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Today I'll show you a Comedy-drama film: "The Hudsucker Proxy"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a fresh graduate arriving in New York City to look for a job
He peruses the job board for employment opportunities,
but discovers that all the good business jobs require previous employment experience
He walks away, dejected
During a board meeting,
the founder of a large corporation gets distracted by the large window in front of him
He stares at it ominously, then removes his pocket watch
He winds it, and leaves it on the table as he stands up
The graduate goes inside a diner to get coffee
His coffee cup leaves a ring stain around a newspaper advert for a job
as a mailroom clerk at the same corporation
He exits the diner
The founder takes one last whiff of his cigar, then starts to walk toward the window
A wind blows the newspaper page with the ring stain out of the diner, and into the graduate's legs
He finally notices the advertisement,
and sees that the job doesn't require any previous work experience
The founder inexplicably jumps to his death,
just as the graduate enters the building to answer the job post
Back at the boardroom,
the remaining members barely spend time to mourn the founder's death mere minutes ago,
and immediately jump into planning the corporation's future
The founder had no family or stated heir in his will;
and so his controlling interest in the company's stock will be made available for the public to buy
The board members are horrified at this possibility;
and so they make plans to plunge the company stock downward,
so they can buy the controlling interest that the founder left behind
One conspiring businessman on the board takes things further,
by suggesting that they get an incompetent proxy to take over,
so the stock would depreciate greatly
The graduate is immediately hired to be a mailroom clerk,
and is overwhelmed by the strict instructions he has to follow, or else his pay will be deducted
A blue letter arrives at the mailroom
It's a very important and confidential document to be sent to the top brass upstairs
The graduate's boss announces that the letter was written by the founder himself before his death
The boss gives him express instructions, to deliver the letter to the businessman directly
The graduate rides an elevator, and nervously approaches the businessman's office
Instead of handing him the letter,
the graduate shows him a piece of paper with a circle drawn on it
He presents it as the newest invention, that the corporation should produce
He then commits a series of blunders that ends with the first page of an important contract on fire,
and the rest of the contract flying out the window the graduate accidentally breaks
The businessman tries to catch the flying pages;
and he almost falls out of the window; but the graduate saves him
The businessman thinks he's simple-minded;
and he gets the idea that the graduate would be the perfect proxy,
because he is naive and easily controlled
In a blink of an eye, he is installed as the new president of the corporation;
and the stock immediately falls
An editor of a popular newspaper in the city is desperate to get an interesting story
on the new president of the corporation
A female reporter in his team volunteers to expose the graduate as a fake
Still adjusting to his new position, the graduate pitches his circle idea again to the businessman
He insists that this product is easily-manufactured, and will be a hit in the growing middle class
The businessman however, laughs it off,
and jokingly agrees to him pitching his idea to other members of the board
Later that day, the graduate meets the reporter,
in the same diner he went to on his first day in the city
She pretends to be a down-on-her-luck girl with financial problems; and he takes a liking to her
She also fakes a fainting spell; and he takes her to his office
He disappears into a restroom; and the reporter takes the opportunity to snoop through his desk
She doesn't find much, except an appointment with an achievers club for people from Indiana
She hurriedly goes back to the couch, as he returns from the restroom
The reporter then pretends that she's also from Indiana,
and the graduate is so delighted he gets her a job as his secretary on the spot
The reporter goes back to the newspaper,
and writes a scathing article about how the new president of the corporation is an imbecile
The next day, the graduate reads the story, and is angry at how he is portrayed in the article
He asks his secretary, the undercover reporter, to write a response to the writer of the article
He even surmises that the writer must be ugly,
since she does not want to show her picture next to her by-line
Of course, he does not know that the writer he is disparaging, is the secretary he had just hired
The reporter bristles at his words, and struggles to contain her own anger against the graduate
That night, the reporter finds a secret tunnel, that leads to the giant clock on top of the building
She meets the clock man, who's been keeping the clock running for years
He knows that she is an undercover reporter; and he reveals the board's plot to her
she hurries to submit the article exposing the board's treachery to her editor;
but the editor doesn't believe her
Unless she gets the proof to back her claims, he will not print her story
The corporation's annual Christmas gala rolls around
The graduate gets cornered by two of the board members' wives;
and they tease him about his attraction to the reporter
The businessman's wife even shares that she used to be a secretary for the businessman too,
before they fell in love and got married
The businessman approaches them, and rescues the graduate from the wives
He introduces him to the rest of the stockholders,
hoping that they'll get to see up-close-and-personal how the graduate is an imbecile
At one point, the graduate speaks a Finnish phrase he learned in high school,
and gets socked by the Finnish stockholder for offending them
The reporter finds the injured graduate in a room, and applies ice on his wound
She tries to tell him the truth, but never finds the right moment
The two share a passionate kiss
The graduate unveils a prototype of his circle idea
The board is confounded with this new device;
but the businessman pushes to greenlight the product, so the stock could further tank
The product goes through various departments that refine, test,
and price it before it officially hits the stores
