Before you ask, no. This is NOT a remake of the eighties movie featuring Richard Pryor and John Candy, may both rest in peace, but rather an adaptation of the novel that the original movie was based on.
See–and here’s where things get interesting–the movie required Brewster, who had inherited a fortune from a relative he barely knew, to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days. This was a lot harder than it sounded, because he couldn’t have any assets to show for it at the end of the thirty days. If he bought a car, he’d still have the car. He could only give away money in certain installments, and could hire people as he liked, but he couldn’t destroy anything with any value, either. So if he bought, say, a statue, he couldn’t just drop it off the roof and win the bet.
The book, meanwhile, called for Brewster to only spend a million before inheriting his vast sum.
No one’s sure how much the NEWEST Brewster would have to shell out–accounting for inflation he’d probably have to spend like six hundred million by 1985 standards to match it–but one thing’s clear: money WILL be spent.
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