The first word of The Iliad is “war”; the first word of The Odyssey is “man”. After that, the twists and turns of Homer’s epic poems veer in wildly different directions. It’s fitting, then, that cinematic adaptations are multi-faceted, too.
There is a story hidden inside my trumpet.
Not the kind of story people usually associate with innovation today. No laboratory. No startup. No investors. No software. No algorithm.
Just a poor Lebanese peasant’s son, born in 1941 in the mountains above Beirut, listening to village brass bands trying – and failing – to play Arabic music.
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