Imagine a man who worked as a gardener for an estate; never leaving, never finding the need to receive a pecuniary income, and who has never even sat inside of an automobile. Now go further and imagine this man having no public record on him; no birth certificate, no medical reports, no listing of his even being employed as a gardener for the estate on the labor inventory log. For 60 years this man's life consisted in attending to the horticulture of the estate and entertaining himself with the radio and later in television. His only connection to the outside world was through these two mediums, and the estate maid who treated him like a child his whole life. Day in and day out, nothing but detailed garden work and watching the world go by on the Television set. Quite an elegant operation if I may say so.
One day the owner of the estate, who had been bed ridden for the past 30 years, passed away peacefully in his hospice upstairs. Since there has not been any link for the gardener to provide to the attorneys handling the post mortem actuarity of employment and residence, plus having no three dimensional negotiation skills whatsoever, he is helplessly kicked out onto the streets of Washington DC.
The gardener walks out to a new world with an 8,000 dollar hand made suit (circa 1979), a 3,000 dollar leather suitcase, a television remote control, and an elegant and peaceful demeanor. The direction is elusive, but understand his advantage. Understand his advantage and now realize that this man becomes one of the most powerful men in the world. This gardener named Chance, or Chance the Gardener as he referred to himself as upon introduction finds himself being Chance Gardener, one of the most powerful men in the world.
If you would like to find out more about this kind of movie riddle, please consider watchin a film titled Being There. Prepare to laugh and prepare to ask yourself a few questions too. And if you are an Erik Satie appreciator...
Being There (1979)
Directed byHal Ashby Writing credits Jerzy Kosinski (also novel)
Starring Peter Sellers.
Here is a link to the script: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8200/being.txt
One day the owner of the estate, who had been bed ridden for the past 30 years, passed away peacefully in his hospice upstairs. Since there has not been any link for the gardener to provide to the attorneys handling the post mortem actuarity of employment and residence, plus having no three dimensional negotiation skills whatsoever, he is helplessly kicked out onto the streets of Washington DC.
The gardener walks out to a new world with an 8,000 dollar hand made suit (circa 1979), a 3,000 dollar leather suitcase, a television remote control, and an elegant and peaceful demeanor. The direction is elusive, but understand his advantage. Understand his advantage and now realize that this man becomes one of the most powerful men in the world. This gardener named Chance, or Chance the Gardener as he referred to himself as upon introduction finds himself being Chance Gardener, one of the most powerful men in the world.
If you would like to find out more about this kind of movie riddle, please consider watchin a film titled Being There. Prepare to laugh and prepare to ask yourself a few questions too. And if you are an Erik Satie appreciator...
Being There (1979)
Directed byHal Ashby Writing credits Jerzy Kosinski (also novel)
Starring Peter Sellers.
Here is a link to the script: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8200/being.txt
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