History Headscratchers / TheHudsuckerProxy

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** IIRC no one ever outright says that there's a deadline by which the blue letter has to be delivered (though, granted, the way everyone reacts the implication is "immediately"). All that anyone says matters is that the blue letter is put into the hands of the person to whom it is addressed. So technically, as long as Norville ''eventually'' delivers that letter directly to the person to whom it is addressed, there's no grounds to fire him.

** IIRC no one ever outright says that there's a deadline by which the blue letter has to be delivered (though, granted, the way everyone reacts the implication is "immediately"). All that matters is that the blue letter is put into the hands of the person to whom it is addressed. So technically, as long as Norville ''eventually'' delivers that letter directly to the person to whom it is addressed, there's no grounds to fire him.

** IIRC no one ever outright says that there's a deadline by which the blue letter has to be delivered (though, granted, the way everyone reacts the implication is "immediately"). All that matters is that the blue letter is put into the hands of the person to whom it is addressed. So technically, as long as Norville ''eventually'' delivers that letter to the person to whom it is addressed, there's no grounds to fire him.

** It looks pretty fifties to me IIRC, but essentially the answer is because the movie is heavily stylized and based on the movies of Preston Sturges, from whom it borrows a lot of visual cues. A lot of Sturges's movies were made in the 1930s and 1940s (although he was active in the 1950s as well), which might explain the dissonance. Basically, it's a fantasyland 1950s New York, not the ''actual'' 1950s New York, you're supposed to just go with it.

** It looks pretty fifties to me, but essentially the answer is because the movie is heavily stylized and based on the movies of Preston Sturges, from whom it borrows a lot of visual cues. A lot of Sturges's movies were made in the 1930s and 1940s (although he was active in the 1950s as well), which might explain the dissonance. Basically, it's a fantasyland 1950s New York, not the ''actual'' 1950s New York, you're supposed to just go with it.

* If it's 1958, why does everything still look like the Great Depression? It would make sense if this were a small town out in the middle of nowhere, but it's New York City - the nation's cultural capital. Surely a great deal must have changed.

* If it's 1958, why does everything still look like the Great Depression? It would make sense if this were a small town out in the middle of nowhere, but it's New York City - the nation's cultural capital. Surely a great deal must have changed.

** [[WildMassGuessing Perhaps he was making one of those "themed" crossword puzzles...]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The mail room orienter's one minute orientation is exactly one minute!
-->'''Mail Room Orienter:''' You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green voucher, oversize a yellow voucher, parcel size a maroon voucher. Wrong color voucher and they dock you! 6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck. Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you! This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you!
** The film goes through an entire cycle of day, despite taking place over the course of a few months. It begins in the morning, and ends up at night (aside from the FramingDevice BookEnds.)

** Here's my WMG on the matter. Yes, he would be fired, but what was written in the blue letter still stands. He was still named president earlier, and as such, he gets all the shares of the company. In short, he was fired, and then re-hired.

* Shouldn't the guy have been fired for delivering the blue letter an entire year later than he should have?