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,
The Traveling Salesman (1921 film) The Traveling Salesman (1921 film) The Traveling Salesman is a 1921 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle. It is based on a 1908 play, "The Traveling Salesman", by James Grant Forbes. A 1916 film of the play starred Frank McIntyre who had also starred in the play. A print of "The Traveling Salesman" with German intertitles survives at the George Eastman House. As described in a film publication, Bob Blake (Arbuckle), a travelling salesman, is the victim of a practical joke and gets off the train before his intended destination of Grand River. Bob is drenched in the pouring rain