Most people sit in their little corner of the world and all around them people are doing things that are extraordinary and building these legacies.Filmdom never ended moving west past Hollywood or east past New York City. Life continued and flourished in every corner of the world and insanely good things were happening.
In this little project, I've learned a lot, but most importantly I've learned about a lot of different people doing a lot of cool things like Satyajit Ray.
Every country has their own Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini and Luis Bunuel. India -- a country that battles more stigmas than most -- has Ray.
His crowning achievement was The Apu Trilogy -- a set of three films started when Ray was 34 years old in the 1950s. It is the prime example of Parallel Cinema, another term for India's New Wave, which put a premium on realism. The Apu Trilogy was made with an amateur cast for $3,000.
Not 60 years later, Danny Boyle would film Slumdog Millionaire for $15 million and win an Oscar with basically the same story as Ray's Apu.
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