The creatives working for the corporation decide to officially call it a 'hula-hoop'
Initially, the sales don't look good for the hula-hoop
Stores begin to reduce the price,
until eventually they just throw the products onto the street for free
Kids find the hula-hoops, and begin to play with them
Surprisingly, It becomes a popular children's toy, generating massive profits for the corporation
People begin to take the graduate more seriously, due to the success of the hula hoop
Soon enough, adults begin to use it
The graduate even receives a congratulatory call from President Eisenhower
However, the pressure to come up with a bigger and better idea, begins to catch up to the graduate
He becomes an arrogant ladies' man
The company's stock is worth more now than it ever was
But this is bad news for the board members,
who had apparently dumped most of their shares when the graduate was first promoted,
thinking they could eventually buy the stock at a cheaper price
Since the stock is now more expensive, they have weakened their positions in the company
The reporter angrily storms into the graduate's office,
to confront him about the corporation letting go of 80% of its workforce
She is also angry that the graduate hadn't spoken to her in a week
She berates him for being a spoiled and lazy man; and she resigns on the spot
Later, An elevator operator sneaks into the graduate's office,
and presents an idea for a flexible straw
However, the graduate deems it idiotic and fires him
Later that night,
a janitor comes to the businessman with the information on the reporter's true identity
He hands the businessman a folder,
filled with the reporter's background, pictures, and previous article
The businessman meets with the graduate,
and tells him that the elevator operator he had fired is now claiming
that the graduate stole the hula-hoop idea from him
The businessman then also reveals that his former secretary is a reporter;
and she has written a shocking expose to bring the graduate down
He also adds that they tried to kill the story; but the newspaper is eager to publish the story
Because of his mistakes, the graduate will lose his position as president of the company
This is all according to the businessman and the board's plan to kick him out
However, back in the newspaper's offices,
the reporter is fighting against the operator's claims being published on the front page tomorrow
It turns out that contrary to his story,
the businessman had supplied the evidence to the newspaper, in order to take the graduate down
The next day, a psychiatrist hired by the board diagnoses the graduate as mentally ill
The board decides that he will be taken to a psychiatric facility soon
The news of the graduate being taken to a sanitarium, will surely plunge the stock downward;
and the rest of the board members will be able to take back control of the company
Sad and alone, the graduate gets drunk in a bar
The reporter finds him there, and apologizes for betraying him
But the graduate refuses to forgive her, and leaves the bar
He runs into the elevator operator,
who tells him that the businessman gave him his old job back and suggested
that the graduate had stolen the hula-hoop idea from him
The elevator operator punches him in the face, and an angry mob chases him through the city streets
He runs to the corporation's building, and wears his old mailroom uniform
He climbs to the top floor, and steps out to the ledge,
intending to jump and end his life as the founder did
The graduate slips, and manages to hold on to the ledge with one hand
The janitor steps out into the ledge, but just coldly looks as the graduate's grip slips;
and he starts to fall
However, the clock man stops the clock on top of the building, and freezes time
Then The founder appears to the graduate as an angel
He asks the graduate why he didn't give the blue letter to the businessman on his first day,
as that letter contains his dying wishes
The graduate apologizes for his mistake;
and the founder reminds him that the letter is still in his uniform's pocket
He takes out the letter and reads it
In it, the founder wrote that he was a miserable man, who chose riches instead of true love
Because of this, he never found happiness in his life
This is why he chose to commit suicide
He also wrote that he wants his successor to be someone who is not afraid to fail and learn,
and that he thinks the businessman would be the successor
However, if the board chooses to elect someone else as president,
he will be the one to inherit the founder's controlling interest
This is an ironic twist because if the businessman had just stayed quiet,
he would have inherited everything anyway
But because he couldn't stop himself from meddling,
the graduate is now the heir to the controlling interest
Finally, the founder reminded the businessman in the letter that his heir should never despair,
because he has given him a second chance to make things right
While all of this is happening, the janitor checks the clock's fuse box,
wondering why the graduate hasn't fallen all the way down yet
The clock man faces the janitor, and battles it out with him
However, the janitor manages to get the clock running again, and the graduate begins to fall
The clock man finally throws the janitor down the shaft,
and the janitor's dentures get stuck in one of the clock's gears, stopping time once again,
and preventing the graduate from falling to his death
He is now frozen two feet off the ground
Hovering above him, the founder tells the graduate to deliver his letter first thing in the morning
Then, The dentures break, and the clock starts running again; but the graduate just softly lands
With a raucous cheer, he gets up and runs back to the bar as fast as he can
He finds the despondent reporter there, and makes up with her
The next morning, the graduate triumphantly delivers the founder's blue letter to a shocked board
The businessman can't believe what is happening, and tries to jump from the building
The same psychiatrist he hired to diagnose the graduate,
comes to stop him and also diagnoses him with mental illness, and locks him away in a sanatorium
The graduate becomes a true president of the corporation this time
He carries with him every day the lessons he learned from his own failures
He leads the company with compassion, wisdom, and a fervor to help people
The movie ends with him unveiling his next product, a frisbee
Just like his hula-hoop, the graduate's frisbee is set to take the company to new heights
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