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Film Courage: I discovered this brilliant YouTube video the other day and the title was ‘Why Society Hates Creative People’ [credit to the Youtube channel Design Theory] and what to do about it. Part of the reason was that I guess the narrator said that most societies equate new with bad and that scares people. Also too that the bottom line is all that matters and that creatives are often rebels who have nothing left to lose and that’s often when they do their best work. I was just curious about your thoughts on that?
Marlin Darrah, Filmmaker: Yeah, creatives are rebels that’s for sure. It’s always been that way throughout history. Consider impressionist painters when they first became active in the 1870s-1880s, they were considered complete rebels, they went against the grain of all of the classical paintings and yet their paintings now are some of the most of course valuable and most popular to people throughout the world. Why is that? They were ahead of their time, they shocked people at their time and that’s what a lot of artists do say is that their goal is to mix things up, to be troublemakers, to be the tricksters, to always have to break the rules. Most artists are definitely rule breakers. They don’t often respect authority very much obviously and so yes, in other cultures, it’s not quite as easy to do that like in China for example, you would get stamped down if you do something too dramatic or too revolutionary or against authority, they would…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
EGYPT AFFAIR – Behind the Scenes – 7min – LIN ZUO shots –
A Film by Marlin Darrah
About:
Marlin Darrah is probably the world’s most traveled filmmaker. Darrah’s ‘s 44 years of award-winning production experience have taken him to more than 140 countries worldwide, yielding more than 100 documentary, travel-adventure programs and dramatic movies to date.
In 2023, Darrah completed his third feature film “An Egypt Affair,” an award-winning suspense-thriller that was entirely filmed in Egypt, along the Nile River between Luxor and Aswan.
One of his more recent feature films is “Amazon Queen” – an 85-minute adventure-thriller shot entirely in the Brazilian Amazon. The film was completed in September 2021 and is presently being distributed throughout N.America and worldwide, by Vision Films of LA. “Amazon Queen” has enjoyed millions of views on streaming platforms worldwide. That film won awards and nominations at more than 100 international film festivals.
Marlin also wrote, directed and produced the acclaimed 90-minute dramatic feature film, “Monsoon Wife,” in Cambodia – the first American movie shot entirely in that SE Asian country since “Lord Jim.” Universal Studios acquired Darrah’s movie and television rights were sold to more than a dozen countries.
In September 2014, Darrah was honored with a Knighthood in the Royal House of Portugal, presented by His Royal Highness Dom Pio. This was in recognition of Darrah’s extensive worldwide educational and charitable film productions Darrah’s international shots have been aired on programs appearing on all the major television networks, including PBS, History Channel and Discovery Channel.
His twenty 90-minute geo-travel lectures and features have been presented to audiences in more than 100 theaters and auditoriums across America, including venues such as the Harvard Club and the Philadelphia Geographical Society. Recently, a two-hour documentary Darrah shot and directed in Egypt was screened at the Cairo Opera House to an audience of 3000 guests. National Geographic represents and markets thousands of Darrah’s best worldwide shots.
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