale after Citizen Kane (1941). Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 29 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Warner Bros. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 29 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Warner Bros. ... Blade Runner is a 1982 cyberpunk, neo-noir film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ... Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film released by RKO Pictures and directed by Orson Welles, his first feature film. ...

The inclusion of the hula hoop was as a result of a plot device. Joel remembers, "We had to come up with something that this guy was going to invent that on the face of it was ridiculous. Something that would seem, by any sort of rational measure, to be doomed to failure, but something that on the other hand the audience already knew was going to be a phenomenal success." Ethan said, "The whole circle motif was built into the design of the movie, and that just made it seem more appropriate." Joel: "What grew out of that was the design element which drives the movie. The tension between vertical lines and circles; you have these tall buildings, then these circles everywhere which are echoed in the plot...in the structure of the movie itself. It starts with the end and circles back to the beginning, with a big flashback."^[5]

The film was shot on soundstages at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina beginning in December of 1992 with Raimi as second unit director. He shot the hula hoop sequence and the scene where Waring Hudsucker crashes through a window. The budget was officially reported to be $25 million (USD), although, some trade papers reported that it increased to $40 million. This was the largest budget of any Coen brothers film until Intolerable Cruelty, but it was a box office flop, grossing less than $3,000,000 in the US. Wilmington is a city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Intolerable Cruelty is a 2003 dark comedy/romance directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cedric the Entertainer, and Billy Bob Thornton. ...

Post-production

The studio held test screenings for the movie. Audience comments were varied. The studio suggested re-shoots. The Coens obliged because they were very nervous working with their biggest budget to date and were eager for mainstream success. They added some footage that had been cut, shot some additional footage and added to the ending. Variety magazine claimed that the re-shoots were done to try and save the film because it was going to be a flop. Joel addressed the issue in an interview: "First of all, they weren't reshoots. They were a little bit of additional footage. We wanted to shoot a fight scene at the end of the movie. It was the product of something we discovered editing the movie, not previewing it."^[6] Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ...

The film premiered in January 1994 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The film opened on March 11 in five select cities before a wide release two weeks later. The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ... Park City, Utah Main Street during a parade Looking down Main Street Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Reaction

Roger Ebert, a film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote that the Coens "obviously think their plot is unimportant except as a clothesline for the visuals. And wasn't there something dead at the heart of all of this? A kind of chill in the air? A feeling that the movie was more thought than art, more calculated than inspired? Doesn't the viewer spend more time admiring the sights on the screen than caring about them?"^[7] Todd McCarthy's review in Variety criticized the film as merely "rehashes of old movies, no matter how inspired, are almost by definition synthetic, and the fact is that nearly all the characters are constructs rather than human beings with whom the viewer can connect."^[8] Devon Howe in The Washington Post felt that "missing in this film's performances is a sense of humanity—the crucial ingredient in the movies Hudsucker is clearly trying to evoke. Hudsucker isn't the real thing at all. It's just a proxy."^[9] Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ...

However the film has received some positive response in latter years, at Rotten Tomatoes it is has a Fresh (64) rating. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Soundtrack

The score to The Hudsucker Proxy is written by Carter Burwell, the fourth of his collaborations with the Coen Brothers. In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... Carter Burwell (born November 18, 1955, in New York) is a composer of film soundtracks. ... is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A film score is a set of musical compositions written to accompany a film. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Varèse Sarabande is a record label, which specializes in soundtrack record releases, and reissues of hard-to-find (sometimes long- or previously-unavailable) albums, and singles collections. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Barton Fink is a 1991 film by Joel and Ethan Coen. ... Fargo is a 1996 film created by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. ... Carter Burwell (born November 18, 1955, in New York) is a composer of film soundtracks. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Some the source material for the score comes from the "Adagio" and "Phrygia" movements of the ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian. The same source music is used in Ice Age: The Meltdown. Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" is also used, when the boy is the first to try the hula hoop. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Ilič Hačaturjan) (June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a composer of classical music. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Children playing with hula hoops. ...

Track listing

1. "Prologue" (Khachaturian) – 03:20
2. "Norville Suite" – 03:53
3. "Waring's Descent" – 0:27
4. "The Hud Sleeps" – 2:13
5. "Light Lunch" (Khachaturian) – 1:38
6. "The Wheel Turns" – 0:52
7. "The Hula Hoop" (Khachaturian) – 4:10
8. "Useful" – 0:40
9. "Walk Of Shame" – 1:22
10. "Blue Letter" – 0:43
11. "A Long Way Down" – 1:46
12. "The Chase" – 1:02
13. "Norville's End" – 3:52
14. "Epilogue" (Khachaturian) – 2:08
15. "Norville's Reprise" – 1:22

Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Ilič Hačaturjan) (June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a composer of classical music. ...

Other songs in the film

Other songs used in the film but not on the soundtrack album include:

• "Memories Are Made of This", performed by Peter Gallagher as Vic Tenetta, the party singer
• "In a Sentimental Mood", performed by Duke Ellington
• "Flying Home", performed by Duke Ellington
• "Minuet" (3rd movement) from "String Quintet in E, Op. 13 No. 5", composed by Luigi Boccherini; used in the scene where Norville Barnes is getting a head massage. The piece is also used in the 1955 film The Ladykillers and the Coens' 2004 remake.
• "Carmen", performed by Grace Bumbry; used in dream dance sequence.

Memories Are Made of This is a popular song. ... Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is a Golden Globe award winning American actor. ... Duke Ellington composed In A Sentimental Mood in 1935. ... Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899–May 24, 1974) was an American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader who has been one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. ... Flying Home is a 12-bar blues jazz composition most often associated with Lionel Hampton. ... Luigi Boccherini Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. ... The Ladykillers is a 1955 British film. ... The Ladykillers is a 2004 remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy of the same name. ... Poster from the 1875 premiere of Carmen Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. ... Grace Bumbry The American opera singer Grace Bumbry (born 4 January 1937) was one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation -- although often a controversial singer. ...

Trivia

• After the Hudsucker Proxy's failure at the box office, the Coens went on to make Fargo on a relatively low budget. Fargo was a huge success, winning two Academy Awards. Fargo's heroine, Marge Gunderson, shares the same last name as the Hudsucker Industries' elevator operator, Buzz Gunderson.
• A scene in the Sam Raimi directed film Spider-Man in which Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe) addresses his board members is shot in an almost identical fashion to a similar scene in The Hudsucker Proxy and even reuses the same dialogue from the film: "Costs are down, revenues are up, and our stock has never been higher."
• In Raising Arizona, another Coen brothers film, Nicolas Cage's character is seen waiting in line for his paycheck at a factory. The patch on his work shirt says "Hudsucker Industries".

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References

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