
And that was when the head of the company that loans out cars for film sets came riding up in that red car one day. Regarding the color yellow, I felt that in Japan, especially with all the greenery, yellow will sort of not really stand out among the landscape. “And so, in order to record in sync would be really difficult, especially with all the noise with the wind. There’s so many conversations that happened in the car,” Hamaguchi says.

And I realized quite quickly that this would be very difficult to do in film. “In the original, the car is actually a yellow convertible. But, for such a key element, Hamaguchi made some important changes from the automobile in Haruki Murakami’s short story. In many ways, the red Saab 900 in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” is the only mechanism that the stage actor and director Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) at the heart of the story has to keep the memory of his wife Otto (Reika Kirishima) alive. Everything should happen as if it existed and you shouldn’t see the director, everything should be hidden.” The hard thing about this is that you don’t have to see the director directing in these kind of films. I think these two points are bolder in this film compared to my other films.

He notes, “For example, in many scenes, we see people, but we see them through something like a barrier.
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The Iranian filmmaker also says he wanted to create an atmosphere full of misunderstanding and doubt. “Everything about the film field from the acting or the camera placement, they all were going around this idea of documentary.” “When I make a movie, I like to make it in a way that we feel that we are watching a documentary,” Farhadi says. And it finds Farhadi being lauded for taking an impressive leap in his directing skills. His latest contender, “A Hero,” centers on a man (Amir Jadidi) in prison because of an outstanding debt and whose good deed during a furlough begins to backfire on him. It is the uniqueness of our Thanksgiving which makes it special.Asghar Farhadi has already won two Oscars in this category for “A Separation” and “The Salesman.” He’s also been nominated in the original screenplay category for the former. I wish I could tell my younger self that eating turkey isn’t so fun. Whether it is about just having a meal with your family, or eating so much turkey you pop a button on your jeans, Thanksgiving is important to people for so many reasons. In America, there may be specific traditions associated with the holiday, but I learned Thanksgiving has different meanings to everyone. Thanksgiving is a perfect example.īecause I did not adhere to the norm of this holiday, I felt detached from my peers. If we break away from these norms, we are seen as weird and different. To wear the same clothes, eat the same foods and have the same interests. Growing up in America, we are taught to be the same. In the morning, my brother would eat the rest for breakfast. One year, it was mushroom risotto and the next year it would be homemade carrot soup with bread and cheese.įor dessert, my mom often baked pumpkin pie for us, and my dad complained about being too full to eat it. My favorite holiday food was spanakopita, a Greek spinach-cheese pie.Įach year, my mom would try a new recipe. At the time, I never had any of these foods. My friends said mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and gravy. We never had a tradition surrounding Thanksgiving, we just used the time to have dinner together.Īfter Thanksgiving break, my elementary school class shared their favorite Thanksgiving foods.

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We would eat at our normal time in the evening and then watch a movie or play cards. To me, Thanksgiving was similar to any other day. I didn’t understand why Americans had this tradition. The idea of eating early in the day and watching football in the afternoon fascinated me as a child. My mom, although born in the U.S., moved to Indonesia when she was young. My dad is an immigrant from Greece and never celebrated Thanksgiving growing up. Scenes from Thanksgiving break looked very different at my house.

I saw the turkey roasting in the oven and the cranberry sauce simmering on the stove on television and wondered what it tasted like. I always felt jealous of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner growing up as the daughter of an immigrant.
