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In VictorianLondon, eccentric artist Louis Wain (Creator/BenedictCumberbatch) becomes the primary breadwinner for his family, comprised of his widowed mother and five sisters. He works as a staff illustrator for a London newspaper under the guidance of Sir William Ingram (Creator/TobyJones). To the dismay of his proper sister Caroline (Creator/AndreaRiseborough), Louis and marries his sisters' governess Emily Richardson (Creator/ClaireFoy), which causes a scandal among high society.
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In VictorianLondon, eccentric artist Louis Wain (Creator/BenedictCumberbatch) becomes the primary breadwinner for his family, comprised of his widowed mother and five sisters. He works as a staff illustrator for a London newspaper under the guidance of Sir William Ingram (Creator/TobyJones). To the dismay of his proper sister Caroline (Creator/AndreaRiseborough), Louis and marries his sisters' governess Emily Richardson (Creator/ClaireFoy), which causes a scandal among high society.
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''The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'' is a 2021 {{biopic}} about the eccentric artist Creator/LouisWain, a British artist known for his drawings and paintings of cats. It was directed by Creator/WillSharpe and produced by Creator/AmazonStudios.
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* PerpetualPoverty: Because Louis is MoneyDumb and none of his sisters could find husbands, the Wains' fortunes only get progressively worse throughout the film.
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* PerpetualPoverty: Because The family actually starts out all right, but because Louis is MoneyDumb and none of his sisters could find husbands, the Wains' fortunes only get progressively worse throughout the film.film, and they are perpetually unable to pay off their debts.
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* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Louis losing his mother, two of his sisters, and his patron. The family lives in PerpetualPoverty, and Louis never gets he so desired. However, fans of his are able to raise funds to transfer him to a good home where he spends his last years in peace, and his legacy of weird art and perceptions of cats lives on.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Louis losing his mother, two of his sisters, and his patron. The family lives in PerpetualPoverty, and Louis never gets the fortune he so desired. However, fans of his are able to raise funds to transfer him to a good home where he spends his last years in peace, and his legacy of weird art and perceptions of cats lives on.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Louis losing his mother and mother, two of his sisters.sisters, and his patron. The family lives in PerpetualPoverty, and Louis never gets he so desired. However, fans of his are able to raise funds to transfer him to a good home where he spends his last years in peace, and his legacy of weird art and perceptions of cats lives on.]]
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* CuteKitten: Invoked. Louis and Emily adopt an adorable kitten, and Louis's art based on said cat become incredibly popular. Thanks to Louis, people now see cats as cute housepets rather than as vermin-catchers.
* EccentricArtist: Louis is a very popular illustrator, but has always been...off. He's completely unconcerned with money, has a number of weird hobbies, is rather awkward and easily manipulated, and prone to ranting about electricity in the world. Tellingly he was one of the first people to see cats as potential pets rather than mouse catchers.
* EccentricArtist: Louis is a very popular illustrator, but has always been...off. He's completely unconcerned with money, has a number of weird hobbies, is rather awkward and easily manipulated, and prone to ranting about electricity in the world. Tellingly he was one of the first people to see cats as potential pets rather than mouse catchers.
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* CuteKitten: Invoked. Louis and Emily adopt an adorable kitten, and Louis's art based on said cat become incredibly popular. Thanks Though the notion of cats as pets had already existed, it became more popular after his art became widespread. In part thanks to Louis, people now see cats as cute housepets rather than as vermin-catchers.
* EccentricArtist: Louis is a very popular illustrator, but has always been...off. He's completely unconcerned with money, has a number of weird hobbies, is rather awkward and easily manipulated, and prone to ranting about electricity in the world. Tellingly hewas one of kept a pet cat, at the first people to see cats time an unconventional choice since they were mostly seen as potential pets rather than mouse catchers.mouse-hunters.
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* UptownGirl: That a respectable gentleman would marry his sister's governess is completely scandalous to society.
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* UptownGirl: That a respectable gentleman like Louis would marry his sister's governess is completely scandalous to society.
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Look."]]
