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Writer of the Lost Oligarch
It's certainly easy to note some points of similarity, given that Korda is a wealthy businessman with a number of children even he can't seem to keep track of, and whom he generally ignores.
Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton in The Phoenician Scheme Anatole "Zsa-Zsa" Korda (Benicio Del Toro)—the main character of Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme —is not Elon Musk. Not specifically, anyway. It's certainly easy to note some points of similarity, given that Korda is a wealthy businessman with a number of children even he can't seem to keep track of, and whom he generally ignores.
Yet while it would be fun to snicker at the idea of this somehow being a stealth roman á clef takedown of a hated figure, I don't think that would give Anderson enough credit for taking one of his…
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