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Jul 18, 2023, 06:28AM

It Doesn’t Happen In Real Life

Parts one and two of a 1987 Gregory Taylor interview with composer/musician Harold Budd vs. a 2022 Vulture interview with filmmaker Asghar Farhadi.

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Harold Budd: I must say, I've been extraordinarily lucky all along the line.

Asghar Farhadi: Yes. But the taxi driver, he’s more honest.

Budd: Look, it’s very simple.

Farhadi: Everything is ambiguous. All of it.

Budd: I see how you could mean that and be right, but regionalism is from now on impossible.

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Farhadi: I thought that he was going to paint a door that is open to the outside, and there is a couple that is walking outside. And this came from the idea that he is actually seeing the picture, the painting, that he wanted to paint.

Budd: The whole point was that the scene that I came from involved being what was then called an avant-garde or an experimental composer—flying right in the face of the European convention of  academic music at the time.

Farhadi: But now that I see the photos, it’s very interesting.

Budd: Hmmm. That was ten years ago.

Farhadi: (Smiles)

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Budd: We were looking for something entirely different.

Farhadi: The closest thing to us is us, ourselves.

Budd: Yes, exactly. I think that that kind of commitment is a very, very good idea.

Farhadi: How you get the information across to the audience and when you give it can have different effects. It doesn’t happen in real life. What about you?

Budd: That's rather a loaded question, isn't it?

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