->''"Throughout history, cats have been worshipped as mystical gods and maligned as the evil allies of witchery and sin. But I think you're the first person ever to see that they are in fact ridiculous. They're silly and cuddly. And lonely. And frightened and brave. Like us. One day, I don't think it'll be so peculiar to have a cat in the house as a little pet."''
-->-- '''Emily'''
''The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain'' is a 2021 {{biopic}} about the eccentric artist Creator/LouisWain, known for his drawings and paintings of cats. It was directed by Creator/WillSharpe produced by Creator/AmazonStudios.
In VictorianLondon, eccentric artist Louis Wain (Creator/BenedictCumberbatch) becomes the primary breadwinner for his family, comprised of his widowed mother and five sisters. He works as a staff illustrator for a London newspaper under the guidance of Sir William Ingram (Creator/TobyJones). To the dismay of his proper sister Caroline (Creator/AndreaRiseborough), Louis and marries his sisters' governess Emily Richardson (Creator/ClaireFoy), which causes a scandal among high society.
Louis and Emily adopt a kitten, Peter, and treat him as a pet, contrary to how cats were treated as the time. As Emily succumbs to breast cancer, Louis begins selling artwork of cats inspired by Peter. Although his art becomes wildly popular and keeping cats as pets skyrockets across Europe, debt and mental illness continue to plague Louis for the rest of his life.
The film was released on Creator/PrimeVideo on November 5, 2021.
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!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Louis losing his mother and two of his sisters. The family lives in PerpetualPoverty, and Louis never gets he so desired. However, fans of his are able to raise funds to transfer him to a good home where he spends his last years in peace, and his legacy of weird art and perceptions of cats lives on.]]
* TheCameo: Music/NickCave pops by for a minute as Creator/HGWells, who delivers an impassioned radio broadcast on behalf of Louis.
* ChekhovsGunman: Dan Rider appears at the beginning of the film, receiving a quick sketch of his sister's Pomeranian from Louis on a train. [[spoiler:He meets Louis by chance once again decades later near the end of the film, and is shocked to find Louis decaying away in a podunk mental hospital. Mr. Rider then spearheads a campaign to transfer Louis to a better home, where he spends his last years in peace.]]
* CuteKitten: Invoked. Louis and Emily adopt an adorable kitten, and Louis's art based on said cat become incredibly popular. Thanks to Louis, people now see cats as cute housepets rather than as vermin-catchers.
* EccentricArtist: Louis is a very popular illustrator, but has always been...off. He's completely unconcerned with money, has a number of weird hobbies, is rather awkward and easily manipulated, and prone to ranting about electricity in the world. Tellingly he was one of the first people to see cats as potential pets rather than mouse catchers.
* LemonyNarrator: The film's disembodied narrator (voiced by Creator/OliviaColman) will make the occasional cheeky comment, such as saying the streets of Victorian London smell like shit, or [[SnicketWarningLabel teasing the viewer for thinking Louis' fortunes are about to improve.]]
* MadArtist: Louis graduates to this from EccentricArtist in his later years. For example, when he arrives in America, the staff tells him his artwork is very popular...but when giving a speech about it, Louis imagines everybody in the audience as anthropomorphic cats and starts raving about negative electricity. He has a mental breakdown [[spoiler:after the deaths of several loved ones and is eventually committed.]]
* MoneyDumb: Louis is absolutely terrible with money. Despite the widespread popularity of his art, he did not think to copyright any of it and thus does not make anything from reproductions. What money he does get is spent on frivolous purchases, and his unmarried sisters fall deeper into debt.
* PromotionToParent: Caroline, the eldest Wain sister, becomes the maternal figure because their mother is rather bohemian and unconcerned with proper upbringing.
* TheOphelia: Louis' youngest sister Marie is a lovely girl who develops schizophrenia and is locked away in an asylum.
* StarvingArtist: Due to a string of bad financial decisions, including not copyrighting his art, illustrator Louis Wain descends further into poverty as he gets older. He is only kept from [[spoiler:passing away in a dinky mental hospital]] by pure chance.
* UptownGirl: That a respectable gentleman would marry his sister's governess is completely scandalous to society.
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Look."]]
