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,
Salesman (1969 film) of "recruit[ing] Paul Brennan, who was in the roofing and siding business, to play a bible salesman". In response, the Maysles threatened suit against "The New Yorker" and rebutted Kael's claims in an open letter sent to the magazine (which, due to "The New Yorker's" policy in 1970 of not publishing letters, did not appear in print until 1996 when it was included in the appendix to the anthology "Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary"). The letter stated, in pertinent part: In 1992, "Salesman" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of