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| Ilikethepixies wrote: I don't get what's so great about it. If he was so driven and powerful, why couldn't he get an exact replica of his god damn sled made?
Did you know that character was based on Howard Hughes?
You do realize that the sled is supposed to be symbolic, right? I always took it to symbolize the love and joy from his childhood he missed out on after he'd been taken away from his family, but I'm sure you could find one or two random film student's theses arguing it means something else.
It doesn't surprise me that Howard Hughes was the basis for that character-- they're both millionaire prodigies who snapped. However, I suspect Orson Welles was too dignified to wear tissue boxes on his feet or letting his fingernails grow to grotesque lengths, so they just had him build Xanadu instead.
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