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Anthony Bourdain: The chef who survived the Second Lebanon War "came back to life", and his wife is furious
Three years after the suicide that rocked the food world, a controversial move threatens to bring more emotions
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Yaniv Granot
Sunday, 18 July 2021, 06:00 Updated: 06:12
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Bigger than life, bigger than death:
Three years after ending his life, Anthony Bourdain continues to shake up the world of food and culture, pushing boundaries and dropping question marks, challenges and complex and insurmountable issues. And this time: "A Voice from the Dead" that provokes anger among the living, in a film that celebrates life and challenges death. complicated? Only if you choose to complicate it, probably.
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The mythical chef's
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, a real rockstar in the world who insists on putting his characters in confined and limited formats, is the focus of "RoadRunner", a new docu about his life, and his death. The many interviewees try to decipher a little of what motivated him, with one painful question hovering in the air - why did he choose to commit suicide and could the act have been prevented?
One of the dramatic measures: the use of AI technology that processed Bourdain sound samples, into "new" monologues. And in today's world, it's a perfect storm that just needed to be shattered.Now he has arrived.
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Why did Anthony Bourdain end his life?
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"There will be no happy ending here."
RoardRunner Trailer:
Bourdain graduated from the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) in 1978, and from there went on to a thriving career in the American restaurant world.
He went through a lot of goodies from New York restaurants, but gained worldwide fame across content when he published his first book, Kitchen Confidential, a book based on a mythical New Yorker article called "Do Not Eat Before You Read This."
From there, the road was paved (and justified) for a tremendous career that combined his vast knowledge of food, his unquenchable lust for adventure, and the basic mantra with which he traveled the world - do not be a tourist, but a hiker.
"Your house is not a temple but an amusement park," he always undermined, "so you should enjoy the ride."
On the edge.
Bourdain (Photo: Giphy)
One of Bourdain's famous moments came when he landed with his crew in Beirut in 2006, only to find out 24 hours later that the timing was a bit dangerous.
Bourdain has been at the center of some of the best travel programs - if you can call them that - in history.
The concept, as its perpetually loose definition, was simple - "I travel the world, eat a lot of shit, and generally do whatever I fucking want."
He started naturally on the American Food Channel, continued even more naturally on the Travel Channel, and ended, as naturally as possible, with six amazing years on CNN, which included a famous Vietnamese meal with Barack Obama, for example, but also memorable episodes in Libya and Texas, Nigeria And in Tokyo.
One of Bourdain's famous moments, however, came rather close to the Israeli border, when he landed with his crew in Beirut in 2006, only to find out 24 hours later that the timing was a bit dangerous.
"I love her," he said years after the end of the Second Lebanon War, "after all, I love her."
"Wonderful city, fucked up city."
Watch Bourdain returning to Beirut:
"My life is pretty fucked up now," the artificial Bourdain exclaimed, "you succeed and I succeed, but I wonder - are you happy?"
The new docu on Bourdain tries to unite everything - the fame and career, the tumultuous psyche, the pursuit of happiness and suicide - into some plausible decipherment, a relief that will allow him and many of his friends to say goodbye quietly. Instead, recent headlines do just the opposite.
A few days after the film's release, director Morgan Neville admitted that he used artificial intelligence technology to create a segment in which Bourdain himself reads an email he wrote to his friend, artist David Cho. "It's three lines. I contacted a software company and provided her with about 12 hours of his recording. She sent me the piece back," he recalled.
"My life is pretty fucked up right now," the artificial Bourdain read in a docu, "You're successful and I'm successful, but I wonder - are you happy?". According to Neville, "If you're watching a movie, you probably will not be able to tell the difference between those lines and all the other Tony recordings."
Still, a storm.
"You are happy?".
Bourdain (Photo: GettyImages)
Neville described the move as a "modern story-telling technique", but still required later explanations, which further complicated the business for him.
"I checked with his widow and associates, just to make sure people were OK with it," he told Variety, "they told me Tony had a voice with it. I did not put words in his mouth, I just wanted to make them be born."
The complaints about the deliberate forgery, and the assumption that it is simply a sentence that Bourdain never really said, were raised by 15 laconic but angry words from his widow Ottawa.
"I definitely * did not * be one of those people who said Tony had a voice with it," she responded.
Bourdain's widow responds:
"It's still hard for me to talk about his death, and I have not moved on yet," David Chang said over the weekend, urging people in need of mental and mental help to seek one.
Chang, a close friend of Bourdain and Neville, defined the latter as one of the few people in the world who could meet the complex task of “doing justice” with the chef.
"It would have taken at least 25 hours at least to exhaust this life," he admitted, "but the present result is the best possible."
Thus, a film that tried to create a closure out of nothing about Bourdain's life and death, does just the opposite, while placing his character at the center of a modern dilemma from the worlds of technology and morality.
While everyone is quarrelsome, Bourdain himself would probably say about it simply what he always said - "Do not lie. You made a mistake, thank you for it and move on, just do not do it again"
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