His cultural and social education is derived entirely from what he watches on the television sets provided by the "Old Man," who raised him. Chance seems very simple-minded and has lived in the house his entire life, tending the garden, with virtually no contact with the outside world. HuggoĬhance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged gardener who lives in the townhouse of a wealthy man in Washington D.C. The question then becomes whether anyone will notice that the emperor has no clothes (to use an old adage), even after background checks on "Chauncey Gardner" come up empty and especially if their public praise of him has gone too far to go back. As such, they introduce him to their rich and powerful friends - some very rich and extremely powerful - who believe, largely because Ben Rand says so, that Chauncey is brilliant in a down home way, his brilliance which they state in public. Not fully comprehending what Chance is truly saying, they believe his name to be Chauncey Gardner, and that he is a man of wealth and straightforward deep insight. Her husband, Ben Rand, is a financier, who will probably imminently pass from his aplastic anemia. By chance, he eventually meets wealthy Eve Rand, who, out of circumstance, invites him to her and much older ill husband's house. After Jennings dies, Chance is sent "into the world" not truly understanding what his new situation means. His wardrobe consists largely of Jennings' discarded but well appointed clothes. He only fully understands the world of his garden, all else, including what he sees on TV, he not comprehending in their entirety. Conversely, no one but Jennings and Louise know that he lives there. Jennings, has never stepped off the property of Jennings' brownstone in Washington DC, has only known Jennings and the only other household servant, a maid/cook named Louise who tends to all his meals, and has only had contact to the outside world indirectly via television, the channels on which he is frequently changing as he watches. For as long as he can remember, he has worked as the gardener for his long time employer Mr. Chance is mentally challenged, those that know him who would probably call him simple.
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