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Director Benjamin Ree On Drawing Inspiration From Faulkner, Dostoyevsky & Virginia Woolf For Oscar Contender ‘The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin’
'The Remarkable Life of Ibelin' director Benjamin Ree drew inspiration from classic novelists William Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and Virginia Woolf.
In his Netflix film, Ree explores the journey of Mats Steen, a young Norwegian man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a terminal condition that causes progressive weakening of the heart and skeletal structure. Despite the physical limitations caused by the disorder, Mats lived a rich life in the online World of Warcraft game – where his avatar was the powerfully built, able-bodied Ibelin. Great literature stands the test of time, but there are ways in which the medium of cinema can eclipse the written word – at least, say, a news story drafted about the remarkable life of Mats Steen.
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