->''"Throughout history, cats have been worshipped as mystical gods and maligned as the evil allies of witchery and sin. But I think you're the first person ever to see that they are in fact ridiculous. They're silly and cuddly. And lonely. And frightened and brave. Like us. One day, I don't think it'll be so peculiar to have a cat in the house as a little pet."''
-->-- '''Emily'''
''The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain'' is a 2021 {{biopic}} about the eccentric artist Creator/LouisWain, known for his drawings and paintings of cats. It was directed by Creator/WillSharpe produced by Creator/AmazonStudios.
In VictorianLondon, eccentric artist Louis Wain (Creator/BenedictCumberbatch) becomes the primary breadwinner for his family, comprised of his widowed mother and five sisters. He works as a staff illustrator for a London newspaper under the guidance of Sir William Ingram (Creator/TobyJones). To the dismay of his proper sister Caroline (Creator/AndreaRiseborough), Louis and marries his sisters' governess Emily Richardson (Creator/ClaireFoy), which causes a scandal among high society.
Louis and Emily adopt a kitten, Peter, and treat him as a pet, contrary to how cats were treated as the time. As Emily succumbs to breast cancer, Louis begins selling artwork of cats inspired by Peter. Although his art becomes wildly popular and keeping cats as pets skyrockets across Europe, debt and mental illness continue to plague Louis for the rest of his life.
The film was released on Creator/PrimeVideo on November 5, 2021.
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!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Louis losing his mother and two of his sisters. The family lives in PerpetualPoverty, and Louis never gets he so desired. However, fans of his are able to raise funds to transfer him to a good home where he spends his last years in peace, and his legacy of weird art and perceptions of cats lives on.]]
* TheCameo: Music/NickCave pops by for a minute as Creator/HGWells, who delivers an impassioned radio broadcast on behalf of Louis.
* ChekhovsGunman: Dan Rider appears at the beginning of the film, receiving a quick sketch of his sister's Pomeranian from Louis on a train. [[spoiler:He meets Louis by chance once again decades later near the end of the film, and is shocked to find Louis decaying away in a podunk mental hospital. Mr. Rider then spearheads a campaign to transfer Louis to a better home, where he spends his last years in peace.]]
* CuteKitten: Invoked. Louis and Emily adopt an adorable kitten, and Louis's art based on said cat become incredibly popular. Thanks to Louis, people now see cats as cute housepets rather than as vermin-catchers.
* EccentricArtist: Louis is a very popular illustrator, but has always been...off. He's completely unconcerned with money, has a number of weird hobbies, is rather awkward and easily manipulated, and prone to ranting about electricity in the world. Tellingly he was one of the first people to see cats as potential pets rather than mouse catchers.
* LemonyNarrator: The film's disembodied narrator (voiced by Creator/OliviaColman) will make the occasional cheeky comment, such as saying the streets of Victorian London smell like shit, or [[SnicketWarningLabel teasing the viewer for thinking Louis' fortunes are about to improve.]]
* MadArtist: Louis graduates to this from EccentricArtist in his later years. For example, when he arrives in America, the staff tells him his artwork is very popular...but when giving a speech about it, Louis imagines everybody in the audience as anthropomorphic cats and starts raving about negative electricity. He has a mental breakdown [[spoiler:after the deaths of several loved ones and is eventually committed.]]
* MoneyDumb: Louis is absolutely terrible with money. Despite the widespread popularity of his art, he did not think to copyright any of it and thus does not make anything from reproductions. What money he does get is spent on frivolous purchases, and his unmarried sisters fall deeper into debt.
* PromotionToParent: Caroline, the eldest Wain sister, becomes the maternal figure because their mother is rather bohemian and unconcerned with proper upbringing.
* TheOphelia: Louis' youngest sister Marie is a lovely girl who develops schizophrenia and is locked away in an asylum.
* StarvingArtist: Due to a string of bad financial decisions, including not copyrighting his art, illustrator Louis Wain descends further into poverty as he gets older. He is only kept from [[spoiler:passing away in a dinky mental hospital]] by pure chance.
* UptownGirl: That a respectable gentleman would marry his sister's governess is completely scandalous to society.
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