The Salesman (2016 film) make a film until he decided his protagonists should be stage actors. Part of this decision owed to Farhadi's own background in the theatre, and his desire to re-immerse himself in that atmosphere. He also felt actors had to think of themselves as other people and create empathy, and his male protagonist would be forced to feel empathy for another man. Looking for a play within the film, Farhadi researched the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Henrik Ibsen before finding Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", which he described as "a gift for me". In Miller's play and his script,
It's Only the End of the World (play) pulled it off my shelf and suddenly understood and appreciated this weird and verbose writing style." Dolan described the extensive work required to adapt the stage play for film: Dolan's film won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and other honours. It's Only the End of the World (play) It's Only the End of the World () is a 1990 French play by Jean-Luc Lagarce. It is about a character named Louis who returns to his family to announce his terminal illness. Lagarce wrote the play in 1990, when he was considering his own death. In 2008,